19 August 10, 2016 (the 222nd day of the year) International Biodiesel Day

Astro-weather – First Quarter Moon occurs at 2:22 p.m. CDT. By the time the Sun sets this evening, the Moon appears in the south-southwest, one-third of the way from the horizon to the zenith. As darkness descends, our satellite grows more prominent & the background stars of Libra the Scales come into view

238 – Feast of St. Lawrence martyred on thus day

955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Hungarian invasion of the West

1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after 100-years

1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid

The term ‘the 10th of August’ is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814

1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France

1810 – Birthday of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, 1st Prime Minister of Italy. Steiner refers to him as a pupil of Garibaldi in a Hibernian mystery center in Alsace in his Karmic Relationships lectures, Vol. 1, lecture 11.

1874 – Birthday of Herbert Hoover

1896 – Deathday of Otto Lilienthal, German pilot & engineer

1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army

1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus

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Dwight Wriller

My POD (Poem Of the Day)

~In the hot wind around my hair

I hear the voices of the old ones:

“The past & future dream us

Perch on our bodies like skin

That we might pass the days with grace…

To us are opened all roads of truth

All warrens of love,

All channels to the sea…

Together we walk a single path into the heart of the infinite”

~hag

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Greetings Friends –

I have triumphantly returned from the International Faust Festival at the Goetheanum in Dornach!

I will be processing the ‘Relevance of Goethe’s Faust Today’ for many a day to come. But for now, in my striving to digest, I turn to what is on my plate this morning, in the hopes that you will share in this bounty:

Kari Marie Olson

The Bridging Project

Between Life and Death from Soul to Soul

August 10, 2016 – 7:15 pm CST (8:15 pm EST)

The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to our conversation with special guest Maureen Flannery.

Maureen will talk about her Threshold Work experience and will share some of her own poems about caring for the dead, connecting with Dr. Steiner’s indications about what the living can provide to assist the dead.  She will also talk about the National Home Funeral Alliance, Funeral Consumer’s Alliance, and the Green Burial Foundation.

This will be a “go-to-meeting” 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:

Option 1.  Click link below if you wish to connect through your computer (a headset is recommended)
https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/191873221

Option 2.  Call in using your telephone.
United States: +1 (571) 317-3117

Canada: +1 (647) 497-9379

Access Code: 191-873-221

Option 3. You can use a combination of Options 1 and 2 (computer and phone)

Please join us!

7:15  Verse

7:18  Welcome

7:21  Overview of Project and the schedule changes going forward

7:25  Introduce Guest Speaker

7:30  Guest Speaker: Maureen Flannery (45 minutes)

“After twenty years of serving on the Board of my sister’s assisted living facility in Boulder, I realized that I was also interested in threshold work.  I began to attend National Home Funeral Alliance conferences and work with the Christian Community priests to assist in the vigils and care of the dead when requested.

I would like to give some history of the National Home Funeral Alliance, of which I am a member and regional coordinator.   I will elucidate the missions and distinction between three organizations which work closely in mutual support— National Home Funeral Alliance, Funeral Consumer’s Alliance, and the Green Burial Foundation. 

I will give personal history about caring for my own parents when they passed— my mother at the Christian Community in Denver and my father at home.  I would like to read some of my own poems about caring for the dead and relate all of this to Dr. Steiner’s indications about what the living can provide to assist the dead. We will explore how this work can be of mutual benefit to the grieving and those who have recently crossed the threshold“. ~Maureen Tolman Flannery

8:15  Q&A – Please state your name, location before asking a question

8:28  close with verse

May love of hearts reach out to love of souls
May warmth of love ray out to Spirit-light
Even so would we draw near to you
Thinking with you Thoughts of Spirit
Feeling in you the Love of Worlds
Consciously at one with you
Willing in silent being. ~Rudolf Steiner

We will be taking up the study of Rudolf Steiner’s lecture cycle entitled Historical Necessity and Freewill given in Dornach, December 9, 1917 on our September 14^th call.

This collection of lectures has been republished under the title: “The Influence of the Dead on Destiny”, here is the link:
https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=179577

Until Soon –

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg