Anthroposophy and Ecofascism 40

Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 12of Anthroposophy and Ecofascism:

Anthroposophists maintain that Steiner's familiarity with the "astral plane," with the workings of various "archangels," with daily life on the lost continent of Atlantis (all central tenets of anthroposophic belief) came from his special powers of clairvoyance. Steiner claimed to have access to the "Akasha Chronicle," a supernatural scripture containing knowledge of higher realms of existence as well as of the distant past and future. Steiner "interpreted" much of this chronicle and shared it with his followers. He insisted that such "occult experience," as he called it, could never be judged or verified by reason, logic, or scientific inquiry. Modern Anthroposophy is thus founded on blind faith in Steiner's convictions. Those convictions deserve closer examination.

Here, yet again, Peter Staudenmaier presents statements that are in direct contradiction to the primary sources, and of course without any citations. Steiner did actually call his "occult experience" a science, and was at pains to claim that it could be "verified by reason, logic, and scientific inquiry". Whether one believes him or not is a separate matter, however it is factually incorrect to claim that he stated the opposite.