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The Society is entirely non-sectarian and Exhibitions Anthroposophy was developed by anyone is welcome to join. The only Monday 30 September - Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925), as ‘a requirement for membership is to Friday 22 November path of knowledge to guide the recognise that the existence of an Kate Pickin: spiritual in the human being to the institution such as the School of ‘Mind... Matter’ spiritual in the universe’. Starting Spiritual Science is justified. Thinking things into being has been the from his insight that thinking is a Membership of the Society is not, subject for debate for millennia and in my spiritual activity, Steiner showed how therefore, dependent on agreeing own imaginings I favour that spirit forms we can extend our scientific with the results of Rudolf Steiner’s the basis of all matter, underlies our world consciousness to embrace spiritual research. Steiner considered and causes things to become. The drops knowledge of the spiritual dimension freedom of thought to be fundamental of dew I have painted are an archetypal of existence. The outcome is a The Anthroposophical to human existence, including the symbol of spirit coming into matter science of the spirit capable of Society freedom to disagree with his revered of old by alchemists. We are still providing us with the ability to Founded by Rudolf Steiner at teachings. conjuring up our world. comprehend the Christmas 1923, the General spiritual as well Anthroposophical Society is, as Members of the Society come Monday 2 December - Friday 10 January as the physical Lili Matkovic and Nina Simunovic: Steiner expressed it, ‘an association together to pursue questions that are nature of life, and of people whose will it is to nurture important to them, ranging from a ‘Christmas Imagination' and to recognise the the life of the soul, both in the general study of Anthroposophy to 'Little Prince’ importance of this individual and in human society, on the exploration of a particular field of A double themed special exhibition by two knowledge for the the basis of a true knowledge of the knowledge. The result is a lively Croatian artists presenting their future of spiritual world’. dialogue about Anthroposophy in aquarelles, veil painted in accordance with humanity. relation to contemporary life. The life Goethe’s colour theory and the indications The Society has its centre at the of the Society embraces local group of Rudolf Steiner. The two artists studied The understanding gained by Goetheanum in Dornach, work, festival celebrations, courses, in the Free Academy of Art in Split, Steiner’s research into the spiritual Switzerland, and is connected with lectures and artistic events as well as Croatia, in collaboration with the Art nature of each human being and of national societies and initiatives major national and international Section of the Goethe Institute, Dornach, the world around us has led to a throughout the world, with its conferences. Members of the Society Switzerland, in the class of Doris Harpers wealth of practical initiatives such as members coming from many cultures receive regular newsletters that cover and Donald Hall. We very much welcome Steiner , and all continents. The aim of the activities in Great Britain and around their exhibition. and Society is to make a spiritually based the world. and contribution to the life of humanity. therapies. On-going work takes As such, the Goetheanum provides Joining the place in many other fields, including a space where members of the Anthroposophical Society science, drama, speech, music and Society, as well as the general If you would like to know more about (an art of movement), public, can come and learn and membership or the activities of the architecture and the other visual collaborate by participating in a rich Society, please contact the arts, as well as social care, sociology programme of conferences, Membership Secretary at Rudolf and economics. performances and courses. The Steiner House. heart of the Society is the School of Rudolf Steiner’s published work Spiritual Science, which aims to If you would like to join the Society, includes some 30 books and the continue Steiner’s research and its please request a membership transcripts of over 6,000 lectures, practical application. application form from the many of which are available in Membership Secretary at Rudolf English translation from the original The Anthroposophical Society in Steiner House. German. Copies are available from Great Britain provides a focus for the Bookshop or Library at Rudolf activity in Great Britain and is a Steiner House. branch of the General Front Cover Image: David Newbatt

