Practical Steiner is a new podcast addressing the question “What might Steiner say?” about this or that topic that is of interest to me, the host. I am a fairly new Steiner student and have felt in these past two years that finally, after years and years of wondering about the “why” of many things, I have finally come across someone with comprehensive knowledge enough to answer many of those questions.
My podcast is conversations - the more candid and honest the better - with various people who have been studying at least as long as I have and who have taken up Anthroposophy as a way of living. My over-arching interest is not in presenting “expert” opinion/interpretation of Steiner’s body of work but rather lies at the interface of the guidance from Steiner’s books and lectures with how someone lives their everyday life.
Episode 3 is a conversation with Brook loosely centered around the topic of Free Will and Inner Freedom. We do some fine ramblin’ in various directions from this center, resulting in this ‘sampler platter’ intro to Brook. The last 20 minutes are on the topic of her book series. Some questions/subject areas we cover:
How long have you been studying Steiner?
The 5 Basic books
Is there such a thing as ‘objective truth’?
Coercion creates harm
Karma & Reincarnation
Not Blaming vs. Accountability
Goethean Conversation/Phenomenology
The 7-year periods of life/Biography work
‘Mildness’
READINGS MENTIONED in this episode:
[The Five Basic Books:] Theosophy, The Philosophy of Freedom, How To Know Higher Worlds, Christianity as Mystical Fact, Occult Science (a.k.a. An Outline of Esoteric Science);
The Human Life by George and Gisela O’Neil and Florin Lowndes;
Apophenia Gold, https://www.apopheniagold.com/
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