Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay
Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
Events over next 2 weeks
[16 to 30 November]
- TODAY. Sunday 16 November. 10 to 3 pm. Taikura Fete. We have a stall selling second-hand books to raise funds for our library.
- Thursday, 20 November, 5:30 pm. Branch Committee meeting.
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Thursday, 20 November, 7.30 pm Lecture by Thomas Mayer,
"Living with the Deceased and the effects of materialism on the afterlife"
in the Rudolf Steiner Centre. Entry by Donation. Please be generous, as they have come a long way to be here.
- Friday 21 to Sunday 23. Meditation Workshop. Thomas Mayer with Agnes Hardorp. See link and article at the end of this Newsletter:
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- Saturday 6 December, 9:30. School of Spiritual Science. General discussion on issues concerning members. There will not be a reading of a lesson. Our study of the cycle of 19 lessons will begin again in February next year.
- Sunday 21 December. 7 pm. Summer Festival.**
- Wednesday 24 December. 8 pm. Christmas Celebration **
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- Weekend 17-18 January. 'Deepening Course' at Titirangi RS School**
- Saturday 28 February. Van James from Hawaii.
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End of Year Events:
**Notice:
Dear members,
Our Summer Festival will be on Sunday, 21st December,
starting with refreshments at 7 pm,
Festival Gathering in the Main Room at 7:30 pm.
In the summer, it is good to look at the wholeness of nature, the four elements, also reflected in the four temperaments of the human being. We have some light-hearted poems in store for you in the chorus.
We will sing a summer round from the soul calendar together, and you will hear again Benedictus' verse sung by our special group of singers.
Some parts of the programme still need to be confirmed.
The chorus will conclude the evening with “Canticle to the Sun” by St. Francis, a homage to God through the manifestations of the elements of nature and humanity. With music by Julian Pook.
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This year we are having a Christmas Celebration, on Wednesday 24th December, starting at 8 pm., with a social gathering for refreshments, in the foyer...
9 pm. Festival Gathering in the Main Room.
People might like to go to a Midnight Service afterwards.
There will be Christmas music, we will hear the Foundation Stone Meditation and then have a conversation, in the Peggy Harris tradition, about:
‘The significance of Christ and the Mystery of Golgotha for our time.’
All are welcome. Please bring a plate to share.
If anyone would like to join the chorus to prepare for these occasions - you are very welcome..! – please let us know.
With warm regards,
Astrid Anderson and John Jackson.
021-215 4019 022-122 8002
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We have several jobs that handy members could help with.
1. Kitchen cupboards. A couple are sticking and are hard to open, They need planing, sanding and painting.
2. Downpipe and watermain. Recently we had a plumber fix the watermain near the toby by the footpath. The work has been covered by gravel which needs to be covered by earth and grass,
The turf with grass could come from a patch of ground of the same size by the rear downpipe on the corner of the Library. This downpipe has a problem in that it is not connected to a drain, so in heavy rain the water runs under the house, which is not a healthy outcome. This could be fixed by having a soak hole nearby, filled with pebbles. Proposal: to dig a hole from where the turf is cut, and fill with small river pebbles.
3. Access Door (to the space under the Foyer from where we removed 160kg of junk a few weeks ago) needs repair and refitting. Saw, drill, screws and screwdriver required.
Can anyone (or a team) help us with one or more of these jobs? Please contact me on robin@bacchus.co.nz or 022-398 2805. We often ask for financial help, but this is another way of contributing that we can recognise.
Regarding Contributions.
Each year, it falls to the Treasurer's lot, the task of asking members to contribute financially. Although the AGM suggests an annual amount to be asked, based on our expected expenses for the year, the Committee is happy to have members contribute what they can afford, or make contributions in other ways. Particularly, we would love to have some response to the request, at least to attest that you are still about and active. We have had many responses, but there are still over 30 members from whom we have heard nothing. If you are one of those, please let us know your situation; please communicate your assessment of what you can afford or set up an automatic payment! Communication is golden. Contact: treas@anthrohb.nz
As we are registered as a Charity, you are eligible to claim a tax refund of one-third of what you pay to us. You will receive an official receipt for this purpose in early April.
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Future Events Regular Groups
Items, Notices, Letters, or articles of interest to the Hawkes Bay Anthroposophical community
ARE MOST WELCOME
Please email your text by midday Saturday to the Editor at info@anthrohb.nz
with "For AnthroHB News" in the subject line.
