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Rudolf Steiner, 1923
EASTER DINNER ON APRIL 12
PENNY CARTER ART OPENING, APRIL 24
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In Centerpoint Gallery: Penny Carter: NEW ART - ACRYLIC ON PAPER Rudolf Steiner Bookstore JUNE HOURS: Wed 3-6pm, Sat 1-6pm
Jun 15 – Linda Larson
Jun 15 – Group
Jun 16 – Group
Jun 17 – Group
Jun 24 – Festival
July 1 – Sept 8
Sep 11 – Anthroposophical Society Members
Sep 16 – David Anderson
Sep 19 – TBD
Sep 20 – Hospitality Committee
Sep 21 – Linda Larson
Sep 27 – Gertrude Reif Hughes
Oct 2-4 – at Spring Valley NY
Oct 15 – Stephen Usher
International Study Theme for the Year 2009/2010: [Partial Description; full PDF here]
There is hardly a subject in Anthroposophy that does not include the theme
of evolution, from the development towards a free human being in the great
presentation about the evolution of man and the world to Rudolf Steiner’s
last great work, the founding of the Free School of Spiritual Science.
Ultimately it is all about evolution and self development, one cannot exist
without the other! For that reason it is noteworthy that the modern idea of
evolution only came about in the late 18th century through Johann Gottfried
Herder, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and others.
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May 31 is Pentecost. Pentecost is the event that inflames the gesture of universal understanding, the awakening of the ability to speak the language of another soul’s individuality. This is the yearly festival of true social interest and caring. It fills the heart with love for others. Rudolf Steiner often wrote and spoke that the ultimate goal of humanity is the expression of love. He closes a lecture on the four temperaments with these words:
How are you moving toward the expression of love? How does anthroposophy help you evolve your individuality to be a greater expression of love? Ultimately, a branch is a place where we come to meet each other
through anthroposophy. The branch is not a place where we come to
meet anthroposophy and disregard each other. Yet sadly, we often
forget to engage with one another to the same degree we engage with
anthroposophy. During the gazing exercises, the room energy becomes amazingly still. The stillness is not deathlike, rather it is a vibrant, balanced harmony. Everyone in the room is loving someone else. Self-consciousness, awkwardness, superficiality and weariness disappear. Initially, gazing not easy for the participants, for many it is a new experience that takes them beyond cultural, and therefore comfortable, boundaries. Gazing does not fall into sentimentality and ordinary sympathy. It is not staring. I have read personal accounts from those who knew Rudolf Steiner saying that in his presence they felt loved. Imagine if people said this about you. As anthroposophists evolving our fullest humanity, can we awake
everyday willing to love? When we review our day before going to
sleep, can we feel the love we gave and received? Lynn Jericho
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