eNews - December  2010


Anthroposophical Society in Canada 

In This Issue
150th Anniversary - Letter from Judy King
Célébration du 150e anniversaire - par Judy King
Upcoming Events
Heather Rombough - March 2, 1962 - August 1, 2010
The Great Cosmic Opposition - by Debbie Allen
Phenomenology Website
Emerson College Update
International Links
150th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's Birth - Links
Anthroposophy Worldwide # 10
CAMA Conference
February 24-26, 2011
(Public lecture Feb 23)
Orange
"Becoming More Effective In Treating Cancer" with Dr. Maurice Orange
Details.
CONTACT
INFO 
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Mark McAlister
Administrator
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COUNCIL
BC (President)
QC
QC (Secretary)
Douglas Wylie ON (Treasurer)
Judith King NS
Regine Kurek ON
Philip Thatcher BC (General Secretary)

SCHOOL FOR SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

For list of Class Holders, click here.
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

Mary Dawn HANNA (Unionville ON), Siobhan HUGHES (Toronto ON), Volker TILGNER (Victoria BC), Michael JUNGE (Toronto ON), and Raj MODH (Hamilton, ON) have joined the Society.  WELCOME!

Linda LINK (Quathiaski Cove BC) died in June - more to follow.

LOCAL ACTIVITIES
Kaz Chomko
Kaz Chomko
(featured in Thornhill Campus Bulletin)
Thornhill Campus Bulletin

Pollination Project (NS)

The Pulse (BC)

THRESHOLDS Art Symposium

25-29 May, 2011, Hesperus Village Thornhill

Thresholds

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The Rudolf Steiner Centre (Toronto) is recruiting a fulltime Administrator.  (Applications still being accepted.)  Details.
SPECIALTY
CHANNELS
Robert Karp
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New strategic plan for Biodynamics - How can we participate?.  Click here for video.

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CREDERE FUND GRANT ANNOUNCMENTS

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The Credere Fund of Think OutWord is honored to award a total of $6000 to five individuals of tremendous vision and initiative...
Announcement (temporary link)

GOETHEANUM NEWS CONFERENCE - 4 NOVEMBER - Click here for more photos and details.

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 PHOTOS by DEBBIE ALLEN
(see article in Research Corner)
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Moon Jupiter Conjunct 2010 07 03 4 am 


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Moon Jupiter 

2010 09 23 5 am

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Moon Saturn

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Moon Venus Jupiter
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Letter from Philip Thatcher

Philip ThatcherDuring the first week of November the General Secretaries met at the Goetheanum with the Executive Council and section leaders from the School for Spiritual Science. The situation that focused our attention throughout the week is a reduction in the Goetheanum budget for 2011 in the amount of 3,900,000 Swiss francs, just over an equivalent amount in Canadian dollars. This figure takes into account a reduction in members' contributions throughout the world Society, a reduction in donations to the Goetheanum, a decision to remove legacies from the budget, and an amount of 800,000 CHF lost in the exchange of other currencies into the Swiss franc...

Running through all of the above is the question: What do we understand and imagine the Goetheanum to be? Is that understanding focused primarily on activity centered in Dornach? Or do we also imagine the Goetheanum as being present throughout the world Society? If so, how can that presence now take new and urgent form?


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Read the full article.

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Dans la premi�re semaine du mois de novembre les Secr�taires g�n�raux se sont r�unis au Goetheanum avec le Comit� Directeur et les responsables de Sections de l'�cole de Science de l'Esprit.  La question qui a occup� notre attention tout au cours de la semaine : la compression � effectuer dans le budget du Goetheanum pour l'ann�e 2011, le montant de cette r�duction sera de 3,900,000 francs suisses (l�g�rement plus que le m�me montant en dollars canadiens.)  Ce chiffre tient compte de la diminution des contributions des membres de la Soci�t� universelle, de la baisse du montant des dons faits au Goetheanum, de la d�cision d'exclure du budget l'argent des h�ritages, et d'une perte de 800,000 francs suisses en frais d'�change � partir d'autres monnaies...

