The Holdall

Ninety years ago, the writer Owen Barfield (1898-1997) had a short letter published in The Spectator, which it headlined “Nationalism and Economics”. The letter, about the reality of the world’s economic life and the failure of that reality to be reflected in relations between nation-states, repays attention in 2026. The states uppermost in our minds have changed. But the failure remains the same. The first episode of The Holdall in some time.

Can we know the being of society, or if you prefer the living idea of society? How can we really experience it? In advance of a seminar to be held by him on the weekend Friday 25th November till Sunday 27th November 2022: a conversation with Jac Hielema about society and the economy, and how to experience their being. SHOW NOTES, including SEMINAR DETAILS: https://roryoconnor.xyz/podcast/free-equal-together-society-and-the-economy-with-jac-hielema/

I talked with Jac Hielema about Rudolf Steiner's book The Philosophy of Freedom. It's a book that helps us in our thinking, allowing us to arrive at new ideas, which we can then freely work with (or not). Please listen in the spirit Jac talks about, when he talks about the various ways we can listen to people: "I ask you questions, and I let your answers go into me all the way. Most of the time, if I ask a person a question, I already throw him out of me by my inner reactions to the person. So

I talked with Jac Hielema about Rudolf Steiner's book The Philosophy of Freedom. It's a book that helps us in our thinking, allowing us to arrive at new ideas, which we can then freely work with (or not). Please listen in the spirit Jac talks about, when he talks about the various ways we can listen to people: "I ask you questions, and I let your answers go into me all the way. Most of the time, if I ask a person a question, I already throw him out of me by my inner reactions to the person. So

I talked with Jac Hielema about Rudolf Steiner's book The Philosophy of Freedom. It's a book that helps us in our thinking, allowing us to arrive at new ideas, which we can then freely work with (or not). Please listen in the spirit Jac talks about, when he talks about the various ways we can listen to people: "I ask you questions, and I let your answers go into me all the way. Most of the time, if I ask a person a question, I already throw him out of me by my inner reactions to the person. So

An interview with Elias Davidsson about the way that the US government has not provided evidence that the named 9/11 hijackers were on the ill-fated airplanes. We also talked about the unusual Shanksville crash site and the suggestive evidence that two of the airplanes were flying past their alleged crash times. More broadly, Elias talked about international criminal and human rights law and 9/11's strategic context. Davidsson is the author of Hijacking America's Mind on 9/11. He has also writt