Dear friends – I have been connecting the synchronistic dots that are like nourishing breadcrumbs on the path – affirming the work of the 10:10 Thought-Seed– a collective mediation done every day at 10:10 AM/PM, co-creating an imagination of the ‘Earth Becoming a Sun’ – that many of us have been holding since around this time last year. If you haven’t yet tuned in, it was part of my 1st offerings for the ‘I Think Speech’ podcast: Thought-Experiment – Egregore – Project Thought-Seed – The 10:10 How to.
Mark 14:51-52
In the evolution of humanity thru the Christ impulse, the seed for the future spiritualization of the Earth was planted. We are given a clue in the appearance spoken about in Mark 14:51-52, of the mysterious ‘young man’ whose outer garment is pulled away in the garden of Gethsemane at the arrest – the commandment of Christ’s sacrificial deed. This is an unveiling of a future cosmic process in which the human being, as well as the Earth Being Herself, will gradually completely spiritualize our physical aspects – allowing us to be transformed into a New Sun.
A friend wrote me the other day talking about a study conducted by German researchers at the University of Kassel showing that the area around the heart of an average person emits about 20 photons of light per second. A person who meditates from their heart center, sending love & light to others – emits an amazing 100,000 photons per second. That’s 5000 times more than the average human being. Numerous studies have shown that when these photons are infused with a loving & healing intent, their frequency & vibration increases to the point where they can literally change matter, heal disease, & transform negative events.
The Heart also loves, feels, thinks & remembers – communicating with other hearts. Pulsing continuously – each beat throbbing with impressions – which we must control thru our right thinking – moving them thru every organ of our body & out into the etheric, & astral realms we all share. ~ https://journals.sfu.ca/seemj/index.php/seemj/article/viewFile/56/44
Myong Sae
It is far more full & beautiful than what modern science would have us believe. A beyond the cellular symphony that is the very essence of our being – it is a magnetic & radiating vortex – a tool of human evolution, in the creation of the New Sun of the New Jerusalem.
1308 – Deathday of Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, Scholastic philosopher, & academic, considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages (together with Thomas Aquinas & William of Ockham)
1674 – Deathday of John Milton, English poet & philosopher. He wrote at a time of religious flux & political upheaval, & is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black & white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1901 – Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1917 – The first Council of People’s Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1933 –New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
‘Tuning to the Stars’: Eurythmy for the Holy Nights with Jan Ranck* – Sacred Geometry, the Planets and the Zodiac LIVE IN-PERSON 26-30 Dec. 2021 at the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4 pm – 5 pm And at 8pm on 31 Dec. as part of our annual NYE Conscious Community Gathering (details TBA)
$100 for all 6 sessions, or $22 for each individual session. Make your payment using PayPal or QuickPay with Zelle to chase@rschicago.org (please indicate in the notes that it is for the Holy Nights Eurythmy) Cash at the door, or send a check to: Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60618-2953 USA
For more info. Contact Cultural Events & Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer-Ginsberg hag@RSchicago.org
* Jan Ranck – Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy at the Eurythmeum in Dornach with Lea van der Pals, where she subsequently taught. In 1984 she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete her eurythmy therapy training in Stuttgart in 1989, moving afterward to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992) and was an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College from 1999. Jan has held Master Classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College and Spring Valley. She is the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum.
“It has been said that we are the ones who forge the sword of Michael. However, there is something more to it. It has to do with the reality in the hidden world that, what needs to be prepared as the sword of Michael needs to be carried out on an altar, which cannot be seen externally. This altar is located under the Earth, underground, really. The understanding of nature powers leads to the understanding that the sword of Michael needs to be forged on an altar which is underground. There it needs to be found by receptive souls. The main thing is that you contribute by helping so that more and more souls find the sword of Michael. And it is not enough that it is forged. The task is only completed when the sword is found...”~Rudolf Steiner (GA 217A The Task of Enlightenment of Youth, Address in Koberwitz, June 17, 1924)
Altarpiece, Group X Painting by Hilma af Klint
Our modern Grail Quest demands that we develop heart-thinking to unlock the secrets of the elemental forces – allowing us to forge the Earth into an altar. Our spiritual work is to find our delicate organ of human conscience, ‘piercing through the veil’ like Parzival, to find & consecrate the sword of benediction – cutting thru the wastelands to heal the wounded Fischer King within.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The quest is always a question. Can we stand & remain steadfast on our journey – unfolding our higher ego-forces in the midst of a cynical one-sided intellectual culture that remains present in ourselves & in our companions on this spiritual journey—a continual giving & receiving of the sword which wounds as well as blesses?
