2024 Annual Conference
Step Into
a Modern Esoteric Stream
October 11-14, 2024
Portland, OR
Some one hundred years after Rudolf Steiner's last public address we find ourselves asking this question: How do things stand with anthroposophy in the world? And especially, here and now, how does anthroposophy live in the United States? How would we like it to live?
We have chosen the Pacific Northwest for this year’s conference because it supports an inner sense of how we turn from the "far West" back toward the East ~ when what is enkindled in the heart takes on form as a life path, given its fullest expression when it is shared with others seeking the same goal.
Our main speaker is Marc Desaules, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland, whose initiative L’Aubier in Neuchâtel and whose role with the Swiss Society give him a depth of understanding and a dynamic of lived experience that demonstrates how anthroposophy moves through the world. Our gathering will also include workshops, metal-colored light therapy, art exhibits, the Foundation Stone in eurythmy, performances, and more.
Insight
Seeing the whole human being in our complex social, biological, planetary, and cosmic contexts, anthroposophy can open up the field of creative potential and action for each of us.
This includes personal growth and health and capacities, and social and professional service and engagement.
Find out about webinars, events, and other resources for your path.
Inspiration
Inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide are finding inspiration for meaningful choices in daily living,—
for parenting and community, for healing the Earth, for artistic and scientific work, and for building a new culture of freedom, fairness, and solidarity.
Learn more about inspiring initiatives and individuals with values like yours.
Community
Anthroposophy's far-reaching view of personal development and human evolution gives a new context for today's widespread egotism. We each need to gain inner freedom and self-reliance in order to be change agents and conveners of a healthy future civilization, one where the whole community and the individual are seen and valued by each other. Consider membership and ways to get involved.
News & Events
Anthroposophy (noun)
[an-thro-POS-o-phy] The art and science of becoming more fully human.
Our Mission
The Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) supports and furthers the work of Rudolf Steiner in the United States. We are an open membership organization that fosters self-development and inspired social engagement.
Anthroposophy is a discipline of research as well as a path of knowledge, service, personal growth, and social engagement. Introduced and developed by Rudolf Steiner, it is concerned with all aspects of human life, spirit and humanity’s future evolution and well-being.
An “open heart and comprehensive mind..."
Rudolf Steiner gave clear insights and supportive guidance for individuals of all kinds, inspiring creative work in many fields.
Educator, scientist, philosopher, spiritual researcher, “meta-thinker”? But also social reformer, artistic innovator, cultural activist, and initiator of a holistic, human-centered “anthroposophy”—that is Rudolf Steiner.
To learn more about this unique individual and his still-expanding impact we are creating a sister site RudolfSteiner.org -- it's online and growing every week.
being human
Our magazine being human reports on “personal and cultural renewal in the 21st century.”
Features include initiatives, arts & ideas, research & reviews, and news of the Anthroposophical Society, as well as a visual arts gallery and biographical sketches of individuals who have died.