3 Saturday 21 September 7.30 – 9pm feel drawn to work from an Saturday 19 October 2 - 6.30pm have all lost their lustre when the bright Thinking Alive with the World. anthroposophical understanding of the Reading of Rudolf Steiner's and clear light of Anthroposophy was Cultivating the Roots of young child and practical wisdom of the Mystery Drama: shone upon them. So why are so many Sustainability pikler approach. The day will include 'The Soul's Awakening' children - Waldorf school students among With Craig Holdrege presentations by Dorothy Marlen and With Trevor Dance them - still held in thrall by the media and How would the world look if our thinking two Steiner Waldorf inspired child- Join us for the its devices? In tonight's lecture, Eugene was truly modelled after the vitality, minders. There will be video/slides, reading of this will use the methods of Anthroposophy dynamism and interconnectedness that singing, a seasonal craft and plenty of magnificent play. not to berate, but rather to better nature herself embodies? Imagine gaining time for questions and discussion. The fourth of the understand the ‘screen’ and what lies such flexibility of mind that our ideas were £40 – Booking essential mystery dramas behind it. Eugene contends that we no longer rigid, static and object-like, but For information and to book email graphically shows [email protected] cannot understand the enigma of today’s grew, transformed, and when necessary, the difficulties child without a broader connection to died away. What a revolution! This encountered in media technology. As Eugene is also a revolution demands a shift in bringing spiritual Certified Apple iOS Developer, his consciousness through which we ideals into practical ventures and explores research and conclusions may prove wakefully engage with the living forces of questions posed by technology. All surprising and even refreshing. the world and learn to think and act in welcome. No prior knowledge required. £10 (£7 concessions) harmony with them. In this talk Craig will £3.50 (£1 concessions) - No booking required For information and to book email show, through many concrete examples, [email protected] Saturday 19 October 2.30 – 5pm how nature can become a master teacher Who was Rudolf Steiner and of living thought, which can be the what is Anthroposophy? wellspring of responsible human action. With Terry Goodfellow and Doris Bailiss £10 (£7 concessions) This workshop is for people who are For information and to book email [email protected] new to Anthroposophy and want to find out more about the life and work of Friday 27 September Rudolf Steiner. £3.50 (£1 concessions) - No booking required special special events & workshops Michaelmas Celebration Michaelmas gathering and trip to Saturday 19 October 7.30 – 9pm Friday 18 October – Emerson College, Forest Row. Piano Recital plus 4.30pm – Meet at Rudolf Steiner House Sunday 20 October The Zodiac, the Word, the Wit and Wisdom for transport to Emerson College With George Fowler Human Being and Meditation 7pm – Eurythmy performance by George will perform piano music by With Annemarie Ehrlich ‘London Eurythmy’ This weekend we will be working with Haydn, Hummel, Schubert, Field and Saturday 2 November 10am – 4pm Followed by ’s lecture: Mendelssohn and in between will try to Outdoor Pikler Rudolf Steiner’s intentions in the lectures simple exercises which can be done before or after meditation. Annemarie enliven our higher humour faculties with With Dorothy Marlen of the Fifth Gospel An introduction to the pikler approach and developed them out of years of some high-class nonsense. All welcome. Booking before 14 Retiring collection – No booking required its application in outdoor play and research into the Zodiac and the September essential – places limited. kindergarten settings. The day will include sounds related to it (this year: Libra to £25 (incl. transport from Rudolf Steiner House, Saturday 26 October 7.30 - 9pm presentations from Dorothy, Clare Caro and back) pisces). The workshop is self-contained The Media and the Message. who has pioneered ‘Natureplay’ and To book please contact Sue Peat on and new participants are welcome, no Anthroposophy in a Digital Age 07770 577 372 Karolina Joiner and Katerina Filipova who experience in eurythmy is necessary. With Eugene Schwartz run ‘Outdoor Children’. There will be Advance booking is essential. For over 50 years, Waldorf schools Saturday 5 October 10am – 4pm For details and booking please contact Karin worldwide have been known for their slides and full discussion. The day will What makes a child-minder Bernard by email at [email protected] opposition to the media. Radio and also include singing and a seasonal craft. ‘Steiner inspired’? or by post c/o Rudolf Steiner House. £40 – Booking essential cinema, amplified music and televised With Dorothy Marlen For information and to book email A gathering for those who are or images, computer screens, video games, [email protected] wish to be child-minders and who ipods, earbuds, smartphones and tablets

