September/October 2000 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE

Moses The Risen Christ Pentecost, Carlo Pietzner, Stormont Church

Carlo Pietzner's stained glass windows in Stormont IFC Fragments from The inner legacy of anthroposophy the Story of Camphill 1939-1940 12 at the turning point of the millennium 1 Letters 14 A centenary-Irmgard Lazarus 4 Obituaries Who is guiding whom? 5 Fva Maria Glück 15 Georg von Arnim is 80 ICamphill Movement Group Happy 60th Birthday, Camphill 20 An n o u ii cements I BC } Carlo Pietzner's Michaelmas Fire stained glass windows

Hartmut von Jeetze, Kimberton Hills in Stormont Marga Schnell, Camphill So you think it's unfair life Schools Aberdeen Too hard for you to take what comes your way? A pleasant surprise awaited us when a Not fit to breathe the air of others? group of us visited the Presbyterian church in Stormont, Northern Ireland . What's worse We entered a relatively bare looking church and were confronted with the Nobody has an ear to hear, to listen most amazing stained glass window To what you are so sure now needs to be said or done? behind the altar. The brightness of the strong colours is striking and the simple forms are appealing to the eye . The If that's you, the battle you fight 'Risen Christ', in peach blossom colour The dragon you face in your own soul? dominates the upper part of the middle window . The lower part shows a modern Take heart, brother, it's for a good cause . looking town-Belfast-with people, young and old, looking up and pointing First, how can you think it's just you and l, to the heavens where the rainbow as a bowl supports the figure of Christ . To the When the whole world faces the same test left of the middle window is the scene of Moses receiving the 10 Commandments ; The furnace whose fire lets pass only the metal, to the right the event of Pentecost is depicted . The moment one turns around That part of your I through the heat and away from the altar there, high up, That flows free of all selfhood, one's gaze is caught by a most wonderful rose window . In clarity of strong form Pure and un-encumbered by pride, fear and shame ; and delicate colour the full figure of the risen Christ is surrounded not only by the That it may join that of others four gospel writers, but also by the first four epochs of world evolution . In a To cast the new bell close-up view one can see details such as the symbols of the gospel writers, the The bell of brotherhood three crosses on the earth, a little Madonna and the child next to St . Luke. Whose bond and sound All in such beautiful colours . Is not made of opinions Carlo Pietzner designed these windows and they were made under his close Nor habit of color and race supervision in the 1950/60s, when he worked in Glencraig. Or of yesterday's rules of success . The church stands fairly near to Stormont Castle where last year the So it's the dragon who guards the gate Northern Irish peace talks took place and where the Northern Ireland Assembly Shows you the way now meets. May Carlo's windows shine into the hearts of society, and our prayers And won't let you pass the door. help the peace process . For he wants your true self To shine

So that you may be fit to meet Sophia Your bride.

Wellington 1u8, Yvonne Skargon The inner legacy of anthroposophy at the turning point of the millennium The Fundamental Social Law as seed for the future

Richard Steel, Föhrenbühl, Germany

Richard made a spontaneous contribution at the Com- One could hardly have imagined the development of the munity meeting at Syl via Koti in 1995 .1 was present and consciousness of mankind and the way that individu- experienced the common inspiration that filled us on the alization has actually taken place, not even taking into basis of his words . He brought a second contribution at account computers and the Internet . a Community members' meeting in Botton in Septem- As early as 1 898 Rudolf Steiner had spoken of this, like ber 1999 . This was no mere recapitulation, for Richard a warning, in an essay published in a magazine . He had obviously deepened and developed this theme over wrote there about professors and university life and so- the intervening years . I was inspired again and was sure ciology and then went on to say : that these thoughts-more urgent, more timely than We have to see that the next century will need a ever-should reach more people . I offered to help facili- complete turn-around in social life and ethics. In tate this and what you find below is the product of a very the past, social life was always in the foreground friendly collaboration . and the individual was sacrificed for its sake . The Wanda Root, Copake, USA individual had to give itself to the needs of social life. In the next century social forms will have to be To begin with I would like to look at the historic roots found to serve the individual. of the Fundamental Social Law and their connection to How can this remarkable insight inspire the evolution the foundations of anthroposophy . Already in 1906, of new forms of social life? The fact of this new respon- before the publication of the third essay on Anthro- sibility of social life for the individual, the fact that so- posophy and the Social Question, which we usually cial forms are only valid if they foster the progress of the think of as the source of the Fundamental Social Law, individual, is the 'Main Sociological Law' . Rudolf Steiner held an esoteric lesson solely about this In 1 899 in Berlin, Rudolf Steiner was asked to build a subject, which shows just how close this law is to the new style of further education for workers with inad- very heart of anthroposophy.' equate schooling . It was very special, very important for Spiritual science has no patent recipe to tell anyone him to meet and work with the working people, and not how to act in any specific situation, but there is defi- just Theosophists . This contact with, and concern for, nite and full trust that each person will arrive at the the working class continued to be of importance to him correct judgement himself if he is penetrated by fun- throughout his life . His lectures for the workers build- damental truths. And I will write down a formula ing the Goetheanum attest to this . The fact that Rudolf from these fundamental truths for you : Hardship, Steiner chose a public setting for the very first lectures misery, and grief are nothing else but a consequence about the Fundamental Social Law clearly indicates his of egoism. . .I have already said in public : one lives conviction that these ideas needed to be taken up at a out of the principles of egoism as soon as one lives practical social level . In the same year, 1899, he put into with the principle: l have to be rewarded person- a nutshell the fruits of his research work at the Goethe ally, whatever work I do has to be paid for .2 archives. It is the description of the Rosicrucian imagi- This is the first and foremost 'root' I would like to point nation : Goethe's Fairy Tale . He repeated this on an eso- to ; it is the question of 'consequent thinking through' teric level on Michaelmas Day, 1900 in a lecture that of esoteric wisdom, which has to be implemented into he himself called 'the birth of modern spiritual science' . social reality if it is to be spiritual science in the mod- A central theme in this unveiling of the mystery of the ern sense. The Fundamental Social Law is a 'mere' so- Fairy Tale is the connection of its three kings to the three cial consequence of modern esoteric work . This theme realms of social life . He even speaks about the French was of utmost importance to Rudolf Steiner. The sec- Revolution . The roots of social threefoldness are right ond 'root' I would like to point to has to do with Ru- there at the beginning of the century! The impulse of dolf Steiner's alertness to the social realities of his time anthroposophy is indeed the impulse of threefoldness, and of their developmental origins . With the quote seeking connection to social reality. This is modern spir- from the esoteric lesson you have heard his reference itual science . And these two descriptions, one esoteric, to the first mention of the Fundamental Social Law-it the other exoteric, stand like pillars at the gate of the was in a public lecture in 1905, which I would like to twentieth century! speak about later . What evolutionary necessity was At the opening of the dramatic interactions among the Rudolf Steiner addressing? characters in Goethe's Fairy Tale stands the question of The theme of the Fundamental Social Law has to do payment for labour. The Ferryman is worried about with the esoteric significance of our century. This cen- whether his work will be paid for and this question is tury also has a special 'taste' to it in regard to the devel- the growing point of the Fairy Tale . The image of gold, opment of human consciousness . How incredibly fast the question of payment and debt, are central to the individualization has developed in the last 30 years! story. The mystery temple arises because the question

I of paid work opens the scene on the etheric river . The now speak of globalization, we really mean merely the river can not suffer gold and if so paid would rise up global results of egoism . and endanger the human life . This is the theme that What has changed in our time is that now it is no Rudolf Steiner puts to our time . It is not a coincidence longer possible for work situations to be fructified by the that he chose this element to start off a modern spiritual spiritual world . I believe that this is what Rudolf Steiner science. He continues this theme-like a golden thread meant when he said that 'mankind has crossed the it runs right through to his Mystery Dramas, those dra- threshold' . Man's place of work was once within the mas of karmic development that called forth the build- setting of 'mankind' . Now the daily life of man has been ing of the Goetheanum . severed from 'Mankind', that is the archetypal image of We have now seen the birth of the impulse of anthro- mankind that was upheld by the mysteries . What does posophy at the threshold of our century : 1 898/99 exo- it mean that 'mankind has crossed the threshold'? It terically and 1900 esoterically. Where do we stand at means that man has been severed from the spiritual the end of the century? Rudolf Steiner spoke once, in world . The individual has been separated, severed from 1916, about the year 2000 .2 He predicted that free its own archetype! Today each individual stands alone . thought would be banished by the West, that free thought would be criminalized, and 'when we have In 1 898 Rudolf Steiner said that new social structures written the date 2000, the soul of man will no longer needed to be built in order to redeem the situation of the be considered a living entity, but mankind will be treated individual, the severance from mankind . We now live like a machine, considered to be a machine.' What has in the lie of global consciousness, global humanity . It is the 20th century been asking of mankind? What should not true at all . The individual is becoming increasingly have happened through anthroposophy as a counterbal- cut off, estranged from his neighbours, even from the ance? What should have been the essence of anthro- people within his own home . It is an illusion to speak posophy in this century? What has actually changed in about 'mankind' today or to talk about social structures. the relationship of the human being to social structures? The highest priority in social life today must be to find In ancient epochs there were many mystery leaders ways to free the individual from his self-centred egoism, of mankind . There were the Holy Rishis ; there were the because this very self-centeredness, paradoxically, will priests of the mystery centres . Humanity was lead, at in time cause the individuality to disappear . If man con- first directly out of the spirit world, through folk spir- tinues to drift away from mankind, then the very connec- its and through spiritual leaders . Again and again Ru- tion of man to his own higher being is endangered . dolf Steiner describes the destiny of mankind in rela- When we think of social forms for the future we must tion to labour. Within the history of mankind, work has ask how man can find new connections to the spiritual changed . In earlier times priests directed work on the world, where his archetype-'mankind'-lives. What do land . The calendar worked down from spiritual life into we mean by 'mankind'? This is only to be experienced daily life, into agriculture . Labour was the realization and grasped on the other side of the threshold . Social of spiritual impulses . For a long time the guiding mo- science is a science of the threshold . tivation for labour flowed from the spiritual world in What help is threefoldness in all of this? Isn't it meant direct connection to the folk-spirits and remnants of to lead us to the mankind of the future? Mankind has to this still worked through the compulsory bonds of the be recreated . There will be no mankind on earth unless family even into our time . we create it newly. God created mankind and this crea- With the growth of ego-consciousness, and on into tion continued in the mysteries . Mankind of the future individualization as it is today, blood ceased to be a must be created newly by us . This is the background of vessel of the spirit, and work lost its inherent connec- the mysteries of the will . These mysteries take place in tion to spiritual impulses . It has become subject to sim- working communities, one could say, at the workbench . ply egoistic motivation . Work-the social context of How do we find the path to the new mankind? our will-activity-has been freed, not simply from in- Rudolf Steiner spoke in his course of lectures to the stitutions like slavery, but from the spirit! It is left en- priests4 about the rising of the Antichrist in our century . tirely up to us-to our freedom-to search for new con- He mentioned particularly the dates 1933 and 1998 but nections, or not . And consequently, a new connection of course the shadow of the Antichrist was thrown a long to the spirit can only be found if it simultaneously way ahead . The Antichrist was, and probably still is, more reaches down to the level of our will . That is what prepared than the Anthroposophical Society . People were Rudolf Steiner meant with 'modern spiritual science' not prepared to take anthroposophy to its logical conse- and therefore the Fundamental Social Law had to be quences . There lies a tragedy in the biography of Rudolf part of the fundamental impulse . Steiner. He himself spoke about the cosmic rhythms of Can we find enthusiasm for this task? Can we find the human life and the fact that the natural life span is 72 warmth of heart to renew the spirituality of the blood years, after which there might still come some years of stream and let it flow into the realm of labour? Into our grace. In Rudolf Steiner's life the cosmic rhythms are ex- deeds? The first step towards achieving this warmth is act. We know this . For example, it was 7 years after the the development of interest. Ahriman likes to 'cool Main Sociological Law that he spoke of the Fundamen- down' our interest, to make financial interest the moti- tal Social Law. Rudolf Steiner would have turned 72 in vation in economic life . It is amazing that just the Eng- the year 1933, had he had the ether forces to live until lish language allows 'interest' to become an economic then . He should have lived until 1933 . Is it not the shadow concept . Economy has become the battlefield of social of the Antichrist itself that brought about his death, pre- Darwinism . Rudolf Steiner spoke about 'an economy of venting him from being on earth at that critical time? And the folk', a national economy (Volkswirtschaft)-this of course, looking at the human situation in the Anthro- simply does not exist any longer. And even though we posophical Society, it was perhaps 'inertia of the heart.'

2 By 1933 the Anthroposophical Society was in pieces . Karl Königs life-task. The completion of 3x33 year cy- Dr. König and a group of friends, none of whom had cle calls on us to renew an impulse! ever met Rudolf Steiner, took up the threefold social im- We are completely free because there is no historic pulse out of the debris of the Society . Karl König took precedence for threefoldness . The historic personality on a spiritual task out of the spiritual and social neces- who should have been the founder of a Christian social sities the war had brought to Central Europe and carried life died in 1833 . The last historic link was severed with this until his own death in 1966 . We could see the bi- the death of Kaspar Hauser. This was again the Shadow ography of Camph i I I beginning with the year 1933 . The of the Antichrist :1833 . . .1933 . Kaspar would have been rhythm of 33-year cycles that governs historic events the historic link, among Goethe's 'three kings' so to shows itself from 1933 to 1966 when Karl König died, speak, the king of the mysteries of the will . We can take the second period being from '66 to '99 . So now it is a up the task of Kaspar Hauser of realizing esoteric neces- question how this will go on . The Fundamental Social sities in daily life . We must believe that our efforts, how- Law intersects this rhythm in 1933! ever humble, are vital if anthroposophy is to lead across the threshold of the year 2000 into the new millennium . Biographical rhythm We may have the feeling today that the impulse of 1898 1905 1912 1919 1926 1933 Camphill is finished with the year 1999 .There are plenty (Rhythm of the Fundamental Social Law) of justifications for feeling like this- because commu- nity living is so difficult, because linking to mankind is Historical rhythm so difficult, because we must start not globally but with 1899/19001933 1966 1999 the man from next door, start from where we are and expand our interest, and our egoism . For egoism can- The Fundamental Social Law weaves in our century in not be cast aside, but it can be expanded through the a very special way. In 1905 in this special public lec- vessel of a truly Michaelic cosmopolitan community ture in Berlin which is the first mention of the Funda- building impulse . This is not an easy way to go . mental Social Laws, Rudolf Steiner said : The impulse of 'mankind' can no longer just descend If you could found a small community today in out of the spiritual world . It can only come towards us which everyone puts what they earn into a commu- if we activate our own will . As individuals it can only nal fund and everyone works according to their abili- come towards us as an image of mankind . It is an im- ties, then each person's existential needs will not agination that comes towards us from the future . It depend on the work that he does but will be part of doesn't exist if we do not will it and if we do not con- the consumption-process of the community as a nect the individual practice of spiritual imagination to whole. If this comes about we will have found the an earthly social reality . direction which meets requirements . It is essential to understand the nature of this process Now there could have been nothing more concrete, that Rudolf Steiner has described exactly, step by step, more explicit than this! in the Fundamental Social Law essay. It is a process that This is the way that social forms can serve the needs can lead to a new perception-firstly an imaginative of the individual! The Fundamental Social Law is the perception-of mankind . Of course the foundations tool to build new social structures needed for the indi- have to be laid by each individual in his inner work ; for vidual . Rudolf Steiner gave exact directions : human la- instance in that steps are made towards imagination . bour must become a sacrifice for the future of mankind . This foundation is described exactly in 'Knowledge of We owe our work to mankind . The new creation of the Higher Worlds . . .' where Rudolf Steiner reminds us mankind will arise through work without pay. This is the that the path of individual schooling is only valid if it only way possible for the individual to realize his debt strengthens our connection to humanity . to mankind, his responsibility to work out of love, for However, the earnest endeavors of individual practice mankind . can only lead us in the direction of humanity if we ap- As curative educators, as social therapists, we have a ply them in outer everyday social life . Community build- special responsibility. Ours is the only profession about ing is the first step, without which this path cannot be which Rudolf Steiner says that our work only makes taken . We could also say : community building is the sense when we realize that we are working for the next mystery schooling of today just because it is the micro- incarnation and therefore for the future of mankind . In cosmic practice ground for what is to be a new human- our daily life we are taking up impulses which otherwise ity in the future . Community building is the only activ- the hierarchies can only take up on the other side of the ity that can bridge the huge abyss between the individual threshold of death . We can only understand what we and his archetype. are doing in this context. Our daily life is only valid Mankind is an image . I haven't invented this . Rudolf when seen in this perspective . Steiner wrote it into his essay about the Fundamental We have an additional responsibility as Camphill Com- Social Law, which just waits to be discovered in its munity members for the legacy of the twentieth century. depths. In the third essay about the Fundamental Social For we have the possibility of realizing these esoteric Law he takes three steps : responsibilities in daily life and of realizing these laws Of course we must have the physical, outer implemen- on earth . We are in a situation that makes it possible, if tation, so that no one has to live off his own wages . we want, to decide to work out of love for mankind . Can The individual must find his own karmic connections we see this as a responsibility for anthroposophy at the to the setting he is living in . 'I want it to be the way it is . turn of the millennium? We have the possibility, we have I want the people I work with to be exactly the way they the settings, we have the tools . With all our shortcom- are. Karmically I want it to be exactly this way .' Why is ings we nonetheless have a duty to continue to unfold that so? Then I will discover my connection to mankind

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in the end . The individual must ask : 'why do I want the damental Social Law actually begins with the words : situation to be the way it is?' If you ask this, then you 'The well-being of the community . . ."Das Heil einer can realize you have a piece, a part in it . This seems to Gesamtheitvon Zusammenarbeitenden Menschen' .$ But be the crucial step : there is a lot of work to be done here! the situation had not been adequately prepared . There It is not enough to talk about the spiritual mission of a did not exist a sufficient unity that could then receive community as if it were something objectively relevant . karma-healing forces. Instead a karmic battle was al- The spiritual mission of a community only has relevance ready breaking out when Rudolf Steiner died in 1925 . if I see myself in it . It is dependent on the will of the in- The next step of the 7-year rhythm of the Fundamental dividuals . This belongs to the second step, my relation- Social Law should have been in 1926! Then 1933 would ship to the spiritual mission of my community . have followed as the date of the appearance of the Christ And after this process, then the spiritual beings of the in the ether realm . communities in which this is practiced will unite to form I n the end we have-instead of the full step of 1926 a 'spiritually true image of the future of mankind .' a seed sown into hearts at the 1924 Christmas Founda- tion Meeting . The higher ego of the human being was This is what the Fundamental Social Law is all about . It addressed in its threefold connection to earthly existence is a communion of spirit beings that can only take place, with Christ in the middle. In the fourth part, the light and if we on earth put our will to this cause of mankind . warmth of Christ is addressed in the form of a new prayer The mysteries of the will take place where I make my for mankind : 'That Good may become what from our individual preparation, in the social context in which I hearts we would found . . . .' 'We' is the key to a new do my daily work . What can we really do about this as mankind : the unity of willingness . What a task for the members of the Camphill Community? Do we have the future-to achieve not just common understanding, not right perspective for our daily life? The motivation for even common feelings, but common will! Today that is our work can become so veiled . Can we again find the still a contradiction in itself . It is the future! motivation for our work on this level? Surely Karl König 'What we in unity will to do with common purpose .' saw this as his task . Can we realize that there where we Mankind is the common purpose . do our daily work we have the realities of the Michael And may I just add that the only physical remnant of mysteries? That is why community building becomes the first Goetheanum was its center, its heart and pur- more and more difficult-at last the remnants of the old pose : the statue of the Representative of Man, an artis- mysteries have left us in freedom to do something which tic image of the human being and of mankind . It remains is without precedence, this creation out of nothingness . unfinished . The mysteries always put impulses into practice that Notes : were simply impossible out of the outer development 1 Certainly one can imagine that the Fundamental of history at that point of time . We must do the impos- Social Law which is mentioned in such a special way sible . And we must realize that our friends, colleagues in the Esoteric lesson of 1906 would have experienced and others who annoy us in social life are also con- a new phase with the intended further development of fronted with impossible tasks. Herein we unite! the School of Spiritual Science to a second and third These three essays confront us with profound ques- level . tions . How do I work through the questions of my kar- 2 lecture of 3 .3 .1 906, Complete Edition (GA)266/I mic connections to the mission of a community? This 3 lecture of 4.4 .1916, GA 167 is difficult but also yields a wealth of youth forces if we 4 GA 346 persevere. Rudolf Steiner wrote in a letter to General von 5 This is still not published in the Complete Edition Moltke who certainly had a most difficult personal 6 lecture of 16 .10 .1905 karma as well as in connection to Middle European and 7 In this connection, the study of the lectures following world events : 'Say 'yes' to your destiny. This is the soul's the first public talk about the Fundamental Social Law most secure achievement and one that generates life at the end of October 1905 reveals some amazing forces .' Only if we make this step into the future can we facts. Rudolf Steiner spoke about the generation of life generate the forces of life that we so sorely need .' forces and the development of the Buddhi . The It is part of the tragedy of Rudolf Steiner's biography Fundamental Social Law seems to me to be the that the depth and significance of the Fundamental So- precondition for the new mysteries of the will leading cial Law were not recognized . The criteria were not to the development of new life forces . there for forming communities where individual karma 8 However, in the English translation of the law, the could be healed to prepare the way for the karma of sequence is reversed to 'In a community of human mankind . And Rudolf Steiner again and again pointed beings working together, the well being of the to the healing qualities needed in social life . The Fun- community . . .' which dilutes the point.

