Welcome to the last edition in 2018 of your eNews. I hope you have enjoyed receiving these monthly offerings of interesting articles, reports, news and upcoming events. Although as individuals we are spread thin across this huge expansive land mass we know as Canada, the intention has been to provide a sense of connection, brotherhood/sisterhood through our shared interest in the enlivening spirit of Anthroposophy. Over the 12 Holy nights I wish you all a contented reflection on the past year and an excited anticipation of the year to come, 2019.
Jef
Editor
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Important Upcoming Event - August 2019
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A Waldorf Alumni World Festival and North American Anthroposophical Youth Conference is taking place in Halifax,NS,August 7-12th, 2019.
The Anthroposophical Society in Canada recognizes this as an important initiative and we fully stand behind it and support it. The Anthroposophical Society in the USA is also involved in carrying this project and supporting it. More details about the event will be in the January eNews.
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Message from Joan Sleigh - December, 2018
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Dear Members and Friends,
With this issue, we are pleased to inaugurate the regular sending of ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide› in digital form to all English-speaking Members of the Anthroposophical Society.
We have just completed the December Retreat of the Goetheanum Leadership. This year we have taken many far-reaching steps in the development and processes of our organization, as have been reported regularly.
What impresses me about this edition of “Anthroposophy Worldwide”is the diversity of the activities in the different Sections and their close connection with societal tasks. For example, the initiative of the Social Sciences Section to develop a suitable concept of ownership for an economy orientated towards the common good (page 3), the research of the youth section exploring what is important to young people (spirituality) on page 4, or discover the life-time-related tasks in health support through the care areas in the Medical Section (page 6). Thisis only a selection of the tasks that the Sections are taking on worldwide.
At the Goetheanum, we will continue to use all the powers at our disposal to develop healthy social relationships through spiritual insight. Our treasurer Justus Wittich has presented this impressively and referred to Rudolf Steiner's appeal to work together collaboratively. This is already happening in all areas of the world where anthroposophically inspired work is active. I am very grateful for your work and cooperation.
If you are able and willing to support the activities of the Goetheanum financially, you will find possible ways of doing so on page 2 of AW.
But now I wish you a peaceful, reflective and joyous Christmas season,
With warm greetings,
Joan Sleigh
To register for direct pdf delivery of Anthroposophy Worldwide
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or see article below titled Goetheanum email.
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Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada
On the publication of the Lessons of the School for Spiritual Science.
From the outset of his work, Rudolf Steiner asked those around him to observe their own soul experience in relationship to the spiritual teachings and guidance he was bringing. He asked for the development of an inner discernment for how what he was bringing was experienced.
He was pointing to what had always been the process for sharing spiritual knowledge – to convey these truths by word-of-mouth. He often returned to this principle, asking for inner clarity of the affect on our soul’s life when we hear spiritual truth conveyed orally, to perceive the activity in our souls as listeners. He asks that we develop a sense that living into the spoken word enables the engagement of our faculties of imagination not possible otherwise.
He contrasts this with the ever increasing tendency to want to experience what he was bringing by reading and grasping through an intellectual understanding the knowledge that he was bringing to contemporary humanity.
These two processes; listening with an open receptivity that allows for a direct affect on the inner constitution of the soul, and longing to grasp through reading and intellectual understanding, have accompanied his work ever since. Initially, he sought to attend to these polar relationships to his work by asking, again and again, that his request for this sensitive soul perception be strengthened.
As it became clear that the need to read and understand his work was growing, he asked that each publication of his public lectures include an introductory paragraph that explained the parameters for understanding and having an opinion about the published work. For many years this introductory page appeared at the front of all of the printed texts.
While this extensive dissemination of his many lecture cycles was taking place, he maintained the importance of conveying his esoteric work,’within the original Esoteric School and then within the School for Spiritual Science, following these principles of speaking and listening – from mouth to ear. This protection of oral communication also extended to the courses given to the physicians and to the priests, among others.
