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Spiritual Science – a path for today

Opening up Spiritual Scientific Method is close to my heart. I feel very sure it’s so strong and simple as to be the Path – the Way – that is open and fruitful and good for us today. Yet the first draft of my article came out totally unlike what I expected or wanted. It was doing its own thing. It’s the second time this has happened here: my very first post was supposed to be Hello Friends but what emerged was clearly Hello – Anthroposophical – Friends. I could simply rename it and write another Hello Friends. But this time it was more perplexing.

Building Community Here & Now

It’s no use having fancy ideas for the future unless one is already living out of them, as it were, drawing them into the present. And utilizing what comes from the past.

I spent ten wonderful years with the Christian Quest Community here. During that time there was really nothing about building community that I did not learn; everything, in time, yielded understanding and wisdom. After that time ended, rather abruptly, I spent seven years out – but Glastonbury had not finished with me. I read the signs, and they said “come back”. I asked what my new work was, and Spirit said “pay attention”. I felt I was still carrying the Quest vision, but I went to Iona explicitly to let go of anything from the past that I should not be hanging on to. Iona showed me that my vision for “Quest the Next Generation” was still there. Fine, I thought. Let it unfold in its own time.

Steiner’s Spirit Glimpsed

Revelations around Steiner, Spiritual Science, more past lives of his, other lives of his close co-workers, and the Great Star Ages, built up for me inch by inch, unremittingly, over the years. I believe that it is now time to tell a good part of the story.

I get the impression that Steiner, naturally clairvoyant, sensed from early on that his significant meetings all had past-life connections. Mostly he could say nothing at that time. He had to wait until he was 40 until he could speak openly about his esoteric perceptions at all.

Today things have changed, and perception has opened up for many people, including myself – see Reincarnation Within Christianity. Several past incarnations of Steiner have come to me, with confirmation after confirmation: all lives Steiner simply could not have talked about in that lifetime, even if he’d known. The revelations would have blinded people and burned out the awakening Steiner sought to develop gently, slowly, hands-on. Yet now I believe we need the knowledge, to come to terms with the subtle but powerful brilliance from Steiner that students of Anthroposophy know all too well, to challenge some of Steiner’s Spiritual Scientific conclusions, and to open it up further, in line with his principles, in ways that are logical and comfortable yet run deep, as Steiner himself did, and as our times call for.

Hello Anthroposophical Friends!

Who am I to claim that what I see is essential for Spiritual Science today, if it is to come of age? that Anthroposophy needs a fundamental reform of vision? By what right do I disagree with Steiner and claim to know about some things better than him? Yet I believe it is time to speak out.

From when I discovered him at 19, Steiner gave me the most precious tools for life. There’s nobody like him! What is it that is so precious with him, from him? I spent a year in Heaven at Emerson College, soaking up the foundations of Anthroposophy. All I learned I treasured in my heart, and it is still foundational to my experience. Yet right from the start I was aware that I had to work with what best enables me to help humankind, not with what Steiner said merely because he said it and has given me so much. I had to question everything and constantly build foundations afresh. Sometimes I have reached disagreement with Steiner, when new insights have opened up – yet they are insights I could scarcely have reached without his foundations.