A Centenary-Irmgard Lazarus

On the 3rd September 2000 it will be one hundred years School, to go to Camphill and to take every decision in since Irmgard Lazarus was born in Berlin . She came to her life conscious of her angel . Camphill on the 30th August, 1941, the day of the first In a farewell letter she wrote 'Our work and our life Bible Evening to be held . Although she could not attend appear to me ever greater and important' . at this stage she became aware of meeting a new dimen- Her main contribution were the 53 years of eurythmy. sion in her life . Looking back in 1991 she spoke of three One of her last letters from Vidaräsen was signed 'the decisions in her life : to give up teaching at the Waldorf once only Eurythmist in Camphill', Irmgard . F. Bock

4 Who is guiding whom? Thoughts about the Youth Guidance Seminar David Aival, Israel Youth always helps us to progress and change . The Youth outlook, and for other new ideas, to succeed . Guidance Seminar is an opportunity to renew ourselves I will conclude this contribution with some practical for the challenge of guiding youth . suggestions about the content of the the seminar. The atmosphere at the conclusion of the last seminar Sharing experience - bringing examples from every- was very special . All the participants felt that they had day life with adolescents who have special needs and made a long journey and had gained keys for the con- looking at these in depth . tinuance of their work . It was a good opportunity to raise Small group projects with students with the aim of questions and to go beyond dogmatic statements or yes- 'growing into ideals' . For instance, helping prisoners, join- terday's ideas about the future of youth guidance . ing ecological activities or helping poor people in the I would like to offer a new outlook, based on the rela- area. But it must be their ideals and not something that tionship between the young co-workers, the students and they are forced to do . the experienced members of the community . Experienced Developing tools and skills- it could be very valuable members work with the young co-workers who need if each participant would improve his skill during the youth guidance for their own life . seminar in a specific area, like music, story telling, a craft . The freshness of youth, the sense of justice and truth are It seems that there is too much talking in the meetings and qualities which we all need, and which, if they have faded the artistic part is separated and too little . The skill can in us, can be refreshed by being with young people .The be like the thesis-a target which is aimed at throughout process of the seminar, and the work with young people the time of the seminar. Together with the area of sharing can awake qualities, will power, and questions which are experience this could create a rich culture of youth guid- needed for the well being of all . ance including songs, life stories, poems, art, sayings, Maybe the main question is : Where are we guiding games which belong to this age group . them all to? Update and current developments - in areas of spe- The conviction that we must, throughout life, struggle cial education, current work, terminology, visiting places to think and to feel as we did in our youth has accompa- other than Camphill communities ; all can be part of the nied me as a faithful adviser . I have instinctively taken care seminar. There is much development in the world in the not to become what most of us understand by the term areas in which we deal and the seminar needs to include a man of experience' . The knowledge of life which we this. There is value in having the wholeness of human life adults should pass on to the young generation is : 'Grow and the basic anthroposophical writing-yet it should not into your ideals so that life can't rob you of them .' These be to the exclusion of professional update . words of Albert Schweitzer, written almost fifty years ago, It is obvious that the ways to care for people with spe- are still relevant today. One of the foundations for guid- cial needs is changing . This is seen all over the world . ing young people is in helping them to 'grow into their With the increasing number of vacancies, Camphill com- ideals' so that they are protected from the corrosive forces munities could serve many of the human needs of our of life . time. Young people, co-workers, and students, can show This is one answer to the question, Where we are lead- the way by following their hearts and leading the rest of ing them to? Camphill communities can provide a fertile us towards the fulfilment of the ideals of our time . Are we environment in which to make ideals real and it is a fact young enough to believe this is possible and to do it? that many young people are attracted to Camphill be- cause of this. Youth guidance needs to address the needs and reality of youth . Young co-workers carry the winds of youth and of the Georg von Arnim is 80 current time and represent for many of the students the On the 26th September Georg promised land' in terms of who and how they want to will be eighty . Ever since he be. The Youth Guidance Seminar could include more joined Camphill in 1963 he young co-workers, get from them the 'burning fire', the has made a unique contribu- ideas, the new, and give them the ways and means of tion to the medical work, to making ideals real in community life . The process of the Curative Education and the seminar could be a living laboratory where current ide- furthering of Social Threefold- als can be looked at and related to . ness in Camphill and beyond . Very rarely in human history has there been a partner- In spite of illness he continued ship between the old and the young generations . Isn't it to extend his interest in many an ideal which is the need of our time and could be won fields of the work and many of within youth guidance aims? I think that one of the ways us have received invaluable to achieve it is in improving the ability to listen and to advice from Georg throughout accept what is different . To make this idealistic picture the years, for which we are deeply grateful . real the youth guidance process needs to be attractive and We warmly acclaim Georgs special contribution and current-to go through the changes that our time calls for want to express our thanks and appreciation on this spe- and to work within the reality of the needs of youth . cial day. A reformation process is needed to allow for such an Nora and Fried wart Bock

5 India Revisited Angelika Monteux, Cairnlee, Aberdeen and Nick Blitz, Camphill Carric-on-Suir, Eire

Nick: we gave in the Pune Chamber of Commerce to the Having been there in 1998 I had to admit to feeling a State's Parents' Association, on Curative Education and certain reluctance and apprehension as my date of de- Social Therapy . The questions that followed indicated parture approached . However, where I lacked enthu- the level of interest and the need for aspects of this siasm others didn't-Ballytobin put together a photo approach . But we also visited a very impressive spe- book and paints for Dharwad ; Weleda contributed a cial school in the city where the standard of teaching very generous gift of medicines for Bangalore ; and and breadth of curriculum were a joy to observe . Angelika was irrepressible . From Pune our paths diverged and I took the night So we arrived at midnight at Mumbai airport (Bom- bus to Dharwad where I spent four days at the Dr Ru- bay) on a warm February night, the three hours in the dolf Steiner Curative Educational Institute, a day school car park passing quickly enough, for street life goes on for up to fifty children with special needs . It also houses throughout the night. Is it only in India that you will a respite and rehabilitation unit for twenty young be delivered to your door by a coach? By then it was women from abusive families. On a positive note the 7 .30am and Vasant Despanda served us our first Indian school appears to have adjusted well to the recent breakfast, before we were driven to Sadhana village, unexpected death of its founder Dr . Pastey. His son, 40 minutes drive from Pune in a beautiful well irrigated Jayenne is now the director, but Gita Gopey, his daugh- valley. And it was a joy to see how progress had been ter-in-law, is assistant director and has responsibility for made in landscaping and painting the front of a house . educational matters . Sadly, as the youngest member of The garden on either side had also been largely wrested the teaching staff, I fear her influence is limited . The from the weeds and hard baked soil . Mehta and Vi jaya, two senior class teachers appear entrenched in teach- two mature Indian women bravely run the two house- ing methods that are certainly not curative and barely holds with thirteen villagers and some support from pedagogical . The building and facilities are good by Nandu, a young 'social worker' plus the occasional Indian standards but where oh where is the joy, crea- foreign volunteer. Two local women are also employed, tivity and music? Sadly, the wonderful hospitality can- one helps in the house, the other on the land . One feels not compensate for this educational poverty and I felt however that the potential of Sadhana is still waiting to a sense of despondency and helplessness in the face unfold . A small workshop and the second house has of a situation that won't easily change with the present been completed and a third house for Vasant and his teaching staff. daughter is being built . But the community would need at least one mature experienced male to take the house Angelika: and land in hand, to support Mehta and Vijaya with the After a few days break-Nick in Goa to meet up with residents, and to help them develop the rural outreach Anne and I in Tamil Nadu to re-visit 'my' Christian/ work on which the future of Sadhana will ultimately Hindu Ashram-we met again in Bangalore to spend depend, for Sadhana receives no Government funding, the rest of the time in the newly founded Community and parental support and fundraising are limited . An- of 'Friends of Camphill India' who had invited us to drew Hoy of Camphill USA, now in movement between hold a workshop on Curative Education and Social Camphill Svetlana (Russia) and Sadhana in India was Therapy. working very hard to improve the land when we were When I last saw this place less than 2 years ago it was there, but his time is restricted and more is needed . a building-site in a wilderness of thorny bushes weeds Besides providing general and medical advice both and coconut trees . Re-visiting it was like witnessing a in Sadhana and a nearby residential school for boys miracle : there are now 2 beautiful buildings, a large with special needs, our main contribution was a talk house, 'Antaranga' (Sanskrit for 'Inner Part' or 'Inner Es- sence'), and a craft centre 'Panchanga' (could be trans- lated as 'Fivefold') with rooms for 5 workshops . Pot- tery, Weavery and Woodwork are already established, Candle and Papermaking are in preparation . Each one is named after one of the 5 elements centre (agni-fire, anila-air; jala-water ; pirthoi-earth ; akasha - etheraspace) . They come off a five-pointed centre space, which serves as the assembly and activity hall for the Community. Much of the land has been transformed by hard physi- cal labour and the house is surrounded by a terraced fruit-vegetable-and herb-garden and flower beds ; each morning and evening everyone goes out with buck- ets, watering cans and hoses to water the fragile new plants so that they survive until the 'wet season' arrives . A watertank has been dug to store water from monsoon rains and there is a newly laid paved path around the Painting during the workshop craft centre, but much more still needs to be done .

