Chicago Waldorf School

Urban Prairie Waldorf School 

City Garden Early Childhood Waldorf School

Four Winds Waldorf School 

Da Vinci Waldorf School

Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program

Reverse Ritual - Understanding Anthroposophy Through the Rhythms of the Year

Angelic Organics 

Zinniker Biodynamic Farm

The Christian Community Chicago

Rudolf Steiner Archive 

The National Anthroposophical Society site

and The Goetheaum in Dornach

The Christian Community in North America Winter Youth Conference 2020

THE COURAGE TO LOVE THE WORLD THAT WE’RE IN

For young people ages 14-19 – January 17 – 20, 2020 MLK weekend in Washington DC

WHAT DO YOU LOVE? -WHAT IS IN NEED OF YOUR LOVE? 

Rev. Carol Kelly, Rev. Paul Newton, Anna Silber, Samuel Parker, Ultra-Violet Archer, Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

fee $300 (Financial assistance available) 

Register at: www.ChristianCommunity.com/2020-mlk-signup

contact Rev. Carol Kelly carolkelly.cc@gmail.com

full flyer: Christian community DC2020

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January 24, Friday, 7:00-9:00 pm “The Poisoning of America.” with John Beck.

January 25 , Saturday, 10am-12:30pm - Workshop - threefolding in the USA and the impending choice of technology or humanity.

The Poisoning of America 

“To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.

Five years after he sounded this call, in the months before the US entered World War II, President Roosevelt spoke of four freedoms—”everywhere in the world”—that were “no vision of a distant millennium” but “a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time…” Freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God in one’s own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear—each freedom specified to be “everywhere in the world.”

The end of the war left the USA as the richest and most powerful nation in the world’s history. The 19th century British writer Lord Acton had warned that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Call it a spiritual law, or simply a fact of moral experience, wealth and power demand high and worthy goals. And while the wealth and power of the USA have been maintained, the being of this nation has, over the cosmic day from 1945 to 2017, been undermined in the service of more power and more wealth, with a particular coalescing of amoral impulses from 1968 forward. Within this what becomes clear is a full-scale war on the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, even as the technological basis is extended for the rulership of Satan, Ahriman, the “father of lies.”

Among the phenomena to observe:

The creation of enemies - from the McCarthy era to Nixon’s enemies list to Trump’s rapists and murderers.

Identification of “the national interest” with personal and especially corporate profits.

The loss of nerve of the Democratic Party in the wake of assassinations and an unjust war.

The Republican Party’s embrace of the racist basis long held by the Democratic Party.

The subjection of evangelical religion to political goals.

The promotion of Caesarism - “it’s not illegal when the President does it.”

Disabling the press, the tribunes of the people.

Systematic alienation of the people from their government.

Purchase of governmental power by wealthy individuals and corporations.

Steady enhancement of the wealth of the wealthiest.

The emergence at last of explicit oligarchy, and international embrace of oligarchic governments.

This discussion must seem “political,” but it is in fact a function of culture to examine the history and values of the political and economic spheres.

A repudiation of untruthfulness, about which Rudolf Steiner lectured a century ago, and return to worthy goals like those enunciated by FDR, are the only real path of recovery. The truthfulness must be extended to an embrace of the full meaning and purpose of human existence, the vast potential of every individual, and the goals must relate to global humanity. When this is done, the special character of the US-American nation can reassert itself and our valuable contributions to human development, “everywhere in the world,” can restore us to sister-and-brotherhood with all of humanity.

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Suggested donations - $15 for lecture, $20 for workshop. For more information, please, contact Andrei Onegin at aonegin@remove-this.rschicago.remove-this.org

Material for the conversation: What is Revealed When One Looks Back into Repeated Lives on Earth, GA#26. To read entire letter, follow link:

 https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0026/English/RSP1973/GA026_c16.html

 For more information please contact Andrei Onegin ataonegin@remove-this.rschicago.remove-this.org

Fellowship of Preparation Makers Gathering

BD 501 and 508 – Tools to bring the cosmic light into the earth.

