As Within, So Without: Understanding the Hemispheric Brain and the Genius of Waldorf Education

The final lecture of a four-part series, this talk explores the ways in which our individual and collective experience is filtered through and shaped by our hemispheric brains, and how we can deepen our understanding of human history and contemporary social problems by deepening our awareness of the asymmetrical and dialectical aspects of human perception, attention, and sense-making.

This lecture expands and clarifies many key ideas from previous talks in the series, including the evolution of consciousness, the problems of the modern world, and the imminent threats of AI, and offers an over-arching social-historical understanding of the meta-crisis. It also offers ways to think about human development and education that can enable us to respond to and heal our deepest collective ailments and dysfunctions by fostering holistic and healthy relationships to the natural and social world.

If you haven’t listened to the first three lectures in the series, you may want to start at the beginning so that you can absorb the full trajectory of thought that is being offered…