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Pause for thought 2 Maria: Archetype of emerging humanity A hundred years of Anthroposophical Society 1 A hundred years of Anthroposophic Medicine 1 : The Human Being is a Bridge The human Annual General Meeting being is a bridge 3 Invitation 3 Agenda 4 Concern: Rehabilitation When, at Easter 1920, Rudolf of Steiner gave his first course for 5 Motions submitted by the physicians at the Executive Council and by members (ga 312), the foundations for An- General Anthroposophical Society throposophic Medicine were laid. 6 Constitution In twenty lectures he discussed the 6 Meeting with the Circle of Seven human organism, its pathologies and 11 Obituary: Peter Tradowsky the corresponding therapies. Today we 11 Membership News stand astounded at the germinal power Anthroposophy worldwide and breadth of those lectures: many of the 7 Canada: Mystery Drama Group things Rudolf Steiner said then have been cor- 7 Canada: Ross Alden roborated by modern findings, for instance the Goetheanum connection between the intestine (microbiome) ing, nature and the cosmos, a medicine, in other 7 Goetheanum Adult and the nervous system. Numerous indications words, that builds a bridge between microcosm Education Program: have become daily practice in Anthroposophic and macrocosm. We need to take responsibil- Teaching anthroposophy Medicine, such as the use of mistletoe therapy ity for the living earth and its protective layers in professional settings in cancer and Rhythmical Einreibungen in nurs- because our health cannot be separated from 8 Performances and conferences: ing. Many other such seeds are waiting to be that of the earth. Faust 2020 at the Goetheanum scientifically explored and applied in practice. From 12 to 20 September 2020 we will cel- School of Spiritual Science ebrate the birthday of Anthroposophic Medi- 8 Medical Section: Human Healthy humans and a healthy earth cine at the Goetheanum with a world confer- warmth – earthly warmth The motif of the bridge is central to medicine: An- ence. We have chosen the bridge motif for the 9 Medical Section: Curative throposophic Medicine is a bridge that originates conference because it will be about current Education training course in the achievements of natural-scientific medi- developments and future perspectives in all 9 Section for Agriculture: Living Farms 9 Youth Section: February Days cine and leads across to a health-oriented un- areas of life that are touched by Anthropo- 10 Anthroposophy and Science: Steiner derstanding of human beings as self-developing sophic Medicine. performances and Studies journal project entities: a medicine that, through the therapeutic Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, festive encoun- relationship, builds a bridge to the patient and ters, lectures and around a hundred workshops Feature other professional groups with whom it forms will await the birthday guests, form bridges 12 Veterinary medicine: a therapeutic working community; a medicine from person to person and from the past to «The animals want to be recognized» that develops and applies its remedies on the future developments, to «future existence». basis of a living understanding of the human be- | Matthias Girke and Georg Soldner, Goetheanum 2 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20

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The human Mary Virginity (the devotion we bring to our life plans Archetype of and to spirit-imbued tasks), Immaculate Con- being is a bridge ception (the willingness to take risks when we evolving humanity embrace new thinking and new ways of acting, trusting in the unfolding of our own potential) The human being is a bridge In Mary, the mother of Jesus, we meet and Assumption (for a more conscious under- several qualities that represent moments Between the past standing of physicality as a basis of spirituality). of evolving humanity, from the ability to And future existence. be a vessel for a deity to the forming of The present is a moment; a seed for a future spirit reality and ef- Moment as bridge. fectiveness that includes the conscious Spirit grown to Soul, facing of death forces. In matter's husk, In the Gospel of Matthew Mary is guided Comes from the past. by a great affirmation of life. She forms the warmth-permeated space in which Soul growing to Spirit the human essence can be found and en- As seed encased, hanced. She enables the transformation Journeys toward the future. and realization of the tasks of men, be they Grasp future things Joseph, the Magi or the Disciples. In Luke’s Gospel we meet Mary as a hu- Through past ones, man soul, the protector and mover of the Hope for evolving things Word. As human beings we have received Through what has evolved. the gift of speech but also the capacity to So grasp existence remain silent, to pause and let silence pro- vide a resonant space that can be a creative, In evolving growth. transformative force. So grasp what will be The Gospel of John portrays Mother Mary In what exists. as the former of relationships. She makes it possible for Jesus to perform the first signs Creator of a new spirit birth Source Christmas, 24 December 1924, ga 40. at the Marriage in Cana, enabling his I-being Physically, Mother Mary creates the space where Translation by Gerald Karnow to enter into his earthly-physical being. At the birth can occur: she envelops, suffers fears for Relates to Editorial (page 1), Annual Confer- end of his earthly life, Mary is standing beneath and accompanies the being that arrives in the ence of the Medical Section (page 8) the cross, forming a new relationship with John, world. As she tends to the needs of humanity, the «the disciple whom Jesus loved». birth-giving, enveloping and nurturing mother In the Fifth Gospel Rudolf Steiner describes can also be seen as an image of Mother Earth. ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide. 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Annual General Meeting at the Goetheanum 2020 agm: invitation and agenda

Dear Members,

The previous edition of Anthroposophy World- wide (1–2/2020) included the programme of the General Anthroposophical Society’s An- nual Conference from 2 to 5 April 2020. The motto of this year’s conference is taken from the Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: To Willingly Unite With the World in love. We also invite you warmly to this year’s Annual General Meeting and look forward to seeing you there. For the first time, members will have the possibility to stream part of the Annual Con- ference, either live or on demand. Please make sure you apply for a login in good time (see Saturday, 4 April, 11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. / information on the right)! Whether or not this [4.45 to 6.30 p.m.] – agm iv Presentation of motions and reasons will offer more members across the world The motions and the reasons for them the chance to participate will be evaluated 4 Presentation of 2019 annual are provided in full in a protected area afterwards. accounts and auditor’s report of the Goetheanum website. Go to Please note that booking is essential for www.goetheanum.org/login 5 Discussion and approval of 2019 this conference! | Justus Wittich, Joan Sleigh, annual accounts A concern dealing with the rehabilitation of Constanza Kaliks and Matthias Girke for the Herbert Witzenmann as an executive council Executive Council at the Goetheanum 6 Election of auditors member is included in this issue on page 4.

