Adventures on the Symbolic Plane of Consciousness
As had been employed by mystery pupils of the past, modern explorers of the wisdom of self-transformation use symbolic imagery for enhancing their meditative practice. A specific practice which Rudolf Steiner called entering the astral body. Starting with the mandala as an archetype of consciousness, each session will use the methodology of breathing an image to enter into its symbolic content. Small workgroups will address the inner responses to these symbols using suggested protocols.
Read MoreBiodynamic 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.
Read MoreMedicinal Plants – Alchemical Analogs – September 2018
These presentations develop the creation of analogs as the basis for science into actual harvest and processing protocols based on plant time body gestures.
Read MoreMedicinal Plants – Distillation – July 2018
These presentations go into the particulars of high quality fermenting and the construction and use of the proper laboratory equipment for small scale extraction.
Read MoreThe Healing Power of Symbols
This workshop with Dennis Klocek explores some of the foundational principles that allow us to choose and employ symbols to relieve stress and promote healing.
Read MoreSacred Earth
These four lectures were given at a Biodynamically inspired agricultural festival in the fall of 2019 in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. The intent was to link the mineral, plant, animal and medicinal properties found in the high desert area of San Miguel.
Read MoreChronic Pain & Esoteric Initiation
Chronic pain evolves from body issues to soul issues of fear, anxiety and depression. Rudolf Steiner’s famous phrase that wisdom is crystallized pain points at a way to understand this widespread issue. We will explore the esoteric principles in the search for wisdom out of chronic pain.
Read MoreTransforming Inherited Beliefs: Family Values – Audio Lecture Set
This course addresses the common issue of how to transform beliefs and values that were part of the family of origin influences in childhood.
Read MoreImpulse Control – An emotional epidemic
The course addresses the issue of impulse control in contemporary life.
Read MoreSacred Agriculture Keynote Speech at 2012 Biodynamics Conference
This keynote address given in Madison Wisconsin at the National Biodynamic Conference began with an explanation of how numinous experience of the transcendent dimension of nature is transformed into an experience of the sacredness of nature through understanding. The idea was enlarged into a description of the difference between the ancient hunter religion and the…
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