Anthroposophy in Hawkes Bay
Rudolf Steiner Centre, 401 Whitehead Road, Hastings
Events over next 2 weeks
[30 November to 14 December]
- 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.
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future 2025...
- Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December. Summer Festival.**
- Wednesday 24 December. 8 pm. Christmas Celebration **
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2026
- Weekend 10-12 January. Social Eurythmy with Teresa Mazzei at Michael Park School, Ellerslie**.
- Weekend 17-18 January. 'Deepening Course' at Titirangi RS School**
- Saturday 28 February. Van James from Hawaii.
- Friday 6 to Sunday 8 March. NEW GROUND Youth Festival, Tauranga.
"Exploring Being Human" with Richard Drexel and Helen Proctor
*Camping *Anthroposophy *Workshops *Connections
*Community *Saunas *Discussions *Learning
$150 includes food and camping for 2 nights.
Tickets and Info www.nzYouthSection.co.nz
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End of Year Events:
**Notice:
Dear members,
Our 2-day Summer Festival will be on Saturday, 20th and 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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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.
Please 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.
Please make your contribution to:
Kiwibank 38-9016-0511420-00
The Hawkes Bay Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in New Zealand
• Particulars: «Firstname»
• Code: «Surname»
• Reference: donation
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About meditation and sleepiness
The chief characteristic of ordinary thinking is that each single act of thinking injures the nervous system, and above all, the brain; it destroys something in the brain. Every thought means that a minute process of destruction takes place in the cells of the brain. For this reason sleep is necessary for us, in order that this process of destruction may be made good; during sleep we restore what during the day was destroyed in our nervous system by thinking. What we are consciously aware of in an ordinary thought is in reality the process of destruction that is taking place in our nervous system.
We now endeavour to practise meditation by devoting ourselves to contemplation, for instance, of the saying: Wisdom lives in the Light. This idea cannot originate from sense-impressions because according to the external senses it is not so.
In this example, by means of meditation we hold the thought back so far that it does not connect itself with the brain. If in this way we unfold an inner activity of thinking that is not connected with the brain, through the effects of such meditation upon the soul we shall feel that we are on the right path. As in meditative thinking no process of destruction is evoked in our nervous system, this kind of thinking never causes sleepiness, however long it may be continued, as ordinary thinking may easily do.
It is true that the opposite often occurs when someone is meditating, for people often complain that when they devote themselves to meditation they at once fall asleep. But that is because the meditation is not yet as it should be. It is quite natural that in meditation we should, to begin with, use the kind of thinking to which we have always been accustomed; it is only gradually that we can accustom ourselves to give up thinking about external things. When this point is reached meditative thinking will no longer make us sleepy, and we shall then know that we are on the right path.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 152 – Occult Science and Occult Development: Lecture 1 – London, 1st May 1913
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA152/English/RSP1966/19130501p01.html
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The Motto of Social Ethic
It is only healthy
When the whole society is formed
In the mirror of the Human soul.
Outwardly: Threefold structure of Society
And when, in each community
The virtue of the individual soul
Is living.
Inwardly: Loving interest in our fellow human beings.
Rudolf Steiner To Edith Maryon, inscribed in a book on the Threefold Social Order, November 1920.
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