Save The Date! Why a workshop on Julian, Herzeleide, and Tycho Might Interest You. Presenting Transformative Arts And Cheri Munske

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1 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of Anthroposophical Society Volume 105, April 2013 Why a workshop on Julian, Herzeleide, and Tycho Might Interest You The Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society invites you to Save The Date! April Rudolf Steiner s Work on Karma, with Jannebeth Roell, Linda Connell, and Marijo Rogers See front page article, calendar and attached flier. Register by mail or on our website. Emperor Julian Parzival & Herzeleide Tycho Brahe* Rudolf Steiner knew that it was his mission to bring the new, Christian ideas of reincarnation and karma to the world. In 1910, in a series of lectures on reincarnation and karma titled Occult History, he describes the reincarnating individuality of Julian the Apostate in the fourth century, Herzeleide in the ninth century and Tycho Brahe in the seventeenth century. However, after Rudolf Steiner saw that his audience in 1910 was not ready to receive this information, he stopped speaking about it. After the Christmas conference in 1924 he returned to this theme with new intention and spoke tirelessly about reincarnation and karma, illustrating his insights with many examples of named individuals, including the same individuality he had mentioned in Why would we concern ourselves with these past centuries and the lives of a Roman emperor, a woman out of an epic poem, and an astronomer? This can only be answered by looking into it. Says Jannebeth Roell, After I began looking into these lives, figures popped out of the history book as living people. Each life had a distinct intention carried over from one life into another. The individuality of these lives was gaining strength and vision with each life and he carried an intention towards the future. What is this future? It is the developing human being who is the future history of Christianity. It is you and me and we have a part in it. Says Linda Connell, I had never heard of anyone working with the Saturn, Sun and Moon exercise until I had an opportunity to practice it with a group in Switzerland. Someone presented a talk on the life of Champollion, who translated the Egyptian Rosetta Stone. When the group examined his life from the perspective of Saturn, Sun and Moon it became clear that there was something in his life intentions connected with revealing the wisdom of ancient Egypt. I was *Notice that Tycho s right eye is larger than his left For more information about this branch-sponsored event, and other events and initiatives in our community, see the calendar section of this newsletter or visit the branch website. hooked! Now I am happy to practice this exercise with friends whenever I have the opportunity, because by practicing we can gain greater capacities for grasping karma. Says MariJo, Rudolf Steiner's descriptions of cosmic evolution gave real meaning and new purpose to reincarnation for me. That with exercises we could develop new eyes to begin to see the unfolding gesture of an individual's commitment through lifetimes that is astonishing and humbling. We invite members and friends of the community to come work with us in understanding and developing the karmic biography of Julian, Herzeleide, and Tycho, to bring this individuality alive in your soul, for he is, as Rudolf Steiner says, someone who is active in carrying esoteric Christianity into the future. Presenting Transformative Arts And Cheri Munske Color is the soul of nature and the whole Cosmos, and by experiencing the life of color, we participate in this soul. ~Rudolf Steiner Since 2009 I have had a private practice in Transformative Arts, which has been deeply informed by anthroposophy. The Tobias School of Art and Therapy, where I did my training, is founded upon the work of

2 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 2 or magical powers, and returns transformed to his home, bringing gifts and new insights to his fellow man. An archetype for the path of individuation is beautifully told in the story of Parzival. Dr. Margarethe Hauschka, a student of both Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman. For Dr. Hauschka therapeutic painting was more about the process itself, the artistic experience, and the accompanying realizations of the client, which was important, not the finished piece. After WWII, Margarethe and her husband, an anthroposophical doctor, founded the first training center for the healing arts of its kind, including the visual arts as well as rhythmic massage, in Stuttgart, Germany. She is considered to be the Mother of Therapeutic Arts, and is well