Welcome new friend, 
My journey that has led me to build this blog and website began as a child who experienced in dreams my guardian angel. As a boy scout, my troop was comprised of sons of college professors. Although we met at a Congregational church, my boy scout buddies had no respect for religion in the face of science. Our meetings and camping trips were often filled with philosophical and religious debates. I would appeal to my angel for forgiveness for them. My father was a professor of Astronomy and my mother was dearly loved by the community while raising three boys and two girls. I was in the middle. Because of this, I longed to find a way to unite science, religion, and the arts.
I was a top student in high school and a decent athlete. I wanted to found The World Brotherhood party that would field candidates in countries around the world to stop war, increase trade and brotherhood, respect freedom of thought and conscience, and promote the rights of all people and Nature. I wanted to set up free-roaming areas for wildlife with paths running north-south and east-west of at least 3 miles width.
College days were at the University of Michigan (you readers in Ohio – don’t hold that against me!). I was enrolled in the college of engineering from where I got a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and a MS in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. I was part of the anti-war and flower-power movement, strongly rejecting its violent elements.
I was a 40+ year veteran of the computer industry, now retired. My first job was with IBM where it was founded, Endicott, NY. I was intrigued by the idea of telekinesis and was invited to join a group of east Europeans who practiced their art of table levitation once a week. I also was exposed to a local spiritualist church. I got married here but IBM moved my division and job to North Carolina. Before moving, my wife (a school teacher) and I took sabbaticals to attend Emerson College in Sussex, England. Here I received a one year training in Spiritual Science and the works of Rudolf Steiner. Here I realized that I had entered the skin of the dragon and I would have my spirituality severely challenged during this chosen career.
Following this foundation year, I returned to my new home in North Carolina expecting our first child. After a year in Charlotte, we decided to move to where our children could attend a Waldorf school. After moving to New Hampshire, we had two more children filling out our old colonial house. We lived next to a river and close to town, Wilton. With the proximity of nature, a Waldorf school, and the closeness of a small town, it was a wonderful place to raise children.
I also worked for Wang Labs and then Digital Equipment Corporation which was bought by Compaq and then later bought by HP. I then left New England to become the CTO of a startup in Austin, TX. That was 2002 when VC funding had dried up forcing the startup to fold. I had gone through divorce by then. In 2003 I returned to New England to work for EMC. And I remarried in 2006.
While still actively following the computer industry, since being laid off in 2014 I have increased my activity in spiritual science and in particular in this mission to help historians and the world better understand the role that the Ancient Mysteries played
- in the cultural life of Greece and Egypt,
- in preparing individuals to grasp the Mystery of Golgotha,
- in providing the foundation for the spread of Christianity, and
- in continuing to guide humanity to prepare for its future.
I continue to be an adventurer in philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. My wife and I are foster parents and work to help individuals to improve life and the world we share. I would love to hear about your life’s journey – subscribe and write me. Agape.
PS – the picture is a honeybee in the bugleweed flowers of our gardens. There is a mystery about why I chose this picture for a website on the Christian Mysteries. I will confirm the correct answer if you wish to share your guess with me.
My guess about the bee is a connection with Ephesus
hello Andrew
I am just starting to watch your lecture on “Steiners surprising view…” on youtube, I was let to this by an american friend on Facebook.. Found it appropriate to look into your cv, and so i fell on this blog.
Until now 27 minutes into the lecture, what you speak, is pretty much what I myself has been thinking about in the last 40 years, although some of the writers, scientists and books you show is new to me (Kurzweil is well known in my backyard) , seems his influence goes even into the governments in EU. So I will lean back and listen carefully.
I am danish and living in the Copenhagen region, my background is, thati from my 18th year became a part of a BioDynamic community, and from then Steiner has been a life companion. Educated as an Architect, and from my 42 year teacher at different Waldorf Schools on Zeeland, the Island which also Copenhagen is situated at.
