Hvis ellers restene af den der influenza fra sidste uge gad gi’ slip, så bliver weekenden af den rette julede slags. Lige nu er det dog mest som om proppen er hevet ud, så enhver antydning af overskud forsvinder ved første antydning af planer. Der er så lidt at indkøb af tre hyacinter nærmest gjorde mig helt stolt af min formåen.

Heldigvis er Erik kommet i dag og det kan være han kan aflive den del af nul-energien, der skyldes ren og skær kedsomhed over at være alene hjemme. For den er der nok også lidt af.

Heldigvis er der udsigt til selskab af den helt permanente slags til jul, for der er kortet et par måneder af kontrakten i Seattle og de skal ikke høre et ondt ord fra mig for at sende ham hjem før tid.

Jeg gider ikke en flad weekend igen. Basta! Erik skal hjælpe julemanden med juletræstænding sammen med spejderne, der skal klippe-klistres og spises mavepine-mange hjemmebagte æbleskiver og søndag håber jeg både at nå julemarkedet på Kronborg og  Julebasar på den lokale Stiner skole.

Måske er der nogen dér, der er ligeså kreative som familien Klarbæk? Jeg håber det. For jeg har fået flag med posten i dag og den slags julepynt kunne jeg godt bruge mere mere af. Håber weekenden byder på en kreativ insprøjtning, der kan sætte juleriet i gang når nu jeg ikke selv er for god til at få sparket julekasserne op af kælderen.

Today I fell victim to chose to succumb to the allure of gossiping and judgmental words. What I said was unnecessary, and potentially harmful, as I discovered a moment too late that the person I was speaking about was sitting just at the next table. I was assured by my table mate that the person didn’t seem to have heard as the next table was deeping involved in their own engrossing conversation, but still, I worry that I caused pain.

Gautama Buddha developed the Eightfold Path as a way to alleviate suffering and achieve insight. Rudolf Steiner spoke similarly of this path as a way to tame our astral cravings and unconscious desires and actions. Here is how he describes the fourth principle, right speech:

[A person] must strive to give true expression to what he desires to communicate to the world, having first acquired the right view and right judgment of it; not only his words but every manifestation of his being must express his own right view — that and that alone. This is right speech.
–The Gospel of St. Luke, lecture three, 17 September 1909

I certainly failed to have right judgment, in my choice to make humor out of shallow judgments and useless talk,and to have right view, in displaying such antipathy toward the person and situation. I forgot the wise words of Steiner about truth and love:

[The] lie is the direct opposite of the actual facts and those who yield themselves lovingly to the facts are incapable of lying. The lie has its roots in egoism — always and without exception. When, through love, we have found the path to wisdom, we reach wisdom through the increasing power of self-conquest, through selfless love.
–”Love and Its Meaning in the World,” 17 December 1912 (my emphasis)

Clearly, I still need to work on that “self-conquest” part.

The reason this post is being made is to demonstrate that if we regard
“everyday life”–the structure of psyche and mythological ‘dimensions’ of the average human as equivalent in all ages at all times or as somewhat equivalent, we will never make progress towards understanding what the human is or could be. This idea is
not my own but Rudolf Steiner’s, our common tragedy is that we
are presented with information about the past by great scholars who have no spiritual sensibility or inclination. I once went to an open
presentation(replete with stunning slides and groundplan drawings) on Egyptian archeology at Portland State University where the presenter confessed(oh, so ironically)-that Edgar Cayce was the guy that got him into Egyptian archeology, but after years of study he was sure now there was no Atlantis, nothing spiritual about the Egyptians, no afterlife, no this etc., etc. I walked away from that talk wondering why I had made an effort to go to the presentations at all, academia does seem like a creeping disease, something that profers a psuedo-help to humanity but in the end delivers little but confusion and strangely confused motives for the advancement of learning(why bother to
italicize learning,meaning should be clear). There is another way of knowledge, but you must resist the pull of mediocrity and negativity in all most ALL descriptions of ancient cultures or of evolution or creation theories.

Below are topic bullets from MSNBC website, though I have not

read all these articles I can assure you they are based on the best

scholarly research that GE and NBC can buy,  sucked dry of all spiritual understanding,

and recast with a high and lofty focus on partying, heh, just like us!

More about everyday life in ancient times:
· Sex and booze figured in Egyptian rites
· High times in ancient times
· Gallery: How ancient peoples partied
· Women made the beer in ancient Peru
· Hints of 9,000-year-old wine found in China
· Everyday life in New Testament times

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/09/2123180.aspx

I själens solljus flödar

Nu tankens mogna frukter:

Till självmedveten säkerhet

Förvandlar alla känslor sig.

Förnimma kan jag frödjefullt

I höstens ande vakna;

I mig skall vintern

En själens sommar väcka.

Rudolf Steiner

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Tempo di Grandi Cocomeri che sorgono dall’orto e regalano desideri, più che l’avverarsi degli stessi. Tempo d’autunno, nel quale è tutto un lasciare, ridurre, per conservare energie. Fra poco, il riposo di chi ha già rinvasato, seminato, pacciamato… E io che sono al giro di boa del mio vero capodanno, visto che ho creato il mondo il 31 di ottobre, mi trovo a pensare che vorrei liberarmi anche io di un sacco di cose, come fanno le latifoglie. Le foglie cadono senza fracasso, per alleggerire l’albero, che pare non esservi particolarmente “attaccato”.

Mi trovo sguardo nello sguardo con Tobia che invece ha inventato il mondo solo tre mesi fa: di quante “foglie” lo caricheremo?

Da quando siamo piccoli veniamo educati ad avere amore per le persone e le cose che abbiamo vicino, a tenerle con cura, a conservarle per avere legami affettivi con la nostra storia e con gli altri. Abbiamo amici,  cose,  lettere,  appunti,  libri (ma quanti!),  fotografie, ricette, siti, film… fino a quando, tutto questo avere si sovrappone all’essere come una seconda pelle: possedere, aver diritto ad avere.

Poi… sentiamo che dobbiamo alleggerirci e allora che fatica! Come si è attaccati alle nostre foglie! Ogni separazione è una rinuncia e rischia di diventare rimpianto.

Erich Fromm ne fa l’argomento di uno dei suoi libri più celebri. Ed entrambi gli estremi sono negativi. Ma, con meno esperienza psicoanalitica, tento di capire se in un mondo tanto metropolitano e virtualizzato si possa educare più all’essere che all’avere.

La selvatichezza (ebbene sì, ritorno lì) può essere una modalità educativa che aiuti in questo percorso?

Il piacere di conoscere un territorio, di percorrerlo, giocarlo, impararlo, può portare al rispetto per quel territorio, all’amore per ciò che offre, al desiderio di conservarne dinamicamente la bellezza, senza il bisogno di possederlo, mettere dei recinti, escludere?

E tutto ciò può portare a un atteggiamento di vita che più serenamente lascia le sue foglie per andare incontro ai cambiamenti in leggerezza ma non superficialmente?

Non so se la coltivazione degli orti e dei giardini ora tanto promossa nelle scuole ma così da lungo auspicata dai pedagogisti come Rudolf Steiner, Giuseppina Pizzigoni, Maria Montessori abbia la stessa valenza. Direi di no. L’orto o il giardino educano all’attenzione, alla responsabilità finalizzate a una raccolta, a una gratificazione produttiva. A un possedere, sia pure per donare.

Non siamo gli unici a sentire il bisogno di educare alla selvatichezza: Roots (ottobre 2006), una interessante rivista di Botanic Gardens Conservation, scaricabile cliccando Roots 3.2, espone esperienze e riflessioni interessanti su questi temi.

La selvatichezza (che non metto in alternativa ma come altra esperienza) educa al rispetto, alla responsabilità e alla condivisione che vengono dalla appartenenza al territorio. Un abitare da nomadi. Leggero come le capanne di frasche. Come una foglia che cade, senza fare BUM.

“Vini da sogno” /Capitolo 4
Vallee de la Loire vins blanc:

Pouilly Fumé, Sancerre e Nicolas Joly

Giovedì 5 Novembre 2009 Ore 20,30
RISTORANTE ANTICO SPESSOTTO
Via  Garibaldi 60/a in centro a Portogruaro (VE)

Importante degustazione di Vino che si svolgerà  la prossima settimana a Portogruaro che vedrà  come protagonisti pregiati vini francesi della Valle della Loira.

Oltre ai famosi Sauvignon di Sancerre e Pouilly Fume`, ci saranno anche due vini di Nicolas Joly il più  famoso produttore al mondo di vini biodinamici, cioè di quei vini prodotti con metodi naturali seguendo le regole agronomiche del filosofo austriaco Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) fondatore dell’antroposofia.

Data l’eccezionalità  dell’evento e visti i posti limitati diponibili,siamo costratti a chiedere a coloro che intendono partecipare il pagamento anticipato della quota di partecipazione tramite bonifico bancario
Per informazioni e Prenotazioni:
- Cell. 335/7407071
- E mail: tto2@libero.it

Un errore

Il mio commento alla virtù della bilancia, segno appena trascorso, era sbagliato. Ho parlato della virtù dell’Equilibrio che diviene Progresso (chiaramente tratto in inganno dalla simbologia della bilancia) anziché della Contentezza che diviene Imperturbabilità.

Questo è molto interessante, perché ciò che ho potuto comprendere in quest’ultima settimana aveva proprio a che fare con questa Contentezza, intesa come “contentment”: stato di soddisfazione. L’aver sbagliato su questa virtù ha fatto in modo che la mia attenzione vi fosse rivolta con una forza ancora maggiore. Gli errori, come il dolore, svegliano.

Coscienza del Tempo

La Pazienza è una virtù che ha a che fare con il tempo: siamo impazienti quando non sappiamo aspettare, cioè dare il giusto tempo alle situazioni e agli eventi. Quello che facciamo quindi è un errore di valutazione sulla quantità di tempo necessaria ad una determinata situazione:  una mancanza di coscienza.

Visto che non siamo coscienti del tempo necessario ad una situazione per svolgersi, la nostra ignoranza ci fa credere che ci sia la possibilità di farlo hic et nunc; intravedendo questa possibilità, giustamente, ci innervosiamo e sbuffiamo: ci lamentiamo.

Perspicacia

Imparando ad essere pazienti, ad aspettare e a non innervosirci, impariamo a valutare il tempo necessario ad una situazione per svolgersi e, visto che ci siamo, a valutare la situazione nel suo insieme: diventiamo perspicaci.

Grazie a questa virtù siamo in grado di conoscere una situazione prima ancora che questa ci coinvolga emotivamente, e quindi di difenderci preventivamente dagli imprevisti.

