"Steiner believed that through freely chosen ethical disciplines and meditative training, anyone could develop the ability to experience the spiritual world, including the higher nature of oneself and others. Steiner believed that such discipline and training would help a person to become a more moral, creative and free individual - free in the sense of being capable of actions motivated solely by love."
"Steiner emphasized that there is an objective natural and spiritual world that can be known, and that perceptions of the spiritual world and incorporeal beings are, under conditions of training comparable to that required for the natural sciences, but including extraordinary self-discipline, replicable by multiple observers. It is on this basis that spiritual science is possible, with radically different epistemological foundations than those of natural science."
"For Steiner, the cosmos is permeated and continually transformed by the creative activity of non-physical processes and spiritual beings. For the human being to become conscious of the objective reality of these processes and beings, it is necessary to creatively enact and reenact, within, their creative activity. Thus objective knowledge always entails creative inner activity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
"Lachman explains that Steiner believed consciousness to be an irreducible spiritual truth. Consciousness, for Steiner, actively participates in reality and is in no way a simple, passive observer.
Steiner works hardest against materialism and the mechanical, overly rational world it promotes, and the Anthroposophy movement was an attempt to “guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe.” "
http://www.forteantimes.com/reviews/books/49/rudolf_steiner_an_introduction_to_his_life_and_work.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_Social_Order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_schools