I am 63, a senior educator at Rudolf Steinerskolen Kvistgaard, and now mostly teaches in Crafts and has taken on responsibilities in the school council. I hope to be a part for still many years, an enjoy the work with youth and new teachers. Although we are experiencing shortages in the last aspect.
Life has really turned out surprisingly different from what I as a young man expected in regard to the development of interest for Anthroposophy in society. But I gather it very much is combined to what you talks are about.
Look forward to the rest of your talk, and hopefully many others.
all the best
ib Kasper
Hi Kasper – I will take this conversation over to email. I’m excited to get to where we can work together!
Hi Andrew. I am Maria Paz Epelman, from Chile. I´m almost 50, and had the privilege to know the Anthroposophy when I was 14. I have been a reader of Steiner books and a dedicated Waldorf school parent since 2000 (3 kids). I am journalist and work in an important news group in Chile (the Chilean office for Turner, including CNN local news channel).
During the last 4 years I have been also involved in the organization of a national congress about Future, organized by the Senate, the Government, universities and foundations. http://www.congresofuturo.cl
In that context, I have read a lot about singularity, transhumanism, and met personally a lot of scientists and thinkers. Harari included. Imagine the surprise when I found your talk in youtube. This blog is really serious and helpfull. Thanks for it!
Hi Andrew,
Great lectures on “Steiners surprising view…”. Very inspiring! I have also been thinking a lot about all the spiritual implications on our technological progress and speak with friends about this topic. Next week I plan to give a lecture on this topic in my neighbourhood and see if we can have an interesting conversation started.
Are you still giving lectures online, or are there any antroposophical studygroups working on this topic? ? i would really like to connect with likeminded people.
Greetings
Nisvan
Dang dude, amazing stuff here. I was reading a steiner lecture but got stuck on the mystery of golgotha so I googled it and stumbled upon your incredible body of knowledge here. I got so lost in your work I felt compelled to let you know this such a treasure that you put this info on the web. Thank you. Please know that what you’ve done here is really good.
I’m a conspiracy theorist turned truth seeker that has spent the last three years digging into our true cosmology. I’m in my early 30s and encouraged that people younger than me are really starting to ask these questions. I think this blog is absolutely necessary to help humanity move into the next stages. Keep up the great work!!!
Thank Josh. I hope this site reaches many, especially those in the 20s and 30s. My attention has been on book writing recently. Several books are due in the coming years, one in 2019 that will introduce Early Christian mysticism and Gnosticism in a book about Leonardo da Vinci.
D-EAR ANDREW,
I AM simply an unknown, and perpetual, bumbling novice, in the practical, and daily, applications, of the occult (spiritual), and the esoteric (or soul developmental), via the fortuitous, grace-aided decipherings of The Great Alchemical Adventure, which always, and amazingly, befall me, usually as traumas, or mental bumpily bumps (aka blessings in disguises), or “as those never, ever, adequately prepared for”, trials, or challenges, which constantly occur, in the ever progressively evolving, daily school of life, itself, or Karma 101.
NOW, AFTER that extended puffery, of over self-exuberance, in the above Good For Nothing, paragraph, and knowing that you, D-EAR ANDREW, are a genuine, spiritual scientist, of Christo-centric hearty roar, and resounding chortle), I, as Master Of Nothing, who of feeble mind, as the multitude of my true friends, have affectionately branded me, choose you as the prime candidate, for the radiant, spiritual scientific, perpetual, etheric sounding board, on the earth plane, in these most confusing, and muddied, times, of jes’ searching for that elusive, triangle-headed mastermind of “no common sense” whatsoever!!??
YEAH, WELL, “Is there any fortune, or fame in it for you?!” Nay.
AND NEITHER, do I seek the most minuscule of fame, or fortune, either, my friend.
SO, HERE it ’tis: The Incarnation, and Slightly Early Demise of Mr. Aberration, Satan, Typhoon, Seth, or Ahriman, etc, has ALREADY occurred. His corporeal body death was inflicted upon him via evil, or unhealthy, Azuric Medical Procedures, plus with a little Sorathian, after lunch death thrown in, that is, TO BE SURE that the currently incarnated Azuras, could use the aberrant Gemini forces, to potentially kill anybody, and everybody, who is currently addicted, and duped, by Mr. Aberration’s world-wide, adored electronic novelties!!!
