Background
Jörgen Smit grew up as second of seven sons in Bergen later in Oslo.
Jörgen Smit grew up as second of seven sons in Bergen later in Oslo.
He studied Classical Philology in Oslo and Basel with Ancient greek as main subject.
In cooperation with the painter Arne Klingborg, the architect Erik Asmussen and the entrepreneur Åke Kumlander, amongst many others, a bigger center with a campus at the Baltic seashore devoted to anthroposophical inspired activities emerged. 1975 he was appointed on the Executive counsel of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland. More than half of the 4889 lectures he gave during his lifetime were held during the 16 years in Dornach.
He travelled as a lecturer on all continents lecturing in Norwegian German and English, Europe remained his main working area.
Most of the printed works by Jörgen Smit derive from the lectures he gave. Meditation, Transforming our lives for the Encounter with Christ, Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 2007, How to transform thinking, feeling and willing: practical exercises for the training of thinking, feeling, willing.
Hawthhorn Press, Stroud, 1998. Spiritual Development: Meditation in Daily Floris Books, 1996, Lighting fires, Deepening Education through Meditation.
Hawthhorn Press, Stroud, 1992, Personal & Social Transformation: How to Develop Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity in Everyday Howthorn Press, Stroud, 1992, The Child, the teachers and the community.
Pedagogical Section Council of North America, 1992 Foreign Waldorf teachers: the steps toward knowledge which the seeker for the spirit must take. Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, 1991.
Next to his duties as an executive member of the counsel he also headed the youth section and later the pedagogical section of the Goetheanum.