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anthroposophy

Philosophy based on the view that the human intellect has the ability to contact spiritual worlds. It was formulated in the early 20th century by Rudolf Steiner and was influenced by theosophy. Steiner wanted to develop a faculty for spiritual perception independent of the senses, which he believed was latent in all human beings, and to this end he founded the Anthroposophical Society in 1912. Now based in Dornach, Switzerland, the society has branches worldwide.



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I suppose the contemporary models closest to Goodman's imaginary Westhampton are to be found in the Danish folk schools he admired so much, the Camp Hill communities of the anthroposophists, or the extraordinary undertakings of Aonghus Gordon at Ruskin Mill and The Glass House in the English midlands (www.
The Boy Scouts of Westhampton by Goodman, Paul / Radical Teacher
My late mother-in-law was an anthroposophist and taught in Waldorf schools.
Lay off Waldorf schools by Winter, Herbert / Church & State
As astute contemporaries understood, this story was proposterous; its chief twentieth century proponents have come from the followers of the anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner, who, among his many odd notions, believed that Hauser was a modem-day Christ figure.
Kaspar Hauser: Europe's Child. by Sperber, Jonathan / Journal of Social History
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