6 the knowledge but rather its practical application in all aspects of our work? Nick, Anne and I learned as much in this Workshop as we were told the others learned from us-it really was a mutual giving and receiving! Another most essential ingredient of the whole expe- rience must still be mentioned : the absolutely wonder- ful Indian food, which Anantha prepared for us with love and care and the faithful help of some residents . And it was always just enough-whether we were 10 or suddenly 30 hungry people!! Now a last more general word . Both places, Sad hana and Antaranga need our awareness and support on every level . I feel that Sadhana needs us even more, they are still more unknown and isolated from the Pancharanga-the craft centre in Bangalore 'Camphill-world' than Antaranga who have a greater network of friends and supporters both locally and in- The atmosphere in the house is warm and welcoming ternationally. They need our interest and moral support and one is immediately made to feel at home by all who but also-as Nick pointed out-direct, hands on help . live in it . At the moment there are 8 villagers, two Indian Would anyone like to replace Francis and Anantha for co-workers, three European volunteers and of course at a few weeks so they can have a holiday?-or could the heart of the Community : the Aradhya Family someone spend a longer time in Sadhana? (you could Anantha, Francis and their three children Aruna, Padma hardly find a better purpose or excuse for a Sabbati- and the baby U ma . cal) or maybe best of all : could we make it possible Then there is Ursula Chowdhury who has for many for one of their co-workers to come and spend a year years given much needed and appreciated moral and or so in an established community to experience life practical support to the work of 'Friends of Camphill In- and work first hand? dia' . She is friend, secretary, advisor and much more all India re-visited was even better than the first time-I in one. Her house in Bangalore is always open for guests think Nick and Anne will agree . None of us wanted to and tired co-workers and her mobile office-laptop and leave, but now we can look back with gratitude for lots of files in a laundry basket-is greatly valued . many special experiences, in the awareness that much The Community has a friendly relationship with their essential work is waiting to be done, and also with the close neighbours, a small sort of Sheltered Housing joy of having found and made many new friends . We Ashram for old people and their Hindu Priest . Every- were asked to return and continue the work we started one is welcome in the Temple and many festivals are on a regular basis and we would very much like to re- celebrated together. The regular and voluminous morn- spond to that wish in the future . ing and evening chanting from the Temple sets a very I would also like to suggest to the Movement group definite rhythm for the day. Some of the old folk come to have one of their next meetings in India-it is not to Antaranga to read the papers and have some tea, to further away than South Africa or America!-because get help for minor ailments or to advise Francis how I think it is really important for us to embrace these ini- to bring up her children . One couple-old Theoso- tiatives where the Camphill Spirit is so alive, even if phists-attended the Workshop and added interesting they are not formally members of the Movement . And comments to our conversations . maybe just because of that they have a lot to give to This was a very special event of almost a week . The us in return for our interest and support! participants were various groups and combinations of co-workers, residents and their parents, neighbours, members of local Parent-groups, some professionals from Bangalore, two co-workers from a L'Arche Com- munity, Vidhyea from Sadhana Village and for part of the time Padma, a teacher doing curative work in her flat in Madras who had come all the way (Camphill 8 hrs drive) with three families to have consultations for their children . The topics included : Camphill and Social Therapy, the 5 Temperaments and Elements, the inner attitude of the Social Therapist and Nick gave talks about Au- tism, Epilepsy, Hysteria and Downs Syndrome ; we did some painting and each class was framed by Yoga les- sons in the morning and Eurythmy in the evening . Both Nick and I experienced a wonderful and encour- aging openness for fundamental anthroposophical con- Antaranga tea break cepts-it is so easy to converse with people for whom Reincarnation, Ether-forces and the reality of spirit in P .S . You can visit Antaranga on their website : man are just matter of fact everyday knowledge! What www.friends-of Camphill-india .de Sadhana can be con- we from the west can contribute maybe is not so much tacted by email : [email protected]

7 Work in Romania Johannes Surkamp, Ochil Tower School, Auchferarder, Scotland

It is time for an appreciation of the extraordinary work increase of social therapy with additional work- in Romania undertaken by Hans and Johanna Spalinger, shops their two sons and a growing circle of friends and sup- intensifying the training course porters. building of a simple hall which should enable Hans Spalinger will celebrate his 85th birthday on 10th everyone, including parents and friends to join October and it will be a suitable moment to acknowl- in a common experience . A similar need exists edge his outstanding achievement and express our love at Simeria Waldorf School and admiration . Hans and Johanna have travelled many times to Roma- Hans is known by many as a founding member of Per- nia, teaching, counselling, planning, supervising, arrang- ceval at St . Prex, of Aigues Vertes near Geneva and ing for conferences, negotiating with authorities and Humanus Haus at Beitenwil, all in Switzerland . above all, setting an example for many others who rec- Soon after handing over his responsibilities there and ognised this project to be of great importance . Collec- after the opening up of Eastern Europe, Hans turned with tions for the second-hand shop were made, several work all his vision, energy, organisational and practical skills camps of senior Waldorf pupils were conducted, guest to the building up of communities in Simeria Veche and teachers visited and taught in the training course and Simeria Town . For this purpose the Association for the school, and teachers and government representatives Support of Curative Education and Social Therapy in were invited to Humanus Haus where they could see Romania was founded . Hans was able to inspire many and experience what had been achieved in Switzerland individuals and institutions, including Waldorf Schools, and in Great Britain . Beautiful calendars with pictures to make substantial donations . With the support of the of paintings from Romanian churches were produced to military and senior pupils of Berne Waldorf School raise funds . school pavilions were dismantled and loaded onto All these efforts were directed to support a spiritual- goods wagons and sent by railroad to Simeria . There social and anthroposophical initiative taking root in one again groups of volunteers erected these buildings on of Europe's most impoverished countries . sites made available by the government . Romania had suffered under the hands of a megalo- The scope and volume, which had included all the maniac dictator who erected in this small country the necessary negotiations, were miraculous . No justice can second largest building after the Pentagon, the Peoples' be done in this article to all that has been established Palace, at the expense of the most necessary commodi- during the last decade and which is now firmly in the ties . Life is hard in Romania . A spiritual vision and ini- hands of Romanian co-workers, trained in curative edu- tiative therefore, realised with social and practical skills cation, social therapy and, separately, in Waldorf Edu- sets an example and provides encouragement to a mul- cation . It should be said that the Romanian state pays titude of people . the teachers very low salaries . The first and foremost, however, are the children and What has been realised to date is the following : young people who will grow up with an experience a day school for 230 children and adolescents with which may reconcile, in whatever small measure, the special needs terrible conditions suffered by children in Romanian two kindergartens in Simeria Town orphanages . five dwelling houses for approximately 30 chil- Mindful of this we encourage whatever support may dren and their carers be possible to be given to the ongoing work at Simeria, a Training Course in Curative Education and and in a similar way also in Bucharest and Urlati Social Therapy Prahova. a small farm with cows, pigs, sheep and arable Johannes operates a 'Help Simeria Waldorf School' land account and is grateful for any donations : A/c no. workshops : weavery, joinery and candle making 01952521, Bank of Scotland, Auchferarder . a canteen for 200 persons four teachers flats a second-hand shop a Waldorf School for 190 children, in Simeria Town Most of the children and young people have to be trans- -HibQrnia ported to and from school . This involves several buses School o{ Artlst~c Th¢rapy and cars . These were donated or bought second hand . The necessary infrastructure still depends on help from An integrated training in art therapy abroad, as the government contributes only towards the based on Anthroposophy running expenses . There are further plans on the table : completion of a dwelling house for 12 children Hib2rnt Centre for Science and Art • Lansdown and their carers Stroud • Gloucestershire GL51 BB • England building of a second house of the same size and Tel (44) (0)1453 751685 • Fax (44 (0)1453 757565 purpose

8 Ten Years of the Camphill Movement Group 1990-2000 Peter Bateson

Extracts from the Opening Address by Peter Bateson at European Impulse must build the bridge and Camphill the Movement Group Meeting 15th June 2000 in Thorn can contribute to this, by helping to provide a physical Hall, Thornbury grounding which is a necessity for any social renewal . A third theme was the growing experience i n the It would be quite impossible to do full justice in a short world today of mankind's 'crossing of the threshold' space to the fullness of experience and effort which has around the turn of the century, anticipated by Rudolf gone into the last ten years of the Movement Group . It Steiner. The threshold is thrown open on to the vista has been a tremendous process of evolution, in percep- of man split apart, his thought life, feeling life and will tion, consciousness and conscience . Over all has stood activity increasingly disjointed . The aim is to create the the abiding image of point and periphery, which has fourth principle-'ego-willed inner development' been the motif of the Movement Group since the very which will hold together the human and social three- beginning, whether as an organ for social threefoldness, foldness when it separates . for the Camphill Community or as a general Movement A fourth concern was for the recognition of karma organ . The experience of this motif has itself, however, and reincarnation, not only in individual lives but to gone through a metamorphosis . learn to understand the renewal and metamorphosis of The Core Group has been responsible for holding and impulses in definite cycles of development . caring for the form, while the core and delegates to- The question of young people in Camphill was touched gether participated in the dynamic in- and out- breath- upon, and the need to make our places transparent, unit- ing between winter and summer. In the last ten years ing the world of ideas and the world of doing . there were two distinct and equal periods . From 1990- There was the question at that time in the Camph ill 1995 the group was still a recognised organ of the Community about what is esoteric and exoteric . What Camphill Community in both name and reality . As the belongs purely to the inner spiritual content of the organ for the 'Field of the Movement', there was a strong Camphill Community and what aspects can be freely experience that the deliberations of the group were shared in the so-called 'life-community' in the places? firmly held in the form of the Community, alongside the Is it not the very task of Camphill to develop the com- 'Field of the Upper Room' and the 'Middle Field' . bination of the two? How in reality can this be From 1995 to the present day it can more rightly be achieved? called an organ of the Movement. The impulse of the All these themes have continued to form much of the Community, the life-blood of Camphill, has been freed 'landscape', the groundwork, of the Camphill Move- from the form element, to inspire and enliven the ment and the Movement Group during the following group's perception and activity through the individu- ten years and are still extremely pertinent today. als present, through their carrying of the Camphill Im- At this meeting an experiment was attempted pulse and their portrayal of the ebb and flow of ear- whereby the delegates would give their preliminary nest questioning and striving towards Camphill ideals reports to each other, and that the reports given to the in their regions and places . At the same time the life whole meeting would then be given not by the person of the Community itself has begun to grow and flower from the region concerned, but by someone else, in in many new ways, through new initiatives and newly order to achieve greater clarity and objectivity and as created forms of meeting. a real expression of 'carrying my brother's burden' . Un- For the Movement Group in this second period there fortunately, this failed in practice and has never been was an all-embracing gesture of turning outwards towards taken up again, but may hold something for the future . the world . There was a recognition that the previously The dualities of Community/Movement, Inner/Outer, held image of the boundaries of Camphill had to be re- East/West were predominant and the essence of this placed by an understanding of the Camphill Impulse as meeting was the question : 'In this period of 'crossing a spiritual healing impulse belonging to the world, much the threshold' and resulting fragmentation, how can we bigger and wider than the physical Movement . rightly understand the relationship of Community and When the Movement Group met in Perceval, Switzer- Movement i n the organism of Camph ill?' land, in June 1990, with the presence of Peter Roth, it The next meeting, mainly of the Core Group, took was still very much the focal point for the Field of the place in February 1991 at Humanus Haus, Beitenwil. Movement . One of the first main themes was that of the A significant feature was, in retrospect, a mistake in re- building impulse founded by Rudolf Steiner at the Mu- gard to the three non-resident board members present . nich Congress of 1907, 33 years before the founding of There were parts of the meeting to which they were not Camphill . We heard and spoke about the verse 'To the invited . There must have been an apparently good rea- Friends in Berlin' . In the meeting it was expressed that son for this at the time but the board members felt ex- we want the Camphill Movement to be the dwelling for cluded and hurt. I only mention it now to point out that the Camphill Community and to be part of a process of ten years ago relationships were quite different : constant renewal, rebuilding and transforming of what Camphill Dialogue had not long been attempted and tends to become fixed and hardened' . we in the Movement Group had a lot to learn and a A second major theme was that of East and West . long way to go . When Dr. König moved back to Middle Europe in 1964, The summer 1991 meeting in Vidaräsen was again he said 'Our path leads from West to East' . The Middle strongly coloured by the Community . In the absence

