Journal for Anthroposophy 1965 no. 2 Autumn

              Journal for Anthroposophy Published twice a year by the Anthroposophical Society in America 
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Number 2 Autumn, 1965
CONTENTS
WHAT IS THIS
“ANTHROPOSOPHY” ABOUT? .... Frederick C. Heckel
A NEW APPROACH TO THE
PROBLEMS OF SOCIETY ................Ralph Courtney
MICHAELMAS REFLECTIONS ...............Danilla Rettig
LITTLE MYTHS ............................... Albert Steffen
THE DIGNITY OF THE EARTH ....Hermann Poppelbaum
CHRISTMAS IN HOSPITAL ...................... Rex Raab
TRACE ELEMENTS...................... Anna Koffler, Ph.D.
THE BIO-DYNAMIC MOVEMENT
IN OUR TIME ..............................Herbert Koepf
MORALITY AND THE EXPERIENCE
OF KNOWLEDGE ............................John Gardner
BEWARE OF LSD ....................Franz E. Winkler, M.D.
A VOICE OF ANTHROPOSOPHY............George O’Neil
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
WHAT IS THIS “ANTHROPOSOPHY” ABOUT?
Frederick C. Heckel
“Just what is this ‘Anthroposophy’ for which your Journal
exists?” Such a question, whether definitely formulated or
not, must certainly arise at times in the minds of a number
of our readers. To give a complete answer would, as many
other readers know, take volumes. For that, one can only
point to the numerous books and lectures of Rudolf Steiner
who presented us with this world view.
Yet the person with a genuine interest in finding out more
about it would seem, in all fairness, to be entitled to some
characterizations of that wide and deep subject, however
much one hoped that he would look into it on his own
account. Looking at it from the point of view of the single,
questioning individual new to the matter, one might perhaps
then say:
It certainly is a fact that most people know inwardly, even
though they could never prove it to anybody else, that there
is a Spiritual World, a world of objective realities in the
realm of thought, feeling and will. They “sense” the inter­weaving
between this creative world and the world of outer,
tangible phenomena. They may well have wondered why
it should not be possible to study this “inner” world just as
carefully, without inner bias and prejudgment, as the true
and dedicated natural scientist studies the sense world around
him.
Speaking from experience, experience that anybody can
duplicate, one could add:
You can find in what is presented by Anthroposophy
(taken to begin with, by all means, as no more than a work­ing
hypothesis), reasonable, entirely non-subjective explana­tions
of those “inner” aspects of existence we referred to
above. They reduce to a scientific order not only the phe­nomena
of inner experience but also the interrelationships
of the material kingdoms and that all-pervading realm which
the Greeks referred to as the Archetypal World.