July/August 2002 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE rom the Women's Court we declare that pat- F ents on life and patents on bio-piracy are im- moral and illegal. They should not be protected, because they violate universal principals of reverence for life and the integrity of cultures' knowl edge systems . We will not live by rules that are robbing millions of their lives and medicines, their seeds, plants and knowledge, their sustenance and dignity and food . We will not allow greed and violence to be treated as the only values to shape our cultures and lives . We will take back our lives, as we took back the night. We know that violence begets violence, fear begets fear, but also that peace begets peace and love begets love . We will rewea ve the world as a place for sharing and caring, peace and justice, not a market place where sharing and caring and giving protection are crimes and peace and justice are unthinkable . We will shape new universals through solidarity, not hegemony. Women's worlds are worlds based on protection Swim with the tide, card print, Marga Schnell of our dignity and self-respect, the well-being of our children, of the earth, of our diverse beings, of those who are hungry and those who are ill . To protect is for us the best expression of humanity. The people who run the global corporations or the WTO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and G7governments have tried to transform 'protection' into a dirty word, the worst crime of the global market-place . Protecting health, nutrition, livelihoods, all call for trade sanctions and 'punishment'by the WTO and the World Bank . To those who ha ve tried to make protection of life a crime we say, echoing Archbishop Tutu : 'You have already lost. You need to get out of the way so that we can protect each other, our children and life on this planet?' Vananda Shiva, The Violence of Globalisation See article by Christoph Jensen

Contents The Celtic mysteries Kar Könfg III A christianising of ordinary life Christoph Jensen 1 New forms in architecture and community Jan Bang 4 Stained glass project Felix 8I

The Celtic mysteries Karl König Preparatory notes for a lecture in Glasgow, January 25th 1949 The text is presented here unedited and uncorrected . ..

.J LtQ, & - iFtit cg4&4 t - P s ~ Dreams, visions, second sight .

C L'C 4 f fi's . The Cromlechs Midday Mid-Year The reading of the Script of the Sun . Wu (e-eh c L1 The outer light of the Sun was kept away. The inner light of the Sun was found .

The Frost-Giants fRsca~ Storm-Giants % ,( Fire-Giants The Healing-powers of the Druids . _& co444J_J/- q /a :4 'J a. 1iA4 III 1 .The tragic condition of the Druids, 1) It seems to be the right time to speak on Celtic Mys- The dawn of human clairvoyance . teries, as in so many a places a revival of Celticism is 2 .Hu and Ceridwen asked for. As so often, it is entirely misunderstood and The powers of the sun is true for the revival of one or another Nationalism . The searching human soul . (General de Gau I le! !, Hitler a.s.o.) 3 .The island Staffa 2) We have first of all to ask ourselves two questions : The Ear of the Initiation Who are the Celtic People? Ossian What are the Mysteries? 4 .The Irish, Hibernian Mysteries . 3) It is known, that in ancient Britain two different races The two statues were living. The one, which built the 'long barrows' Sun and Moon Male and Female called the Iberian-Silurian or Eurbarian race . Similar to the Pelasgoi in Greece or the Etruscans in Italy . This I am the knowledge I am the Phantasy race, dark, small, vivid was the aboriginal race in the But what I am But what I am whole of Britain . has no existence has no truth They were partly conquered, partly superseded by Science Art the so called Gaelic or Celtic people . Where did both of them come from? Winter Summer Iberian - Etruscan - Pelasgoi - Lemuria Christ Celtic-Atlantis 'Receive of Him, what the two figures 4. The wandering of the Atlantean tribes . attempted to give to you . The Roman Conquest of Britain is a war among Brothers . 'Accept the word and the power of this Being into thy Heart' . I I 1 .What are the 'Mysteries' . Caesars and the Romans destroyed, what here has been We have knowledge of Mystery-Centres all over the alive as Cosmic Christianity . Eastern World . India, Persia, Egypt, Hebrew, Greek, Roman . From these Centres of Learning and Initiation, IV the Light of Spiritual knowledge was carried into the 1 . Where do the Celtic Mysteries live to-day? surrounding people. The priests as the leaders of their To understand this we shall use a picture : people. The Wise Man and the Shepherds, 2 .All these Mystery-Centres have their origin in the The Wise Man receive the message by the stars, Atlantean Mysteries . the Shepherds by the voice of the Angels . Again we must see the Wandering of the Atlantean 2 . Like Shepherds we have to imagine the Druids . people to the East. Those who remained in the Western They perceived the Mystery of Golgatha in their parts of Europe, became the priests of the Western races . experiences of the Sun . The Druids . A Cosmic Christianity found its fulfilment . 3 .What are the Druids? Those initiated into the 3rd grade . 3 . From the East to the West Christianity and espe- Bards 1 St grade Raven cially Roman Christianity conquered Europe. The exo- Vates 2nd grade Occult teric stream prevailed . Druids 3rd grade Fighters 4. The Esoteric stream of Christianity went so to say 4.What did the Druids teach and do? 'underground' . This esoteric Christianity is the changed The primitive condition of the souls of man . Celtic Mystery, Rose crucianism, the new Spiritual Sci- They were clairvoyant . ence. A christianising of ordinary life . . . A contemplation of spiritual history, Africa and global economy Christoph Jensen, Camphill Village Alpha, South Africa

This essay, which is an extract of a longer piece, is prefaced by the words by Vananda Shiva quoted on the Front Cover.

History and empathy

f we want to understand history we have to take into account a spiritual dimension . Much of what appears as historical fact-treaties, declarations and so on-is merely the 'ash' deposited by inspiration, intuition and the grasping of opportunities . Undoubtedly the Zeit- geist plays a crucial role in history . Rudolf Steiner was sure that much of history would have to be re-written when viewed in this light . History is also the outcome of spiritual battles whose victories and defeats are not recorded in books and documents . Victory may only be a temporary occurrence, with the loser trying to ex- plore ways and means to retaliate later. Steiner describes one such occasion when looking at the defeat of the Roman state machinery . It was not a foregone conclu- sion that humanity would not succumb to the thorough organisation of the Roman state . He maintains it was the egotism and selfishness of 'the civic' that rendered the machinations of the state-sector useless . It was this unpredictable factor, an emerging selfishness and ego- tism that ultimately made the Roman Empire fizzle out . (R . Steiner, Sept. 24th 1916) . A mood, not an organ- ised battle, brought this empire to its knees . Wodaabe man, Niger In the 21St century it is another unpredictable factor that makes it difficult for any accurate prognosis to leader who appeared as a knight on a white horse come about : empathy. It is the acquired faculty of feel- with a fire-spewing lance . ing oneself into another person, just the opposite of Before the founding of the Order of St . Jago di selfishness. In many people this develops into a deter- Compostel la fifty-four members of the Templars and mination to work with, or show solidarity with, the their Grandmaster had to die . The knights erected a marginalised, handicapped, downtrodden or vulner- little temple on the grave of St . James . The custom was able . This has given rise to a new culture of dealing to form a ring around this miniature temple before the with one another. The other person becomes the de- knights set out for their journeys of discovery. These termining factor of one's actions . The question we are journeys were financed by the gold of the Templars . confronted with now is, how can we surround this This second degree will come to fruition when the gold unfolding, new-found faculty with the required eco- has made its way back to its 'rightful owners' . nomic-financial parameters? Today more than ever, 3 . The third degree is that of St . John. This degree ordinary life is subject to economic-financial consid- comes about in the events so evident in the harmful erations that seem to stifle empathy. practices of a world-economy unable to unfold in true christian love . The Templars In these degrees we witness an expression of three The initiation of the Templars consisted of three steps : stages of human consciousness : 1 . The denial of the Cross, in memory of its founder 1 . The pilgrimage to the grave of St . Peter as an expres- Hugo of Tours who directed a pilgrimage to the grave sion of Faith ; the denial of the cross . (Mark 8, 27-38) of St. Peter, not that of Christ . When Hugo of Tours 2 . St. James as the instigator of Hope, in whose sign lived in the spiritual world he resolved to redirect this the journeys of discovery were carried out . It is no pilgrimage from Rome to Jerusalem, to the grave of coincidence that the Cape of Storms, Cap Tormentoso Christ, when on earth again . This is the source of the became the Cape of Good Hope when the passage intention to implement the crusades . Thus the first to India was discovered . degree of the Templars' initiation is that of St. Peter. 3 . The degree of St . John as an expression of true 2. The second degree is that of St. James. He is the christian Love . Here we have the third cape, the 'Cape patron saint of St. Jago di Compostella, playing a of Catastrophes', if we fail to succeed in practising a prominent role-in a spiritual sense-in the battles christian love, which will give us the means to of the Arab Moors against the Christians in Spain . navigate around this Cape of Catastrophes . That is Arabs as well as Portuguese saw in him a spiritual the map of our present-day journey .

1 aka Basilius Valentines . This personality is deeply con- nected to the circle of people who later appear openly under the name Bohemian Brethren . They were known as a 'Fraternity of Voluntary Poverty' . (The impulse of the Bohemian Brethren eventually resulted in the coming about of the Moravian Move- ment and the Moravian Church . This movement spread in the 17th century throughout the globe under the guidance and inspiration of Count Zinzendorf. As a token of appreciation towards the work of the Moravian missionaries, Nelson Mandela renamed his official residence 'Genadendal' after the first of their settle- ments at the Cape of Good Hope .) D'Almeida carried the pearl with him hidden in a cross around his neck . This cross was crafted by an- other important personality, Rabbi Loew of Prague . On his return from one of his journeys he had the book and the relic transferred to a lady who brought them to Alsace, to Stefan Rauter. The Order of St . )ago di Compostella had the lady killed in the church of Andlau-Odilienberg. At that time d'Almeida was on another journey to India and so his execution was only carried out on his return journey, on a beach not far from present day Cape Town A brother of Hugo of Tours incarnated as Godfrey of Bouillon who fought on the side of Henry the Fourth against the Pope . When wounded he swore to partake Painted Karo men, Ethiopia in a crusade, should he recover . It was on the grave of Angelic intentions Godfrey of Bouillon that nine knights clasped each That these degrees as spiritual-angelic intentions are other's hands and founded the Order of the Knights manifest here on earth, and not simply as abstract Templar, the statutes of which were composed by thoughts or theories, becomes clear when we address Bernard of Clairveaux . the question, who was Hugo of Tours? He lived in the 9th century, for some time in Alsace . At the behest of Aworld cross Charles Magne he went to Bysance to acquire impor- Geographically the Cape of Good Hope, and present- tant relics of St . Peter. These were then brought to Rome day South Africa, is a world within a world, an area in to the place where St . Peter was crucified . A little tem- which there are eleven official languages spoken and ple adorns this place, the first circular church in as many religions practised-a country whose events Christian history, and a forerunner of St. Peter's dome . are 'everybody's business' according to Yehuda Tagar, In a later incarnation, Hugoof Toursbecame Franciscus the Australian psycho-therapist . d'Almeida, 1450-1510 . Apart from being appointed When contemplating Wegener's continental drift viceroy of India, he obtained from an Arab source the theory, the Cape of Good Hope constitutes the an- esoteric writings of Aristotle, which were until then cient centre of all continents, a centre that never concealed from the occident. They had been kept in shifted . This geographical centre is indicated by the possession of the Arabs but were meant to unite with largest altar in the world : Table Mountain . Plato's teachings in the occident . This gives rise in me to a picture : if we imagine the He was a knight of the Order of St . )ago di earth as a cross and the Cape of Good Hope consti- Compostella and took part in the battles against the tutes the foot of the cross, then we can also picture St . Moors . Near Granada he was wounded and fell into John and Mary the mother of Jesus standing on either the hands of the Moors . He was meant to be executed side of this cross . The line that Pope Alexander the but an influential Arab count saw the wounded knight Fourth drew across the globe, dividing the world into and was so impressed that he had him transferred to East and West, constitutes the vertical line . We are in his own camp . There the count, with the help of one danger, or have already, drawn the horizontal line, with of his wives, cared for Franciscus until he recovered . the North-South divide . Between the three, the count, the knight and the It is no coincidence that the outer era of colonisa- woman, there developed a warm and loving relation- tion and its related activities more or less ended with ship. This led eventually to Fransciscus being initiated the demise of apartheid at the Cape of Good Hope . If by the count into the esoteric writings of Aristotle . The we contemplate Johannesburg,'St . John's-burg', the only count was also in possession of a valuable alchemical metropolis on earth which came about through the dis- relic, a pearl . After recovering from his wounds, covery of gold-which in turn resulted in the exploita- d'Almeida fled the camp, taking the book with Aristo- tion and displacement of millions of innocent human tle's writings and the relic with him . Because of his beings-then we arrive at a picture of heartless intelli- oath of allegiance he should have handed the two items gence in the pursuit of worldly gain, riding roughshod over to his order, but he made sure both items were over humanity. The suffering this has caused touches taken to their rightful owner, the alchemist Stefan Rauter, everyone's heart. The gold unearthed from the depths

