Benjamin Cherry

Ben Cherry was born and brought up in the UK, with a master’s degree in law from Cambridge University and a Diploma of Education from NSW Australia, Ben Cherry has lived, worked and travelled through five continents and has given courses in schools on all of them. His search for peace and for answers to the huge social, cultural and environmental issues he encountered as a young man, especially through his experience as a teacher and journalist in Vietnam during the war, led him more than five decades ago through many spiritual streams to the work of Rudolf Steiner.

For twenty-five years he worked as a class teacher and upper school teacher at a Waldorf school in Australia, of which he was a co-founder, and he was privileged to be one of the founders of this education in Mainland China, supporting its growth until the onset of the lockdowns in 2020. For the past two decades he has additionally been mentoring and giving courses in schools throughout the broader Asia Pacific region.

Benjamin is the co-author of the book Of Pandas and Wandering Geese, which is based on the long journey he and his small family made through Mainland China and the Tibetan Plateau in 1994, which laid the ground not only for his subsequent work there but also for this book. In all his journeying, both outwardly and within, his deepest quest has been for Truth. During the past years he has been writing regularly for various journals and magazines about what is happening in the world today and how we might be able to transform it. He now lives in Taiwan.

His book, In Search of the Heart’s Sense of Truth – A Life Journey, is the fruit of a lifetime. It is a depiction of ways forward through the mighty trials that are racing towards us, so long as we have the courage and mental clarity to recognize what we are, in fullness, as human beings.