January 30^th  – February 2^nd, 2020 

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, N8030 Townline Rd, East Troy, WI

The mission of the Fellowship of Preparation Makers is to ensure that good quality biodynamic preparations are available now and into the future throughout North America.

Schedule:

Thursday, January 30th

10—10:30 am   Registration for Chromatogram Intensive

10:30am   Chromatogram Intensive – All levels welcome. Presenter: Ryann Herring

12 —1pm  Lunch on your own

1-3pm  Chromatogram Intensive

3—5pm  Registration and Social Time

5-6:30pm  Supper

7-8:30pm   Welcome from Perry Brown, and Candlemas Festival with Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Friday, January 31st

7:30-8:30am   Registration, Breakfast and Social Time

8:30– 10 am   History of Fellowship of Prep Makers, and Introductions.

10-10:30am  Morning Break

10:30–12:30pm  Why Biodynamics? Presenter: Mac Mead

12:30-1:45pm Lunch

2-3:30pm  How the cosmic works in the earth? Presenter: Hugh Courtney

3:30-4pm Afternoon Break

4-6pm  Different ways to make and use BD501 & BD508. Practical hands on session with Marjory House and Lloyd Nelson

6-7:30 pm Supper

7:30-9pm  The Journey of a Prep Maker,  A history circle, Facilitator: Brian Wickert

Saturday, February 1st

7:30-8:30 Registration, Breakfast and Social Time

8:30-10am  History of Silica on Man’s Evolution (Lamuria to today) Presenter: Mac Mead

10-10:30am  Morning break

10:30– 12pm  Silica and the Human Presenter: Dr. Mark Kamsler

12-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-3pm  Interpretation of Chromatograms  Presenter: Ryann Herring

3-3:30pm  Afternoon Break

3:30-5pm  Kolisko Institute  Presenter: Dr. Mark Kamsler

5-7pm  Supper

7-8:30pm  Quality Comparison of BD501 & 508  Show and tell how you make and use the preps. Facilitator: Wali Via

8:30 pm  Evening Social/Brew City Drifters

Sunday, February 2nd

7:30-8:30 am  Breakfast & Social Time

8:30-10am  Round Table Discussion: Peppering for Pests and Weeds Panel: Mac Mead and Hugh Courtney

10-1-:30  Morning Break

10:30– Noon  Fellowship presentations, evaluations and closing circle.

Noon  Lunch

Registration and Lodging

Full Conference Fee $250

Single Day $125

Single Talk $25

Single Meal $15

Chromatogram Intensive $25

Homestays Available

Airport pickup from MKE available

REGISTER ONLINE HERE

Questions:
Allison Pratt-Szeliga
apszeliga@remove-this.michaelfields.remove-this.org
262-642-3303×107

Home stay  and airport transportation arrangements will be handled by:
Petra Zinniker
petrazinniker@remove-this.gmail.remove-this.com
262-581-7574

We will work to provide home stays for everyone who requests one. Some homes will be free and others may have a cost. Please contact Petra with your requests. Home stays will be reserved on a first come first served basis.

Local accommodations are also listed below:
Quality Inn & Suites (1.8 miles away)
2921 O’Leary Ln, East Troy, WI 53120•(262) 684-2183

Alpine Valley Resort (1.6 miles away)
W2501 Co Rd D, Elkhorn, WI 53121•(262) 642-7374

BD 501 and 508 preps for quality comparison:
If you have them, please bring or send BD 501 and BD 508 preps for quality comparison and closing ceremony.
Preps can be mailed to Petra Zinniker, N 7399 Bowers Rd, Elkhorn, WI 53121

Presenters:

Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

Mac Mead 

Hugh Courtney 

Marjory House 

Lloyd Nelson

Dr Kamsler

Ryan Herring 

Wali Via 

Sponsors: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Demeter, Biodynamic Association

The Central Regional Council and the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology present:View this email in your browser

KNOW THYSELF - Karma and Anthroposophic Psychology
-- an Easter-Tide Retreat

Maundy Thursday 9 April 2020 Noon thru Easter Sunday at 3 pm
Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL
 

AAP: James A. Dyson, M.D., Roberta Nelson, Ph.D., and David Tresemer, Ph.D. with Susan Overhauser, Ph.D.