Possiamo dire che in generale diventiamo svegli e acuti, e affiniamo il nostro intuito.

Read this and think about what he is saying. The study we are about to embark on is going to be quite a ride!

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THE  LANGUAGE  OF  THE  CONSCIOUSNESS   SOUL
1.     INTRODUCTION
Under the heading “Language of the Consciousness Soul” we shall from now on find contributions in this periodical   dealing with anthroposophical activities, as they are being practised in groups of the Anthroposophical Society in order to make the wealth of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual investigations ever more accessible to the experience of the individual.     Rudolf Steiner’s work is before the public, trans-scripts of his lectures to the members of the Anthroposophical Society are gradually being published;    the time has now come when it seems appropriate to seek a wider circle for a more individual exposition of this immense and far-reaching spiritual treasure. This exposition is not of a specially explanatory or apologetic intent, but it is to tell of impressions which can be gained by thinking, meditating and seeing.
In the last year of his earthly life Rudolf Steiner gave the whole of Anthroposophy in a new language;    it resounds in his lectures given to members of the Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Dornach.     Even through all the foregoing period of his activity the restriction of his audience to members of the Society was only a provisional one and it seems obvious that if he had had more time, and if his earthly life had not come to a premature conclusion, he would have given to the general public in an appropriate form the content of these lectures as books, articles and lectures, – as to a limited extent he did – because there is nothing fundamentally secret in his investigations.
The sum total of Anthroposophy is certainly also contained in the manuscripts of the lecture-cycles of earlier years+, they are the imperishable gift of living spirit. In “The Story of My Life”+ we read in chapter 35:    “Together with this purpose of building up Anthroposophy however and thereby serving only that which results when one has information from the world of spirit to give to the modern world of culture, there now appeared the other demand -to face fully whatever was manifested in the membership as the need of their souls or their longing for the spirit.”     And further down the same page:    “All the public writings are the result of what struggled and laboured within me;    in the privately printed matter ….
1. “Anthroposophie”.    The weekly German publication for Anthroposophy. Years 9-11 (1927 – 1929).
+   At the close of this book there is a list of the fundamental lecture-cycles by Rudolf Steiner, as also of other writings by him, to which reference is made in the text.

I may post all of the Language of the Consciousness Soul by Carl Unger.

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Arenson was the first to become acquainted with Rudolf Steiner in the autumn of 1903 and he returned deeply impressed by what he had heard in Berlin.     His impressions however were received sceptically in Stuttgart.
In February 1904 Unger sought an interview with the General Secretary in Berlin in order, amongst other things, to express the wish that more might be known of the section.   He describes this meeting:    “At that time I had still not read one line by Dr. Steiner. On the occasion of this first conversation he was very silent, but he took me to Fraulein von Sivers who, in his presence, pointed to the necessity of beginning the lecture journey, which had long been intended, especially now that Br. Steiner’s book (“Theosophy”) was on the point of being published.   Fraulein von Sivers invited me to a lecture by Dr. Steiner, which was taking place that evening.     The lecture dealt with the passage ‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate’  from the Creed.     This lecture convinced me at once that here was a man, to whose work I had to dedicate my life.    The strongest impression consisted in this:   Here stands one who sees and knows.     On my return to Stuttgart my enthusiasm was received critically as Herr Arenson’s had already been.      Some months later, Dr. Steiner began his lecture journeys.    At the same time his book “Theosophy” came out and I threw myself into it with the greatest enthusiasm and wrestled with it for months, with every page, with every sentence, with many a word.     Then I had the basis for a judgment, which I had somewhat thoughtlessly expressed after my visit to Berlin;    I would follow this man blindfold. For now I had learnt to follow with open eyes.
By then the time had come to focus the activity of the Stuttgart Group on work indicated by Rudolf Steiner.   A proposal made by Unger was not carried, so he, Arenson and some friends resigned from this Group and founded a new one September 23, 1905.     The goal of this work was to be “through the experience of thinking to enter deeply into the being of man and of the world, in order thereby to meet the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner with a suitable activity.”
From 1905 Unger was a personal pupil of Rudolf Steiner.
In the year 1907, at the instigation of Rudolf Steiner, he held a lecture at the Congress of the European sections of the Theosophical Society in Munich on the work which had been accomplished by the       Stuttgart Group.     Invitations from many Groups came as one of the effects of this lecture:    so that during the years 1907-1913 he gave hundreds of lectures in the many Groups in Germany and Switzerland.
This was made possible as follows:    in the autumn of 1906, with the help of his father, he had founded a small machine factory, and in fact with the quite definite intention of becoming completely independent.     “This brought in its train many business difficulties but offered me also the opportunity of an outer and especially of an inner freedom.     Some experience of life was indeed also a result of this.”
The year brought him – immediately after his marriage with a daughter of Arenson – a further important conversation with Rudolf Steiner, who advised him to work in the sphere of epistemology.    This led to some writings, which have appeared in part as books and articles. From this time Unger continued to work on these lines.
From 1913 onwards the administration of the Anthroposophical

Society, which had been founded in 1912, had become necessary.     At that time Unger was 35.     He had belonged to its Council from the beginning.    In 1914 a further task was added, when Rudolf Steiner, regretfully as he said, was obliged to accept Unger’s offer to undertake the over-sight of the work of building the Goetheanum though it was “to be anticipated that this would mean a loss to the work in the Society.”     It was only possible to carry on this work until September, 1915.     After that war conditions prevented the journey into Switzerland.
During the time after the first war Unger together with others devoted his strength to the many tasks which devolved upon the anthroposophical movement in all spheres of life.   He however paid special attention to the actual impulses of the Anthroposophical Society, of which many became less conscious.     This was due to the necessity arising out of Anthroposophy for working in the outer world (education, medicine etc.)     His special work during the last years of his life consisted in his writings in connection with the study of the   Leading Thoughts.
However, Unger was not only active as a lecturer and independent worker in the Anthroposophical Society.     On the founding of the “Kommender Tag” an attempt was made after the first world war to apply the ideas contained in “The threefold Commonwealth”.     Unger made his factory part of this enterprise.     When however the enterprise failed he was obliged once more to take on the independent ownership of his factory.     This meant accepting the burden that is involved in an effort which has proved a failure.
In the last years of his life Unger had undertaken public lecture tours besides work in the Society.     It was on such a lecture tour that the bullet – this time fatal, for which one who was irresponsible was the tool – overtook him in Nurnberg on January 4 1929 immediately before the beginning of the lecture he intended to give bearing the title “What is Anthroposophy?”

I am not Waldorf, not bio-dynamic, not Eurythmic, not Camphill, not christian community, yet I found my way to Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy.
Once I found it why was it so hard to find information and books and so hard to break into the movement?
Why is the internet such a not so welcoming place for new anthroposophists?
But I am persistent so here I am!

Den ersten Teil begann ich mit dem Satz: Es gibt keine größere Verachtung, keinen tieferen Haß als jenen, der gegen Schwarzafrikaner gerichtet ist.

Weitere schockierende Belege für den kochenden und brodelnden Haß in jenen, die a la Rudolf Steiner glauben, daß in der „äthiopischen Rasse die Merkurkräfte kochen und brodeln“, bietet Günter Wallraff, der als Somali verkleidet durch deutsche Kneipen zog, sich eine Wohnung mieten wollte oder beispielsweise in Ostdeutschland einem Fußballspiel beiwohnte. Nachzulesen in seinem neuen Buch Aus der schönen neuen Welt.

Wie Wallraff in der Hamburger Morgenpost berichtet, galten ihm, dem vermeintlichen „Schwarzen“, immer wieder Beschimpfungen wie „Affen nach Afrika!“ Jedem Fußballfan sind die Sprechchöre gegen „Schwarze“ in den Stadien vertraut: „Hier, hohl dir deine Banane!“ Wallraff:

Ich war beim Fußballspiel Cottbus gegen Dresden. Wenn da nicht die Polizei gewesen wäre, hätten die mich alle gemacht.

Was in den von Wallraff beschriebenen Massen vorgeht; was diesen mörderischen Haß provoziert, kann man wirklich am besten erfassen, wenn man sich mit dem anthroposophischen Rassismus befaßt. Nirgendwo sonst wird offensichtlicher, was Reich in der Massenpsychologie des Faschismus unter den Stichworten „Rassereinheit, Blutsvergiftung und Mystizismus“ diskutiert.

Der Haß gegen den „Schwarzen“ beruht auf der Angst vor „Kontamination“. Beispielsweise forderte 1922 Rudolf Steiner Schwangere auf, sie sollten damit aufhören, die damals populären „Negerromane“ zu lesen, da durch den geistigen Einfluß dieser Lektüre auf den Fötus ihre Kinder negroid, grau und kraushaarig werden würden. Auch beklagte er ganz allgemein den Einfluß der Negerkultur in Europa, weil es schädlich für die geistig-rassische Reinheit sei. 1926 schrieb die Witwe des inzwischen verstorbenen Geistersehers, Marie von Sivers, in einer ihrer Einleitungen zu Steiners Vorträgen, über „das Blöde und das Negerhafte“, dem der moderne Europäer als letzter Mode huldige, dergestalt würde er zum „Untersinnlich-Dämonischen streben, das wiederum dem Negerhaften entsteigt“.

Aus historischen Gründen, wird der „Schwarze“ mit verführerischer Exotik und abstoßender Minderwertigkeit in Zusammenhang gebracht. Ich kann mich gut an einen einfach nur peinlichen Onkel von mir erinnern, der wirklich bei jeder Familienfeier von Josephine Baker schwärmte, um jedesmal gleich anschließend zum Besten zu geben, daß ihn der Gedanke mit einer „Negerin“ zu schlafen, abgrundtief anwidern würde: „Bahhhh, ich könnte mich schütteln!“

Der Schwarze verkörpert genau das ansteckend „Untersinnlich-Dämonische“, das angesichts der AIDS-Hysterie (Ansteckung!) in ganz besonderer Weise wieder aktualisiert wurde. Er verkörpert die mühsam in Schach gehaltenen Sexualtriebe. Sie zu unterdrücken, macht uns erst zu „Kulturmenschen“. Wir haben Angst uns „anzustecken“, d.h. „Feuer zu fangen“, und so unseres mühsam aufrechterhaltenen Status verlustig zu gehen, zu „vertieren“. Je niedriger der eigene Sozialstatus ist, d.h. je „negerhafter“ man sich selbst empfindet, desto stärker ist dieser Mechanismus ausgeprägt und entsprechend groß ist der Haß.

Die ekelhafte Pest Rassismus wird es solange geben, bis sich Kinder und Jugendliche auf einer Massenbasis werden frei entfalten können und zu Menschen heranwachsen, die eine wirklich erwachsene, befriedigende genitale Sexualität leben können.

