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You are viewing the OLDer padlet of our 6BE group. This padlet is for resources for our 2nd iteration which ran from Oct 2020 to May of 2021. 

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You are viewing the OLDer padlet of our 6BE group. This padlet is for resources for our 2nd iteration which ran from Oct 2020 to May of 2021. 

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Here is the link to the current padlet (Dec 21):
https://padlet.com/angelaARC/q0ts0vqbiu4q2g0i

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As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.

Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.

To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions…For the god
wants to know himself in you.

--Rainer Maria Rilke

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A favorite author/artist usually known for unabashed use of color, sent this in a book I ordered for my birthday one year.  Thank you for letting me share it with you!
Brian Andreas https://www.storypeople.com/collections/classic-prints

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"Far better is it to perform one's own duty, even poorly, than to perform another's to perfection . Better to die performing one's own duty; another's is fraught with distress".

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Eightfold Path / Days of the Week Template

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Eightfold Path / Days of the Week Template

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These are curated from the google universe; the creators are unknown to me

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1 Nov. 2021 All Saints Day Week 4 in Thinking

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1 Nov. 2021 All Saints Day Week 4 in Thinking

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The Dead are with us https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19180210p01.html

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~Albert Einstein

"I prayed for change, so I changed my mind. I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself. I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my body. I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally. I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out. I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health. I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle. I prayed for a soul mate and realized I am the One.  I prayed for love and realized it’s always knocking, but I have to allow it in."
~Rumi

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World of the Senses World of the Spirit lecture series by Rudolf Steiner CW 134 page 3
"As we look up to the wonders of the starry heavens and watch the circulation of the universe in all its glory, then surely we have a sense of how all these marvels surrounding us in creation only grow meaningful when they are mirrored in the astounded soul of a human being."

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given by Rudolf Steiner 9/28/1924

Sprung from solar powers
shining, world-blessing powers of spirit:
divine thinking has predestined you
to be Michael's coat of rays.

He, the messenger of Christ, reveals in you,
who bear humanity, the holy will of worlds;
you, bright beings of the ether worlds,
bear Christ's word to humankind.

Thus the herald of Christ appears
to waiting, thirsting souls;
to them your word of light streams forth
in the world age of the spiritual body.

You, students and knows of the spirit,
take Michael's wise sign,
practice taking into your soul's high purpose
the word of love of the will of worlds.

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Join our How to Know Higher Worlds reading group!

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Join our How to Know Higher Worlds reading group!

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Starts on Monday, August 23 - just 15 minutes a day!

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Excerpts from our After Party for the 8FP Folded within the 6BE Noon Meditation Cycle: These scanty notes are my note taking work as a listening exercise during the meeting. Everything given was with heart filled gratitude, despite the way these notes may represent each word and meaning given at the time. If I misrepresented anyone, it’s my mistake and I must apologize. I tried to give a tiny bit of context but not my own commentary. Please feel free to correct or expand on what has come up for you in direct relation to what you said, felt or what you have gathered from your listening and sleeping on the content above or below. This is an experiment, work in preparation for all future work. What I experience as deep listening, I noticed, can be too self-reflective, this is part of what I learned here. Listening is the original Gift that Receives. It is the courage to love. Thank you for this knowledge and experience. Matt   (please open the PDF)

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Excerpts from our After Party for the 8FP Folded within the 6BE Noon Meditation Cycle: These scanty notes are my note taking work as a listening exercise during the meeting. Everything given was with heart filled gratitude, despite the way these notes may represent each word and meaning given at the time. If I misrepresented anyone, it’s my mistake and I must apologize. I tried to give a tiny bit of context but not my own commentary. Please feel free to correct or expand on what has come up for you in direct relation to what you said, felt or what you have gathered from your listening and sleeping on the content above or below. This is an experiment, work in preparation for all future work. What I experience as deep listening, I noticed, can be too self-reflective, this is part of what I learned here. Listening is the original Gift that Receives. It is the courage to love. Thank you for this knowledge and experience. Matt   (please open the PDF)

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2021.07.24 Last Session of 8FP and 6BE Group Meditation Sessions

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We did it! What an amazing summer practice!

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We did it! What an amazing summer practice!

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It is because we do our individual work with the specific content of Spiritual Science, with reverence for The Highest, striving to find and be in touch with our inmost being, to bring forth devotion to harmony for all beings and souls, that we can come together and provide real mutual support and help to each other. Each of us bringing some work, even something small to contribute, some gem we have found, will strengthen the periphery of our community and the connections of each individual person. Thru these efforts, via our given means and with divine grace, I can share with others the common experience of metamorphosis, in this journey of soul, and small “I” illumination guiding me toward the source of all light and communication. This light comes from the source, our teachers have shared it, we can carry it, in communion, to strengthen our resolve to connectedness, to one day, perhaps, face opposition and not falter. And, for now, live fully, with joy, thru pain, into silence and thru darkness, back to the start, and begin again, with warmth of heart and ever-upward  striving. This is my gratitude, my struggle of love, my wish for comrades and cohort.

…and now, back into The Forest Adventurous!

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Thursday Thoughts week 6 6+8 exercises on the path without audio

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Thursday Thoughts week 6 6+8 exercises on the path without audio

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If you are new to the idea of spiritual research, here is something to read that might be interesting to you. It has helped me to open to research in daily life

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If you are new to the idea of spiritual research, here is something to read that might be interesting to you. It has helped me to open to research in daily life

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I have shared it before, but it never gets old :)

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Becoming a Researcher in the Realm of the Spirit

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We will resume a 15-minute 6BE exercise group in Oct 2021...before that, we can work with this foundational book:

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We will resume a 15-minute 6BE exercise group in Oct 2021...before that, we can work with this foundational book:

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Beginning in August, you are invited to try a 15min a day reading group. Let's experiment and see how this form can evolve!

