Rudolf steiner biography movie of microsoft

We learn that Steiner invented eurhythmy , a dance like performance art, because he realized early on that harmonious movement is in modern societies rather the exception than the rule. Eurhythmy, which can also be applied as a form of psychotherapy heals through movement by overcoming the heaviness of the earth through rhythm.

An interviewed teacher explains how these natural rhythms are tied to our emotions: Laughing is breathing out, crying is about breathing in. I recall a nature documentation which I watched last year about the pairing dance of birds, in which the speaker said: with each synchronized movement grows mutual trust confirming that there is much more about communication than words in the entire animal kingdom including us.

He reinstated ancient farming calendars, which observed and understood the basic principles of nature at a time when modern farming techniques are only about to take hold of the industry. Steiner understood agriculture as a process to heal the earth. He was by any means far ahead of his time and would have probably burnt at the stake during the medieval inquisition for proposing to farmers to apply strangely prepared fertilizing mixtures called and He conceived them as medicine for the earth.

It is based on the anthroposophical principle that all life has value and therefore establishes in contrast to the holocaust an inclusive approach to education and work.

The film “Learn to Change the World” shows people from around the world who work on the big pedagogical tasks of our time based on Waldorf/Steiner pedagogy.

Mentally and physically handicapped are embraced and made an integral part of society. We start to suspect that it is actually us normal folks, who receive healing through vulnerability and innocence. Its amazing to realize that this knowledge started to disappear already more than a century ago and that slow science — taking five minutes to look at a plant — is something that needs to be kindled in every child in order to instill and maintain awe for the natural world.

How difficult has this become in our times when the natural world competes with the dopamine addiction generates by the cyber physical space.

A Swedish 3-part documentary titled De Utvalda Barnen (The Chosen Children) exposes the emotional and psychological harm done to some former Waldorf students.

We are left in part one with the impression that Steiner was a natural scientist like his 18th century forefathers Alexander von Humboldt and Wolfgang von Goethe who was moreover blessed and cursed with a mystical perception of the spiritual world. He tried to merge science and spiritualism and recognized early on that the increasingly dualist worldview of modernist societies conditions us to disregard the wonders of the phenomenal world and the miracles which hide beyond it.

Part two zooms in on Waldorf education and biodynamic agriculture. We are being told that children need to be given time to develop properly and that education is not about imparting knowledge but about awakening and nurturing what children already know.