7 Motion to discharge the Executive Coun- The motions will also be shown in the agm cil booklet and can be sent out by post on re- Proposed agenda quest. If you wish to receive a copy please 8 Confirmation or rejection of another write to for the 2020 agm term in office for Executive Council member Joan Sleigh (secret ballot) Goetheanum Membership Office Thursday, 2 April 2020, 5 9 Confirmation or rejection of Ueli Hurter Motions Rüttiweg 45 to 6.30 p.m. – agm i as Executive Council member (Ueli Hurt- 4143 Dornach er is already part of the Goetheanum Switzerland 1 Welcome and opening Leadership) Full Annual Conference programme 2 On the situation of anthroposophy, 10 Motions and concerns presented the Anthroposophical Society and the to the 2020 agm If you wish to receive the programme of School of Spiritual Science. Executive the Annual Conference by email or post, please contact the Membership Office at the Council report. Consultations and discussions with the Goetheanum, Rüttiweg 45, 4143 Dornach, members will be restricted to the two Switzerland, [email protected] Friday, 3 April 2020, 11.30 a.m. agm sessions on Friday, 3 April 2020, to 12.45 p.m. – agm ii so that decisions can be made on www.goetheanum.org/en/to-willingly- unite-with-the-world-in-love Saturday 4 April 2020. 3 Further reports and presentation of motions and concerns The agm sessions mentioned will be Image Goetheanum Executive Council: Joan streamed live in a protected environment. Sleigh, Matthias Girke, Constanza Kaliks and Discussion of Executive Council Justus Wittich, by Duilio A Martins report and reports, motions and con- For details see Anthroposophy Worldwide cerns 1-2/2010, page 3. Members can apply for ac- cess now at www.goetheanum.org/login Friday, 3 April 2020, 4.45 to 6.30 p.m. – agm iii If required, the agm can be extended to Saturday, 4 April, 4.45 to 6.30 p.m. It is Discussion continued in planned, however, to use this time to work the plenum or in groups on deepening the Conference theme. 4 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20

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Annual General Meeting at the Goetheanum his belief that Rudolf Steiner’s work needed protecting, and it still needs protecting today. Concern: Herbert Witzenmann rehabilitation His epistemological work shows that he knew how to permeate his spiritually sophisticated writings and lectures with the kind of In 1935 and Elisabeth inner substance that protects them Vreede were removed from office from intellectual and sentimental by the General Meeting and a large exploitation. number of members were excluded from the Anthroposophical Society. The historical background Thirty-three years later, on 14 Janu- Herbert Witzenmann devoted his ary 1968, the then Executive Coun- entire life to individualized intuition cil one-sidedly announced its ‹book and observation. With his spiritual resolution› in the anthroposophical farsightedness he realized that the newsletter (Nachrichtenblatt 7/1968). «book resolution» would remove the Herbert Witzenmann, who was a protection that Rudolf Steiner’s work member of the Executive Council at needed. «The 14 of January 1968 had the time, was the only opposing this a negative impact on world history!» decision. (Herbert Witzenmann). The problem The term «book resolution» refers that remains tied up with the ‹book to the decision to sell the books of question› concerns the spiritual con- what was then called the Nachlass- tinuity and continued effect Rudolf verein – the administration of Rudolf Steiner has had on his pupils and on Steiner’s literary estate (today Rudolf the world today, although he is no Steiner Verlag) – at the Goetheanum, longer physically among us. although the Annual General Meeting How are we dealing with Rudolf of 1956 had decided against this with Steiner’s work? This is the crucial 1153 over 47 votes. question that was at the root of the Under ’s leadership conflict. Is it still relevant today? How it had been assumed that books ed- do we protect Rudolf Steiner’s work ited by the Nachlassverein, which today? Do the turmoil and polariza- did not accept the spiritual conti- tion surrounding Christian Clement’s nuity of the 1923/1924 Christmas and Hartmut Traub’s journal Steiner Conference, could not be sold at Studies, for which Jost Schieren and the Goetheanum without gravely Wolf-Ulrich Klünker are also working, violating the modern mysteries’ not show us clearly that the ques- principle of truthfulness. tion of protection is as relevant to- day, after 52 years, as it was in 1968? Amfortas’ wound Executive Council Herbert Witzenmann was gravely concerned In my view, Herbert Witzenmann saw this vio- meets Eugen Meier about the forgotten protection, which we pro- lation as an Amfortas wound inflicted on the vide as little today as we did then? What is the spiritual being Anthroposophia, a wound that Fundamental essence of this protection? would have serious consequences. This fact found expression in the publication of Rudolf reappraisal The book resolution of 1968 Steiner’s work. The intentions expressed by Ru- On 4 February 2020 the Goethea- Rudolf Grosse, who was chair of the Executive dolf Steiner during the Christmas Conference as num Executive Council met with Council at the time, justified the ‹book resolu- regards the printing of his collected works (cf. Eugen Meier and supported his tion› by saying, «This will set free forces which Article 8 of the Founding Statutes) were not put concern. The situation can, however, can be used to further the development of the into practice. Herbert Witzenmann was con- not be resolved by a single act or Anthroposophical Society and, particularly, to cerned that Rudolf Steiner’s work would end up decision of the General Meeting but realize the School of Spiritual Science.» unprotected. Is this an old, dusty episode in the the developments at the time in- The opposite was the case and a serious con- history of the Anthroposophical Society that has cluding the underlying controversy flict was created within the Anthroposophical become entirely irrelevant today? about Rudolf Steiner’s literary es- Society that lasted until 1979, when the motion tate and the different views on the that the General Meeting should remove Her- Herbert Witzenmann School of Spiritual Science need to bert Witzenmann from office failed because of Herbert Witzenmann (1905–1988) was a factory be worked through gradually in his impressive accountability report. owner, patented inventor, economist, poet and a future-oriented way. | Justus In May 1970 the majority of council members pianist, scientist, author of numerous essays and Wittich for the Executive Council decided to take the Social Science Section away books and a member of the Executive Council at the Goetheanum from Herbert Witzenmann. On his sickbed he re- at the Goetheanum. He was uncompromising in ceived a letter from his Council colleagues, which Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20 | 5

