Holy Nights 2025/26 Recordings

December 26, 2025

How can we live into Rudolf Steiner’s magnificent Soul Calendar verses? Looking into Verse #38 for Christmas, we will seek its “cognitive feeling” center in the awakening Logos-engendered child that is our Destiny.

December 27, 2025

I'm a physicist. And the reason for picking this topic is multifold. One, it is something that I can speak of from experience. And two, it's something that I've spent also quite a bit of time trying to bring some of the exact methods of thinking that you are taught in the sciences to a topic like this, which is extremely explosive.

December 28, 2025

I am a painter, and, therefore, I really only know things through drawing and painting. In 2023-24, I worked with the Apocalypse, the last book of the New Testament. It is a complex and difficult text to come into relationship with, but it is a deep experience to know it well. In this talk I will share my experiences painting the Apocalypse or Revelation to John. 

December 29, 2025

There are moments when a conversation crosses an unmarked boundary and a felt change occurs in our experience--and with it a change in our consciousness. A ‘lightening’ like a feeling of weightlessness, a brightening, shining quality emerges along with an ease or sense of flow in our conversation. We have all had these experiences, but do they get enough attention? Do we cultivate them? Let’s explore this human phenomenon together and time permitting exercise our capacity to engage in Sacred Conversations.

December 30, 2025

During the winter months our view to the night sky is through the region of Gemini stars, away from the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. This augments the deep and lively inwardness of the season. From here, it is fitting to contemplate the stars, and what lies ahead on the path. Tonight, Mary Stewart Adams will share about some of the coming phenomena, the dates, and an imagination on what it can mean.

Gritli will share some of her portraits in different media. A variety of representational and abstract works will illustrate her unique style. 

January 1, 2026

Messiah means anointed one. Prophecies expected two, one kingly and one priestly. Rudolf Steiner tells us that Leonardo da Vinci was a great initiate in a previous life but the physical body of his era held back the fullness of what he knew. But much he did bring forth in his paintings that we shall explore along with the works of the Leondardeschi.  

January 2, 2026

Born out of a deep interest in Anthroposophy and the human soul, a "Janus Meeting" takes place in several locales every January, just after the turning of the year. In an atmosphere of friendship and trust, we take the first quarter hour to get acquainted, then each individually looks at the year past, and makes a representation either visually, in words or any other artistic representation. We share these pieces and have a time to comment and appreciate. After this, for a shorter time, we also make an artistic representation of the year to come. We end with a verse and a blessing for the new year. Janus, the god who looks into the future and holds the past- is heralded!

January 3, 2026

During this time of outer darkness, let's turn to the timeless beacons of light that have been handed to us by the eminent comparative mythologist, Joseph Campbell. We will contemplate his concept of the "monomyth", where he expounds upon the universal motifs contained within the one great story of humankind. After a short lecture and writing exercise, we will share our reflections with a partner, and then reconvene as a group.

Meditation on a Bach Sarabande, Credo, Aura, Light and Dark, Dedication, and Starry Music

January 4, 2026

We create the social world out of the imaginations we have about human nature and our relationships to the natural, human and spiritual worlds. The Imagination of the Beloved Community, of the interdependence of all life forms, which provided the basis of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement and through the friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr., of engaged Buddhism offers a remarkable healing imagination for our social future. Rudolf Steiner’s work, indeed all of Anthroposophy can be seen as an earlier description of that imagination.

January 5, 2026

For millennia, the Beatitudes have inspired Christians with their message of hope. They have a deep esoteric meaning as well, and working with them in that way can  support us in the mission of realizing our spirit self.

January 6, 2026

Our presenters will share their Holy Nights impressions, talk to each other about Epiphany and invite questions from the Zoom audience.