Une question fondamentale sous-tend toutes les consid�rations ci-dessus :  Qu'est-ce que le Goetheanum pour nous - comment le comprenons-nous et quelle imagination en avons-nous?   Notre compr�hension est-elle li�e � une activit� concentr�e principalement � Dornach?  Ou bien imaginons-nous aussi le Goetheanum comme �tant pr�sent partout au sein de la Soci�t� universelle?  Si oui, comment cette pr�sence peut-elle rev�tir une nouvelle forme dont un besoin urgent se fait sentir?   
... Lisez plus

2011: 150th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's Birth

- by Judy King, on behalf of the Council

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A Stirring Student (www.rsct.ca)
...The Council sees this anniversary year as an opportunity both for outreach and for raising to consciousness the nature of our own individual relationship to Rudolf Steiner.   We have been asking these questions:  What does it mean to commemorate Rudolf Steiner? What life can this generate?   What is the importance of connecting the name of Rudolf Steiner to the work of related initiatives in the world?   Will we celebrate in Canada in a larger way?  If so, how?   What, if anything, can the Council co-ordinate?...
Our conversation led on to Steiner's legacy of work for healing the earth in so many spheres.   All this, connected to the fact of the growing vigour of the bio-dynamic movement in Canada, presented an idea that we would like to support and co-ordinate as a Council as part of the tidal wave of celebrations across the country:  the act of stirring and applying bio-dynamic preparations taking place in as many different locations as possible across Canada at the same time.   This may be seen as a gesture of healing for the earth that is directly related to the fact that Rudolf Steiner incarnated 150 years ago.  Read full article
2011: C�l�bration du 150e anniversaire de la naissance de Rudolf Steiner

- par Judy King (au nom du Conseil)

...Le Conseil con�oit cette ann�e comm�morative comme �tant une occasion pour, d'une part, faire conna�tre notre travail dans la grande communaut�, et, d'autre part, pour prendre conscience de la nature de notre propre lien personnel avec Rudolf Steiner.  Nous avons port� les questions suivantes : Que veut dire � comm�morer Rudolf Steiner ? �  Dans quelle mesure est-ce que cela peut g�n�rer de la vie?  Quelle importance donnons-nous au fait d'assurer que le nom de Rudolf Steiner soit clairement identifi� � toutes les initiatives qui s'inspirent de ses indications?  C�l�brerons-nous au Canada � l'�chelle du pays?  Si oui, comment?  Et y aurait-il quelque chose que le conseil pourrait coordonner? ...De l�, notre conversation nous a amen�s � �voquer les multiples indications laiss�es par Rudolf Steiner pour le travail de gu�rison de la terre.  � cette �vocation est venu s'ajouter le ph�nom�ne observable de la vigueur croissante du mouvement biodynamique au Canada.  Tout ceci a fait ressortir une id�e que nous aimerions proposer et coordonner, en tant que Conseil, comme faisant partie du raz de mar�e de c�l�brations que conna�tra le pays : Que soit r�alis� au m�me moment, au plus grand nombre possible d'endroits � travers le pays, l'acte de brasser et de vaporiser des pr�parations biodynamiques.  Ceci pourrait �tre vu comme un geste de gu�rison pour la terre en relation directe avec le fait que Rudolf Steiner s'est incarn� il y a 150 ans...    Lisez plus
Upcoming Events

150th ANNIVERSARY OF RUDOLF STEINER'S BIRTH
- Exposition.  15-19 February, 2011.  Richmond Hill Centre For The Performing Arts. Contact Daniel Hafner

CAMA CONFERENCE: "Becoming More Effective In Treating Cancer", with Dr. Maurice Orange. 
24-26 February 2011.  (Public lecture on 23 February) Thornhill,   Details.

RUDOLF STEINER IN THE SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF HUMANITY. 
February 25-27, 2011 at the Goetheanum.  Details.
For information about other activities relating to the 150th anniversary year of Rudolf Steiner's birth, see the "World Movement" Section below.

