Olympics and Emerson closure

I would like to acknowledge, with great empathy, the sadness that many are feeling at the closing of Emerson College.  An earnest Anthroposophical entity is passing into a new manifestation, and times of loss stir a natural grieving cycle in the heart bonding and thought patterns of human beings.  Loss reminds us of that which is unpredictable and impermanent in earthly life. 
I do not believe that the loss of Emerson College must lead to a loss of true Anthroposophy in the world.   The question that I would like to offer to this discussion is this:  Did Rudolf Steiner really mean that to be truly, soulfully incarnate on the earth, such incarnation would manifest in material structures which would be sustained indefinitely?  Steiner's works on World Economy and Social Renewal suggest not.  Economics are about the flow of energy.   So is esoteric reality.
The country that I birthed into and live in presently, Canada, has had a remarkable and unexpected renewal of soul and spirit in the last two and a half weeks.  No one predicted this.  It came with the impetus of the winter Olympic games, at the very time that the original country of the Olympics, Greece, has fallen into economic ruins.   I don't mention this out of attachment or pride.  I could feel pitiful now because my long time ancestral heritage is Greek. 
I have spent much of the last three years out of my birth country, with an Anthroposophical initiative in India, and had considered giving Canada up for good because it was not looking or feeling like anything that I had known before.  Canada had not suffered the banking crisis quite as gravely as some other countries because we had a fairly stringent and responsible banking system.  However, we are still in exceptional recessive circumstances and our political system has been in stagnation for quite some time.  Our cultural identity has had a history of nebulousness, with dual official languages and a multiculturalism which has in the last century invited a huge pastiche of cultures to claim full ground and rights as individual cultures within one country.  To the outside world, this has often been interpreted as "not knowing who the hell they are".  Coming from a fairly oppressive old world immigrant family, living in what has been long considered in the international media as a somewhat backwater country, having a strong connection to the ancient feminine Eleusis mystery school yet, also, to seven profound years of Steiner study and applicationat a time when Waldorf schools are closing down for lack of funds,  I had almost caved into believing that the enormity of change and reconditioning that is coming upon human beings in this day and age is too much to bear without us all losing our "bearings", or at least me losing mine.  Neither I nor my current country would likely have been picked from the outside as the perfect archetypally realized "I" beings ready for a profound soulraising capable of inspiring a whole country and millions of people around the world.  And we are not perfectly realized beings.   Yet, as seven years in deeply esoteric spiritual research while hugging trees, working in and supporting many community organic cooperatives, artistic projects, and environmental, civil society actions off of the coast of Vancouver has instilled in me, esoteric truth is not just in a book or in a classroom.  It is real, very alive and phenomenally powerful.  It is not outward, loud and attention getting.  Nor can it be pinpointed, nailed down, or held onto, before its time or past its "due date".    Forgive me if it seems that I'm packing my argument, but some strong Sophianic impulse is at work here.
One could claim that what happened at the Olympics was just the result of superficial commercial workings which gave rise to a utopian "high" for a number of lost young people for two weeks.  But this too would be superficial and speak only to the imperiled exoteric realities that face this country as much as the other countries of the world.  However, what the televison newscasters interpreted as youthful vigour, and which the organizers of the International Olympic Committee saw as emotional support, organization and volunteerism at its best, were only part of the picture, just as the campuses, faculties and students of a college are only part of the whole picture of Anthroposophia. 
(Please, do not imagine that I am marginalizing, dehumanizing or discrediting what Emerson College has held for Anthroposophy for 50 years.  I cannot discredit, either, youthful vigour, a whole nation, nor the new, spontaneous and unexpected Anthroposophical initiatives which are sprouting faster than Manna bread, worldwide. ) 
What the Olympic committees and broadcasters could not identify, but which emerged and brought on an authentic and spontaneous renewal of a country, embraced fully by a huge number of its young people, came out of the esoteric strength of a people in a region of Canada known for its longtime commitment to conscious, esoteric, meditative and environmental soulwork.  Vancouver and the outlying communities are steeped in the values of esoteric life, and this brought true soul to an Olympics games which could have derailed on the heels of materialist ambition from the start. 
So why do I bring this to the discussion about fears around the closure of Emerson College? 
I would just like to remind us all not to believe that what is in the exoteric and material restructuring of Anthroposophy and the world is necessarily a sign of darkness overcoming humanity.  Remember that esoteric means from the inner, a place which does not remain imbedded in external structures but which moves in its rightful time in the flow of energy from one manifestation to another. 
With gratitude from a student of many great teachers from Emerson College.
Sincerely, Yiana Belcher