The Inner Life of Nelson Mandela: How He Developed It and What His Inner Life Had It Common With Other Great Spiritual Practices

Owen Barfield an only child raised by atheist well educated parents read Coleridge's lyric poetry. When doing so he experienced enormous joy. When he discovered Steiner he began to understand that he was experiencing sense free thinking as developed by Steiner in the 2nd half of his book Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. This sense free thinking if practiced can reveal ones infinity, divinity and eternity. Nelson Mandela never hearing or reading a word of Anthroposophy or Steiner discovered on his own sense free thinking by reading scriptures and great works and poetry. Be doing so Pres. Mandela discovered his own infinity, divinity and eternity. If it was in him and was him then it was also in the brutal wardens and guards. By living out of this inner truth Mandela leads for the first time in human history as we know it a majority oppressed people to forgive a minority oppressor. This was an act of LOVE out of a fully developed inner life that we can barely understand without discussing and understanding Mandela's inner life and our own. As presenter I will also relay my experiences meeting Owen Barfield and Nelson Mandela and traveling in South Africa to walk in the footsteps of Pres. Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.