9 of any particular structure or guidelines, the regional re- The concerns about the relationship of Community and ports were very long and detailed, including many fac- Movement came to a culmination in the meeting in tual details about single places . It had not yet been ex- Aigues-Vertes, February 1993, and a momentous deci- pected, or sufficiently learned, that the disciplines of con- sion . The group would lay down the task of being the ciseness, overview and characterisation should be em- Community organ for the Field of the Movement, offer ployed in reporting. There was no time left for conversa- up the space of the next winter meeting to be a vessel tion or reflection . It was a great banquet of rich and var- for an all-embracing Community conversation, and turn ied perceptions, and the result was-indigestion! more concretely to the Movement in the following sum- With invited board members we did not make the same mer meeting . mistake twice, and they took part in the whole meeting In Oaklands Park, summer 1993, the College Meeting as equal participants . A major concern at the time was in its quality and form, was taken once again as the guid- the idea of a Camphill World Organisation, which had ing principle . The Three Pillars of Camphill life became arisen in the preceding International Board Members' windows through which we looked at the life of the Meeting, and the Movement Group had been asked to Movement and the delegates had to undergo the disci- take it up . The board members were concerned that pline of reporting three times, focusing each time on just Camphill was too little known in the world, that it was one of those three windows . The result was a very strong too little known and not really understood by board mem- experience of the reality of the threefold social organism . bers, and that there was no structure enabling Camphill There was a sense that the one-ness, the wholeness, of or board members on its behalf to speak to the 'powers Camphill had diminished, together with the recognition that be' . It became clear from the regional reports that the of the powerful individuality of the seven regions, in a idea was not supported in the Movement as a whole, but new clarity and acceptance . This was experienced as a there was agreement and support for the idea of a Secre- Whitsun eventfirst a searching, questioning uncertainty, tariat, which had already begun to form . and then suddenly the feeling of a new wind blowing The task of the Movement Group itself was a major topic the attempt to form a new vessel of Camphill out of the of conversation and three aspects were identified : to re- diversity of the regions . late the Movement Field to the other two Fields ; to per- The meeting in Christophorus, summer 1994, took place ceive the Movement through the regions ; and to relate i n the space of one year between the Mou me Grange and the Movement Field to the world . Sylvia-koti Community Gatherings-a time when a pro- The overall concern of this meeting was the question : cess of transformation was going on in the Community. 'How can we relate the inner substance of Camphill and The College Meeting was not talked about but made alive the life of the Movement to the forms and activities of the as a tool in the working process . This time the three 'win- wider world, and how can the board members rightly be dows' on the Movement were the impulses of Education, included in this?' Medicine and Agriculture . There was the experience of In Sylvia-koti, summer 1992, invited representatives a transformation of Camphill's task in those three fields were present from the guardian groups of the other two of work, a sense of turning outwards to the world, and Fields. Upper Room meetings took place beforehand in the recognition that Camphill shares those tasks with other three groups . The meeting was held with the mood and movements and streams of activity, but that the healing form of a College Meeting . There was still very much the task, especially, lies at the heart of Camphill . The prepa- sense of wrestling with the 'threshold nature' of our time, ration and discipline were such that we were able to in which what was once a clear support and structure spend time reflecting on what we had heard and deep- seems to dissolve, leaving us uncertain and perhaps even ening it through conversation . It was certainly experi- fearful of the way ahead . (We stood midway between the enced as a more hygienic and effective way of working . 70th anniversary of the burning of the First Goetheanum As in Oaklands, a number of non-resident board mem- and the 70th anniversary of the re-founding of the Anthro- bers were present, fully taking part in the meeting . There posophical Society at the Christmas Foundation Meeting .) was a unique and memorable experience on one evening. We recognised the growing phenomenon of Camphill We all shared in a conversation in which we were able Community members living outside the places . Many to turn to the inner substance of the Camphill Commu- conversations were to follow around the Movement, nity and the process through which the Community was trying to come to terms with this new and challenging going. We were graced with the possibility to find a way vista . The question led us to discuss the conscience of of speaking, a choice of words, which enabled everyone the individual Community member and the need for present to relate to it and participate . I know this had a ever-renewed confirmation of one's commitment . profound effect on many people, not least the non-resi- Twelve years on from 1980, the form of the commu- dent board members . nity was itself now being questioned, and Baruch Uri- At the Core Group meeting in Aigues-Vertes, winter eli's call sounded, to transform the Three Fields into 1995, together with some delegates, it was confirmed that dynamic forces and processes . the Core Group, and thereby the Movement Group as a In this gathering, therefore, there was very much a pre- whole, had indeed become free of its former task as a occupation with the question : 'How can we understand Community organ . However, there was a strong reaffir- anew the individualised task of the Camphill Community mation of its continuing task as a perceptive and reflec- member in the world?' Nora Bock wrote, 'I experienced tive organ, in service to the Movement and with special in this meeting that the tension between point and pe- concern for the question of Social Threefoldness, in keep- riphery, centre and Movement, individual and Commu- ing with the original task given at its inception in 1978 . nity, Camphill and world, began to loosen up, to move . There was also a new perception that the Core Group Individual conscience appeared to become the gateway should 'turn inside out' . This meant that it should turn to for a new element of inner freedom to flow' . the periphery of Camphill's presence in the world, trying

