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We meet via zoom every weekday for 15 minutes to support each other in our practice of the 6 Basic Exercises as described by Rudolf Steiner. Everyone is invited to join us, as you are able.

Weekdays from 12pm to 12:15 ET via Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/266986103?pwd=bXU4a0EvMmJkMDZTR0Rqcm0xZ0pUZz09

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Basic Information page for this year (Sept 22, 2025- March 27, 2026)

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Basic Information page for this year (Sept 22, 2025- March 27, 2026)

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This is the link to sign up to be a leader for a day- it is called Sign-Up Genius 

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This is the link to sign up to be a leader for a day- it is called Sign-Up Genius 

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https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508054DAFA72AAA8-57674192-6bepractice

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Orientation Video Part 1 made in 2023: If you are new to the group, here is a little backstory and some explanation of what we do (made from previous participants last year - the dates in the video are NOT correct for the new year. We start anew on Sept 30 2024)

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Orientation Video Part 1 made in 2023: If you are new to the group, here is a little backstory and some explanation of what we do (made from previous participants last year - the dates in the video are NOT correct for the new year. We start anew on Sept 30 2024)

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Orientation Video Part 2: Four Friends talking about the group  (made from previous participants last year - the dates in the video are NOT correct for the new year. We start anew on Sept 30 2024)

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Orientation Video Part 2: Four Friends talking about the group  (made from previous participants last year - the dates in the video are NOT correct for the new year. We start anew on Sept 30 2024)

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This is the link to a digital map where you can post your location and/or see where others in this group are located. Add you location if you want to share!

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This is the link to a digital map where you can post your location and/or see where others in this group are located. Add you location if you want to share!

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https://padlet.com/angelaARC/all-around-our-earth-we-6be-practitioners-6opw244phx2h4qdy

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This is a short video showing how to add a post to this Padlet

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Day 1 is Monday September 22 2025. We will run a little longer than 15 minutes this day because of a longer introduction

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Day 1 is Monday September 22 2025. We will run a little longer than 15 minutes this day because of a longer introduction

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This is a link to the Padlet (resource page) from the group that met 2023-2024 ~ to give an idea of what came before!

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This is a link to the Padlet (resource page) from the group that met 2023-2024 ~ to give an idea of what came before!

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https://padlet.com/angelaARC/6be-practice-group-2023-2024-btr9xgm9n1n651hh.

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Brian Gray gives an excellent intro to the 6BE in this 12 min video

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Brian Gray gives an excellent intro to the 6BE in this 12 min video

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https://vimeo.com/308654968

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available here: https://steinerbooks.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781855842373/Six-Steps-in-Self-Development

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The so-called supplementary exercises—intended for practice along with the “review exercises” and meditation—are integral to the path of inner development presented by Rudolf Steiner. Together, they form a means of experiencing the spiritual realm in full consciousness. Meditation enlivens thinking; the review exercise

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https://rsarchive.org/Practice/6BasicExercises.html

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Practice — Six Basic Exercises — Rudolf Steiner Archive

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Rudolf Steiner Archive: An electronic Library and Archive site for the over 6000 collected works of the Austrian philosopher and founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner

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I cannot access the Brian Gray vimeo. says it is private. I tried my mac and my ipad neither would let me in.

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There is a knighthood of the 21st century

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from Rudolf Steiner in 1906, Copied from "Six Steps in Self-Development"

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from Rudolf Steiner in 1906, Copied from "Six Steps in Self-Development"

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by Thomas Stökli

Image: Michael as weigher of souls. Early Gothic fresco in the choir of St. Michael’s Basilica in Altenstadt near Schongau, Germany. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0

https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/compassion-as-a-creative-force/

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And now I know why summer's place / Between them spring and autumn lies, / Amidst them joy and yearning, / And reason for yer shining sword raised high / Above gray clouds / Oh, Michael the Dragon Surpasser

ending of Michaelmas, a poem by Vladimir Nazor

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Becoming a Researcher in the Realm of the Spirit 2

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from October 10th

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the star that Matt referred to on day 18

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the star that Matt referred to on day 18

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From Angela: Day 19 I read from this article about research and primary sources: 

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From Angela: Day 19 I read from this article about research and primary sources: 