2 of the mines eventually made its way into the vaults of Fort Knox giving rise to the prosperity of the West . If we imagine the earth to be an organism 'crossing itself', we can start in the North (Scandinavia), go to- wards the South (Cape of Good Hope), over to the West (California), and cross to the East (Vladivostok) . Rudolf Steiner characterised our epoch as one which is preparing the next, the Slavic or Aquarian epoch . In this sense we are the 'prepares of the prepares', Johannites . It is not at all certain that his prediction will come to pass-it depends on human beings to make it come to pass . Until the fall of the Berlin wall, Africa served as the substitute battlefield of the major powers . Africa became the 'bleeding heart' of the world-organism . No-one today has been spared at least witnessing the suffering this has caused, be it through television, newspapers, or the portrayals of these events in novels and films. How we digest or process this in- formation is up to each individual's conscience-suf- fice it to say, we have been touched . Provided we do not block out or deny them, the events will cause an after-image . Letting this image arise in the warmth of our humanity will pave the way for a new intelligence . Another way of remedying a social-economic organ- ism that has become sick is to consult, to connect with, those who have died and 'gone before us' . Rudolf Maasai warrior, Kenya Steiner formulated it like this : We dream in feeling, so do not know that the dead for the feminine, in order to heal our economy. It is a walk with us . In the culture now being prepared we prerequisite for giving birth to 'christian life', a life shall have to ask when making a decision : what do that has little to do with churches or confessions but the dead think of it? In the future we shall know that with a 'christianising of ordinary life', a life where we the dead are the wisest of counsellors whom we may are allowed to order our karma . A life for economy's consult when we wish to do something on earth . sake is no life at all ; however, an economic life that The spirit-self develops through the fact that the dead deprives anyone of a basic livelihood is immoral be- are the counsellors of the living. cause it does not even provide a chance to order our I know of instances, such as the case of Amy Biehl, karma. where this has happened with consequences that can At this point the pearl hidden in the cross of only be described as astounding . Franciscus d'Almeida stands before me; the relic he I want to believe we are on the way to an 'intelli- had to die for in view of Table Mountain . It is a pointer gent' economy that had to emerge from the depths of towards hope and awaited accomplishment. It resem- human suffering. The old 'masculine' economic order bles the rose born out of suffering, beauty born out of has to go through a 'decapitation' and be replaced by pain, the child welcomed after a hard labour . a feminine economic order. The Women's Court, quoted on the Front Cover, In the light of the third degree of initiation of the knows full well that it has no judiciary power to en- Knights Templar we can perhaps say : force its laws but rather appeals to the emerging sense On one side we witness three Mart's-the feminine ; of empathy and to apply it to oneself in freedom . It on the other side, the disciple whom Jesus loved, John- represents a new thinking that speaks from the intelli- the-Baptist/ Lazarus-John, the 'transformed intelli- gent heart, that 'knows' . It is a language as compre- gence'-united and harmonised under the cross . We hensive as it is determined, it speaks with purpose and hear Jesus say to Mary, 'Mother, there is your son' ; authority, it is neither feminine nor masculine it is and to the disciple, 'There is your mother' . And from human . It allows us to say Ecce homo. this moment on the disciple took her into his home . St. John's Tide 2001, with gratitude to the late Rachel Shepherd. Ecce Homo For details about the author, see the announcement I am not the only one who believes that a turn-around 'A break for Uta and Christoph' in economic practice will happen here at the foot of the world cross-or not happen at all . Another remark Selected bibliography attributed to Steiner is that 'every excarnating human Walter J . Stein's account of St . James' influence on the soul when looking back to our planet first beholds the Journeys of Discovery in : The British-Their Psychol- African continent .' One could interpret this as a ques- ogy and Destiny, New Knowledge Books, East tion being taken into the spiritual world by each de- Grinstead 1958 . parting soul : what have you done towards the Notizen einer esoterischen Betrachtung geschicht- 'heart-development' of the world? It is a St . John's task, licher Zusammenhänge aus dem Jahre 1905 (Januar, rather than an implementation of 'christian principles' . Hannover) von Frl . Wandrey. Rudolf Steiner vor It is also a present-day male-task to provide a home Mitgliedern der F.M .

3 New forms in architecture and community Jan Bang, Solborg, Norway

From a discussion initiated by the Bridge Building logue between other Ecovillages and Camphill, for School at Solborg Camphill Village, Norway in while Camphill has a relatively long tradition, the February 2002 . Co-workers from most of the six Ecovillage model can bring in new ideas . In many ways villages in Norway were present, plus a few others Camphill was an Ecovillage before the concept was connected with village life; altogether 15-20 people. founded . Architect Rolf Jacobsen presented the de- velopment of the Ecovillage idea in Norway over the last thirty years: 'Gaards Kollektiver' (farm collectives) arose in the 70s, with people finding a farm and living together in one house. Most did not last very long because of di- 1 q vergent ideas and too dense a social life . In the 80s the 'Samtun' (shared yard) idea developed where fami-

t lies could have their own house but live together '1 r around a yard, the Tun . Though it was not so closely `M 1 lS integrated, there were problems ; with only two to three n families, it became too narrow and often prone to con-

. flict. In the 'Smaabruker Grenda' (smallholding ham- let) farms were divided into smaller units, sharing x &'I . N 4 equipment and social life. Many people were part time farmers . These also included people who did not farm

I for a living . In the 'Ecobygd' (eco hamlet) there was an opportunity for those who wanted to build healthy r 4 homes and have a limited social life together . These were comprised of single houses each with its own garden, while each household was responsible for its own economy. They could be connected to a farming community and incorporate the possibility of sharing The beginnings of Camphill ownership of land . In the 90s 'Kilden ~ kosamfunn e began by looking back at the history of Forening' (the Kilden Ecovillage Group) emerged-they Camphill . In Botton, at the beginning of the vil- are idealists, good at organising and doing things to- lage development in the 1950s, the idea of homes for gether, though they are having difficulties finding villagers was taken directly from situations in the places to build the many houses needed for an Camphill Schools, with a housemother and house- Ecovillage community. At Hurdal, the Kilden Group is father. The villagers lived together with the children of buying an old church farm, where the local govern- the co-workers, and sometimes there was a tendency ment owns the place and wants to sell it . to treat them alike . How could we have done it so that These various forms are like a succession of pioneer villagers could have been more independent? plants . Just as nettles invade empty ground and pre- When the Camphill Movement began in Norway in pare the soil for other, more demanding plants, so these the 1960s everyone was young, co-workers and vil- early communities in the 60s, 70s and 80s, created a lagers. Villagers and children were often role models bed of experience that enabled activists to go on and for each other. When the children of co-workers were develop new social forms . teenagers this usually functioned well . But it was not What are the characteristics of an Ecovillage? Natu- so good when children grew up and co-workers moved ral resources, renewable energy, production of some out, for villagers were often presented with new chil- of one's own food, and creative social activities . An dren, as new families moved in . Villagers need to ex- Ecovillage may be defined as a fully-fledged human perience a full range of age groups . They should have community with 50-5000 people ; they are often self- the opportunity to grow up and become adults and defined as holistic, human economies, comprised of a the continuation of the extended family situation has network with no hierarchy . The 'Global Ecovillage sometimes restricted their maturing and developing . Network' is an international organisation facilitating The old hierarchy was patriarchal, which functioned communication between such impulses . well in the early days when this was accepted as the In a recent lecture here at Solborg, Cornelius Pietzner norm, also in the surrounding society . Now this has talked about large numbers of people in the West who changed, a 'horizontal fellowship' has become more are 'Cultural Creatives' and whom we would do well accepted and perhaps we need to find new ways of to connect with . How do we recognise our own iden- working together to fit into the expectations of new co- tity and appeal to others who are different from us? workers who come to Camph i l I from the wider world . We must be prepared for a new picture of Camphill life and forms . Millions of people in the West are try- Camphill as Ecovillage ing to found a new culture and we must learn to com- A Camphill village is also an Ecovillage, but a par- municate and help each other . We need to look at a ticular model . Today it is important to create a dia- larger picture of resources, energy, social and spiritual

4 culture . Some people have a strong spiritual idea as a trances and individual bathrooms, with perhaps the foundation, then find the ecological aspect . Others possibility of eating in another house . There might be are more concerned with the ecological side and then a dynamic between private rooms and shared facili- discover the social and spiritual dimension . ties. Kitchens, which are the heart of the house, should Threefolding is a very important Camphill concept; be large enough-a place to sit together and to teach perhaps it is our social glue . Should we be trying out villagers . Perhaps we could make dining rooms big- different ways of doing it? This may be where Camphill ger so that one could have several small tables, giving has most to offer the Ecovillage movement . flexibility, with no fixed places . Camphill started with redeeming the land but with little awareness of ecology. Not enough has been done The next step for the environment, apart from Bio Dynamic farming . This was a co-worker's meeting that we felt we must Even that was not always so successful-we are still take further, and we intend to meet again within a year . buying from supermarkets . Camphill has made a big Then we could work more with drawings and clay, contribution to ecological issues but recently we have more on models rather than theory . This could also be become rather left behind . one of the themes for the Bridge Building School's long course . Maybe the Building Group here at Solborg From the House to the Courtyard could develop the Tun idea, a new concept, an alter- The idea of a Tun (pronounced toon) emerged . This is native model? a traditional form for a farmyard in Norway, with a range of smaller buildings, each one of which has a The flowering of Camphill-a personal postscript specific function, set around an open space . The words Many of those present had decades of Camph i I I expe- town and Tun have the same linguistic origin . This way rience behind them, and the general tone of the two of building around a Tun has also appeared in day seminar was exciting and optimistic . My personal Ecovillages as the Ecocluster. There could be a neigh- experience was that it was very uplifting, and I found bourhood on the periphery for those who have spe- this to be shared by many others when we talked it cial needs or for young co-workers . A place for young over afterwards . It seems clear to me that the Camph ill co-workers is very important . impulse is evolving, and exists in a fast changing so- Let us look at what a Tun is and how many people cial matrix . We are not unaffected by what goes on in could live there, maybe incorporating a multi-genera- the larger context within which we live, and I feel that tion house, a dynamic dwelling with movable walls . our interaction with that dominant culture is very dy- The Tun could incorporate a large collective room with namic today. This I find really exciting . a kitchen and dining room for 18-20 people . Also a Just as a flower, when it opens up, is more exposed winter garden and a collection of small houses for 1- to sun, wind and weather, so our interactions with the 2 people . Each house could have a mini kitchen unit. outside world expose us to what is going on out there . There could be a house for a family with small chil- Just as the plant, upon flowering, is able to spread its dren and one or two villagers. Each Tun should have perfume and become a joy to the eye, I hope that its own kitchen and dining area . Collective buildings Camphill will be able to give inspiration to others, and with common heating systems and heat pumps is much ultimately spread its seeds over a wider area . more suitable to cluster housing. This also reduces the wind exposure to buildings . The illustration is taken from Tun, Bygninger og We need houses of different sizes to suit all the dif- Oekologi by Rolf jacobsen, Landbruksforlaget, Oslo ferent possibilities . There should be individual en- 2001, ISBN 82529-2312-7