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was published in the January newsletter of 1972 Annual General Meeting Annual General Meeting (Nachrichtenblatt 3/1972). The letter stated the at the Goetheanum at the Goetheanum Council’s decision to relieve Herbert Witzen- mann from all his functions on both the Execu- Motions submitted by Motions submitted tive Council and in the School of Spiritual Science. the Executive Council by members The scientific foundations of anthroposophy – our future? Following the consultations at last year’s agm, 3 Andrea Meyer Jeserich, Dornach (ch), Half a century later, it has become possible, with amendments are suggested to the Statutes moves that the Annual General Meeting goodwill, to leave behind the old, trodden paths of the General Anthroposophical Society, Ar- should decide to allow the architect and of the conflict and find new ways of integrating ticles 6 and 12, concerning the inclusion of the sculptor Christian Hitsch to present his de- the scientific stream into the Anthroposophical Conference of Country Societies as an organ signs, drawings and plans as well as his model Society. It is a challenging task, however, that of the General Society and the deletion of for maintenance work to be carried out on the cannot be achieved from one day to the next. It the passage regarding an Executive Council Schreinerei (Carpentry building) in the way is my opinion that, when Herbert Witzenmann chairperson: they are currently shown in the sculpture ex- was exiled, the spiritual essence of the scientific hibition at the Goetheanum to the members anthroposophy that he was able to represent 1 Article 6 is to be amended as follows at the General Anthroposophical Society’s quietly fled from the Goetheanum. (amendments in italics): agm, and that the members should be includ- I think that the future of the Anthroposophi- ed in the planning of any maintenance work cal Society depends on regaining this spiritual «6. The General Anthroposophical Society on the Schreinerei building. Christian Hitsch essence. Because the conflict makes us ask how has as its organs: could present his concept during the events we can deal with Rudolf Steiner’s work, how we surrounding the agm and it could then be de- make it our own in all its depth, so that we are a) the General Meeting cided on by the members.» able to protect it. The processing of the Society’s b) the Conference of Country Societies history that is required for the sought rehabili- c) the Executive Council 4 Robert Jan Kelder, Amsterdam (nl), moves tation will enable us to realize the future form d) the auditors» that «In order to re-establish the form, suited of the Anthroposophical Society, aside from to time and spirit and required to nurture the many other tasks. Only when Spirit-Recalling, anthroposophical movement – or the new, Spirit-Awareness and Spirit-Beholding unite will 2 Article 12 is to be amended as follows: true Christianity – as it prepares the sixth we be able to reshape the social reality. Herbert cultural era, the Annual General Meeting shall Witzenmann does not need personal rehabili- Currently: «12. The Society is led by an initia- decide on a process involving the entire Soci- tation, but today’s Anthroposophical Society tive council, consisting of a minimum of three ety that can initiate or support the required needs it urgently. members. The nomination of the Chair and consciousness-building and social develop- I ask the Executive Council to prepare the re- the additional members of the Executive ment which may, as part of the centenary habilitation of Herbert Witzenmann together Council follow proposals made by the Execu- celebrations in 2023, result in the General An- with the members. By rehabilitation I mean the tive Council in agreement with the General throposophical Society’s separation into three reintegration of his personality and his work Meeting for a period of seven years. Exten- sub-departments: the Anthroposophical Soci- into the Anthroposophical Society from which sions for a further seven years are possible by ety, its administration and the administration he was – factually even if not legally – excluded affirmation. The assignment of duties within of the Goetheanum building. and exiled. This reintegration must be accompa- the Executive Council and its manner of con- nied by the recognition of all of Herbert Witzen- ducting business are to be regulated by the Because the constitutions of the country mann’s achievements with regard to the spiritual Executive Council itself.» societies must not oppose that of the General continuation of the Christmas Conference of Anthroposophical Society, the agm shall also 1923/1924 and the social-aesthetic impulses for a Proposed new wording (changes in italics): decide to encourage them, too, to urgently social form of the Anthroposophical Society that start re-establishing the form required for is suited to our time. | Eugen Meier, Hochwald (ch) «12. The Society is led by an initiative council, nurturing the anthroposophical movement, consisting of a minimum of three members. or the new Christianity.» The nomination and extension of the Executive Council for a period of seven years are decided Image Herbert Witzenmann, provided by Gideon-Spicker-Verlag in agreement with the Goetheanum Leader- ship and the Conference of Country Societies and require confirmation by the General Meet- Read and order ing. Extensions for a further seven years a Anthroposophy possible. The assignment of duties within the Worldwide Executive Council and its manner of conduct- ing business are to be regulated by the Execu- www.anthroposo- tive Council itself.» phie.org/en 6 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20