4 5 our anthroposophical spiritual what happens to Saturday 21 December development and activity. us when we die Christmas Plays from Oberufer Each lecture will be followed by a and begin our Presented by the students of the ‘London Waldorf discussion/workshop. spiritual journey Teacher Training Seminar’ and friends of Rudolf Steiner House To help cover the expenses a donation of £10 towards the next Paradise Play 3.30pm per lecture & workshop would be welcome. incarnation. We For booking or more information please contact (suitable for children over 7) will explore some Glenn at [email protected] Shepherds’ Play 4.30pm of the ways in These plays were first collected and Saturday 16 November 2 – 5pm which it is possible written down by Karl Julius Schroer, who Signature of the Celestial to work with those was one of Rudolf Steiner’s teachers. Spheres. who have died in They came from a community living on The Dance of order to enhance the island of Oberufer on the Danube, and the Planets both their lives had been passed on by oral tradition With Hartmut Warm and our own. since the Middle Ages. They represent a Modern £10 (£5 concessions) - Booking advisable Wednesday 6 November astronomical unique survival of the tradition of medieval 7.30 - 8.30pm procedures have Sunday 24 November mystery plays. The Way of Beauty Retiring collection – No booking required enabled Hartmut to Remembering our Dead With Libuse Mikova discover astounding With Philip Martyn and Dr Sue Peat A talk on the Flemish tapestries in the Workshop 2 – 4.30pm harmonic and musical Vatican Museums in Rome. The In this workshop we will consider our structures and wonderfully aesthetic collection of tapestries tells us about spiritual journey after death, share some movement figures in our solar system. the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the meditative work and simple exercises and The cosmos breathes mysteriously in history of Rome, and their emperors address some frequently asked questions geometrical structures. The results of and ethics. Libuse will be looking at including what happens following suicide his work are represented with the aid of masterpieces of the great Flemish or sudden unexpected death. weaver pieter van Aelst and the Italian computer projections that provide a remarkable experience not only for £3.50 (£1 concessions) – No booking required weaver Maria della Riviera. This lecture Followed by special special events & workshops astronomers but for anyone interested. is rich with photographs of Flemish Eurythmy Performance 5 – 5.45pm In addition the workshop offers the tapestries, taken at the Vatican ‘London Eurythmy’ will offer a eurythmy opportunity to deal more profoundly Museums earlier this year. performance in remembrance of those with the questions and requests of the £9 – No booking required who have died. All very welcome. participants. This may concern the Retiring collection – No booking required Tuesday 24 December – Monday 6 Friday 8 November 7.30 - 10pm historical, the astronomical, the January Saturday 9 November geometric, the harmonic and the Saturday 7 December 10am – 4pm The Twelve Holy Nights 10am - 1pm & 2 - 5pm philosophical aspects both of the Simplifying Family Christmas Meditation and the New Come and join us for a seasonal ancient and of this new ‘harmony of With Dorothy Marlen celebration held around the Christmas Michaelic Yoga An introduction to the spheres’. tree. We will be enjoying a varied The Experience of the Eternal and the £7 (£3 concessions) – Booking advisable ‘Simplicity parenting’ programme including work arising out of Creative Spiritual Engagement in and the ‘incredible the Christmas Foundation Conference Modern Daily Life Sunday 17 November 2 – 5pm power of less’. The With Dr Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon What happens when we die? 1923/1924, poetry writing, play reading day will offer time to Yeshayahu will describe his research of With Terry Goodfellow and Dr Sue Peat and music. All welcome. Bring and share reflect on personal Rudolf Steiner’s traditional path of At some stage in our lives we will refreshments. meanings of Christmas, with exercises meditation and of ‘the new Michaelic experience the death of a friend or Retiring collection – No booking required and sharing of ideas to help prepare for a yoga’ which Steiner introduced as a family member, and may well Please contact Rudolf Steiner House for a full joyful and simple Christmas. There will programme, available early December. new spiritual path adapted to meet experience their presence in some way also be singing and a seasonal craft. the needs of our modern life. He will for years after they have died. During £40 – Booking essential offer practical exercises and advice this workshop we will share some of the For information and to book email to help us individualise and intensify insights that Rudolf Steiner gave into [email protected]

