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anthroposophy

System of mystical philosophy developed by Austrian educationist Rudolf Steiner, who claimed to possess a power of intuition giving him access to knowledge not attainable by scientific means.

Designed to develop the whole human being, anthroposophy stresses the importance of awakening latent spiritual perception by training the mind to rise above material things.

Anthroposophists believe that an appreciation of art is one of the keys to spiritual development, and that music and colours have curative properties.



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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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