Of the Slaughter of Cows and the Softening of Brains

                          © Terry Boardman                                                         This article first appeared in the German magazine “Info3″ in May 1996   Rudolf Steiner bade us look through the outer symptoms of historical developments to the spiritual causes beneath....
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“The Wounded Cavalier” as a key to understanding British history

What do we see ? Three figures in the countryside, either in or just outside a wood. They are between a single very mottled, slender and not very old oak tree (foreground, slightly off centre to the right and also leaning slightly to the right) and a lone low stone wall that runs right across the background  of the picture. The wall is broken to the right of the tree. Behind the break in the...
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2012, Zecharia Sitchin and Pan-Babylonianism

On Nov 13th 2009 Roland Emmerich’s ultra-bombastic movie “2012″ was released. It injects into the mainstream public mind a major theme percolating throughout the minority ‘New Age movement’ these last 20 years or so, namely, the supposed significance of the year 2012 based on interpretations of the Mayan calendar – the notion that some major event is going to...
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Kaspar Hauser Festspiele (Festival) 2012

(painting by Kaspar Hauser 1830)       For this year’s biannual Kaspar Hauser Festival,  in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany, 29 July  – 5 August, which celebrates Kaspar’s 200th birthday this year (he was born 29th September 1812),  see the full programme, with details (German language only, I’m afraid) by clicking on the link below...
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KASPAR HAUSER FESTIVAL, Stourbridge, England 2006

                       Kaspar Hauser 1812 – 1833   Kaspar Hauser festival , Stourbridge, England  Sept. 2006   This first Kaspar Hauser festival in Britain was inspired by  the biannual Kaspar Hauser festivals that have been held in Ansbach, Germany since 1998, organised by Eckart Boehmer, director of the Tau Theater in Ansbach and...
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