Anthroposophical Society in America
02/21/2024 07:00 PM - 03/07/2024 09:00 PM ET
This June marks 100 years since Rudolf Steiner first presented his illuminating work, The Agriculture Course (1924), which can be considered the inception of biodynamic agriculture in the world. In this series of lectures, Steiner presented an antidote to the increasing industrialization and chemicalization of agriculture that was gaining popularity at the turn of the 20th century.
Just one year prior, in 1923, he had presented Nine Lectures on Bees - highlighting the wisdom and spiritual importance of the bee, the beehive, and its relation to health, civilization, and cosmic order. Towards the end of 1923, Steiner shared another series of lectures called Harmony of the Creative Word (also known as Man as Symphony of the Creative Word), which outlines in extensive detail a spiritual scientific view of the human being within the context of cosmic and earthly evolution.
As we move through winter towards spring, we invite you to join us in working with the on-going import of this work on agriculture, bees, and the true nature of the human being, out of the sense that such study supports a deepened understanding of how, as a humanity, we can live in greater harmony with the natural world. The series will be led by six different presenters, each carrying this particular research into their life's work. Through this series participants are also given time, and are encouraged to share with one another out their own on-going practice with this content in the world.