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Robin Bacchus, Editor
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How do I come into a meditative deepening that connects me to my own spiritual source?
In this course we will become familiar with Rudolf Steiner`s approach to meditation which meets the western mind quite differently from many forms of meditation originating in the east. The work always involves a heightening of consciousness, becoming more awake through the focus on an object, an inner picture, or a text before releasing this and seeing what “wants to happen”. This has a very rejuvenating and empowering effect.
The aim of this introductory course is connecting to your higher self. For this we will do many different exercises, always followed by a sharing of our experiences. We will go out into nature and practice perceiving the elemental beings at work there.
Many people would like to make meditation a solid part of their daily life. Meditation is a fundamental source of nourishment for body, soul and spirit. But this is not easy if you are on your own with it. Agnes Hardorp and Thomas Mayer have been offering courses in meditation for over 20 years in order to help people overcome their obstacles.
In the course we aim to find the “eye of the hurricane”. In meditation you find a place of inner quiet. You become centred and enlivened. Meditating regularly helps you with the challenges of everyday life. The constant inner dialogue and the worries that circle around in your head stop.
Essential things come into focus. In meditating you arrive deeply in the home of your own soul and wake up to subtle, supersensible spheres. In the course we explore many facets of meditation and do many types of exercises so that each person can find their point of access.
To register please contact meditation333@protonmail.com
“When one begins to meditate, one accomplishes the only really free deed in this human life ... we are completely free in this. Meditation is the archetypal free deed.”
Rudolf Steiner (GA 214, 20.8.1922)
Course leaders:
Agnes Hardorp was born in Hamburg, Germany and grew up in the United States. She has worked as a professional singer, voice teacher, pianist and Eurythmist. For the past 20 years she has been teaching courses in Anthroposophical Meditation all around Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Austria.
Thomas Mayer was born in Kempten, Germany. He was co-founder and director of “More Democracy” and has organized many local referenda in Germany and Switzerland. He has published books on elemental beings and nature spirits and “Covid Vaccines from a Spiritual Perspective – Consequences for the Soul and Spirit and for Life after Death”. For the past 20 years he has been teaching meditation together with Agnes.
Feedback from participants:
Christoph: “Your work enlivened and refreshed me and showed me a way back to the anthroposophical roots I had painfully left many years ago.”
Annette: “I want to heartily thank you again for the wonderful dense seminar that brought everyone very close. I found a new loving connection to meditation and think I will be able to stick with it better now.”
Daniela: “The last seminar fell for me into a time of great questions and insecurity about my job. Since then everything has turned out the best possible way and I knew, already during the weekend that your seminar, the people I met there, the experiences and the assistance from the spiritual world that had become possible had much to do with this development.”
Ruth: “The weekend has warm and good resonances. I was particularly touched by your didactic method that with great empathy leads step by step into ever greater depths.”
Irene: “What did I learn in the meditation schooling? My life became more structured through meditating. I am more conscious and feel more connected to what wants to become. The sharing of experiences in the group is very enlivening right into my life forces. I notice more and more how I am guided and my questions are answered. My sense of self has transformed from wanting to understand the world to feeling embedded in becoming. What was important to me? The bringing down of Anthroposophy out of intellectuality into the heart.”
www.anthroposophical-meditation.info
Lecture: Living with the Deceased and effects of materialism on the afterlife
We all live together with the deceased. The souls who are in spiritual regions support us from within with strength, love, trust and inspiration.
The more we open ourselves to them and reciprocate their friendship, the better they can do this. Thomas Mayer has been in conscious contact with many deceased people for over 30 years and will talk about this in his lecture.
He will also describe how the normal after-death path leads to the next incarnation. Nowadays however, many souls can no longer find their way into the light, spiritual world, and end up in dead ends, in entangled unhealthy states. The materialistic approach to life can cause major blockages after death. In their distress, these souls then occupy other people, siphon offff energy and cause spiritual, mental and physical difficulties and social strife. Thomas Mayer has been helping such deceased people for many years and has observed that energy blockages in places and houses, as well as depression, panic, fears or deep grief that people carry, have been released as a result. Such connections have so far been underestimated in the public consciousness. The good news is that we are not at the mercy of this. It is possible to help affected people and the deceased.
