Sacred Gateway Online Conference 2020 by ASA Programs https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway By the Anthroposophical Society in America en-us 2020-04-03 15:45:51 UTC 2025-09-26 02:48:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f56f.png https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513912232 2020-04-18 02:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513912232 Opening Verse programs4 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513936941 All that lives throughout the Universe,
Lives only through creating within itself
The seed of new life.
And so too the soul
Surrenders itself to aging and death,
Only so that what never dies in us
Ripens to constant new life.
-Rudolf Steiner 

]]> 2020-04-18 03:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513936941 Poem from Bart Eddy programs4 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513937085 Detroit
Rust!.................Beautiful Blessed.....................Rust!
Dust of Detroit..............Rust!
I wash my face in your history
My heart finds joy and sadness
In your salty tears


May I walk on your carpet?
Rust!.................Beautiful Blessed.....................Rust!
Rust,,,,,,,,,The Sun's Blood
Dust of Detroit...........Rust!
]]> 2020-04-18 03:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/513937085 Starting the conversation about death and dying with family: https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514775969 https://theconversationproject.org/]]> 2020-04-18 22:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514775969 programs4 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514776058 2020-04-18 22:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514776058 Resources for holding sacred space-highlighting this during this time of covid https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514777081 https://theinspiredfuneral.com/]]> 2020-04-18 22:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514777081 Poem by Cecilia Meireles https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514784546 posted by Jolie Luba
johaluba@yahoo.com

You are afraid
Of ending. 
You don't see that you end every day.
That you die in love.
In sadness.
In doubt.
In desire.
That you are renewed everyday.
In love.
In sadness.
In doubt.
In desire.
That you are always the other.
That you are always the same. 
That you will die in many ages.
Until you are not afraid of dying anymore
And then, you will be eternal.

Original in Portuguese
Tu tens um medo 
Acabar. 
Não vê que acabas todo dia.
Que morres no amor.
Na tristeza.
Na dúvida.
No desejo.
Que te renovas todo dia.
No amor.
Na tristeza. 
Na dúvida.
No desejo. 
Que és sempre o outro. 
Que és sempre o mesmo.
Que morrerás por idades imensas.
Até não teres mais medo de morrer. 
E então, serás eterno.

]]> 2020-04-18 22:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514784546 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514837694 2020-04-19 01:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514837694 Ellen Hufschmidt, www.ritesofchange.org, ritesofchange@gmail.com 612-729-6817With Our Hands: A Guidebook to Ritual Blessings of the Dead go to Ellen’s website or Amazon.comAvailable May 1, 2020 Ellen Hufschmidt https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514839880 Ellen was the presenter of the RITUAL OF THE HEART who did the sacred water ceremony. ]]> 2020-04-19 01:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514839880 National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) www.homefuneralalliance.org We educate all who seek to know more about this time honored tradition of caring for our dead supporting home vigils and funerals. This includes practical guidance, personal stories, state laws, lists of recommended books and videos, and identifies local and regional groups around the country who also hold these values. 
 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514840204 If you need information about assisting anyone during Covid, this is an amazing resource. 'Linda Bergh ]]> 2020-04-19 01:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514840204 You are held by holy angels Holy angels all around youHush now, sleep child, sing the holy angels We are holding you. You can rest. Morning will come child The dawn will break through the darkness We are holding you through the light of the newborn day Sara Thomsen : Holy Angelshttps://sarathomsen.com/track/1916933/holy-angels https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514840795 Song at the end of the RITUAL OF THE HEART Linda Bergh ]]> 2020-04-19 01:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/514840795 About being there without fixing it - "How to help a grieving friend" by Megan Devine https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515426807 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE

]]> 2020-04-19 14:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515426807 About grief and forgiveness "Jesus Wept" by Brene Brown https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515428108 https://youtu.be/Gp0gCE9IHao]]> 2020-04-19 14:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515428108 The Gate by Marie Howe I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world would be the space my brother's body made. He was a little taller than me: a young man but grown, himself by then, done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet, rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold and running water. This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me. And I'd say, What? And he'd say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich. And I'd say, What? And he'd say, This, sort of looking around. https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515675251
posted by Bride McWilliam]]> 2020-04-19 17:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515675251 Experience at Death from Herbert Hahn by Rudolf Steiner Now Rudolf Steiner spoke about death, of the experience which the soul has immediately after the moment of leaving this earthly life. He reminded us of how the soul experiences its whole earthly life like an immense panorama. But Rudolf Steiner continued: the most grandiose of all is the fact that this whole picture-world is at the same time a sounding, musical experience. And like a gigantic symphony, the whole cosmos is floating toward these ‘sounding’ pictures and absorbing them. In the midst of this symphony, the listening soul suddenly hears ONE sound – a tone that rises above all other sounds… and suddenly, the soul is flooded with a wonderful understanding: this singular sound – it is my Self, and without this sound, this world-symphony would not be complete. No other moment in life after death, or in one’s earthly life can be compared with that feeling of ensoulment when the human being, who has just been liberated of the dross of earthly vanity experiences this great secret: without a doubt, my “I” belongs to the entirety of the world. Without me, the world-symphony would be incomplete. (translation: C. Jenson, ed. Sheila Johns) necarpenter https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515675877 2020-04-19 17:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515675877 "Forgiveness is the scent the violet leaves on the heel of the one who has crushed it." ~ Mark Twain cvfms https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515815649 2020-04-19 18:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515815649 a poem written in Marianne and Maureen's workshop: who is death to you? what does he/she/it/they look like? occupation? temperament? personality traits, mood? https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515816115                     Death 
Would you like a cup of tea?

Soft voice, in a home filled with pastel coloured wallpaper with matching floral china.
The tapping of a silver spoon, stirring in the sweetness.
She's soft, the day is warm, sun streaming in.

She listens, looking at me directly but openly. 

Wanting to know about my life. 

from Bride McWilliam]]> 2020-04-19 18:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515816115 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515935268 2020-04-19 20:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/515935268 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/516113454 2020-04-19 23:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/516113454 from Nancy Carpenter programs4 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/516156487 2020-04-20 00:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/516156487 Louise Hill schuhmann https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/523585934 DVD: An Appointment with the Wise Old Dog.  This a link to a website where you can purchase an extraordinary beautiful film made in memory of the musician David Blum.  David Blum, who had never had a drawing lesson in his life, began to paint the vivid dream images he experienced along his journey with cancer.  Dream images which include meetings with his beloved dog who had died.  As he gets closer to the threshold experience, a feminine being appears in his dreams to accompany him.  His friend, Yo Yo Ma, introduces the film, and his beautiful music accompanies the dream journey.  You have to order the DVD from his widow, but it is very reasonable, and she is a beautiful soul herself.

https://davidblummusiciananddreamer.com/]]> 2020-04-22 16:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/523585934 Prayer to the Bless the Earth Receiving Burials at Hart Island, Bronx programs4 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/526656245 2020-04-23 18:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/526656245 https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/561554523 2020-05-09 15:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/programs4/sacredgateway/wish/561554523