Rudolf Steiner

[vortech]

Is this guy and his work familiar to anyone? I found a huge repository of his lectures and books in mp3 audio format. So far from what I have digested, I find a profound resonant between his and my own developed relationships with spirit, energy and consciousness. My 100s of experiences on psychedelics/disociatives, particularly MXE, have been the primary experiences from which I developed my own understandings, affording me the ability to reach states of consciousness that some would consider 'mystical'...it is amazing the kinds of information that is seemingly downloaded to me in a 'hole' (clairvoyance possibly?). Whether it is my consciousness actually interacting with the spirit world or my brain just glitching out, the resonances with other philosophers and spiritual scientists is nonetheless profound. So many of the things I wrote in my MXE book, particularly the sections about spirit, energy, consciousness, tuning etc., as I expected are nothing exactly new, as I believed when I was writing it that I was channeling from a source that many others have connected to throughout history. Ever since then I have been discovering so many more of those people, Rudolf Steiner being just one. I look forward to the continued assimilation of humanity's collective insights on these subjects, so that I may continue evolving and writing the story as I understand it.

 

[Ninae]

Yes, he created Anthroposophy, a pretty complex philosophical systems. Some like to put their kids in Steiner schools here. My sister might move to a place where it's the nearest school and I said that would be good because they have a fine curriculum.

 

[polymath]

We have Steiner schools here in Finland too, and as far as I know, they don't even use textbooks at all because they prefer "learning by actually doing things".

 

[Foreigner]

I did a lot of work in biodynamic farming when I was younger, and it really works. I'm a firm believer. Some other anthroposophic works, I could do without. The day camp I attended briefly as a teenager made us do eurythmic exercises for an hour every day with copper rods and I fucking hated every minute of it. I just wanted to dance freely and not have to do those contrived movements. The point was to teach us about the inherent patterns in nature through coordinated tasks but I didn't relate.

I get what Steiner was trying to convey to his audience but like any human his philosophy had limits. He could never encompass the intricacies of the universe in his works or fully lead people to them. Some people are born with the propensity for it while others aren't. Despite trying to be comprehensive, his system is still a one-size-fits-all approach with boxed in limitations. It's a "logic" that must be taught but that is not obvious, like any logic system. They try to nourish the individual talents and gifts of children, but through an as-of-yet incomplete system, so it's still ultimately stifling to kids who don't fit the mold. Not every kids uniquenesses can be accounted for or explained by Steiner's systems, so a certain level of conformity to pre-existing definitions still has to happen.

That's my long-winded way of saying that human nature is still more complicated than any one system can define.

What I respect about Steiner is that he tried to modify science to include the spiritual nature of humans, something that not many people have made a serious attempt at doing. Material reductionism is destructive at this stage in the game of humanity's trajectory, which he acknowledged, but I don't feel he exactly remedied it.