l0 to perceive the appearance of seeds and shoots of new and in some places quite overt challenges and threats, impulses in the world which 'belong' to Camphill or have for instance in South Africa . a strong affinity to it, in their ideals and way of working . In October 1996 a small group, mainly Core Group Since then, however, several meetings were spent ad- members, went for a two-week visit to all the centres in dressing questions, doubts and misunderstandings which Southern Africa . This was a very close and direct meet- arose from some regions about the form and purpose of ing with the people and places in the region, with many the Movement Group, and unfortunately we did not suc- significant encounters and deep conversations . The group ceed in actively pursuing the Core Group's new task, was allowed to share and participate in the struggles and which was seen as a form of research . Nevertheless I be- challenges of the region . The region felt recognised and lieve that we have succeeded individually in making a embraced anew by the Movement Group and those beginning, and something has been quietly gestating members of the group present experienced a powerful which we were able to share on one occasion, during the confirmation of the potential of the group to be of real meeting in Canada . help and service in the Movement, for which they were In the Lehenhof, summer 1995, the three 'windows' on very grateful . the Movement were Child, Youth and Adult . This enabled Threefoldness again came to the fore in the meeting in us to form a detailed picture of the different realms of Mourne Grange, summer 1997 . We turned to the three activity in the Camphill places, and again the individual spheres of the social organism but applied the theme both qualities of the seven regions came strongly to the fore. more generally and in relation to the individual . The A new element began to emerge as a real concern . How theme of 'Inter-recognition, Inter-relationship and Inter- could we complement the reflective task of the Movement dependence' came from a talk by Baruch Urieli at a Brit- Group with something more active? There was the feel- ish New Year Assembly. We looked at how the individual ing that we had allowed the threefold theme to become can be integrated in a threefold way in the community . the central concern, an end in itself, rather than using it Also on a larger scale-how a Camphill place itself and as a tool for perceiving trends, impulses, processes and indeed the whole Movement can be integrated into the challenges flowing beneath the surface of the outer phe- world . There was a heightened perception of the individu- nomena. Should there be a clear task of facilitation, and alisation of the Camphill Impulse, and on the other hand what form should this take? an urge towards the renewal of threefold social life . In Delrow, October 1995, there was a meeting of the At the end Thomas Horan spoke some words which Core Group with some delegates, at which the aspect of summarised the outcome of the meeting perfectly : 'What facilitation was picked up . There was a renewed pledge has 'risen to the top' this year is the element of social ex- to help and support the development of Camphill Dia- periment, social renewal, the aspect of each single one logue in particular, and so it has been ever since. There taking up his or her responsibility, in common with the was a pledge to try to stimulate ongoing activity through- person with special needs and in the encounter from man out the Movement, working on themes which have uni- to man . The details of our work did not predominate, but versal relevance and importance, with the aim of help- concern for the renewal of the social organism .' ing in a broad sense towards the finding of solutions to In summer 1998, being for the first time in North questions and problems . There was a pledge to stimulate America, in Ontario, also with a number of American exchange and encounter between people, groups, cen- board members, there was a strong injection of efficiency, tres, neighbourhoods, regions and all manner of other (or at least the expectation of efficiency) in the way the endeavours . Not that the Movement Group should be meeting was conducted . There was a high level of prepa- seen as a central, monumental, organising or deciding ration, and for the first time we had sessions where we body, but as a catalyst and initiator. It is clear that even split up into four conversation groups, which reported now we still have a long way to go towards achieving this . back to the plenum . This was not so easy or comfortable The summer meeting in Jossäsen, 1996, was ap- for everyone, but it was very helpful and constructive . We proached somewhat differently. The theme was 'Commu- have had to learn to be more focused, more disciplined, nity Building and Conflict-how can we really recognise, more concise, more awake, and also more sensitive to reflect and help each other?' It was not emphatically three- the process of meeting and what it requires . Without such fold, although there were the three different aspects of tools we cannot possibly hope to grasp something of the recognition, reflection and help, interwoven throughout totality of the Camphill Movement in a way which ena- the substance of the meeting . The regional reports dwelt bles us to communicate our experience to others at home . strongly on the aspects of conflict, division, tension, frag- We had two main themes : the essentials of Camphill, mentation, pressures from outside, etc . What was por- with the hope of working towards a possible renewal of trayed was Camph i I I's vulnerability. There was a percep- the First Memorandum ; and the challenge posed by the tion that the boundaries of Camphill, visible or invisible, increasing age of some people resident in Camphill, to- were dissolving, that the rest of the world with all its in- gether with the question of enablement, both for them fluences was flooding i n more and more and something and for other people who may wish to move out of of Camphill flowing out, which could be experienced Camphill . In both of these themes the question of facili- either as a giving of Camphill substance to the world, or tation was uppermost. For the group itself the question as a draining away and weakening . formed : 'How can we work effectively in service to the The keynote of this meeting was the recognition of Movement, able to initiate, develop and monitor proc- the need for balance and integration, both internally esses of change and development (also in co-operation in Camphill places, and externally between Camphill with board members)?' places and their wider surroundings . There were many As a result of this process, the first 'working paper' on striking examples from the regions, including a univer- Essentials went out to the regions . There were concrete sal increase in demands and pressures from authorities, proposals for how the ageing and enablement question should be handled in principle, the details naturally Group-the realisation that global phenomena and being left to the regions to decide. Also, in Canada, the global questions must have local solutions . Core Group members were given a space to describe In conclusion, we in the Movement Group have been the fields of interest and concern to which they felt par- ideally placed, I believe, to experience what it means to ticularly drawn, in the hope that we might now at last rejoice in the differences from region to region : first to be able to start working together in the way proposed recognise the qualities of each one and then to celebrate back in January 1995 . them . Only when the unique contribution of each of the In Sylvia-koti, summer 1999, we tried to continue the seven has been recognised can we come to an under- facilitation process from the previous year. On the theme standing of what makes Camphill in the world today . of the Essentials of Camphill, based on the responses In the English-Welsh region we have just made the first from the regions, the working paper was evolved further steps towards a focus group for the region as a whole, to comprise two sections : the acknowledged and ac- but it is very clear that what is needed and wanted is cepted essentials, and also observations which would no more than a means of co-ordinating the activities of stimulate further discussion and be the raw material for the three main working groups . I see the same picture a 'rainbow memorandum' in future, applicable in any for the Movement Group-that it should not be seen as conceivable social situation . The idea of partnership a fixed entity in itself, holding a place in the centre, but (from Camphill Dialogue) was now very much a major as the living and growing embodiment of an evolving concern and interest, leading into the future . process . There was the new theme of Youth and Youth Im- The concern and responsibility of the group is to con- pulses, which arose out of a clear need to address the tinuously create spaces in which the regions can meet issue of the younger generation in Camphill more and exchange, in which they can come into conversa- widely and in common . Together with the idea of part- tion with one another. It is my hope that we can begin nership, another keynote of the Glencraig Dialogue to find new ways, a greater variety of ways, in which also found its echo in the work of the Movement this can happen and involve many more people .

Fragments from the Story of Camphill 1939-1940 Part 4 Anke Weihs

By this time, we had had the first news of the men and that they worked for firms which were each other's knew that they had been taken to Banff on the coast deadly enemies . Together they glowered at us . It was and that they were as comfortable as circumstances tense . It ensued that Mrs Roth, fearing that we were would permit. Dr König had written that we were un- going to be unworldly, had ordered the one firm, and der no conditions to move to the new place, but when I, on behalf of Mrs König, had ordered the other. The he heard that we had resolved to do so, he was over- only thing to do was to make tea . Then there were joyed . several placating phone calls to Aberdeen and we all There was now a lot to be done very quickly . For became friends . Small wonder that the house was the last ten days at Kirkton House, Trude and Marie emptied in no time, and the two lots of removal vans took the four König children and the two others to stay rumbled down the hill again in the direction of Aber- with Mrs . Roth who had meantime rented Heathcot deen, not, however, before Mrs König had carefully House on the South Deeside Road as a private guest instructed the men to put all the furniture and pack- house . Tilla König, Alix and I, once again alone in ing cases in the front hall of Camphill House, because Kirkton House, began to dismantle curtains, pack some friends of ours would be coming the next day books, pictures, linen, etc . and prepare for the move . to help us shift the furniture to the right places . She These days were like being on the open sea with a was referring to an offer of twelve young long Com- strong wind in one's sails . munity ministers who had heard that we were with- On the 31St of May our last day in Kirkton House out our menfolk and contemplating a big move . Dr dawned, that is, I suppose it dawned-for never had König had met the Rev. George McLeod, who had just we seen such a deluge of rain . And here we were, dis- founded the long Community, and for a while it mantling our little ark! looked as though the two communities might forge a At a timely hour in the morning, the removal vans brotherly bond between them . we had ordered from a firm in Aberdeen rumbled up Mrs König, Alix and I stood in the forlorn little en- the steep hill and into our garden . An army of stal- trance hall of the once again empty Kirkton House, wart removal men leaped out and entered the house waiting for a taxi to take us to the station in Insch . to begin their work . A few minutes later, more removal Outside, the deluge continued unabated ; water ran in vans from another firm rumbled up the hill and into rivulets everywhere . It was as though we were being the garden and a fresh lot of stalwarts entered the washed away from that place . house to begin their work . Both armies glowered at The next day-June 1 St 1940-really dawned . There each other in the tiny entrance hall, having realised was not a cloud in the sky. Tilla König, Alix and I went

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over to Camphill early in the morning . Our furniture, to the Isle of Man where they were accommodated packing cases and other belongings were so tightly fit- in boarding houses, for want of other camp accom- ted into the entrance hall that we could hardly edge modation . Peter and Thomas acted for a while as our way into it . But we made plans as to where the medical orderlies in the camp, but otherwise, the furniture should go and waited for the twelve minis- men's time was their own . Their letters were censored ters to arrive . We waited-and waited-and waited : but reassuring . They contained modest requests for the day passed without them . Nor did they come the sweets, clothing, books, drawing paper and coloured next day or the next . Nor did they come at all . We pencils . For it was in camp that Dr. König drew his concluded that there had been a misunderstanding . illustrations to the fifty-two verses of the Calendar of But the furniture stood in the entrance hall of the Soul, and Peter his striking illustrations to the Camphill House like an accumulation of druidical Dream Song of Olaf Asteson . monoliths . So Alix and I, inspired by Tilla, began to It became apparent that our men were making the shift it, not without long strategical arguments as to most of their enforced seclusion . Dr. König, Dr. Ernst which end first . One evening at 1 we moved an Lehrs and Willi Sucher, an astronomer, conducted a enormous and solid cupboard down the long drive to kind of daily'university' in Anthroposophy and in eso- the Lodge on a wheelbarrow. It was one of those long teric life for their younger friends in camp . They light Scottish summer nights . Imbued with some kind worked through a study of the twelve senses and other of superhuman strength that was not our own, we had basic fields of Spiritual Science, and many of the foun- shifted furniture all day. Finally, we reached the Lodge dations of the spiritual and therapeutic life of and unloaded the cupboard . Down the drive came Camphill were laid . We women in Camphill lived Mrs . König to inspect our labours, saying she was too from letter to letter and from the calm and positivity tired to walk up the drive again . So we put her into that came from the men . I suppose they in turn lived the wheelbarrow and wheeled her home, stopping from our reports as to how the work was being car- every few yards, bent double and helpless with laugh- ried on in Camphill . For-in spite of Dr. Königs ab- ter. In fact, at the sight of any enormous cupboard or sence and the generally difficult times, some children other ponderous piece of furniture, we first dissolved had begun to come to us . Visitors came too, and the in convulsions before we finally began to heave . scope of our life increased . About ten days later, we were joined by Trude, Marie St John's was fittingly our first festival in Camph ill and the children, and a new era in our history began . with its message : Change yourselves! And soon after- Looking back, Dr König often remarked that Kirkton wards there came a letter from Dr . König saying that House was the embryonic period of what later be- at Michaelmas there was to be a constellation con- came 'Camphill', and as menfolk are usually absent nected with John the Baptist and suggesting that when a child is being born, so were our men absent Mark 6 ;14-44 be read in preparation . And it was on when the move to Camphill took place, absent too, the 29th of August of that year-on the day of the be- for the first few months of the newborn infant . heading of John the Baptist-that Dr König had his Camphill in those first few summer weeks was in- powerful dream experience described in his 'History deed like a bright and tender dream . It received us of the Bible Evening' . Thus the peculiar quality of John gently. We discovered its trees, the flowers, roses, an the Baptist was woven into the texture of the very be- apple tree that actually bore big yellow apples, and ginnings of Camphill . each day brought us new delight . Every morning, we were greeted by a little robin which hopped in and out of the kitchen window, freely helping himself to our butter rations, and who turned up again in the garden, where we often worked until midnight. Yet there were sombre undertones . German bombing at- tacks against Britain began in the North-East, notably i n and around Aberdeen . A church in Carden Place Park Attwooc Liinic was destroyed, a school received a direct hit with the loss of the lives of over a hundred children . German planes discharged their bombs in the fields around Cults on their way out to the sea, and air-raid warn- Anthroposophical in-patient ings were a daily event. And-we were enemy aliens, and a regulation had been issued that no enemy al- and out-patient care iens were to be allowed to remain within ten miles of the surrounding coastline . Whenever we answered the doorbell to an army or police officer, we expected to be told we would have to move . At the same time, Combining the best of complementary the air force was requisitioning mansion houses to accommodate personnel, and air force officers fre- and conventional medicine quently came to inspect Camphill House . We lived on trust that things would go the way they had to go . Meanwhile, we had begun to receive regular letters For a brocl lure please c~rll U 1299 861444 or write to; from the men in camp and learned that after spend- ing a fortnight in a castle in Banff, they had been Park Att~wooca Clinic, Trimpley, Bet'vdley, WOrcs DY12 1 RE moved to a transit camp in Liverpool, and from there,