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https://pietistschoolman.com/2015/02/26/paper-clips-as-relics-or-historical-research-as-an-encounter-with-the-sacred/

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Paper Clips as Relics, or Historical Research as an Encounter with the Sacred

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One of my favorite aspects of producing our department’s weekly webisodes is that it has afforded our faculty the chance to film conversations about our discipline. All have been interesting,…

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Day 21, we begin to focus on the 2nd exercise: control of our will

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Day 21, we begin to focus on the 2nd exercise: control of our will

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article by Dr Katz about the Foundation Stone Meditation:

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article by Dr Katz about the Foundation Stone Meditation:

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https://southerncrossreview.org/147/katz-foundation-stone.html

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The General Anthroposophical Society was founded at the famous
Christmas Conference, which took place in Dornach, Switzerland, from
December 24, 1923, to January 1, 1924, with approximately 800 members
attending. Here Rudolf Steiner spoke the Foundation Stone and exhorted
his listeners to take these verses into their hearts. The Foundation
Stone consists of three similarly structured panels of twenty-two lines
each and a different fourth panel of twenty-five lines. The verses were
not given all at once, but in parts, spread over different days. In
addition, on each of seven days Rudolf Steiner wrote on a blackboard
certain sets of selected lines, which he referred to as “rhythms.” He
indicated that meditation on these “rhythms” is essential for
penetrating to the inner substance of the Foundation Stone.

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day 24, Angela shared from More Radiant than the Sun by Gertrude Hughes

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day 24, Angela shared from More Radiant than the Sun by Gertrude Hughes

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Ask your Angel for help the night before! This is where I read the closing from on day 24:

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Ask your Angel for help the night before! This is where I read the closing from on day 24:

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https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/ProbTime/19190913d01.html

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Lecture II—GA 193. The Problems of Our Time (1935) - Rudolf Steiner Archive

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From Karl Koenig's Inner Path

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From the June-Aug 2025 magazine called Perspectives (Christian Community magazine)

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End daylight savings/ Time Note: the US changed the time back an hour on nov 2. So if you are outside of the United States, you might try finding us an hour later than before.

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End daylight savings/ Time Note: the US changed the time back an hour on nov 2. So if you are outside of the United States, you might try finding us an hour later than before.

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https://www.michaellipson.org

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Six Practices - booklet, in Pre-publication. 

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johnrollinson.substack.com

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…as long as we remain in the world of the physical senses, life itself may be said to be our master…

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In this way, we rise above that deplorable state of mind which finds expression in words such as “I would like to do this, I wish I could do that” – when all the time there is no real expectation of fulfillment.

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A Sleep of the Prisoners poem from last day of Will

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A Sleep of the Prisoners poem from last day of Will

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A SLEEP OF PRISONERS

Dark and cold we may be, but this

Is no winter now. The frozen misery

Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;

The thunder is the thunder of the floes,

The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.

Thank God our time is now when wrong

Comes up to face us everywhere,

Never to leave us till we take

The longest stride of soul we ever took.

Affairs are now soul size.

The enterprise

Is exploration into God.

Where are you making for? It takes

So many thousand years to wake,

But will you wake for pity’s sake!

-Christopher Fry

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FOR THE MICHAELIC AGE We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes toward us out of the future…We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations of the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes to us is given by a world directive, full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence—trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. Let us discipline our will. And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening.

In the morning: O Michael, I seek your protection and commit myself to follow you with all the strength of my heart; that my day may become a reflection of your destiny-shaping spirit.

In the evening: O Michael, I bear my grief into the setting sun, lay all my cares into her shining womb: cleansed in the light, clothed in love they return to me as helping thoughts, as strength for deeds of loving sacrifice.

Rudolf Steiner

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The House of Peace prayer for children who have died in war

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The House of Peace prayer for children who have died in war

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House of Peace prayer for children who have dies in wars

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Red Window, Verse from Wilhelm Rath as red on 21 Nov

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Red Window, Verse from Wilhelm Rath as red on 21 Nov

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Use the right arrow to see the second page... New option to load multiple photo images in the Padlet!

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Gingko in Downtown New York

They live a thousand years.

This, alone, is enough to

invite admiration. Robust.

Unfussy. They survive drought,

disease, pollution, pests.

They thrive in the midst of sirens

and car fumes, gridlocks and

garbage cans, concrete and horns.

And all across the city today,

a golden fluttering, a radiant trembling

on even the darkest streets. As if

to endure is not enough. As if we are

also here to burn bright, to shine, to offer

to the world every scrap of beauty we can.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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Pronoun contexts edited.

Deep Soul food for Equanimity

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Source for the Transparent Pictures of the Goetheanum Windows

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Source for the Transparent Pictures of the Goetheanum Windows

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Dr. Rudolf Steiner Bookstore and Children's Shop

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The Goetheanum Windows: Stained Glass Windows of the Goetheanum

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The Goetheanum Windows are 9 transparencies of the stained glass windows of the 2nd Goetheanum

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Link to Advent Trials (source:KHW) via Anthroposophy Social

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Link to Advent Trials (source:KHW) via Anthroposophy Social

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Advent, A Path of Preparation, Purification, and Inner Strenthening

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This is the 4th week of Equanimity. We take a break after this and resume on Jan 5th, 2026

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This is the 4th week of Equanimity. We take a break after this and resume on Jan 5th, 2026

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“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. 
In that space is our power to choose our response. 
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

                                                           --Victor Frankl
                                          Survivor of Nazi concentration camps
                                                                  Author of Man’s Search for Meaning

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“In the difficult times of life —
the darkling times;
the days of uncertainty, sadness, heartache and loss —
often we just want to turn on the light.

We want an easy answer.
The immediate healing.
The miraculous breakthrough.

It rarely comes.

Perhaps we would be better off sitting in the darkness.
Perhaps we would be better off letting our eyes adjust.

Who knows then what we might be able to see?

God of night-sight,
Help us not be drawn too quickly to artificial lights.
Give us the courage to wait with you in the dark.
Help our eyes adjust to these darkling days.

Amen.”

Gideon Heugh

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We will go on break until Jan 5. If you are looking for a daily practice during the Holy Nights, the ASA offers this free program:  https://secure.anthroposophy.org/event.jsp?event=1122& 

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We will go on break until Jan 5. If you are looking for a daily practice during the Holy Nights, the ASA offers this free program:  https://secure.anthroposophy.org/event.jsp?event=1122& 

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https://secure.anthroposophy.org/event.jsp?event=1122&

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Positivity, day 61, Jan 5 - being 4th exercise!

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Positivity, day 61, Jan 5 - being 4th exercise!

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"A feeling of blissful wisdom will overcome us that makes us feel that even if the world appears to be filled with suffering, it is, nevertheless, radiating pure wisdom. Such an attitude is one of the fruits of anthroposophy for the benefit of life. What has been said may, of course, be forgotten, but if we do not forget it, but practice such thoughts regularly, we will become aware of the fact that we have planted a seed in our soul. What we used to experience as feelings of sadness and attitudes of depression will be transformed into positive attitudes toward life, into strength and energy. Out of these sacred moments in life will be born more harmonious souls and stronger personalities." GA 130

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text and audio link to Dr King's mountaintop speech

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text and audio link to Dr King's mountaintop speech

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https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm

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[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]

I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there.

I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but "fear itself." But I wouldn't stop there.

Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."

Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.

Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."

I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.

And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity.

Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that.

Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out. That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. I've seen them so often. I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out. And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around."

Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history. He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about. And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water. If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed. If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water. That couldn't stop us.

And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs. And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday.

And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people. Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit. But I want to thank all of them. And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves. And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry.

It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here! It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what we have to do.

Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it.

We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say,

"God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."

And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread? -- Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.

But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in."

Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.

Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother.

Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.

But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible that those men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road. It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous road. In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

"Dear Dr. King,

I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School."

And she said,

"While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze."

And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.

If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.

If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.

I'm so happy that I didn't sneeze.

And they were telling me --. Now, it doesn't matter, now. It really doesn't matter what happens now. I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us. The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane. And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully. And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night."

And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

And so I'm happy, tonight.

I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

Book/CDs by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008)

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Your browser does not support the audio element. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio] I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there.

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Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude can help lift us out of depression.

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This is the SATB version. I have other versions of this: SAA, SAT, SAB, if anyone is interested.