Stained glass project Felix Bockemuehl, Triform, USA

ccording to Aristotle the ideal drama consists of ing than light?' the king then asks in response . 'Con- five parts : it has a beginning, escalates, reaches a versation,' replied the snake . high point, lets up, and comes to an end . In this way, Gold, light, conversation . . . I would like to present this project, written for the In the fall of 2001, I came across the lecture Contri- course in social therapy at Triform . butions to the Self Awareness of the Social Therapies by Hans Mueller-Weidemann given in 1973 for the Act 1: Exposition houseparents at the Lehenhof . One aspect he stresses The first act presents the exposition . I got to know the is the importance of making conversation possible for people who were involved in the project and I found a the handicapped person . He should learn to give ex- direction in which I could work. The organization of pression to the content of the hidden depths of his individual intentions, insights, and opinions, and find- soul . This he must not only express through language ; ing a joint direction, was the first task . . . such a conversation can also come about through 'What is more glorious than gold?' the King asked in meeting in an artistic activity. He goes on to say that it Goethe's fairy tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful is a future task for houseparents to organize their lives Lily ' Light', answered the snake . 'What is more refresh- in order to have enough time for conversation with

5 studio to talk about the design ; we visited Carl Wolf, who showed us his stained glass workshop; then we went to look at stained glass windows in the area and finally to buy the glass for our windows . In this way, everyone could take part and understand how you go from an idea to a result . Another element was to work on the history and biography of stained glass and stained glass artists . Ashley was our 'historian .' She researched the different periods of art and how stained glass devel- oped . I put together a slide show of the time of the cathedrals with their amazing rose windows . We stud- ied the lives of artists like Marc Chagall and L .C. Tiffany who developed new methods . All this awoke interest in each individual differently. Interest comes out of the the handicapped people . He gives only vague hints as love of the workmaster for his craft . Only through inter- to what such a meeting could look like . est can we gain experience which can then become This inspired me, and I wanted to take up this task as knowledge. In the practical realm, I asked the simple my project . I wanted to find different ways of bringing question, 'Today we need to do such and such-what about such meetings . would you like to do?' And this moved us right into the I took up work with the stained glass craft group . We realm of responsibility. Only if we can say yes to some- had started in January 2001 to make little stained glass thing out of freedom can we become responsible . windows in practice for the big window that Triform The teaching of special skills is another way to give envisioned in the foyer of the weavery/therapy build- responsibility. Lindsay, for example, was the only one ing. I perceived a mood in this work which was what I able to learn the copper taping of the glass pieces, later experienced when I do my own art-a losing of and Daniel was the only one I taught to solder-in the the sense of time . It is like falling asleep in the task . end they were better than me! Rudolf Steiner said in We all know that feeling; it is most refreshing . This the Curative Lectures that only through the right ad- encouraged me to enroll the whole group into my justment between physical body and soul and spirit project and create the big window with them . can skillfulness arise . This manifests itself in the con- The practical part of my project started to get a di- nection between our muscular system and our bones . rection . After Christmas, Richard Neal had finished the He goes on to say that there is an unskillfulness in our design and we set up a workshop . The details of our time because of the lack of religious feeling . A right work process are all documented in the journal we relationship depends on the presence of great human created together. souls who are our examples. As soon as a person can I would like to turn now to my main focus of the look up to great souls and see in them a pattern and project. It was not the art and craft of stained glass example, then a right contact starts to establish itself that was the focus of my group . No, my focus through- between muscles and bones . out the whole process was the aspect of conversation . So we can see how important it is to work with our The practical part could have been landscaping or young people' on their biographies and the history of painting-what was important to me was to find a way our time. Then interest will arise and special skills can 'to keep the work alive .' With this question I studied a be taught. Through the acquiring of special skills, we letter by Gregg Davis in which he responds to the lec- can learn to become responsible, and responsibility ture by Julian Sleigh in which he summarizes the 'five can turn into pride and a sense of accomplishment . e's' . These five guiding thoughts: self esteem, empow- erment, engagement, digesting experiences, and en- Act 3: Intensification joyment-helped to develop four leading questions The peak was achieved in the third act. What I experi- which gave me an understanding of what Hans Müller- enced and had achieved as questions had to be put Wiedemann was asking for when he spoke about con- into practice . . . versation through artistic activity : One element of conversation is the digesting of ex- 1 . How can I awake interest? periences. This we did by keeping a journal together . 2. How can I keep the work alive? Ideally I would have liked everybody to have kept their 3. How do I give any group a sense of pride? own journal . We got together once a week, each con- 4. How do 1 digest their experiences? tributing their thoughts . We wrote about our outings, With one of these four questions, I prepared for each the work process and the history of stained glass . This session . conscious effort to formulate experiences was very im- portant for our young people . I mentioned how re- freshing it is when one 'falls asleep' in one's work . Act 2: Involvement This can be nourishing only if one can again wake up In the second act there was a direct acceleration, the in reflecting upon experiences and making them con- 'plot' sharpened and there came a point where the scious-and bring the will to light . This process of be- possibilities became limited. The path became defined. . . coming conscious of memories means that we have a From the beginning of working with my group, I had biographical experience . We all know that the body is the wish to really make the creation of the stained the bearer of memory. Handicapped adults are often glass their project and to let them take part in every unable to do this reflection by themselves . They expe- step of the production . And so we went to Richard's rience their body as the most important part of their

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existence . We have to help them to free their forma- tive life forces in order to bring about a consciousness Peace Befalls This Place of their biography and their experiences . As we place The sun shines brightly through their, and our, experiences before them in pictures, The eye of the beholder! the body becomes unimportant . Peace befalls this place I spoke a lot about the specialization of skill . The dan- The colors of the glass, all aspects of work ger of teaching special skills, or rather one-sided skills, That we weave, and endure in our daily lives! is that one loses track of the whole process. To bridge The beings come from the Heavens above this, we need conversation . What we did was the sim- ple sharing of what everyone had been doing . Once a And every day, when they come upon the vision week was enough . Highlighting each one's deeds cre- And remember our hands' creation ated interest and pride . To bring each one's thoughts to The moon sits high in the sky light was the task . If we are able to achieve this, we can She is magical and she portrays the create a collective insight and can inspire each other . I Day and Night cycle, when night comes think this is one way to meet through an artistic activity. The day is done . She is shining In Goethe's fairy tale, as the snake takes the gold So the Starry sky appears from the from the hidden veins, it begins to shine . It transforms Visions above ASHLEY gold into light by digesting it . A picture emerges of the complete recasting of sensory knowledge into spiritual The product with which we have been working re- insight . What is livelier than the light of insight? Con- sembles the image of light-color-darkness : the colored versation is enlivening, refreshing, renewing ; not the glass which is mounted in heavy lead frames and the conversation that arises from the chaotic warmth of light which shines through it . This is a perfect medium spontaneous talk, and not conversation that is ruled to experience color. For we know from Goethe's theory by intellectual understanding; but only conversation that color appears only where light and darkness over- that unites the light of insight with the warmth of hu- shadow each other. man encounter. This requires voluntary sacrifice and a commonly understood leading image . Act 5: Resolution Finally the fifth act brings resolution. In a tragedy, the Act 4: Image hero dies; in a comedy, the separated couple find each A reflective thought element stepped into the fore- other. In our case, the unveiling of the stained glass ground. There was a natural break that led to a reca- window presented our work. I was able to summarize pitulation of foregoing actions. The preparation for the the whole story and formulate a leading thought . . . resolution was done . . . I would like to summarize what could be beneficial The leading image for our project was, strangely, the for others in work with handicapped adults and also picture that we put into stained glass . Richard was in- thank those who have helped me with this project . spired by a meditation that Rudolf Steiner gave to a Again I want to lay importance on the threefoldness group of young people : the human being between the of the guidance we should give to those we work with : sun, the moon and the starry sky. Only towards the end in vol vement, conversation, and imagination . of my study did this also become for me an image of We should find a way to include these three aspects our work. Between the light-filled spirit world, and the in our worklife and our homelife . First we need to em- region of darkness of the body, lives the human soul . In power our handicapped adults in letting them make this polarity we can experience every human being's choices and also let them take responsibility in teach- soul colors . This is where the meeting of one human ing them life skills . Second, we need to help them di- being with another takes place in the realm of conver- gest their experiences through conversation and sation . We dwell in darkness while we work . Sometimes keeping a journal . Third, we need to create imagina- our consciousness can even fall asleep in the action of tions for ourselves and for them so that they can iden- our hands . When we learn, on the other hand, we are tify with their work . enlightened . Through conversation, these two poles can work together. We can enlighten our deeds and can With thanks to my group bring our thoughts into action . This is why our lives Ashley, Andrea, Christy, Lindsay, and Daniel should be full of color and different soul possibilities . for their amazing enthusiasm and their good work .

Social auditing Richard Firth, Johnshaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland

illtown Day Workshop has been in existence since out a Social Audit. This was run by Community Busi- 1996, providing supported work activities for resi ness Scotland and after the workshop we decided to dentsM of Milltown Camphill community and for peo- join this pilot scheme for social auditing for commu- ple who live in the surrounding area. Over this time nity groups in rural areas . We were one of nine groups we have developed a good relationship with nearby in NE Scotland who took part . Laurencekirk Community Centre, and it was through Social Auditing as a means of assessing the social per- them that we were invited to attend a workshop in formance of an organisation has been developing over May 2000 on the advantages and methods of carrying the last twenty-five years . It began from a feeling that for

7 many organisations with an ethical or idealistic basis a to admit to problems that emerged in the process, would financial audit could not do justice to the achievements reassure readers of the report of our commitment to open of the organisation, many of which could not be meas- and honest working . Allowing difficulties to be exposed ured in the narrow terms of a financial audit. In essence would also give a great stimulus to do something about Social Auditing involves the organisation clearly defin- them . Obviously part of a second Social Audit report ing its aim, its values and its objectives and then asking will be to look at what has been done about problems all those who affect or are affected by its work how well that emerged i n the first. they feel it lives up to them . After all the information has Happily so far the Social Audit has been successful . been collected a report is produced and a Social Audit I cannot pretend that it wasn't a lot of work-it was, Panel convened. The job of the Panel is to check that the but the problems it caused were to a large extent be- report is a fair and unbiased reflection of the informa- cause we are such a small group and freeing some- tion gathered, and when this is complete a certificate is one to do the work involved was not always easy . It issued which forms part of the final published report . was also due to a lack of basic office equipment . How- Our Panel had three members-John Pearce from Com- ever with goodwill and good humour and a lot of help munity Business Scotland, Andy Plant from Bean nachar from Community Business Scotland and Laurencekirk and Kath Leavey a former houseparent at Milltown . Community Centre we managed . The result was that Clearly the credibility of the report depends to a consid- we got a lot of positive feedback from workers, their erable extent on the good reputation of the members of carers, Care Managers, other organisations with whom the Panel . We had a very constructive, if tiring, day last we work, ourselves, our Council of Management, not June going through the report and the Panel members forgetting the taxi firms who bring workers to Mi I ioown . made a lot of good suggestions for improving it . We also got suggestions for improvements and a few Our initial report covered the period from April 2000 complaints-mostly from ourselves . As a result we have to March 2001 . The Panel meeting was in June 2001 been able to develop a programme of improvements and the report was published in September . It was quite so that now the Day Workshop runs better, is more heavy reading with a fair amount of statistical infor- satisfying to work at, and is definitely warmer! mation, and was sent to members of Milltown's Coun- We have also had positive feedback from the Regis- cil of Management, distributed to other Camphill tration Unit and from the Social Work Department . I communities, and copies sent to our Registration Of- think that they have now accepted that we are serious ficer, and the Contracts Officer and Senior Care Man- about quality assurance and those with whom we have ager from Aberdeenshire Council with whom we work . discussed it have been impressed . Our Contracts Of- We then started work on producing an edited and more ficer strongly supported us in only doing this every reader-friendly version which was finally completed other year and felt that as a tool for meeting the re- in February 2002 . The general reaction is that the quirements of our contract it had a lot of merit . We shorter version is a much easier read! We are also now will be in touch with her again before we start the beginning to think about the next Social Audit cycle . next cycle to see if there are ways that she feels we We realised very quickly that to do an Audit every year could improve it . The Registration Officer was also was going to be very difficult, so we have decided on positive but she brought in the caveat that as registra- a once every two years rhythm . The whole point is that tion services in Scotland are in the process of being doing the Social Audit should become a regular and centralised neither she nor anyone else can say at this fundamental part of the life of the organisation so that stage what will be considered appropriate in the fu- developments and trends can be identified and fol- ture. Despite that, we found their response so encour- lowed through . We have also been assured that the aging that we have no hesitation in planning a second first one is by far the most work! report. It will not be as much work and we have a There were two main reasons why we decided to get good basis of experience on which to build. We can involved with all this in the first place . One was to try see clear ways in which we can do it better this time . and take an objective look at how we work so that we We have even been offered a new computer by Shell can do what we do better . The second was that we so maybe the next report can have pictures! were very aware of the increasing demands from local We would be happy to talk about our experience or authorities and central government for organisations to send out copies of the report . If you are interested to be able to demonstrate the quality of what they do . please contact : We were concerned that if we waited we might find Milltown Day Workshop, Arbuthnott, Laurencekirk, ourselves having to do things that we would not have AB30 1 PB, or phone us on 01 561 362882 chosen to, simply to satisfy statutory bodies . Some or- ganisations have shied away from social audits because Richard has had a long association with Camph ill of the risk, as they saw it, of negative comment about and currently runs the Tools For Self Reliance the organisation going into the public domain . Our workshop at Mill town . feeling was that the benefits of being seen to be willing