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General Anthroposophical Society At the same time, legally required bodies were General Anthroposophical Society formed such as the Johannes Building Associa- Meeting with the Working on the tion in Munich (de) which later evolved into the constitution question Goetheanum Association of the School of Spiri- Circle of Seven tual Science in Dornach (ch). The problem with The Executive Council at the Goetheanum Last autumn around forty members regis- the constitution arose when, after 8 February and the Circle of Seven, the leadership of the tered their interest in participating in an ini- 1925, this building association and the Anthro- Christian Community, met from 18 to 20 Janu- tial two colloquia on a problem that has been posophical Society founded at the Christmas ary to discuss questions of collaboration. with the Anthroposophical Society through- Conference of 1923/1924 were suddenly consid- out its history: the documented development ered as «having merged into one». There have been regular meetings of the Execu- of its constitution. Based on this chronological foundation, the tive Council at the Goetheanum and the Circle of second colloquium on 25 January 2020 at the Seven for many decades. Over the years a human An initiative that was suggested at the last Goetheanum was able to look at more com- foundation has grown from these meetings that agm by Gerald Häfner, Michael Schmock and plex questions: Did the Christmas Conference of allows for the discussion and consultation on Justus Wittich and that has been taken on by 1923/1924 constitute a body that satisfied Swiss topics that concern both groups. the Social Science Section, aims at providing legal requirements? For most of those present at Both leadership groups are concerned with documentation of the development of the this colloquium there was no question about this spiritual aspects of life and the way we live and Anthroposophical Society’s constitution and while others doubted that it was what Rudolf this year their questions in this respect focused making it available to interested members. On Steiner had in mind. But what, then, was the on the soul life and spiritual needs of young the basis of this documentation one hopes to meaning of the attempt at the Goetheanum people. Johannes Kronenberg from the Youth gain greater clarity on the kind of constitution Association meeting of 29 June 1924 to create Section at the Goetheanum cited as examples Rudolf Steiner had in mind after the Christmas one overarching constitution that would the the longing for a spirituality that is effective in Conference of 1923/1924. publishing activities and the Arlesheim hospital? life and the growing tendency towards burnouts The intentions pursued by Rudolf Steiner and Ita that is caused by general stress. Convincing phenomenology Wegman from 3 August 1924 to 8 February 1925 At the first colloquium on 7 December 2019, are relatively easy to reconstruct. The confusion Common tasks and boundaries which took place at the Stuttgart Rudolf Steiner about the constitution arose after 8 February One of the main topics was the relationship House (de), a phenomenological approach was and around the time of Rudolf Steiner’s death. between the two movements, given that many applied to go through the available documents priests are also members of the School of Spiri- in chronological order. Since many experts were Making the documents available tual Science. And yet, present as well as people who know the prob- In the forthcoming third colloquium on 16 May is a religious movement and the General Anthro- lem with the constitution well, it was possible 2020 in Stuttgart we hope to be able to make posophical Society is one that is non-religious to work out a clear sequence of legal founda- a decision on important documents that will and non-denominational. tions that involved Rudolf Steiner: from the 1903 have been compiled by then, so that they can The cultic rituals of the free religion lessons constitution of the German Section of the Theo- be made accessible to all members and maybe were given by Rudolf Steiner before the Chris- sophical Society to the principles of the Anthro- even studied at one or more Members’ Days. tian Community was founded and they belong posophical Society of 1912 to the foundation of Until then, it is best if the present research to the General Anthroposophical Society; the societies in other countries in 1923, and finally, in group first concludes its investigation because of Christian Community works on the basis of the the same year, the Christmas Conference for the the interrelatedness of the stages of this process. sacraments. Where do they have common tasks new foundation of an Anthroposophical Society. | Justus Wittich, Goetheanum and where are the boundaries, considering that Waldorf Schools are not religious institutions either? A group of physicians and priests who take responsibility for questions of anthropo- sophic pastoral medicine constitutes another long-established working context. Rudolf Steiner’s In the autumn of 2022 it will have been a hun- Four Mystery Dramas dred years since the Christian Community was founded at the Goetheanum and the occasion as part of the conference Encounter - through you I find myself will be marked by an international synod be- ing hosted there. The request to celebrate the (German and English) ordination of priests at the Goetheanum, as it 26 to 31 December 2020 was done a hundred years ago, was unanimously declined as unsuitable by both leadership groups. Performance in German, | Sebastian Jüngel English available via audio channel

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Goetheanum Adult Education Program Teaching anthroposophy in professional settings New societal values and the dissemination of the anthroposophical impulse around the globe ask for new ways of conveying anthro- posophy in professional settings.

The teaching of , An- throposophic Medicine and Canada Canada relies on specialist knowledge and insights into Mystery Drama group Ross Alden ‹general› anthroposophy, but the way anthropo- sophical contents are taught are still informed In Vancouver, a group is working on Rudolf The Canadian Music Centre has recognized Ross by their late nineteenth and early twentieth Steiner's Mystery Dramas, aiming to perform Alden (1920-2008) posthumously as an affiliated century origins. The faculty of the Goetheanum The Portal of Initiation in March 2021. composer, celebrating his music with a memori- Adult Education Program therefore invites lec- We are a group of about 12 who rehearse the al concert in Vancouver on his 100th anniversary. turers and adult educators to come together and Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner one weekend Born a hundred years ago, Ross Alden worked develop forms of conveying anthroposophy that a month. Marie-Reine Adams, who has had much in Canada, Great Britain, usa, Switzerland and are suited to our time. The academic discourse experience working with a mystery drama group Germany as a teacher, academic, composer and and the challenges of state certification will have in the uk, travels to Vancouver from Vancouver pianist, also accompanying eurythmy for Else to be increasingly considered, as will societal Island to direct us. Anja Macmurchie helps us Klink. He lived an active professional life. developments such as the legacy of colonializa- with speech and drama exercises. As Murray Carmack he learned to read music tion, interreligious dialogue and sensitivity to At present we are working with the Portal of from the hymnal of his mother, when he accom- gender identity. Initiation with the plan of sharing some rehears- panied her to church. A little later a piano came als with the public in the spring. A performance into the house in lieu of a debt owed his father. Sharing and networking is planned in March 2021. Murray Carmack also loved books, which were a Florian Osswald, co-leader of the Education Sec- There are many surprises that happen around refuge from the drudgery of farm life. He was also tion at the Goetheanum, is one of the faculty our practices. Improvements come in leaps and exposed to and suffered from violence in the home. members. For him it is important to be aware of bounds. Even those with small parts benefit After his teacher training he taught school what Rudolf Steiner considered essential when from hearing, repeatedly, the speeches of some and wrote choral works for children. he conceived the Waldorf curriculum, for in- others. In scene one we are introduced to all the The book Sing Me a Song was adopted as the stance. «I can still learn from that today, but I characters and their views of life. One can feel music curriculum for the public school system cannot simply adopt the contents because they one’s soul expand, gaining sympathy for many in Canada and Great Britain. belong to a particular time and were required by different points of view. Other advancements in his career included lec- the circumstances then.» Robin Schmidt, also a We struggle with our parts as each tries to feel turing in music theory at Brown University (Rhode faculty member and lecturer at the International the words they speak coming from the depths Island, us) and establishing the university trans- Anthroposophical Studies at the Goetheanum, of the soul. Finding the appropriate gesture is fer program in the Music Department at Douglas explains why it cannot be a question of simply important. The spoken word is transformed College (ca). All the while, he was composing. providing recipes, «Different people have differ- gesture; it is bodily motion changed to sound. Despite being gay, to adhere to social tradition ent ways of working with the same material or Watching each other grapple with all of this is and to protect against persecution, he married op- method. This is why we wish to facilitate the like watching a play within a play. era singer Edith Paull, who was an invaluable men- sharing of individual and authentic experiences The latest miracle: one of us invited a lady tor. Within the context of his teacher’s exchange with unlocking anthroposophy and provide the very new to anthroposophy to visit a rehearsal he met Mary Dudman in London, England. She possibility for people to be challenged by the and consider taking the part of Felicia (we have was already actively involved in the lobby work- perspectives of others.» The Goetheanum Adult been without a Felicia since the beginning). This ing to decriminalize homosexuality in England. Education Program aims to create a space for person learned a few of the lines and stepped On account of her human rights work, not professionalizing the work of lecturers in anthro- into the part as if she was born for it. | Susan only trust developed, but a second marriage posophy and to encourage networking. Koppersmith, Vancouver (ca) with two daughters Catherine and Elizabeth. | Sebastian Jüngel Murray Carmack became interested in the work of Rudolf Steiner and worked as pianist Teaching Anthroposophy Today. Practices, and composer at the Goetheanum (ch) and at Contact Marie-Reine Adams, vancouvermys- Challenges, Paradigms (in English). Model- [email protected] the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart (de). At the age of ing ways to address development and karma 69 he decided on a Kabalarian name change to (Module 1) / Goetheanism and Steiner’s per- Image David Adams (Benedictus), Marie-Reine spective on Christ (Module 2) Adams (director), by Susan Koppersmith Ross Alden. | Sebastian Jüngel www.studium-goetheanum.org/gaep Source summarized from a life sketch written by Elizabeth Carmack Image Ross Alden (Murray Carmack), courtesy of 8 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20

