About me

My name is Arjen Nijeboer. I was born in 1974, live just outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands and have been studying anthroposophy for some 30 years. This website is non-profit: I don’t make any money from it nor do I plan this for the future.

Though I am Dutch, I started this website on Christmas 2025 – with the help and advice of some good anthroposophical friends – because I found there’s a gap in accessible and reliable information especially for those relative new to anthroposophy and have questions. I’ve also sometimes become discouraged by the many misconceptions and unjustified criticisms directed at Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. This website is for me one means of setting the record straight.

Culturally and politically, I’m a progressive. I hate sectarianism and dogmatism, and value Rudolf Steiner especially because of his cosmopolitan outlook on the world and his selfless attitude.

My background

I studied Journalism at Windesheim College and followed courses in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. During my studies, I encountered anthroposophy through a friend.

Growing up, I had vague but undeniable clues that reincarnation existed as I felt I had a history that went back way longer than 1974 – that meant, I figured, that a spiritual world exists where you travel through from one life to the next. When looking up the sky I had this feeling of holistic oneness, that there is only one reality that expresses itself in all phenomena once can observe in humans, in life and in the cosmos. I figured that somewhere, there had to be people who knew more about this. When I encountered anthroposophy, I quite soon realized that this is what I had been looking for half-consciously. So before my studies in Journalism and International Relations were done, I decided I wanted to work in the anthroposophical field instead of becoming another regular journalist.

I was especially enthousiastic about Rudolf Steiner’s social and political views: social threefolding which sees society as fundamentally consisting of three independent spheres of cultural-spiritual life (where freedom should reign), political-legal life (where equality belongs) and economic life (where brother- and sisterhood should be the leading principle). To start with something concrete, I decided to found an activist organization for direct democracy in the Netherlands to campaign and lobby for an increase in Initiative & Referendum rights for the population. I’ve worked for 20 years in this field before I returned to my main passion: anthroposophy pure.

Through the years, I’ve also published a lot about political, economic and social topics in e.g. the Washington Post, EUobserver.com, all Dutch national newspapers (e.g. Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, Financieele Dagblad, Trouw, Algemeen Dagblad, Parool etc.) and many anthroposophical and other magazines.

My vision for this website

My plan is to gradually expand this website with ever more articles focusing on the most pressing questions that people seem to have. In the future, I hope to expand this website with ever more content and functionality – perhaps an online forum, a video section, an address guide to anthroposophical initiatives around the world. It depends on the opportunities that present themselves. Let’s see where this journey will lead!

If you like this vision and you have ideas or maybe even want to join the work, contact me!

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