2016 Conference 
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August 7 - 14, 2016 Call for Participant Research Details
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A new study group has formed to explore innovative ideas around money and economics. The focus will be mostly on ideas arising from the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. Ongoing at Hesperus in Thornhill.
MONEY AND CHANGE, Stories from the Frontline of Philanthropy: Jon Duschinsky, Hesperus Village, Monday October 5, 7:00 pm
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Institute Rudolf Steiner Quebec Calendar
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Vancouver
Deepening of Anthroposophy through the Arts: Calendar of the Soul.
with Ursula Zimmerman. 18 - 19 September The Spirituality of Tone and Movement: Celebrating 100 Years of Tone Eurythmy. Friday Sept. 25, 2015, 7:30pm
Michaelmas Conference
with Joan Sleigh & Philip Thatcher and many artists, 25 - 26 September. Poster
Eurythmy workshop for Professionals, 27 September
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MICHAELMAS FESTIVAL: in collaboration with Anthroposophical Society in Canada, Toronto Waldorf School, Toronto Branch & Hesperus Village: September 29 - October 2
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THREE LECTURES ON ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY
: Rev. Jonah Evans
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen Street East, Toronto
Thursday, Sept. 17
Thursday, Sept. 24
Thursday, Oct. 8
General Admission - $20 per lecture; Students, Seniors - $15 per lecture
Lecture 1 The Hidden God - Christ in You (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
Lecture 2 The Evolving God - Christ in Us (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
Lecture 3 The Resurrecting God - Christ and the Earth (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
NOBODY GETS ME! The Challenge of Empathy in Parenting and Teaching: Joan Sleigh: Friday, Oct. 2, Waldorf Academy, 250 Madison Avenue 7:00 PM
- 9:00PM
General Admission - $25; Students, Seniors - $15
THE ART OF LIVING COLOUR: Stephanie Barwick. An eight Saturdays course starting October 17.
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Nova Scotia
MICHAELMAS FESTIVAL: Horton Arts Centre, Grand Pre, NS; 12 noon start Full details
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R�al Choini�re crossed the threshold on Wednesday, 8 July, 2015
Diane Silver Hassell crossed the threshold on Saturday, 8 August, 2015
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Contact Info
Anthroposophical Society in Canada
# 130A - 1 Hesperus Rd.
Thornhill, ON
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Administrator 416-892-3656
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The summer "that is spent has given itself to me" (Soul calendar, verse 23) as we now move toward the autumn solstice on to Michaelmas. Below there are details of Michaelmas festivals stretching across our broad country from Nova Scotia in the east, through Toronto in the centre to Vancouver in the west. I hope you enjoy the report from the Worldwide Biography Conference held near Dresden in June. We are fortunate that this year both Bodo von Plato
and Joan Sleigh, members of the Executive Council at the Goetheanum, are visiting Canada. Joan is just about to arrive and many of us enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to both meet and work with Bodo. For a view on part of his visit to Toronto please read Robert McKay's article.
Given the question asked at the AGM: 'Where are the youth and young people?" and the inquiry from Timothy Cox in the May/June issue asking for those interested in working with young anthroposophists to connect, we have a timely report from our youth representative Ariel-Paul Saunders! Timothy Nadelle provides the fifth and final part of his series leading up to the Freedom Mystery Conference and performance of the first three acts of the Portal of Initiation.
I was unable to include the obituary of Steve Roboz in the last edition due to time constraints. However, it is included in this edition along with the one for Diane Silver Hassell.
