PSE23 - 'Goethean Conversation'? Stay On Topic and Don't Talk About Yourself

Where and when did the phrase ‘Goethean Conversation’ originate? What does it mean? Today I sit again with the dynamic duo to discuss this and other matters ranging from study groups to phenomenology to ‘objective thought content’ to Ronda’s usual questioning of how the vice grip got applied to her thinking apparatus.

Marjorie Spock; Goethean Conversation pamphlet; Moral Artistry pamphlet

Mentions this episode:

• Anthroposophical study groups

• Learning To See In The Spiritual World [RS lecture]

• etheric thinking

• Meditations on the Tarot

• ruchschau

• Florin Lowndes

• 12 World Views Steiner lectures

• a few “objective thought” Steiner references

• Kant’s Critique writings

• Philosophy of Freedom

• Chymical Wedding book

• An Outline of Esoteric Science

“Whence came you hither?” asked the golden king.
“Out of the clefts where gold dwells,” replied the serpent.
“What is more glorious than gold?”
“Light!”
“What is more quickening than Light?”
“Conversation!”

[from The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily by Goethe]

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Practical Steiner is a 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 three years that finally, after decades 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, in one measure or another, 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.

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