HIS, INCARNATION, is really nothing to fear in the least?
HOWEVER, IT’S what the psychopathic, reincarnated Atlantean black magicians, now as scientific Azuras, did with Mr. Aberration’s initial, and multitudinous offerings, of his “false idol, self-importance, electronic worship, ringtones, and false god-like, hand-held, multi-encyclopedia, know more than Providence, Itself, knowledge demons”, WHICH, THEN, the current, black magic, scientific Azuras, extremely ramped up the toxicity of the addicting electronic devices, of Mr. Aberration, into the super powerful millimeter* microwave band. *(5G, destroys the equilibrium of the oxygen molecules within the corporeal body, while the 4G hinders the water molecules within the corporeal body. )
THANXS FOR actively being a true Rosicrucian & Manichean!!
SinLearningly, and DivineLoveWrathingly,
The Good For Nothing, & Nobody Special Me, Leroy J. AMEN.
Wow – what a composition. You should enter it in some Anthropop literary contest. Maybe Southern Cross Review will publish it.
So if Ahriman ever gets poisoned, I suspect it will be with ice cream – likely Ben & Jerry’s Vermont Organic from BD cows.
Hi Andrew, can you please put me on the subscription list.
Thanks, Chris
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Andy, is that you bro.? It’s Tom from Okemos High. Seems to me that if lectures were the path to enlightenment, you’d already be there. My experience is just that, not hypothetical in any way not someone else’s theory on the subject. How’s Paul and the family? You two were the coolest guys for sure.
Hey Tom, I don’t check comments on this site very often, but great to hear from you. Brother Paul is appearing as an extra in several movies and shows filmed in NYC. He’s having fun! Sister Barrie and younger brother Scott are both in New Jersey closing in on retirement after successful careers. I’m retired. Missed seeing you at the last reunion.
How are things for you?
Thank you so much for your Zoom meeting, full of interest with fascinating pictures.
I would like to be able to watch and listen again, perhaps on Youtube.
One brief question.
Two boys left with their family to go on the long journey to Jerusalem.
As they are returning home, we are told that one boy was missing, so the family then went back to Jerusalem to look for him.
Where was the other boy during this time?
If I have understood correctly you are saying that he too was in the Temple.
I hope you find time to clarify but there is no hurry.
Please reply to my email address, I was unable to find yours.
Thanks again,
Michael (UK)
Was the other boy there in the temple as well? According to the Pistis Sophia, one was out working the vineyard with his father (chapters 59-62). I have not reached a conclusion yet concerning the whereabouts of the Matthew Jesus when this happened to the Luke Jesus. Bergognone (Renaissance artist) seems to have them both at the Temple.
Hi Michael,
Not necessarily did the other Jesus need to be physically present.
I’ve wondered if the scene in Pistis Sophia, chapters 59-62, might be the description of what happened for the other Jesus.
Since the physical body of the other Jesus was not “used”, he did not need to be in the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Hi Andrew,
I recently watched your presentation on Steiner’s surprising view of the future. Thanks for that. I have been thinking a lot recently about the possible coming tidal wave of technological advancement and societal change, Steiner’s picture of the evolution of human consciousness and how the former seems to be sorely missing the latter.
I’d be interested to know if you have any thoughts on how the pillars of the threefold social order might be written into the code of blockchain/crypto projects for societal interaction. Or if you know of any current projects where someone may be working on this. Thanks!
Hi Bart,
Probably I should have looked more into blockchain than I have. Yours is a very interesting question. Sebastian Bilbao is one who has much more knowledge on this topic than I do. My “gut” reaction is that there is potential here but such a crypto-currency must need to refresh its value when put into use (exchange) and gradually lose its value when stored away (saved). I further feel that the refresh of value might need to be a bit higher for Loan money and even higher for Gift money (the other is Purchase money).