David Klein
The path that Parzival opened for us will never be achieved by adhering to outer authorities. The Parzival in us blazes a unique path through trial & error, an ever questing for the development of our individual ego forces. The point of the quest is to tear down the old paradigms to discover our own inner authority & follow that path even into the darkness of the underworld, where will we take up the sword as Michaelic warriors, for Freedom & Love.
680 – The 6th Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published
1775 – Goethe arrives in Weimar
1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British
1837 – Death-day of Elijah Parish Lovejoy an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor & abolitionist. He was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois.
1867 – Birthday of Marie Curie, Polish chemist & physicist, Nobel Prize laureate winner
1870- Papal Infallibility is proclaimed by Pius IX
1879 – Birthday of Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist & politician, founded the Red Army. Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks just before the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He would go on to become one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution
1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so
1913 – Birthday of Albert Camus, a French philosopher, author, & journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957
1922 – The Order of the Freemason’s official ‘condemnation’ of Rudolf Steiner
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America
1962 – Death-day of Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian 39th First Lady of the United States
‘Tuning to the Stars’: Eurythmy for the Holy Nights with Jan Ranck* – Sacred Geometry, the Planets and the Zodiac LIVE IN-PERSON 26-30 Dec. 2021 at the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4 pm – 5 pm And at 8pm on 31 Dec. as part of our annual NYE Conscious Community Gathering (details TBA)
$100 for all 6 sessions, or $22 for each individual session. Make your payment using PayPal or QuickPay with Zelle to chase@rschicago.org (please indicate in the notes that it is for the Holy Nights Eurythmy) Cash at the door, or send a check to: Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60618-2953 USA
For more info. Contact Cultural Events & Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer-Ginsberg hag@RSchicago.org
* Jan Ranck – Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy at the Eurythmeum in Dornach with Lea van der Pals, where she subsequently taught. In 1984 she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete her eurythmy therapy training in Stuttgart in 1989, moving afterward to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992) and was an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College from 1999. Jan has held Master Classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College and Spring Valley. She is the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum.
Today in the Windy-City, on this Eve of All Hallows Eve the grey rain is pulling the leaves off the trees. Crumpled brown oak leaves, yellow fans from the chestnuts & gingko, bright red Japanese maples, & the rich gold of beech lie in heaps like the embers of Summer’s fire.
A tree in Summer is shaped like the alchemical symbol for Fire, the upward-pointing triangle or pyramid. It spreads its leaves & reaches up to absorb the Sun’s rays, transforming light into food through the process of photosynthesis.
At All Hallows-tide, the life-force returns to the roots: energetically it becomes the downward-pointing triangle, symbol of Water. Now the tree’s work is different, but every bit as important as in the growing season. Fallen leaves protect soil from being washed away by winter snow. They also provide a veritable feast for insects & micro-organisms who break them down & increase the availability of nutrients to the soil & roots of the tree.
Trees teach us the importance of releasing, knowing that each one of our past experiences – whatever they may be – ‘good or bad’, has the potential of enriching the soil of the soul.
Burlie Bacster
The fire of the great Spiritual Sun that powers our evolutionary journey through countless lifetimes now goes deep within to be absorbed & transformed in the cauldron of winter’s inward light. In Irish & Scottish tradition, where this festival is known as Samhain, meaning Summer’s end – the end of the light half of the year, this cauldron is stirred by the Cailleach, the Dark Goddess, & it is thru her alchemy that we are “cooked” to provide nourishment for another cycle of soul-growth.
