WRITINGS & Translations

Books:

- (2018) The Resurrection of Thinking: Steiner's Anthroposophy & the Postmodernism of Badiou, Deleuze, Derrida & Levinas

- (2019) Earthly, Transcendental, & Spiritual Logic: From Husserl's Phenomenology to Steiner's Anthroposophy 

- (2005) The Shattering Light of Stars - A novel 

Translations: 

- Le Yoga Cognitif de Michael by Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon (2026, Ereignis Verlag) 

- The Life of Hegel by Rosenkranz (Scholarly Translations, 2026) 

- Theology Drawn out of the Idea of Life by Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (Scholarly Translations, 2026) 

- Man is Menagerie and Milky Way: Early works by Lorenz Oken (Scholarly Translations, 2026) 

- Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy: Swedenborg, Boehme and Other Thinkers by Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (Scholarly Translations, 2026). 

I am an anthroposophical researcher from Pennsylvania and a faculty member of the Global Event College, directed by Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon.

Current Research:

Schelling, Lorenz Oken, F.C. Oetinger, Hegel. The Nature of the Earthly-Human Sun and Community Building.  

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Remembering What I never Experienced in this Life through the Backward Glance from the Heart - Looking out in Front into the Void of the Shoah - Remembering my own Middle Human Nature

                                                                   Painting by Gerard Wagner



In regard to the Michael School in the spiritual world, Rudolf Steiner wrote:

 "… wurde von den Menschenseelen, die prädestiniert waren, Anthroposophen zu werden, im Übersinnlichen etwas erlebt, was früher niemals in den überirdischen Regionen von Menschenseelen zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt erlebt worden ist. …

Da geschah dann etwas, was in den übersinnlichen Regionen damals Ereignis war, etwas, was heute im tiefsten Herzensinneren der meisten Anthroposophen, wenn auch unbewusst, schlafend, träumerisch ruht. Und der Anthroposoph kann recht tun, wenn er, an sein Herz greifend, sich sagt: Da drinnen ist ein mir heute vielleicht unbewusstes Geheimnis, das ein Abglanz ist der Michael-Taten aus dem 16., 17., 18. Jahrhundert in den überirdischen Regionen, wo ich vor meinem jetzigen Abstieg in die Erdenregion unter Michael gearbeitet habe, der etwas Besonderes arbeiten konnte, weil er sozusagen von seinen fortfließenden Aufgaben frei geworden war." (GA 240, 20.07.1924)

 It could be translated something like this -

 "Those human souls predestined to become Anthroposophists experienced something never previously experienced by human souls between death and rebirth in the super-earthly realms...

Something came to pass in the supersensible worlds. It was an Event (Ereignis) that lies implanted deep down in the hearts of the majority of Anthroposophists today, although in the unconscious, resting in sleep or dreamily. And the Anthroposophist can act in the right way, when he takes hold of his heart and says to himself: Within my heart there lies a secret although I may not yet be conscious of it. It is a secret mystery, that is an AFTERGLOW (or REFLECTION = Abglanz) of the deeds of Michael in the 16th, 17th, and 18th century, in realms beyond the Earth when before my present incarnation I was working with him. Michael, being free of his ongoing tasks, so to speak, was able to work in a special way." (GA 240 - 7/20, 1924)


 This actually means the following: A small kernel of etheric light-water is stored in the spiritual part of the heart. The follower of Michael-Christ can reach down gently into this region and look into this small pearl of light, wafting like a reflection on the water. Then one looks back (the Ab-glanz = I glance back and away from), and this tiny kernel of memory, coming from before I was on earth, expands and opens like a panorama. I can look out through my back, so to speak, and weave my own life-light-memory perception with this kernel of light. Stored in myself, I have a memory of something I never experienced in this life. It is a minor fragment of Imagination, which then can be linked up to the Event(s) that took place in the spiritual world before my birth. This little Imagination in me can expand, expand, expand backwards and cosmically - I expand back - and with a memory-look, I merge like a cloud with the cosmic cloud Imagination of the 16th century. Then I can review the knowledge (the essence of Anthroposophy) that was created there. I can remember my task.

But, we must also reach out in front of the heart and connect with the tragedy and devastation of what took place in 1933-1945 - what Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon describes in his Imagination:  the Michael School (now so small) above and the Christ now appearing in the etheric (now suffocated by human materialism and evil deeds done on earth below). In our empty heart, our empty being, we must look into the contemporary abyss. The center of our being must become the abyss.  My soul. life, and spirit then weave together with the Imaginations - which are full of world-sun-substance. 

Then we can look into our own time, 2020, with its humble individual potential. Are we able to connect the fullness of these cosmic Imaginations into our own human nature, to take on the real Michaelic task of today? This means to listen to the same potential in the depths of my neighbor and co-worker: the same cosmic SUN potential; the same potential for reversal, destruction, forgetfulness. If I am able to stand in the fire, with no answer, feeling helpless, and waiting for the Event to bring myself to myself. 

