Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am very glad and honoured to be here, at this spot and in this time. In this lofty circle. This is a very special occasion. [ «The idea of the World Power Conference was Dunlop’s and Dunlop’s alone.»
These words were spoken by Mr. Gray who was the first ever general secretary of the WEC. He served from 1929 for about almost 40 years and died in June 1988. He was chosen with great intuition by Dunlop. This Mr. Gray looked very solid to him.
When I was writing my biography I became interested in Dunlop generally, not only economically. He was an extremely colourful man – look at his life. And so I became interested also in the WEC and decided to visit the congress in Cannes, in October 1986.
It was the time of Tschernobyl, while Mr. Ruttley was General Secretary. (…)
read more: PDF: D.N. DUNLOP in Rotterdam
FROM WORLD POWER CONFERENCE TO WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL 90 YEARS OF ENERGY COOPERATION, 1923-2013
REBECCA WRIGHT, HIROKI SHIN, FRANK TRENTMANN
Published by the World Energy Council, 2013
BIRTH
In the summer of 1924 H. G. Wells visited the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London. For Wells, renowned for his journalism, science-fiction writing and socialism, a lot of the charade was ‘quite absurd’, but he was
pleasantly surprised to discover ‘a strong breath of human common sense’ at the Exhibition. That common sense, Wells explained, was the First World Power Conference, which had been called together by the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (B.E.A.M.A.) to consider the future of energy resources. Instead of the ‘stuffy, foggy conceit’ of the British Empire, Wells continued, the Conference was truly global in spirit. Even the Prince of Wales, who gave the opening speech, met Wells’ approval. The speech commended the Conference as a significant step towards removing ‘one of the greatest obstacles to progress’ arising from the disparity in the utilisation of knowledge: while searching for knowledge – in finance, science and research – was a universal activity, its results were unevenly distributed and utilised. Wells felt that the Prince of Wales left behind his usual ‘imperialist egotism of the narrower sort of English’ for a genuinely internationalist vision. (…)
read more: PDF FROM WORLD POWER CONFERENCE TO WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL – 1923 -2013
TRANSCRIPT FROM A TAPE CONTAINING A RECORD OF A STATEMENT MADE TO MR THOMAS MEYER (PROSPECTIVE AUTHOR OF A BIOGRAPHY OF D N DUNLOP) BY MR C H GRAY, SECRETARY, INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND BRITISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE, WORLD POWER CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 1928-FEBRUARY 1966,
Daniel Nicol Dunlop was born at Kilmarnock in Scotland in 1868. He was the son of a Quaker architect. At the age of about five he moved, after the death of his mother, to the house of his grandfather who was living on the Isle of Arran. He underwent his engineering apprenticeship with the Howe Machine Co. at Ardrossan. He then went to Ireland temporarily for work not connected with the electrical industry. At the age of 26, Dunlop went to the United States and worked for the American Westinghouse Co. at their New York office. He worked as what would nowadays be called a public relations officer. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1899 as an employee of American Westinghouse, where he was styled assistant publicity manager.
There was in existence a weak national electrical manufacturers’association. In 1911 the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association was formed on a much broader basis; this organisation will be referred to by me in the future as BEAMA. Dunlop was first appointed as Secretary; his office was upgraded to that of Director in the year 1917. To the best of my belief he was the first Secretary of a trade association to receive that title. At the end of his life for a short period he had a co-director, a Mr Watlington. (…)
read more: PDF World Power Conference (World Energy Council) – Statement by its first Gen. Secretary C.H. Gray
Karl Heyer (1888–1964), lawyer and historian, was one of the foremost pupils of Rudolf Steiner.
He was active in the threefold movement of 1919 and out of his experiences wrote a synopsis
of the threefold impulse, from an exoteric and esoteric point of view. This appeared originally
as an appendix in the book Wer ist der deutsche Volksgeist? (not yet translated). Heyer who had
a key conversation with Rudolf Steiner in 1911 and wrote an inspired book on Kaspar Hauser
(not yet translated) had a broad overview of this new social impulse. Heyer’s text, which will be
published as a series in the forthcoming issues, can serve as an excellent, profound introduction
for anyone trying to grasp the relevance of this new social impulse, born of both physical and
spiritual insights. We are very glad that this key text by Heyer is now accessible to our readers in
English translation.
T.H. Meyer
Read more: Threefolding: 100 Years Karl Heyer: Esoteric Foundations and Aspects of Social Threefolding
Translated by Terry Boardman
A Consideration from exoteric and spiritual scientific perspectives
in her introduction: what is public opinion?
I propose to deal with the topic in two parts. The I propose to deal with the topic in two parts. The first will be exoteric and the second will be from a spiritual scientific perspective. I do not want to go about it in an abstract and theoretical way, but rather introduce some symptomatic examples of what one can understand by the term “public opinion”.
Read more: What is Public Opinion?
Translated by Terry Boardman
The Dangers of Vitamin
Article from TPA Vol. 4 / No. 07 / October 2018
read more: The Dangers of Vitamin D Treatment
This speech was held during a conference with Barbro Karlén on 13 Oct 2013 in Budapest. See also the interview by T.H. Meyer with Karlén
Edited by Paul O’Leary
Barbro Karlén, The Holocaust and Reincarnation
The Seasons and the Seasonal festivals in the Southern Hemisphere
Geert Suwelack (1920–2003) was a priest of the Christian Community working in Sao Paolo. He investigated the question of seasonal realities in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres, based on numerous statements by Rudolf Steiner. We publish his üpionmeering work in this respect. It was first published 1979, 33 years ago.
Download der PDF: Geert Suwelack: The New Dialogue with the Spirit of the Earth
Science at a Threshold of Spiritual Understanding
Foreword by Ernst Schuberth, Preface by Owen Barfield
1989 Rudolf Steiner Press
140 pp (?)
ISBN: 978-0854407262