known to have said, It is important that the painting can breathe and Transitions are everything. Transformative Arts is a process which provides a medium of expression using color, form and movement to strengthen and support our inherent forces of health. Through my work, whether in my personal art or in guiding another through an artistic journey, I strive to cultivate the middle realm, the Heart sphere, where the soul can live into a colorful, breathing space. This space of active receptivity allows something to enter, grow, and transform. For this, the world of color is the perfect vehicle, and nature is my teacher. Within the artistic process, especially when combined with an immersion into the natural world, one can bring together the qualities of rhythm, balance and grace. Color, gesture, movement and a sense of wonder are the key elements I strive to bring into my work as an art therapist, puppeteer and educator. For me, the artistic process provides a path which cultivates the imagination and deepens our connections to the very source of creativity and transformative potential. Painting engenders a new experience of the surrounding world, a new connection to the beauty of Nature. ~Margarethe Hauschka Art therapy addresses both physical and psychological challenges, such as stress, depression, insomnia, bereavement, traumas, anxiety, cancer, asthma, learning difficulties. Artistic therapeutic exercises help harmonize what has become one-sided, transforming habits by awakening new faculties of imagination. Subtle processes work on the feelings to restore inner balance, which in turn affects the health of the physical body. Individually tailored exercises in the visual arts build slow and steady steps, which can lead toward renewed health and personal growth. A variety of media are used in order to reach different aspects of our individuality: watercolor painting, pastels, drawing and sculpture. Life challenges can be seen as modern-day manifestations of what Joseph Campbell calls the hero s journey. These hero myths and legends from around the world vary greatly in their detail, but the common framework of the hero s journey involves a central character who ventures forth from his known world, performing tasks or deeds, often with the aid of a mentor This journey is not always taken up consciously; in Celtic myths the protagonist is sometimes unwittingly lured into the forest by following an animal and thus begins the adventure. There are other times when the hero is thrust into a situation by forces outside his control. Often in mythology, however, the hero ventures willingly into the unknown in order to serve a greater good. The traits the hero must possess, those of courage, strength, determination, steadfastness, compassion and love, are the very characteristics we must all discover and embrace in order to face the challenges encountered on our own life s path. It is the task of the modern person to move through his/her own stages of the hero s journey, the separation, the ordeal or learning phase, and the return. To embark upon an artistic therapeutic journey into the Unknown is to enter into a modern day path of the hero s journey. Through the artistic process one encounters glimpses into the depths that lie hidden within. To begin the path of self-discovery is to enter into the metaphoric forest with courage and openness for what lies ahead. Within the artistic process, one can begin a gradual unveiling of the soul, and transform these unknown parts into a new way of seeing the world, a new form of consciousness. This transformation is indeed an awakening, a resurrection, a rebirth. And just as the hero knows within his depths he is being guided by a divine light, the modern seeker along the path of self-discovery is supported and guided when he is able to live with an inner trust in the wonder and beauty to be found in the unseen soul of me, the great Unknown. The reflection, the mirroring quality of the artistic process within a therapeutic setting, can be a guide into the space of the Heart, the place where light and darkness live and join to form a colorful, meaningful world. The artistic process has taught me to the importance of cultivating the capacities of warmth and interest, devotion and compassion for the journey itself. As Parzival had to learn through his long years of questing, the virtues of steadfastness and faithfulness to the task are essential, as is an unwavering trust in the help and guidance of the spiritual world. As I strive ever to nurture these qualities within, I am able to live with the conviction that it is precisely the trials and challenges one faces in life which can lead to inner growth. It is as if these crisis points in life, the call of unknown, are pictures of the future coming towards us, opening up our potential for transformation. We shall not cease from exploration For the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ~ T.S. Eliot

