Council members and administration wish to thank you wholeheartedly for all your annual financial contributions and donations to the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. We greatly appreciate your dedicated financial support which helps to enable Anthroposophy to be active in the world through willing souls Canada-wide and at the Goetheanum.
With heartfelt thanks, Jean, Judy, Douglas, Arie, John, Dorothy, and Mark
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Click here to read a report about the recent Art Section Meeting in Thornhill.
Click here to read a report of the Hitsch visit to Thornhill in July. (Scroll down to find the report.)
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Announcing the CAMPHILL RESEARCH NETWORK -
Researching Community
Communicating Research
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 Introducing APANA
for upcoming programs and more info
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CLAUDE MAINVILLE (Val David QC) crossed the threshold on October 31, 2014, at 11:55 p.m. Read article.
GERHARD RUDOLPH (Thornhill) died on 7 November 2014.
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Contact Info
Anthroposophical Society in Canada
# 131 - 1 Hesperus Rd.
Thornhill, ON
L4J 0G9
Mark McAlister Administrator 416-892-3656
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Letter from the General Secretary
 - by Arie van Ameringen
The meeting of the General Secretaries and the members of the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science, held from the 4th to the 7th of November, explored three major subjects: the theme of the year (The "I" recognizes itself in the Light of the Michaelic Affirmation of the World); the General Anthroposophical Section; and recent events at the Goetheanum.
...Helmut Goldeman spoke of how the intellect is now situated exclusively in the region of the head and engenders dead thoughts. Yet today every human being has the power to reconquer living thinking through inner work. This new way of thinking can become a general practice, but in the process a human being must first attain self-knowledge to make way for the Michaelic impulse within. Each individual must face his own inner self in order to defeat egoism. He emphasized how the "I" can transform itself through the exercises described by Rudolf Steiner. Dr. Gaspieri affirmed that we already possess the strength to say "yes" to the spirit even though the "I" and the world have become more and more separated for over a century. We can access the Christ impulse within through a process of healing which creates a closer link with the spiritual world. Since the Mystery of Golgotha the human being is called upon to experience the various stages of love in order to reach the Logos. Joan Sleigh reflected on the fact that giving oneself up to the spirit world means that one does not live in a mood of sympathy/antipathy. One must strengthen one's inner self to be able to connect with devotion to the invisible world. The self remains strong if it lives in devotion to, and love for, this connection between the manifest world and the elemental world. Michael requires that we develop the strength to act in the outside world, and Christ requires that we develop the necessary strength to act within ourselves. The new Michaelic language must vibrate in harmony with the new language spoken by Christ... Read full article.
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Upcoming Events
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN CANADA. Annual members meeting and annual Classholders Conference, 15-18 May, 2015,
Thornhill, ON. Details TBA
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Conversations About Our Purpose
- Jean Balekian
...Nova Scotia was the final stage of the conversation workshops on the Purpose of the ASC that we have been holding across Canada, starting with the 2013 AGM in Montreal and then continuing the workshops in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
In our review of these workshops, we recognized how the results fell into three distinct categories. The first, a deepening of our understanding of the human being both as a creature of the earth and as a spiritual entity; the second, a strengthening of the ties among members and links with the world at large; and finally, actively participating towards the evolution of society...Read full article
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Council In Nova Scotia
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- by Dorothy LeBaron and Judy King
From October 10th to October 13th the Council and General Secretary had a wonderful opportunity to meet and work in Nova Scotia. The Council, invited by NS member Judy King with support from the local Members and Friends' Group, were warmly welcomed in the community, and they were surprised and very excited to hear about the many initiatives taking place on the East Coast. It had been eleven years since the Council had travelled to Nova Scotia...Read full article
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Treasure Quest - Continued
 - by Tim Nadelle
...On the weekend of October 23 - 25, 2015, you are invited to join colleagues to take up this epistemological treasure quest at a weekend conference to be held at the Christian Community church in Thornhill, Ontario (Toronto). Please visit www.philosophyfreedom.ca and leave your contact information if you would like to receive occasional updates about the conference and be informed when we are ready to start taking pre-registrations.
The planning group for the conference met in September (2014) to work through the Foundational Exercise and discuss the conference objectives and structure. At that time we decided that for October 2015 we will focus on the first part of the book, "Knowledge of Freedom". An imagination is already developing for a subsequent conference for October 2016 focusing on exercises which are implicit in the second part of the book, "The Reality of Freedom"...
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- by Helen Marr-Cass
Tri-Fold Books has been serving the anthroposophical community since 1981, importing and distributing books for the major anthroposophic publishers in the US and UK. We would like to offer trade discounts to any members of the Anthroposophical Society responsible for book table sales in connection with Branch Activities.
WINTER BOOK SALE - Warm up your winter reading with Steiner! We are also offering a 20% discount to members of the Anthroposophical Society on all titles by Rudolf Steiner from December to the end of February 2015.
Please contact Tri-Fold Books for details:
Telephone Toll Free: 1-866-572-2300
Email: info@trifoldbooks.com
Fax: 1-877-815-1572
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Anthroposophy Worldwide # 12
 Click here to read Anthroposophy Worldwide # 12. ***NOTE NEW PASSWORD***
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