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RESURRECTING YOUR ART PRACTICE AFTER COVID 

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RESURRECTING YOUR ART PRACTICE AFTER COVID 

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Art and Healing how do we re-create our art practice after a year of Covid? What mindfulness practices can support our creative life? How to start a nurturing contemplative arts practice for somatic and spiritual health.  Working with the dead.

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Podcasts discuss cross-cultural sacred traditions, how to create sacred art. Women's personal empowerment, self-help and creative arts.

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Six Basic Exercises in motion - Joan Jaeckel July 17 2021

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6BE in motion over time - Joan Jaeckel July 17 2021

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Attached is a PDF of Jolie's images that she shared. Thank you for e-mailing them to me, Jolie. They are beautiful and also very helpful. Jolie's e-mail johaluba@yahoo.com

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7-19-21 6BE and 8 fold path images from Jolie

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July 26 2021 event hosted by Dottie & Frank & Friends

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July 26 2021 event hosted by Dottie & Frank & Friends

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With Peter and Julie Morris

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Jolie's closing today, July 19

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Last week for this summer practice series!

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Last week for this summer practice series!

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Friday, July 23 is our last regular day in this 6 week series. Saturday July 24 everyone is invited back to the zoom space to share reflections. It is also a chance to get someone's contact info if you want to connect with individuals you have enjoyed working with on the calls.
Info about future practice groups is coming soon- hopefully this week!

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Hazel Right Memory and Sally Open-Mindedness

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Hazel Right Memory and Sally Open-Mindedness

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Nature, Memory and Love, Lecture 11, MEMORY, TEMPERAMENTS, BODILY CULTURE AND ART, given on 16th August, 1923, for the teachers in Stuttgart, GA 218

“There are three golden rules for the development of memory: Concepts from nature-study, history, and the like, Arithmetic too may be used to load the memory; Concrete artistic activity builds it up; activities of will strengthen it.”

“Suppose it is difficult for a child to remember ideas. We shall achieve much by giving the child physical exercises in which her own body, is made to act in accordance with an activity in her soul. We may tell her for instance, to touch the lobe of her left ear with the third finger of the right hand and have her quickly repeat the exercise. Then we may tell her to touch the top of his head with the little finger of the left hand. Then we may alternate the first and second exercises quickly, one after the other. The organism is brought into movement in such a way that the child's thoughts must flow swiftly into the movements she makes. Thus by stimulating the nervous system we make it into a good foundation for the faculty which the child must exercise when it is a question of connecting or separating ideas.”

Eugene Kolisko: “When the imagination of the future is as strong as the memory of the past, at that moment we are free”

Inner Quiet

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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Are We Refusing Helping Other cuz it's Their Karma? 

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Are We Refusing Helping Other cuz it's Their Karma? 

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https://www.kristenawest.com/post/are-we-refusing-helping-others-cuz-it-s-their-karma

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Fairy Worlds & Workers:  A natural history of Fairyland by Marjorie Spock, 1980
The Supplementary Exercises - A New Dimension, Recognizing our Bodily Sheaths by Karl-Martin Dietz in "News from the Goetheanum" Jan 1999

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Reflection - please add, contribute, edit... 

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Reflection - please add, contribute, edit... 

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The 8fold path begins on Saturn Day -  perhaps recapitulating Old Saturn, when "we got" the first physical body (LOGOS)
Then we move into Old Sun Day (LIFE) , Old Moon Day (LIGHT), and on Mars Day we get our "I" to shine into the darkness?
Here we are on a Wednesday - hump day as human consciousness evolution.
Wednesday is the first day of the daily rhythm for the Foundation Stone Meditation, clearly a goal for the future.
May Human beings hear it!
♥

Just for Fun, Tori Amos, Wednesday: https://youtu.be/WRGOMyJeQrw

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Daily rhythms of the Foundation Stone Meditation

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Daily rhythms of the Foundation Stone Meditation

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From the leaflet about the Foundation Stone Meditation

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The Gospel of St John - Lecture II: ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

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The Gospel of St John - Lecture II: ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

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https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080519p01.html

Start from the end where it quotes the Bible verse and skipping the quote count backwards 5 paragraphs.

"Let us now observe the progress of evolution as a whole. Upon Saturn, we have the physical body as the expression of the Logos; upon the Sun, the ether body is added as an expression of the Life-Spirit. The Logos becomes Life. Upon the Moon, the light-body is added: Life becomes Light! Here we have the story of the evolution of the human body. When the human being began life upon the Earth, he was a creation of the divine-spiritual powers. At that time he existed because within his physical, ether, and astral bodies the Logos was living, the Logos which was Life and which became Light. What now occurred upon the Earth? In the human being and for the human being the ego now entered, and because of this, he was now able not only to live in Light and in Life, but also became capable of observing everything externally, capable of confronting the Logos, Life, and Light. Therefore everything became material to him and he acquired a physical material existence."

(Then I skipped a paragraph and read this:)

"In the beginning was the Logos which was the archetype of the physical human body, the foundation of all things. All animals, plants and minerals appeared later, for the human creature alone was present upon Saturn. In the Sun Period, the animal kingdom was added, in the Moon Period, the plant kingdom and upon the Earth the mineral kingdom appeared. Upon the Sun, the Logos became Life and upon the Moon, it became Light; then when the human creature became endowed with an ego, the Logos as Light confronted him. But he had to learn to know the nature of the Logos and learn in what form It eventually would make its appearance. First there was the Logos which became Life, then Light, and this Light lives in the astral body. Into the human inner being, into the darkness, into the ignorance, the Light shone. And the meaning of life upon Earth is this: — That men should overcome this darkness of the soul, in order that they may recognize the Light of the Logos."