3 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 3 Cheri Munske, MTA is an art therapist, puppeteer and educator. She earned a Master s Diploma in Art Therapy and Transformative Arts in 2009 from the Tobias School of Art and Therapy, UK. She is a trained Waldorf teacher, Sunbridge College, 1999, and has taught children and adults for over 23 years. Cheri is the founder and director of the Wool Horse Puppet Theater, established in Since 2005 she has volunteered at The Dougy Center, a family grief center in Portland, Oregon. Appointments for therapeutic work and art exploration available. woolhorse@earthlink.net THE GLYPH OF ARIES THE RAM OR LAMB By Donna Kellum This glyph depicts the soaring new growth of spring from mid April to mid May. The two segments that are joined together on the outside surfaces of the two smaller circles look like a sprout beginning to unfold above the ground. And the larger circle in the space above the sprout is an ancient image of the cosmic forces of growth, hovering above like the sun in the realm of potential, while we stewards of the land toil away at the endless gardening tasks in spring at the digging, weeding and planting. While many annuals are just beginning the process of flowering, the early spring flowering plants are just now setting fruit, and the fruits which were already fertilized in early spring are beginning to swell up on the branches. Through Klocek s generous sharing of his imaginative genius, the dynamic process of spiritual-growth forces manifesting in nature can be seen through the morphing of each zodiacal glyph into its next progression: Note how the two smaller circles in the Pisces man-in-theglyph have moved closer together now in Aries, and the larger circle is further away. What in Pisces had been a cosmically-mediated contradiction of earthly duality, has now given way to the most significant aspect of Aries--the realm of potential for the earth itself in what emerges from it as an actualized birth of the divine! What a pleasure it is to breathe in the freshness of the spring air, to see green shoots pushing up through the soil and blossoms lining the tree branches. Each turn I take around my garden seems to free up something inside me that was not moving before! Cinderella Returns, by Cheri Munske SOUND GESTURE: The Aries T sound gesture as expressed in Eurythmy, with the fingertips touching the center top of the head, looks like that upward striving shoot. To raise ourselves enough spiritually, to truly appreciate this holy T-sound gesture in nature today, we may have to work through the concepts and ideas of the morphable art forms such as eurythmy and music, painting, textile and clay modeling. For the ancients who were still clairvoyant, and still quite morphable in form, direct communication with the world of spirits was actually breathed in and out, embodied as a resonance, and then expressed in a sound similar to the Chinese TAO. Just as we can connect with some element in a person s soul when we shake their hand, Atlanteans could breathe in, take hold of and grasp the resonance of any form in nature, and feel with (and within) their whole being that they were touching the body of the Godhead. To witness their own form actually change according to what they were experiencing, was the first

4 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 4 manifestation of the I or Ego pouring into them when the Sun was standing in a certain relationship to the Aries constellation. The T-sound denotes their realization of a capacity flowing into them, as something sacrificed from the Formative Forces of the physical Sun in Aries. Signs and sound gestures that had meaning for ancient clairvoyant consciousness have been handed down without being fully understood. Today, we might feel something through the touch of a leaf as though it were the garment of the Divine, or experience a flash of lightning as a display of the Godhead, but we are not so easily swayed or changed in mind and body. What generally concerns us more today than the divinity within nature, is what our senses perceive externally. We have acquired the gift of exact senseobservation, but we more often see only the physical body-- not its resonant soul. And so we have lost clairvoyant knowledge of the world and of our own self as the body incarnate of the Godhead. And yet an intense yearning for spirit does start to grow in us, in consequence, as it does for all earthly life under the radiance of the great hovering cosmic sphere characterized in