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The Vacuum and the Plague: A Meditative Path into the Reality of the Moment
October 24, 2022
Everything that exists is being: the house, the mountain, the tree, the car or the dog, as well as the fingernail of the hand; everything is being. From the most elementary to the most majestic, spiritual beings interweave themselves; they are, and they bring forth, what we call creation. For our awareness, their interconnections are conditioned by a fundamental law: a unity in the spiritual word is a multiplicity in physical existence, while a unity in the physical world is a multiplicity in the spirit. The being of the plant appears as a unity, the primal plant, and as the many differentiated plants in the physical. On the other hand, the physical plant, for example the rose bush on the roadside, appears as a unity, but as a spiritual reality it is the activity of the beings of the sun, earth, water, mineral, air, of life and so on. Given that a being is present wherever it has effects and that a being unfolds particular activity, the plant is a spiritual multiplicity, as is every particular physical appearance. Every “thing” is a spiritual multiplicity, a tapestry of activity in which no emptiness can be discovered. In other words: nothing exists that is not, and everywhere something exists, someone exists, is active, as a being. Non-existence cannot be found. More »
Waldorf School for Doctors and Nurses
October 10, 2022
As a Waldorf parent, you gather lots of good stories about your children. One that stands out for my family is when our new first grader—who had independently taught herself to read at 5-and-a-half years of age—marveled at how clever her new teacher was. She told us about this at the dinner table. Her first-grade class was learning about the letters of the alphabet and how for each letter there is a story, and a story associated with a shape, and a shape with a sound. We were wondering whether this process of learning the letters might be boring for our daughter, but found the reality was really quite the opposite. More »
Resilience: More Than Bouncing Back
October 3, 2022
When I imagine resilience in its simplest form, it looks like the pop-up doll I had as a child. It was egg-shaped, full of air, and had a round bottom that was weighted. It was as large as I was. I could push it over and it would always pop back up again. I loved that doll and the picture of resilience it communicated. But resilience is more complex that simply popping up again, although that is one aspect of it. Reflecting on why we fall so that we can understand the experience is another. And using the experience of the fall—or the failure—for growth and transformations is yet another. Resilience in its fullest meaning embraces all of these. This multi-dimensional resilience allows us to face life’s obstacles and transform them into stepping stones. More »
From Switzerland to Detroit: A Summer of Inspiration & Service
September 26, 2022
This past July, I had the privilege and opportunity to travel both to the Goetheanum in Switzerland and the Brightmoor Makerspace in Detroit, USA. In this Part 1, I’ll write about the Goetheanum experience, and in Part 2, I’ll share more about my time in Detroit. Both experiences continue to inform my hopes as a high school teacher and mentor for young people. The Goetheanum in Switzerland is the center of the Global Anthroposophical Society. I’d wanted to visit it ever since I was 18 years old and first started reading Rudolf Steiner. The Waldorf school movement originated from the broader impulse called anthroposophy at the turn of 1900. Rudolf Steiner, at age 40, began to respond to people's spiritual and life questions out of clairvoyance for what is vital for humanity to become wiser, more creative, and more loving. More »
Singing as a Practice for Building the New Michael Culture of the Future
September 19, 2022
It’s cricket song season here in New York state and even as I write this article, I can hear them playing their violins outside my window connecting to the archetypal cosmic universal sound or you could say “The Music of the Spheres”. All sounds made in nature connect to this sounding naturally. We humans often struggle to connect to this cosmic sound because we are living such busy overscheduled lives just trying to survive and keep up with what is pulling on us from the outside, often feeling stressed out and overwhelmed by everything on our task lists. We may from time to time slow down, take a walk, meditate or do something to nurture our insides but the minute we go back into activity we often lose all the peacefulness we were trying to cultivate in nurturing our insides. More »
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