Please take a minute to think about something you are really good at!
Something you have Mastered!
How have you arrived at that level of understanding?
Let's imagine I'm good at making cakes. Can you connect to the idea that I have Mastered the 'Spirit of cake-making." I have 'seen' how the alchemy of cake batter should be...I have 'seen' how the baking works perfectly through experience, I have learned that the finest ingredients make for the best possible flavour and texture.It becomes more than just the recipe. I am fully confident in becoming an instrument of patisserie! I have entered in the very spirit of it.
In the latest ART SECTION NEWSLETTER it begins with the following excerpt from Rudolf Steiner.
So you see: if you really stand within the vital forces that pulse through Anthroposophy , Then you acquire above all a feel for the artistic media that you are employing - and you begin to be able , not intellectually but through feeling, to see into the life of things.'
This preamble is about defending the 'faith.'
In the Pacifica Journal Edition 49 there is an article entitled, 'Sticking Wings on a Butterfly.' by Neil Boland. He contends that 'without a fundamental rethink are we going to find the authentic New Zealand curriculum we talk about ?'
...and reminds us 'Southern Germany in 1919 is very different to contemporary New Zealand.'
He then goes on to question the use of Grimm's Fairy Tales as compared to tikanga Maori legends.
However, from Rudolf Steiner..
- See more at: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/PoeTales/19130206p01.html#sthash.RJhrpEg7.dpuf
However, from Rudolf Steiner..
The brothers Grimm, and other collectors like them, devoted long years to bringing the world the somewhat civilized fairy tales they had gathered out of the folk tradition. Although they had no help from spiritual science, they lived wholeheartedly with these tales, convinced that they were giving human beings what belonged intrinsically to human nature itself. When you know this, you will understand that although the age of reason did its best for a hundred years or so to alienate everyone, even children, away from fairy tales, now things are changing. Fairy tale collections like the Grimms' have found their way to every person who is alive to such things; they have become the property and treasure of every child's heart, yes, property of all our hearts. This will grow even stronger when spiritual science is no longer considered just a theory but becomes a mood of soul, one that will lead the soul perceptively towards its spiritual roots. Then spiritual science, moving and spreading outwards, will be able to confirm everything that the genuine fairy tale collectors, fairy tale lovers, fairy tale tellers wanted to do.
To sum up what spiritual science would like to say today in describing the fairy tale, we can take the poetic and charming tribute that a devoted friend of the tales [Ludwig Laistner (1848 – 1896)] liked to use in his lectures, some of which I was able to hear. He was a man who understood how to collect the tales and how to value them.
“The fairy tale is like a good angel, given us at birth to go with us from our home to our earthly path through life, to be our trusted comrade throughout the journey and to give us angelic companionship, so that our life itself can become a truly heart- and soul-enlivened fairy tale!”
- See more at: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/PoeTales/19130206p01.html#sthash.RJhrpEg7.dpuf
Is there a battle on-going to tinker with the Waldorf curriculum!
I would contend it would be a 'spiritual battle' . Are we working out of the Sun Stream or the Moon Stream?
My concern is the longevity of the School. Will the spiritual world tolerate a 'grafting ' of older cultural practises into the new cultural impulse ' and not react? Where are failures occurring??? * Are we truly fired enough to carry 'the burning thread' that will ignite a true modern future?
Isn't this the Call of Michael? There is more than enough fuel in the Lectures to keep any teacher fully busy.
I would contend it would be a 'spiritual battle' . Are we working out of the Sun Stream or the Moon Stream?
My concern is the longevity of the School. Will the spiritual world tolerate a 'grafting ' of older cultural practises into the new cultural impulse ' and not react? Where are failures occurring??? * Are we truly fired enough to carry 'the burning thread' that will ignite a true modern future?
Isn't this the Call of Michael? There is more than enough fuel in the Lectures to keep any teacher fully busy.
The anti-Christian impulse makes its appearance first and foremost in the form of nationalism. The old Luciferic principle of the blood comes to life once again in nation-consciousness. We see a revolt against Christianity in the nationalism of the 19th century, which reached its apex in Woodrow Wilson's phrase about the self-determination of nations, whereas the one and only reality befitting the present age would be to overcome nationalism, to eliminate it, and for men to be stirred by the impulse of the human universal. -rudolf steiner
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Larry Young. ....pic
* The Lakota School was started with the idea of making it Waldorf/Lakota. A blending of cultures. It closed down. It did not withstand the mixing. After some time it has now reopened with a new Waldorf trained teacher.
Personally, I reckon there is a need to re-enter the 'spirit of Waldorf.' As a 5th generation Kiwi, I find myself referring back to the Oxford Lectures where the English speaking world was being set up to carry this Sun Impulse ; this entirely new cultural impulse tailored for modern mankind which it seems to me few have truly entered.Those that have are Warriors. For the searcher there is a whole fund of knowledge and practical advises to carry the teacher through the sometimes thorny path of bringing education to a new level.
* The Lakota School was started with the idea of making it Waldorf/Lakota. A blending of cultures. It closed down. It did not withstand the mixing. After some time it has now reopened with a new Waldorf trained teacher.
Personally, I reckon there is a need to re-enter the 'spirit of Waldorf.' As a 5th generation Kiwi, I find myself referring back to the Oxford Lectures where the English speaking world was being set up to carry this Sun Impulse ; this entirely new cultural impulse tailored for modern mankind which it seems to me few have truly entered.Those that have are Warriors. For the searcher there is a whole fund of knowledge and practical advises to carry the teacher through the sometimes thorny path of bringing education to a new level.
If one can only enter into the 'spirit' of these lectures one can be rewarded with inspirations and illuminations that compel a close companionship with the wisdom and its' inherent magic. The caterpillar does indeed become the butterfly and the transformation is complete. Those with ears to hear will know what I am saying
The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in Kraljevic, present-day Croatia