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The words to the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti

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The words to the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti

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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

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One version of the music that goes with the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" written by Gustav Holst in 1906 to go with the poem from Christina Rossetti.

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One version of the music that goes with the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" written by Gustav Holst in 1906 to go with the poem from Christina Rossetti.

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This was one of the quieter versions of the music tied to the poem, and closest to the original music, I could find. It is instrumental only and allows then a meditative manner in which to live into the words of the poem. Many of the "sung" versions have removed some of the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36H7eUC-h0M

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In The Bleak Midwinter | Instrumental Christmas Music | Christmas Song

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The Song shared by Timothy and Julie from Ursula K. LeGuin "Only in Silence"

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The Song shared by Timothy and Julie from Ursula K. LeGuin "Only in Silence"

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The image shared about "Positivi-tea" which was created by Lori Danelle.

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The image shared about "Positivi-tea" which was created by Lori Danelle.

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Indian Prayer

I have the Courage to make my own Choices and to let you also.

A verse that helps give that courage.

"When you are in Doubt, be Still, and Wait

When Doubt no longer exists for you, then go

Forward with Courage.

So long as Mists envelop you, be still; be Still until

The Sunlight pours through and Dispels the Mists-as It surely Will.

Then Act with Courage."

🎉❤️🕊️✨🕯️And be the best Christ centered friend that I can be to my Self and other Selves. 😊

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Focusing on open mindedness 2/4/26 Verlyn

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Blue window, north side and the poem of the left one in the triptych as shared on 6 Feb 2026

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Blue window, north side and the poem of the left one in the triptych as shared on 6 Feb 2026

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Hold to what your are FOR

in every person and situation,

in every moment,

NOT what you are AGAINST.

The minute you begin to be against something

in critical thought or feeling,

you cut yourself off from it.

So don't waste energy cutting yourself off.

Seek to connect through love.

- from "Friend of my Heart" Meeting Christ in Everyday Life by Claire Blatchford

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Day 87, Feb 10. Here is a link to watch the video where Laura Summer introduces a good drawing exercise for OpenMindedness

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Day 87, Feb 10. Here is a link to watch the video where Laura Summer introduces a good drawing exercise for OpenMindedness

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https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/2p6UDxdd-gZvGei36XM29rtUrXqdOAxgaA_xp245Sj7Tmo4wIuqAgDJl6I1nYuJvMgfgSeRvQybj4A8_.WzhJMsngQScoDhHj?eagerLoadZvaPages=sidemenu.billing.plan_management&accessLevel=meeting&canPlayFromShare=true&from=my_recording&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FTKVJ6-g2197TXGP6t05KoNqmUpXZSs3gQRmKI5i3nZlKwcT6z_6W1Ba2lYPVmWna.RWe84J8LLxcly3F_

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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Let us say there are a number of people, ten individuals (a sketch was made), I am one of them, the other nine are there. I now say to myself, I think about certain matters in one way, the second person in another way, the third again differently, and so on, all varying in some degree. All are right, none are right. If we sense the approximate arithmetical middle of all this, if in this context we feel able to take up everything with the same love, irrespective of whether we say it, or others say it, learning to feel ourselves within the totality, then we join in hastening toward the purpose that exists for the human beings of the future. We must strive for this “hastening.” We must strive for it simply in order to gain a feeling for true social life. We must learn to feel ourselves standing within what is comprised by the genius of language, by what is comprised by the life of rights, by the rights-genius. We must learn to stand within what is encompassed by the mutually shared economic genius. Only this living feeling of being within a totality that has to be consciously acquired in the age of the consciousness-soul—only this propels the human being toward humanity's future destination. However, we cannot attain this approach to the human being's future destination in any other way than by extending our interests ever further, in other words, in learning to overcome ourselves more and more. Yes, my dear friends, in taking counsel with oneself quite honestly, one will after all find in the end, that actually what is of least interest in the whole world is what one is able to think and feel about oneself within the narrow confines of the “I.” Indeed, in our age many people occupy their thoughts and feelings to a great extent within the most immediate boundaries of their “I.” Hence their life is so boring and hence they are so dissatisfied with life. We never become interesting in always only circling around this midpoint. In contrast to this, if we look out, always focusing on how the external world shines toward us, if we expand our interests ever farther, then our “I” becomes interesting by virtue of giving us a standpoint for observing the world. Then our “I” becomes significant through the fact that, just from this point of the “I,” only we are capable of seeing the world, as no other person can. Another person sees it from a different standpoint.

