I should give an answer, it's been long enough!
It would be very difficult to go into detail about my outlook regarding prehistory and the rather unorthodox picture of the world that can emerge if one really studies Anthroposophy and is serious about the path of knowledge. Basically, we are dealing with something that is occult, and I would have to leave it there.
I could say though, that for myself, the process of "learning about Anthroposophy" and the path of self-knowledge, in a way, is not so much about assimilating the contents of lectures in an intellectual way, but more, for me, as a conscious process of unlearning all the intellectuality that was given to me throughout childhood-youth-grammar school etc, as something just given to me, ready-made, and not really worked-through, by myself, (with my present state of consciousness), if that makes sense.
The question that is important for me is something like this "how is the attitude and consciousness that I can possess today different from how I experienced the world say at 6 years old, or 3 years old, or even the consciousness of a person in the 12th century, or even perhaps, the consciousness that people had in the times hundreds of years before Christ?" -"what is it, that I can do, and experience, today, as a "modern" Human being, that is essentially different from then?"
I think these days, there is a danger that knowledge is in state of undergoing a process of ossification, and that people do not really think anymore, where everything becomes mechanized, and even the thinking process itself is experienced as just running along on it's own.
For instance, I'm a die-hard anthro, as i've said, and in a certain way, reading Steiner's lectures is a pleasurable experience, no real problem for me. But I've never really gotten around to really mastering "The Philosophy of Freedom" because I've found it a real effort, intellectually, much like having to push a car with a dead battery, along a flat road, it's a real, conscious experience of having to bring will into thinking, and it is not easy or pleasant, sometimes. in fact I have been made aware of the real antipathy i feel regarding the task. And I now think that I can really understand the living experience of a person, say, like Dan Dugan, (P.L.A.N.S. guy, anthro arch-hater) who, when confronted with this threshold of being able to pursue a path of knowledge, and simply understanding something new, i.e., simply intensifying the scientific discipline he (knows?) and crossing the threshold of the sense world, into the supersensible, he simply refuses.
So I think that's -that. There's a gist to be got there somewhere! It's late, I shall end.
