The events
Time: During the day
Date: Two occasions: Probably spring and summer of 1985
1st place: The Steiner family home in Brunn am Gebirge (in the Gliedererhof (also called the Brunner Heimathaus) at Leopold-Gattringer Straße 34, now hosting a Rudolf Steiner memorial)
2nd place: The Goetheanum in Dornach near Basel
I was around 28–29 years old when I had these two “encounters”.
First encounter: I visited the former Steiner family home in Brunn. I arrived at the door and a door buzzer sounded. I hadn’t rung and I hadn’t knocked. The curator was summoned by this sound and came immediately. He looked puzzled because, like me, he had clearly heard the sound of a door buzzer, and yet they didn’t appear to have one. He asked me if I had rung (he didn’t ask me how!). I said “No”. Neither one of us mentioned it again.
I concluded, and perhaps he did too, that the spirit of Rudolf Steiner was present and had created the sound of a door buzzer, to alert the curator to my arrival.
Second encounter: This was more dramatic. I had arrived at the Goetheanum and was walking up the slight slope toward the door. As I was walking, I could clearly feel someone’s hand holding my hand. This person, a spiritual entity, walked with me all the way to the door, holding my left hand.
The takeaway
This shows us that people who have died and are in the spirit world can visit us, whether we’re aware of them or not.
Thoughts and theories
I was delighted on both occasions.
Afterword
Many years later I drove down to Donji Kraljevec in Croatia and visited the one-room house in which Rudolf Steiner was born, at Ludbreška 13, now a private museum. Steiner’s parents were Austrian; his father worked for the Austrian railway, and Croatia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It was a lovely trip. I stayed one night in the small hotel in Donji. A few days later and back at home, I suddenly realised that I had not “encountered” Rudolf Steiner while I was in his house, in the very room in which he had been born. I felt deeply disappointed.
I don’t know why he didn’t visit me on that special occasion. One reason can be that I’m a lot older now and am carrying “baggage”, something I didn’t do when I was young. Another reason can be that he thought, “She doesn’t need me anymore.”
