tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post6527269357763869038..comments2024-03-26T08:30:05.306+11:00Comments on Christianity is Esoteric: Marilyn Monroe- 8th February 1992Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-58125259638149730842014-12-12T06:35:25.030+11:002014-12-12T06:35:25.030+11:00https://anthropopper.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/mari...https://anthropopper.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/marilyn-monroe-and-rudolf-steiner/ Marilyn Monroe was introduced to Steiner’s writings and lectures by her favou rite drama teacher, Michael Chekhov (1890-1955), nephew of the playwright Anton, and fellow director with Stanislavsky in the Moscow Art Theatre early in the 20th century. Marilyn was introduced to Chekhov in 1951 by one of his devoted students, the American character actor Jack Palance. Marilyn opened herself like a sponge to water to Chekhov’s approach to theatre, which was so deeply influenced by Steiner that Chekhov left Stanislavsky’s method behind. And Marilyn opened herself very deeply to anthroposophy, not because she felt it would please her teacher, but Chekhov felt that it was one of the only times in her life that Marilyn did something out of her own free inner being.<br /><br />The tragedy of Marilyn Monroe is that she opened herself up too much and became a slave, not only of the studio bosses, but also the expectations of a world that focused on her as such a fantasy object. Yet deep inside her inner being, which no one in the media and our popular culture even believed she possessed, she spent the last 10 or 11 years of her tortured life cultivating the delicate plant of anthroposophy.” -Tom Mellett<br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.com