Seguo l’antroposofia di Rudolf Steiner e in particolare gli incontri con Pietro Archiati già da tempo, e ogni volta costituiscono un percorso irrinunciabile, un cammino denso e profondo, un viaggio emozionante dentro noi stessi e gli altri. Questa volta vorrei segnalare anche a voi il suo prossimo seminario, il sesto, che si terrà a Rocca di Papa, vicino a Roma, dall’8 all’11 ottobre prossimi e sarà incentrato su “La filosofia della libertà” di Steiner (leggi tutto qui). Ecco un viaggio diverso per tutte le donne (e gli uomini) con la valigia e tante domande dentro… appuntamento per tutte/i a giovedì, allora!

“La formazione che riceviamo ci insegna tutto, fuorché il pensare. Nel suo pensare l’uomo si vive più che mai come spirito creatore, come artista dotato di un’inesauribile fantasia intellettiva e morale che emana luce e calore all’infinito. La filosofia della libertà di Rudolf Steiner è il testo di base più moderno per una scuola del pensiero…“.

“The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.” Rudolph Steiner

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Il 26 settembre del 1983 un uomo salvò il mondo dalla distruzione.
Quel giorno e per molto tempo dopo, furono pochissime le persone che vennero a conoscenza del rischio che l’umanità aveva corso!

Quell’uomo era un Tenente Colonnello dell’URSS, il suo nome è: Stanislav Petrov. (Il nome è Stanislav; Petrov è il cognome. Me l’ha specificato un’amica agente segreta).

Cfr   http://www.doxaliber.it/Stanislav-Petrov-il-russo-che-salvo-il-mondo/179#comment-52131

Da http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov#cite_note-award-11 su Stanislav E. Petrov riporto un documentario del 2005  — http://www.logtv.com/films/redbutton/video.htm — e  un film atteso per il 2009 –http://www.statementfilm.dk/ — ,  e l’esistenza di un  Istituto per la prevenzione di guerre (nucleari) : http://www.IPPNW.org/ .

Un altro caso: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasiliy_Arkhipov :

<< Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (russo) (1926 -1999) era un ufficiale navale sovietico. Durante la Crisi dei missili cubana sventò il lancio di una torpedine nucleare e perciò una possibile guerra nucleare.

Il 27 ottobre 1962, durante la Crisi Missile cubana, un gruppo di undici fregate della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti e la portaerei USS Randolph intrappolarono un sommergibile sovietico Foxtrot B-59  dotato di munizioni atomiche, nei pressi di Cuba, e cominciarono a calare bombe di profondità, intese a costringere il sottomarino a emergere per l’identificazione.

A quanto pare, il capitano del sottomarino, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, credendo che una guerra avrebbe potuto essere già cominciata, si preparò a lanciare per ritorsione una torpedine con testata nucleare.

Tre ufficiali a bordo del sottomarino — Savitsky, l’ufficiale politico Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, e il secondo capitano Arkhipov — erano autorizzati a  lanciare la torpedine se unanimamente concordi nel farlo. Ci fu una disputa tra i tre, e solamente Arkhipov era contro il lancio, finalmente persuadendo Savitsky a emergere col sottomarino ed attendere ordini da Mosca. Fu così sventata una presagibile guerra atomica.

Alla conferenza che commemora il 40 anniversario della Crisi missilistica cubana tenutasi ad Avana il 13 ottobre 2002, Robert McNamara ammise che la guerra nucleare si era fatta molto più incombente di quanto la gente pensasse. Disse Thomas Blanton, direttore dell’Archivio di Sicurezza Nazionale, che “un ragazzo chiamato Vasili Arkhipov salvò il mondo.”

Nel libro di Aleksandr Mozgovoy , Samba cubana del Quartetto  “Foxtrot”, del 2002 : sottomarini sovietici durante la crisi caraibica del 1962  [1], un attore dell’episodio, il comandante in pensione  Vadim Pavlovich Orlov, presenta gli eventi in modo meno drammatico (il capitano perse la lucidità, ma due altri ufficiali lo calmarono) .  >>

[1] {è scritto da cani anche in inglese: del resto su Wikipedia può scrivere chiunque e c’è chi ci sgorbia apposta per screditarla}

Un uomo comune, e mi sbilancio a dire ognuno, dicendo NO al momento giusto e nel modo giusto, può salvare un/il mondo.

Ho letto e ho annotato la notizia su Stanislav Petrov quando è stata pubblicata  dal Corriere della sera nell’edizione del 23 settembre 1998 a pagina  11. (Numeròlogi! scatenatevi!).

Il 29 settembre si celebra l’arcangelo o principato Michele e credo che dobbiamo ringraziarlo per avere aiutato la coscienza del col. Petrov e lo prego di non demordere sulle coscienze forse  più refrattarie di noialtri.
Confrontando il bivio o piuttosto l’improbabile e straordinaria uscita di strada della storia di noi tutti e di questo pianeta con un contenuto di una conferenza di don Steiner sull’opera pneumatofisica di Christian Rosenkreutz, interpreto che l’umanità tutta — tutto il pianeta — ricordando questo e altri episodi di distruzione mancata  è chiamata a farsi rosicruciana. Dico spiritualmente, cioè intimamente: indipendentemente da associazioni che usano o abusano il nome di Rosacroce. Almeno voi, tu, che hai avuto  questa notizia, e che devi esserne sconvolto se non lo sei già stato, se ancora sei nella calma del pensiero abitudinario proprio del sonno, tu che leggi qui sei chiamato a essere discepolo di quell’Essere fantastico.
Episodi altri, di autodistruzione sfiorata, e mancata forse per cause altrettanto irrazionali –bensì ispirative, intuitive, sentimentali– di quelle che hanno sussurrato al colonnello Petrov in quel fatidico 26 settembre ci sono stati, e chissà quanti ci sono stati di cui non abbiamo notizia e forse mai l’avremo (distinguo <avere cognizione> da <avere notizia>).
Chi è minimamente sensibile –sia pur inconsciamente– al trauma di quei deragliamenti di salvataggio, trauma e salvataggio  indissolubilmente integrato nella costituzione del mondo, è portato a rifletterci o a rimuginarci in pensieri opere e omissioni volontarie, <<come quei che con lena affannata uscito fuor del pelago alla riva si volge a l’acqua perigliosa, e guata, così l’anima mia, ch’ancor fuggiva, si volse retro a rimirar lo passo che non lasciò giammai persona viva>> (dalla Commedia di Dante, canto 1′). ( Ed ecco un esempio a caso, posteriore al 1983:

plastico ricostruttivo del noto artista Giovanni Bido

Del resto, chi non sognò a quei tempi qualche scoppio epocale?

Riporto stralci di una conferenza tenuta a Neuchatel il 28 settembre 1911 e tutto sarà visionariamente chiaro. (Notare che è una mia minielaborazione di una traduzione non mia di una trascrizione da appunti scritti da non so chi da una conferenza).

< Chi Christian Rosenkreutz vuol fare suo discepolo viene scelto da lui in maniera singolare. Ognuno che sia stato scelto deve fare attenzione a uno o a più avvenimenti di un certo tipo durante la propria vita; la scelta di Christian Rosenkreutz avviene così: una certa persona giunge nella sua vita a una svolta decisiva, a una crisi: supponiamo ad esempio che qualcuno sia in procinto di commettere un’azione che lo condurrebbe a morte. Può trattarsi delle cose più diverse: ad esempio il soggetto percorre una strada pericolosa, ad esempio un ponte pericolante, o un percorso fuoristrada proseguendo sul quale precipiterebbe in un abisso, o scivolerebbe quanto  basta a picchiare il capo e a stecchirsi. Ed ecco, forse pochi passi prima dell’abisso, prima della perdizione, il soggetto sente come una voce, un richiamo a fermarsi. Se fosse per lui, proseguirebbe, ma non sa perché qualcosa gli dice <FERMATI !>.  Avvengono a migliaia casi del genere. Si deve tuttavia riconoscere che questi non sono che segni esteriori, certamente importanti, di un appello spirituale, appello che si congiunge interiormente con l’afflato a studiare lo spirito in qualunque modo e verso, scientifico, poetico o animalesco [lo spirito antoniano ad esempio]. L’avvenimento sù menzionato conforma un fatto fisico macroscopico, ma non deriva da una voce umana; esso è sempre tale che la persona interessata sa con certezza che la voce le viene dal mondo interiore, dal mondo spirituale. Sulle prime, può prevalere in lui l’opinione che chi gli ha parlato (eventualmente con una voce verbale e addirittura come sonora) sia nascosto da qualche parte, ma se il discepolo è maturo si accorge che non è una persona fisica a interferire nella sua vita. In fin dei conti il discepolo sa con certezza che esistono comunicazioni dal mondo spirituale, e che esse possono avvenire una volta nella vita — o anche più volte –. Dobbiamo soltanto comprenderne l’influsso. L’anima del discepolo afferma:   UNA VITA ULTERIORE MI E’ STATA DONATA PER GRAZIA; LA TRAMA DELLA VITA PRECEDENTE ERA CONSUMATA; QUESTA NUOVA  VITA RICEVUTA PER GRAZIA GETTA LUCE SU TUTTA LA MIA VITA SEGUENTE.   Il soggetto ha un sentimento ben preciso che si può rivestire delle seguenti parole:   SENZA QUESTA MIA ESPERIENZA ROSICRUCIANA SAREI MORTO;  SENZA DI ESSA LA VITA SUCCESSIVA NON AVREBBE AVUTO LO STESSO VALORE.
Può comunque succedere che una persona abbia avuto già una volta o più volte questa esperienza, e tuttavia non si senta subito portata alla scienza dello spirito, ma che più tardi glie ne sorga il ricordo. Molti dei lettori potrebbero esaminare il corso della loro vita passata e trovare che avvenimenti   simili   vi sono accaduti;    soltanto che oggi vi si presta troppo poca attenzione!
Dovremmo  soprattutto  renderci conto che si passa davanti a tanti avvenimenti importanti senza osservarli, senza rilevarli.
Ecco, questo è un accenno alla vocazione dei più alti [min. 1 metro e 80] discepoli del rosicrucianesimo.   Un avvenimento come questo può anche passare davanti a una persona senza lasciare traccia, qualora essa ne cancelli l’impressione, svuotandola d’importanza.  Supponiamo invece che sia una persona attenta, che non giudica priva di significato l’esperienza e che magari giunge al pensiero:  STAVI PROPRIO DI FRONTE A UNA CRISI CRUCIALE, IN QUELL’ISTANTE LA TUA VITA DOVEVA PROPRIO TERMINARE, TU L’AVEVI CONSUMATA, MA ATTRAVERSO UN FATTO APPARENTEMENTE CASUALE SEI STATO SALVATO.  IN QUELL’ORA E’ AVVENUNTO COME SE UNA NUOVA VITA SI FOSSE INNESTATA IN QUELLA DI PRIMA, TU LA DEVI CONSIDERARE COME UN DONO, E TI DEVI COMPORTARE DI CONSEGUENZA.
Quando un’esperienza simile provoca in un uomo [non in un avatarro, va da sé] il sentore che da quell’ora in poi la propria vita è considerabile come regalata, ciò lo rende un seguace di Christian Rosenkreutz: questo è il suo modo di chiamare a sé le anime. Chi riesce a ricordare una tale esperienza nel proprio passato può dire a sé stesso che Christian Rosenkreutz gli ha fatto cenno dal mondo spirituale invitandolo a partecipare della sua corrente, che Christian Rosenkreutz stesso ha introdotto nel suo destino la possibilità di tale esperienza. Questa è la maniera con cui Christian Rosenkreutz sceglie i suoi discepoli;     così elegge la sua comunità.   Chi vive coscientemente una simile esperienza può dirsi:
MI E’ STATA INDICATA UNA VIA, IO LA DEVO SEGUIRE E VEDERE FIN DOVE POSSO METTERE LE MIE ENERGIE AL SERVIZIO ROSICRUCIANO DELL’UMANITA’.    Anche chi non ha capito l’avvertimento giungerà più tardi a capirlo, perché colui al quale quel segno è giunto una volta non se ne libererà più. >

