Henry Barnes--the author of A Life for the Spirit--brings us a comprehensive view of the development of the anthroposophic movement in North America. During its initial phase in the early 1900s, Americans began to return from Europe with word of an individual who spoke about the spiritual world from direct experience. The first spritual-scientific initiatives began in New York in the 1930s and spread across the prairies to the West Coast and beyond--to Canada, Mexico, and Hawaii--taking root in the hearts and minds of the "new world."

This is the story of those...