6 7 affected by, that of another. During this 22 October – Arthur Edwards the communication of spiritual lecture we will review recent advances Money Unveiled - Economics experiences, instead of being freedom- in transplantation medicine and consider beyond the Banking Crisis enhancing, will rest on faith in what this can mean from a physical, The 2007 global financial personalities or authorities, or a belief in social and spiritual viewpoint. crisis demonstrated the some kind of miraculous relationship Dr Sue Peat is a medical consultant at King’s inability of conventional between the spiritual and natural worlds. College Hospital, London. economic thinking to get To help us beyond these obstacles we hold of events. We now need to understand the scientific attitude 8 October – Nick Thomas live in an unfamiliar and have a right feeling for the true Today's Technology landscape but are apparently without the relationship between science and spiritual Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science conceptual tools to chart a new course. In science. This talk will give some ideas to enables us to retain our soul qualities his economics course, given in 1922, help with this aim. and live with much of modern Alexander Murrell has worked as an Upper School

tuesday tuesday talks Rudolf Steiner talked about money, as technology, but questions arise about its such, not existing, but only the three kinds teacher of physics and mathematics for 21 years relation to art. This lecture will explore in Wynstones School. He is a member of the of money, and then indicated that it is with how to live with technology in a creative Education and Natural Science Sections of the money that we master the economic and non-subservient manner, and also School of Spiritual Science. process. What bearing does Steiner's Steiner's warning about mechanically analysis have on today’s events? It is reproduced art. money but not as we know it! Living in Today’s World Nick Thomas was trained as an electrical engineer in the RAF. He has been interested in On Sunday 6 October, Arthur will be co- hosting a Michaelmas tele-call on the We live in constantly changing, exciting Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy since his teens and lectures widely on many themes. Currently theme of money. Details can be found at and sometimes challenging times. he is engaged in research to develop a new Moneyunveiled.com Looking carefully into world and personal spiritually-based scientific paradigm. Arthur Edwards gives courses in economics and financial literacy and for the last 8 years has been events can lead to an understanding of 15 October – Julia Dvinskaya an editor of ‘Associate!’, a monthly journal how humanity is developing. Working with In Dialogue with Life dedicated to associative economics. In 2008 he this using a careful meditative approach, As human beings we completed a Research Masters at Buckingham University entitled 'Three Kinds of Money: Rudolf 5 November – Malcolm Daniels as outlined by Rudolf Steiner, can offer us grow and develop in Steiner in the history of monetary economics'. He is How Karma affects our useful insights into hidden forces at work relationship to other married with 2 children and lives in the UK near beings and events that Bristol. Lives Today behind what we presently experience we meet in life. We seek Sometimes life appears to be cruel, chaotic within and around ourselves. meaning and 29 October – Alexander Murrell and non-fathomable. This is particularly so understanding of our life Science, Pseudoscience and when it comes to the complexity of modern 1 October – Dr Sue Peat path and its turning Spiritual Science relationships; yet these are all part of our Organ Transplantation - What points, finding our Is meditation a life-style choice or a quest modern path of initiation. This lecture is an does it mean for our lives? individual response to the questions of for knowledge? endeavour to make sense of it and take us Within our living memory transplantation today’s world, in dialogue with life. In this What are the scientific foundations of towards a deeper understanding of how has become technically possible and is talk, we will look at what biography work Anthroposophy? karma operates. now an increasingly common medical and biographical counselling can offer on Is a clear view on science necessary for Malcolm Daniels is a senior facilitator in the New intervention. All of us are liable to meet this path. We will consider two aspects: recognising the spirit? Adult Learning Movement and has run workshops, another human being who has had their seminars and trainings in many parts of the world the larger social aspect and the personal. Does spiritual science extend natural including Greece, Ireland, Poland, Romania, life saved or transformed using Julia Dvinskaya practices in London as a science or contradict it? Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, the USA and transplantation techniques that have biographical counsellor and a workshop Rudolf Steiner worked for many years to extensively in the UK. been developed within the last few facilitator. She came to counselling from a make Anthroposophy acceptable to the background in Waldorf teacher training and decades. Never before in the many years in university and adult education. modern scientific consciousness. The 7.30 – 9pm history of the human race has it She is a trainee tutor on ‘Diploma in foundations he laid are still of great help to £3.50 (£1 concessions, been possible for one person’s life Biographical Counselling Course’ and a us in understanding Anthroposophy and students and under 25s) member of counselling and psychotherapy to be so dependent on, and treading a modern path of spiritual No booking required – professional organisations. development. Without scientific awareness Just turn up 8 9 friday talks friday 12 November – Dr Richard House constructively through spiritual Fifth Epoch Nick Thomas was an engineer in the RAF and Early Learning in a then General Secretary of the Anthroposophical knowledge and practices. Society in Great Britain for 21 years. He lectures Hyper-modern World: The Howard Smith has worked as a scientist and One of the most fruitful thoughts that have widely and his research now concerns a new, Relevance of Rudolf Steiner science teacher, and now runs a piano grown out of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual more spiritual paradigm for science. The terms 'modernity', ‘late modernity' business. As a result of his voluntary work as a trustee of a Camphill Community and Waldorf research is the idea of cultural epochs. Each and 'postmodernity' had not been school, he has developed an interest in the one expresses itself in many different ways 15 November - David Lowe coined in Rudolf Steiner's time, yet social health of communities and organisations and through a different kind of Light and Darkness in many of the difficulties and challenges generally. consciousness. He gives the starting point for Western Art of modern living dominating these our own epoch as 1413, emphasising that it The exploration of light and darkness by discourses were pre-figured by Steiner's 3 December – Dagmar Steffelbauer is only an approximate date. Has it become Western artists was a significant step cosmology and pedagogical insights. The Care of clearer what new mystery our own time taken by Renaissance artists. It led on presents us with? What are the experiences This talk will show how and why Elderly to what developed in the work of People that help us understand the meaning and

tuesday tuesday talks Steiner's many prophetic insights have Rembrandt, Turner and Impressionists. Since Dagmar purpose of our times which present us with direct relevance to children's learning so many new challenges? All welcome. A key to the mystery they all stood before experience today. came to live in in wonder is given by Goethe in his study England she Speakers will assume some familiarity with Richard House, PhD, is a chartered basic anthroposophical concepts. of colour. With slides. psychologist, a counsellor by first profession, has been David Lowe is a teacher and lecturer in the UK and now Senior Lecturer in Education (Early working as a live-in-carer. Her task is to 4 October - Virginia Gilmer and in the USA. He is the joint author of ‘Goethe Childhood Studies) at the University of look after elderly people suffering from Facing Evil: The Dambusters and Palladio and the Discovery of Winchester. A trained Steiner Waldorf class and dementia or other illnesses. In this talk Metamorphosis’ and of ‘Michelangelo and the kindergarten teacher, Richard co-orchestrated The mystery of evil shrouds our fifth post Grail Impulse’. the three celebrated Daily Telegraph open Dagmar will share her experience as a Atlantean epoch, while 2013 marks 70 letters on childhood in 2006 and 2007 (with Sue nurse with an anthroposophical years since the 617 Squadron of 29 November - Sylvia Francke Palmer), and in 2011. background. dambusters, the most specialist airmen in The Pivotal Position of Our Dagmar Steffelbauer is a general nurse who Britain, who risked everything to bomb 19 November – Rev Michaela Wijnberg was working in anthroposophical hospitals in Relationship to the Powers of Life after Death Germany. She also has taken part in the important dams in Nazi Germany. Like Opposition in the Fifth Epoch Michaela Wijnberg will Anthroposophical Foundation Year in Stuttgart, initiation trials of fire and air, the Alienation from our divine origin is the be looking at the some decades ago. dambusters’ Michaelic fortitude never price humanity paid for 'freedom' gained journey of life after lessened. But were the bombs of the because of the 'Fall of Man’. Through the death, before the 10 December – Rev Tom Ravetz largest magnitude a previous soul epochs the