the Aries glyph. And in our life struggles to be human, if our striving toward the light has any measure of success, we each in our own way come to realize our destiny in re-uniting with the Godhead, re-establishing a fertile connection, in order to awaken love in our hearts, and in the world, and evolve our differences into higher unity. The spring of Aries is a time for this resonance, and it s remembrance, to fill us. BODY PARTS: The body part of Aries is the head, and the forces of concentration the head expresses that facilitate consciousness arising. We can see this condensing process of Aries again and again in our evolution. Like the upright striving shoot in spring, the first thing that makes us consciously human is our uprightness, both in stature, and in the spiritual capacity which evolves within our I body, hovering about us as potential that we strive to actualize within ourselves. Today our etheric and physical bodies are about the same in size and form, remaining corpse-like in bed as we sleep, while our dynamic astral body and Ego leave for our nightly activity in the spiritual dimension until we awake. But clairvoyant masters agree that cosmic conditions were different in ancient pre-lemurian times, when the sun, moon and earth were still all united in the vast radiant body of Old Sun. Just as the face of today s clock reflects the passage of 24 hours, that great cosmic sphere revolved twice around the twelve zodiacal signs, once during night and once during day, except that each night, and day lasted more on the order of six months. During the incubating warmth and darkness of the ancient Old Saturn period that preceded this epoch (not the residual planet Saturn we know today, but a much more expansive and inclusive spiritual realm that preceded its Old Sun condensation), the Egoseed had already taken root in a kind of trance consciousness-state, waiting to be birthed. The zodiacal-soul forces first descended, from out of this womb of God to an embryonic earth, as grotesque human-animal forms with unconscious animal urges and blind cravings for the physical. Their etheric body, as Pre-Lemurian beings, projected beyond their physical body on all sides, especially their head. And when their astral body withdrew at night, that chaos of wild urges and cravings still remained connected with their etheric body and head so that they kept a greater spiritual consciousness around and in them through those long night-day cosmic periods. As those zodiacal-soul forces gradually descended from spirit through the eons of time it took for the sun, moon and earth to separate, their humangeneric soul counterparts reflected them on earth in constantly changing animal forms. The substance of the ancient Pisces-man has been described as soft and pliable with a skeletal structure that was closer to cartilage, which is organized but not yet hardened into bone, like a jellyfish hardly distinguishable from the watery-air surrounding it, and changing shape reactively to stimuli. These shape-shifting capabilities continued through the Lemurian and Atlantean epochs, taking countless passes through the zodiac to reach a stage that finally began to resemble the present human form. By the Old Lemurian time, when the first Christpreparatory event took place, that quieted and harmonized our senses into unified selfless service to our being, humans could successfully orient and move upon the earth with physical, etheric and astral bodies intact, but not yet with the freedom to think for themselves and know what they had to do on earth or to develop a humanly upright posture as we do today. In the first Atlantean epoch, the second soul sacrifice of Christ empowered humans to overcome animal appetites and greed brought on not by the selfishness of the now subservient senses, but of our vital organs themselves. The unified servitude of our organs to our bodies allowed us to function in relative health, protecting us from debilitating illness brought on by each or any organ seeking it s own devices. In the last part of the Atlantean period, the third sacrifice of Christ allowed this unifying, condensing process to penetrate still deeper into our soul forces, bringing thinking, feeling and willing together as unselfish subordinate members of a united soul. As the otherwise wild and dissociative passions became more deeply attuned with man s increasing self-consciousness, his etheric body further condensed into his physical head, and furthered the possibility for will impulses to harmonize with thoughts and feelings within a more constant physical form, essentially the same as we have today. But it was not until the fourth sacrificial event, the Mystery of Golgotha, that the incarnation of Christ into