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Dear Editor, A letter to the Camphill Communities It was a great joy and privilege to visit several Camph ill In response to the contribution by Jonathan Stedall on villages and homes in Ireland, North and South, during Camphill and the question of anthroposophy in your last May/June 2000 and I want to thank all those who helped issue, I found myself especially drawn to where he re- to organise the tour . I have been asked to return in spring fers to a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins and a line 2001 and it would be lovely to do so, as well as perhaps where the poet cries : visiting some Camphill places in Scotland or England . It is important to co-ordinate dates and as I'm free to What I do is me : for that I came. travel from February onwards there is time enough till May. Several talks, workshops and storytelling in one I could not help thinking why not more of this great son- place is better than crisscrossing countries . net!-such as the three lines that come immediately Themes for Talks, Workshops & Storytelling : before: Celtic Women's Spirituality/Elemental Beings : how to recognise and work with them/Merlin and King Arthur : Each mortal thing does one thing and the same : The Western Path to the Grail/Druidic Wisdom and the Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Hibernian Mysteries/The Contribution of Celtic Spiritu- Selves goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, ality to Europe/Scotland's Future/From Sun Cross to Rose Crying What 1 do is me : for that 1 came. Cross/An illustrated Talk on Scotland with slides/The Birth of Great Leaders of Mankind : Krishna, Zarathustra, And then, having come so far, why not continue with Gilgamesh, Moses, Merlin and Kaspar Hauser/Four Dan- the three lines that follow a pause : gers of Speech : Lies, Slander, Words as Weapons or Trivialities . (For Parents and Teachers)/Our Children, I say more : the just man justices; Our Future/How do we learn to invent and tell Stories? Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces ; Workshop/Exercises in Community Building. Workshop/ Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is Storytelling for Children and Adults . Free rendering of Irish and Scottish Stories as written down in Told by the But now, where is this kingfisher that Jonathan also men- Peat Fire, The Monk from long, The Harp Player . (The tions? Well, that takes us back to the beginning of the last two are also available in German from Me/linger, poem which sets off on a journey that relates to drag- Stuttgart or from myself for DM 22.00, in UK or Irish cur- onflies as well as to kingfishers, to ringing stones, and rency. Cheques with orders if possible.) to every plucked string and swinging bell-all calling out If Camphill places, groups of the Anthroposophical So- their name from their very being . And so on the sonnet ciety, Steiner Schools or congregations of The Christian goes to mankind at best, where the playfulness of Christ Community are interested please contact me . can shine lovely in praise to the Father . Those who don't know me can look at various articles Here is the whole thing, with all its achievememnts and in Threshing Flooror Perspectives. Hawthorn Press pub- mastery : lished Told by the Peat Fire in 1999 . Aseries of books de- signed to bring an understanding of children and their As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; needs to a wider public is planned, while official politics As tumbled over rim in roundy wells urge an ever earlier introduction of letters and numbers, Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung affecting the health of young pupils . In Scotland I pre- bell's sented a petition to Edinburgh's Parliament that school Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; should start when children are six and state paid kinder- Each mortal thing does one thing and the same : gartens built for four to six-year olds . The SNP has already Deals out that being indoors each one dwells ; accepted that six should be school-entry age . The Liberal Selves goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Democrats support me locally but Labour insists that Crying What I do is me : for that I came. nursery teachers introduce letters to three-year olds . It would be significant if similar petitions are brought to the I say more : the just man justices; parliaments in Dublin and London . Everybody can con- Keeps grace : that keeps all his goings graces ; tact his or her MP or MSP to make our views known . Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is Lastly I would like to share my delight with the jour- Christ for Christ plays in ten thousand places, nals Positive News and Living Lightly, both from The Six Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his Bells, Bishops Castle, Shropshire, SY9 5AA for £12 .00, To the Father through the features of men's faces . 4 issues per year. The present copy has well written and beautifully illustrated articles on Emerson College and And coming back to the question of anthroposophy, I Park Attwood as well as on bio-dynamic agriculture, or- would like to suggest that this poem touches on what ganic food and Triodos Bank . Could somebody write to anthroposophy is really all about-paying attention to them about Camph i I I ? the very thing and loving life to the full . With warm greetings, Sibylle Alexander Thank you, Jonathan and Gerard, that you prompted this Contact address : response . 4 Langhaugh Gardens, Galashiels, TD 12AU John Nixon tel: 0044 (0)1896 75 2214

14 Obituaries Eva Maria Glück 4"' July 1925 - 3'd January 2000 Peter Howe Eva was born in Geislingen, Germany, through reading 'The Fifth Gospel' she the fourth of five children . Her parents 'understood the Gospels' . An active were anthroposophists but could never member of The Christian Community, a speak about this during the time of the Class Member and a lay Service Holder, Third Reich . As well as the tumultuous Eva had a refreshingly non-intellectual world events, two personal tragedies cut approach . She expressed her convictions into an otherwise happy and secure fam- through clear-hearted actions and ily life, and would become leading mo- through her quality of being-notably tifs in Eva's life . her way of greeting and of taking an in- When she was 9, her older sister de- terest in others . veloped Multiple Sclerosis at the age of In 1958, at the age of 33, Eva was first 16, dying just 6 years later. And in 1943, diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis, when Eva was 18, her brother Ernst, a a condition which increasingly deter- pilot in the Luftwaffe, was shot down on mined the course of the second half of a reconnaissance flight over Scotland . her life . He was 23 . Times of acute illness were followed by During and after the war, Eva worked long periods of remission . Often ex- and trained as a nurse, experiencing in hausted and, as she said, 'grumpy', she her youth the full horror of a military tried to carry on as if nothing was the hospital . matter. The battle between acceptance of Later, looking for work in anthroposophical children's the condition and the desire to keep on helping others homes, she heard of Karl Königs work in Scotland, and continued until near the end . It was a hard path for the followed the trail of her brother to that country . nurse to become the patient, the carer to become the Eva arrived in Camphill on 5th January 1950 .On her object of care . first holiday she explored the area where her brother had In 1987 Eva joined the community at Simeon Care for died ; a photo of the handsome young pilot stood on her the Elderly where those in need of care can also give desk for the rest of her life . such a lot to their carers . Here, her outstanding contri- There followed many years of Camphill life and work bution was in her contact with the stream of young vol- as a children's nurse and housemother . Generations of unteers, with visitors and friends and children, and the pupils, co-workers and their children experienced the many people she maintained contact with by phone and warm-hearted and motherly Eva, unstinting in her re- letter. She kept up to date with seven godchildren-and sponse to others' needs, a no-nonsense approach, but their children . It was moving to see at Eva's funeral, the always a twinkle in the eye. I doubt if she made a sin- hundreds of people from far and near who came to hon- gle enemy in her long life, yet was unbending in her con- our this most modest of ladies who had spent so many victions . years confined to her house and to her room . In Camphill and especially through the Bible Evening, She died on 3rd January 2000, 50 years almost to the Eva gained an access to Christianity. She also said that day, after her arrival in Camph ill .

May 27t", 2000 Fried wart Bock, Camphill Schools

On Saturday, 27th May at 9 .30 a .m . we interred Eva's morial garden with Herrenhut-like simplicity where Karl ashes in the Rose Garden at Camphill House . Eva's König and Tilla Königs names are in the centre of the sister Elisabeth placed the beautiful urn decorated cross-shaped rose bed and their friends in a circle with a local Celtic cross design in the ground . The around or at the ends of the cross' arms . birds sang jubilantly and the rain drops were beating Just a few days short of the sixtieth anniversary of Cam- their steady rhythm while in the fountain the water phill's beginning on 1 St June, 1940 Eva's urn was offered was rising and falling for ever . Then the granite to the earth . Her service as a nurse and her contribution marker made of local stone was placed on the ground given so generously continued in a gentle way during the while we sang St. Patrick's Breastplate . . . '1 bind unto years of her acute illness, whenever she smiled-Eva's myself today the strong name of the Trinity' . The in- smile. What she has given to so many will live among us scription reads : Eva Glück * 4 .7 .1925 Geislingen, like a flash of light and warmth . Eva's being is released Germany, t 3 .1 .2000 Simeon, Cairnlee . from its frail body. A nurse to the end, always concerned Another good friend's resting place is found in this me- with the well-being of others .

I5 Nora Bock, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen Today's laying of the stone that marks the place where sitting in his bed lovingly sucking an entire sheetof a very Eva G I lick's ashes have been put to rest, was a rightful particular brand-hard to lose, but equally hard to send and necessary conclusion of a destiny that had to be lim- to the laundry . . . .! (we did have a good laugh) . ited in its earthly expression for so many years . It has Eva was a great lover of music and had a fine musical helped me to formulate a few memories of this loyal and ear, yet needed encouragement to take up her violin as dear friend . she considered herself not sufficiently accomplished, I well remember Eva as co-worker and estate nurse in which was typical of her self-effacing nature that again our house community especially vividly during the years and again came to the fore. The fact that I now realise the when our own three children were quite young, New- limitations of my memories of our shared time together ton Dee House wonderfully large and generous, and the calls up a feeling of guilt about the way in which I may group of our 38 teenage boys an equally wonderfully and sometimes have taken her ever committed and loyal pres- lively challenge! Eva was the faithful, warm and cheer- ence for granted . I therefore remember only too painfully ful spirit of our house, a loyal and devoted co-carrier of the fateful moment when she confided in me the truth of our many responsibilities . As a parent and 'matron' I was her declining health in 1965 (when two thirds of New- doubly blessed by her modest and efficient presence, es- ton Dee House community had moved into newly built pecially as her love for our children, both young and St. Ternan's) that took place in the stamp sized 'treatment older ones, was mutual . There were few areas in which room'-which shocked me deeply. Once Eva was forced Eva was not active next to nursing, which in these days to give in to her illness I became ever more impressed by was an important daily task in a large estate, and she 'car- her never-failing interest in our life, and everything that I ried' the Sunday Services as a matter of course . could share with her about Camphill and its people . De- Despite her warm and generous nature Eva would spite moments of deep despair her bearing conveyed in- 'stand no nonsense' yet her sense of humour was a bridge creasing acceptance of her destiny, and her positive atti- at all times. When she considered my repeated motherly tude and beautiful smile are i n the centre of my grateful efforts of re-supplying my youngest son yet again with memories despite the bitter experiences of moments of an identical 'homely type' comforter-which he was in fluctuating day consciousness . the habit of losing-as unnecessary, she promised to Sustained by her ongoing commitment to anthroposo- wean him of this habit when I had gratefully accepted phy, Eva was able to take in much of what is the core of her offer to look after my children during a short break . our Camphill striving throughout her life on earth with Upon our return-oh surprise-we did not just find a which she is sure to 'household wisely' for the further good patient little boy satisfied with himself, but there he was, of mankind in the future .