(skipped again and read the Bible quote)
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was a God (or divine). This was in the beginning with God. Through the same all things were made and save through this Word, nothing was made. In It was Life, and Life became the Light of men. And the Light shone into the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not."

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Christine Burke, a trained speech artist, has offered to take us through a 10-15 minute speech exercise session on Monday after the meditation space.

The Anthropsophical Speech Arts training is a ‘bardic’ training in the arts of epic, lyric and dramatic speaking that trains the instrument of the voice - the whole body - the gestalt - to become an instrument for the creative forces of the Word to sound through.  It can also be a foundation for a further training in the Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech Arts.

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Friday positivity and right memory with Hazel and Sally

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Friday positivity and right memory with Hazel and Sally

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Heart Thinking-the Heart has thoughts © Kristena West 

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Heart Thinking-the Heart has thoughts © Kristena West 

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and the thoughts on the free heart is a deepening that is so profound. Steiner tells us that we will experience our karma arising in our "etheric dreams' first - premonitions---and then this becomes day waking consciousness and our HEART will SPEAK. This is one of the Christ mysteries of the etheric/blood in the heart. HTKHW

As we get used to seeing the "future" come to us in dreams, and over time this Wakes up in day-waking consciousness, then the same thing that happened in our etheric seeing in the dreamtime will happen in day waking consciousness, wakes UP IN THE HEART- we will HEAR our Heart talking to us. If we pay attention, we will be able to follow our OWN THINKING and HEAR our HEART-SPEAKING at the same time! So we learn to silence our head thinking and listen to our Heart , we begin to understand that our HEART is telling us What to Say in a situation that HAS NOT ARISEN YET!

And then we will find ourselves in a situation and REALIZE our HEART has already prepared the WAY through the situation, the HEART-CHRISTED WAY. This is called "faith" in the gospels.

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#stjohn 2018 post

"This inner power which should proceed from the Event of Palestine is called “Faith.” It is no ordinary force, but an inner clairvoyant power. " (RSteiner)

This new consciousness was pre-figured during the times of the mystery of Golgotha. In the lecture of Matthew Gospel, Steiner goes on to clarify,

“But the disciples themselves lived in two states of consciousness that can be compared with waking life and sleep. “If this element were to become clairvoyant, it would perceive the immediate future. Events of the near future are among the first perceptions of any clairvoyance that is pure, authentic and honest.

This was especially true of the disciples. “ (RS Matthew Gospel)

Dream Book© Kristena West excerpt from my book in process

and FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION

Soul of man!

You live in the heart-lung-beat

That guides you through the rhythm of times

To the sensing of your own soul's being:

Practice spirit contemplation

In equanimity of soul,

Where the surging

Cosmic creative deeds

Unite

Your own I

To the cosmic I

** This is the "ether" vision or precognitions of Witnessing Seeing our  Karma Arising - so we get to choose right action right speech positivity etc.

Kristena West I am one of the admins on Facebook in Anthroposophy & Art and this is from a conversation about heart thinking ... also the st. johns group I hosted for a few years QUESTION  Are You seeing the future in your dreams?

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How do you stand? Right Standpoint for Wednesday

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How do you stand? Right Standpoint for Wednesday

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PARIS – French tightrope artist Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga impressed hundreds of Parisians on Saturday with a performance that featured a walk on a rope suspended 115 feet above the ground in the city’s hilly northern district of Montmartre. https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/tightrope-walker-stuns-paris-with-sky-high-performance/

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On Right Deed Tuesday/Mars Day, I invited us to look at the matter of the "right deed" through the frame of "morality". I read from the chapter "Man's Free Activity" in Ernst Katz's book CORE ANTHROPOSOPHY: TEACHING ESSAYS OF ERNST KATZ. He begins (page 45), saying "The most important contribution that Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom makes to our present culture lies in its treatment of the problem of morality ... Central ... is the concept of a free activity. Just as a circle is an ideal concept that, strictly speaking, is realized nowhere in the perceptible world, so no human activities are fully free. But in both instances the ideal can be approximated to a very high degree...Steiner looks at [human] activities in the context of the universe. In this context a free actiity must sarisly severao crteria. In the firsr place it has to 'fit' into the universe without causing a conflict that would hinder the development of other beings. In the second place it has to be fully known and understood by the acting person...In the third place, an activity is free only if the acting person loves to perform this activity for the sake of the activity itself. These are three main criteria."

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On Right Deed Tuesday/Mars Day, I invited us to look at the matter of the "right deed" through the frame of "morality". I read from the chapter "Man's Free Activity" in Ernst Katz's book CORE ANTHROPOSOPHY: TEACHING ESSAYS OF ERNST KATZ. He begins (page 45), saying "The most important contribution that Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom makes to our present culture lies in its treatment of the problem of morality ... Central ... is the concept of a free activity. Just as a circle is an ideal concept that, strictly speaking, is realized nowhere in the perceptible world, so no human activities are fully free. But in both instances the ideal can be approximated to a very high degree...Steiner looks at [human] activities in the context of the universe. In this context a free actiity must sarisly severao crteria. In the firsr place it has to 'fit' into the universe without causing a conflict that would hinder the development of other beings. In the second place it has to be fully known and understood by the acting person...In the third place, an activity is free only if the acting person loves to perform this activity for the sake of the activity itself. These are three main criteria."

