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Plant: "Rudolf Steiner training college"



Plant: "After the death of my son Karac in 1977...
I applied to take a job at a Rudolph Steiner training college in
Sussex."

Rudolf Steiner is the founder of anthroposophy. From some random website, 
but accurate:

Waldorf schools are the most visible activity of the international 
Anthroposophical Society, which has been called "the most successful occult 
religion in Europe" by Sven Ove Hansson, a Swedish skeptic. Other writers 
refer to it as "the most developed contemporary instance of Western 
esotericism"; and a "highly organized occult group."

Anthroposophy emerged from the spiritual confusion of turn-of-the-century 
Germany, part of a burgeoning of exotic and occultist religious activity not 
unlike the 1960s' "New Age" explosion in America. The Anthroposophical 
Society was created by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who had led the German 
section of Theosophy, but split off to form a group that would follow his 
personal revelations of the "spirit world." The sect developed to maturity 
during the social and political turmoil Germany suffered during and after 
World War I.

The best thing to read on this is the novel by Saul Bellow called Humboldt's 
Gift. And the most popular Steiner book has the suggestive title, "Knowledge 
of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment."