Steiner Economics

Rudolf Steiner

Welcome! In the aftermath of WWI in 1922, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures to those who sought a right relationship to money and economics. As I write, we approach the 100 year anniversary of Steiner’s lectures, which are still largely misunderstood and much less actively implemented. Christopher Houghton Budd has been a colleague of mine, helping me understand and further attempt to practice Steiner’s economic work.

When the ‘Inner and Outer Aspects of Associative Economics’ event took place in Viroqua in 2008, I had the good fortune to record and produce the lectures given there, and chose to do so because of the significant content I assumed would be presented. Given the pressing current world circumstances and the approaching centenary of the 1923/4 Christmas Foundation Meeting, this valuable study material is not only very informing and timely; it is also full of hope for the future.

I encourage you to take advantage of the possibility to listen to these workshops many times over and get something new from them each time, like I have!  –  Vivianne Sinclaire

The Inner and Outer Aspects of Associative Economics

with Economic and Monetary Historian, Christopher Houghton Budd, Ph.D.

Are you looking for orientation in the face of today’s economic challenges and changes?
Would you like to understand Rudolf Steiner’s contribution to a healthy world economy?
Do you want to make more socially conscious choices in your own economic life?

Two Workshops focused on Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to Economic Life and the Economic Events and Tasks of our Time:

“Rudolf Steiner’s Unfinished Deed” and “Money in the Old and New Mysteries”

Rare audio recordings of over nine hours of insightful and hope-filled commentary.

Both Recorded Workshops are available exclusively as downloadable audio MP3’s and Full Color PDF “Follow Along Sheets” with Photographs and Drawings from the Workshops.

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In the midst of the initial financial breakdowns and preliminary bailouts of October 2008, Christopher Houghton Budd delivered two back-to-back workshops held in Viroqua, Wisconsin, USA. In a town square style meeting, Christopher described Rudolf Steiner’s mission and contribution to economics against a background of world history from Ancient Greece to the upheavals of 1923/24 to the current financial instabilities and what is being asked of us in terms of the future.

Dr. Houghton Budd is one of the few economists who can represent Rudolf Steiner’s ideas concerning economics to bankers, policy makers, and lay people alike. An economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in finance and banking, he travels extensively from his home in Folkestone, England with the aim of contributing to the metamorphosis of capitalism.

Christopher is a life-long student of Rudolf Steiner’s work, a member of the Anthroposophical Society and of the School of Spiritual Science, and a founding-participant in the Economics Conference of the Goetheanum. He has written numerous books and
publications.

Providing both background and focus for practical ways to go beyond banking through the idea of ‘money as bookkeeping’, in these two workshops Christopher Houghton Budd synthesizes the ideas shared from his many meetings with financial experts and lay people around the world, his economic work at the Goetheanum, and his life long study of Rudolf Steiner’s far-reaching indications concerning the inner and outer aspects of modern economic life. This immediate material is shared with the hope that individuals and organizations will take up the tasks at hand and create a brighter more sustainable economic future for all.

Workshop 1: Rudolf Steiner’s Unfinished Deed

Fundamental Insights for the Reordering of Karma through Financial Life

Money and economics can be seen as an outer reflection of our inner life. This workshop addresses current economic events in the light of the development of consciousness from Ancient Greece to the present time. Rudolf Steiner’s pivotal contributions toward a healthy world economy based on initiative rather than power are thoroughly explored.

Steiner implemented new threefold principles when he re-founded the Anthroposophical Society, a deed which to this day, remains largely underestimated. The intended, but incomplete, first, second, and third classes of the School of Spiritual Science can provide the basis of social renewal for individuals, groups and institutions. In this, Steiner outlined a path of modern initiation that can help us cross the threshold consciously. But do we have the will to follow it?

Topics include:

  • The pivotal events that began in the East with Aristotle and Alexander during the last Michael age and remain to be accomplished out of the West in the current Michael age
  • The spiritual geography and mission of the Orient, the Occident, and Europe
  • In-depth exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s place in the context of economic and world history
  • The signatures of a Michael Age: now and previously
  • The economic mission of the West
  • How current economic events reveal humanities’ relationship to the spiritual world or lack thereof
  • Why humanity has been able to be manipulated (particularity in the last century) due to a lack of understanding of the three degrees of initiation
  • Understanding the threefold nature of the human being and the threefold nature of businesses and organizations
  • Mastering economics as a reflection of mastering one’s self
  • Accounting as meditation from the outside in
  • The impending task of Britain and the USA on behalf of the world as the whole of humanity faces a looming economic abyss
  • Rudolf Steiner’s contributions toward a healthy world economy based on initiative rather than power
  • Practical considerations for the reordering of karma and the restructuring of financial life through associative economics

Workshop 2: Money in the Old and New Mysteries

Will we master money or will money master us?

While economists and bankers currently question faltering monetary policies and banking systems, this workshop looks at the world-economic work begun by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s. A radical new approach to economic history is described that includes an imagination of how to meet current economic challenges while working associatively in community life. In his 1922 economics course, Steiner forewarned of the pitfalls of both socialism and mere capitalism, advocating instead an approach to economics which treats the world as one economy shared by all the peoples of the earth. With this new perspective, we can overcome our dependency on ‘external’ banking altogether. We can assume monetary and credit responsibility directly through the very way we understand and handle money.

Topics include:

  • A multiplicity of stories and descriptions that make today’s economic events comprehensible and ‘soul sized’
  • Economic consciousness during the time of the Old Mysteries vs.the consciousness required for economic competency in the New Mysteries
  • How we are all being schooled by economics in current world economic circumstances and what each of us can do to step into another paradigm
  • Why the gold standard is a barbarous relic held over from the Old Mystery consciousness
  • What replaces the gold standard in the economy of the New Mysteries?
  • The contrast between neoliberal economics and associative economics, both going back to Aristotle
  • How and why the financial markets separated from actual goods being traded and the consequences this has had for our being able to master what we couldn’t before
  • What would it look like to re-instill the originally ‘sacred quality of the marketplace’ as opposed to the self-driven motives of today?
  • How accounting helps us meet unredeemed or undisciplined aspects of our self
  • How worldwide economics could be metamorphosed and stabilized with acceptance of Rudolf Steiner’s understanding of the three kinds of money as long as money itself is not traded as a good
  • The three kinds of money overlaid on the universally accepted threefold structure of accounting
  • A precise imagination of how a new worldwide transparent central banking process would look when managed by all the actors in contrast to the current central banking systems – How the world would look today if Rudolf Steiner’s world economy course had been accepted and implemented 90 years ago
  • Somewhere over the Rainbow: How we can learn to live forever on the wing with money and cash flow as we step into the new Mysteries

Both Workshops in MP3 Audio: over 9 hours of Listening
Plus “Follow Along Full Color PDF’s”

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