Richard Waitt
I ran across an article today in Atlas Obscura about how Irish families fixed charms not only using trees, but onto all kinds of vegetables to be served up during the All Souls Season: colcannon, potato, cabbage, kale, & onion mash. This I knew – BUT – I had never heard of the ‘kale-based Halloween rituals’ practiced across the British Isles. That’s right kale! – How Scottish youths sneak onto local farms or into their neighbors’ gardens at midnight, blindfold each other, pull stalks of kale from the ground, then ‘read them’, analyzing their length & girth, the quality of their cores – the amount of dirt caked onto them – to divine what kind of partner they’ll marry. According to folklore some folks hung kale over their door overnight, & then placed it under their pillow to prompt prophetic dreams. Children who wanted a little sister or brother could place a stalk of kale outside their parents’ door to nudge a sibling into being.
Popular accounts describe these ritual divination games as ancient Celtic practices, but the first clear evidence of blindfolded midnight kale picking in Scotland crops up (haha) in a 1769 travelogue – it was also featured in Scottish literary hero Robert Burns’s 1785 poem “Hallowe’en”. From there, it pops up frequently in regional folklore collections.
Scottish newspapers talked about people in Halloween parades wielding kale stalks topped with candles as torches. Kale – a uniquely hearty crop, with its cousin cabbage, were two crops even the poorest folk could reliably grow. Halloween of course falls during the traditional cabbage & kale harvest season. In Scotland, kale was so ubiquitous that home gardens are still often called kaleyards. The bells of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh tolling at noon were known as the ‘kale bell’ – calling workers in for their midday meal.
There are a tons of other Halloween divination traditions based on matchmaking using common foods, such as cracking egg whites into water or dropping apple peels onto the ground (to form your beloved’s initials). Bobbing for apples – a homage to the harvesting of the apple trees – was all about getting potential suitors up close & personal.
Of course, in America Halloween became a children’s holiday, focused on juvenile pranks & candy. And so unless we tune in again to our ancestors, & honor the natural world, this Holy Season meant to communicate with the so-called-dead, who are in the O so near spiritual world, along with those souls waiting to be reborn – is left loveless & kale-less…
~see you in the kaleyard…
Xox
~hag
30 October 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Find Perseus with the help of the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. Cassiopeia’s distinctive M or W shape is ascending in the northeast on Northern Hemisphere autumn evenings, with Perseus following. Cassiopeia and Perseus travel together in a great arc around the northern sky. Be sure to look for the star Algol, sometimes called the Ghoul Star or Demon Star…to reminder to tame those forces during this All Hallows time…
Sophie Takata
Here is a short video offering of ‘Michaelmas as a Festival of the Future’given as part of the Applied Anthroposophy Chrysalis Group: ‘The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation into the New Mysteries’ with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg and Nancy Melvin.
“Where, then, is the Grail, which today bears the name of Parzival? Where can it be found? In the course of my research it had become apparent that the name must be sought in the stellar script. And then, in a day which I must regard as specially significant for me, I was shown where the gold-gleaming vessel is to be found in reality, so that through it – through its symbolical expression in the stellar script – we are led to the secret of the Grail. And then I saw in the stellar script something that anyone can see – only he will not immediately discern the secret. For one day, while I was observing the gold-gleaming sickle of the moon in inner vision, as this appears in the heavens, with the dark moon like a great disk dimly visible within it, it dawned on me: with physical sight one could see the gold-gleaming moon – ganganda greida, the journeying viaticum – and within it the large host, the dark, wafer-like disc. This is not to be seen if one merely glances superficially at the moon, but it is evident if one looks closely – and there, in wonderful letters of the occult script, was the name Parzival!”~Rudolf Steiner, The Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Chapter 5, “Seeking for Signs of Parzival”, excerpts from Steiner’s lectures given at Leipzig on 1 January 1914 … focus of the November 3 meeting.
These chapters from the book can be found online at the CRC’s website by clicking this link A transcript of the 1914 Torquay lectures can be found on the RS Archive by clicking this link
The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing study conversation. The study has been divided among two volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “The Mysteries of the Holy Grail — from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation.” The book was compiled and edited by Matthew Barton, published by Rudolf Steiner Press in 2010.
