PROGRAMMING INFORMATION As an educational reformer, Rudolf Steiner was an ‘integrationist’, an advocate of the interweaving and complementing of school subjects. He taught that, through creativity, teachers could bring a harmonizing and mutual benefit to subjects as (apparently) disparate as maths and music or physics and painting. This is achieved by a process of synthesis […]
BOOK: Spiritual Science
Spiritual Science: 10th Grade Marine Biology
DEATH OF THE RAINBOW SERPENT Marine Biology – Class 10 – Middle Lesson The Aboriginal people of Cape York, the most northerly tip of Australia, tell of the arrival, out of Mother Ocean, of the Rainbow Serpent. After many stupendous acts of terrestrial Creation, this great being returned to its maritime home and, in exhaustion, […]
Spiritual Science: The Atmosphere-Meterology in 10th Grade
PIOUS DEVOTION The Atmosphere – Class 10 – Middle Lesson Like a white tongue of death from that pitiless giant, Terra Australis, was the low-pressure cell which Devas-tated sailors and their vessels in the 1999 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. This is the world air as enemy; as good a place as any to begin […]
Spiritual Science: 10th Grade Human Physiology
FLEX THOSE MUSCLES Human Physiology – Class 10 – Main Lesson The human being has 32 teeth; what a pity it’s not 33, that would make these hardest mineralized-materialized) human physiologic elements numerologically meaningful indeed – 33 being the ‘Christ’ or Divine ego number as it is. Well we do have 33 teeth actually, the […]
Spiritual Science: 10th Grade Nutritional Chemistry
TWELVE-ROOM TABERNACLE Nutritional Chemistry – Class 10 – Main Lesson Rudolf Steiner once observed that all food is poison. He was right too, a milkshake drunk intravenously will kill. That enigmatic organ, the liver, transmutes all worldly substances committed to the digestion process, from potential poison to body parts of legion kinds – eyes, fingernails, […]
Spiritual Science: 10th Grade Light Physics
LIGHT THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Light Physics – Class 10 – Main Lesson When the inventors of laser received critical acclaim from the science and technology community some years back, this was tempered by the question “But what do you do with it?” Today we know that most branches of A&T use laser light as […]