CRC: Marianne Fieber, Alberto Loya, Hazel Archer-Ginsberg, David Howerton, Lisa Dalton

Eurythmist: Mary Ruud

Activities:

• Art-Acts
• Star Wisdom
• The Karma Exercises
• Experiential PAGEANT on Holy Saturday: 'Know Thyself'
• Easter Sunrise Songtrail
• Optional service at the Christian Community
• Communal meals and time for Conversation

Lectures:

• 'Living into Karma through the Senses'
• 'How to find the Self in a Sea of Karma'
• 'Unfolding the Enigma of the Saturn Path'
• 'The Gesture of Karma'
• 'Christ as Lord of Karma -- how do I access this in terms of my personal psychology?'

(Program subject to change)

$125 Conference fee includes 1 meal a day

For more information and to register, contact Alberto Loya aloyavaca@peoplepc.com

Enjoy lively interactive workshops.Registration opens in January

Stay tuned for all the details

Including a strand with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg: 'Festivals of the Dead. Then & Now. Renew, or Create Your Own Tradition'

Dear Holy Nights Friends, 

Wow. What a powerful experience we have had together.  After our meeting last night, I could do nothing but sit still in my chair and feel the reverberation of our work and the sound of the Foundation Stone meditation. Quite honestly, Angela, Hazel and I did not know what this experience would be like.  We could not anticipate that nearly 900 people from all over the world would join us, nor that the space we created online could truly have a deep sense of community.  We hope you all feel as inspired as we do to continue this type of work--both deeply spiritual and accessible to all. You can find the recordings here and a link to a community bulletin board here.

To that end, we want to thank you for trying out this new form with us and ask you for your sincere feedback. 
Please click here to fill out our short survey. Your ideas will take us to our next step. 

If each of you contributed just $10 or $20, can you imagine what we could co-create next time? We could increase our technological capacity with Zoom, we could let more people know about the event, and we could devote even more time and focused work to online events like this one where we can come together through space and time in a beautiful community.  Please click here to make a donation! It really, truly helps! 

Did you know we have an online webinar site with over 25 different programs you can download? And we have a podcast you can listen to on your smart phone or computer any time of day.  Go here to access all our webinars and here or iTunes for our podcast, The Anthroposopher.

We are so lucky to know you all and wish you a beautiful Epiphany and New Year! Stay in touch and keep your ideas and feedback coming at this link.

With warmth and love, 
Laura, Angela, Hazel, and Tess 

PS- Find all the resources from our gatherings, including the recordings, at www.anthroposophy.org/holynights 

Listen to a new addition of The Anthroposopher, a Podcast by Program Director for the Anthroposophical Society Laura Scappaticci: "Preserve the Light" by our own Festivals Coordinator - Hazel Archer-Ginsberg speaking about Michaelmas

https://soundcloud.com/laura-scappaticci-512671384/hazel-archer-ginsburg-preserve-the-light?fbclid=IwAR3gyzQWSKFpJEKjiLlFRMpLtws4H_QlWZPZatML0dhabeRjN5Szukb_8Ag

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Here is a link to the video recording of The All Souls webinar put out the Anthroposophical Society. https://zoom.us/…/2TH4VfAFaaXl75T9UgSHwxat-CKtdappGNmvyxdz1…

You can also watch the video presentation from the Theosophical Society, called ‘The Descent of Inanna” with a different approach to the theme, centering on the origins, & a performance in eurythmy of the ancient Sumerian Myth.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Your questions were great. Please keep them coming! Are you creating an altar or is there a family tradition you'd like to share? Share a picture or note with us! And share the blog at Reverse Ritual with your friends. https://reverseritual.com/blog/

Most importantly, thank you for preparing a space within yourself to honor this special time of year.

Join us for The Sacred Gateway: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying, and the Journey Beyond April 16-19, 2020 in Detroit, MI. Enjoy lively interactive workshops.Registration opens in January

With gratitude for your participation, Laura Scappaticci Program Director of the Anthroposophical Society of America