Meditation

Healing Meditations Workshop

By Dennis Klocek January 21, 2022
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This is a partial transcription of the workshop’s first lecture. To listen to the entire workshop, visit the lecture page. — For students of Dennis who have an interest in prayer, this partial transcription of his Healing Meditations workshop describes a form of hygienic prayer that Dennis taught as a ritual of healing. Unlike some…

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Working Out in the Soul Gym

By Dennis Klocek January 4, 2022
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Finding it difficult to lug your suitcase upstairs? Work out a few times a week at the gym and your suitcase soon begins to feel lighter! Likewise, going to the “soul gym” every day develops your capacity to remain peaceful amidst the pressures of life. Just as workouts at the “Y” build muscular strength and…

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Remembering and Beholding

By Dennis Klocek December 31, 2021
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You are shopping in the grocery store and run across an old friend. You both start to talk about mutual friends and they mention old Ted what’s his name. You draw a blank, then say that his name wasn’t Ted but Fred. Your friend says you are right but that his name was neither Fred…

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Adventures on the Symbolic Plane of Consciousness

By Dennis Klocek October 22, 2021
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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.

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The Backwards Review or “Ruchschau”

By Dennis Klocek September 27, 2021
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“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…

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Protection from Dark Thoughts

By Dennis Klocek July 25, 2011 Comments Off on Protection from Dark Thoughts
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By the power of the ChristAll curses whether ancient, hidden or repeatedAre found, bound and defeatedAnd must leave me now To be: Revealed by the LightTo be: Absolved by the TruthTo be: Returned to the Source From this time forward!Right now! Forever! So be it!It is so!Let it be done! Thank You Protective mantra from alchemical…

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Healing Meditations

By Dennis Klocek May 1, 2011
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At times it is necessary for those on a path of self development to engage in protecting themselves from the negative intents coming from other persons. This process is delicate but if handled consciously it can be healing for both the person who we are struggling with and for ourselves.

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A Periphery / Center Exercise

By Dennis Klocek January 3, 2011 Comments Off on A Periphery / Center Exercise
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This exercise can help to develop a sense of the continuity of consciousness across the threshold to the next world. It begins with the inner imagination that we are in our bodies looking out at a starry sky. We imagine that our soul is expanding outwards towards the stars. It is expanding in a circle.…

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Mystery Wisdom Introduction

By Dennis Klocek November 10, 2010
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These presentations form a short course on the fundamental language that composes what Rudolf Steiner called mystery wisdom. Mystery wisdom is the teachings of the perennial philosophy presented in a context that addresses the soul issue present for human beings who are searching in vain for eternal teachings in the present technical world view. The…

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