the body of man ignited the living process of the ego arising within us. To achieve this, the elemental forces of the cosmos, the etheric and astral forces arising from wind, air or water--which would have otherwise threatened the ego with chaotic disorder had to be unified within the ego in relative harmony. Christ achieved this through the sacrificial gift of placing his own ego in the service of human beings, and from then on calling upon us to likewise unselfishly submit ourselves in turn, for consciousness to be able to flood our ego without destroying us. It was in the body structure of this new human being, under the condensing head forces of Aries, that man could carry sufficient power in trunk and limbs for his upright striving to blossom forth with self-conscious thinking processes in the realm of his potential. Like the daily rising of our present Sun, and like

5 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 5 the rising before it, of the Old Moon, Old Sun, and Old Saturn, Steiner describes the head as coming into existence first as a large sphere, before the awakening of our birth. Our karma is woven by countless beings of the Spiritual Hierarchies into this sprouting seed with an inheritance of all the Saturn-Sun-Moon consciousness-periods. What becomes our head is a Wisdom, which has embodied in it all our experiences of past incarnations through all the zodiacal forces. With conception, the spiritual head becomes smaller and more concentrated as it moves closer toward incarnation, finally uniting itself with its mother as a small cosmic sphere attached to the whole body. When you compare the spiritual realities with the physical ones, the earth with all its forces could not have been able to produce our head. What is actually earth-man is only what has grown out of the head and spine. We recapitulate a spiritualevolutionary process now in our infancy when we emerge from a helpless, wriggling, crawling state and pull ourselves upright, like upward-striving shoots in spring. Everything has to reach a certain state of maturity before we can develop from the generic into a specific individual, but with recurring morphological expression we are spiritually organized to walk and talk and think long before our Ego-consciousness has fully awakened. The godhead simply shines down upon us like an eternal spring, waiting for our potential to grow into its image. Within the head itself, for example, the zygomas (cheekbones) and fused mandible of our upper and lower jaws arise like arms and legs from our skull, as metabolic processes hardening into form. Our higher development continues at a soul level, through recognizing in ourselves the various animal impulse-forms as parts of our own body, subsuming them through soul sacrifice and developing them to higher levels of integration. The four sacrifices of Christ are spiritual powers that continue to evolve within us as we struggle to find and maintain the right balance in all contexts and aspects of life. As our consciousness has been slowly evolving through many Aries springs over many millions of years, we now have greater access to the I consciousness that continues to spherically hover above us in the realm of our spiritual potential toward the Christ Consciousness. It streams into our head and we work it through our whole body as our Ego-organization. In Christian terms, the twelve apostles represent the twelve stages of consciousness through which we must pass. To date, we have only ascended through a trance consciousness in the Old Saturn stage, which we carry within our physical body; a deep sleep consciousness during our Old Sun existence, which relates to our etheric body; the dream consciousness of the Old Moon period, characteristic of our astral body; and the clear day/waking consciousness present now as our Egoorganization. Through our sentient soul-spirit work we develop our intellectual/mind soul. Then through an unconscious process of transformation within our physical body, the I /Ego organization lights up our developing chakra centers as sense organs in our spiritualconsciousness soul life. In the soft watery tissues between the left and right cerebral hemispheres, Wisdom sprouts up from the quiet surface activity of pure thought, which develops not so much from intellect as through the unifying attunement of meditation and prayer. Mostly, we are still at the consciousness-soul stage, and we will have become higher beings when by means of the Ego we are able, collectively, to consciously-willfully control all our organs, so that like a hive of bees, we all share a common soul and carry out a common work. Considering the all too often yet unbridled raging animal-souls of men and the polar nature of our