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Medical Section We cannot separate the climate crisis from our actions and from our moral development. The Human warmth – cooling down of the warmth organism results in earthly warmth an increase of hardening pathologies in present humanity: diabetes engenders sclerotic pro- Warmth affects both nature and human be- cesses (arteriosclerosis, myocardial infarction, ings: while the earth is growing warmer, the stroke, dementia). Sclerotic illnesses and cancer human body temperature has started to drop are essentially cold-related and can be positively since the late nineteenth century. Warmth influenced by increasing warmth and movement. can be enhanced through lifestyle and thera- py, loving care and the fire of ideals. Sources of life A study published in 2019 has analysed 677,423 As our body grows cooler, more enlivening Faust 2020 at the Goetheanum body temperature measurements in three warmth is needed. Rudolf Steiner specified cohorts, encompassing 157 measuring years certain warmth applications such as mistletoe Premiere 20 / 21 June and 197 birth years. The body temperature of therapy for treating cancer, a method that has men born in the early nineteenth century was by now been scientifically evaluated; or oil dis- Goethe’s Faust 1&2 (German) 0.59 degrees Celsius higher than today’s, that persion baths with etheric rosemary oil for the Director: Andrea Pfaehler; of women was found to have dropped by 0.32 treatment of diabetes. But lifestyle changes, Eduardo Torres (eurythmy) degrees Celsius – both results signify a drop of warmth of soul in our interactions with oth- Goetheanum Stage around 0.029 degrees Celsius per birth decade. ers and spiritual fire have a healing effect and www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/premiere We are aware of the natural temperature of strengthen the forces of health – in us and in the human body and its environment and of the the earth. «Where lie the sources of life? They lie warmth generated by the life processes. A seed in what kindles the moral ideals that inspire us. Faust weekends with lectures and study groups needs warmth that envelops the emerging life And so we can start to see that when we allow with a differentiated and often rhythmical order; ourselves to be warmed through and illumined 3 – 5 July a kind of ‹Saturn warmth». The warmth of soul by moral ideals in this present life, these will bear Von Gretchen zu Greta. we experience inwardly is closely connected life, tone and light out with us into the cosmos Wie hältst du es mit dem Klimawandel? (German with simultaneous with the outer warmth and the warmth in the and become world-creative powers. We bear French interpretation) life processes. When we hold a glass of warm world-creative powers out into the cosmos and Section for Agriculture water in our hand, we are more sympathetic morality is the source of these creative powers.»1 towards others than when we hold a glass of | Matthias Girke, Goetheanum www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/ von-gretchen-zu-greta cold water. Spiritual warmth develops when we are enthusiastic, when we have ideals that 10 – 12 July burn in us like a flame. 1 Rudolf Steiner, Universal Spirituality and Krisen, Abgründe und Entwicklung. Human Physicality. Bridging the Divide, ga 202, Mensch und Medizin heute (in German) A bridge between spirit and body Rudolf Steiner Press 2014, p. 142, Medical Section tr. Matthew Barton Warmth forms a bridge between our spiritual Study www.elifesciences.org/articles/49555 www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/ being and our body. Our body temperature Web www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/en/ krisen-abgruende-und-entwicklung reaches its maximum in the late afternoon anthroposophic-medicine 17 – 19 July (usually around 6 p.m.) as our spiritual being Faust macht Geld. Wie wir Geschichte und connects increasingly with our body. Spiritual Gesellschaft gestalten (in German) presence is linked to body temperature. As the Social Science Section temperature goes down, our spirit being gradu- www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/faust-macht-geld ally detaches from the body making it easier for us to go to sleep: the warmth of the day, which 24 – 26 July is connected with the sun’s light, synchronizes Zwischen Homunculus und Euphorion. Mensch our rhythmic system. werden oder Mensch bleiben? (in German), Humanities Section Rudolf Steiner explained how abstract thoughts have a cold quality, while ideals carry www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/ warmth and the power of enthusiasm; they are zwischen-homunculus-und-euphorion illumined by their spiritual goals and ignite forces of hope and life in us that help us realize these goals. The quality of «May It Become» lives in Special offer for Class 11 to 13 students them which needs spiritual warmth for becom- 17 – 19 June Grau ist alle Theorie ing reality. In Chapter 1 of ga 10 Rudolf Steiner Faust Student Conference (in German) writes under ‹Conditions›, «Every idea that does Education Section not become an ideal for you kills a power in your soul; every idea that becomes an ideal engenders www.faust.jetzt/zeitplan/grau-ist-alle-theorie life forces within you.» These life forces have a healing effect both on us and on earthly life. Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20 | 9

