A wide-ranging encounter with the actor, playwright, furniture-maker, and all-round raconteur, Mr. Patrick Doyle: from the fairy world of childhood to inconceivable threats of nuclear annihilation, to the wilds of the Mississippi River, to phosphate mines and sulphur plant meltdowns and deep sea diving and thwarted chemical inventions, and beyond—where the material and the spiritual meet.

A good example of a simple impromptu (aleatory) episode: Cesari happened to stop by, we started talking, as we do, and Ragnar was here to record some of it. Cesari is a eurythmist and teacher who has spent his life researching spiritual questions. He is a wonderful eurythmy teacher of children and also adults, serious, deep, kind, and also funny; I always enjoy speaking with him. Here we take a little journey from Goethe’s Mephistopheles to Ancient Egypt to Lenin and 20th century communism to King Solomon to, eventually, right here and now.

Some links to topics discussed:

Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas

Glen’s plays

Glen’s website

Here are some links to some of the things discussed or mentioned, or in the case of Daniel’s book, NOT mentioned(!):

Daniel’s recent book, Reset or Renaissance

Rue Rilke

Emerson’s Divinity School Address

Some related links:

Signe’s books

Biography and Social Art in the USA

Some related links:

Douglas's books, and other authors mentioned:

Redemption of the Animals

Insight-Imagination

Faith and Knowledge

Owen Barfield

David Ray Griffin

John Cobb

Here are some links to a few things mentioned or alluded to, or not, in the recording:

Joe's book

His substack: Singularity Weekly

Steiner on the double

How to Know Higher Worlds