life together, I can only distantly imagine us as exalted beings who have learned to integrate all twelve stages of consciousness into a new and higher unity of being. Steiner describes that higher thirteenth stage of consciousness as the one in which a new Christianity can evolve through mankind in the coming epoch of Aquarius. This makes me think of the Ophiuchus constellation described in the previous article on Pisces, now stepping into the zodiac, possibly as the thirteenth sign. CULTURAL EPOCH: The vernal sun stood in the Aries sign of the Ram or Lamb during the fourth post-atlantean Greco-Roman cultural epoch. Being subject to the upward striving Aries spiritual forces makes it possible for the head to develop in a way that the Ego-consciousness can unfold, along with the soul faculty for self-contemplation. This came to unprecedented expression in every realm of Greek culture, with no previous age ever having seen man living so broadly in the physical world as such a purely human self-contained ego-being, with a conscious awareness that the world of the senses is united with the world of the spirit. The Aries Lamb lying at the foot of the Cross, and the Lamb of God in the Greek Legend of the Golden Fleece, are depictions in this early period of Christianity which foreshadow both the coming of Christ and that of the human being endowed with ego, as the fifth living being to unite the four shifting forms of the lower human-generic being (water-man, lion, ox and eagle). From their own inner life and through the clarity of their thoughts, the Greeks found everything through Nature. In man s life struggles, his upward striving, his tragic end, Greek mythologies represent Man as carrying out the image of the Gods, not yet as gods incarnate. Apollo, for example is one such god among the high Sun-Spirits who radiates downward, united with humanity like that great hovering cosmic sphere of the Aries glyph, containing the earth within itself, while calling for its potential to be birthed within the earth itself, in a new conscious and freed being. The Greeks knew the divine world had to disappear from human consciousness so that it could penetrate within a newer, higher form as the Christimpulse. That is foretold by the Son-of-Apollo descending into physical existence, but only as far as the human soul faculties then existing could receive him. The ancient Greeks were like shoots striving upward to bask in the consciousness of the sun, like angels reflecting the spirit of God. Their art, reflecting their experiences with the ancient gods above them, depicted the earthly evolution of their moral life only as far as their gods were connected with it. As the earth separated and densified by the end of the fourth post-atlantean epoch, vision of the Old Sun-Spiritual Beings became an increasing rarity as they gradually faded from human consciousness.

6 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 6 WORLD VIEW: The Aries worldview, Idealism, holds that life in the material world has no real meaning unless ideas and ideals can emerge that engage the soul and give it purpose. In the Goethean sense, ideas and ideals are just as objective as the colors and the forms of things, even as they are not there for those whose spirit is unreceptive to them. They are only there for those who are open to them, who can see their worth and apply them. One of the highest expressions of ideals comes to us through the arts. At a recent museum exhibit of Greek art and sculpture here in Portland, we saw how the Greeks observed themselves through a self-knowledge idealized in sculptured forms of godly forces, working on behalf of their evolution. They reflected the gods as ideals, as a realm of ego-potential not yet embodied, not yet differentiated in separation from the gods. As in the battling city-states of Athens and Sparta, the Greeks held ideals of democracy, of human beings preserving their purity of spirit, their softness and pliability, contested against militarist ideals that brought a hardening impenetrability of the soul. But on both sides, like caricatures in a play, the whole of the developing human personality was poured into idealized forms toward a single evolving archetype that was revered in its not yet. In Greek works of art, the divine Plato, (~427 B.C.) philosopher of idealism, even declared the plastic and dramatic arts to be harmful in the potential unruly freedoms they could unleash, sparing only music, because of its promotion of courage in war. The essence of Art, how it can reach out beyond Nature in a spiritual way to create something greater was still much beyond Plato s grasp--like the Christ-Impulse, yet to be embodied. We are increasingly rising into a spiritual understanding