This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer). To connect to the audio/video-conference:
Video Conference Details: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88210505106 Meeting ID: 882 1050 5106 One tap mobile +13017158592,,81116556762# US (Germantown) +13126266799,,81116556762# US (Chicago)
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7:15 Welcome and Introductions 7:18 Verse 7:25 Study led by volunteers Note: CRC team will ID volunteers Camille – pg. 32 to 37 Marianne – pg. 38 to 43 7:50 Conversation 8:25 ID volunteers for next meeting 8:28 Close with verse There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of physical forests as of old, but through the forest of darkened minds. They are armed with a spiritual armor and an inner sun makes them radiant. Out of them shines healing, healing that flows from the knowledge of the human being as a spiritual being. They must create inner order, inner justice, peace and conviction in the darkness of our time. ~Karl Konig
‘Tuning to the Stars’: Eurythmy for the Holy Nights with Jan Ranck* – Sacred Geometry, the Planets and the Zodiac LIVE IN-PERSON 26-30 Dec. 2021 at the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4 pm – 5 pm And at 8pm on 31 Dec. as part of our annual NYE Conscious Community Gathering (details TBA)
$100 for all 6 sessions, or $22 for each individual session. Make your payment using PayPal or QuickPay with Zelle to chase@rschicago.org (please indicate in the notes that it is for the Holy Nights Eurythmy) Cash at the door, or send a check to: Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60618-2953 USA
For more info. Contact Cultural Events & Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer-Ginsberg hag@RSchicago.org
* Jan Ranck – Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy at the Eurythmeum in Dornach with Lea van der Pals, where she subsequently taught. In 1984 she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete her eurythmy therapy training in Stuttgart in 1989, moving afterward to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992) and was an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College from 1999. Jan has held Master Classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College and Spring Valley. She is the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum.
The golden Autumn colors are beginning to tint blood red. The Soul of the World- Persephone – is about to cross the threshold, & Natura is inviting us to fire up our inner flame.
Stepping into Scorpio, we can experience the Spiritual Sun, the power of the dark behind the light. The veil gets thinner as we approach Samhain, the Eve of All Hallows – When we can touch in with the ‘so-called-dead’ as spiritual beings. Our inner lantern illuminating the light of our thoughts can be offered up to those on the other-side, sparking our connection. To achieve real understanding, a true connection with these realms beyond the everyday consciousness – takes patience.
Patience put at service of wisdom, helps us develop a scientific attitude towards the super-sensible. Real wisdom only comes from real understanding. And to understand something we have to patiently observe it with love until it reveals its mysteries.
Patience is a powerful form of action. I am learning to live into what St. Augustine said: “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
~hag
Sophie Takata
Here is a short video offering of ‘Michaelmas as a Festival of the Future’given as part of the Applied Anthroposophy Chrysalis Group: ‘The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation into the New Mysteries’ with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg and Nancy Melvin.
“Where, then, is the Grail, which today bears the name of Parzival? Where can it be found? In the course of my research it had become apparent that the name must be sought in the stellar script. And then, in a day which I must regard as specially significant for me, I was shown where the gold-gleaming vessel is to be found in reality, so that through it – through its symbolical expression in the stellar script – we are led to the secret of the Grail. And then I saw in the stellar script something that anyone can see – only he will not immediately discern the secret. For one day, while I was observing the gold-gleaming sickle of the moon in inner vision, as this appears in the heavens, with the dark moon like a great disk dimly visible within it, it dawned on me: with physical sight one could see the gold-gleaming moon – ganganda greida, the journeying viaticum – and within it the large host, the dark, wafer-like disc. This is not to be seen if one merely glances superficially at the moon, but it is evident if one looks closely – and there, in wonderful letters of the occult script, was the name Parzival!”~Rudolf Steiner, The Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Chapter 5, “Seeking for Signs of Parzival”, excerpts from Steiner’s lectures given at Leipzig on 1 January 1914 … focus of the November 3 meeting.
