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How To Know Higher Worlds — An ongoing study group is underway, reading Rudolf Steiner's book about personal development on the way to an awakened Intuition. We meet once a month at the Hartsbrook School, Hadley, MA at 1pm on a Sunday. Next dates are Sunday, April 13th and Sunday, May 18th at 1pm in Hartsbrook Hall. For more information, please contact John White at johnr.white3@gmail.com or send an email via this website.
"We live and act within a world whose deeper aspects are hidden from our physical senses. Yet each of us possesses other faculties which, when cultivated, can lift the veil that separates us from spiritual knowledge. In this book, Rudolf Steiner charts a meditative path that leads both to inner peace and to enhanced powers of soul, and finally to the lifting of that veil. [The] fruits of inner serenity, strength, and wisdom benefit not only the seeker but others as well, and certainly the world stands more than ever in need of insights and actions that are born of the spirit. How to Know Higher Worlds is, therefore, not only a personal guide to the spirit, but also a path through self-knowledge to compassionate action in the world." — Arthur G. Zajonc, from the Foreword
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Where: 26 Parker Rd, Brookline, VT
When: Wednesdays from 7-8, arrive by 6:50
Contact: Katherine Stewart; coulditbekatherine@gmail.com
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A group of former Hartsbrook teachers and current parents and board members have come together to facilitate a book study group of Rudolf Steiner’s The Child’s Changing Consciousness as the Basis of Pedagogical Practice. All are welcome.
These eight lectures are from talks presented to Swiss school teachers three and a half years after the founding of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Germany. These lectures are considered Steiner’s most accessible talks on his educational philosophy. With many examples and anecdotes, Steiner proposes curriculum and pedagogical practices that promote children’s physical, emotional, intellectual, and ethical development.
In this study group, we take Steiner’s invitation to make sense of his work in context as we critically engage with one lecture per meeting, sometimes focusing on one or more key points in the lecture, against an understanding of childhoods. We will consider:
how can we best understand the insights Steiner offers
how might Steiner’s insights support our understanding of children’s diverse experiences and perspectives
what insights need to be reconsidered
We will gather from 6 pm to 8 pm on January 16, 23, 30; February 6, 13; and March 6, 20, 27, for a light meal and then engage in a simple artistic experience before we discuss one lecture. We will meet in the faculty library on the second floor of Hartsbrook Hall at the Hartsbrook School in Hadley, MA.
Please let Maria José Botelho Ayres, a Hartsbrook Board Member and Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, know if you plan to participate at botelho.mariajose@gmail.com. Please put BOOK STUDY GROUP on the subject line. Let Maria know if you have food allergies. We anticipate the dinners will be vegetarian. PDF and audio copies of the book are available, as are used soft copies online.
http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/childschangingconsciousness/childschangingconsciousness.html