23/11/2024
Donate to Biodynamics: Sunrise to Eternity
It is not enough to believe in the past. The future must always be born in us anew, day by day. As Rudolf Steiner suggests in Love and Its Meaning in the World, love is always “love of the not-yet.” If we only appreciate who someone (or something) was in the past, we have blocked ourselves from the future. But because I expect myself to be considered more than merely the sum of my past deeds, but also my future possibilities, I also find I must extend this charitable gaze to other people, other movements, and even institutions. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, as Aristotle says, and the past is only one part of us. To love people is to love who they are not yet — to love who they are becoming. To write someone off is to decide with finality that they have no future possibility for growth. But human beings are astonishing creatures. People who seem entirely lost can abruptly take a leap away from compulsive behaviors into a new kind of freedom. Without maintaining openness to the future of others, there is no possibility of forgiveness and no real possibility of love.
Biodynamics, as a way of holding open the door to the future, does not tell anyone how to farm — just as anthroposophy does not tell anyone how to live. “[T]here is never any question of ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t.’ Anthroposophy is there to communicate truth, not to propagandize.” This is a difficult pill to swallow, particularly in an age inundated with fundamentalism, which is always fixated on clinging only to the codified past while shutting off openness to the life of the future.
Read More: https://open.substack.com/pub/jpibiodynamics/p/sunrise-to-eternity?r=rt9cv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
