"How many lives have been touched by this one, single life?

• All the students of Steiner schools and their teachers over 100 years
• All the patients treated by the hundreds of medical doctors and hospitals which have delivered anthroposophic medicine, developed by Steiner alongside Dr Ita Wegman and other fully qualified medical practitioners
• Everyone who has eaten biodynamic food produced from the now 250,000 hectares of biodynamic farmland around the world, all stemming from the eight lectures on agriculture given by Steiner to 50 famers in 1924
• The children and adults with disabilities, and their families, who have been cared for humanely in the hundreds of Camphill communities and other special education settings inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on Special Education in 1924
• Everyone who has attended a Eurythmy course or concert performed by the thousands of practitioners of this unique art form, invented by Rudolf Steiner
• All the visitors to the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, designed by Rudolf Steiner, which is listed on the Swiss Heritage Sites of national importance and described as a “masterpiece of expressionist architecture”
• All those who have read or attended performances of his four Mystery Dramas
• The social activists and economists inspired by Steiner’s books on the Threefold Social Order, and his activism at a crucial time in German history, which pioneered a vision for a free, equal and compassionate society.
• All the speech artists, painters, scientists, sculptors, actors, dentists (yes, dentists), psychologists and architects who have worked with Steiner’s suggestions, and the people who have experienced their work.
• Everyone who has read one of the approximately 6,450 lectures he delivered over 24 years (that’s an average of one lecture every 36 hours)
• All the members over 100 years of the worldwide Anthroposophical Society which he founded in 1923 (current membership approximately 42,000 across 36 national societies)
• All the people who have read his books on philosophy, spirituality, history, science, art and other topics and have been inspired by the spiritual path he pioneered.

Two of our classes are celebrating exciting firsts this week:

Tomorrow evening, the Class 8s will perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in their first open-air theatre experience. All are welcome to join us - see this newsletter for more details. 

At the same time, the Class 7s are on their first high school camp, learning to sail on the Princess Harbour in Albany.  We’re looking forward to hearing all about their adventures and camp stories when they return.