gap has Mystery of Golgotha The Assault on the Spirit and legitimate way to widened between the two worlds of spirit and since then. our Response combat evil, if ‘all is and matter. Rudolf Steiner described how Rev Michaela Wijnberg is a It is part of humanity's journey towards fair in love and war’, the ‘powers of opposition' sacrificed their priest of the Christian freedom that we emancipate ourselves or were they of the progressive position in evolution so that Community, and she has from every outer authority. In recent same source? we could eventually attain to a higher also graduated at the London College of years, the vehemence of those who Virginia Gilmer is a music teacher, composer and position among the Hierarchies. In this Eurythmy. She works in the congregation in oppose the thought of anything spiritual painter whose connection with Anthroposophy Forest Row and is a member of ‘London goes back two generations through her mother fifth epoch we are attempting to meet the Eurythmy’. - in reaction to dogmatic authority – has and her grandparents. great challenges which these powers grown and grown. At the same time, present to us at the most crucial stage in 26 November – Howard Smith there has been a tremendous growth in 18 October - Nick Thomas evolution. We are undertaking a Why do people fall out with awareness of our interconnected world. Coming to Terms with Technology 'Manichean' task. each other? What can anthroposophists do to help The present fifth cultural age has ushered Sylvia Francke is the author of 'The Tree of Life In this talk we will look at some of the humanity on our onward journey in enormous advances in the transition and the Holy Grail' (Temple Lodge Publishing) in many causes of conflicts, on the towards a freedom which encompasses which she has used her knowledge of from toolmaker to technologist. This Anthroposophy as an aid to solving the Mystery physical, soul and spiritual levels. Also, the spirit? challenges us spiritually, and we need to of Rennes-le-Chateau. the mechanism of conflict Rev Tom Ravetz was born in Leeds in 1964. He grasp what has developed in a spiritually escalation, why spiritual societies studied at the Seminary of The Christian positive manner. How do we find the 7.30 – 9pm are particularly prone to conflict, Community in Stuttgart and at Aberdeen University. He has been a priest since 1991. balance between subjection to technology £3.50 (£1 concessions, students and how conflicts can be managed His book ‘Free from Dogma’ appeared in 2009. and using it to further our spiritual and under 25s) No booking evolution? required – Just turn up

10 11 MONDAYS arising from anthroposophical research. view that recognises no limits to We will be reading and considering knowledge, sees through all illusions and 30 September, 14 & 28 October, 11 & 25 together how this important written work opens the door to an experience of the November, 9 December 2 - 4pm of Rudolf Steiner can contribute to our spiritual world.' (The philosophy of Rudolf Steiner's lectures on current understanding of life and health. Freedom) All very welcome. 'The Gospel according to Some knowledge of the work of Steiner £1 - No booking required Matthew' would be helpful but is not essential. With Lucine Nazikian and Trevor Dance 2, 16 & 30 October, 13 & 27 November, £3.50 (£1 concessions) – No booking required You are welcome to join this friendly 11 December 6 – 7.15pm group as we share thoughts on the From Sense to Spirit many spiritual riches in these classic TUESDAYS With William Bishop Steiner lectures, exploring the Readings and conversation leading the mysteries of the two Jesus children. 22 October – 10 December human being of sense to the world of the 6.15 – 7.15pm Beginners welcome. spirit. Based on the lecture series by Study group with Eurythmy: £1 - No booking required Rudolf Steiner ‘The World of the Senses The Fifth Gospel and the World of the Spirit’, 1911/1912. With Michaela Wijnberg 30 September, 14 & 28 October, 11 & 25 £1 – No booking required November, 9 December 7.30 – 9pm This term Michaela will be working with Spiritual Development the book ‘The Fifth Gospel: From the 2, 16 & 30 October, 13 & 27 November, FRIDAYS How to Know Higher Worlds Akashic Records’ by Rudolf Steiner. 