Centenary edition Note The next issue of Camphill Correspondence will be a special edition The untitled poem on page 8 of the last is- for the centenary of Karl König. We would like to thank the many sue, which begins, 'It doesn't interest me people who have sent in contributions and to apologise that we have what you do for a living' is by Oriah Moun- not been able to thank everyone personally, as is our normal practice . tain Dreamer, a Native American Elder. your Editor

8 What is advocacy? What is its relevance for Camphill? Jack Reed, Edinburgh, Scotland

A review of the new publication, Advocacy and helping to resolve a difficult process affecting the in- Learning Disability dividual with special needs and those around them . Edited by Barry Gray and Robin Jackson. To ensure that the views of the person with a learning Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002 disability are heard and their needs addressed is surely n the course of a well-attended national conference admirable, even though this may at the same time chal- on advocacy in Scotland earlier this year, it was in- lenge the services they are currently in, whether this teresting to hear confirmation from participants that be hospital-or similar institutions that gave rise in they belong to a movement . The commitment, skills the first place to the advocacy movement-Care in the and empathy shared by delegates from diverse com- Community resources or indeed Camphill . munity-based backgrounds were evident throughout, So in this context I would wish to recommend Advo- in plenary sessions, in workshops and conversations . cacy and Learning Disability, ably co-edited by Robin In Britain and other western countries advocacy is a Jackson, at present Development and Training Co- movement which gains increasing governmental sup- ordinator for Camphill Scotland, to all those involved port to further rights and empowerment . with Camphill who wish to deepen their understand- In this thorough and thought-provoking book there ing of advocacy today, its ideals, variety and the is- is a cogent definition of citizen advocacy from the USA sues that it constantly considers in its practice . Not by O'Brien, one of the most influential of those active least of these are potential for misunderstanding, or in this sphere over recent decades : the dilemmas of accepting much-needed funding from A valued citizen who is unpaid and independent of government sources or organisations that may them- human services creates a relationship with a person selves need to be challenged . who is at risk of social exclusion and chooses one or Independent advocacy is difficult to achieve and several of many ways to understand, respond to, and sustain, although in Britain efforts are being made, represent that person's interests as if they were the following the adoption of the government reviews Valu- advocate's own, thus bringing their partner's gifts and ing People and The Same as You?, to ensure that advo- concerns into the circles of ordinary community life . cacy is legally endorsed . Self-advocacy can be (Learning from Citizen Advocacy Programmes, 1987) facilitated through person-centred planning which 'cre- The following is from the mission statement of a Scot- ates a compelling image of a desirable future and in- tish association, Partners in Advocacy : spires people to join with the person to make it Through Independent Citizen Advocacy and Self happen .' (O'Brien and Lovett) . Advocacy to safeguard and empower people with So we should recognise the case for advocacy for learning difficulties to live their lives as valued, re- children through to older people, particularly for those sponsible and enriched citizens. who have some degree of communication difficulty. It seems well worthwhile to compare the values ar- The book does indeed have valuable chapters on : ticulated in these quotations with the Motto of the advocacy with people with communication difficul- Social Ethic, which encapsulates so much at the heart ties; also on 'the neglected dimension : advocacy and of our own endeavours : families of children with learning difficulties' ; and the The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of voice of people with learning disabilities themselves : each human soul the whole community finds its re- 'The role of self-advocacy : Stories from a self-advo- flection, and when in the community the virtue of cacy group through the experiences of its members' . each one is living. Together with chapters covering principles, types, in- Clearly there is much in advocacy, taking it at its best, tegrity, values, conflict and legal aspects, this gives a to engage with, particularly at a time of ever increas- really comprehensive survey of the field . An interna- ing diversity and challenge in Camphill initiatives . If tional perspective is gained through contributions from we are to consider too, new ways of working arising the USA, Australia and New Zealand . out of the College Meeting, then advocacy-along with In conclusion, I would point to the constant value of other person-centred approaches, such as befriend- advocacy for those in less enlightened or third world ing, circles of support, mentoring, counselling, the countries, where rights are not well established or helping conversation-can be valued to support and guaranteed . Access to the content of this book is to be enable the individual in the context of their commu- commended, together with the organisation of work- nity and family. shops, for all in our communities-pupils and villag- Yet it may be that we are on guard from the chal- ers, parents and carers, co-workers and management lenge that advocacy in its various approaches appar- council members . This would then create an under- ently poses, especially if it is not as well represented standing, an openness and access to advocacy as and as it should be . For it can be argued that most of the when needed . As part of this readiness, establishing time, when things are going well, there is in any case links with advocacy projects active in the locality no need for advocacy in Camphill settings . would be a valuable preparation . However, most of us will have experienced situations where, with hindsight, engaging a skilled volunteer Jack has been a close colleague and friend of advocate, with integrity and real understanding for the Camphill for over 40 years . At present he is person they represent, would have been beneficial in Development Consultant for Camph ill Scotland .

9 Obituaries

Nina Maria Rice, nee Voser 20th November 1933-31St October 2001 Ulrike Cornish, Föhrenbühl, Germany

ma Rice was born and died in the sign of Scor- motor disturbances to watch the movements of pio, which is connected with the element of wa- eurythmy. Nina carried this assembly, together with terN. At her birth she did not breathe until she was other eurythmists, for the last 27 years and many of held under water . On the night of her death, her talents appeared there : her ability to create cos- Hallowe'en, there was a fierce storm and heavy rain, tumes, to choose the right colours, her love for lan- in which she took a short walk home and collapsed guage . She directed a number of fairy tales and on the way. But although there is a certain watery poems, she loved music and loved to move to music . congruence between the beginning and end of her For many years Nina also carried the eurythmy work life, in between there was a great deal of movement on the Foundation Stone Meditation of the Anthro- both outwardly and inwardly . posophical Society, which was often performed on Nina was born as one of many children in 1933 New Year's Eve in Föhrenbühl . She could go into the into a poor, working family not far from Zürich . The smallest details and it was important for her that the parents were forced, for economic reasons, to put movements were formed with love . Nina and her brother into a cloister school, which Alongside this work, she supported many plays per- made a strong impression on Nina . She cared lov- formed for the various festivals, prepared the cos- ingly for her younger siblings, especially for a brother tumes, did the make up and encouraged everybody . who died when he was only 16 years old . She taught eurythmy in the school classes, in the After school, she did a domestic science training, course for curative education and also in the kinder- then because of her gift for working with children, garten . She felt a special connection with the small she went to a curative home where she met anthro- children . posophy. She worked there for two years with Rudolf But Nina's main task was curative eurythmy. She Kutzli-known for his work in developing form-draw- was especially fond of the most difficult children, ing-and deepened her knowledge of anthro- always prepared to offer extra sessions for them . She posophical pedagogy . also helped many children who suffered from sleep- In 1957 she went to England to join the training ing problems with a special exercise, the 'Hallelu- course in Curative Education at St . Christopher's jah' . When I was a seminarist, I also did curative School, Bristol . Here she got to know a number of eurythmy with Nina, which led to me studying people who helped to shape her life . Firstly Dr. Maria eurythmy myself . Through her quiet, compassionate Glas, who had attended the original curative eurythmy way the eurythmy proved most effective . For years lectures by Rudolf Steiner and who supervised the she helped Georg von Arnim with curative eurythmy curative eurythmy, encouraged Nina to start the during his illness . She was 59 years old when she got eurythmy training . Secondly, through Hugh, a boy her driving licence and could drive to the small old with Downs Syndrome, Nina came into contact with people's home where he sometimes stayed . the Cartwright family . She went to help out in the I lived with Nina in the same house community for holidays and this arrangement continued for the rest some years . She took a great interest in the develop- of her life . She travelled three times a year to Eng- ment of both children and co-workers . She loved to land to visit Hugh and his mother. This was her 'elec- talk about her experiences i n England, she liked to tive family', a case of mutual adoption perhaps, and laugh, and enjoyed it when the atmosphere was cosy the connection was faithfully kept up by Nina through and warm . We had a number of inspiring house eve- weekly telephone calls between visits . nings and bible evenings in which she helped us to In 1961 she began to study eurythmy in Dornach, gain a better understanding of anthroposophy and afterwards returning to St. Christopher's to teach it . curative education . It became a new home for us, She got to know her future husband Beverly Rice, with the children in the centre, and Nina made an whom she married in 1967 . Together they moved to important contribution in creating this home . Larkfield Hall, another curative home in Sussex . In I also experienced Nina as a Community member . 1974 they separated, Nina returning to Switzerland She was a service holder and carried her religious at- where she did the curative eurythmy training . titude into her meetings with people . Community build- In October 1974 she took up contact with Camphill ing was one of her main concerns and so she was active School Föhrenbühl in Germany, where she lived and i n many meetings, contributing through her thoughts worked for the last 27 years . and words but especially through the eurythmy which One of her main concerns was to work with Dr. was helpful to the process of the meeting. Georg von Arnim, in the field of both curative and Looking back it is amazing to see how Nina pre- artistic eurythmy. Through his advice, eurythmy was pared step by step for her death . In January 2001 she shown in the weekly assembly because he thought it had the wish to withdraw from the weekly assembly . important for the many children with sensory and Before Easter she did a kind of 'swan song', a poem

10 by Albert Steffen about two swans . In Autumn she was asked if she could take part in a fairy tale and so she was on stage only days before she died . When she knew that she had a swollen blood vessel in her brain, she passed on all her tasks, ordered her things, and was prepared . When the necessary operation had to be delayed she came back from hospital and still had many meetings and talks with people with whom she lived during the last years . After one such meeting she came back in a stormy night and only reached the schoolhouse, where she was found the following day. Three days later her dear friend Susan Cartwright died in England . Certainly Nina was there to receive her into the spiritual world . Ulrike is a mother Susan Cartwright and Nina Rice and eurythmy therapist in Föhrenbühl

