The Spiritual Scientist Podcast · Mick Young

Rudolf Steiner, Facing Uncertain Times, The Book of Revelation with Bastiaan Baan

·1 hr 24 min·5 clips

Bahn says Navalny’s survival strategy was to keep an inner link to a spiritual world.

The host welcomes Bastian Bahn and presents him as an author, a speaker, and a priest of the Christian community. He also says he has known Bahn's name for about twenty years and has read a couple of his books. One is Ways into Western Meditation. The newer one is Trust in the Future, published by Floris Books. The conversation starts with the pressure of the present moment and the sense that technology and other strange things are changing the atmosphere of daily life. The host brings up positive and negative freedom as a way in. Bahn says the book was not his own initiative. He then turns the question back toward why it had to be written. He says he meets many people who are terrified by what happens around them. He describes them as paralyzed. He pushes back on the idea that they can do nothing. In each situation, he says, there is still a possibility to react in another way. Even when nothing can be done, there is still another way to look. He reaches for Alexander Navalny as an example. The host follows the thread into prison, solitary confinement, and terrible circumstances. Bahn points to Navalny's prison writings, written on tiny paper and smuggled out of jail. What matters to him is the way Navalny keeps his freedom and his freedom of expression. The story becomes an example of how much can be taken away without taking away the power to respond. The host briefly thinks of Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago. Bahn returns to the larger theme of moving on. He says he leaves his lectures behind and goes to the next one.

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A calm look at freedom, Steiner, and what survives when life feels paralyzing.

The episode sits with Bastian Bahn, an author, speaker, and priest of the Christian community, as it considers Trust in the Future alongside the pressures of technology and fear in contemporary life.

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You want Steiner, freedom, and a quieter way to meet a loud week.

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