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core anthroposophy: teaching essays of ernst katz

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Core Anthroposophy: Teaching Essays of Ernst Katz

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Core Anthroposophy: Teaching Essays of Ernst Katz [Katz, Ernst, Melcer, Donald] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Core Anthroposophy: Teaching Essays of Ernst Katz

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From Moon-day to Mars: This Planetary Meditation (RS) expresses the Time-Being of the Hierarchies. The forth of Seven Moods. …from book Start Now! , edited by C.Bamford.

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Turning, Round, The Other side.

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Good Morning all! This is a link to the book w/script for play that i will be sharing this morning.

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Good Morning all! This is a link to the book w/script for play that i will be sharing this morning.

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https://www.nancyjewelpoer.com/product-page/the-great-peacemaker-with-script-for-play
and here are the slides i will share

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Eightfold Path - Preparing to meet the Christ with Frank and Dottie

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Eightfold Path - Preparing to meet the Christ with Frank and Dottie

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Eightfold Path

Saturday Exercise -

Virtue: July 21 – August 21

Unselfishness becomes Catharsis

The Culture of Selflessness by Peter Selg

page 10:

‘As Steiner explained in detail for the first time in a major lecture in Cologne on May 18, 1912, the reappearing earthly ‘sheaths’ of the Christ Spirit will be formed entirely of the soul-spiritual attitudes and work of human souls.”

Three types of forces necessary for the Christ experience:

“As human beings stand in awe at the spiritual world’s great revelations and truths, they imbue themselves with a feeling of wonder that gradually, over the ages, develops into a force of attraction for the Christ Impulse. As the Christ Spirit is drawn in, the Christ Impulse unites with individual human souls to the extent that they are capable of standing in awe of cosmic mysteries. The Christ’s astral body in earthly evolution is derived from all the feelings of wonder that have lived in individual human souls.

The second attribute that human souls must develop to attract the Christ Impulse is the feeling of compassion. Whenever a feeling of compassion or shared joy develops in a human soul, it serves as a force of attraction for the Christ Impulse. Through compassion and love, Christ unites with human souls. Compassion and love are the forces which the Christ will shape His own etheric body until the end of the Earth phase of evolution.

A third attribute that enters the human soul as if from a higher world is the conscience we obey, placing greater value on it than on our own individual moral instincts. Christ unites most intimately with conscience, deriving His physical body from impulses of conscience in individual human souls.

When we know that Christ’s etheric body develops out of human feelings of compassion and love, the biblical statement, ‘What you have done to the least of these my brothers, you have done to me,’ becomes very real indeed, because until the end of the Earth phase of evolution, Christ will shape His etheric body out of human compassion and love.” (143, 183ff)

Second Quote – page 31/32

‘In a letter dated April 10, 1035, five months after her return from Jerusalem, Ita Wegman wrote, in response to the question of why she did not defend herself more actively during the conflicts in Dornach:

“Spiritual beings need nourishment, spiritual nourishment that only human souls can provide. This nourishment comes from a specific soul attitude of voluntary self-sacrifice. When souls can affirm and accept the severe tests that come toward them, good effects for the future can emerge.”

Third Quote – page 33/34

The Christ impulse in Karl Konig’s activities:

“For us, as students of Rudolf Steiner, the child (whatever his or her intellectual abilities may be) is more than what physical appearances reveal; more than the body, more than emotions, more than words spoken or unspoken, more even than accomplishments. The appearance is only the outer garment of an infinite and internal spiritual being. What does this mean? We are convinced of the unique existence of each human being, not only here on earth, but also as a spiritual being that exists before birth, and will continue to live after passing through the portal of death. Thus any intellectual or physical handicap is not the product of coincidence or misfortune. Its significance is specific to the individuality whose life is attempting to change.”

(the paragraph continues, but I did not read)

- “Just as other people struggle against various illnesses, so too handicapped children must learn to overcome or live with their conditions. Our job as parents and teachers is to address the child’s eternal being, so it may recognize its destiny. No matter how much the individuality may be obscured by layers of disability, paralysis, or uncontrolled emotions, we must attempt to break through to the holiest of holies in each human being: the place where the individual exists as spirit.

The conviction that each human being is the carrier of an ‘I’ that is eternal, immortal, and spiritual in origin is fundamental to our approach to the child. The child is our brother, our sister, our equal, and the equal of all other human beings. We are not dealing with ‘handicapped children’ but with children who have handicaps. Many of them are indeed, mentally retarded, crippled, epileptic, mentally ill, lazy, or otherwise abnormal. Nonetheless, the core of their existence is not only infinite but holy and divine. They are all prodigal sons searching for the way back to the house of the eternal ground of the world, to the origin of our existence. This is the first essential characteristic of Camphill.

Karl Konig – Uber das Wesen Camphills – drei Aspekte. As quoted in Muller-Wiedemann, op. cit, pp. 202ff

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Structured thinking practice from Mark Riccio

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Structured thinking practice from Mark Riccio

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Mark Riccio's new newsletter about research into living, "heart" thinking.

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Click above to download the first issue of the The O'Neil Group newsletter.

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Notes from Right Striving Becoming Habit 6/24

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Notes from Right Striving Becoming Habit 6/24

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In order to bring more aliveness to thinking that has become thoughts, rephrase as questions. Reenlivening the Word.

Which leads each sentence of the Striving Day admonitions to come alive inside you as you seek out “where have I been striving for things beyond my power?”; “What am I leaving undone that is wishing my ability”; etc.

Which lead me to the thinking of “If I make love visible to the outer world through my work, in what world, and to whom do I make Love visible to with my inner work?”

