The early work of the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, culminated in his Philosophy of Freedom ( also translated as The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity and Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path ).

Steiner strongly objected and considered any comparison between Krishnamurti and Christ to be nonsense ; many years later, Krishnamurti also repudiated the assertion.

In Theosophy, Steiner suggested that human beings unite a physical body of a nature common to ( and that ultimately returns to ) the inorganic world ; a life body ( also called the etheric body ), in common with all living creatures ( including plants ); a bearer of sentience or consciousness ( also called the astral body ), in common with all animals ; and the ego, which anchors the faculty of self-awareness unique to human beings.

This being is, according to Steiner, not only the Redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and of human history.

* Steiner also believed that there were two different Jesus children involved in the Incarnation of the Christ: one child descended from Solomon, as described in the Gospel of Matthew, the other child from Nathan, as described in the Gospel of Luke.

Though Steiner saw that spiritual vision itself is difficult for others to achieve, he recommended open-mindedly exploring and rationally testing the results of such research ; he also urged others to follow a spiritual training that would allow them directly to apply the methods he used eventually to achieve comparable results.

In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.

Waldorf education ( also known as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education ) is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy.

According to Steiner, he also introduced Steiner to a person that Steiner only identified as a “ Master ”, and who had a great influence on Steiner's subsequent development, in particular directing him to study Fichte's philosophy.

It was also within this society that Steiner met and worked with Marie von Sivers, who became his second wife in 1914.

The 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich led Steiner to give up his residence in Berlin, saying that if those responsible for the attempted coup and others came to power in Germany, it would no longer be possible for him to enter the country ; he also warned against the disastrous effects it would have for Central Europe if the National Socialists came to power.

Steiner was also strongly influenced by Goethe's phenomenological approach to science.

Steiner also gave suggestions for many specific social reforms.

Steiner also founded a new approach to artistic speech, or " speech formation ", and drama.

The " Christ Being " is for Steiner not only the redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and human history.

Steiner also posited two different Jesus children involved in the Incarnation of the Christ: one child descended from Solomon, as described in the Gospel of Matthew ; the other child from Nathan, as described in the Gospel of Luke.

Philosopher Rudolf Steiner established the first Waldorf education school in 1919, using a pedagogy also known as the Steiner method, which spread worldwide.

Steiner was also an early proponent of organic agriculture, in the form of a holistic concept later called biodynamic agriculture.

There are also a number of private schools, including Brighton College, Roedean School, Steiner School, BHHS and a Montessori School.

Details about the spiritual world, Steiner suggested, could on such a basis be discovered and reported, though no more infallibly than the results of natural science.

In 1882, one of Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius Schröer, suggested Steiner's name to Joseph Kürschner, chief editor of an important new edition of Goethe's works, who asked Steiner to become the edition's natural science editor, a truly astonishing opportunity for a young student without any form of academic credentials or previous publications.

During his time at the archives, Steiner wrote Die Philosophie der Freiheit ( The Philosophy of Freedom or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — Steiner's preferred English title ) ( 1894 ), an exploration of epistemology and ethics that suggested a path upon which humans can become spiritually free beings.

In 1919, the political theorist of the National Socialist movement in Germany, Dietrich Eckart, attacked Steiner and suggested that he was a Jew.

In this, Steiner suggested that the cultural, political and economic spheres of society need to work together as consciously cooperating yet independent entities.

Nash congratulated Young on outsmarting him at Bound for Glory and aligned himself with the World Elite, while also hinting at the return of the nWo once Hulk Hogan arrived in TNA, as when a paranoid Mick Foley came to him for information on who Hogan would be coming with, he facetiously suggested names such as Syxx-Pac, Scott Steiner, Buff Bagwell, and Scott Hall.

At the Christmas Conference called to refound the society, Steiner presented the Foundation Stone Meditation, which he suggested would be the spiritual cornerstone of an Anthroposophical movement which for the first time would be unified with the Society itself.

Luke Stroven suggested that Jeff use the images created by Steiner with posts by those writers.

Steiner suggested that he had derived the sculptural forms of the first Goetheanum from the spiritual world, rather than by imitating forms of the physical world or through abstract theorizing.

" Guardian journalist Susie Steiner suggested that his appearance in Bloody Sunday was an attempt to resolve the expression of his " Irishness " on screen: " Where he has taken part in a sectarian theme, his intelligence as an actor has often been masked by an excessive, cartoon-style comedy.