of the world today through artistic endeavors, but as the Greeks gradually came under the influence of other cultures, their experiences appeared only on the physical plane as idealized forms sculpted into hard marble. The Romans, who were becoming ever more bound to a material existence, went even further than the Greeks in molding their whole social life, not from their spiritual essence but more in accordance with their intellectual/mind soul. The Portland Anthroposophic Times is published monthly to serve Branch members and friends.to learn more about the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, contact Diane Rumage at To submit an article, a calendar item, sign up for our list, and contact the editors or the Council, go to The deadline for submissions is the 15 th of the month. Items selected for publication may be edited for style, content and length. Newsletter co-editors are Wes Burch & Valerie Hope. Seth Miller is our webmaster, and Ruth Klein is our accountant. The newsletter and calendar are posted on the Branch website, Paper copies are available at the Takacs, Pohala and Healthbridge Clinics; and the Cedarwood & Portland Waldorf Schools, and Swallowtail School. The Portland Branch thanks the following Members & Friends for their Dues and Generous Donations in 2012! Cyndia Ashkar, Chrystal Brim, Sandra Burch, Wes Burch, Lesley Cox Yvonne DeMaat, Mia Ellers, Ron Ennis, Sacha Etzel, Charles Forester, Valerie Hope, Lauren Johnson, Marsha Johnson, Tish Johnson, Bob Kellum, Ruth Klein, Tom Klein, Kathy Kremer, James Lee, Robin Lieberman, Regina Loos, Cheri Munske, Robin O Brien, Donna Patterson, Timothy Popof, Padeen Quinn, Jeff Rice, Walter Rice, Jannebeth Roell, Twila Rothrock, Diane Rumage, Chiaki Uchiyama. Please submit your Branch membership dues ($50), or your donations, to: The Portland Branch c/o Ruth Klein, 3609 SE Center, Portland, OR THE TWELVE MOODS: ARIES Come into being, O gleam of light, Lay hold on the becoming being, Firmly grasp the forces weaving, Ray forth, existence-rousing. From opposition gain, In time s stream dissolve away. O gleam of light, abide! The plaque on the right is of the 4 figures of the 4 books of the Gospel (the Lion, the Ox, the Man, and the Eagle), with the Lamb of God in the middle it was made less than 400 hundred years after Christ, displaying an early understanding of the diversity of the 4 different Gospels. ~From the Faith Bible Ministries Blog

7 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 7 Portland Branch Calendar April 2013 Portland Branch Council Meeting Monday, April 8, 7-9 pm 2606 SE 58th Ave. Contact valerieannhpdx@aol.com. All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or to call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. Meetings are on the second Monday of each month. First Class of the School of Spiritual Science, Lesson 16 Sunday, April 14 9:30 am sharp Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St, Portland, 97206, Contact Diane Rumage at or Cheri Munske at Blue card required. Second Sunday of each month Veil Painting with Sandra Burch at the Rose Well Studio in Milwaukie Series of four Saturdays April 13, 20, 27 and May 11, 9 am 11 am $100 Call for individual lessons and open studio times or galenalyn@gmail.com Study, First Steps in Inner Development by Rudolf Steiner and create a veil painting. Rudolf Steiner s Work on Karma: Emperor Julian, Herzeleide and Tycho Brahe, with Linda Connell, Jannebeth Roell, Marijo Rogers, and Diane Rumage Friday, April 26, 8pm 9:30 pm, April 27, 9am-5pm Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St. Portland Requested Donation $50. Scholarships are available; no one will be turned away because of finances. Contact Robin Lieberman, or robin@robinlieberman.net or register online at This workshop is dedicated to Rudolf Steiner s work on karma, by using one of the karma exercises he gave at the end of his life. We will explore a series of incarnations cited by Rudolf Steiner in 1910 in Occult History and in 1924 in Karmic Relationships, Vol. II. After the presentation of these incarnations there will be a conversation with all participants using the Saturn, Sun, and Moon exercise in which we try to experience for ourselves the connection between these incarnations and something of the true impulses of this individuality. Christian Community Events with the Reverend Sanford Miller from Sacramento At Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St., Portland, unless otherwise noted. Contact Sandra Burch, galenalyn@gmail.com or (503) Thursday, May 2, 7:30 pm The Fire of the Heart and the Nature of Prayer Suggested donation $5 - $10 Friday, May 3 Conversation with Sanford about the History of Christianity in America. Contact