It is this striving with attention and love into a world whose substances are attention and love, that supports my right striving becoming the habits and habitat of my life.

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Work for steadiness even as the "waves of life rise and fall around us"

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FORTITUDE as equanimity. Photo from 6 Steps in Self Development, quoting RS from Stages of Higher Knowledge:

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Request for verse in Time of Illness (found in Truthwrought Words) by Rudolf Steiner 

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Request for verse in Time of Illness (found in Truthwrought Words) by Rudolf Steiner 

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In Time of Illness

O Thou, God’s Spirit, fill me full,
Fill me fully in my soul,
In my soul grant me strength,
Strength grant also to my heart,
To my heart that seeks to find thee,
Seeks to find thee through deep longing,
Though deep longing for well-being,
For well-being and strong courage,
Courage that through all my body streams,
Streams as noble gift of God,
Gift of God from Thee, O Thou, God’s Spirit,
O Thou, God’s Spirit, fill Thou me.

-Rudolf Steiner
this verse, that comes full circle and connects one line to the other seems also to be a sort of bridge

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Bridge as an image for working with Equanimity

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Bridge as an image for working with Equanimity

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Meditative verse given by Rudolf Steiner to Ita Wegman on December 21, 1920:

The human being is a bridge
between the past and the future.
The present is a moment—
moment as bridge.
Spirit grown to soul
in matter's husk
comes from the past:
soul growing to spirit
as seed encased
journeys toward the future.
Grasp future things
through past ones:
hope for evolving things
through what has evolved.
So grasp existence
in evolving growth:
so grasp what will be
in what exists.

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For the 3rd Basic Excercise, EQUANIMITY OF FEELING, I shared the list of basic feelings and the list of basic needs from the book Non-violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003)(page 210)

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For the 3rd Basic Excercise, EQUANIMITY OF FEELING, I shared the list of basic feelings and the list of basic needs from the book Non-violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003)(page 210)

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Feelings Inventory
Needs Inventory

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nonviolent communication: a language of life

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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life [Marshall B. Rosenberg, Arun Gandhi] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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Michael Lipson's Stairway of Surprise p 73
Please forgive the "photobooth" nature of these sharings; I was having a technological issue.

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From Michael Lipson's Stairway of Surprise p 72

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In Six Steps to Self Development, the quotation speaks to how we may understand the solemnity of our task without letting it make us rigid.
Lecture given in Stuttgart September 20 1906. GA 95, p 118

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In Higher Worlds, a passage that points to the fact that these exercises are anything BUT "merely supplemental", by illustrating what happens if one should wander in the higher worlds without benefit of these exercises....

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In Higher Worlds, a passage that points to the fact that these exercises are anything BUT "merely supplemental", by illustrating what happens if one should wander in the higher worlds without benefit of these exercises....

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In Higher Worlds, a passage that points to the fact that these exercises are anything BUT "merely supplemental", by illustrating what happens if one should wander in the higher worlds without benefit of these exercises....

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The Forerunner & and the Archangel of Summer, Uriel–
An Experiential online Festival
Sunday 27 June 2021 on Zoom:

Noon – 1:30 pm PT / 1 – 2:30 pm MT / 2 pm – 3:30 pm CT / 3 – 4:30 pm ET /
8 – 9:30 pm London Time / 9 – 10:30 pm CET

If we strive to understand the connection of human morality with the crystalline element in the depths of the Earth; and of human virtues living in the shining beauty above in the Sun imbued sky; and if we take these connections into our inner experience, Spiritual Science tells us that the true ‘St. John’s Imagination’ will come to meet us.

In our time together on Sunday we will behold the working together of Spirit-Father, with Earth-Mother, to beget - thru the Holy Spirit - The Son in the Center. This is The Trinity revealed in the St. John’s Imagination available to us now.

Musical Performances by Lucien Dante Lazar
Speech – Geoffrey Norris
Eurythmy- Elizabeth Carlson
Practicum – Lisa Dalton
Leading Thoughts – Hazel Archer

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Poem for the dead by Rudolf Steiner for Sally's Mother-in-Law

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Poem for the dead by Rudolf Steiner for Sally's Mother-in-Law

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May love of hearts reach out to love of souls

May warmth of love ray out to Spirit-light

Even so would we draw near to you

Thinking with you Thoughts of Spirit

Feeling in you the Love of Worlds

Consciously at one with you

Willing in silent being.

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Friday Right Memory & Will Exercise with Hazel and Sally

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Friday Right Memory & Will Exercise with Hazel and Sally

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The Riddle of Humanity August 27, 1916
Guidance in Esoteric Training page 27 Right Memory

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John is the Divine Witness: this painting was done after two years of intense study of John

Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him. I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”…

this painting represents the first time Christ opened his sun filled eyes on earth, rising up from the waters and John's Angelic incorporation Witnessing and Who is it that sacrifices the Word-
Body and goes back to dwell in the Sun?

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It's Red Mars Tuesday "RIGHT ACTION" Eight Exercises Practice 

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It's Red Mars Tuesday "RIGHT ACTION" Eight Exercises Practice 

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Laura Embrey-Stine provides us with form drawing practices for the Eight Exercises Practice. Here is Laura's description of Right Deed / Action:
"Practicing Right Deed involves more than simply trying to do the right thing in the moment, although this is certainly part of the task. It is a way of life that includes the practice of reviewing the deeds of the day each evening before falling asleep and asking our higher self, “How could that have been done better?” Answers will come in time, sometimes immediately but more often in the morning or over several days of doing the exercise."