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Puerto Rico Section for Agriculture Training course in Living Farms Youth Section curative education The Living Farms research project documents the February Days work being done on biodynamic farms around the Anthroposophical activity is growing in More than 210 young people gathered from world. The project team recently visited Kenya. Puerto Rico, with several Waldorf schools and 30 January to 2 February under the motto kindergartens and a training course in cura- Bound to Earth to talk about climate ques- As part of the Living Farms project, the team tive education. tions. from the Section for Agriculture will, by Febru- The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, once an im- ary 2022, evaluate the impressions gained on «This conference both gave me an overview of portant part of the Spanish colonial empire and up to twenty biodynamic farms. The results anthroposophical thinking and it turned into annexed by the usa in 1898, is today considered will mostly be presented in short videos. Two a wonderful journey to deeper insights into the oldest remaining colony in the world. The pilot films have been completed, which docu- my own forces and my own ability to become two hurricanes that hit the island in September ment the work carried out by the Goetheanum active.» This is the comment of an 18-year old 2017 in quick succession brought it to the atten- Garden team (ch) and at the Heggelbach farm participant from Romania, one of 213 young tion of the world. community in Germany. Project leader Lin Bau- people from 28 countries who came in search In the still young anthroposophical movement tze recently went to visit Kenya together with of a deeper understanding of today’s climate in Puerto Rico there are now several Waldorf Benno Otter from the Goetheanum Garden Park. crisis and ways of making their own contribution schools and kindergartens, which are all still in In Limbua, five thousand small organic farm- towards overcoming it. their pioneering phase. In addition, study groups ers have joined forces and supply Germany with A wide range of themes were covered at this deal with the most diverse topics. There are high quality macadamia nuts, whilst also pro- meeting: questions of human consciousness; connections to the anthroposophical movement ducing food for their own needs on less than the relevance of forming a relationship with the in the usa and Latin America through personal one hectare of land. Some of the small farmers world and with oneself and how this is linked to relationships. have started using biodynamic preparations. the current social, economic and political situ- The initiative group for anthroposophical cu- They are experimenting with adapting them to ation in the world; the climate question as an rative education and social therapy there con- local conditions because there are, for instance, inner crisis of humanity; and projects and activi- sists to a large extent of politically active young no oak trees in Kenya. ties in response to the climate crisis, for instance people who are deeply involved in issues of social The Mbaghati Waldorf School has around 350 in the Amazon rainforest or through festivals justice, equality for disadvantaged minorities students from classes 1 to 9. It uses the school around the globe that focus on nature or the and the protection of women and children from garden and agricultural land for teaching and environment. While these issues were deepened abuse and violence. for growing produce for the school canteen. It in discussions, work groups and performanc- Some years ago, a curative education study also keeps cows, which means that the school es, participants also developed their own ap- group was formed, consisting mainly of Wal- has its own milk supplies. Regular biodynamic proaches and took new inspirations with them. dorf teachers and educators, psychologists, training sessions take place at the school and are Hope arose from these meetings that there therapists and social workers connected with attended by people from all over Africa. are people who are working on these ques- anthroposophy. With the support of the social Both initiatives are applying agroforestry, a tions, that much good is being done and that a worker Myriam Orrillo from Buenos Aires (ar), system that combines trees such as macadamia, future of humanity and nature is conceivable a co-founder of the curative education training avocado, papaya with crops of vegetables and and achievable – a thought that was expressed Seminario Cruz del Sur, it was finally possible in sweetcorn. This system leads to greater biodi- variously by participants during the meeting. 2019 to initiate a three-year course coordinated versity and to carbon dioxide being absorbed by | Ioana Viscrianu, Goetheanum locally by Elsa Arenas, Luzdaris Morales, Raiza the trees. In addition, the soil does not dry out Ascanio and Yozibe Martinez. This course aims so fast thanks to the shade provided by the trees. www.youthsection.org/ to provide the foundations for developing cura- The project team will next visit Australia and events-february-days-2020 tive education and social therapy initiatives in New Zealand and then continue on to Europe. Image Storytelling with Melody Brink, by Ju- Puerto Rico. | Jan Göschel, Goetheanum Experiences were also recorded at the recent gendsektion/Johannes Kronenberg Agriculture Conference. | Sebastian Jüngel

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Anthroposophy and Science ture, as a phenomenological natural science and consequently as an essential contribution to evidence-based medical research, to its publicly the public discussion of Rudolf Steiner’s work, Steiner Studies represented, independent epistemological and which might otherwise be misrepresented and spiritual-scientific methods. appear in a more negative light. Whether it will journal project Despite valuable individual achievements and work out like this in the end remains to be seen. the immense work that is being done in the spe- Armin Husemann was adamant, even after the The German Frommann-Holzboog Press cialist sections there is a need within the School discussion, that being on the advisory board of publishes works by Rudolf Steiner as critical of Spiritual Science for research, for which the Steiner Studies was not compatible with working editions as well as the journal Steiner Studies. anthroposophical multidimensional, specifically as an editor of Anthroposophie, the quarterly of The fact that there are anthroposophists on scientific contents and methods must be devel- the Anthroposophical Society in Germany. this publisher’s advisory board has been criti- oped further and published. More weight must The discourse on Anthroposophy and Science cized by other anthroposophists. On 27 Janu- be given, moreover, to the scientific competence and on ways of dealing with critics and opposi- ary the question was discussed at the invita- of teachers and students. tion will be continued in a suitable format within tion of the Goetheanum Leadership. the School of Spiritual Science. | Christiane Haid, Dialogue with scientists Georg Soldner, Johannes Wirz and Justus Wittich The dialogue with critical scientists was also on behalf of the Goetheanum Leadership The meeting was convened because of an ‹open discussed, which is seen as fruitful as long as it is letter’ addressed to the School of Spiritual Sci- based on factual debate. This has become regu- ence expressing concern about the fact that lar, successful practice at both Witten Herdecke Addendum Wolf-Ulrich Klünker and Jost Schieren are on University (de) and Alanus University (de) and it the advisory board of the Steiner Studies journal. helps students to develop their own judgement. Armin Husemann asked for the following pas- The writers of the letter are concerned that the The contact with Christian Clement, professor sage to be added: «Armin Husemann pointed journal could turn into an anthroposophy-hostile of German Studies at Brigham Young University out that Helmut Zander accuses Rudolf academic mouthpiece, because of others on the in Utah (us) and editor of the critical edition Steiner of lying five times within a few pages advisory board who deny the scientific founda- published by Frommann-Holzboog, has been of his book Anthroposophie in Deutschland tions of anthroposophy or, like Helmut Zander, seen as very positive since collaboration began in (Anthroposophy in Germany), concluding spread untruths about it. 2013; the same applies to the exchange with the with the question, «What does it look like The Goetheanum Leadership therefore ex- Fichte researcher Hartmut Traub, who is profes- within a person who is becoming increasingly tended an invitation to discuss the topic An- sor at Alanus University. Both are editors of the entangled in lies?» He sees Rudolf Steiner as throposophy and Science at a meeting which scientific online journal Steiner Studies. Professor someone who «condemns himself to untruth- was attended by the cultural scientist Angelika Helmut Zander, on the other hand – and every- fulness» (p. 463). Sandtmann, representing the Council of the one present agreed on this – is not considered In the context of this controversy Georg Anthroposophical Society in Germany, the physi- a scientifically reliable researcher of anthro- Soldner asked who among those present cist and teacher Martin Basfeld, the physician posophy and Rudolf Steiner. His two-volume shared the request expressed by Friedwart Armin Husemann and professors Peter Heusser, publication Anthroposophie in Deutschland (An- Husemann in his petition, i.e. to exclude Jost Wolf-Ulrich Klünker, Jost Schieren and . throposophy in Germany) and his Rudolf Steiner Schieren and Wolf-Ulrich Klüncker as edi- Eight members of the Goetheanum Leadership biography may have gained him the reputation tors of the journal Anthroposophie because were also present. of being a Steiner expert in public but his choice of their decision to cooperate with Helmut of sources, statements and conclusions clearly Zander on the advisory board. All with the ex- Representing anthroposophy lack scientific rigour. And even in cases where ception of Armin Husemann rejected the peti- Competent research and the corresponding the speciousness of his arguments has been tion.» | Armin Husemann, Ostfildern de( ) representation of anthroposophy at a scien- pointed out to and admitted by him, he has not tific level will be an urgent requirement in the made corrections in later publications. coming years, given that the scientific nature The ‹opponent› concept (a concept not shared Buch Peter Heusser: Anthroposophy and of anthroposophy is being called into question, by everyone present) seems appropriate here Science. An Introduction, Peter Lang ag 2016. particularly in the field of medicine, but also because it is not a question of someone having in other specialist areas. It is essential that an- a different point of view but of deliberately de- throposophy is not seen in public as a doctrine constructing anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner of revelation but as the field of serious scientific and presenting and interpreting facts in dubious research it is meant to be. and one-sidedly distorting ways. It is not a question of narrowing anthroposo- phy down to a reductionist scientific concept Continuing the discourse but of representing anthroposophic research At the end of the discussion it was agreed that adequately in today’s scientific discourse and be- the underlying reasons for Wolf-Ulrich Klünker’s ing open to debates with critics and opponents. and Jost Schieren’s decision were understand- This was the outcome of the five-hour dis- able, independently of whether or not others cussion which covered a broad range of topics: would choose the same course of action: both from the wish for a stronger representation of see their involvement with the Steiner Stud- anthroposophy as a science, to its manifestation ies journal as a way of enabling the competent as a primarily practice-based science in agricul- and factual presentation of anthroposophy and Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20 | 11

