Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday That you were due-- The Frogs got Home last Week-- Are settled, and at work-- Birds, mostly back-- The Clover warm and thick--
You'll get my Letter by
The seventeenth; Reply Or better, be with me-- Yours, Fly. --Emily Dickinson
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What's Happening in the Library
Spring!
Celebrate the season with BOOKS! Inner work, festivals, crafts, gardening, health--here's a bountiful bouquet to help you make the most of this time of joy and renewal.Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? An Anthology.
 Companion book to the critically-acclaimed film. Provides an examination of the global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic and organic beekeepers, scientists, farmers, philosophers and poets. Biodynamic Gardening: For Health & FlavourB y Hilary Wright. Guidance for beginners from an experienced and passionate biodynamic gardener, with beautiful photos and clear instructions.
Healing the Skin: Holistic Approaches to Treating Skin  Conditions: A Practical Guide Based on Anthroposophic Medicine, by Lueder Jachens, M.D.A physician offers a holistic understanding of the skin, the largest human organ.
The Whitsun Impulse and Christ's Activity in Social Life  By Sergei O. Prokofieff.
Spiritual work conducted in a social setting has a crucial role in preparing for the future epoch of the spirit-self. Spiritual and social tasks can be achieved only "through mutual efforts with one another."
Festivals, Family, and Food.
By Diana Carey.
A timeless classic featuring recipes, stories, and crafts to enliven family festival celebrations throughout the year.
 Making More Flower Children
By Sybille Adolphi.
Arranged seasonally, instructions, patterns, and photographs are included for making violet, chicory, blackberry, and mistletoe children, and 3 dozen others.
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 New Books
The Sixfold Path: Six Simple Exercises for Spiritual Development. Joop van Dam, Floris Books, 2012, 96 pgs.
This book, by a medical doctor, describes Rudolf Steiner's six basic, or supplementary, exercises for harmonizing thinking, feeling, and willing in preparation for meditation. He presents the exercises clearly, illustrating them with real-life examples, and gives suggestions for working with them in groups.
The six exercises have inspired several books and articles, all available from the library. Among them:
Raising the Soul: Practical Exercises for Personal Development, by Warren Lee Cohen [2006].
The Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life, by Michael Lipson [2002].
Six Steps in Self-Development: The 'Supplementary Exercises', by Rudolf Steiner [2010].
"The Eightfold Path and the Six Accessory Exercises," by John Davy [197-?]. Article.
"The Six Basic Exercises by Rudolf Steiner," by Tom von Gelder [2011]. Online resource.Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, François Dosse, Columbia University Press, 2010, 651 pgs. In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic. After their unlikely meeting, they engaged in a surprising, productive partnership for many years. The author examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities, and evaluates the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles.
Yeshayahu Ben Aharon discussed these French philosophers in the fall 2011 issue of the anthroposophical society's newsletter, being human. Also see Fred Amrine's article, "Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Freedom," in the current issue. These are just two of the new items added to our catalog recently! Check out the others on the homepage of the library's online public access catalog. |
We need your help to keep moving forward! Special gifts, in addition to your already-generous support of the society's programs, will make it possible to continue to develop the Rudolf Steiner Library into a multidimensional 21st-century resource.
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Thank you!
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We'll have more news next month; thanks for your interest!
Judith Soleil, library director
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