It came to me that Tuesday is Mars Day - Mars, the red planet. And that Mars is the god of war. Right Action typically refers to right actions in our daily lives as Laura describes. But there is another kind of action that arises from our dark side and that is action in war. In his book A Terrible Love of War psychologist James Hillman writes:
“War is hell. If war is hell, General Sherman said, then war ought to be hellish; ideally, war will be hellish. Since butchery happens, it ought to happen, and a medal shall be bestowed upon the one who approximates the ideal norm by killing the most." In war, the greatest evil fuses with the greatest good. “The state of war suspends morality and renders morality an object of derision”. “Soldiers are not killers.” James Hillman, YouTube "A Terrible Love of War"

So, I leave us with a question: Is the larger purpose of these exercises to eradicate from the human soul "a terrible love of war"?

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Today, like last Friday, I had trouble with my internet connection. One reason may be that people in the apartments close to mine use electrical utensils. I was thrown off Zoom and reconnected several times during our 15 minutes, which made it quite difficult for me to concentrate on the task. The two main speakers froze at times, so I only received a few of their words.
And when I returned to the Padlet, I found a link (might have been a good one) with my name on top of it. I have deleted it, so if any of you had shared a link and cannot find it, I ask you to share it again.
I hope I didn't cause any disturbance for the group work by coming and going ...
Thank you for your work of 'feeding' us and encouraging us to keep going with the exercises.
Karen

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https://www.rsarchive.org/DoW/

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Saturn - Preparing ourselves to meet the Christ with Frank and Dottie

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Saturn - Preparing ourselves to meet the Christ with Frank and Dottie

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Saturday (Saturn) - Warmth Body - Spirits of Personality/Archai do something that brings about self consciousness

Saturday
To pay attention to one's ideas.
To think only significant thoughts. To learn little by little to separate in one's thoughts the essential from the non essential, the eternal from the transitory, truth from mere opinion.
In listening to the talk of one's fellows, to try and become quite still inwardly, foregoing all assent, and still more all unfavorable judgments (criticism and rejection), even in one's thoughts and feelings.
This may be called Right Opinion (or Right Thinking)

First Summary - (8th Petal) of 16: Guidance of Esoteric Training, page 27

"To turn one's gaze inwards from time to time, even if only for five minutes daily at the same time. In so doing, one should sink down into oneself, carefully take counsel with oneself, test and form one's principles of life, run through in thought one's knowledge - or lack of it - weigh up one's duties, think over the contents and true purposes of life, feel genuinely pained by one's own errors and imperfections. In a word: labour to discover the essential, the enduring, and earnestly aim at goals in accord with it - for instance, virtues to be acquired. (Not to fall into the mistake of thinking that one has done something well, but to strive ever further towards the highest standards.)

This exercise is called Right Examination"

Second Summary - found in How to Know Higher Worlds, page 115 -

"...when we think or say something untrue, we destroy something in the bud of the sixteen petalled lotus flower. In this regard, truthfulness, sincerity, and honesty are constructive forces, while lying, falsity, and insincerity are destructive ones."

The Etherisation of the Blood - page 24

"Schopenhauer said: To preach morality is easy, but to establish it is very difficult. Why is this? Because no morality has as yet been spread by preaching. It is quite easy to recognize precepts and yet not to keep them. For most people the Pauline maxim holds good that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. This is to be changed, because moral fire will stream from the form of Christ. Through this it will come to pass that people will recognize the necessity for morality and its impulses more and more."

Rudolf Steiner

On the Thrones and the Archai/Spirits of Personality and the arising of consciousness on Saturn.

April 13, 1909 Morning - Lecture III of The Spiritual Hierarchies and their reflection in the physical world

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I came in partway through the pre-session conversation, and there was interest in discussion about parents’ input about technology in classrooms. It reminded me of this movement, which was circulating a petition at the time. I think the petition date has passed, but the movement is still active. Here’s the link to the site (it is in German but there’s a translation button at the top). https://eliant.eu/aktuelles/petitionen-fuer-ein-recht-auf-bildschirmfreie-kitas-kindergaerten-und-grundschulen/petition-2018-fuer-ein-recht-auf-bildschirmfreie-kitas-kindergaerten-und-grundschulen/?fbclid=IwAR1ruvSSveMRrJYycZIGhk4wDYbkFN6Jf8Uw42wdlT8WHC6jO69CAdDhNU8#c15895

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Friday Sally and Hazel Thinking and Right Memory

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Friday Sally and Hazel Thinking and Right Memory

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It is not thought that is preserved somewhere or other as in a casket - A thought is always in the present moment. The act of memory comes from the impressions made on the formative forces of our etheric body. ~Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, An Introduction Lecture 6, GA 234, RESPIRATION, WARMTH AND THE EGO, 3rd February 1924

Raising the Soul

Practical Exercises for Personal Development

by Warren Lee Cohen

Pages 38-41

I thought a thought,

But the thought I thought I thought was not the thought I

thought I thought I thought,

If the thought I thought I thought, had been the thought I

thought, I thought,

I would not have been thinking so much.

-Tongue twister

Raising the Soul pg 33

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Summer Practice Day 4: Thinking | Right Action 

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Summer Practice Day 4: Thinking | Right Action 

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On TUESDAY, Mars Day, the Eightfold Path asks us to practice RIGHT ACTION, or as my friend Kenya Strong calls it, UPRIGHT ACTION.

Reading from JOOP VAN DAM "The Eightfold Path"

QUESTION: Why does UPRIGHT ACTION matter?

“We’re called to self-knowledge both as a personal and as a social duty.” - Fredrick Amrine, “Social Justice in the Light of Reincarnation and Karma.”

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” - Theodore Parker spoke those words in 1853. He was a Unitarian minister, an influential transcendentalist and an abolitionist. Paraphrased 100 years later by MLK in many of his speeches.