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5 December 1934 • 23 December 2019 Membership News

Peter Tradowsky We have been informed that the following 40 members have crossed the threshold of death. In their remem- brance we are providing this information for their friends. Peter Tradowsky was born in Ber- | Membership Office at the Goetheanum lin (de) and remained active there throughout his life. Even his child- Mariana Spaček Vienna (at) 8 April 2019 hood seems to have prepared him Stanislav Kubát Brno (cz) 11 April 2019 for his connection with Rudolf Lars Lundmark Ringarum (se) 11 April 2019 Eberhard Munz Stuttgart (de) 2 July 2019 Steiner and anthroposophy. Expe- Helga Schmoll, called Eisenwerth Munich (de) 4 July 2019 riences during the war awakened Roger Schorro Rorbas (ch) 30 August 2019 in him an interest in a deeper un- Brigitte Rehlich Hamburg (de) 6 September 2019 derstanding of human nature. His Sybille Hahn Thornhill (ca) 22 October 2019 mother took him to the Christian Jaroslav Plocek Praha (cz) 31 October 2019 Community where, in the con- Ivy Flanagan Saddleworth near Oldham (gb) 9 November 2019 firmation lessons, he heard the Rhoda Meier West Vancouver (ca) 10 November 2019 Adelheid Prael Bagarmossen (se) 30 November 2019 story of Parsifal in which he found Albertine van Benthem-van Beek Vollenhoven the foundation of his life. The Hague (nl) 1 December 2019 He studied German and Geog- on the destiny of Kaspar Hauser Felicitas Kipp Stuttgart (de) 4 December 2019 raphy at Berlin’s Freie Universität, and on questions regarding Czar Susanne Merck Berlin (de) 5 December 2019 hoping to become a Waldorf Dmitri and the two Johns. Further Marianne Vetterfalk Järna (se) 9 December 2019 teacher, a decision that was re- publications, some of which were Birgit Morton Sheffieldgb ( ) 13 December 2019 Armin Reupke Braunschweig (de) 16 December 2019 inforced by his experience of the translated into other languages, Elisabeth Eggerding Höchberg (de) 18 December 2019 state school system. For many focus on urgent questions of our Heinz Langer Ahrensburg (de) 20 December 2019 years he worked as an upper time. He was truly a man of his Verena Andres-Stoller Walkringen (ch) 25 December 2019 school teacher and bursar at the time, who deeply and actively Eveline Hornecker Oberschaeffolsheim (fr) 26 December 2019 Berlin Rudolf Steiner Schule. He connected with the requirements Olinde Roye Stuttgart (de) 26 December 2019 was one of the founders of the of practical life. Thea Witt Hildesheim (de) 26 December 2019 Berlin Arbeitszentrum (anthropo- Regina Boehm Basel (ch) 29 December 2019 Rudolf Gebhardt Dresden (de) 30 December 2019 sophical centre) and was later put Fostering the Christ impulse Rotraud Teichmann Würzburg (de) 31 December 2019 in charge of the Rudolf Steiner The spiritual communion with Lone Sunnasten Bjuråker (se) 1 January 2020 House building project in Berlin. Christ, the fostering of the Christ Erik Planfelt Skanderborg (dk) 4 January 2020 He went on to become one of impulse, was Peter Tradowsky’s Beate Wohlers Elmshorn (de) 7 January 2020 the main active contributors at goal in life, which carried him Helga Dextor Göppingen (de) 13 January 2020 the Arbeitszentrum. His lectures through challenging times when Christine Long Mapleton (au) 14 January 2020 in Berlin and other cities will not he was faced with defamation Helga Trentina Santiago de Chile (cl) 16 January 2020 Adam Makkai Budapest (hu) 18 January 2020 be forgotten, above all his annual and hostility. He had studied the Ronald Richter Berlin (de) 18 January 2020 reviews on New Year’s Eve. questions of the phantom body Claus Brandt Munich (de) 21 January 2020 addressed by Rudolf Steiner in the Segundo Santillán sen. Don Torcuato (ar) 22 January 2020 Conveying anthroposophy Karlsruhe lecture cycle From Jesus Volker Ostermai Aesch (ch) 24 January 2020 As a Class Holder in the School to Christ (ga 131), when the appear- Heinrich Schneider Dornach (ch) 24 January 2020 of Spiritual Science and leader of ance of the stigmata and the con- Hannu Outakivi Lahti (fi) 25 January 2020 work groups and seminars Peter sequent changes in the physical Tradowsky helped many people body functions of his co-worker 62 members left the Society between to deepen their knowledge of an- at the Rudolf Steiner House in 11 and 31 January 2020. throposophy. In the gdr and later Berlin confronted him with a life- also in the new German States he changing event that brought up did much to support the anthro- many questions. Faithfully and posophical work, especially within lovingly he supported Judith von the School of Spiritual Science. Halle, her destiny and her spiritual Hauser novel) was one of Peter Correction He was always happy to accept scientific work. Tradowsky’s main concerns. To Country representative, invitations to give lectures and His love and goodness – and the very end he was filled with not general secretary seminars in other countries, offer- not least his care for Mother deep gratitude for the diversity of In Anthroposophy Worldwide 1-2/2020 Florencio Herrero was ing regular work groups in Earth – are signs of a humanity encounters and events that life introduced as the new ‹general Paris in particular. that is often lost in the busy lives had granted him. | Edda Lechner, secretary› of the Anthroposophi- Based on spiritual science, we lead today. To overcome the Freie Vereinigung für Anthroposo- cal Society in Spain. The designa- Peter Tradowsky undertook and «inertia of the heart» (subtitle phie (independent anthroposophi- tion used now is ‹country repre- sentative›. | Sebastian Jüngel published extensive research of Jakob Wassermann’s Kaspar cal group), Berlin (de) 12 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 3/20

