From the yearly archives:

2009

A response to: “Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education: The Web as Will and Idea” – Can Digital Media be Redeemed?

by Seth on December 31, 2009

The following is my response to a recent article by Eugene Schwartz entitled "Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education: The Web as Will and Idea", which is Eugene's response to an article by the renowned anthroposophist Sergei Prokofieff, who wrote a remarkable article entitled "The Being of the Internet", in which he argued that the digital media are [...]

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The Art of Nature: Alchemy, Goethe, and a New Aesthetic Consciousness

by Seth on December 20, 2009

Are you fascinated by the beauty of forms in the natural world?  Do you sense something amazing at work out there, like an intelligence that lies just beneath the surfaces of things?  Then I invite you to read a new essay that explores the building of a new aesthetic consciousness that seeks to connect us with [...]

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Waldorf Educators: A Light on the Path

by Seth on December 3, 2009

The world has problems; LOTS of them. But as long as there are people like my friend Nancy, who devote their lives and love to one of the most important and practical callings on the planet, education of our young, I have hope for the future.

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Consequences of the discovery of perspective in art

by Seth on December 1, 2009

The “discovery” of perspective was a radical point (pardon the pun) in the development of art, and was intimately tied in with a whole shifting of consciousness during the time of the Renaissance and forward, having correlative expressions in the increasing reliance upon an “objective” perspective from which to view the world.  Science in its [...]

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Coincidence, Randomness, and Meaning

by Seth on November 30, 2009

Maybe you’ve had this experience:  You are thinking about an acquaintance that you haven’t thought about in a long time and at that moment the phone rings.  ”What are the odds that it’s Jerry?” you think to yourself.  And when it IS Jerry on the other line it seems somehow magical, amazing, beyond mere chance. [...]

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