The editors of Conversations warmly welcome you to the website of our new issue. It has been nearly three years since we have published any works on or by youth interested in anthroposophy. We are excited to be up and running again, and optimistic that we can help bridge the physical gap in spiritual work that lies between so many young people on this continent. It is also new to us to be doing a web based issue. Funding has made this a more feasible way to carry on the good work, but we are also hoping to reach a far broader readership by utilizing the web. In this issue we have several conference reports from last year, announcements for conferences, essays on the Youth Section and Adventure Education, an article on trust and loss of innocence, poetry, pictures and a book review on an old Sufi teacher. Please enjoy, feel free to make comments to us or the authors, and especially feel free to make contributions for future issues. As we are blossoming in our youth we sometimes find ourselves taking on unexpected responsibilities, we struggle to carry out our visions despite the very state of things, and sometimes it is a struggle to find our place in this world. It is in these pages that we hope to share inspirations and to document the trials and successes of our varied strivings.

David Stripling,

Co-Editor

Events

One World: A Youth Leadership Conference in Global Citizenship-from August 21-27, at the Sunbridge College campus, in Spring Valley, New York.

An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Scientific Research into the Nature of Christianity- May 28th and 29th, 2005 (Memorial Day weekend) at Heartbeet Lifesharing in Hardwick, Vermont.

Youth Eurythmy Week- at Eurythmy Spring Valley, June 25th-July 3rd

Being Awake:How Do I Awaken to the Spirit in Myself and to the Spirit in the World?-August 11-14, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Reviews

Book Review
Yohanan Friedmann, Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi:
An Outline of His Thought and a Study of His Image in the Eyes of Posterity
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
by Adil Khan

Essays

The Youth Section
by Per Eisenman

What Is Your Experience of Trust?
by Bill Camp

Abraham Maslow and Adventure Therapy: Self Actualization through Process
by Eric Kappus

Reports

Heartbeet Lifesharing: A Community of the Future
by Hannah Scwartz

Report from Youth Eurythmy Week, Spring Valley, New York
by Caitlin Palo

Youth Conference at Heartbeet Lifesharing
by Tiemen Woutersen

Poems

The Palms of Strangers

Geography of the Flesh

By Brooke Casey

Patience

A Lick and a Promise

By Moira Shaw

Credits

Paintings byJason Lucero, Miguel Bonilla, and Kristina West

Photos by John Eisenmen and Per Eisenman

Staff

Per Eisenmen and David Stripling: Co-Editors

Marguerite Miller: Consulting Editor

Publishing

This online newsletter is published by the Youth Section of the School for Spiritual Science in collaboration with the Anthroposophical Society in America.

The views experessed in articles in this online newsletter are the views of the individual writers and not necessarily those of the editors or publishers.