John Bloom
From the General Secretary: from Goetheanum spring meetings
May 3, 2019A Brief Report from the Spring Meetings at the Goetheanum Dear Members and Friends,Spring greetings. As I did last year, I am writing this brief report following the spring meetings at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. Most public of those meetings is the Annual General Meeting at which business of the General Anthroposophical…
Read MoreFrom the General Secretary: “the spirit world – a true commons”
From the General Secretary February 2019 Walls, great and small, are a sensitive topic these days, and even more meaningful are the boundaries that walls make visible. Physical boundaries separate us: rivers, mountains, or coastlines, and each one of us is apart from the others. Boundaries may also be negotiated delineations, in essence territorial, recorded…
Read MoreFrom the General Secretary: “what is happening to language & speaking”
From the General Secretary December 2018 We shape the world by how we speak; the world shapes us by what we say. These days I find myself wondering what is happening to language and speaking. Reductivist twittering, hacked thoughts, words are everywhere present in our lives: written, spoken, printed, sung, and even shouted. They guide…
Read MoreSpirit Rising: Toward a More Just Economy
A recent post by John Bloom on the RSF Social Finance blog… These Days Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle And the dirt Just to make clear where they come from. —Charles Olson We stand at an important moment in the flow of time, and what matters most…
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