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Verse for America

Rudolf Steiner

May our felling penetrate

Into the center of our heart

and seek, in love, to unite itself

with human beings seeking the same goal,

with spirit beings who, bearing grace,

strengthening us from realms of light

and illuminating our love,

are gazing down upon

our earnest, heart-felt striving.

Celestial Observation  |  Raphael

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Reflections from Harvard's 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference

In December 2025, Harvard Divinity School's Program for the Evolution of Spirituality hosted a conference marking the centennial of the death of Rudolf Steiner. The 100 Years Rudolf Steiner conference was held at Harvard's Cambridge campus. Over 200 people came from across the world to attend in person, with more than 1000 people registered for online participation. Over the course of three days, 75+ researchers presented on a variety of topics related to Rudolf Steiner, to anthroposophy, and to the on-going presence of this work in the world. Now, we are pleased to announce that beginning.

Wednesday. July 29, 2026

and for the following 2 weeks we will host

a series of online presentations

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Reflections from Harvard's 100 Years Rudolf Steiner Conference

During the December conference, and in order to accommodate the number of presentations, most speakers were limited to only 20 minutes, with two lecture rooms running concurrently; there was no way to physically attend every presentation. The three-day schedule was fully packed.

Our online program takes into account that:

• Many members of the ASA were able to attend the conference and have expressed an interest in hearing the talks that were missed
• Some of the presenters are ready to expand their talks to more than 20 minutes
• Many presenters and attendees have been thoughtfully considering what they experienced at the Harvard gathering and want to share how it has moved in their soul life in the months since the event - to explore their memories and after-images

Everyone is invited to join us for this exciting opportunity to work with the after-images of Harvard's stimulating conference, whether you were there or not, whether you were there in-person or online.

These presentations will be hosted via Zoom and recorded to watch later if you cannot attend live.

"Do not think that when you remember a thing that this is merely a process in your inner being. When you experience something, you cannot simply write it, as it were, in your notebook... But that which you remember, that you inscribe in the cosmic ether; and it is the cosmic ether which evokes it again in you, like the impression of a seal on sealing-wax, when you ought to remember it. Recollection is no mere personal affair, my dear friends, it implies an understanding with the cosmos. You cannot be alone when, as an inwardly collected human, you seek to recall your experiences; for remembering or failing to remember one’s experiences creates a disturbance in the being of humankind..." 

Rudolf Steiner, GA 194, December 7, 1919

SCHEDULE FOR OUR SUMMER 2026 SERIES

Wednesday July 29 at 12pm ET

Opening with Mary Stewart Adams, General Secretary for ASA and

Dan McKanan,

Director of the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality at Harvard Divinity School.

Wednesday July 29 - at 3pm ET

Bruce Donehower :

Marie Steiner-von Sivers,

“Novalis,” and the Founding of the first Anthroposophical Society; Köln, Germany, December 1912



Thursday July 30 at 7pm ET

Seth Jordan : Rudolf Steiner and Democracy —

Understanding His Relationship to the Democratic Impulse Through the Organizations He Helped Design

Sunday August 2 at 4pm ET

Terra Malmstrom : Beyond Survival: Kenotic Love, Honeybee Wisdom, and the Spiritual Science of Evolution

Thursday August 6 - at 3pm ET

 Ashton Arnoldy : Reverent Impiety: Reading Steiner's Christian Cosmology Against His Racialism

Saturday August 8 at 4pm ET

Liz Beaven : Weaving Spirit and Practice: Reclaiming the Radical Nature of Waldorf Education

Tuesday August 11 at 2pm ET

Nathaniel Williams : Rudolf Steiner's Aesthetic Culture, Ecology and Economics

Wednesday August 12 at 1pm ET ~

Angela Assis : Contested Lineages: Bernard Lievegoed and Gudrun Burkhard as Second-Generation Interpreters of Rudolf Steiner

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