11 December 7.30 – 9pm With Dr Sue Peat From his clairvoyant readings of the Christ and the Spiritual World Looking at Art In his book 'How to Know Higher Akashic Record - the cosmic memory of With David Lowe With Trevor Dance and David Lowe Worlds' Rudolf Steiner outlines a safe all events, actions and thoughts - This term we will be reading through a set Friday 11 & 25 October, 6 December path by which we can learn to Steiner was able to speak of aspects of of lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in 7.30 – 9pm Sunday 27 October 2.30 – 4pm experience the spiritual world for the life of Jesus Christ which are not December 1913 to January 1914, 11 October - The Renaissance - Changes in ourselves. Starting with simple spiritual published as ‘Christ and the Spiritual contained in the four biblical gospels. Consciousness World’. The content of the lectures is exercises and meditations we learn to We will begin every session with 15 The Renaissance marked the beginning of wide-ranging from the spiritual knowledge experience ourselves and the world in a minutes of eurythmy. All welcome. our present epoch and profound changes £1 - No booking required of the early Christian centuries, deeper way, gaining insights and in the soul life are mirrored in the artistic Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling and his abilities that enable us to contribute to works of that extraordinary time. Slide talk. early pieta, and Joan of Arc. The central the development of humanity. All are WEDNESDAYS £3.50 (£1 concessions) - No booking required welcome to join us for one evening or theme is an account of his own research 25 October – Turner the whole term. 11 September – 4 December (23 into the Mystery of the Holy Grail. All are One of the greatest European masters, £3.50 (£1 concessions) – No booking required October half term) 10.15am – 12 noon welcome. admired all around the world, but how weekly weekly classes, courses & groups Snowdrop Parent £3.50 (£1 concessions) - No booking required much is he appreciated in his own 7 & 21 October, 4 & 18 November, 2 and Toddler Group country? We will be looking at key works December 7.30 – 9pm For children up to 3 years Studying 'Extending Practical and lesser known works through seeing With Carol Baker THURSDAYS Medicine' together the dramatic changes in outlook. £8 (£7 concessions) per 3 October – 7 November 11am - 12.30pm £3.50 (£1 concessions) - No booking required For members of the Anthroposophical session, £3.50 for sibling Thinking about Current Events 27 October (Tate Britain) Society Booking essential - Concessionary rate if paid With Susanne Mainzer and Terry Goodfellow A gallery walk looking at works by Turner With Dr Sue Peat in advance. For more information please Can Anthroposophy shed light on our Near the end of his life Rudolf Steiner and his British contemporaries including contact Carol Baker on 07968 902 331 bewildering time? This group attempts to co-authored a medical text book with Constable and Blake. grapple with selected issues to gain some £1 - Main Bookshop (nr Millbank entrance), Tate the physician Dr . This was 2, 16 & 30 October, 13 & 27 November, understanding and insight into what lies Britain first published in English as 6 December (Sainsbury Wing, National 11 December 2 - 4pm behind the chaos of world events. 'Fundamentals of Therapy' and is Gallery) The Philosophy of Freedom Depending on the topics under discussion, now entitled 'Extending practical A seasonal look at the extensive With Dagmar Steffelbauer and Trevor Dance we will also refer to relevant texts of Rudolf Medicine’. They outlined how the art works of the gallery which nourish please feel happy to join our lively Steiner’s work. All welcome; some back- and practise of medicine could be our souls at this time of the year. group as we continue to study this ground of Anthroposophy would be helpful. enhanced by spiritual insights £1 – Sainsbury Wing Bookshop, National pivotal text. 'We must reach a point of £1 - No booking required Gallery

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in the Anthroposophical Foundation Year in ✁ founding of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY, in Stuttgart, some decades ago. ______1998 and serves as its director. An educator and Warm, Hartmut: Hartmut is an independent biologist, he is keenly interested in the researcher in planetary astronomy and harmony interconnected nature of things and during the ______of the spheres. He lectures in several European past twenty-five years he has carried out countries on his discoveries relating to the solar biological studies of plants and animals. He is the TEL system and its inherent order. His book author of books and articles on holistic science ______‘Signature of the Celestial Spheres’ was and has also written extensively and critically published by Rudolf Steiner press in 2010. He about the ‘solutions’ of genetic engineering to EMAIL lives in Hamburg, Germany. food and agriculture issues. He worked for 21 ______years as a high school biology teacher in Steiner Wijnberg, Rev Michaela: Michaela is a priest Waldorf schools in Germany and the of and has also USA and has been involved in teacher graduated at the London College of Eurythmy. PAYMENT: If paying by cheque, please make your education since the early 1990s. She works in the congregation in Forest Row cheque payable to ‘Anthroposophical Association’. and is a member of ‘London Eurythmy’. Lowe, David: David is a teacher and lecturer in the UK and the USA. He is Registered Charity no 220364 14