Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925) was an occult philosopher famous for starting Waldorf education, Biodynamic agriculture, and Anthroposophy, an esoteric movement. But those initiatives represent only a small part of his incredible legacy. In dozens of books and hundreds of lectures, Steiner explored vast evolutionary cycles, predicting the prophetic transformation of the Earth and humanity underway now. While often dismissed as a marginal and eccentric figure and ignored by the academy, he may be the most important thinker for our world today. Synthesizing an esoteric form of Christianity with Eastern and animist worldviews, Steiner offers a redemptive approach to human existence in a universe of consciousness, restoring meaning and coherence to the world.
In this seminar, we explore how Steiner’s wise and compassionate vision of reality is essential for us now — and for our future. How do we understand and personally integrate his most important ideas? What special significance does his work have in this age of AI and technofeudalism, as psychedelics and other psychoactive substances attain mass popularity?
Join us for You Say You Want a Revelation?—a transformative exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s visionary thinking and its profound relevance for our time. Over four weeks, we’ll delve into Steiner’s revolutionary ideas on consciousness, spiritual evolution, and humanity’s cosmic destiny. Learn how his synthesis of esoteric Christianity, Eastern philosophy, and animist worldviews offers a redemptive framework for navigating today’s crises, from the rise of AI to the psychedelic renaissance. Through engaging sessions on his life, influences, cosmology, and legacy, discover why Steiner’s teachings on reincarnation, karmic relationships, and the evolution of human consciousness remain essential. Whether you’re seeking to deepen your spiritual practice or understand Steiner’s relevance in an age of technofeudalism, this seminar offers a rare chance to integrate occult wisdom into your modern life.
We explore the intersection of quantum nonlocality, monistic idealism, and the contemporary psychedelic movement, including DMT experiences. Today’s cutting-edge ideas and trends provide a compelling framework for revisiting Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric claims. Learn why Steiner’s vision is not only relevant but essential for understanding our interconnected reality.
In our first session, we explore how recent discoveries in quantum physics, psychology, philosophy and other fields provide a new path to understanding and integrating Steiner’s cosmological vision into our postmodern world. Steiner defined himself as a “monistic idealist” who believed we live in a universe where consciousness is the fundamental reality: “Fundamentally, there is nothing in the universe but consciousness… The only true realities in the universe are beings in different states of consciousness.”
In his first book, Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner refuted Kant’s dualism between noumena and phenomena. He proposed a different approach to philosophy, as a creative, imaginative and transformative act. Today, the ideas of monistic or analytic idealism have been advanced and formalized by thinkers like Bernardo Kastrup, Donald Hoffman, and Amit Goswami, among others. We are in an ontological revolution, breaking from the reductive materialism and atheist nihilism of the past centuries, to discover a new connection to the cosmos.
Quantum physics has established the universe is “not locally real,” revealing the primacy of subjective awareness in the shaping of reality. In psychology, Internal Family Systems theorists such as Robert Falconer explore the reality of spirits and spirit possession, beyond the model of “subpersonalities.” Professor Ian Stevenson from the University of Virginia compiled evidence for reincarnation, studying hundreds of children around the world who spontaneously recalled their past lives. Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field theory gives us a way to approach to local knowledge systems and occult realities.
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Bestselling author and visionary thought leader
Daniel Pinchbeck has written and lectured extensively about Rudolf Steiner's ideas. Steiner is a focus of his books Breaking Open the Head and Quetzalcoatl Returns.
"Daniel Pinchbeck’s life is the hero’s journey. [His work] is a song of redemption for a world torn apart by the monsters of our own creation. We’ve dreamed a world that is consuming itself into extinction. Pinchbeck offers us a new dream and in doing so takes us on a powerful, magical voyage into balance and sanity." - John Perkins, author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man