Ask Kytka Archives: June 29, 2002

Steiner Speaks on Nutrition

The following passage is excerpted from Community Life… Lectures and Documents by Rudolf Steiner, pages 21-23.

If any of you need to be convinced of the implications of what I am saying, you are welcome to make the following experiment: Choose some topic – vegetarianism, for example – and observe how certain adherents of spiritual science talk about this topic in the outside world. Make a chart, and each time you hear spiritual scientists telling other people that they are vegetarians, jot down the reasons they give. It will soon become clear that on the subject of vegetarianism, adherents of spiritual science often say absolutely scandalous things to people in the outside world. When the outside world then comes to the conclusion that we are a society of fools, it should come as no great surprise.

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s asked Rudolf Steiner why people today appear unable
to develop and act according to all they learn and seem to know.
Steiner replied: “This is a problem of nutrition.”

In Anthroposophical circles, I have frequently mentioned a very simple way of responding to the question of why

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