The Mystery of the Earth

Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart. He studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin and, until 2000, worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke Hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books on Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Science, and the development of culture and consciousness, many of which have been translated and published in English. He is married with five children.

Foreword

The Mystery of the Earth

Where Are the Sources of Life to Be Found?

No Standing Still

Perspectives on Epidemic Infectious Diseases in the Work of Rudolf Steiner

A Medicalized Society?

The Difficult Way to the "Whitsun Path"

Appendices

Paris and the Fifth Gospel (2019)

"The Mystery of the Earth" (1929), by Ita Wegman

Notes

This book was originally published in German as Mysterium der Erde. Aufsatze zur Corona-Zeit (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim, Switzerland, 2020). An earlier English translation of the essay "A Medicalized Society?" (translated by Thomas OKeefe and Charles Gunn) first appeared in Deepening Anthroposophy, no. 9.1. In this volume, that translation has been revised.