Goetheanum Medical Section Zoom Talk: Medicine and Initiation by Matthew Mirkin

Medicine and Initiation | Matthew Mirkin
20 July 2026, 19:00 pm BST
Medical Section at the Goetheanum Zoom Talk

Mystery knowledge of the human being and initiation have always united the streams of medicine, education, and religious work, alongside a deep understanding of nature, and the macrocosmos. Healing the general human being through a knowledge of nature was always an intimate part of these mysteries. But in another sense, the individuals being initiated themselves had to go through particular experiences of illness and healing - the very process of transforming their own beings to develop higher capacities. This talk will explore this inter-relationship between the initiatory quality latent in illness, and the healing that comes with mystery knowledge.

Matthew Mirkin is a coordinator of the Medical Section activity in Great Britain and a junior doctors working within the NHS. He has also completed much of the Anthroposophical Doctors training at Emerson College.

Recording will be available for 2 months after the talk.