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Veterinary medicine «The animals want to be recognized»

Exactly a hundred years after Rudolf Steiner’s first course for physicians the Goethea- num will host the first international conference for Anthroposophic Veterinary Medicine. For Sabrina Menestrina, coordinator for this medical specialty within the Medical Section, it is important to understand that animals cannot continue to evolve without humans (and vice versa).

Sebastian Jüngel What is your personal those that don’t have sounds through their relationship with animals? movement gestures, and in this way they sig- Sabrina Menestrina I’ve grown up with ani- nalize to their cosmic group soul that they are mals – even when I was little we always had on earth. This points to the animal’s relation- dogs. Later I knew that I wanted to do some- ship with the cosmos. We can learn from this thing with medicine and realized that I felt as humans. don’t feel fear individually but the fear takes close to animals. After medical school, which hold of the whole animal group, extending all Assimilating to their is combined in Italy for physicians, vets and the way up to the group soul. human environment pharmacists, Jüngel How is it with death? I became an anthroposophic vet. Jüngel To what extent can the insights of Menestrina As far as I can tell, animals are not Jüngel Even within the same breed of dog one anthroposophic human medicine be extrapo- afraid of death, because death is natural for finds different ‹characters›. lated to veterinary medicine? them. Unlike humans, animals don’t need to Menestrina Yes, we observe traits of individu- Menestrina Initially, this does not seem to think about what eternity may look like – they alization when animals live in a family or on be possible. We are vertical beings, animals are always connected with it anyway via the a farm – a natural result of being close to hu- are horizontal. The two orientations form a group soul. mans. Because animals want to be recognized cross – the complete human being. by, and similar to, us. This can lead to rather Jüngel To put the question differently: how is Animals can’t droll behaviours such as when a dog lays her illness different in humans and animals? replace relationships head on a person’s pillow. They can be so Menestrina Animals have no individual ‹I› and Jüngel People say that one can train animals close to humans that it is not at all surprising therefore no karma. They depend on an envi- to look after another being. that dogs save children from danger. ronment and on food that are suited to them. Menestrina That is correct. But we need to be If this is not the case or other life conditions careful here: animals cannot replace human The animals’ sacrifice are not met, animals become sick. Domestic relationships. Animals are perfect and beauti- Jüngel How should we view animals are, moreover, very closely connected ful, but they don’t develop the kind of love we domestic animals? with us humans and not as individualized as can feel. People often project their needs on Menestrina Animals are not humans. They we are. They perceive our etheric and astral animals and therefore do things like feeding need to be out in the open air; they need fresh aura and are influenced by our thoughts, feel- them treats. But that is not love. The concept food, water and sleep; dogs also want to play. ings and intentions. of love itself needs looking at today: love is in- Animals are ensouled moving creatures. Fluids There is a study that shows that the stress we terest in each other based on knowledge. For move in them and they are led by the wisdom experience is transferred to our animals. This some people their pet is a kind of ‹hairy child›, of their instincts. We can also establish an is why animals also need treating today. As a child substitute. Less and less children are empathetic relationship with animals by be- a vet I heal sick animals but I also ‹educate› born today! This will lead to us having more ing aware of the fact that being an animal their owners so that they develop a sensible vets than paediatricians in Europe. Italy holds constitutes a sacrifice: we humans have left relationship with their animals. An animal’s the record in this respect, but other European the animals behind on our evolutionary path. sickness tells me much about its owner. It can countries come a close second. If we do not care for them we will lose some- happen that I talk to that person’s gp about thing on our own path. this. The animals mirror us. Jüngel Rudolf Steiner gave courses for physi- Jüngel Do animals feel pain? First international anthroposophical confer- ence for veterinary medicine: Solutions and cians and therapists but not for vets. What is Menestrina Yes, they do, but they cannot re- Questions of Anthroposophic Veterinary Medi- your work based on? flect on it. Warm-blooded animals like horses cine, 20 to 22 March 2020, Goetheanum Menestrina Rudolf Steiner has occasionally suffer intensely because they don’t ‹know› www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/fileadmin/ said something about the being of animals, in how to keep their pain at a tolerable level. user_upload/VET2020_EN.pdf the Agriculture Course, for instance (ga 327), Animals don’t feel the pain in particular places Image The animals’ sacrifice: Susi, the dog. or the so-called Butterfly Course ga( 230) or in but all over. This inability to understand pain Manifestations of Karma (ga 120). Animals are causes them to develop fear. very specialized today, very uniform. This is This is an indication that animals stayed something they cannot escape, unlike humans behind human evolution in a phase when who are capable of development. Animals they did not have the possibility to overcome express themselves through their sounds, or pain – in favour of human evolution. Animals