With warm greetings
Jef Saunders
Administrator
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American and Canadian Contingent at the conference centre
 Report Worldwide Biography Conference 2015
In June, 2015, four of us from Canada attended the 8th Worldwide Biography Conference. This was a rich gathering of 150 people from 28 countries. This year the conference was organized by a group of ten, mostly younger people. The quality of their preparation and carrying of the conference was inspiring, lively and at times included spontaneous changes. These biography conferences are largely experiential, with opportunities to choose a master class, to hear about research from each other, to meet in small groups and in a larger plenum format, with some excellent keynote speakers. The theme of this year's conference was "Wounds and Wonders." It was particularly relevant to the theme that the location was near Dresden, Germany, a place where wounds run deep, but also new life, a rebuilding gesture is very strong. We all spent one day in Dresden visiting various sites and museums. We heard a deeply moving talk by Axel-Schmidt-Godelitz who lives locally and creates and facilitates biography talks between individuals living in East and West Germany. It gave a clear picture of how biography can bring us to a very human level with each other, where judgment is suspended, where forgiveness is possible, sometimes simply through sharing and listening to each other's story. Full report |
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COLLABORATING TO AWAKEN INNER CULTURE
by Robert McKay
The courage to develop one's own way based on the multitude of Rudolf Steiner's indications has not yet overcome the idea that there is a defined path of schooling that must be travelled according to certain guidelines. This is a place where we can help one another.1
Yes, we need to study Rudolf Steiner's indications carefully, deeply, and repeatedly, but we must also take our experience seriously in finding effective starting points for the cultivation of inner culture. Interestingly, taking our own experiences seriously is greatly facilitated through honest conversation, through meeting others and hearing their experiences. As Bodo notes, his own meditative practice is "determined to a very substantial degree by conversations with others and the stimulus they provide."2 Bodo brings a decidedly collaborative dimension to the foundational task of cultivating a rich inner life. As Steiner explains: A person who darts from one impression of the outer world to another, who constantly seeks distraction, cannot find the way to higher knowledge. The student must not blunt himself to the outer world, but while lending himself to its impressions, he should be directed by his rich inner life.3 Full article
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Spiritual Strivings of Youth Section of the School for Spiritual Science
Please note: Although the crowd-funding date is finished, donations can be made directly to the Youth or Members travel fund for the Anthroposophical Society in Canada and are eligible for a tax receipt. (Editor)
I am excited to share the current surge of new activity in the youth section. There are more people, resources, inspiration and programming than I have seen in my four years of work with this section!
We are in the midst of our second crowd funding campaign of the year. The goal is to raise $3500 to send four representatives to a four-day leadership gathering in Dornach in September. The fundraising is going well and we appreciate all of the support that is pouring in!
Please take a minute to have a look at our fundraising page and consider donating, even $1, and sharing it with someone else you know. This is the web address: http://igg.me/at/youthsection.
We are also in full swing planning our fall conference in connection with the AGM of the American Anthroposophical Society, in St. Louis. For this event we are looking closely at the question of race as a catalyst for moral development, and working with a few key texts including the book: Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk and The Spiritual Foundations of Morality Lectures by Rudolf Steiner.
Behind the scenes we are working on building up a consistent newsletter with an engaged readership and a website to help people connect and stay connected. Continue full article
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FOUNDATION STUDIES IN ANTHROPOSOPHY at the South Shore Waldorf School, NS:
New course begins September 12, 2015. 100 hours bi-weekly on Saturdays, 10 am - 4:30pm.
FOUNDATION STUDIES IN ANTHROPOSOPHY: Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto. Open House & Introductory Evening
Wednesday September 16, 7:30pm - 9:30pm.
Website
CAMBRIDGE MUSIC CONFERENCE: September 25 - 26. Website
See also below Visit by Joan Sleigh.
MICHAELMAS CELEBRATION: Toronto Waldorf School & Hesperus Campus, September 29th - October 2nd
PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY PROGRAMME: September 24 - 27 with Regine Kurek, Nelson, BC. Poster
VISIT BY JOAN SLEIGH
Joan Sleigh member of the Executive Council will be in:
Vancouver: September 25 - 29
Also see left sidebar for Vancouver Network Updates 26 September - Vancouver Michaelmas 2015 Cambridge Music Conference (North Vancouver, BC) 27 September - Christian Community (Burnaby, BC) 27 September - Greater Vancouver Therapeutical Society for Anthroposophic Medicine (North Vancouver, BC) 28 September - Cascadia/Urban Camphill (North Vancouver, BC) 29 September - Ita Wegman Association/Camphill
(Duncan, Vancouver Island, BC. and in
Toronto: September 30 - October 2 Also see left sidebar for Toronto Branch and Thornhill Group Network Updates
October 1 - THE NEW MICHAELMAS FESTIVAL: The New Michaelmas Festival: withstanding the trial of powerlessness, spiritual intelligence, the sense-organ of the heart, free deeds of will. Hesperus Village, 7:30pm
October 2 - NOBODY GETS ME! THE CHALLENGE OF EMPATHY IN PARENTING AND TEACHING: Waldorf Academy, Toronto, 7:30pm
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TIME TO PLAY: Exploring the role of play with Kim Hunter. Toronto Waldorf School, Thornhill, October 8, 9:00am and 8:00 pm. Flyer Time to Play film trailer Click to view
FREEDOM MYSTERY CONFERENCE: October 23 - 25, 2015 at the Christian Community, Thornhill, Ontario. Website
WITNESS the first third of Rudolf Steiner's Portal of Initiation, with an introductory lecture by Christian Community Priest, Daniel Hafner, Oct. 31, 2015, 1:00pm - 5:30pm at the Christian Community,Thornhill, Ontario.
