Happy New Year 2026, BRMI Tribe!

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Welcome to our 54th E-Journal! We hope you enjoyed a blessed and restorative holiday season. As BRMI enters its ninth year, we are deeply grateful for your continued support, collaboration, and contributions to this growing community.

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The Year of the Fire Horse Begins
According to the Asian calendar, February 17, 2026 marks the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse. Astrologers describe this upcoming year as one charged with exhilaration and momentum—a time of rapid change, passion, and cultural depth. In Chinese tradition, the horse symbolizes strength, speed, swiftness, boundless freedom, and perseverance. When paired with the transformative element of Fire, these qualities are amplified, igniting bold movement, creativity, and innovation.

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Catalytic Energy and Personal Transformation
The Fire Horse year carries powerful, catalytic energy—stirring change, awakening motivation, and inspiring forward motion. Whether you are envisioning new career paths, deeper relationships, or greater well-being, this dynamic influence invites personal growth and meaningful transformation. Each zodiac sign will experience this energy in its own way, but all are called to move, adapt, and evolve.

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Times of Acceleration and Spiritual Reflection
Periods marked by acceleration and intensity, such as the Year of the Fire Horse, naturally call us to revisit philosophical and spiritual frameworks that address humanity’s relationship to change, consciousness, and the future—among them, the work of Rudolf Steiner. It is remarkable to reflect that nearly one hundred years have passed since his death in March of 1925. Steiner’s spiritual-scientific insights gave rise to enduring, practical innovations across many disciplines. His legacy includes foundational contributions to biodynamic agriculture, education through the Waldorf school model, Anthroposophical Medicine, psychology, and the arts—leaving humanity a rich and multifaceted body of work.

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Anthroposophy and the Spiritual World
Trained as a scientist and respected as a philosopher, Steiner later became known for his unique approach to knowledge, which he termed anthroposophy. Long before many of his contemporaries and before such ideas entered mainstream discourse, Steiner concluded that Western civilization would gradually bring destruction to itself and the earth if it did not begin to develop an objective understanding of the spiritual world and its interrelationship with the physical realm.

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A Provocative and Ominous Warning
Among Steiner’s more provocative and ominous statements is a passage often cited as a cautionary vision of the future:

“A way will be found to vaccinate bodies so that those bodies will not allow the inclination towards spiritual ideas to develop, and all their lives people will believe only in the physical world they perceive with their senses.”

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Materialism and the Loss of Spiritual Sensitivity
This statement is frequently interpreted as a symbolic warning against an overly materialistic worldview—one in which technological or medical interventions, combined with cultural forces, could diminish humanity’s sensitivity to spiritual experience. Within anthroposophical thought, this serves as a warning that future vaccines could sever the connection between the physical body and the "etheric" or spiritual body, making people "automatons" dedicated solely to materialistic thinking.

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Modern Research and Spiritual Receptivity
Interestingly, some current research findings suggest an association between COVID-19 mRNA vaccination and the subsequent development of pituitary disease and atrophy of the pineal gland.

These glands are key to spiritual receptivity. Of course, the potential worldwide decay of spirituality can be a result of many factors. But certainly, with mounting evidence of cardiovascular complications – myocarditis and neurological side effects, the threat of pituitary and pineal gland disruption should give any clear-minded individual a pause to reconsider any further inoculations.

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Meeting the Future with Serenity
As we move into the new year, Steiner’s counsel feels especially timely. He urged us not to meet the future with fear, but with clarity and inner steadiness:

“We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes toward humanity out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future.”

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Momentum with Mindfulness
The Fire Horse year reminds us that periods of rapid change demand both momentum and mindfulness. As we navigate innovation, uncertainty, and opportunity, may this spirit of calm inquiry, courage, and self-responsibility guide us forward.

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Be well

 

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Capatina, Cristina, Catalina Poiana, and Maria Fleseriu. "Pituitary and SARS CoV-2: An unremitting conundrum." Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 37, no. 4 (2023): 101752.

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