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Thoreau's Dream Mountain
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is often remembered today as a naturalist and nature writer. But he had a wider, and weirder, understanding of nature than did many of his, or our, contemporary naturalists. He once reported hearing a voice on the vibrating...
Letter from the Director
"It has been another incredible year here at 42 Francis Avenue. This is my penultimate year as the Center’s Faculty Director, and so I am looking back on eight years and ahead to one more."
A Life Between Worlds
“Human beings stand with one foot in the embodied, finite world, and one foot in what has come to be called the imaginal…the realm just beyond this one, more fluid and permeable.”
Rudolf Steiner at 100: Anthroposophy in Dialogue
In December 2025, as the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) campus was emptying out for the winter holiday, two hundred people gathered in person in Swartz Hall, along with hundreds more online, to mark the centennial of the death of spiritual teacher Rudolf...
Psychedelic Facilitation Training in the United States: A Landscape Analysis
By Roman Palitsky, Caroline Peacock, Jeffrey A. Breau, Paul Gillis-Smith, Gosia Skłodowska As psychedelic care moves toward broader legalization in the United States, a rapidly expanding ecosystem of training programs has emerged to prepare facilitators...
