Retrospective 2024-43

This is a retrospective of week 43, 2024 (2024-10-14–2024-10-20).

I’ve continued reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards, and started reading The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner this week. Reading Steiner raises a number questions:

• What is a concept?
• What is thinking?
  • What if Steiner, as a philosopher, overvalues thinking?
• I don’t seem to agree with most of Chapter 6: Human Individuality?
  • Is it because I don’t understand or for some other reason?

I’ve also listened to Brian Gray’s leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy during the week. It’s about how to live in a creative way. Brian Gray says:¹

The driving force . . . is love for the deed. So, on the one hand, freedom is the ability to imagine something that doesn’t yet exist, and to intend, and to set something in motion, to make it happen. But, the reason to make it happen is because it is part of my creative impulse. My love to do it makes the action, not into a lawful action, but into a creative action, into a free action.

Notes:
1. Anthroposophical Society in America, “ Brian Gray: Leading thoughts from Applied Anthroposophy”, 20240612, YouTube Video, 1:27:48, https://youtu.be/G53yVylc5KA?t=2768