Philosophical Speculations

I think that the fact that it is called "Community" already tells a lot. I haven't delved into the details because it hasn't been particularly interesting to me, but as far as I know, it has always been implied to encourage individual development and free thinking, while still providing a certain ...

Nevertheless, there are things that do depend on the level of development and freedom. For example, for me it seems obvious that Steiner speaks from a clear panoramic insight when he says that religion and its institutions are something that should remain in the past as we step into the epoch of ...

If we are going to talk about VT becoming critical of spiritual science, we should also include those Catholic works where he endorsed and praised it. The most critical comments were in private letters to single individuals, whereas the supporting and praiseworthy comments were in published works ...

In that sense, it is not that difficult to have higher consciousness of certain more general evolutionary rhythms. The more we zoom into the concrete circumstances in the here and now, the more specific everything becomes. As a crude example, it could be relatively easy to be inspired that a house ...

What he said is, spiritual science (SS) is the mill of death , and the Valentin Tomberg who abided by spiritual science is not who I am ; that person has another name (!). Now I’ve just googled “mill of death”. The expression has stuck with me. And it might be just a coincidence, for those who belie ...

Yet, I think that, if we look back carefully within that process of development, we will find that the interest itself was cultivated through a leap into the phenomenological content. How do you propose, then, that people be guided to willingly take that leap? The number of people in my life who I ...

Just like with Steiner, we shouldn’t expect that these teachings will feel right for everyone. But can’t the same be said about VT? In these discussions, we get the impression that he makes the John path universally accessible , but is it really so? MoT, for example, is a high bar on its own, and to ...

The number of people in the world today who are interested in having the kinds of conversations we're having in this forum is exceedingly small. I take it as a somewhat obvious fact that our "type" is uncommon. However, certain characteristics of our type were part of the broader social atmosphere ...

Regarding the sentences of yours which I have bolded, I'm a little perplexed at why we keep coming back to this. I tried to make it clear that the "Catholic project," as it's now being referred to here, is not intended primarily for our benefit, but for our brothers and sisters who are flatly non ...

The Catholic project, as that has been described here, imagines it is optimal to shelter souls from freely developed higher knowledge and instead lead them to the Divine through externally imposed dogmas and philosophical-theological concepts which they can move through with mechanical intellectual ...