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Io dico che se tu, cioè=quindi ognuno, prendesse questo sul serio, anziché distrarsi con dichiarazioni e proclami dei politicini attuali (dichiarazionche sarebbero ininfluenti se badassimo invece a cosa fanno e cosa ci frega), anziché distrarsi rimuginerebbe trattenendosi le palle  sul pericolo scampato.

Congetture: la crisi economica che comincia a caderci addosso oggi era prevista già allora
(ma un mio amico  insider dreamer sognò soltanto nell’ ‘86 che dal 2008 saremmo stati tutti più poveri) e iniziarono in quegli anni i mercanteggiamenti per l’euro, non è chiaro se per attenuarla o per appesantirla.

Quanto alla fortuna, chissà quanti generali e “illuminati” neocon delle due potenze più o meno in combutta sarebbero stati felici di una guerra… e di una ricostruzione, con meno plebe da schiavizzare. Militari veri e professionali come Petrov chissà invece quanti erano… Fortuna, o la volontà universale, somma delle volontà di tutti, pianeti e persone, ha voluto che si trovasse lì lui a decidere. Forse il dispositivo di rilevamento di missili era stato truccato apposta, dagli uni e/o dagli altri, per dare inizio (e fine) a una guerra; per fortuna/intelligenza/volontà Petrov ha avuto questo stesso sospetto tempestivamente e non ha voluto credere al mal- malfunzionamento dei radar.
Siamo vivi grazie a lui e a qualcuno che non ha ubbidito e non ha creduto né ai superiori né a una razionalità automatica e tendenziosa come s’intende comunemente la razionalità delle persone comuni e delle macchine che esse dovrebbero imitare. Perché per una generica predisposizione alla benevolenza sarebbe sufficiente la razionalità. In quel caso forse non sarebbe bastata: le mosse sembravano già state fatte, forse c’entrò qualcosa come il perdono o/= l’identificazione in una specie che sarebbe stata presumibilmente dominata da qualche stronzo violento ancora per qualche anno.

Cosa c’entra Rosenkrantz? All’inizio del dramma di Tom Stoppard (cinematografato), lancia una moneta un grandissimo numero di volte e continua a riuscirgli TESTA, a dispetto del caso. Cfr il passato post sui poveri dèi (“della vacca matta”:  letame divenuto letale a causa di alimentazione antinaturale).

Ein paar Jahre besuchten meine beiden ältesten Söhne Waldorfschule und -Kinderarten. Ausgiebig hatte ich Gelegenheit, in die Wirklichkeit dieser Sektierereinrichtungen einzutauchen. Deshalb bat mich vor sechs Jahren Tanja Krienen, Herausgeberin der mittlerweile eingestellten Zeitschrift Campo de Criptana, ein paar Zeilen zur Waldorfschule zu schreiben. Daraus zitiert:

Ist die Waldorfschule tatsächlich die bessere Lehreinrichtung, nach der viele Eltern suchen? Zumindest sind manch “positive Vorurteile” über die Waldorfschule nicht totzukriegen: Sie sei antiautoritär, reformpädagogisch und gehe individuell auf jedes Kind ein. Es gäbe eine echte “Schulgemeinschaft”, in der Eltern gar noch Rechte haben.

Gern gehört und mutmaßlich selbst verbreitet werden diese Legenden seit Jahrzehnten von den Anthroposophen selbst, um dann mit ihrer hausinternen Werbung nachzustoßen.

Steiner – der “Reformpädagoge”?

Was aus der Sinnlichkeit, aus Trieb, Begierde, Leidenschaft hervorgeht, das will nur dieses egoistische Individuum. Daher muß der Mensch dieses selbstische Wollen in sich abtöten.” (Rudolf Steiner, Briefe II, S. 229)

Die Wirklichkeit liegt fernab jeder Reformpädagogik. Deshalb weist die Waldorfschule eine hohe Fluktuationsrate auf, auch bei den Lehrern. Bleiben tun die Eltern, die sich nicht zugestehen wollen, getäuscht worden zu sein. Die, deren Kinder “zu alt” sind und deshalb einen schweren Start in der Staatsschule hätten und somit die “Angelegenheit” nur noch “hinter sich” bringen wollen.

Und schießlich ein Kern von Leuten mit “rosaroter Brille”, welche den “anthroposophischen Kern” bilden bzw. die Gefolgschaft des unatastbaren und uneingeschränkt herrschenden “Lehrerkollegiums”.

Steiner und die innerhalb der Waldorfeinrichtungen allgegenwärtige Tendenz zur bewußten Verdrehung und Lüge:

Alles dasjenige, was wir hier besprechen, das ist dazu da, um dem Lehrer Autorität zu verleihen. Wenn er sich verraten würde, würde er nicht durchkommen.” (Rudolf Steiner, Erziehungskunst, Seminarbesprechungen, S. 55)

Weitere Realität auf der Waldorfschule, der angeblichen “reformpädagogischen Alternative”: Fütterung der Kinder mit Steinerschen Phantasien – der “Anthroposophie” – in jedem Unterrichtsfach, eine “Schulgemeinschaft”, in der die Eltern nur Pflichten und das “Lehrerkollegium nur Rechte hat. Fragen gelten als “feindliche Akte” – Lügen, Intrigen und Heuchelei wo man auch hinkommt – eine bedrückende Atmosphäre.

Unfreiheit und Harmoniezwang

Jutta Görg-Herm, die zwölf Jahre Waldorfmutter und sogar neun Jahre lang Klassenlehrerin gewesen ist, empfindet das ähnlich:

Ich erlebte auch, daß kritisches Denken und Nachfragen an der Waldorfschule unerwünscht sind. Ich habe über Jahre miterlebt, wie Harmoniezwang ausgeübt wurde. Ein Zwang, der durch Verunsicherungen arbeitet. Wie können Lehrer Kinder zur Freiheit erziehen, wenn sie selbst diese Freiheit nicht erleben?

Sie kommt zu keinem guten Fazit:

Wer an der Waldorfschule aus der Menge und der Meinung der Mächtigen heraustritt, hat nichts zu lachen. Vielleicht wird nochmals gerüft, ob es ein Ausrutscher war, doch wehe dem, der es noch immer wagt, eine eigene Meinung oder sogar Überzeugung zu haben. Er wird geächtet. Wer überleben will, hat nur die Wahl, seinen Hut zu nehmen oder sich ruhig zu verhalten. Es geht nicht um Recht-haben-wollen oder Intoleranz, sondern um menschliches Würde und um die Freiheit des Denkens. Zu der Realität, wie ich sie erfahren habe, kann ich nur meine Enttäuschung und mein Entsetzen nennen.

“Enttäuscht und verärgert” sind I. und P. Bach:

Wir selbst waren einmal längere Zeit Eltern von Schülern einer Waldorfschule. Zuerst waren wir voll des Lobes, aber nach und nach kam die große Enttäuschung. Nach vielem Ärger haben wir dann unsere Kinder aus dieser Schule herausnehmen können. Der Anschluß an eine Staatsschule gestaltete sich schwierig, aber die Kinder haben ihn dann doch gepackt. Wir können vor den Waldorfschulen aus leidvoller Erfahrung nur warnen.

Es fällt auf, schreibt P. Brenner, der Vater eines Waldorfkindes, …

… daß Steiner zwar den Einfluss des Staates auf die Erziehung der Kinder aufs Schärfste verurteilt, jedoch in seien eigenen Schulen an dessen Stelle einfach sien Lehrerkollegium setztt. Daß die Elternschaft beispielsweise in irgendeiner Weise in Erziehungsfragen mitzureden hätte, ist nirgends vorgesehen. Und so wird es heute in den Waldorfschulen gehandhabt: Ein oft vollständig und undruchdringliches Lehrerkollegium operiert oft unter größter Geheimniskrämerei über die Köpfe sowohl der Eltern als auch der Kinder und der Geldgeber hinweg und fühlt sich kaum zur Rechenschaft schuldig, geschweige denn zur Zusammenarbeit.

Elternmitarbeit dagegen wird verlangt – aber unter den Bedingungen einer kommunikativen Einbahnstraße. Der Forderung, daß jedes selbstständige Denken an der Türe zum Rudolf-Steiner-Paradies abzugeben ist.

Steiner der Alleswisser und Rassist:

Wenn die Neger nach dem Westen auswandern, da können sie nicht mehr soviel Licht und Wärme aufnehmen wie in ihrem Afrika. Daher werden sie kupferrot, werden Indianer. (Rudolf Steiner, Vortrag am 3. 3. 1923 in Dornach)

Wir geben diese Negerromane den schwangeren Frauen zu lesen, da braucht gar nicht dafür gesorgt zu werden, daß Neger nach Europa kommen, damit Mulatten entstehen; da entsteht druch rein geitiges Lesen von Negerromanen eine ganze Anzahl von KIndern in Europa, die ganz grau sind, Mulattenhaare haben, die mulattenähnlich aussehen werden. (Rudolf Steiner, Gesamtausgabe 348, S. 185)

Ein abgeschotteter Bereich

Eltern haben keinen Schutz durch staatliche Regelungen. Selbst langjährige Lehrer, Eltern und Schüler können von heute auf morgen fallengelassen werden wie eine heiße Kartoffel. Die Waldorfschule muß sich nicht legitimieren, nicht auseinandersetzen, keine Gründe angeben. Sie hat quasi Narrenfreiheit und wird zudem noch aus Steuergeldern mitfinanziert.