Please read on to find out how to obtain copies of the new publication:
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Anthroposophy Worldwide Direct to Your Inbox
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Goetheanum Email
If you are a member of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada (ASC), you are also a member of the General Anthroposophical Society (GAS) centred at the Gotheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. The GAS is currently pursuing a policy of direct email communication with members.
Anthroposophy Worldwide, which reached its 21st birthday this year, is available ten times a year by email. You can now receive it in pdf form directly from the Goetheanum. Please send them your email address – to ensure correct identification add your name and postal address – using the online forms, which are available in English, French, German and Spanish at:
anthroposophie.org/abo
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elect ENGLISH (EN)/FRENCH (FR) on the welcome page.
Fill out the form. If you have problems filling in or submitting the form, you can also send your data informally to
abo@dasgoetheanum.com
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Many Thanks,
Editor
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General Information and Upcoming Events
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Branches & Groups
Calgary Branch
Update for December and January, 2019
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Huronia Branch
Contact Janine at
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Montréal
Institute Rudolf Steiner Quebec
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New Members
Mary Anne Causyn (Ottawa)
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We welcome you to a bring andshare lunch Sunday, January 6th at 12.30 p.m.
61 Celtic Drive, Dartmouth
Followed by an Epiphany Festival Scotia.
Celebration at 2.00 p.m.
Bring and share your throughts, a poem, a legend, a song or a reading to shed light on the Three Kings Star & Mystery of the Baptism in the Jordan River
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Society for Biodynamic Farming and Gardening in Ontario
Guelph Organic Conference - ON; January 24 - 27
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Thornhill, Hesperus - Foundation Room
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Enlivening Our Concepts with Experiential Exploration with Dr. K. McAlister
Feb. 12, 19, 26 and March 5, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Today's educational orientation and our cultural orientation emphasize the development of thinking and doing. Little guidance is given to developing the feeling life as a central and deepening aspect of human spiritual growth. Anthroposophy, as a path of cognition, identifies this as a central component to aid us in discovering and realizing our potentials as human beings. Some of the basic exercises will be explored as given in the Enlightenment section of Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner. You are invited to join us in doing these exercises together and sharing our experiences. The intention is to discover how close and differentiated the preliminary experiences can be of the supersensible realities of the Kingdoms of Nature around us. We will meet weekly for four sessions at Hesperus Community. If you feel called and able to participate please register beforehand by emailing Jef at
info@anthroposophy.ca
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British Columbia, Vancouver - March
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Economics Conference
1919 - 2019: A Second Chance for the World
Seeing beyond the falsehoods of modern history through the lens of associative economics
21 to 24 March 2019 / Vancouver BC, Canada
In Memory of D’Arcy Mackenzie
This conference will address a simple, if challenging thesis: One hundred years since the end of World War 1 we have a
second chance to place humanity on the true path of its development. But only if our analysis includes the observations of Rudolf Steiner and if our ideas come from the future rather than the past; from sense - free perception rather than sense -driven instinct; from our own will working in cooperation with others rather than from external guidance manipulating our actions.
In short, how can we learn to navigate two worlds on the threshold of each other? How can individuals serve the community through their capacities, and how can the community capitalize them so that they are able to? And how, through entrepreneurship and its language, accounting, can our micro actions give rise to a new macro landscape?
Details and registration in next month's eNews.
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INTERNATIONAL
Portugal, April 2019
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Sophia Services presents ...
A Further Search of Knights Templar in Portugal
with Sarnia Guiton, Joao Fiandeiro Santos and Peter Moore
April 13 to 27, 2019
The tour A Further Search of Knights Templar in Portugal still has places available for April 2019.
The booking deadline is the end of January -- it is suggested that you not wait until then if you intend to join this tour.
Warm regards to all fellow travelers ...
Sarnia Guiton
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Anthroposophy Worldwide - # 12 2018
We will continue to provide a link for anthroposophy worldwide for the time being. Please refer to article above concerning direct delivery.
If you would like to see the archive of past issues, go to:
then enter password AWE-2018
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