Topic on Talk:Systematic anthroposophy

from email by reader Rémy B - 2022-12

... I can somehow feel ... being guided in the plethora of lectures, because there is an "architectural" quality in the FMC wiki website, as if something in your mind was trying to discover the "joints" of the body of knowledge/lectures, these joints being the keys or the skeleton that we should have right before assembling everything (here the word skeleton is not meant as something dry but as something which supports).

... it seems to me that through your website there is a desire to "map" anthroposophy. And by this I mean: it might be natural to suppose this body of knowledge to have the "form" of Man, so we should expect to find eyes, heart, limbs, etc... as some kinds of modules if you will ?

Recently I have wished that Steiner's lectures were put into qualitative categories, like their main topic but also according to their "density" because obviously some lectures are heavier than others. It is easy to imagine something like a mind map, a "cloud of GA"... but this is also quite a work!

short reply of 2022-12 (edited - as a basis, to be documented further and linked here)

you are right .. for me it's all natural though ... people just see the result as they use the site but seemingly don't notice it consciously or care to remark or write to me about this 'quality' .. so I really liked the fact you noticed this.

the guidance for structuring was there all the way, from the very beginning .. I classified clusters of lectures on topic keywords, scoped study areas with logical building blocks, parsed/structured lectures in outline structure. Also recall - when discovering Steiner's work and starting my study - writing to many people about ... how come nobody had ever done this integrative work in the last century? .. like .. what have people been up to, didn't or doesn't anone see there's a huge need and work there? That was what I felt when I discovered the GA.

Now this is my story, and I have not written about it. But there are pointers to certain stages along the way on the site, also some schemas where you may discern the link and see how it relates to that vision or 'knowing' from the start. At some stage I may write about it ..