The Lowest Heaven
Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, the Buddhists and Hindus called it ‘Maya’ and the Quran called it ‘The Lowest Heaven’. They point to the timeless knowledge that the world of…
Kant’s Cave
Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people were sitting down, watching the shadows on the wall created by the fire and the signs behind them. The shadows were all they had ever…
The Good, the Bad & the Bad
In these increasingly surrealistic times, public discourse is highly focused on trying to discern which political leaders, public figures, influencers and billionaires are Good and which ones are Bad. To this problem, the well-known teacher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) offered a practical solution. Steiner warned against…
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. Ten years later, on June 17, 1831, government officials took him to the Ommerschans slave labor camp…
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to a luxury cruise, the promise of a better future – progress, happiness, comfort, a higher state of well-being – is…
Empire of Distrust
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good." The good does not need evil, it can survive on its own, but evil clings to the good because it feeds on…