by Richard Chomko

As a member who hasn't been to many AGMs lately but used to go to them 20 years ago, I felt called to this last one partly because it was happening in my own backyard. However, as I still needed to attend to the Village Market Friday night and Saturday (where I am the manager), I joined the proceedings only at 4 pm Saturday.

Reflecting on the weekend, my first intimation of the conference was seeing strange anthroposophists (i.e. not from around here) wandering the halls of Hesperus. These arrivals from afar, this convergence, awoke in me a certain feeling.

Unlike the centrifugal, radiating process of death and dissolution, this coming together of so many from so far, in a centripetal gesture, brought a feeling of engendering, of coming into being, that augured well for the days to follow.

Jumping in at the Jump Gate.

At the recent AGM and conference in Toronto, questions arose: Where are the young anthroposophists? How can we be of service to the next generation of Michaelites?

If you have the will to be part of a small initiative group taking up these questions, please forward your name and email address to Timothy Cox by June 30th - E-mail

Dear Friends,

Council has been working hard at getting a national website posted, where information about Anthroposophy, and in particular Anthroposophy in Canada, can be displayed and shared with members and the general public. We have progressed to the point where we have a goal of having the website active and 'live' by the end of summer, or early autumn. Council is now asking for content to be added to the website in the form of Anthroposophical initiatives that are taking place in Canada. These initiatives could, for example, be work conducted at a biodynamic farm or Waldorf School, or artistic or therapeutic work being done in a community setting. Any work that has an Anthroposophical foundation will be considered for the website. Photos, stories, videos web links, or any other content that can add a living dimension to these initiatives is strongly encouraged.

 If you have an initiative that you would like to consider posting on the website, please contact Dorothy Lebaron or John Bach.

On behalf of Council,

In a certain mood of soul, we can become aware of a gulf which separates us from everything which confronts us in life.  This gulf appears to delineate insurmountable boundaries to what we can know.  What can a person truly know with certainty - first hand, all anthroposophical literature aside! - about the being of a tree, the process of remembering, the inner experience of even his closest friends?  This gulf can cast doubt upon everything a person thinks he knows, leaving him feeling estranged from the world.  Even when life's obligations or distractions intervene and awareness of the gulf fades, a nagging feeling can remain that he is unable to answer life's most pressing questions.

Or perhaps an experience shakes him out of the sleep of everyday consciousness, as happens to Strader, the scientist or engineer, in scene one of Steiner's first drama, when he witnesses a seeress in trance and hears her visionary words.  His friend, Capesius, tells him, "I fear... that you are losing through this your certainty of mind; soon over everything for you black doubt will spread its veil.Continue with full article