STEINER, BEUYS AND THE BEES: November 1 Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto, Prof. Frederick Amrine. Website
CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE TO GROWN-UP WISDOM: Friday and Saturday, November 6 & 7
Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto,Waldorf Development Conference, keynote with Dorit Winter
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Meeting the Other, The Portal of Initiation & the Freedom Mystery Conference
"I had to sink myself in all the people who in their words revealed themselves just now." Johannes Thomasius, Scene 2, The Portal of Initiation, by Rudolf Steiner.
"Tearing the Self out of oneself and entering into another is part and parcel of self-knowledge."
Rudolf Steiner on the Portal of Initiation, September 17, 1910.
In August, Bodo von Plato visited Toronto and led a full day workshop on the subject of Concentration, Contemplation and Meditation at Hesperus Village. Bodo asked us to share our individual "tabernacles", those sacred moments in our lives through which we experience the spirit. I was struck by the number of people who in various ways experienced these holy moments in the "meeting of the other". It was clear from what they said that these encounters were moments of intense, actively listening.
In contemplating this, Steiner's words at the end of chapter one of the Philosophy of Freedom resonated:
"The way to the heart is through the head. Whenever it is not merely the expression of bare sexual instinct, it depends on the mental picture we form of the loved one. And the more idealistic these mental pictures are, just so much the more blessed is our love. Here too, thought is the father of feeling. It is said that love makes us blind to the failings of the loved one. But this can be expressed the other way round, namely, that it is just for the good qualities that love opens the eyes. Many pass by those good qualities without noticing them. One, however, perceives them and just because he does, love awakens in his soul. What else has he done but made a mental picture of what hundreds have failed to see? Love is not theirs because they lack the mental picture."
I have a friend, Francois, who does work in a fascinating field called "cognitive ergonomics". In contradistinction to expert systems, Continue
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STEVEN (Istevan) ROBOZ
A TRULY MICHAELIC SOUL; PASSING OF AN ERA
Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 26, 1918-North Vancouver, BC, May 20, 2015
Steven was born in Hungary at a time when, in parts of the countryside, it was still a feudal system, which came to an end when the Soviets occupied Hungary in 1945. It was still a time of chivalry. As an artillery officer of the Royal Hungarian Army, Steven wore a sword with his dress uniform. When entertaining women , imbibing expresso in a restaurant on Vaci Utza , he had to ask a superior officer for permission to remove the sword. At the beginning of the Second World War, officers paraded on horseback and
horses still pulled his heavy artillery. Steven was a
contemporary of Rudolf Steiner for his first seven years. He
did not meet Steiner, but was privileged to meet several of
Steiner's pupils. Steven's Anthroposophical teacher was
Walter Johannes Stein. Remembering the type of books in his
father's library, Steven mused that his father might have been
an Anthroposophist, as Steiner gave lectures in Budapest in
May/June of 1909, or perhaps he was a member of another spiritual movement.
Steven was born in 1918 at home close to the Parliament Building in Pest, part of Budapest. (Completing the circle, Steven died peacefully in his home.) His parents could hear the guns from First World War in the distance. On the day of Steven's birth, the Communists under.............
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DIANE SILVER HASSELL
 May 26, 1937 - August 8, 20156 Diane (Helen) - on Saturday, August 8, 2015 at the age of 78, after complications following a massive stroke on July 31. The background to the stroke included neurological Lyme Disease and pericarditis. As a child, she had survived experimental radium treatments and later, several cancers. Pre-deceased by parents Al Goldblatt and Mary (nee Vogel). Survived by brother Barry Goldblatt; husband Dr. Christopher Hassell and previous husband Dr. Harvey Silver; sons Mike Silver and Dr. Seth Silver (Dr. Suzanne); step-mother to Anthony, S�bastian, Raphael and Emily Hassell; grandchildren Daniel and Jackie Silver, LX (Alexandra) and Jeremy Silver-Hahr; stetp-grandchildren Dylan, Hilton, Sophia, Yakko, Eliaz and Giovanna. Born in Toronto on May 26, 1937, she became a public school teacher, taught in Reform synagogues in Toronto and Buffalo, and became department head at Holy Blossom Temple. While in Buffalo 1962 - 1966, she was active in the civil rights movement. Full obituary |
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Anthroposophy Worldwide# 7/8 & 9
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