Beginning in 1919, Steiner was called upon to assist with numerous practical activities ( see below ), including the first Waldorf school, founded that year in Stuttgart, Germany.

Two general principles underlie the Formalist study of literature: first, literature itself, or rather, those of its features that distinguish it from other human activities, must constitute the object of inquiry of literary theory ; second, " literary facts " have to be prioritized over the metaphysical commitments of literary criticism, whether philosophical, aesthetic or psychological ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 16 ).

That same year, German national Rolf Steiner, who had been clandestinely advising the rebels, was captured in Kampala, Uganda and deported to Khartoum, where he was put on trial for his anti-government activities.

The fact that many of the Hindus in this latter group were linked to the local Congress organisation and dominated the mainstream nationalist movement in Bengal from Calcutta led to attempts to thwart Huq's activities and fed into the tragic decline in communal relations that savaged Calcutta in 1946 and 1947 ( see Kenneth McPherson, " The Muslim Microcosm: the Muslims of Calcutta 1918-1935 ", Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1973 ).

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

Steiner described many exercises he said were suited to strengthening such self-discipline ; the most complete exposition of these is found in his book How To Know Higher Worlds.

To describe this being, Steiner periodically used terms such as the " Representative of Humanity " or the " good spirit " rather than any denominational term.

Peter Schneider calls such objections untenable on the grounds that if a non-sensory, non-physical realm exists, then according to Steiner the experiences of pure thinking possible within the normal realm of consciousness would already be experiences of that, and it would be impossible to exclude the possibility of empirically grounded experiences of other supersensory content.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

Left-libertarianism, as defended by contemporary theorists such as Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, and Michael Otsuka, is a doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and has an egalitarian view concerning natural resources, believing that it is illegitimate for anyone to claim private ownership of resources to the detriment of others.

Along with such composers as Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films.

Steiner argued that a fusion of the three realms had created the inflexibility that had led to catastrophes such as World War I.

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.

Robert Todd Carroll has said of Steiner that " Some of his ideas on education – such as educating the handicapped in the mainstream – are worth considering, although his overall plan for developing the spirit and the soul rather than the intellect cannot be admired ".

However, some, such as Piotr Michalowski and Gerd Steiner, contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language.

The shipyards are owned and operated mainly by local families such as Steiner Ship Yard, Rodriguez Boat Builders, and Master Boat Builders.

In a more general sense the term includes the work of other humanistic pedagogues, such as Rudolf Steiner, and Maria Montessori.

In British English, nursery or playgroup is the usual term for preschool education, and kindergarten is rarely used, except in the context of special approaches to education, such as Steiner-Waldorf education ( the educational philosophy of which was founded by Rudolf Steiner ).

Brother to Eleanor C. Donnelly, Donnelly's work had important influence on the writings of late 19th and early 20th century figures such as Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and James Churchward and has more recently influenced writer Graham Hancock.

In 1952, Steiner leased reissue rights to a newly-formed jazz label, Riverside Records, which reissued a substantial number of 10 " and then 12 " LPs by many of the blues singers in the Paramount catalog, as well as instrumental jazz by such Chicago-based notables as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band ( which included a very young Louis Armstrong ), Johnny Dodds, Muggsy Spanier, and Meade Lux Lewis.

The heyday of synthetic geometry can be considered to have been the 19th century, when analytic methods based on coordinates and calculus were ignored by some geometers such as Jakob Steiner, in favour of a purely synthetic development of projective geometry.

The current version ( 2. 0 ) includes several enhancements such as " postage stamps " ( better known as thumbnails ), an alpha channel, gamma value, and textual metadata, and was authored by Truevision Inc .' s Shawn Steiner with direction from Kevin Friedly and David Spoelstra in 1989.

Along with such composers as Max Steiner and Alfred Newman, he is considered one of the founders of film music.

There is a long tradition of such schools which includes Summerhill, the founder of which, A. S. Neill, greatly influenced the spread of such schools, Dartington, and Kilquhanity School and a range of schools based on the ideas of Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner.

In the 19th century, the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau ; the founders of progressive education, John Dewey and Francis Parker ; and educational pioneers, such as Friedrich Fröbel, Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner ( founder of the Waldorf schools ); among others, all insisted that education should be understood as the art of cultivating the moral, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the developing child.