Kritisch bleibende Eltern, die jedoch an die “positiven Vorurteile”, der Selbstdarstellung der Waldorfschule glauben – und somit im Grunde immer noch keine Ahnung von der “Waldorfpädagogik” haben – merken dennoch, daß “irgendetwas” an dieser Schule nicht stimmt. Daß Anspruch und Wirklichkeit nicht übereinstimmen. Sie merken, daß ihnen mit Arroganz gegenübergetreten wird immerfort. Sie letztlich nichts zu melden haben.

Freie Menschen halten es hier nicht länger aus und treffen über kurz oder lang an ihre Grenzen. Meist wird diesen auch deutlich klargemacht, daß sie nicht erwünscht sind. Denn: Nichts ist den Anthroposophen auf ihrer Schule unangenehmer als kritische Eltern, die vielleicht noch andere “anstecken” könnten! Anpassung und Klappe halten ist angesagt.

Was ist zu tun? Bevor Eltern mit dem Gedanken spielen, ihre Kinder in die Weltanschauungschule der Anthroposophen zu schicken, sollten sie nicht von der Eigenwerbund der Waldorfschule ausgehen, die auch in der Öffentlichkeit immer wieder verbreitet wird. Sondern sich mit dem beschäfitgen, was “ausgestiegene” Eltern und Schüler zu sagen haben. Also mit dem, was die Anthroposophie- bzw. Waldorf-Kritik zu bieten hat. Aber sie sollten sich auch die Mühe machen, Rudolf Steiner selbst zu lesen. Leider tut dies so gut wie niemand.

Manch zweifelnde Eltern denken oder hoffen nach den ersten Merkwürdigkeiten anfangs noch, der “pädagogische Ansatz” an sich sei ja gut, nur die “Umsetzung” an “ihrer” Schule sei allerdings “ausbaubar”. Diese oder jene Lehrer wären “ein Problem” usw. Es fällt halt schwer sich einzugesteehen, getäuscht worden zu sein, und das auf der ganzen Linie.

Für Steiner ist das Denken unerwünscht:

Gerade wenn man aus sich selber nachdenkt udn selber Ideen bildet, dann ist das Gehirn voller Unrat, voller Absonderungsprodukte, namentlich Phosphorsäureverbindungen; die schmieren sich dann so durch das Gehirn. (Rudolf Steiner, Die geistig-seelischen Grundkräfte der Erziehungskunst, TB, 604, S. 172/173)

Auch diesen Trend haben die Schullenker erkannt, weshalb von Zeit zu Zeit der eine oder andere Lehrer als “Sündenbock” vor die Türe gesetzt wird; neben dem Herausdrängen mißliebiger Eltern versteht sich. Wer sich nach eigener Erfahrung in und mit diesem System die Mühe macht, die Erfahrungsberichte anderer Eltern und Lehrer zu lesen, der sieht, daß nicht nur in “seiner” Waldorfeinrichtung dieses oder jenes angeblich “nicht stimmt”, sondern all das zur Steinerschen Pädagogik gehört.

Weltanschauliche Kaderschmiede und Sektenschule

Fazit: Das System hat keine Fehler, sondern diese “Fehler” sind unverichtbarer Bestandteil der Anthroposophie selbst. Nach dieser ernüchternden Erkenntnis merken diese Eltern, daß sie nicht die einzigen sind, die sich geäuscht haben und so einfältig waren, sich nicht vorher allseitig über diesen Schultyp und seine weltanschauliche Fundierung informiert zu haben.

Derer gibt es viele. Und sie gehören nicht zu den Dümmsten. Sie wollten das Beste für ihre Kinder und haben ein totalitäres Wahnsystem mit den dazu passenden Menschen vorgefunden, erdacht von einem der vorgab, ein “Menschheitsführer” gewesen zu sein.

Angstmache vor staatlichen Schulen gehört dabei zum Angebot der Waldorf-Propaganda, um die zahlenden Eltern zu verunsichern, bei der Stange zu halten. Doch diese Angst muß niemand haben.

Niemand kann eine Schule empfehlen, die sich bei näherem Hinsehen als eine reine Sektenschule entpuppt und darauf letztendlich ausgerichtet ist, den Eltern ihre Kinder zu entfremden, um sie ganz der steinerschen “Lehre” und ihren heutigen Ideologen zu unterwerfen: der angeblich “freien” Waldorfschule.

Quellen, Literaturverweise und weiterführende Infos:

Sybille-Christin Jacob, Detlef Drewes: Aus der Waldorfschule geplaudert – Warum die Steiner-Pädagogik keine Alternative ist, ISBN 3-932710-28-2

Charlotte Rudolph: Waldorf-Erziehung – Wege zur Versteinerung, ISBN 3-472-61727-6

Susanne Lippert: Steiner und die Waldorfpädagogik – Mythos und Wirklichkeit, ISBN 3-472-04754-2

Martina Kayser, Paul-Albert Wagemann: Wie frei ist die Waldorfschule – Geschichte und Praxis einer pädagogischen Utopie, ISBN 3-453-09147-7

http://rudolf-steiner.blogspot.com/

http://www.bipomat.de/waldorf/kritik/kritik.html

http://www.novo-magazin.de/73/novo7322.htm

Aloha!

Ärade medmänniskor!

Förra veckan befann jag mig på Vårdinge Folkhögskola och hade en av delkurserna i socialterapi. Veckan fylldes av eurytmi (antroposofiskt inspirerade rörelse- och koordinationsövningar), bothmergynmastik med Göran, järn- och kopparsmide, samtal och föredrag om antroposofins esoteriska syn på “världsutvecklingen” och mycket annat. Riktigt trevligt även denna gång.

Trädgårdslinjens blomsterodling på Vårdinge fhsk

Här hemma håller jag på att packa inför en flytt till en annan lägenhet, njuter av septembervädret, läser Bröderna Karamazov (som jag tänkt läsa i 15 år och nu äntligen påbörjat) och Pankaj Mishras bok Buddha i världen.

Den Rudolf Steinerbok som vi har att läsa på socialterapikursen dett år är den tjocka tegelstenen Andlig forsking – grunddragen av vetenskapen om det fördolda, som till stora delar handlar om denna “världsutveckling”, vid sidan av ett antal mindre böcker på samma tema, bl a en av de – i mitt tycke – mest underliga av Steiners böcker Ur Akashakrönikan. Vill man lyssna på Steiners böcker som mp3-ljudfiler finns många av dem att ladda ner på hemsidan Rudolf Steiner Audio, inläst på en behaglig engelska.

Storbrittanien som kvällsmoln

Jag har sedan jag inlett mitt arbete i en antroposofisk verksamhet (sedan tre och ett halvt år) och framförallt sedan socialterapiutbildningen kommit att uppskatta antroposofin och Rudolf Steiner alltmer. Steiner var ett universalgeni som – om än präglad och även begränsad av dåtidens tidsanda – väver samman en riktigt intressant kosmologi och andlig skolningsväg och vars kulturimpuls har lett fram till många praktiska manifestationer såsom biodynamisk odling, waldorfpedagogik, läkepedagogik för människor med psykiska funktionshinder, konstformer och mycket annat. Jag ser på Steiners enorma tankebyggnader och kosmologiska karta som på en intressant och oerhört genomtänkt myt som jag kan låta mig inspireras av även om jag bibehåller ett nyfiket kritiskt sinnelag.

Höst

David Wolfe, en av mina stora rawfood-inspiratörer, nämner i flera av sina senare föredrag att han alltmer tar intryck av och läser Steiner, vilket glädjer mig då dessa världar jag nu undersöker på så sätt vävs samman en aning. Steiner har dock inte en odelat positiv syn på råkostdiet; han skriver bl a att han inte tror att (dåtidens?) människor skulle kunna klara av en råkostdiet, men att den kan vara bra för att rena kroppen och för läkning under en begränsad period och att raw food alltså är mer av en terapiform än en kost. Att människor som äter råkost anstränger sitt system (vilket i sig är en stärkande process) och att kokt mat, som redan behandlad maten är lindrigare för kroppen. Att råkost även kan leda till andliga genombrott som människan inte är/var mogen för. Men han skriver även på något ställe att råkost -vegetabilisk föda är framtidens kost.

Marias delikata raw-sushi

Detta är bloggpost # 100…

Kraft och kärlek!

Er broder och medresenär,

Pierre

Ps. C-realms intervju med Derrick Jensen är klart hörvärd.

The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

Gangs and Rites of Passage; false gun toting, Confederate flag waving patriotism; going off to some chosen university where the petty Rites of Passage are all about getting drunk, learning about sex and cheering with a herd of lemmings who share the passion for some local football team or national football team; We made it, we managed to hide ourselves within the herd of all those surging human instincts; or generally feeling that we are young and immortal with abounding energy to deplete our life forces and rebuild them, after our hangovers, with a quick nap, allows us, from around 17 to 22 to wake up every day and face the trials of life as if we had an adult heart and soul.

But the numbers in every single instance, without exception, is that by 18.6 years or 19 years, the Moon that marked a point, a unique point and position where you were born, returns once more to the exact spot from whence you entered life and took your first star fixed breath. At 19 years of age we are ready for the most intimate window of blessing in a whisper, that our Angels have waited to share with us.

But just at this point, when we are still unsure of our thinking, our understanding of ourselves as spiritual beings, confused by the ghetto, the false patriotism that is spouted by military recruiters and the lies of the church and the failed insights of priests and community and congregations alike, at this sensitive point in our biographies, we are least likely to pay heed to the faint and potent indicators that our Angels have kept sacred for just this moment in our incarnation.

We can mostly recognize that our parents education has 100% failed to even comprehend the rhythms that lie in every human biography, these so called adults who are supposed to prepare the ground for you, well they have never even bothered to concern themselves with the universal details of each human biography. For it is with everyone, without exception, females and males alike that at around about 19 the moon’s first node opens the first flickering light that illuminates the inner world of what you sought to become and what you seek to learn in this earthly incarnation.

The meeting with this inner direction that applies only to you and your biography will come back every 19 years. The nineteenth, thirty-eighth, fifty-seventh, and seventy-sixth years ahead will find you reviewing with your Angel the entire pattern, mistakes and choices that you made in life. It all starts, the first lap of our long journey starts at approximately 19 years of age with our Angel attempting to create a moment in the turmoil of life that opens the eyes of our soul.

