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Articles and Essays
Medicines from the Garden – Tonics
Do-it-yourself venous tonic: ayurvedic trikatu In a blender put one cup of chopped ginger rhizome, one-half cup of chopped turmeric rhizome, two tablespoons of black pepper, one quarter cup apple cider vinegar, and one quarter cup honey. Blend them together then let the mash steep in a quart jar in a warm water bath (not…
Ouroboros and Spagyric Plant Remedies
The snake biting its own tail is Paracelsus’ picture of a spagyric remedy: a plant taken apart, each part purified, then married together again at a higher order. What that means in practice, from root and seed to the slow digestions that bring them together.
Soph and the Liar Bird | A Poetic Battle Between Truth and Lies
A darkened, restless void sits brooding
Upon a dream of world creating sparks.
Creation moves in time responding
As new worlds spiral out of dark.
Approaching the Witness
The practice of “approaching the Witness” centers on recognizing the quiet part of the self that observes life without becoming overwhelmed by anxiety. By regularly asking a simple question, such as “What am I grateful for in this moment?”, and then listening into the silence that follows, we train the mind to shift attention away from worry and toward awareness. The goal is not to find perfect answers but to build a rhythm of question and listening, allowing gratitude and observation to gradually replace anxious thinking. Practiced daily, even for a few minutes, this exercise strengthens our connection to the inner Witness, helping us respond to life’s uncertainties with greater calm, flexibility, and understanding.
Seeking The Essence Of The Festivals: Easter And Whitsun In The Kindergarten
By Barbara Klocek Editor’s note: This article places Easter and Whitsun in the context of the year’s festivals, illustrating that these observances are part of a living whole. It also exemplifies a teacher’s striving to penetrate the deep significance of each season as a necessity for bringing joy and meaning into the festival life of…
Dream Art Theater: A ceremonial approach to dream imagery and the Great Journey of the soul
Understand the practice of Dream Art Theater. Dream Art Theater is a method for exploring the deeper potentials of dream imagery through artistic practice, symbolism, and inner listening.
Audio and Video Lectures
Developing Living Picture Thinking: Sensation, Perception, Intention
Explore the phenomenological approach to science and develop practices for seeing into the open secret.
Perceiving the Spirit of the Natural World
Perceiving the Spirit in the Natural World – Frey Vineyard Jan 2014 Contemporary science, with its focus on the gathering of abstract data as a means for the perception of natural phenomena, tends to promote the view that nature is simply a resource to be exploited. Earlier civilizations tended to see the phenomena of nature…
Neurology and Education
Dennis surveys the history of the study human consciousness and compares older concepts with contemporary neurological discoveries regarding learning difficulties and limbic structures in the brain.
Spiritual Physiology: The Heart
To build the world in the I, to behold the I in the world, is breathing of the soul. To sense the universal all in feeling of one’s inner self is wisdom’s pulse. To trace the paths of the Spirit in one’s own aims of life is inner speech of Truth. So let the Soul’s…
Workshop on Fairy Tales
The workshop started with a puppet show of the “Queen Bee” Fairy Tale. After that, the lecture begins. This is the way that the deepest mysteries of the mystery schools were taught. The idea of the puppet is that as we make puppets move, so God makes us move. But what is the purpose of…
Fairy Tales for Kindergarten Teachers
To continue our discussion of fairy tales, today we’ll work with the theme of the gemut as a kind of central motif in the problem of initiation. This theme centers on the relationship between day-waking consciousness and dreaming consciousness. There is a threshold between these two states of consciousness that is permeable and fluctuating, but…