Sandra Burch for location and time. 7:30 pm, Beyond Religion: Becoming Truly Human cultural veils and the sources of deception Suggested donation $5-$10 Saturday, May 4 8 am, The Act of Consecration of Man 11 am Gospel Study Meeting the Risen Christ John 14:1-31 Sunday, May 5 9:15am - Religious Instruction for Children (grades 1-8) 10:00am - Children's Service (grades 1-8) 10:30am - The Act of Consecration of Man - (open communion for adults) Childcare available - sign up in advance with Sandra Burch Luster & Image Colors, 4: Workshop with Chris Guilfoil Saturday, May 18, 9am-5pm 3135 NE 17 th Ave, Portland maximum 12 participants Contact Jannebeth Roell, , jannebeth@comcast.net $75 includes materials, please bring a dish for a potluck lunch to register make out check to Chris Guilfoil and send it to J. Roell at the above address. This is the fourth workshop on this theme. Chris will continue to work with us on the subject of luster and image colors. One who, through a long period of soul-culture no longer considers as dogma but as experience what Dr. Steiner has said in his color lectures about lustre and image colors will see in this turning of luster into image and of image into luster, a priestly, redeeming act for the earth a transformation. ~ Maria Voloschin

8 Volume 105, April 2013 Newsletter of the Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 8 Creating a Joyful Life with Children Lifeways Conference Saturday, May 18, Marin Waldorf School See for more information or to register online. The 22 n d Heartbeet Conference Know Thyself: The Search for a Healing Balance Between Extremes May 25, 26 Heartbeet Lifesharing, Hardwick, Vermont Contact Annie Volmer, Heartbeet Lifesharing, 218 Town Farm Rd., Hardwick, VT 05843, (phone), (fax) This conference will help us connect with the source of inner harmony, and learn to recognize the two opposite influences that distract us from our path. Once again the weekend will be filled with ideas, artistic workshops, music, delicious meals, and warm conversations with friends, all set on our Vermont farm in springtime. Vegetarian meals will be provided, along with sleeping accommodations on the floor or camping. We do have limited travel scholarships available, on a first come-first served basis. The full conference program and registration materials will be sent shortly. Ongoing Local Activities and Study Groups Council Meetings of the Portland Branch Second Monday of the month 7-9 PM 2606 SE 58th Ave., Portland Contact Valerie Hope, (503) , valerieannhpdx@aol.com All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or to call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. First Class of the School of Spiritual Science Second Sunday of the month 9:30 am sharp Bothmer Hall, 5919 SE Division St, Portland, Blue card required. Contact Diane Rumage at or Cheri Munske at First Class Study Second and Fourth Tuesday of the month Blue card required 7:30-9pm Contact Tom Klein, , Tgklein@aol.com. This group works with the contents of the class. Anthroposophical Course for Young Doctors First Tuesday of the month 7-8:30 pm Pohala Clinic, SE Holgate Blvd. contact Julie Foster , julie@pohalaclinic.com Karmic Relationships Study First and third Thursday of the month 7-9:30 pm Contact James Lee, , anthroposophy@earthlink.net The study group will continue working with lectures from the Karmic Relationships lecture cycle and applying Rudolf Steiner s karma exercises. The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World First and third Tuesdays 7:30-9 pm 3046 NE 33 rd Ave. contact Donna Patterson and Bob Kellum, All are welcome Monthly Painting Circle with Robin Lieberman Second Thursday of each month, 5:30-8:30 pm 1410 SW Morrison St., Suite 901 $50 includes all materials and snacks. Please register in advance contact robin@robinlieberman.net or Each second Thursday Robin opens her studio to all who wish to paint in community. Inspired by the work of Liane Collotd Herbois we will explore a color or theme each month. Curiosity is the only prerequisite! Mystery Dramas with Speech-Formation Exercises 2 n d & 4 t h Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm in SW Portland Starting anew on March 13, 2013 with Steiner s 4 th Mystery Drama, The Soul s Awakening Beginners Welcome Contact Diane Rumage by at drumage@comcast.net or by phone at Portland Waldorf School Community Choir Friday Mornings 8:45-10:15 am Portland Waldorf School, 2300 SE Harrison St., Milwaukie, in the Orchard Room Free. Contact Marion Van Namen, Waldorf Education and Teacher Training Lectures and Courses Conducted throughout the year by the Micha-el Institute. Contact John Miles, johncmiles@usa.net

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