Susan Cartwright 20th February 1914-4th November 2001 Mary Canning, The Grange, England

orn Suzanne Grotrian, the third of four children, bassy staff. For Susan these years in Holland used her her father was managing director of the Hull Daily social skills to the full . It was a demanding role but she MailB newspaper. She grew up in Yorkshire, educated enjoyed it and was an excellent hostess, doing a great by a governess, until the age of 14-16 years, when deal of entertaining on behalf of the embassy . she went to boarding school . Her great love apart from her painting was her gar- Her talent as an artist led her in the 1930s to study den, in which she worked with joy. She continued to under a well known portrait painter, David Jagger, in paint landscapes and flowers and several examples London . By 1939 Susan was beginning to make a name are in the Grange . Many will be familiar with her flo- for herself as a portrait painter. ral notelets, designed for CVT fund raising . Still popu- When the war came Susan turned her energies to vol- lar after many years. untary auxiliary nursing . In 1940 she married Jack Hugh came to Grange Village in 1965 and very soon Cartwright, a captain in the Royal Navy. The following became a responsible member of the community . year their first son Michael was born . Susan moved about Susan lived in Farnham, Surrey but was often replac- quite a. lot at that time, setting up house in various port ing housemothers, helping with Open Days, Confer- areas so as to be near Jack's ship . As a captain's wife ences, Parents' Meetings . She was there wherever she she was involved in the welfare of the families of the could help and support us, becoming a Member of crew and I imagine this was the beginning of her life the LMC and later a Council Member of CVT . Ursula long task of counselling, advising and comforting . She Gleed called upon her to help establish the Camphill had a natural gift for this and aided by her ability to Counselling Service . listen she could use her warm and genuine interest, her In order to raise funds for Camphill, Susan took ad- lovely sense of humour and her down to earth attitude vantage of the spacious basement of their large house to life and its varied problems, to help . in Farnham to open the 'Basement Bazaar', which must In the 1940's it was still a generally held view that have been one of the first 'nearly new' shops in the Down's Syndrome children were ineducable . When country, at the same time establishing the first group her second son Hugh was born in 1946, Susan deter- of Friends of the Grange . Groups in Bristol and Bath mined to show that this was not so . She was very ac- were also formed with her help and advice and other tive in the professional circles where this view was centres benefited from her expertise . She became Presi- held and where the opinions of these people carried a dent of the Friends of CVT. lot of weight . She was influential in changing what Susan and Jack moved to Gloucestershire, near to were then the norms of education in this area . the Grange in 1972 . Jack died in 1974. Hugh was educated and proved to be a vindication Susan became rather unwell recently but only took of Susan's claims for the right to education for all chil- to her bed in the last week of her life . She knew she dren . Susan had been called upon by doctors and so- was very ill but wanted no treatment or hospitalisa- cial workers to speak to mothers who had given birth tion . Her wish was to stay in her home and in her own to Downs Syndrome babies . She brought great com- bed . She had a very peaceful end with family and fort, hope and acceptance to the parents and helped friends around her. them to see the positive in the child's future . A good and very faithful friend with the courage to Hugh went to St. Christopher's School which is where criticise when necessary. We will miss her. he met Nina Rice . Nina became a very close friend of Mary has spent much the Cartwright family . of her life as a homemaker in the Grange, where she In 1954 Jack was made Naval Attache in Holland and now continues to counsel, comfort and support new they lived i n the Hague for 4 years as part of the em- generations of residents and co-workers .

11 Munda Dudok van Heel 29th August 1926-6'h January 2002 Margareta Kus, Glencraig, Northern Ireland

unda was born in the Dutch out their best abilities and make Indies, now Indonesia, the them proud of their beautiful youngestM of five children, with work. Munda had a real gift with four older brothers . The Dutch colours and everything she did family was wealthy, her father was touched by an artistic hand . being the director of a sugar For many years she ran the plantation . Film reels from this weaving workshop in Glen- time, the late twenties, show a craig and in addition gave big mansion with a large estate, painting lessons in the Training the family enjoying themselves Course. In later years she be- in the swimming pool, the four came the art therapist for the boys trying out their Dutch bi- whole community. Munda be- cycles and Munda and her came a special friend to many brothers taking a ride on the train in the community. In later years which ran through the estate . she had a car of her own and This idyllic life came to an end met many needs, especially for soon after the 1929 Wall Street the elderly, and in taking our crash . The family left for Europe, resident priest around the where they spent a year in a ho- Camphill places in Ireland . tel in Switzerland before returning to Holland . At the Munda's door was always open . This was a gesture outbreak of the Second World War the whole family she had brought along from Holland, an open door joined the Resistance . Munda was by this time thir- and a listening ear. She was a 'night-bird' . The light in teen years old . She described how during the war years her window would always shine out and many people she was sent with messages and guns hidden in the would find their way to her room for a chat or a smoke basket of her bicycle . It also became apparent that after a late meeting or evening walk . In her later years each family member had to work as an individual she lived in Orchard Cottage, a portacabin where no communication was allowed between them . Munda Barbara Lipsker and Erika Schonlau were living . The was arrested several times but always set free again on three 'old ladies', as they came to be called, became account of her age . These were formative years and good friends. On many Friday nights they would go later she was not able to recall any childhood memo- together in Munda's car to concerts in Belfast. ries from the years before the war . Two family mem- Through circumstances Munda had become lone- bers lost their lives while working for the Resistance . lier during the last year of her life . Some friends had At the end of the war Munda worked for the Red moved away, some had died . She had been ill with Cross, where she met her future husband . After the pneumonia several times in the last half a year and war she studied social work, married and had four when her last illness struck at the beginning of De- sons . The marriage was not easy, it broke down in the cember she fully accepted it. She gathered her family early sixties, and Munda found herself caring for her and friends around her . She was strong in herself, young family on her own . From friends, we know that hardly ever speaking of her illness but, as usual, full she did this with devotion . She found work during of concern for others . school-hours, took in boarders, and every year went Munda had conducted her life in an orderly fashion . camping with her boys . It was in search of the right At times she could be hard on people who did not pay school for her second son, Michiel, that she found heed to details in the way she did herself . But if she the Amsterdam Waldorf School . Through this she dis- could be hard on others, she was also the first one to covered anthroposophy and The Christian Commu- say sorry and to forgive . Her orderly mind and atten- nity. When the children had grown up she did an art tion to detail stayed with her to the very end . therapy training, after which she took up a post in a Munda died peacefully in the afternoon of January Christian Community centre in Holland . However, dif- 6t" . In death something of the quality of a knight came ficulties with individuals made it impossible for Munda to the fore; she was indeed a strong personality. Both to stay. her birthday and her death day are linked to John the Meanwhile, Michiel had joined Camphill and Munda Baptist, who challenged mankind and who served visited him several times . When Glencraig needed a Christ. Munda had the quality of serving with a faith- weaver, Munda took up the challenge and moved to fulness which was unbending . At the same time she Northern Ireland in 1978 at the age of 52 . Those of us had no fear of speaking up when she found some- who met Munda in those early years met a lady of thing was not right . formidable personality . Her standards in work were We, her friends, miss the light in her window late at always high . What was perhaps most remarkable was night, but are comforted by the thought that she stays her extraordinary gift with people with special needs . with us from the other side of the threshold . She was able to challenge them in their work, to bring

12 Heidi Steffen

he title Munda had in my life was mother-in-law . coffee and Munda were She came into my life in 1975 when I married her ready for a good long secondT son, Michiel . After growing up with only broth- chat. When I left her I al- ers and rearing four sons, she received me with open ways knew that she was arms, 'At last a girl'! there and that she cared . At that time Munda lived in an amazing, small house She was very keen to with a lovely small garden in the middle of Amster- be up-to-date with how dam with the door always open and the coffee always my parents, brother and ready . . . She joined Glencraig, where we were living, sister were in Switzer- a few years later as a co-worker . Munda managed to land . She never failed to create that same atmosphere, with the door always send Christmas cards . open and the coffee boiling, in all the rooms and small Munda had a great gift flats she lived in throughout her many years in in keeping in touch with Glencraig. many people over many In the agonizing years of our marriage break-up she years . never came too close or interfered but I knew that she Dear Munda, you be- was always there and cared . . . longed very much to my She became a faithful regular customer in my shop life and I will miss you . in Holywood over the last 17 years . I sat with her in Thank you for having Class Lessons, Camphill community meetings and in been a very special mother-in-law. I hope I will man- The Christian Community in Holywood and from time age to keep in touch because I know you are there to time I walked through her open door where the and I know that you care .

David Austin Reid 6th May 1943-15th February 2002 Peter Reid

From a funeral address t is a privilege for me, as David's brother, to recall in detail to Cecil Finlay who sits here before me, now some memories of David . married to our mother Olivia-and had everything Let me take you back to Portnoo, a special little place carefully thought through-except for the money . in Donegal on the NW coast of Ireland . As a family, Finlays advised him to speak to the bank about the we used to go there every year for our holiday and money side of things and David left . David was in his element there . There is a long sandy Above all, and saddest of all for us today, David beach, an island you can walk to at low tide and, was a great person for an occasion, an occasion such most special for David, sandhills with caravans nes- as this . If he could have been here, he would have tling in them and little paths connecting them . David seen to the car parking . Then he would have been would walk along these paths every year, renewing such a good host, greeting people at the door, and acquaintances and getting to know people who hadn't asking them how they were . He would have made yet had the good fortune to meet him . Nearly fifty sure that people had seats . And of course, he would years later, when I went back to Portnoo with my own have made a speech . David's speeches were so spe- family, I tried to remind the older people there of my cial, compared to the few words I can offer you my- visits as a child-but none of them could remember self. And that is because, for him, emotion was so me. But when I mentioned David and described him, much closer to the surface and his voice would be so they said, 'Oh yes, we remember David Reid! Wasn't much closer to breaking with pride or gratitude or, he wonderful?' on this sad occasion, grief . Later, as an adult at Glencraig and Mourne Grange, Today is an opportunity to remember David, and to the best word to describe David was 'a gentleman' . grieve. But it is also an occasion to celebrate what He was always courteous, attentive and caring . He was David was for each of us . It is an occasion to recall a great organiser too . He was the only one of the resi- how he touched the lives of each of us-or better still, dents at The Arches in Belfast who organised things so to borrow a word my sister Lizzie used earlier, how he that he had his meals with the staff, in their dining enriched the lives of each of us . That is why it is an area. And on one memorable occasion, he set about honour for me to speak today, to tell you that I am the task of buying a house . He went to very good es- proud to be able to say that I knew, that I loved, and tate agents, Finlays, and explained his requirements that I was loved by David Austin Reid .

13 Christof Koenig, Mourne Grange, Northern Ireland

first met David when I joined Glencraig in the au- friends with the local fire station and its officers . Soon tumn of 1959 . He was in his last years of school, he had a fireman's uniform, including a large helmet . looking forward to joining the Training School to learn At the start of our work at Mourne Grange we all how to work with his hands and to master new skills . were busy on the land which had been run down for As I worked on the farm with a group of villagers, I so long. This was not really what David wanted to do, did not see too much of David in these early years and as soon as the workshops were established he but I do remember meeting a young man who was chose the woodworkshop as his place of work, proud always busy with one thing or another and who had of all the products that were sold in our Craft Shop a real interest in all that was going on in the whole and further afield . community. David's parents lived in Bangor, near Glencraig, and David's parents, Norman and Olivia Reid, were in- they allowed him to be this free spirit . He would cycle strumental in bringing this first Camphill Community through the town, meeting old friends and making new in Ireland into being . David made a wonderful choice ones every day. This was sometimes not so easy here in deciding to join this special family as his own . It is at Mourne Grange, as we were never quite sure where a very warm and loving family which he joined as the he had gone on his bike or which bus he had taken . third child, having the middle position between two David had a very active guardian angel . younger and two older siblings . He also had a troublesome chest complaint and for Soon after we moved to Mourne Grange in the au- this reason his tiny room was next to our family room . tumn of 1971, David joined us to help us build up this Many nights the door was left open, as he could very new village community; he shared our house, and it easily catch pneumonia . When we looked in to see how was then that we got to know this very special person he was, he would always say to us, with laboured breath- much better. One could say that David was a free spirit, ing, 'I am alright, do not worry.' This was something and this brought something wonderful into the village that we will never forget, that he never complained . as a whole, including the house community. He soon A few years ago David's mind and memory started to became an integral part of the house, fully active and deteriorate, he needed to be taken to and from work helpful in whatever ways he could . He was always busy and to evening activities . Although thinner, the body and always deeply interested and active in the many was still strong . But he did not remember people any things that went on and changed in a pioneering situ- more. In the end he went to a nursing home in Belfast ation . He informed himself of all the new buildings where he could receive day and night care which we that were built, and indeed the old ones that were could not provide . demolished, the planting of orchards and shelter belts, David died peacefully and looked so beautiful in planning new roads, naming our fields . He was espe- death, some people describing him as looking like a cially conscious of safety aspects, constantly remind- knight without armour. His funeral was like a celebra- ing us of the dangers of tractors and builders' tion of a long and special and wonderful life . It was a equipment. He was also aware of fire precautions and privilege to have known David and to have been al- became our deputy fire officer. With this task he made lowed to share in his life .

