This two-part lecture series examines a simple but uneasy question: whose will is actually at work in the systems we rely on every day?

Modern technology has given humanity extraordinary power, yet much of what shapes our daily lives operates beyond our awareness. We press a button, receive an answer, follow a recommendation, or trust an algorithm, often without asking what kinds of forces, intentions, or habits of consciousness these systems cultivate within us.

Drawing from Rudolf Steiner, the Rosicrucian tradition, neurology, dream life, and the mystery schools, Dennis Klocek explores the spiritual dimensions of the will and the growing challenge of remaining inwardly awake in an increasingly technological world.

Rather than offering simple conclusions, these lectures invite a different way of engaging with modern life. Through imagination, contemplative practice, and careful observation, Dennis reveals how the will can be strengthened, how the heart can become a more active organ of perception, and how ordinary experience can become the starting point for genuine spiritual development.

Together, these lectures offer both a diagnosis of our cultural moment and a practical path toward cultivating a freer, more conscious participation in the unfolding of human life.

Lecture 1 – The will and technology

Technology has become one of the primary ways human will expresses itself in the modern world. Yet the forces shaping that will often remain hidden beneath convenience, automation, and abstraction.

In this lecture, Dennis Klocek explores personal will and ruling will, the relationship between technology and magic, the role of intention, abstraction and media, algorithms and automation, innovation and imagination, and the growing challenge of remaining inwardly awake in a technological culture.

Drawing on Rudolf Steiner, history, mythology, and contemporary examples, he invites us to see technology with fresh eyes—as a profound spiritual challenge calling for greater consciousness and a more living relationship with the world.

Lecture 2 – Daily review as key to moral imagination

Having explored the challenges facing the modern will, the second lecture turns toward the practices that strengthen it.

Dennis Klocek explores anthroposophy as a contemporary mystery path, the discipline of living with unanswered questions, the neurology of habit and dopamine, imagination and dream life, Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucian initiation, the daily review, symbolic thinking, and the cultivation of living pictures as organs of perception.

Throughout the lecture, practical exercises are woven together with spiritual insight, offering a path for developing greater freedom, deepening the life of the heart, and awakening a more conscious participation in the social and spiritual world.