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GA 190. Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible—Rudolf Steiner Archive

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The Rudolf Steiner Archive is the leading online library of the collected works of Rudolf Steiner.

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Hold to what you are FOR

in every person and situation,

in every moment,

Not what you are AGAINST.

The minute you begin to be against something

in thought or feeling

you cut yourself off from it.

So don't waste energy cutting yourself off.

Seek to connect through love.

~ Claire Blatchford, from "Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life"

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Here are the two verses I talked about yesterday. Good in all circumstances!

Christina

Against Fear --by Adam Bittleston

May the events that seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With a quiet mind

Through the Father’s ground of peace

On which we walk.

May the people who seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With an understanding heart

Through the Christ’s stream of love

In which we live.

May the spirits which seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With a clear soul

Through the healing Spirit’s Light

By which we see.

The sphere of the Spirit is the soul's true home,
And human beings will surely reach it
By walking in the path of honest thought;
By choosing as their  guide the fount of love
Implanted in their heart;
By opening the eye of their soul
To Nature's script
Spread out before them through all the Universe,
Telling the story of the Spirit
In all that lives and thrives,
And in the silent spaciousness of lifeless things,
And in the stream of Time — the process of becoming.

— Rudolf Steiner
[in Verses and Meditations]

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To commemorate Dr. Ita Wegman’s 150 th Birthday here is an online 2 hour zoom presentation titled Western Medicine and Anthroposophic Medicine perspectives on Migraine offered by Vinay on Saturday, February 21 @ 7:30 pm CST.

Link to the Zoom Meeting:-

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7612715145?pwd=Tj82twQTIu5ovHQRKnlq1tJbRKlB9S.1&omn=82273908090
Meeting ID: 761 271 5145
Passcode: Wegman

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Verse from Dr. Steiner shared on 27 Feb 

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Verse from Dr. Steiner shared on 27 Feb 

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If you want to do a 6 week class in beginning in April

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If you want to do a 6 week class in beginning in April

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(written for Tilla, from London, Dec 20, 1947

In the quietness of the heart,

In the peace of the world,

In the purity of the senses,

In the humility of life,

There, an inwardness can arise.

And this inwardness

Becomes the cloak of Mary.

From the cloak of the Virgin

Stars of love can shine.

And the shining love of the stars

Awakens our heart.

And deep within our heart

Awakens all-prevailing love.

Thus love flows into the world

From our quiet heart-space.

And we bring peace

And the peace cleanses our senses.

And the purified senses shine

Into the world, and humility

Illumines our will.

Through this Mary arises

Once more in her blue cloak.

She holds the child in her arms,

And the soul sings the unending song

Of the ever returning rebirth of the rose.

(From the book "Stories, Poems and Meditations" by Karl Koenig.)

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2 photos to capture all that was read, as it was on two pages in the book.

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Jacob Collier Explains Music in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Herbie Hancock | WIRED

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Quiet I bear within me,

I bear within myself

Forces to make me strong.

Now will I be imbued with their glowing warmth.

Now will I fill myself

With my own will’s resolve.

And I will feel the quiet

Pouring through all my being

When by my steadfast striving

I become strong

To find within myself the source of strength

The strength of inner quiet.

(Rudolf Steiner)

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Schema on the Health Verse from 13 March

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Schema on the Health Verse from 13 March

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Contemplative and Aesthetic Pedagogy in the Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
"We desperately need to extend the sciences to include disciplined contemplative inquiry... the sciences of economics, government, environment, business, and medicine, as well as the arts, can all be extended fruitfully to include the spiritual. This requires us to embrace the fuller and therefore more adequate conception of the world available through contemplative inquiry and knowing."

- Arthur Zajonc, Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry

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Contemplative and Aesthetic Pedagogy in the Sciences, Humanities, and Arts "We desperately need to extend the sciences to include disciplined contemplative inquiry... the sciences of economics, government, environment, business, and medicine, as well as the arts, can all be extended fruitfully to include the spiritual.