It's built on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner known as anthroposophy, which includes understanding "the ecological, the energetic, and the spiritual in nature.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grape Thinking - Lifestyle, Wine & Culture] Reference

Some organic growers practice the "bio-dynamic" principles of the late Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian polymath, founder of "anthroposophy" and the Waldorf Schools, and who in 1924 delivered lectures in Koberwitz, Silesia, on agricultural theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intelligent Travel Blog] Reference

Later Bely was to add occultism, Rudolf Steiner and his “anthroposophy.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For some pseudo religions- like Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy epithany is more significant than Christmas itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Adoration of the Magi] Reference

Steiner viewed architecture as a servant of human life, and he designed the Goetheanum to support the work of anthroposophy — drama and eurythmy in particular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudolf Steiner: the third human need] Reference

I drank herbal teas by the liter following the advice of my anthroposophy doctor fennel seeds and aniseeds, and a Weleda herbal tea is also very popular over here.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Breastfeeding Supplements Strocel.com] Reference

According to the Dictionary of World Religions, anthroposophy was developed when Steiner tried to “develop a view of reality based on direct perception of the spirit world.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawsuit against Waldorf revived] Reference

Biodynamics is part of the work of Rudolf Steiner, known as anthroposophy - a new approach to science which integrates precise observation of natural phenomena, clear thinking, and knowledge of the spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBW #29: Shinn Estate Vineyards 2004 Cabernet Franc (North Fork)] Reference

This is much of anthroposophy: the idea that the underlying order and meaning must be spiritual, pushing out into the world of our perceptions and which we should go seeking not only by examining objects, but investigating purposes, meanings, the spiritual significance of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Order « Unknowing] Reference

Waldorf education is a pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of anthroposophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [no.stupid.answers] Reference

Beer cooked the meat himself, while I discussed the merits of anthroposophy and Ylva Ogland.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Studies of the education describe its overarching goal as providing young people the basis on which to develop into free, moral and integrated individuals, and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny (the existence of which anthroposophy posits).    From Wordnik.com.  [no.stupid.answers] Reference

In the meantime, it probably is good to temper these discussions with the humbling knowledge that perfectly decent people from the middle class were led to believe that eugenics was a science, that mesmerism was a science and that phrenology and anthroposophy (remember Madame Blavatsky?) were held in popular scientific esteem as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

While biodynamics parallels organic farming in many ways — especially with regard to cultural and biological farming practices — it is set apart from other organic agriculture systems by its association with the spiritual science of anthroposophy founded by Steiner, and in its emphasis on farming practices intended to achieve balance between the physical and higher, non-physical realms †; to acknowledge the influence of cosmic and terrestrial forces; and to enrich the farm, its products, and its inhabitants with life energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [WBW #29: Shinn Estate Vineyards 2004 Cabernet Franc (North Fork)] Reference

Snell’s organization argues that the tables are inherently spiritual because anthroposophy endows nature with spiritual meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawsuit against Waldorf revived] Reference

Subsequently, attracted by Rudolph Steiner’s anthroposophy, she tried in “The Soundless Trumpet” (1937), one of her very few late essays, to convey the power of these new mystical insights — but without much success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Antin.] Reference

According to wikipedia,, anthroposophy is a school of philosophy that believes in "the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development -- more specifically through cultivating conscientiously a form of thinking independent of sensory experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Sterling: Chazz Palminteri: A Lot More Than Little Italy Walks Into the Room When He Does] Reference

Indeed, the review ” which barely glances at Walter's activities after 1922 ” might leave one with the impression that we have neglected such crucial issues as Walter's persecution at the hands of the Nazis, his career in the United States, his postwar relations with artists who remained in Germany throughout the Nazi era, and his deep interest in anthroposophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyscrapers] Reference

Proletarian and petty bourgeois strata are recognising in growing numbers that they have become victims of the decrepit party economy, if not victims of party-political and trade union confidence tricks and, as they still believe deep down in the rightness and future of the socialist idea, are turning to movements which lead them up the garden path of a liberation without struggle, a paradise for which they need do nothing: to the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, the Free-country Free-money movement of Silvio Osell, the work co-operatives which bowdlerize the ideas of councils, to the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler, the band of rebels who deny every organisation, or the Serious Bible-Searchers who hope for pie in the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution by Ottle Ruhle (Part 3)] Reference

1913 Rudolf Steiner founds anthroposophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness Timeline: 1875-1945] Reference