IN SEARCH OF THE ESOTERIC TO THE EXOTIC
Tour of Israel, Jordan and Turkey. April 10 - 28, 2011
Poster

I AM - THE INNER AND OUTER LIGHT
3-7 August, 2011,  at Aland, an island in the Baltic Sea
Details.

CONFERENCE OF THE 19 LESSONS. 
School of Spiritual Science in North America. August 7-12, 2011 in Fair Oaks, California.  Details.

THE MYSTERIES OF WILL, DEATH AND RESURRECTION IN AMERICA
5th Pan-American Conference, Argentina from July 31st to August 7, 2011.
Heather Rombough - 
March 2, 1962 - August 1, 2010
 
- by Henriette van Hees and friends

HeatherWho was she and where did she come from? What was she like? Was there something in her character that stood out for us? What can be shared at this moment in time about her amongst people who knew her and who wish to bid her farewell? Here are some contributions from people who got to know Heather through Anthroposophy.

...Heather lived up to both the meaning of her name and that of her place of birth: heather is the small shrub with pink or white flowers which commonly grow in rocky areas and she was born in Outlook, (Saskatchewan). She came to Edmonton in the 1990s bringing her gift of a sunny outlook. Through the puppets she so artistically created, Heather lived her passion and contributed to healing and building community...Read the full article.

Read the poem "Opening" written for Heather by Diane Robitelle.
RESEARCH CORNER
 

The Great Cosmic Opposition: Jupiter in Pisces, Saturn in Virgo 

- by Debbie Allen

(See her accompanying photos at the bottom of the sidebar) 

The September 2010 issue of the ASC e-News carried an article by Mr. Michael Roboz on the Great Opposition of Jupiter and Saturn. Mr. Roboz brought this topic to the English speaking members through his contemplation of that which was brought forth in the German SternKalendar, and a Camphill article by Hazel Straker, "The Challenge of Saturn and Jupiter Beings". To this topic I wish to add my further thoughts on the matter and thank Mr. Roboz for first bringing this to our greater attention.

The manifestations of the Spiritual Hierarchies working together take shape before our eyes, presenting themselves as the planets traversing the Heavens leaving behind the trails of the Cosmic Script they have written, and pressing before themselves the Cosmic Script to come. As the physical Planets move about in their orbits around the Sun they come together and move apart in great rhythms; the myriad of Spiritual Beings associated with these planets are all the while directing their conversations to the Earth in our yearly orbit around the Sun. From our human earth-centered perspective this plays out in the nightly heavens as the movement of the Moon and Planets against the nightly backdrop of the Zodiac. The movement of the Sun through the Zodiac makes it appear as if the Zodiacal Constellations get swallowed up by the encroaching Sun to appear again months later in the evening resulting in the seasons of the Zodiac.  Read full article.

Debbie also points out that there will be a full lunar eclipse at the Winter Solstice.  Click here to see a separate article about this event...Ed

Phenomenology Website

- by Tom Gelder (Netherlands)

GelderRecently a new website on Phenomenology was put online. On the website information and exercises can be found, not only on phenomenology, but on observing and the twelve senses as well. Furthermore information is given on threefoldness of man and mammals. Some booklets can be downloaded. The English site is a part of a larger Dutch site. In future some more pages will be translated. The site is made by Tom van Gelder, a former teacher for many years at the biodynamic agricultural school Warmonderhof in the Netherlands. The contents of the site, especially the exercises, was made in cooperation with the students. Click here, then click on the English flag.
THE WORLD MOVEMENT

Emerson College Update
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The College is at the heart of a new initiative called Emerson Trust which aims to respond to the needs of our times by inviting new initiatives, and working with the local and global communities in the fields of research, healing, community, housing and more generally, social renewal. For details, visit the (new) Emerson College Website.
International Links
150th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's Birth
Anthroposophy Worldwide # 10

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Click here for the link to Anthroposophy Worldwide #10.

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