Each and every biography has the same numerical patterns and each of these patterns must unfold in each and every biography. The individual events will appear differently with each individual, but the profound lessons arrive on everyone’s doorsteps. I am focusing on only one specific event horizon, around the 19th year, because this is really the hardest and this is the one that sets us off in directions where we can lose our humanity or recover our humanity only later, or send us off on a Forest Gump/Parsifal adventure where we discover the magnificent divine wisdom of the world all by accident.

“The Fool is seemingly oblivious to much of life, is often naive, invariably wide eyed and innocent at much of life’s travails, and is someone clearly in dire need of divine protection. And in this respect, the Fool receives it… on a continual basis!

“For example, if Forest Gump is our model, then the Fool is the archetype of an individual honored by several U. S. Presidents, spectacularly successful in both war and in business enterprises, recipient of the benefits of both a loving mother and true, lasting friendships, and overall someone who really does quite well for himself.

“Other representations of the Fool include: 1) Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn ambling along the Mississippi River, carrying their belongings in makeshift satchels — both out to find high adventure and learn life’s lesson first hand, 2) the prodigal son in pursuit of the phenomenon of living, 3) an innocent Parsifal seeking redemption in the Quest for the Holy Grail, while experiencing all the positives and negatives the world has to offer, and/or 4) the wandering prince and minstrel, experiencing the slings and arrows of those who don’t respect or even trust any wandering individual, prince or not. The Fool is the quality in each of us that stirs at the thought of adventure and responds eagerly even to the hint of a new challenge. The Fool wanders in where others fear to go.”

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

Ignorant or inexperienced individuals get involved in situations that wiser persons would avoid, as in I’ve never heard this symphony and here I am conducting it: well fools rush in where angels fear to tread. It is the opening prelude to our own living gigantic biographical symphony and we are asked to conduct it without ever having grasped the rhythms and patterns in the laws of biography or the laws of music.

We are suddenly thrust in as the conductors and it feels like everyone is watching, the curtain has gone up and here I stand naked, revealed and winging it. Starting with this delicate 18 to 21 year window of our already started lifetime, well we don’t have a clue and our parents have no clue as to what our own little Beethoven symphony will be like. It will have strong dramatic parts, elated and soaring crescendos and cadences, it will have holy uplifting phrases and thundering drums. It will be our own biographies and there is a score and a tonal model for each and every biography just as there are precise laws of music.

Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread
And so I come to you my love
My heart above my head
Fools rush in, where wise men never go
But wise men never fall in love
So how are they to know
When we met, I felt my life begin
So open up your heart and let
This fool rush in

But one of the least prepared regions of the biography appears to be where the blind parents and community and nation, throw our young people to the wolves and cannot consciously, with awareness and alertness, assist the 19 year old and the 20 year old to listen to the highest indications that our unique and sacred Angels will offer us as windows into our own potential. Potentials that we may not have guessed yet or are still waiting to hear… But the indicators are there.

Our own Angels and our higher soul spirit Being will hover around the 19 year old and 20 year old and any of those faint glimmerings will be overwhelmed in the tangle of materialistic intentions of the the parents, the immature and deluded patriotism of relatives and friends and the empty phrases from politicians and meaningless limp mumblings from our local churches. This unsorted out mess is all that makes up the clump of uncooked chaotic cookie dough we call ourselves at 19.

Yet from this entire tangled mess of family and community relationships, we gather our little bag of experience and rush head long into the oncoming traffic. Nothing wakes us up more to our navigational potentials as our own immediate impacts with catastrophic and unyielding reality.

Pregnancy, DUI’s military discipline or our own lack of direction assail us. And, we have to listen very carefully, but we won’t, but we have to listen carefully to the clues as to our own unique and singular direction. We have to listen very carefully from 17 to 20 and watch for the beginnings of our own signs and wonders. These signs and wonders of our own will slowly become our navigational indicators through many of life’s trials.

Sometimes chance and synchronicity or coincidence will throw us a life line and at other times we deliberately have chosen the stubborn, bull headed path of learning everything the hard way. We won’t accept any faint intuitions and insights unless we are sure of the fact that we deserved, earned and won them and soon, before long we find that life is not fair and the undeserving steal and rob from the deserving. But we won’t listen to the little inner voice that speaks to us of how we screw things up all by ourselves. No, we want it the hard way, instead of the miraculous mercurial rich and personal meaning that awakens in our magical intuitions, we want the arbitrary human intellect.

Women have a better capacity for gaining and following the quick mercurial meanings and insights than most men. Women are wired to understand certain sensitive intuitions and nuances that literally blow right by men. Men need to become poets and musicians so that some kind of music can filter into the density of their hearts and weave light patterns, weave mercury’s intuitions through and through so that the tiny slumbering soul can feel intimate meanings, the way women normally can.

And in the long run we learn that our Angel’s are woven of this mercurial substance of synchronicity, music and intimate patterns of coincidence. This is how we learn the language of the stars in the working of events that happen directly to us and with us but we are too dull to receive the event and open ourselves with rich reflection of thought and communion to our emotions.

It is hard to learn the wisdom of tears and cherish the glow and warmth of laughter that is not mockery. In the long run we see rhythms and patterns weaving clearly within each human biography and they are based on real numbers and real Time points as we grow older. But it all stands before us as a confounded riddle of the Sphinx at 19.

Certainly there will be a teacher or a boss or a coach or an adult or a friend who truly can hear or is near hearing the real whispering of what the higher intentions are of why we truly sought for our life on earth. They are rare but they are there as part of our intimate guides through the chaos of this 19 to 21 year taffy pull of the soul.

If no deep impression comes to us, it means we weren’t listening or we drowned out the intimate sensitivity with mountains of superficial distractions in order not to hear and prove to ourselves that there are no intimate secrets, rather it is all just a ball of meaningless nothings. Existential nihilism in a pretty package of tattoos and flesh.

But none of our sought for answers are going to be merely handed to anyone because at 19 we have gotten used to having everything being handed to us without having to struggle down to the core of our beings to discern our own individual Moral Sovereignty. And that strange term, our Moral Sovereignty is the real life long struggle that is gonna lead us forward through the heights of success and the depths of despair. Our Moral Sovereignty gives us the right to be spiritual beings among other spiritual beings like ourselves.

Moral Sovereignty

“I had not thought about the seriousness of what I was doing when I walked into that recruitment center. Bill Clinton was in office at the time, and his belligerency had always been confined to invading only the most obscure and irrelevant countries in the world in a dilettantish (albeit deadly) fashion. It never occurred to me when I told the recruiter that I wanted to enlist that I was essentially giving my consent to go fight in a future decade-long guerrilla war in a tribal wasteland or to go fight in an urban free-for-all in the desert.

“That’s what really troubled me when I thought about how very close I had come to joining the military; the realization that I would have had to go to war whether I thought it was just or not. I would have voluntarily put myself in a position where other people – people I had never met – would have been able to tell me when and under what circumstances I would have to board a plane or a ship to go kill other people I had never met. And to top things off, those people I had never met who would have the right to tell me when to kill were politicians – the very same slippery scoundrels I had heard lying to me with a straight face my entire life. It was truly bone chilling to realize how close I came to surrendering my moral sovereignty to people I not only didn’t know, but in whom I had no trust to begin with.

“To surrender the ability to decide when and under what circumstances a man will kill other human beings is a serious matter – one that ought not to be taken lightly or entered into as though he is signing a car lease. Indeed, the decision to kill is the most serious moral decision a man can make in his life, which is precisely why he ought not to surrender the decision to anyone under any circumstances. The decision to kill ought not to be surrendered to a man’s wife, to his mother, or to his brother – and it especially ought not to be surrendered to the most mendacious creatures to walk the face of the Earth: politicians. If a man finds himself in a position where he must kill in order to protect himself or his family, he will know what decision he must make, but to kill other human beings just because a politician says so is the height of moral recklessness and irresponsibility.”

It is one thing to grasp slowly the power of Time and the unfolding of Time in ourselves and everyone else, but it is even more critical and imperative to locate the typical and powerful experiences that surround each and every soul as they encounter for the first time, in their own lives, the details and forces that swamp our emotions and rush to rob us of our Moral Sovereignty. Knowing what robs us of our Moral Sovereignty and knowing what it feels like when we have been touched by the Moral Sovereignty at the core of our I AM, at the core of our immortal soul, is learning to cherish shattering, and illuminating inner certainty. This is what our Angel and Higher Being grants us for reclaiming ourselves as Spiritual Beings on the Physical plane.

We derive great pleasure from experiencing the emotional exhilaration of highs and lows on our own little emotional adolescent roller coasters. This constant dysfunctional drama appears to us to be the essence of life. The Big Bong game. Everyone who thrives on being the center of their own and others emotional drama, constantly attract more and more crisis to their being and they become addicted to needing constant depressions and elations just to feel alive and not bored, all the while dragging everyone else into their self created storm tornadoes orbit. We become self-proclaimed petty drama queens requiring constant attention to fill our emptiness.

At this point we see everyone around us who live for the gossip, the trivia, feeding like swollen vampires on the Main Stream Media circus and current trendy comic horror shows and developing cults of fan worship because they cannot find their own Moral Sovereignty and their own moral compass so they suck off pre-packaged pulp fictions.

We certainly have not been schooled in the reality of how our own Angel’s hover over this delicate period between 18 and 21 because they are on assignment to us, and work in conjunction with and for our higher beings and our star. The very Moon that we carry with us as part of our own biology and biographies, triggers the gateway open at approximately 19 years of age for an intimate meeting. Nobody ever bothered to tell you that there is such a thing as a window into the Angelic world, that opens for a brief period in this age range and opens again and again every 18.6 to 19 years through our entire life path did they?

The Moon Node is the point where the Moon intersects the path of the Sun. Every month the Moon crosses the path of the Sun once on the way up-North Node and once on the way down-South Node. It takes about 18½ years for the Moon Node to return to its birth position. Rudolf Steiner stated that the days and especially the nights around the Moon Node return are the most important ones of our life and that at this time there is a thinning of the vale between the physical and spiritual world.

At 18.6 years our lives have now truly begun and we love to play catch up with how we daringly dive into new emotional and physical challenges and how we extricate or blame everyone else and circumstances when we can’t extricate ourselves from events and are forced to face jail time or having killed someone in a highway accident or got someone pregnant or ended up in a strange country with our limbs blown off, all may or may not happen, but our own uncharted emotional centers have certainly steered us into this. Because we had never heard, never even comprehended such a Freedom nor a complicated concept such as our individual Moral Sovereignty. We could never have guessed that Moral Sovereignty is the central core to the ongoing riddle of Freedom and our Angels.

