D.N. Dunlop (1868-1935) combined remarkable practical and
organizational abilities in industry and commerce with gifted
spiritual and esoteric capacities. A personal friend of W.B. Yeats
and Rudolf Steiner, Dunlop was responsible for founding the World
Power Conference (today the World Energy Council), and played
leading roles in the Theosophical Society and later the
Anthroposophical Society. In his business life he pioneered a
cooperative approach towards the emerging global economy. Meyer's
compelling narrative of Dunlop's life begins on the Isle of Arran,
where the motherless boy is brought up by his grandfather. In a
landscape rich with prehistoric standing stones, the young Dunlop
has formative spiritual experiences. When his grandfather dies, he
struggles for material survival, but devotedly studies occult
literature. The scene moves to Dublin, where Dunlop becomes a
friend of W.B. Yeats and the poet-seer A.E., and develops an active
interest in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy. Arriving in London via
New York, Dunlop is now a lecturer, writer and the editor of a
monthly journal - but alongside his esoteric interests he rises to
a foremost position in the British electrical industry,
masterminding the first World Power Conference. Dunlop's life is to
change forever through his meeting with Rudolf Steiner, which
'...brought instant recognition'. He was immediately convinced that
Steiner was '...the Knower, the Initiate, the bearer of the Spirit
to his age'. Dunlop's close involvement with anthroposophy, leading
to his eventual position as Chair of the British Society, is
described in detail: from the momentous conferences in Penmaenmawr
and Torquay to his transformative relationships with Eleanor Merry,
W.J. Stein, Ita Wegman and Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz. Meyer features
important material on the Anthroposophical Society's tragic split,
that allows for a true evaluation of this difficult period in the
organization's history. This second, enlarged edition features
substantial additions of new material as well as an Afterword by
Owen Barfield.
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