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Newsletter 23: Sunday 8 June 2025Anthroposophy in Hawkes BayCalendar of Coming Events In the Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winter FestivalThe Midwinter Festival will be on Saturday 28 June at 7 for 7.30pm at the Centre. There will be a chorus speaking St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians 13 – ‘In Praise of Love’ Johnny Ryan will give the Festival Address: ‘Light in our Darkness’. We will hear, perhaps get a chance to sing, verse 38 of Julian’ 52 Rounds of the Soul’s Calendar. If you would like to join the Chorus, please contact Astrid: 021 215 4019 or starguide@xtra.co.nz as soon as possible. Practices starting. ~~~~~ -- Regular Groups
~~~~~ Social EurythmyUpcoming Social Eurythmy Workshop with Teresa Mazzei In January, Teresa Mazzei, an experienced Social Eurythmy trainer from Italy, will offer a six-day workshop in Auckland. Following this, she will travel to Australia to lead a four-week training block in Social Eurythmy. The first three days of the Auckland workshop are open to anyone interested in experiencing this unique approach to eurythmy. For those considering the course in Australia, a few places are still available. This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your experience with Social Eurythmy under Teresa’s guidance. I’ve attached a lovely photo of Teresa, as well as flyers with further details. If you're interested or would like more information, please feel free to contact me directly. Warm regards, Sue Simpson
~~~~~Tri-une – three in oneThere are many of looking at threefoldness – each one gives you a new perspective. I - You - We I. I look into the world, wherein I see the sun, stars, stones, plants, beasts, fellow humans, ….. YOU. I move around a bit, and I bump into You. Here is another world, rather like my own. You have your world which is just as valid to you as my world is to me. In that regard, we feel that we are equal. You and I are both human beings. Individually we are different, maybe as chalk and cheese, but socially we can experience being equal. We can talk to each other and find areas of agreement and disagreement, hopefully in harmony. Each can respect the right of the other to differ – we don’t have to be unanimous. WE. At times we can find common ground where our wills align and on which we create contracts. We can, side-by-side, do deeds for the betterment of our mutual world, and the many other people we find there. In a similar vein I am grateful when other people do things for my benefit. When we first start thinking about these things, we need to separate things out into categories for clarity: analysis, letting the light in. As a result, the ideas may become rather static, and dead like a corpse. When I do things for myself, learn how to garden, to write, to make music, to study scientifically, and so on, I can acknowledge these activities belong to a cultural realm. Even though other people may be in the same class with me, it is primarily for individual self-development. Ideally, I should be able to do this without constraint – that is without external constraint. The essence of freedom and independence is the ability to apply inner or self-constraint on the one hand, and on the other to be able to follow one’s own inner muse, one’s own rules – ‘to thine self be true’ as one matures and gets older. When I leave my ‘home space’ I encounter others in social settings. Here new “rules” apply, not based on self but on mutuality. In a conversation, we don’t all talk at once – we, You and I, soon establish (tacitly) appropriate rules about who speaks, about language, listening, etc. Other areas where rules develop are ownership, behaviour, permission and so on so that endless arguments don’t break out. Society has developed Parliaments where rules can be talked about and decisions on the rights and responsibility of citizens can be made to engender social harmony. This social realm is most effective when it has a basic principle of human equality and fairness at its centre. When there is social strife, it is often based on unfair, inequality of power. In society we become aware of the needs of others, physically, socially, spiritually. It maybe that a ‘calling’ (vocation) lights up in you – “I could help here.” You discover that alone, you cannot do very much, but that WE as a team working together for some common goal can do so much more with the efficiency of ‘division of labour’. Here the economic realm is concerned with the outer transformation of Nature and products of the land through the application of human labour. The key principle here is cooperation, collaboration and a sense of community or a love for our fellows. (When this love is missing or perhaps in short supply, then things tend to go wrong.) In this situation, human labour is not meant as a large supply of (wage) slaves, but young people who willingly bring their talents, intelligence (not AI), knowledge and skills – acquired through education in the cultural realm – to form teams in the social realm, and to work in the economic realm. That initial static, analytic picture we started with needs to become a dynamic, synthetic picture if we are to begin to understand what Rudolf Steiner was trying to share as the working of a triune society. What’s needed is a lively imagination. Society is a reflection of the weaving in our own lives between these realms, even if we are living alone. The same gestures are present – all over the place. Follow your day! In the morning, I get up. I am curious to learn what is the weather like; how will it affect my schedule for today? As I get dressed my creative self encounters my habitual self (double) to agree on what I will wear – regular stuff or something new? Breakfast – regular or different? Meeting needs. My spiritual self (which inhabits my body for this lifetime) considers what action is needed to meet my physical body needs. Nourishment, warmth, exercise, cleansing, clothing, decorating?
As you go through your day, think about the gesture of what you are doing each moment in the light of threefoldness. Have a great day! RB
Posted: Sun 08 Jun 2025 |
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