At the core of the soul is a still eye in the storm that can hear and can listen and can comprehend when suddenly there is some sense of great compassion that seems to well up from nowhere, when suddenly we hear some depth and wisdom in our midst though everyone mocks it. We seem like utter fools if we attempt to follow the path of sincerity against the callousness of the petty cliques of our precarious popularity. Do we know what a true friend really is?

Our normal reaction to any stumbling attempts at truth or depth would be self mockery and envelop ourselves and others in the dumb dull dead zone where everything is mere trivia and tweets and truth is not allowed in to spoil the party. We are in the habit of dealing out sarcasm because it is beyond rare to have anyone insist or see in such delicate ideal moments, a whispered hint from our own Angels who have carried us through countless incarnations through our progress on earth.

Such whispered deep regions of the soul are tender and uncomfortable but we seek them in our most intimate and tender moments in our lovers eyes. Yet it is all around us, from children to the aged, these tender waves of endearments. They float everywhere in around and through us, but we can’t recognize them because they aren’t always tagged and redirected to our own petty selfish gratifications.

Human love and grace burble up and gurgle out everywhere like leaks in a sponge when you press the water out. We just fail to admire it and live for it and cherish it when we see it. Our Angels have such inexhaustible nurturing forces all around them and they stream it towards us at all times.

What it really means, this culmination up to our 19th year and every 19 years on into the future, our thirty-eighth, fifty-seventh, and seventy-sixth years reveals something you were never ever taught to recognize or gain any firm educational insight from. The sad educational reality is that none of those around you ever bothered to search deep enough or grasp human life with the depth of truth and sincerity required for glimpses into how our human biography has clear foundational and literal starry patterns woven into it.

Patrick Swayze gives a very stark example for us to remember his destiny by because from The nineteenth, to the thirty-eighth, and finally to his tragic death at fifty-seven years Patrick Swayze hit every mark the moon and our Angel has to offer. At 19 Patrick met the woman he would love for his entire life, until his death, all through the Hollywood romps and mayhem, Lisa Niemi. At 19 that unique person from which mighty love stories are crafted came into Swayze’s life.

In 1990 the eternal love story, the film, “Ghost” is released and Patrick made the film in his thirty-eighth year. This is the middle of his destiny. Patrick is given three Angelic windows. At the middle window of his incarnation, he makes the potently directed higher spiritual message film, “Ghost”. This mid-point opens vast opportunities and also reveals the amazing biographical forces that cut short his life at fifty-seven years of age.

At each point Patrick met with potent forces of love in the depths of the world. At 19 the love of his life; At 38 a powerful Angelic tale, about the higher love that exists in TIME; At 57 he closes the brilliant illumination he shed that allowed him to reveal some of the secrets people refuse to even contemplate, but our Angels certainly contemplate. That is that there is a Life after death and that human beings are immortal, eternal beings who participate in vast complex layers of reality along with our Angels. Our Angels live in the direct biographical score and symphony of our destinies. They are the ones that allow the invisible to surface up from the depths of our being. This is not taught in school. These things are not prepared or outlined for our immature comprehension, so we stumble blindly into destiny events that with any amount of understood preparation or illumination, may have given us clearer choices.

Carl Jung went through a region of his psyche that normal people and education are terrified to admit exists. All that Jung experienced privately he hid in a book called his Red Book. Jung entered this dark forest at his second Moon node, at 38 years old. “…in 1913, Jung, who was then 38, got lost in the soup of his own psyche. He was haunted by troubling visions and heard inner voices. Grappling with the horror of some of what he saw, he worried in moments that he was, in his own words, “menaced by a psychosis” or “doing a schizophrenia.” Finally this hidden RED BOOK of Carl Jung’s is about to be published. Where we can see clearly that below the surface of psychology there is a vast spiritual part of our nature which is never addressed. Carl Jung was called into this region by his own higher nature. If he was to stand before humanity and pursue the depth of spiritual experiences, his Angel let him have a few to see how he felt about it. The infamous RED BOOK of Jung’s reveals vast unexplored areas of the human psyche.

Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 to 1772 was a brilliant scientist until his 57th year. “His studies of man in works on the animal kingdom, the human brain, and psychology were published before 1747, when he resigned his post and gave himself to the contemplation of spiritual matters, especially to the work of making clear to mankind the true inner doctrines of the divine Word as he claimed that they were revealed to him by direct insight into the spiritual world after “heaven was opened” to him in 1745. Visions and communication with spirits and angels…” Here Swedenborg leaps into a totally different world of insight after having made a brilliant and solid reputation for himself in the non-mystical sciences. Swedenborg has all his windows thrown open at the time of his 57th year. The latent forces of his inner biography burst forth and turned this sober and down to earth thinker and practical scientist into a human being who talked directly to the Angels in the planetary spheres.

Exceptions to the Rule

Joan of Arc was 19 years old when she was burned at the stake. ” at her execution in Rouen, France she was 19. Her life dates were 1412-1431.”  Grasping something clearly in biography is understanding exactly when Joan of Arc was absorbed into the arms of her Angelic companions at the age of 19. In Joan of Arc’s case, we can clearly examine that Joan of Arc experienced the mighty forces of her spiritual mission with France, as a preliminary reality in the womb of her mother where Joan experienced the Holy Nights, just before she was born on Jan 6, Epiphany.

This is the exception to the rule, please don’t try this at home kids, it still meant that the Angelic world, which we encounter in slow biographical rhythms, was in Joan of Arc’s case brought to a 19 years on Earth conclusion in a fiery process that was laced with all of the deceptions and torments and lies that would normally have to be faced in the length of the entire biography.  Joan of Arc met all of them in one fell swoop, in a deed that served the Archangels and every future soul who would speak the French language who were yet unborn but destined to experience karma in France, all this was placed on a young girl’s shoulders by 19.  This was a unique and special circumstance brought about in cooperation between the Etheric Christ and Michael the Archangel. This is the reverse of that which is the normal pattern of biography and cannot be sought abstractly but must come about due to divine intentions placed into an individual soul.

So in order to think through the difference in a normal biography, Joan’s biography presents us with a  reversal of arriving at 19 and completing a powerful merging with one’s Angel. In an abnormal sense, Joan of Arc arrived at 19 and finished and completed her spiritual task in life. This differs from the normal biographical patterning where we start our ripening and maturing process, our individualization, at 19 and continue at intervals of  our thirty-eighth, fifty-seventh, and seventy-sixth years.

Joan completed and was embraced by her Angel and the Angelic world in a horrific and a mighty fire process of the Soul and Spirit.  The difference is that Joan of Arc was already destined, prepared, and  had chosen to intervene and do something that changed the entire Language and Archangel community and was spear headed by the Archangel Michael to penetrate the specific will substance of Joan of Arc.

Yet from our first baby teeth, to acquiring our own first grader teeth, to later when we gain puberty, all along the path, our biology and our intimate stars unfold our biographies until we approach our first moon node at approximately 18/19 years. We all follow the same rhythm patterns through the years and the only difference is to what depth and what self understanding we are able to grasp the lessons that we are being handed. The rule is that we have sought all the lessons that will come towards us. We have sought these very unique events that will impact us at specific moments in time.

These Moon incursions where our Angels come close to us, have long since disappeared from even a snickering of lip service. Nobody cares. Materialism rules and the science of ourselves as Spiritual Beings along with our higher family, the Angel community, has vanished from any sincere considerations.

Every 19 years our own little personal windows open up “…reflecting the synchrony between cosmic patterns and the rhythms active in the unconscious self. Thus the outer cosmos is synchronized with one’s own time organism, which was karmically composed during one’s pre-birth descent through the spirit and soul worlds. We can therefore expect such points to be strongly flavored by our karmic purposes.

“Moon nodes are points where the future breaks into the present; they can be quite dramatic….. A glance at the span between 18 and 19 shows that many young people experience a breakthrough – the meeting of an idea, or ideal, or special person – or experience a loss. The first complete node may well reveal the emergence of an altered sense of self that is a higher octave…” of the soul than previously experienced in our normal family settings.

Now for a typical experience of where we stand as we come through the Angel oracle of our 19th to 21st year, we stand at the threshold of becoming university students and pressured from all points including from within ourselves to make something of ourselves or fall into our own 24 hour stupid stupor of fun and frolic like we never had before.

One of the brief best challenges to this segment of life is the film, “Lions for Lambs“. Yes force yourself to really recognize the real stern challenges and choices that will now propel you into your untracked and untapped life and before you have even managed to recover from your 12th hangover in a month, you will find that life and destiny and your stupor will propel you toward the dawn of your character.

Disposing of our character and hiding in the herd are presented in “Lions for Lambs” by a significant teacher played by Robert Redford. Look at the experiences presented in this film very carefully because the sobering truths are part of our standard Rites of Passage during this portion of our biographies.

“There are two primary arguments that are being debated in the film. Argument A is presented by Senator Jasper Irving (played by Tom Cruise) who wants to initiate a new plan of long term sustainability in the Middle East with the highly visible American troops lingering around. The experienced television journalist Janine Roth (played by Meryl Streep) compares his plan to that of the Roman Empire, but he disagrees with her assessment.

“Argument B is presented by collegiate professor Dr. Stephen Malley who is trying to convince an underachieving student that the future of the country rests in the hands of the next generation. In his argument he presents the true fact that a large portion of the volunteers that join the ranks of the American military are recruits from the lower economic classes and the American ghettos. Within the same breath he points out the fact of complacency from the privileged youth, such as the underachieving student, who feels comfortable with his current status in life and doesn’t feel obliged to take a strong stand for his personal beliefs. In both arguments there are two players who are either arguing for his or her side or trying to disprove the argument of their opponent.”

Hierarchical Rank Domain
Angels – Individuals
Archangels – Folk
Archai – Time Periods
Exusiai and above – Forces and Kingdoms of Nature

The Nineteen-Year Cycle

“The 19-year cycle can also be extremely significant. The nineteenth, thirty-eighth, fifty-seventh, and seventy-sixth years bring to many individuals challenges of reorientation of their outlook on life and of their responses to basic factors in their personality. The Moon’s nodes’ cycle lasts 18.6 years and the Metonic cycle of New Moons’ recurrence at the same point of the zodiac lasts 19 years; thus, the close of the nineteenth, thirty-eighth, etc., years is crucial in terms of the soli-lunar factors — that is, of the basic direction of the flow of life energies.”