Announcement of death Many readers will have heard of the death of Barbara Lipsker in Glencraig on May 25t" . Tributes will appear in the September issue, for which the deadline is the end of July .

Reflection Barnacle Stone

Only once in a great while Within the wide frame in a desperate corner of me of chance, the ruins i sort through the garbage of a kingdom were left and search for stranded on some shore. a long-lost treasure . Small castles arising Perhaps a miracle from grey stone i once missed, the remnants of a favorite feather a greatness or a view of the sea . long gone.

RICHARD N EAL

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News from the Movement The worldwide Camphill Movement and beyond

Building Inclusive Communities A Conference on Social Renewal to take place at New Lanark, Scotland, 8 11 May 2003 to mark Dr. Karl Königs centenary year

ne of the ideas for marking Karl Königs cente be a special place an inspirational setting for a nary is taking shape : a conference, Building In- Camphill Conference on Social Renewal . clusiveO Communities at the site of Robert Owen's pio- neering community, New Lanark, south of Glasgow in Robert Owen and the Camphill Movement Through Scotland . Karl König the fundamental significance of Robert We write this in the hope that it can be an inspiring Owen's ideals on social renewal, and the place of New and forward-looking event next spring . Lanark, were made clear for the development of We wish it to be an inclusive conference and ask Camphill, past, present and future . An inclusive con- you to read and share this with everyone connected ference open to all in this grand setting could have with your community . Please let us know your the nature of celebration, in the spirit of interdepend- thoughts and interest as soon as possible . Contact us ence and commitment to community . if you have further ideas, know of people to invite, or The vivid way in which König describes the Three any other matters . Stars and the Three Pillars in the book : The Camphill Register your interest now by applying for applica- Movement, is a wellspring for continuing inspiration . tion forms, which we will send out later in the summer . These essays are equally noteworthy as a basis from which to reappraise the aspirations and life of indi- What ideas individuals may attach to the term 'Mil- viduals and communities at a time of rapid transition lennium' I know not; but I know that society may be and inner and outer challenge . Rudolf Steiner also formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, spoke on Robert Owen in connection with the three- with health greatly improved, with little if any misery, fold social commonwealth . and with intelligence and happiness improved a hun- dred fold. New Lanark past and present The achievements Address to the inhabitants of New Lanark here tell a remarkable story of what can be achieved by Robert Owen, New Year's Day 1816 through facing up to adversity with humanity and de- termination . The impression which the beauty of the In 1800, when not yet thirty years old he was direc- setting in the Clyde gorge, the buildings and the lay- tor and part owner of the big mill in New Lanark out make as a whole, is really striking . Experiencing near Glasgow. It was here that he started his great the Falls of Clyde Wildlife Reserve, an area of native experiment in community building. For more than woodland with cascading waterfalls, looked after by twenty years it remained a flourishing and shining the Scottish Wildlife Trust, would enrich the confer- example of humanity. From all over the world visi- ence . Complementing this, the dedication and suc- tors came to see this miracle of a social experiment . cess of the New Lanark Conservation Trust who have Owen's intensity, however, looked for more and restored buildings and created a wide range of ac- greater things. He started a new community in the commodation and facilities, have led to its being State of Indiana in North America . . .He wrote innu- awarded World Heritage Site recognition in 2001 . merable books, papers and pamphlets and delivered many thousands of lectures all over Britain . He initi- Joint Initiative We would like to develop this confer- ated the Trade Union Movement . He created the ence with other like-minded bodies, for instance : first sick fund for workmen and fought for the hu- New Lanark Trust, long Community, Community man rights of every man, woman and child. Development Groups, Garvald, The Christian Commu- Karl König on Robert Owen nity, The Anthroposophical Society.

In New Lanark he created a perfect industrial plant Participants There will be an emphasis on openness and occupied the workmen so that they not only and inclusiveness : led a material life worthy of man, but he also created residents and villagers, parents, sisters and brothers, conditions which were morally adequate for them . friends and co-workers, council members and profes- Rudolf Steiner on Robert Owen sionals . All who would like to share this rich experi- ence and path of exploration and discovery . There In April, Simon Beckett, Jack Reed and Vivian Griffith could be interest from other countries, for instance visited Robert Owen's New Lanark site, with the sup- the USA and Canada, where Robert Owen's legacy port of the Association of Camphill Communities and was considerable-the New Harmony community, the the Camphill Foundation . We found New Lanark to creation of the Smithsonian Institute and so on .

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Programme and Content With talks, workshops, ar- Costs We estimate approximately £180 per person, tistic and craft activities, social events, outings and including all facilities, accommodation and meals . We exhibitions, there would be stimulus for all . Although would like to see sponsoring and subsidising, so all we have already sketched out a possible programme, could feel free to take part who would wish to . this should still be quite open, and we give the follow- ing as examples : Numbers For current purposes we envisage around The Three Stars and Three Pillars ; Robert Owen, Karl 120-150 participants and contributors . König and biographical work ; social catalysts, utopian communities and social therapy . In particular : the Notification of Interest Such is our enthusiasm, and Camphill Village Community; long Community and The early indications of interest, that we are making provi- Christian Community ; the community of communities sional bookings in order to secure provision on ap- and urban initiatives ; places of the soul, environment propriate dates . An initial indication of interest and and ecology; responding to a multicultural society. numbers, as well as suggestions relating to any of the Shared activities with music and singing and a ceilidh above, as soon as possible, will greatly help further should be possible, whilst looking at biographies and planning! sharing common community building would enliven and help make theme and content accessible for all In Conclusion In the spirit of building inclusive com- participants . munities we see this conference as an exciting oppor- tunity to come together i n a wonderful setting for all Contributors to talks and workshops We do have ideas connected with Camphill and others engaged with but welcome offers and suggestions! It is your ideas similar ideals . It could invigorate and inspire individu- and comments that will create the 'magic' in this con- als and communities alike, with empathy and interde- ference . pendence at its heart .

Dates A Thursday afternoon to Sunday lunchtime I had absolutely nothing to back me up except a would allow much to be encompassed within four days, deeply rooted resolution, a dictum irrevocable for including travel for most participants, with three nights myself: I will it! A belief, unshaken by experience, I to further the experience and process . Taking avail- can do it! And a nameless feeling alive within me : I ability into account, and hoping to avoid clashes of must do it. I willed, believed, did . . . and it succeeded. dates, three weeks after Easter from 8-11 May 2003 Pestalozzi seems best at present . With warm wishes, Simon Beckett, Vivian Griffiths, Jack Reed Accommodation There is a range of attractive re- sources for both conference and residence, the latter Replies, enquiries and comments to : including hotel, self-catering and youth hostel, all on Simon Beckett, Newton Dee, Bieldside, Aberdeen, site. Good quality catering can be provided in-house . AB 15 9DX, Fax: 01224 869398

Kfar Raphael, Israel a remedial community in the desert is 21 Yiftach Ben Shalom n April 1981, three families entered the first houses teristic of Kfar Raphael as a place where different of Kfar Raphael, newly built on the desert border streams meet and fruitfully-though not effortlessly outside Beer Sheva, the 'Town of the Patriarchs' in work together. the southern part of Israel . The official opening was The years 1981-1988, together with the preceding celebrated on 17th of May and six weeks later 12 vil- three 'embryonic' ones, may be characterized as the lagers moved over from the in-town therapeutic school struggle to create and secure the physical basis and of Beit Eliahu . Together with the families and a few operating frame of the village, aided and guided by a inexperienced but keen volunteers they formed the strong spiritual impulse . The fourth house was soon founder group of a pioneering social-therapy commu- completed and a fifth one, specially designed for the nity initiative, the first of its kind in this part of the needs of extremely disabled villagers, followed in world . (The earlier, 'embryonic' stage had included 1985 . By 198819 the planning and preparation for the three years of preparation, orchard planting, planning, remaining four houses, arranged so as to complete the building and fund-raising by one of the families and a sheltering and mutually supporting main village cir- core-group of dedicated parents and friends) . A gen- cle, was well on the way. The first workshop buildings erous donation from a Dutch Jew who had lost all her for the bakery, laundry, weavery and grocery were also family in the Holocaust and left her entire legacy to completed, the workshops having operated till then in the fellowship as a memorial, created the initial finan- vacant rooms and bomb-shelters . The village revenue cial kernel, to be followed by many other acts of good budget began to show initial signs of viability, as the will that have enabled the further unfolding and de- early years had required substantial deficits, covered velopment of the village throughout the following by donations, due to vacancies, low government fees years. Two of the founder families had their curative- and modest workshop sales . Experiencing the green educational training at the Sonnenhof, Arlesheim and and flowering village grounds today, it is nearly im- one in Glencraig, and this has somehow been charac- possible to recall the nature and magnitude of the

16 physical and human hardships which had to be over- Our economic life is more stable come then : having to teach the first villagers, who came now thanks to full residence-50 with little preparation for adult community life, the villagers who receive reasonable That We May basics of communal social therapy-as well as learn- state fees-careful budgeting and ing it gradually oneself . And all without a central lead- spending policy, increased sales That we may ing figure, guiding and comforting, but in the manner of workshop and agriculture of a true 'future-community' right from the start! This products, and continuous fund- breathe would hardly have been possible without a vibrant raising to finance the necessary where there cultural life-in spite of the poor physical conditions . investments . This included festivals, celebrations (both Jewish and Spiritual-cultural life has ma- seems to be general ones!), plays, translating songs and lectures tured too, with several study into Hebrew, study groups and various artistic activi- groups, including Class-study no air. ties, particularly music. Alongside this, the path of com- and work with the unique works that we may munity life had to be patiently and painfully explored, of Georg Golzer, as well as the without 'recipes' or shortcuts . Around the end of the development of individual ther- shine first seven-year period the main community organs : apies and artistic groups en- the houseparents circle, the committees for the three compassing all the village where there spheres and the seasonal festival groups were already population . In the social sphere seems to be operating. we also feel on the threshold of 1988-1995 brought development, deepening and ex- a new era as younger families no light. pansion . Four new families joined during the first half begin to come and replace the that we may of the period, bringing the number of operating house- older generation ; toddlers and communities to the full capacity of nine . The large babies fill the space again with dance number of staff-children led to the creation of a mini- their precious future-promise ; ature Waldorf kindergarten, which operated for sev- bridges of fruitful, creative, shared where there eral years in a modified bomb-shelter, as well as to the activity are built with the wider seems to be lively participation of the younger generation in the circle of parents, friends, local village chamber orchestra, plays and cultural life in and state government officials, no music. general . The number of young volunteers, particularly and those connected to the new from Europe, grew substantially thanks to the inclu- Waldorf initiative . that we may sion of the village in the German National Service list, The growing trees, beautiful hope a fact that enabled us to increase the number of vil- flower gardens and green lawns, lagers in each house and to gradually relieve some of cared for by our estate team, shel- where there the pressure on houseparents . The influx of new peo- ter and envelop us with freshness ple stirred the life of the growing community, culmi- and beauty, like an oasis, enabling seems to be nating in a true 'adolescence' crisis in 1995 during our communal life and work to no reason. which two families left and another joined . It was a develop and thrive . painful, trying time, but facing and surviving it has that we may enabled many fruits of those struggles to ripen during Our modest website : the following years . www. krafael. co. ii dream 1995-2002 began with tension and uncertainty but where there has given birth to a number of new and promising developments which, although still young, enable us 'Nets Erez' Waldorf seems to be to turn our gaze to the future with some confidence Initiative in Beer Sheva and hope-as far as this is possible considering the he fellowship bearing this no sanity. situation around us . . . Our central community hall was name, which means 'Cedar that we may completed in 1995, offering a proper home to many Sapling'T and comes from Isaiah cultural activities as well as to offices, medical clinic 41 :19, was set up in April 2001 love and extra accommodation ; the Raphael Seminar, which in order to found and develop began in 1996 with a yearly program of introduction Waldorf Education in the South where there to Anthroposophy and Social Therapy, has recently of Israel . Its first institution, Gan seems to be been extended to offer a two-year study for resident Pa'amon, 'Bell Kindergarten', and external students; a holiday house in the seaside has been educating 18 children no peace. town of Ashkelon, large enough to accommodate since last September, and a sec- whole house-communities, was purchased in 1997 and ond, younger group is about to that we may renovated i n 1998; a new workshop building, hous- begin this autumn . The local heal ing the food-processing, silk-dyeing and candle-mak- council, helpful and supportive ing workshops as well as a small gift-shop, was in spite of its poor economic where there completed in 2000, together with a beautiful central situation, has lent us a disused flower garden in memory of Belt Eliahu ; and, last but building free of charge, but a seems to be not least, the first Waldorf education initiative, Can large investment is still needed no chance. Pa'amon, 'Bell kindergarten', for which we act as 'god- i n order to renovate and prepare parents' and helping friends, was opened in town last it for the new group, as well as RICHARD NEAL year, hopefully to be followed by a Waldorf school as to improve the conditions of the soon as possible . (See below) first one . Generous acts of good

