"I am...You?" - Episode 4 in the series, “Identity and Idolatry”

The fourth episode of our series on identity and idolatry leads further into Rudolf Steiner’s search for the eternal human self. Jonah and Patrick describe how Steiner searched intensively for many years to directly experience this ‘ego’ or self. This led to a deep spiritual crisis. But it was in this place of emptiness and utter powerlessness that the True Self found him—a dynamic mystery, at once both other and yet himself. Rudolf Steiner described this moment in his life as “standing befor...