Ages 9-Fold Being Planet Characteristics Outer Manifestations
0-7 Physical body Moon Will Change of Teeth
7-14 Etheric body Mercury Intelligence Puberty
14-21 Astral body Venus Love Adulthood
21-28 Sentient Soul \
28-35 Intelligence Soul — Sun Selfhood (Ego)
35-42 Consciousness Soul /
42-49 Spirit Self Mars Speech
49-56 Life Spirit Jupiter Thought
56-63 Spirit Man Saturn Memory

Nobody expects anyone to easily digest the reality that there is a profound pattern underlying the biographical events of our lives. Certainly at 19 we have had hardly one impressive parent, guardian or friend who opened for us any kind of curious preparation for our unfolding life path.

The fact is, that we probably wouldn’t have listened anyways even if someone or some event had given us a clue. The fact that from every different direction in education no one ever sets the foundations of a vast ordered and deep universe around us that is not some arbitrary alien zone of god awful accidents and lunacy, is the ultimate testimony to the shallowness and cowardliness of the entire educational system.

At 19 rebellion is in order. And we have had no training in understanding and hearing just exactly what we are listening for or exactly what we have a full right to rebel against. But it certainly has to do with society robbing us of the Moral Sovereignty of our rights as Spiritual Beings, because education by and large basically forces that idea clean out of the curriculum.

We are listening inside the deeds, words, thoughts, emotions for that window that opens our souls up. We partially don’t even believe that any soul opens up and that there is no opening up of the intimacies of the soul because there is no soul.

We get a kick, and a high out of winning, or playing fast paced computer games, but this is not where the intersection of insight and intuition opens the soul up. Sometimes it is a friend or lover, where we feel a tug here or there, but the soul and our direct mainline to our intuition, where thinking, emotion and love tag us, is a capacity that has been allowed to stagnate and suffocate in materialism.

But the jumbled together nonsense of facts and materialism and our sexual drives, are only a small sliver of the whole disordered mess we call our society. Yet we are each of us a unique pivotal portion of the whole development of humanity at large and in particular, the living and loving center of our Angel’s deepest concern.

The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

We sit, walk, dance, eat, sleep and fart in a potently organized system that includes life after death, reincarnation and a whole new lesson plan that is woven into our very own bodies and biographies. We feel like a mere mass of raw jangling nerves and mood swings, zipping and buzzing flies like thoughts whip through us smelling the dead meat of what education has filled us with.

In the vast world there is a foundational brilliant and encompassing system. We are the chaotic cores that have never been given the navigational maps, nor pointed to what the Freedom of our thinking and Moral Sovereignty means to the gods themselves.

Instead we are given sitcom and media generated immortal vampires, super heroes and historical jumbled lies, that serve the constant brainwashed masses, instead of legitimacy of our own Angels and our own precise biographical indicators. We are tasked to make order out of this mental and emotional turbulence and find our own center of gravity and our own Moral Sovereignty in this tangled chaotic mess of fumbling and failed human frailties. And we are further tasked to find the clues that restore our own spiritual compass.

Our intuition and our spiritual compass, which is part of the package of our TWELVE Cranial Nerves, our pineal gland and our hearts, will serve us to feel our way along precipices and strange paths that have never been trodden, because they are our own unique paths that only we may trod.

Gradually in the silence of the center of our intuition and our Moral Sovereignty we are faced always with the tangible character and texture of choices laced with nuances and laced with potent soul poisoning demons. We are faced with choices laced with potent awakenings to the hearts of others and mostly to the potent ability in ourselves to look into the abyss and complexity of issues to see our own profound souls reflected in the ever changing pool and swirl of both the sucking whirlpool and the illuminating calm clarity of our Angels Eyes

Los Grandes Iniciados

Incitado por un comentario respecto a la lectura del libro Los Grandes Iniciados, cuyo autor es un escritor ocultista de nombre Edouard Schuré, decidí escribir un artículo respecto al mismo. Lo consideré importante puesto que, a pesar de haber sido escrito a principios del siglo pasado, continúa siendo una fuente de información a la que recurren muchas personas involucradas en el llamado Movimiento New Age.

Este último es a su vez la fuente de vida de numerosos cultos y sectas, apropiadamente denominadas novaéricas, las cuales son el blanco principal de esta bitácora. Así que me dí a la tarea de poner algunas cosas en claro respecto a este popular libro.

Edouard Schuré fue un escritor y filósofo francés que nació a mediados del siglo XIX y murió ya entrado el siglo XX. Siendo de tendencia esoterista, fue influenciado por diversos filósofos entre los que se están Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Friederich Nietzsche y Rudolf Steiner. Este último, habiendo dirigido una logia masónica así como su propia escuela esotérica “antroposófica”, tuvo especial influencia sobre él. Precisamente fue Steiner quien originalmente sugirió que “El ser de Cristo es central en todas las religiones, aunque es llamado con distintos nombres por cada una.”, la postura que Schuré muestra en su libro.

Schuré fue un autor cuyos escritos fueron felizmente publicadas por alguna editorial masónica, como la de la del Templo Masónico de Chicago o, actualmente, la editorial Rudolf Steiner. Dicho esto, recomiendo en un principio estudiar un poco sobre como ha sido la relación que han tenido entre sí la francmasonería y la Iglesia Católica a lo largo de la historia. Una vez haciendo conciencia de la misma, la opinión de Schuré, como aquella de la masonería, no parecerá científica ni parcial.

Dejando a un lado sus influencias, en su libro Schuré comienza atacando al cristianismo falsamente sugiendo que la religión y la ciencia aparecen como fuerzas enemigas, que la Edad Media europea era semibárbara, que la Iglesia oponía la fe a la razón. Es una lástima que este hombre, en su calidad de escritor, no haya conocido de historia y que casi 80 años después de la publicación de Los Grandes Iniciados siga confundiendo a sus lectores.

En su intento por “reunir” todas las religiones lo único que logra es una unión pegada con un lápiz adhesivo: no tiene gran fuerza. Me parece una unión plenamente artificial basada en arbitrariedades, suposiciones, estudios históricos actualmente inválidos e ideas de dudosa veracidad tomadas de los personajes quienes lo influenciaron.

Por ejemplo, Schuré presenta a la Atlántida como algo real, cuando en realidad no hay pruebas que que ese continente haya existido, así como habla de los “hiperbóreos” de la mitología griega como si su existencia hubiera sido real. Recomiendo la leer la explicación científica de la leyenda “hiperbórea”.

Edouard Schuré anuncia que el profeta persa Zoroastro vivió entre 4000 y 5000 años a.C., sin descontar la, según el, “nada improbable” posibilidad de que haya vivido incluso antes de ese tiempo. La evidencia histórica, sin embargo, sitúa la vida de este personaje en alrededor del siglo 1000 a.C.

Para Schuré, básandose en la “tradición brahmánica”, Europa y la mayor parte de Asia estaban bajo el agua hace 50,000 años. Debería informársele a los geólogos modernos, porque al parecer viven en la ignorancia.

Los Grandes Iniciados habla sobre los Escitas, presentándolos como una cultura que existió 4000 o 5000 años de nuestra era (por lo visto Schuré tenía afinidad por esos años) y que ocupaba un territorio que se extendía “desde el Océano Atlántico hasta los mares polares” y que estaba cubierto por “espesas selvas”. La realidad es que Escitia estaba localizada en Eurasia hace menos de 3000 años, no sobre un “territorio emergido de las olas” hace 6000 o 7000. Claro, si uno hace caso a la ciencia.

Y eso no es todo, este escritor presenta textos bíblicos (considérense sagrados o no), alterados a su manera, para que no contradigan lo que expone en su libro. Por ejemplo, presenta el siguiente pasaje “bíblico” que refiere a la tentación de Jesús en el desierto:

Soy César. Inclínate nada más y te daré todos esos reinos.

Jesús le dijo: ¡Atrás, tentador! Escrito está: “No adorarás más que al Eterno, tu Dios”.

Cuando en realidad la Biblia dice:

A continuación lo llevó el diablo a un monte muy alto y le mostró todas las naciones del mundo con todas sus grandezas y maravillas.

Y le dijo: “Te daré todo esto si te arrodillas y me adoras.”

Jesús le dijo: “Aléjate, Satanás, porque dice la Escritura: Adorarás al Señor tu Dios, y a El sólo servirás.”

Entonces lo dejó el diablo y se acercaron los ángeles a servirle.

Mateo 4:8-11

En su respuesta al ofrecimiento del “tentador”, el “Jesús” de Schuré dice algo que no viene al caso. El “tentador” quizá se quedó un tanto confundido y después le dijo algo así como “Oye, te ofrecí algo, no te pregunté a quien tengo que adorar.”

En la Biblia, sin embargo, Satán ofrece algo y Jesús le responde que a Dios lo tienes que adorar y servirle, no andarlo tentarlo. Es decir, Jesús se identifica con Dios, lo cual es contrario a todo lo que Schuré tiene que decir en su libro al respecto de la cristiandad.

No es mi intención ser “religioso” en esta crítica, pero aquí puede verse la intención de Schuré de alterar la información existente para sus propios fines. No muy científico de su parte.

Dados estos y numerosos otros errores expuestos en los escritos de Edouard Shuré, me parece increíble que este autor hable de ciencia cuando la ciencia es precisamente lo que brilla por su ausencia en su libro. Más increíble aún cuando además acusa a la Iglesia Católica de peleada con la misma.

Por último, sin querer dar a entender que estas son las únicas mentiras presentadas por Edouard Schuré, en una actitud groseramente racista, y seguramente influenciado por las ideas de su maestro Rudolf Steiner, llama “degenerados” a los actuales representantes de la que llama “raza negra”, comparándolos a sus parientes nubios y absinios de antaño que de alguna manera eran mejores..

De hecho, Schuré habla del sistema de razas en la “tradición bramánica” como si fuera algo digno de admirarse. Quizá por eso, y al haber sido influenciado por ideas racistas de otras fuentes, para él era de lo más natural considerar a su vez a los supuestos “descendientes de la raza roja”, los indios de las américas, unos “pobres retrasados”.

Se podría, claro está, sugerir en defensa de Edouard Schuré y su libro Los Grandes Iniciados que este último fue escrito en una época en la que la ciencia no estaba tan avanzada como lo es ahora. Que quizá habría que perdonarle los crasos errores de carácter científico que muestra. Pero esta crítica más que atacar un libro tiene como objetivo atacar el hecho de que aún ahora hay gente que lo considera digno de ser consultado.

Reconociendo que quizá al escribir este artículo hayan algunos quienes, por diversos motivos, tengan interés en leerlo – ya sea para consultarlo o por curiosidad – publico este enlace en el que encontrarán el libro Los Grandes Iniciados en formato PDF.

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“The light from world-wide spaces

Works on within with living power;

Transformed to light of soul

It shines into the spirit depths

To bring to birth the fruits

Whereby out of the self of worlds

The human self in course of time shall ripen.”

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- The Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner, translated from the German by Ruth and Hans Pusch.