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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…
Meeting with the spirit during the Holy Nights
There is an exercise that is a blend of two indications from Rudolf Steiner regarding Christmas day in particular and the twelve Holy Nights in general. The particular reference was about a meeting in the spirit of those souls on the path founded by Christian Rosencreutz. On Christmas day there is traditionally a meeting in…
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…
Parenting as Initiation
This lecture was given to parents and faculty of the Sacramento Waldorf School in 2012. The topic addresses the original state of consciousness of human beings where the divine consciousness and the personality are mixed in the young child. Then it is necessary for these two outlooks to separate in order for freedom of the…
The Backwards Review or “Ruchschau”
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing” Meister Eckhart In Rudolf Steiner’s work, the backwards review of the day in images is known in German as Ruchschau, loosely translated as looking at movement. We could call the exercise the Backwards Review. The backwards review is a practical and potent alchemical force for…
Biodynamic Alchemy and Spagyrics
This workshop will focus on the alchemical principle of spagyric substance that is at the core of Biodynamic preparation methods. The term spagyric was coined by the great alchemist Paracelsus to describe procedures for taking apart a substance at one level of existence and reinvesting it into itself it at a higher, more energetic, level of existence.
The resulting spagyric substance transcends its natural order energetically. Seen in this way, putting cow manure in a cow horn is alchemically spagyric.
Esoteric Physiology Course
The lecture themes will trace the path of the blood from the marrow of the limb bones through the various life organs and ultimately into the head. The evolution of the organs and systems will be presented from the point of view of both physiology and the symbolic or alchemical perspective.
Developing a Weather Eye
Expand your vision to include the the life process of planet earth. Join Dennis as he teaches how to develop your own weather eye, using cloud observations, simple physics, and old weather sayings.
Learn how to read weather maps, so you are not reliant on the fickle weather reports, which so often seem to disappoint.
Truth, Lies and Illness – Video Series
This presentation by Dennis Klocek traces how lies impede the ability of the nervous system to achieve balance and suggests some remedial practices to guard against the failure of immune response that is a biological symptom of a “post-truth” epidemic of world wide lying.
To Every Season Turn, Turn
The rising tide of life forces in Spring is linked in a unique way to lunar rhythms around the time of the equinox. This workshop addresses the critical patterns of early spring, highlighting optimum times for working with plants. It completes the work with the planting calendar through studying the elemental patterns of the moon during harvest season.