If we can feel the whole pulse, like the whole life cycle of a plant, cracking open, sprouting, expanding, repeating, blossoming, bulging, seeding, hardening, curling, browning, dying, dividing, replanting - then we can face the real situation of the present. Yes - the Christ is Here! But yes, the Titans are also here - working in me!

Let us get to work, with the light of the Spirit-I-AM guiding us - like a lamp from the future. Let us feel Michael's heart guiding us, like warmth from the present.

A Review of Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon's 'The Event in Science, History, Philosophy & Art.'

Glancing at this book, someone might suppose that it offers a survey of new ideas that have arisen in these four broad fields over the course of the last forty years or so. This is true, but only if we look at the text quite superficially. Since Ben-Aharon discusses such a large number of scientists, philosophers, and artists, from Prigogine to Derrida to Andrew Wyeth, some might imagine that this book is only secondary literature, which is either trying to offer interpretations of the content and value of the ideas of the second scientific revolution, deconstruction, and post-modern art work, or trying to adopt or critique their ideas to suit some political, religious, or social aim. Not really. 

The inner core of the book is deeply penetrating, radically insightful, original research by Dr. Ben-Aharon himself. He has actually used the concepts, problems, and paradoxes of modern thought to build something. He has built a living formation in a dimension of real life that can be used to become a new type of human being altogether. He has built a tool, and has showed us how to begin building our own tools. Someone who has read his earlier books, might suspect that he has abandoned his earlier worldview altogether, since he no longer uses anthroposophical terminology. This would also be an error. The book stands in a class by itself, as does the author. He stands and moves and fights in between many different worldviews, many different concepts, and many different forces, without merely taking up with any one of them in a one-sided manner. He has become a singular middle man, who penetrates fully into a tremendous variety of ideas, but does not take them personally. He has tried to build an open living concept that is clearly able to be cognized in everyday consciousness, an organ that is no longer merely personal or egoistic, that has the capacity to be open to the new and real Event of our times – an un-thought Event that makes everything new. 

What is this book? This book is a call to the reader to act! But this action is a new science, the ability to create your own concepts in full consciousness, so that these real ideas can become a body without organs in which to become a new kind of human: a person that is not a subjective personality, nor some grandiose imaginary demi-god or revolutionary that wants to conquer or “save” the whole world with one simple idea. The concepts in this book should be worked on in meetings with real other people, our neighbors and colleagues – since one of its primary purposes is to show that the time of the hermetically sealed personality is done for. This book shows how the new scientific concepts themselves are overturning older simplistic views about nature, genetics, and matter – but this book is not Idealism. Ben-Aharon critiques both Communism and Capitalism as being reversals of their true, unrecognized source, never itself visible in history. 

He shows that our modern world is built on the very fact that we personalize, condense, and turn reality on its head in order to live our ‘life’ as free individuals. He then shows us how to de-personalize, expand, and propel our thinking to a middle spot that is able to watch this ever present cognitive process of destruction. A process of free becoming, encountering the real shock of the Other, allows ‘us’ to create anew out of this destruction. This book concentrates on drawing the reader’s attention to the reality of the field of life, sensations, meanings and concepts in themselves, but it is not phenomenology or mysticism. Furthermore, Ben-Aharon follows Deleuze in the creating of a virtual science, but in contrast to the French post-structuralists insists that the human can meet and create a real, consistent, self. Yet, this self cannot be captured by any of our mental pictures. The whole course of the book functions as an education and an impetus to develop free new concepts of the world and ourselves that can be used as gear to transform our consciousness in totally healthy ways.  


This is, hands down, the most important book to be written in the 21st century. Why? Because Ben-Aharon understands exactly where we are at this moment, and just what needs to be accomplished by human consciousness in order to take full advantage of the new possibilities of human culture which are just emerging now. The centerpiece of this text is a demonstration of how we can extract a virtual and living essence out of events in our biographies, artistic experience, and thinking, and develop creative concepts as real seeds for the development of humanity. We can then use these seeds to truly meet other people in a new community, through which we can work with a new impetus of real creativity.

Rudolf Steiner demonstrates how to Lay out a Virtual Plane

In 1886, the philosopher Rudolf Steiner demonstrated quite clearly what Deleuze and Guattari would later call - laying out the virtual plane, or laying out the plane of immanence.

He says -

"At this stage of observation, the world appears to our minds as an absolutely flat surface. No part of this surface rises above any other; none reveals to our minds any distinction as compared with others. Only when the spark of thinking strikes this surface, do there come to light elevations and depressions; one thing appears more of less lifted above the other, all takes on a certain sort of form, lines run out from one form to another; the whole becomes a self-sufficient harmony." p. 18 in GA 2 or 'A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception.'