17 will, from Israel and from abroad, have enabled us to POB 425, Be'er Sheva 84103, Israel zvimadarc4 krafael.co. it take root, but further help is needed so as to let the Our deepest gratitude to all! young sapling strengthen and grow! If any of you who read this is able and willing to lend us a helping hand, Yiftach Completed the Course in Curative Education or is aware of anybody else who may do so, please in Aberdeen before returning to Israel with Hannah contact us directly : Neta Erez fellowship, Kfar Raphael, and family.

The story behind a photograph Andrew Hoy, Svetlana Village, Russia

am sorry that you did not Vasant spent some time i n meet these two gentlemen at Copake in 1990 and some of theI recent Camphill Dialogue, his co-workers visited Copake, though from the moment that Delrow and Hapstead Village we first met three years ago I in the years that followed had the wish that they would and so their experience of be present on such an occa- Camph i I I is varied . The work sion . I had hoped to perform of Sadhana Village is with peo- what is known in America as ple with special needs, and a quarterback sneak' around yet from the beginning it has those of our friends who feel attempted to integrate this that Camphill is not worldly work into the rural community enough . For those unfamiliar of the valley with a rural de- with this expression taken from velopment programme . It was football, it is when the quar- Krishnamurti who brought this terback holds on to the ball word 'Sadhana' into common instead of getting rid of it, and awareness . He described a mozies on into the end zone person with special needs as untouched . Obviously a cer- a 'Sadhaka'-and the life that tain amount of subterfuge has he leads today as 'Sadhana' for to be involved . his emancipation . However, These two men are an expres- as with anthroposophy in sion of the ever-expanding cul- Camphill, this underlying tural horizon of Camphill that motif does not intrude into is able to cross cultural and re- everyday life. There is a form ligious boundaries . Vasantrao of celebration each Thursday Deshpande is the secretary, and that bases itself upon the Tatia is the president of Sad- Bhagavad Gita and which hana Village, 38km west of could be likened to the Bible Pune in Maharashtra that, while Evening . having a Hindu and Indian cul- At present the village con- tural base, is modelled upon Camphill . It has no formal sists of a small cluster of buildings : two larger resi- ties for, to qualify as part of the Camphill movement, it dences, a candle shop, a weavery that also trains a would have to break with its environment, and yet it couple of men from the neighbourhood, a clinic with receives regular visits and some support from Camphill . a doctor and a vet, and a meeting room for the women Actually Vasant, or Vasant-bai (brother Vasant) is of the neighbouring villages, upon whom the rural wearing pyjamas and Tatia, I believe, a dhoti-at least renewal programme is based . Along the road is a he usually wears one-for this is the informal wear of building that will house a rice mill and a milk col- rural India . I am sure that Tatia would turn far more lecting point for the water buffalo milk from the farms heads at the Dialogue than the gentleman in the kilt around . The process of integration has been mani- did some years ago-and everyone would find them- fold and also includes the construction of three selves practising the Indian form of greeting, with both Kolapur-type weirs along the river and 200 toilets in palms pressed together. I relish the sight. Together, they the villages around . To begin with, this activity was form an impressive combination . Vasant was a profes- supported by Sangli and DESWOS and Camphill, and sor of English, while Tatia is a simple farmer with an now by the Rotary Clubs of Pune and Southern intense inner life that is indicated by his head cloth Maharashtra . a lovely man . The background of their partnership was It is the combination of this rural renewal programme in guiding a rural development programme in the with social therapy that has impressed me most of all . Sangli area of Southern Maharashtra which was started Recently I made my third visit to the valley. I do be- in 1972, in co-operation with DESWOS, founded by lieve that had Vasant, at least, been present at the Dia- the German Housing Industry, and Vasant brought this logue, he would have widened the concept of 'worldly' experience with him when he started Sadhana Village in the minds of many who were present . in 1994 . Tatia continued to support him . Andrew is a regular contributor to Ca mphill Correspondence .

18 Svetlana a portrait in four seasons Mark Barber

e live under the big Russian sky. On a tiny spot The hay cut can begin here around the middle of June upon the endless plains we build our lives . The and can last through to August or even September. great cycles of the year play themselves out dramati- With primitive and unreliable equipment, it has an cally above our heads . In midsummer the sun makes a almost epic quality : it is the breeding-ground of giant circle around us, dipping below the horizon for Svetlana's very own pantheon of heroes . but a few hours each night. The dark nights of the north- Many others, however, quietly perform no less vital ern winter are illuminated by a brilliant panoply of tasks. There is the group which daily gathers, cleans stars . Occasionally the icy darkness is transformed by and dries herbs and beans . This popular workshop is the colour-dance of the aurora borealis over Lake a hive of activity and sociability well into the au- Ladoga to our north . tumn . And then there are the ladies in the kitchens 'Svetlana' Camphill Village is situated 140kms east and the visiting mothers who, towards the end of sum- of St Petersburg, at the southern tip of Europe's larg- mer, sweat over boiling pots of jams, pickles and pre- est lake . The River Syass embraces our 57 hectares of serves . For all of us, whatever our tasks and agricultural land . This was one of the Viking trade responsibilities in the village, there is no rest until routes to the Black Sea and beyond . This is the heart the stores, cellars and hay sheds are full . of ancient Rus : Rurik, the first of the Viking dynasty The chill and sober evenings of Michaelmas arrive that ruled Russia from the 9th century until the time like a soothing balm . Life begins to slow down until all of Ivan the Terrible, had his capital in Staraya Ladoga, that remains is the rhythmic tick of the winter tasks : just 20 kms from here . heating the fires, milking and tending the animals, shov- We are 33 souls, 16 of us with special needs . Half elling snow, the never-ending housework and, of course, of our co-workers were born in the former Soviet the work in the workshops . By the time of the winter Union ; the other half come from a variety of Western solstice we are warming our hands around the gener- countries . The village was established almost ten years ous hearth of Christmas, in preparation for the bleak ago, with the generous financial and practical assist- months to come. Every year we stage one of the Oberufer ance of the Norwegian Camphill Villages . We live in Christmas plays . It is always a mighty undertaking for two large houses and a smaller one . We have a farm our little village but one that is never in vain. Our Holy that currently houses nine cows, a large garden, an Nights form a bridge between the Western Christmas ecologically designed clay/straw earth cellar and herb on 25th Dec . and the Orthodox Christmas on 7th Jan . workshop, and a small-holding for pigs . And then begin the seemingly endless months of Just as the elements here breathe deeply through January and February. We huddle together for warmth the course of the year, so does the soul of the village . in the workshops-sewing dolls, knitting, felting, and We oscillate between the light and the dark . During working with leather. Likewise, the warmth of the ani- the 'white nights' of St John's tide, one's senses are mals gives the farm the feeling of an oasis in the mer- assaulted by a barrage of life of such intensity that ciless cold . Candlemas comes as a glimmer of hope one can scarcely bear it . The whole village is fully on this interminable path . engaged in a frantic struggle against the clock of the When it finally comes, the budding life of Easter ar- northern growing season . The fields and garden de- rives like a tidal wave. It takes one by surprise, as if mand tight timetables . There are times when the dull awakening from a dream in which one had been a chug of a tractor on a distant field can be heard hundred years old . We gather the bursting catkins on throughout the night. Likewise the gardeners can be Palm Sunday, and on Easter Sunday exchange the tra- seen hoeing, watering and weeding until midnight and ditional Russian greeting, 'Christ is Risen!' and the beyond . By sunrise they are already up again, spray- reply, 'In truth he is Risen!' ing preparations and preparing the day's work . There Thus does the ever-changing kaleidoscope of the is a period of a month or so around the solstice when seasons cast its shadows across our little village . These sleep seems elusive, not to say superfluous . are just a few of the colours of our lives in 'Svetlana' .

Svetlana - financial situation n the course of the recent Dialogue at Föhrenbühl, In the course of the discussion, we were asked to tell we made a short presentation on 'Svetlana' Camph ill about our sorry financial position . For those of you Village, Russia . As ever when I speak about our vil- who missed it, here are a few salient points . We re- lage abroad, I was amazed by the degree of interest ceive no regular grants from any governmental or pri- that Russia can attract . In fact, the room was so full vate organisation, except the pensions of our 16 that people were listening to us from the corridor. villagers, which altogether amount to about $150 per There is clearly an understanding, that in a time when month . The only significant income we have is from the might and influence of the West is growing to what we ourselves produce : cheese, dolls, vegetables, huge proportions, something very different, and per- meat, paintings . From this we cover about a third of haps very important for the rest of Europe, is slum- our needs. As for the rest, we are reliant on individual bering in the East. donations. We live a precarious existence . We usually

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do not know how we will be paying the electricity bill Offers of help and enquiries to : in six months time. Our needs in financial terms are Mark Barber, Svetlana Village not great. We need about $2500 per month to support e-mail: dsvetc Iens.spb.ru the entire village. In the course of the Dialogue, the proposal was made Change of address for Chistye Klyuchi (previously that sympathetic villages, or individuals, could help Teremok) and the Ita Wegman Training Course, to give us a degree of security by pledging to support Moscow. us with a small donation on a monthly basis . $20 or Dear readers, our address is slightly changed . The $50 is great; it is the regularity that is the key. This post code number is changed from 113152 to would allow us to look with more confidence to the 117152 . Otherwise the address is the same : development of the village . Anyone acquainted with Zagorodnoe Shosse 10-10-43, 117152 Moscow, Russia knows that the needs here are mammoth . We Russia . feel that Camphill is badly needed here . Remco van der Plaat, Zinaida Levina

Tagging Children Johannes M. Surkamp

MTV, Britain's Biggest Breakfast Show has recently the child wakes up and the parents too and the launched a drive 'Tag your Tots' and the Co-op bond between them has grown stronger . Such a loss SocietyG is issuing free identity wristbands to customers touches the core of the child and it will be remem- for their children . The show presents celebrities and oth- bered; whereas tagging can give parents a false sense ers to tell their tale of when they were lost as children . of security. The main thrust of the campaign is to instil Everything seems straightforward and fair . Children have fear in parents and this aspect deserves some scrutiny. the tendency to wander off; they feel lost and the par- Our present information age is driven by fear . It is ents feel worried . Why then not simply support this fear and pessimism, always imagining that the worst scheme? Has not the public learned by experience, will happen, which often starts quarrels, even wars . counting the loss of many frustrating hours? Peace and harmony require positive imagination, trust But besides this practical level there are other levels and courage . Caution and consciousness have to be to be considered . Parents do not realise that they are trained early on, but too much apprehension makes a prompted by fear to play safe . More press coverage of person neurotic . negatives makes parents assume that there are more Another aspect too little considered : we might start dangers in society than in former times . This is only with the tagging of children . (After-all, babies and pa- partly true . There are also other stories told than the tients in hospitals are also labelled .) Professionals carry anecdotes in the show. The same holds good for the their identity cards visibly and there is talk of electronic interpretation . It makes a vast difference whether a tagging for criminals . Big Brother tries to control every- number is prefixed with 'add' or 'minus' . The show body. What seems innocent and harmless can never- treats all incidents of children getting temporarily lost theless be a kind of brainwashing and dope us into as negatives. Yet there are stories told where tempo- conforming. Even with such a seemingly reasonable 'ini- rary loss was a positive learning experience by which tiative', it is good to be mindful of what it can turn into .