These chapters from the book can be found online at the CRC’s website by clicking this link A transcript of the 1914 Torquay lectures can be found on the RS Archive by clicking this link
The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing study conversation. The study has been divided among two volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “The Mysteries of the Holy Grail — from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation.” The book was compiled and edited by Matthew Barton, published by Rudolf Steiner Press in 2010.
This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer). To connect to the audio/video-conference:
Video Conference Details: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88210505106 Meeting ID: 882 1050 5106 One tap mobile +13017158592,,81116556762# US (Germantown) +13126266799,,81116556762# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 882 1050 5106
7:15 Welcome and Introductions 7:18 Verse 7:25 Study led by volunteers Note: CRC team will ID volunteers Camille – pg. 32 to 37 Marianne – pg. 38 to 43 7:50 Conversation 8:25 ID volunteers for next meeting 8:28 Close with verse There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of physical forests as of old, but through the forest of darkened minds. They are armed with a spiritual armor and an inner sun makes them radiant. Out of them shines healing, healing that flows from the knowledge of the human being as a spiritual being. They must create inner order, inner justice, peace and conviction in the darkness of our time. ~Karl Konig
‘Tuning to the Stars’: Eurythmy for the Holy Nights with Jan Ranck* – Sacred Geometry, the Planets and the Zodiac LIVE IN-PERSON 26-30 Dec. 2021 at the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4 pm – 5 pm And at 8pm on 31 Dec. as part of our annual NYE Conscious Community Gathering (details TBA)
$100 for all 6 sessions, or $22 for each individual session. Make your payment using PayPal or QuickPay with Zelle to chase@rschicago.org (please indicate in the notes that it is for the Holy Nights Eurythmy) Cash at the door, or send a check to: Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60618-2953 USA
For more info. Contact Cultural Events & Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer-Ginsberg hag@RSchicago.org
* Jan Ranck – Born in the USA, Jan Ranck studied music and comparative arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. She accompanied the London Stage Group on their 1976 USA tour and went on to study eurythmy at the Eurythmeum in Dornach with Lea van der Pals, where she subsequently taught. In 1984 she joined the faculty of The London School of Eurythmy. She left there to complete her eurythmy therapy training in Stuttgart in 1989, moving afterward to Israel, where she founded and directed the Jerusalem Eurythmy Ensemble (1990) and the Jerusalem Academy of Eurythmy (1992) and was an instructor in the Jerusalem Waldorf Teacher Bachelor Program in David Yellin Academic College from 1999. Jan has held Master Classes at various venues worldwide, including the Goetheanum and the MA Program in Eurythmy held at Emerson College and Spring Valley. She is the representative for Israel in the International Eurythmy Therapy Forum.
Dear friends – On Saturday, 10/23/2021, we had the first community meeting at the Zinniker Farm. The 12 of us, some local, some from WI, some from Chicago, were greeted by a perfect fall day, a choir of birds, cool weather, bright sunshine, Hazel’s famous spice cake and a bonfire!
After we went around and introduced ourselves, Markus gave a brief history of the Zinniker Family Farm and he asked some very relevant questions that we are faced with today. (link to video) The conversation was lively and we came away with warmth of community and our first steps forward.
We decided to form a core group to work with Petra and Mark. The short-term goal is to get a real understanding of a sustainable budget that includes everything! After all, how can the farm thrive into the future unless we understand the economics.
After we understand the needs, how will we come around the farm as a supportive community to share the bounty of the land – and take the risks of farming off the farmer.
It addresses a statement posed by Mark, “the hardest thing for a farm to produce is community value”
At the meeting, Jessica Fuchs, Robert Karp, Hazel and Chuck Ginsberg volunteered to be on the core group. If you have an interest in getting involved,please contact ‘Family Farm Initiative’ We welcome your help!
We added the first video from this meeting to the Patreon page: www.patreon.com/zinnikerfarm Please show your support by giving what you can, & by sharing this link.
We’ll be sending out more videos & emails over the next couple of weeks.
We are happy to have you as part of our community as we reimagine our relationship to the Earth and our food.
