Merlinwiki:Initiative

In today's society, information and learning works in a radically different way when compared to yesterday. In the 1940s, it was as simple as handing out flyers and talking to people on the street, but today, no matter if we like it or not, the internet is the single dominant "power" when it comes to the sharing of information and marketing.

Why do we need to do this?
So it is extremely important that, we, as the "carriers" of esoteric and spiritual knowledge must not only practice it and develop internally, but we must spread our message and our method. If we do not do this, we will simply stagnate and all the good that will come from our movement will never come about.

Especially in the context of now, in the last couple of years society has devolved into complete consumerist materialism, encouraged by government, trickling down and attempting to make good spenders out of the population, With the media creating propaganda masquerading as comedy that makes people believe their deeply reactionary ideas come from their original thoughts and not the funny tv show they just watched, there is no better time to do this than now. We are in a thought emergency.

And another thing, spiritual movements today are all working towards the same societal goals, and are extremely similar. They are, in fact, more similar than we may think. With the aforementioned thought emergency, we need to work together more, because this world is rapidly turning into "the materialists vs the spiritualists". I would say that many spiritual movements share many many ideas with Anthroposophy and many many people who are involved with their spiritual movement could enrich their life and their practice via Anthroposophy. And because of the nature of Anthroposophy, they do not have to drop their old ideas and practices.

If only more people knew what Anthroposophy is, both the people and Anthroposophy would be better off.

I have created this page today for two reasons; firstly to give the "tools" to those who don't know how to do this, and to give inspiration and motivation to those who haven't even thought about doing this.

What to do?
Well there are many things to do, but they can be sorted into approximately three categories; Social Media, Websites and Blogs. These all can work togeather in ways that i will talk about later. An important thing to note about specifically social media, but this applies to the other categories too is that the algorithms have developed to value quantity over quality. A tiktok account that wants to get "big" in any sense of the word must post at least five times a day, same with twitter or instagram. This is why it is imperative that your account or "pinned" video/tweet links to further resources, |like these. (blue things are links, for those who may not know)

If that may seem strange or not ideal, it's because it isn't. But it is important that we do these things.

A sentiment i seem to see and hear quite a bit is "but i'd never be able to do that!", and i think these things may seem harder just because maybe it seems like a massive wall, simply because you have never approached these things before. But i assure you they are easier than you might think. It's just clicking buttons. And even if you still think you can't do it, i implore you to try.

Social Media
Now if you are reading this i assume you are unfamiliar with social media and how it works, while i would be happy to answer any questions reguarding how to use and optimize what you do on social media, it truly is an extremely easy thing to do. So, i have decided to link a couple of tutorials on how to use social media and how to use it well. If you have any further questions that are quite simple in nature, google is your best friend. Click on the blue text below to get linked to an external tutorial.

|How to create social media accounts and use them

|How to grow your accounts on social media

|How to use Buffer (buffer is a platform that allows users to post and schedule on multiple social media websites at once)

|How to use social media in an optimized way (this article is about how to manage someone's social media, but it is still useful for your own)

Blogs
Blogs are slightly arder to do than social media, but they typically show up higher on google than social media posts. I would say that best practice is to run a blog and have social media accounts to promote the blog. I will list a few major platforms here, and they are all %100 free to use, however they will essentially beg for your money. If you want to pay for them, that's fine, better in some cases but you do not have to.

|How to Start a Blog

|How to create a blog on Blogger

|How to create a blog on Wordpress

|How to start writing on Medium

|How to write content optimized for search engines like Google

Websites
Websites are slightly more complicated, so if you don't know how to make them i probably wouldn't attempt to, but, a website is only a few google searches away if you want to try.