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Flower-picker/home-maker Happy Birthday Duffcarrig Rhythmical Massage Training in the UK We need a female carrying co-worker to join our On the 02 :02:2002 Camphill Village Duffcarrigsitu- In September2002, under the umbrella of the Medi- youngish household on Watch Oak farm, the Hatch, ated in the (usually) sunny south east of Ireland cal Section of the School for Spiritual Science, we Thornbury, to uphold the feminine influence . This celebrated its 30th birthday as the first Camph ill will begin a does not necessarily involve all the cooking, clean- community in the Republic of Ireland . ing and laundry etc. (we all share that), but it will From small beginnings in a former guest house Rhythmical Massage Training Course involve picking flowers, making the house into a with a beautiful courtyard and a few fields,it has in the UK. It will take place in Stroud, Gloucester- home and supporting two young ladies. We are grown into a 60 acre biodynamic farm and gar- shire, in conjunction with the Hibernia School of looking for someone with an open mind, who wants den. Many of our founding members are still living Artistic Therapy. Massage students will join artistic to learn together with us, and who has a willing- here, which means also the care for the elderly therapy students for all the core curriculum ses- ness to take responsibility for that which life puts plays an important part in the village life . sions at the Centre for Science and Art in Stroud. before us.Some Camphill experience is helpful, but To mark this special anniversary we would like This is a part-time training over 2 years, with 3 not a prerequisite . This would be ideal for some- to warmly invite all those to whom Duffcarrig blocks of 4-5 weeks per year. one wanting to be involved with the carrying of a has been dear over the years to our annual Camphill house whilst not bearing the burden of cultural week, from 11th to the 18th August 2002. For more information and to arrange an interview, sole responsibility. Ideally it would be a single per- If you would like to join us this summer for all or contact: son, though it may be possible to accommodate a part of the cultural week (and require food and Helen Martin couple. There are also opportunities to be involved lodgings), please contactEIkeWilliams atCamphill 30 Bellevue Road in other aspects of the community . Duffcarrig, Gorey, Co Wexford, Ireland, or e-mail: Stroud, G los Contact: Laurence (44/0)1454 411801 dewi@circom .net by 8th of August. G L51 JT Iaurencedungworthc yahoo.co.uk' All are welcome! Tel: 01453 766558 (weekday evenings) .

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A break for Uta and Christoph Have you heard of The Watergarden? Eurythmy Therapist Needed Uta and Christoph Jensen intend to have a 6 months Ever thought of living in Ireland? The Shelling Community in Ringwood, Hampshire break from Camphill village Alpha in 2003 to The Thomastown Camphill Community Jerpoint needs a full-time Eurythmy Therapist from August reorientate. They will have been in the village for and the Watergarden-in beautiful County Kilkenny, 2002. 18 years and in Camphill for 33 and 28 years re- has just celebrated its tenth birthday . The The Shelling Community-comprising the Shelling spectively. Their children will by then all have left Watergarden is in the centre of the little town. A School with classes of special needs children aged school. It is a time to pause and reflect. They have lovely streamside garden, garden centre and cof-8 to 16, the Seniors Programme for special needs every intention of returning. fee shop-with tables outside in the summer-are students aged 16 to 19, and the Lantern Commu- The village looks for people, perhaps a couple, to open to the public and staffed by about 25 people nity and Sturts Farm, special needs adult communi- step into theirpositions as house leaders and dairy- who come in daily. These are Camphill co-workers, ties-is part of the world-wide Ca mph ill-Movement . manager, for the duration of their break . The envis- local adults with mild disabilities and some people The new Eurythmy Therapist would live as part of aged time is from May-October 2003 . on 'back to work' schemes . It is a lovely place to the community, or outside it and paid accordingly, The house they are responsible for is big by any work; the atmosphere is lively and there's a good as preferred. (Camphill) standards with 13 companions. Some of team spirit which helps us to respond to everything Not only does the Shelling Community offer a wide the companions are very capable, whilst others are from coachloads of tourists to lingerers in the sun- range of people to work with-from special needs ageing and in need of extra care. They share the shine in the late afternoon. children, young people and adults, to co-workers house atpresent with one older and one young co- We have a reputation for sociability and for the and their children, and also Waldorfpupils and par- worker, who are working in other areas of the vil- beauty of the gardens-'A little piece of Paradise' ents from the Ringwood Waldorf School, which is lage. The house employs a cook as well as a help- is how one visitor described the Watergarden . The part of the overall Shelling Trust but there are other nurse, 7 days a week. The house is very spacious many regulars are well known to us, but we enjoy therapists, such as art, music, speech, play and and single-storey. welcoming and talking to visitors and newcomers . massage, who work closely with our resident May to October is during the South African winter We are looking forsomeone tojoin the hard-work- anthroposophical doctor in the newly-built Raphael and spring, an exceptionally beautiful time of the ing team running the coffee shop : preparing light therapy centre. year. If you are in need of a change and think you lunches, soup and sandwiches, and looking after This would be a wonderful opportunity for a new can fill any of these positions, please let us know. the customers. If you enjoy cooking, and would or experienced therapist to live and work in a di- Uta and Christoph Jensen, like tojoin our Community, please phone for a chat verse environment where therapy is a highly regarded Camphill Village, P.O. Box 1451, or pay us a visit! and important part of a thriving community . Dassenberg 7350, Ask for Anthea or Merlin : Please contact: Rep. South Africa, At the Watergarden (daytime Monday to Friday) : Russell Pooler, Westmount House, The Shelling e-mail: christoph 2camphill.org.za (+353) 56-24690 Schools, Horton Road, Ashley, Ringwood, At home (evenings and weekends) : Hampshire, BH24 2EB, Tel : 01425 482423 (+353) 56-54424 Coleg Elidyr Come and join us! Vidarasen Landsby Coleg Elidyr is a Camphill Community in beautiful William Blake House From August we will need two workmasters, one Wales. We provide training for young adults with Dear friends, we are a new community, very much for weaving and one for doll making . special needs, andalso have a small WaldorfSchool in its exciting, pioneering phase, and located in the The weavers produce a wide range of textiles, for staff children. beautiful rolling countryside of Northamptonshire . which are sold locally. The doll makers have never We are looking for Co-workers, families or indi- The vision is that homelife is centred around small been able to keep up with demands. viduals, to take on or share responsibility for one of households, whilst utilising local facilities and work- We look for two people who are interested in our houses-there is an employed housekeeper who ing with other local initiatives . working and living in our village, situated in a rural looks after the domestic work during the day. We invite co-workers with varying degrees of setting 90 minutes south west of Oslo, not far from We can offer you an NVQ course in Care. Skills in experience and expertise to strengthen our founda- the sea. other work areas are also welcome. tion and prepare for the future, as a number of souls Vidarasen is a well-established community with Please contact: are already approaching us . approx. 155 people living in 21 family houses. Alto- Col eg EIidyr (CCW) Ltd, If you are interested in being involved with a new gether we have 18 workshops including store and GlasalltFawr, Llangadog challenge and would like to discuss this further, then guesthouse. Carmarthenshire, please contact us: Any questions may be directed to : Wales, UK, SA 19 9AS Tuija and Clive Denby, William Blake House, Farm The co-worker mandate, Vidarasen Landsby, Tel: 01550 776200 Fax: 01550 777354 Cottage, 8 Milthorpe, Lois Weedon, Towcester, N-3158 Andebu, Norway e-mail: colegelidyrC~aol. corn Northants NN 12 BPP, Tel: 01327 860412 or phone 004733444 120 andask for Jorgen .

Thomastown Community Kindergarten A new initiative and Steiner Waldorf Kindergar- ten pIit Cu requires a Kindergarten Teacher THE CALYX... c Q ualification in the childcare sector Experience in Steiner Waldorf method Good communication and interpersonal skills . . .offers a Schoo( Ability to foster parent involvement Eurythmy Training within Camphill E nergy and enthusiasm welcoming and Salary commensurate with experience Please send your CV to : quiet place in The Secretary, Thomastown Community Kindergarten, which to Applications are now being taken for Rock Road, Grennan, Thomastown, Co. September 2002 Kilkenny, Ireland shelter from Phone (056) 54666 email: ttswkC~eircom.net A detailed job description is available from the a busy life, We offer the opportunity to train in the art of eurythmy above. within the social-therapeutic setting of Bolton Village convalesce or (Camphill Village Trust). Closing date: 21 July 2002 Thomastown Community Kindergarten is an simply have Enquiries to . Equal Opportunities Employer Camphill Eurythmy School, Baton Village, Danby, Whitby, Opening for BD Farmer To Run Demeter a break. North Yorks, Y021 2W . U .K. j Registered Farm Of 90 Hectares I, Tel.• +44 (0)1287 661257/318 For more information, contact: For details please contact : Mrs Vivienne Klockner Fax.• +44 (0)1287 661254 Camphill Community Glencraig E-mail: CamphillEurythmy0aol .com Northern Ireland The Calyx Trust, "Redhurst", Holton-cum-Beckering, Tel: 0044 28 9042 33 96 Market Rasen, Lincs. LN8 SNG. Tel & Fax: 01673 857927 Reg. Charity N 0: 1077375 Reg. Company No: 3696667 www .camphilleurythmy .org .uk Fax: 0044 28 9042 8199 email: officeC4glencraig.org.uk Self Catering Holiday Apartments !1.C Q Old Tuscan biologically-run olive oil farm peacefully situated on a hilltop with stunning views and all amenities close by, offers comfortable accommodation, spectacular walks and excellent local Tuscan and international food. Arcobaleno is F perched on a neighbouring hill to Cortona, a famous old Botton Bookshop Etruscan town steeped in Italian history and well positioned Camphill Village, Botton, nr. Whitby j to offer day excursions by car to many places of interest; for N. Yorks. }'021 2NJ ENGLAND example, within ca . one houryou can reach : Florence, Siena, Tel: (44)1287 661279 Fax : (44)1287 6612 Perugia, Assisi, Arezzo and within about two hours : Rome & Mail order service Pisa . Additionally, the famous wine growing areas of Chianti, : f, Euro, SFr, US$ Montepulciano and Montalcino are all within an hours' drive Anthroposophy, Visual & Performing Arts of Arcobaleno. Human & Natural Sciences, Children's, For further details, you can access our homepage in the Internet : Religion, Art Prints, Cards & Calendars . www.agriturismo.com/arcobaleno or e-mail or call me personally Located in a beautiful National Park, within at following: Lucas Weites, San Pietro a Cegliolo CS 59,1-52044 a Camphill Community with biodynamic farms, Cortona AR Tuscany, Italy craft workshops, a Waldorf and a Eurythmy School. e-mail: arcobaleno«technet.it tel: + 39 0575 612777 .oseana 9taQiaThe picture is a painting ofArcobaleno's olivegroves by Elizabeth Cochrane.

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