Best, Chuck Ginsberg & Hazel Archer
Henri Rousseau
During this harvest time of year – the veils between the worlds are thin – & the spiritual realm beckons – as we stand at the edge of the Orionids with Michael, forging the iron sword of our will to strengthen our heart-thinking, we must also take up the courage to look beyond the veil of the material world, into the spirit realm, the place of our beginning, the time of our unborness, the place of our ending, when we shuffle off this mortal coil, only to begin again & yet again, as we strive toward the eternal…for every ending is a new beginning…
Sammy Kahn
This kind of clear thinking helps us make sense of life – When we see things that appear to be ‘wrong’ or ‘dying’, we can remember that death is part of life, & that if nothing died it could not then be reborn. As we make our way toward All Hallows this weekend, we might want to examine, not just what we are thinking, but how we are being thought into. Did we conjure that mind-morsel, or was it planted there by a helpful ancestor on the other side…Or did it slide in from the lords of distraction when we weren’t paying attention…?
Michael Smith
Let’s step into the dark half of the year with a tip-o-the hat, to good ol’ awakened consciousness…to lucid logic, impeccable objectivity, & cool, clean, common sense!?! Let’s mix in some magical thinking, a pinch of compassionate irony, loving satire, & an over heaping dollop of discernment into the stone soup; then we’ll be sure to harvest & generate lots of wild Sun-imbued karma in sweet Autumn splendor.
See you there
~hag
Lucy Hank
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. If it remains absent we have not wanted it bad enough.” ~Nikos Kazantzakis
All Hallows Eve Gathering to honor our Beloved Ones across the Threshold & to strengthen our work on this side of the veil.
31 October 5 pm Potluck – Please bring food & drink to share & dress up as who you want to be in the New Year…
Sunset ritual with Rev. Jeana Lee, Rev. Victoria Capon.
Thank you to all who participated in the ‘Building the Temple of the Heart‘ Fall Conference of the Anthroposophical Society in America, co-sponsored by the Central Regional Council.
All are welcome to join us in The Holy Grail Study Group with the CRC Mysteries of the Holy Grail – from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation November 3, 2021 – 7:15 pm Central (8:15 pm Eastern)
“Where, then, is the Grail, which today bears the name of Parzival? Where can it be found? In the course of my research it had become apparent that the name must be sought in the stellar script. And then, in a day which I must regard as specially significant for me, I was shown where the gold-gleaming vessel is to be found in reality, so that through it – through its symbolical expression in the stellar script – we are led to the secret of the Grail. And then I saw in the stellar script something that anyone can see – only he will not immediately discern the secret. For one day, while I was observing the gold-gleaming sickle of the moon in inner vision, as this appears in the heavens, with the dark moon like a great disk dimly visible within it, it dawned on me: with physical sight one could see the gold-gleaming moon – ganganda greida, the journeying viaticum – and within it the large host, the dark, wafer-like disc. This is not to be seen if one merely glances superficially at the moon, but it is evident if one looks closely – and there, in wonderful letters of the occult script, was the name Parzival!”~Rudolf Steiner, The Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Chapter 5, “Seeking for Signs of Parzival”, excerpts from Steiner’s lectures given at Leipzig on 1 January 1914 … focus of the November 3 meeting.
These chapters from the book can be found online at the CRC’s website by clicking this link A transcript of the 1914 Torquay lectures can be found on the RS Archive by clicking this link
The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing study conversation. The study has been divided among two volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “The Mysteries of the Holy Grail — from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation.” The book was compiled and edited by Matthew Barton, published by Rudolf Steiner Press in 2010.
This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer). To connect to the audio/video-conference:
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7:15 Welcome and Introductions 7:18 Verse 7:25 Study led by volunteers Note: CRC team will ID volunteers Camille – pg. 32 to 37 Marianne – pg. 38 to 43 7:50 Conversation 8:25 ID volunteers for next meeting 8:28 Close with verse There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of physical forests as of old, but through the forest of darkened minds. They are armed with a spiritual armor and an inner sun makes them radiant. Out of them shines healing, healing that flows from the knowledge of the human being as a spiritual being. They must create inner order, inner justice, peace and conviction in the darkness of our time. ~Karl Konig
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