CLOSING QUESTION: Think about a time when you resisted upright action. A time when you took upright action. How do these contribute to your self-knowledge today?

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Meditation Day 4: Thinking / Right Action
The Ordinary vs The Secret
Ref. CW333 Lecture 2: Insight into the Supersensible Human Being

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https://youtu.be/F4lJN-yezv0

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Control of Thought/6BE & Right Judgement/Resolve/8Fold Path

Resources:
1. Start Now, A Book of Soul & Spiritual Exercises, pg. 115: https://www.amazon.com/Start-Now-Book-Spiritual-Exercises/dp/0880105267?asin=0880105267&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1,
2. Enlivening the Chakra of the Heart: https://www.amazon.com/Enlivening-Chakra-Heart-Fundamental-Spiritual/dp/1855840537/ref=asc_df_1855840537/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=245369404481&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2329460994081027277&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032441&hvtargid=pla-529908492197&psc=1
3. Guidance in Esoteric Training, Rudolf Steiner
4. Developing the Self pg. 12-15: https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Self-Through-Inner-Anthroposophy/dp/1621481239

Eightfold Path: Right Resolves/Judgements "To determine on even the most insignificant matter only after fully reasoned deliberation."

Developing the Self by Lisa Romero: pg. 12-15 she quotes from Light on the Path, Mabel Collins (1970)
" In time. you will need no teacher, for as the individual has voice, so has that in which the individual exists. Life itself has speech and it is never silent. And its utterance is not as you that are deaf may suppose, a cry; it is a song, learn from it that you are part of the harmony; learn from it to obey the laws of harmony."

Hafiz: A Year with Hafiz, Landinsky, 2010
"I have come into the world to hear this; every song
the Earth has sung since it was conceived in the divine womb
and began spinning from His wish, every song by wing
and fin and hoof, every song by heel and tree and woman and child;
every song of stream and rock, every song of tool and lyre and flute,
every song of gold and emerald and fire,
every song the heart should cry with magnificent dignity to know itself as God;
for all other knowledge will leave us in want and
aching - only imbibing the glorious sun will complete us."

Happy Sun Day!

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The individuality of John the Baptist will in future earthly lives, following its incarnations as Raphael and Novalis, have a particular relationship with that spiritual deepening of Christianity associated with the Grail Mysteries, which will attain their full development in the sixth cultural epoch. For already as Raphael and Novalis, this individuality had a particular relationship to Christ's Spirit-Self. R. Steiner

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The Twelve Holy Nights and the Spiritual Hierarchies - Sergei O. Prokofieff

Building the Inner Goetheanum page 121:

"In the chapter 'Some Effects of Initiation' in his book How to Know Higher Worlds (GA10), Rudolf Steiner emphasizes that for a fully conscious entry into the spiritual world, and especially for a proper orientation there, it is necessary not only to develop higher sense organs in the astral body (the lotus flowers) but also to master certain processes in the denser etheric body."

Knowledge and Initiation and the Knowledge of the Christ through Anthroposophy - April 14 & 15, 1922

https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA211/English/SBC1983/19220414p01.html

https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA211/English/SBC1983/19220415p01.html

Willing in our Thinking:
Right Thought consideration - page 6: ..."Nevertheless we know that we are willing something whenever we link thought to thought, concept to concept. As we make one concept follow from another, an element of will is active within us. Thus our will enters into our will nature itself."

To carry out exercises in thought, we have to make ourselves attentive to the way an element of will always plays into our thinking life.

Page 8
..."We live vigorously in our sense impressions - in the world of colour, the world of sound, the world of heat and cold, in all the simulations of the senses. ...Now, what we attain at length is this: our life of thought becomes as vivid and as vigorous as was hitherto our sense life only. And this is a transition of great importance on the path of human knowledge."

... "In effect, with Imaginative Thought, we can reach to the first stage of supersensible perception. Through it we begin to find that we are experiencing within ourselves a second man, no less real than the external physical, spacial man."

Rudolf Steiner

Eightfold Path - Saturday (Saturn)

To pay attention to one's ideas.
To think only significant thoughts. To learn little by little to separate in one's thoughts the essential from the non essential, the eternal from the transitory, truth from mere opinion.

In listening to the talk of one's fellows, to try and become quite still inwardly, foregoing all assent, and still more all unfavorable judgments (criticism, rejection), even in one's thoughts and feelings.

This may be called RIGHT OPINION or RIGHT THINKING

Guidance in Esoteric Training - page 24.

https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA245/English/GuidEsot05.html

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Here is a pdf with some suggestions from J.Davy about combining practice of the 6BE with the 8FP. His timeline is different than the one we are creating (there are so many possible ways of creating a practice!). Lots of good info here:

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sorry it isn't a great copy but hopefully you can read it.

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we are starting again on Saturday, June 12!

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we are starting again on Saturday, June 12!

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Frank and Dottie will lead us on our Day 1 of Summer Practice. The link is:
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The Honeybees Are Having Their (Unexpected) Way 

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The Honeybees Are Having Their (Unexpected) Way 

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This is not explicitly a 6BE story, though I am certain in myself that the exercises we have done together made certain  human elements of this story possible:
Many of you know we’ve been seeking a way to leave upstate NY with the dream of starting a honeybee sanctuary, with an idea of developing a sort of “wildlife corridor” of hives linked through landscape and restorative/biodynamic care... where people can “host” hives that I will tend... well.

We’d been making plans all winter for a particular parcel of land in VA, that we hoped might be made affordable by virtue of our plans.

