Medicine and Initiation

20th July 2026  |  19:00 

Medicine and Initiation  |  Matthew Mirkin

Drawing on themes from our conference, we will explore how both the path of the patient and the healer bring us in to relationship with the mysteries of initiation and of being human. 

Mystery knowledge of the human being and initiation have always united the streams of medicine, education, and religious work, alongside a deep understanding of nature, the macrocosmos. Healing the general human being through a knowledge of nature was always an intimate part of these mysteries. But in another sense, the individuals being initiated themselves had to go through particular experiences of illness and healing - the very process of transforming their own beings to develop higher capacities. This talk will explore this inter-relationship between the initiatory quality latent in illness, and the healing that comes with mystery knowledge. 

Matthew Mirkin is a coordinator of the Medical Section activity in Great Britain and a junior doctors working within the NHS. He has also completed much of the Anthroposophical Doctors training at Emerson College. 

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Many thanks

Matthew

Medical Section GB Coordination Group

E: medicalsectionGB@gmail.com