Japan’s Crisis and Opportunity : Fukushima (Island of Good Fortune)

by Terry Boardman     This article first appeared in New View magazine Spring 2011     By next year, I realise that a sixth of my life will have been spent in Japan ; it is a land, a society and culture for which I feel great gratitude and with which I am very familiar. Japan and its people taught me to love nature, to meditate, and the value of hard work and many other things too...
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“Where Is My Home? Truth Prevails” – A Journey to the Heart of Europe

Terry Boardman 2009 This essay first appeared in New View magazine Issue 54 Winter 2009/10     Pravda vít?zí  (“Truth prevails” – The official motto of the Czech Republic) Kde domov m?j (“Where is my home?” -  The Czech national anthem)   A secretive sun – this is the phrase that comes to mind when I think of Prague, a city of open secrets. The heart...
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AFTER NAFTA…. TAFTA?

©Terry M. Boardman This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in March 1996 7th February 1996: A new rightwing British think tank “Conservatism 2000″ publishes a ‘white paper’ urging rejection of a single currency for Europe. Nothing strange about that; rightwing British Conservatives are notoriously Eurosceptic. But this think tank is headed by John...
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Dark Night of the World – Illuminating the Evil of our Times

 © Terry Boardman This essay was first presented as a lecture at Rudolf Steiner House, London  25th October,1998 Contents 1.  Percepts and Anthroposophical concepts 2.  A picture of evolution  – the prodigal son 3.  The role of evil in evolution 4.  9 members developed in each age: the 5th Post-Atlantean epoch 5.  The 1899 threshold and human threefolding 6.  The coming of the...
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Anthroposophy and the Question of Conspiracy in Modern History (2)

© Terry Boardman February 2000 This article was published in New View magazine (1st Quarter 2000) The first part of this article in New View magazine discussed the  reality to  the  (in the English-speaking world) much-maligned concept of a ‘grand conspiracy’ in modern history – a reality that can be tracked through the deeds and statements of certain highly placed...
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