Flutterby™! : Steiner

Interesting to me because I went to a Waldorf school in upstate New York through 7^th grade, here's a Fortean Times four pager on Rudolf Steiner. I have, for the most part, run screaming from Anthroposophy as an adult, but it's interesting that someone who believed in Atlantis and an eventual world encompassing showdown between the archangel Michael and a being called Ahriman developed his epistemology around an objective reality:

What little we know of the Master is that he pointed out some passages in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of Kant's most important followers, which helped Steiner in his quest. Fichte's work focused on the centrality of the human ego, the 'I', the locus of consciousness and the self that the materialism of Steiner's day (and our own) argued was a mere illusion. Steiner's spiritual experiences convinced him that this was palpably false and that the 'I', rather than being an illusion, was a concrete, irreducible reality. For the next 20 years, until Steiner's re-invention as a spiritual leader, his work would focus on developing a methodical epistemology proving this fact.