It was May 20 (and World Bee Day) when we learned that the land had been sold to another. Our reaction surprised us both: we decided to just sit with the news and recalibrate. The Very Next Day came two swarm calls... the first wandered off while we were on the way (but introduced us to a great new friend) and the second came at 10:45 pm.

So it was that our first swarm was collected at midnight; two days later came the second!

Since we cannot have bees where we are renting, the neighbors have offered their yard and unlimited access.

That same neighbor initiated and hosted a meeting between ourselves and the local community lending Council, who like what we are doing.

We have identified at least six individuals interested in hosting hives and have begun receiving donations of goods such as jars for feeding honey (swarms need to eat a lot of honey to get established) and wood planks for letting the bees walk in.  This is really helpful because we thought we had a year to create our fundraising platform and we are not paid for this work!

A dear friend who has long worked in Biodynamics is coming to assess the land and make recommendations and I will be making my first ashing preparations this week.

It is definitely not where we expected or wished to be, but this neighborhood has not had honeybees in at least two years so we are held aloft with the knowing that we have responded to the call... The honeybee wants the sanctuary to start right here right now, and so this is what we do.

We are run off our feet and steeped in joy.  We are also fascinated that a mere 15 days ago we got news we thought would be immensely disheartening, and yet we found a way to pivot-in-place.

I recall at some point having a conceptual shift: “what if the sanctuary is not a singular spot with a circle drawn AROUND it... what if the sanctuary IS the circle, and it’s drawn around a community (a state, a nation, a planet) through linked hives and landscapes... it’s a circle-and-periphery exercise which makes it all the more interesting that I received the name years ago without knowing why.

This is Full Circle Sanctuary.

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Neelima is a restorative beekeeper and founder of nee's bees. She relates to each colony as an individual and strives to support their instincts for healthful rejuvenation.

Partly because of this, local homeschool kids know her as "The Swarm Collector".

Nee's Bees is currently developing a community stewardship model to anchor a wildlife

Neelima is a restorative beekeeper and founder of nee's bees. She relates to each colony as an individual and strives to support their instincts for healthful rejuvenation.

Partly because of this, local homeschool kids know her as "The Swarm Collector".

Nee's Bees is currently developing a community stewardship model to anchor a wildlife corridor serving mindfully tended bees and wild pollinators.

Click "explore more" to connect to her blog, facebook groups, and learn more about the upcoming kids' book.

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Rudolf Steiner goes on to say:

‘This prayer is a direct invocation of the human soul to their angel. Every human being has an angel, an individual guiding being, who constantly accompanies the individual, and who gives this earthly human being, out of immediate perception of the total web of destiny, the right impulses and indications – IF this soul wishes to take them up. The angel accompanies this human soul intimately, its strivings, tasks, needs and fears. The angel grabs this soul with its entire being, at the same time grasping the spiritual world with its laws and possibilities. The angel helps and guides the human soul on its assigned paths.’

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 “Life”

Live is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realiz

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             “Life”

Live is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

                             (Mother Theresa)

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2021Summer 15 minute Practice GroupFINAL

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Help! Angela F. do not have your email - can you send or post here please? info@kristenawestart.com Thanks

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Help! Angela F. do not have your email - can you send or post here please? info@kristenawestart.com Thanks

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Our group meets at 1pm M-F with the link:  https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/93401208778

We are working on the 4th exercise. We would love to have you join us!

Warmly,

Christine

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Tonight with FRAC (april30) we get to share our JOY

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Tonight with FRAC (april30) we get to share our JOY

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https://frontrangeanthrocafe.org

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From Ita Wegman in 1929, The Mystery of the Earth, quoted from Peter Selg's The Culture of Selflessness

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Prayer to our Angel by Rudolf Steiner

‘You my heavenly friend, my angel who has led me to the earth and who will lead me through the gate of death, into the spirit-home of the human soul; You who knows the paths since millennia, do not cease to enlighten me, to strengthen me, to advise me so that I will emerge from the weaving fire of destiny as a stronger destiny vessel and will learn to fill myself ever more with the meaning of divine world goals.’

Rudolf Steiner goes on to say:

‘This prayer is a direct invocation of the human soul to their angel. Every human being has an angel, an individual guiding being, who constantly accompanies the individual, and who gives this earthly human being, out of immediate perception of the total web of destiny, the right impulses and indications – IF this soul wishes to take them up. The angel accompanies this human soul intimately, its strivings, tasks, needs and fears. The angel grabs this soul with its entire being, at the same time grasping the spiritual world with its laws and possibilities. The angel helps and guides the human soul on its assigned paths.’

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A short excerpt that inspired me this morn

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A short excerpt that inspired me this morn

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In the sixth exercise, the human being tries to activate his consciousness according to the nature of a directable force. Thinking will be prepared to detach itself from apparently concrete information, to further differentiate itself, and to let itself be formed along the lines of previously unguessed-at relationships as these latter may require. It will continually be ready to come loose and then go on weaving itself further. Nothing is lost to it; this thinking finds everything to be of worth; nothing is underestimated, nothing rejected. The life of feeling changes accordingly: to the extent that it becomes independent of psychic reactivity, it builds up a new system of sense organs through whose sensitivity the soul is woven together even with its previously alienated environment.

The soul willingly throws off its thousand-year-old habits of feeling: vanity, jealousy, vengefulness, and so on. Unceasing labor gives birth to the true human smile as the first stage of wisdom. The soul sees the world in new colors. It willingly takes part in the taking place of things, events, facts; and the fruits of this activity beam their ripe redness far and wide.

- "From Normal to Healthy: Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness" by Georg Kuhlewind (translated by Michael Lipson)