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Part One: Rudolf Steiner: The Racist Who Invented Organic Farming and Waldorf Schools

Behind the Bastards

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The Occult Version of That

About 70% of occult beliefs historically are rooted in rich people wanting to explain why it's fine that things were great for them while everyone else was dying in a field. Rudolph Steiner believed in reincarnation and he thought disease was part of a patient's karma. If you treat illnesses or if you prevent an illness, you just force that person to get sick again in a future life. So this is the occult version of that. There are doctors who believe this shit today. And again, these guys are actual MDs. They validate your belief system. But I am skeptical of the idea that any of them could be truly good doctors. For one thing, most of them are anti-

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