Real Anthroposophy

Real Anthroposophy
(the list of videos is at the end)

Real Anthroposophy means to challenge Dornach and the Councils in America as regards the role of leadership of the anthroposophical impulse in the 21st Century. I either deliver on that claim (to do better than Dornach etc), or I do not. Those who come to these materials have a choice, which is not by the way either/or. You get to have both - you get to have Dornach and the Councils in America and you get to have Wendt (and others as will be obvious from the videos). At the same time you will have to make a distinction - one that is rather important. You have to recognize that in one place you get truer and more essential aspects of Steiner's real legacy, and in the other place something Steiner himself would not find acceptable.

Steiner would not approve of what lives and comes out of Dornach and the Councils in America. He would understand it, and might even honor the effort, but he would not say that they were living what he tried to teach. Details can be found in the materials offered below.

If you want to participate in the video creation process, send questions and comments to [email protected] and/or [email protected]. It would help if you make reference to specific talks by their # when possible and relevant. Something will either come up in a later video or I'll reply by e-mail.

links to important initial essays

General Renewal - or illusion - of the Anthroposophical Society. A lecture by Harald Giersch, given in Germany, in January 2005 (the existence of which I was only made aware of in January 2010). In August of 2005, at the final Plenum of the Ann Arbor Conference, I made three wishes. The first was that the Vorstand produce a genuine history of the Anthoposophical Society for the 20th Century. Little did I know that 7 months before, a single individual (H. Giersch) had filled in a number of very significant missing details, which I knew had to be missing, but had no way on my own to discover or fashion. Among other matters this lecture concerns itself with the fact that Rudolf Steiner had himself on many occasions pointed out even before his death that the Christmas Conference had failed. Knowledge of this is being ignored or suppressed. In either case it is now clear (with this lecture by Giersch) that what is promoted about the Christmas Conference by the Vorstand out of Dornach regarding that Event is completely untrue. A major falsehood exists at the center of our work as members of the Anthroposophical Society and it is time for members to wake up to this and insist this fabrication end. All that said, I have not totally agreed with Giersch's presentation, and a link to my commentary on that question will be found at the end of this lecture.

Saving Anthroposophy: from the anthroposophical society and movement. An essay on the fundamental nature of Anthroposophy as a response to the problem of knowledge, which is the common-to-all spiritual/psychological fault line of our Age.

A book review of Prokofieff's Anthroposphy and The Philosophy of Freedom - he doesn't know the book The Philosophy of Freedom, although he does have a mostly incorrect theory of it. That and related problems are discussed in this book review.

Living Thinking in Action: two essays: The Meaning of Earth Existence in the Age of the Consciousness Soul; and, In Joyous Celebration of the Soul Art and Music of Discipleship.

The Conscious Death, and the Resurrection, of the General Anthroposophical Society: how to give rebirth to the GAS (make it living once more) using the principles of a new spiritual social science.

links to books

American Anthroposophy {an effort to extend further the work of Rudolf Steiner, albeit within the context of a different characteristic (American) soul-life, than the European soul-life he mostly taught}
Dangerous Anthroposophy { a collection of critical essays about the anthroposophical society and movement, as well as early works developing a new (spiritual) science of the social }
The Shadow: a collection of material from other places on the shadow also known as the threefold double-complex.

About the author of most of these materials:
Biographical Necessity: the confessions of a social philosopher ... and ocassional fool

link to beginning of YouTube playlist on these themes

http://www.youtube.com/user/joel232001#p/c/A20F33D25732B7FC/0/2vB23oD0iMg

list of individual videos and their themes

#1: a challenge to Dornach and the Councils in America (part one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vB23oD0iMg

#2: a challenge to Dornach and the Councils in America (part two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFSDqwLiok

#3: a challenge to Dornach and the Councils in America (part three) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVPWOq-IOqM