Eva Glück at Heathcot Christof Andreas Lindenberg

You had to walk up some rounded stone steps passing the matron of Heathcot House taking responsibility for between the white pillars which held up a stately dome a fifth child who had a raised temperature . to enter Heathcot House . Out on that open porch stood On the walk from the main house to the cottage and a pram or two and at least one child in a wheelchair back, Eva related to me why she had thought of com- waving his arms, all catching the autumn sun . Two big ing to Camphill . Dr König had told her that there girls stood nearby in the posture of being unable to de- would be a hospital in which she and others could cide whether to go into the house or not, annoyed by practice their nursing skills . When she finally came a small group of little rascals making faces at them in 1949 she realized that the 'hospital' was still among through the bottom pane of the entrance door . 'Now, Dr Königs hopes : she found herself taking care of the now, now!' sounded the voice of a lady in a white baby nursery, acting as a nursery mother and visiting nurse's apron as she approached the glass door from the Seminar. inside, carrying a limp heavy looking girl on her arms, Amongst the 54 children at Heathcot, this nursery 'I wonder who is meant to look after you!' In the same was indeed comprising the most handicapped group . moment another lady appeared tak- None were able to feed themselves, ing charge of the little flock and also speak or sing, all were in nappies, opening the door for Eva . 'Marina, and being unable to walk, had to be hold onto the pram while I wrap up carried around! The funny thing was Susan and then we can all go for a lit- that I did not make conscious to my- tle walk, and you, Patricia, can wheel self the non-walking, non-verbal Egidia ; you are, after all, the nursery state of these very young children in nurses! Christof Andreas is coming any way, because we were con- with his Susan Saxon and I will push stantly engaged in 'conversation' our Michael . That makes nearly all of with them, and in a great amount of us' . It was i n fact a feat to attempt to movement . At table Eva would leave go out with the whole baby nursery Egidia Montgomery to me, which on that sunny but windy afternoon, meant holding her on my own lap, had it not been for Janet McGavin, then finding a grip in such a way that

16 the ever-moving arms and legs of this strong girl could dren . In the Cottage were the bigger boys frequently be held at bay while feeding her at the same time . For struggling with fits, and there was Timothy with the bur- Susan Saxon, and later for other children, we designed den of his Elephantitis leg . I remember having had a vi- wooden handles for the purpose-bent spoons to allow sion of a few of these children, especially Timothy, at eating to become somewhat more independent . In school in Stuttgart three years earlier . It was a vision as- those days gadgets for movement impaired children suring me that one day I would be part of the life of those were not readily available . Looking back I admire Eva human beings and would even help build their houses . for the way she - with natural ingenuity-handled the I seem to remember Eva as part of that advanced image flaccid or spastically cramped children without adjust- of destiny. -And here I was in the midst of my future able wheelchairs, standing frames, feeding tools or bath dream, but still half a dream myself . All was beauty, all tub risers . In the wood workshop -a converted garage was harmony : playing Edmund Pracht's music for the I was able to make Susan a special chair with straps colour light shadow treatment in the outdoor chapel in and adjustable foot rest . which the children sat in their wheelchairs wearing Bed time meant a variety of activities ; washing, their coloured garments ; or composing three part pottying and the fastening of the specially folded nap- pieces for our little house choir in which Eva would pies so they would not, could not come off! Eva taught always sing the alto part ; or the plays we did at me many tricks of the nursery trade, it was after all my Heathcot and Camphill ; or the seminar ; or (and here first assignment at coming to Heathcot in the year 1950, is a confession!) picking up stray copies of the Steiner and I tried to learn fast . Helping in the nursery alternated lectures being studied in special meetings I had no with the huge dish wash after supper, 70 plates and access to, reading them early in the morning and re- bowls and cups! I could not say which I liked more ; turning the copies 'ere the owner noticed, even though there was order in it all, and it was getting more fluent I had the feeling Eva knew what I was up to . (She had with each day's learning . Then came the settling . Yes, meantime joined the Camphill Community) . Beauty Eva created a very special mood by the way she spoke and harmony also surrounded the deaths of a number to each of the children, singing with the lyre and speak- of children which I was allowed to witness and accom- ing the prayer. A holy stillness hovered over the cots as pany. Eva brought her kindly goodness, warmth and Eva would say the concluding words with raised arms : support to these events . 'May Spirit Powers carry you into the Father's House .' In the following year a change occurred when Eva Life at Heathcot started early as all co-workers gath- moved to the recently acquired Cairnlee House, away ered for a morning reading before the day's activities over the River Dee. There, on many a free afternoon, I could begin . The few sentences from 'Knowledge of the visited Eva, first making my way over the shakin' brig (a Higher Worlds' which Carlo Pietzner read three times little suspension bridge long since gone) and up through over : that was what our spirits needed . The bodies Bieldside to Cairnlee, an estate then situated serenely longed for the early cup of coffee (or two cups in my amidst fields and trees . I fell in love with the Sessel twins case!), while the soul was nourished by the awareness whom Eva looked after in her dormitory, and we could of the day of the week with its corresponding virtue from continue our Heathcot talks then . the eightfold path . We eagerly practised : Watch the Eventually our ways parted, but for me Eva remained 'Right Word' on Monday, the 'Right Deed' on Tuesday . . . the kindly and sometimes worried nurse at Heathcot, In those days the course of the week was decidedly who from the very start had kindled in me the love for marked by the observance of Thursday as 'rest day' : no the young ill child . In retrospect I recognize that in her coloured shadow treatment, no school, no massage and own private inner striving she struggled with a self ef- exercising under Carlo's guidance ; the children stayed facing honesty. in bed, and halfway through the morning the ladies of Now she will meet many of the children who, once the house sang 'Wenn ich Ihn nur habe' in three voices in her care, have gone before, and I imagine her in a accompanied by lyre (we sang many songs by Edmund stance of offering a warm gesture to all around her, a Pracht then) . Somehow the term 'rest day' was mislead- gesture of goodness, a gesture of truth . ing, as Janet insisted on a highly polished linoleum down the endless passages, achieved by the heaviest of bump- Prayer to ers swished to and fro in rhythmic action, not to speak the Angel of all the necessary scrubbing with floor soap . Bathing You my heavenly friend, mine Angel, the children was an enjoyable alternative! There was the You who have accompanied me to earth need for maintenance in the huge mansion and all And will accompany me around it-yes, rest day was extra busy ; but it had an- Through the portal of death other memorable feature . With achieved obedience, all Into the spirit-home of the human soul, of us joined the prevalent 'Dr Innes Diet' that was con- sidered good for children with a spastic condition ; but You, who have known the paths for millenia, once a week on Thursday there was the grand 'grown- Do not cease to illumine me, ups supper' prepared by Hubert Zipperlen with lots of To thoroughly strengthen me, fried potatoes and other forbidden fruit! Oh how Eva To counsel me, enjoyed it when not too busy elsewhere! Only some- So that, out of the weaving flame of destiny, times did I have a glimpse of all that Eva, with her nurse's I proceed as a stronger vessel of destiny heart, had to do . And learn to fill myself ever more The main body of children at Heathcot suffered from With the sense of the divine world goals . cerebral palsy, and as a wholesome balance there was the nursery of five lively young Down Syndrome chil- Rudolf Steiner

17 Eva at Simeon Steve Lyons It is no small wonder that Eva suggested the name for the There was never a shortage of co-workers eager to help Camphill community which would become in 1984 the look after her, even when the nursing was heavy and pro- only provision within Camphill which specifically ad- longed . Eva's smile was hardly ever far away . When it dresses the plight of the elderly in our time. It was Eva who erupted sunshine filled the room and the hearts of those recognised the unique image of Simeon, as the ancient around her . And those around her were many. Her friends one who held the Christ child in his arms ; this image has came by the hundreds to visit her : many god children and been the very heart of our work . We return to it again and former pupils long since grown up, her sisters, younger again, especially when forces of darkness from without and older co-workers from nearby and from far away, and within try to obliterate what lives here . Carrying chil- children on Cairnlee Estate, friends in the local area, dren in one's heart, perceiving destinies, and looking to priests and nurses the world over all these people came the future are all part of the task Eva's life described . to see Eva and have thereby been a part of our life too . The resisting of her illness (Multiple Sclerosis) probably Eva participated in the Christmas Eve celebration just strengthened her; the several occasions when she seemed days before she died . She was pushed into St. Martin's to us very near death, also seemed to challenge her re- Hall by one of the children she had watched grow up here solve. Only in her last few months did Eva express that in Cairnlee during the last decade of her life, to witness she was ready to die . Again, we could imagine the des- once more the story of the Christ child . Eva's smile could tiny of Simeon himself . 'Now let thy servant depart in be likened to the radiant light the shepherds saw . It was peace', after years of struggle with what he had to do . like a promise, like the promise Simeon was given .

Kabo Otihogile 1982 - 2000 Roswitha Groth, Rankoromane, Botswana

Kabo joined Camphill Rankoromane in When he joined us, he was still very 1989 and left after 9 years to join our vo- small and young, not yet a schoolchild, cational training centre for young adults, playful and rather a toddler . Therefore Legod i mo . we let him repeat class 1 and 2 . During Kabo died on Saturday, 9th July 2000 his nine years in our school Kabo grew after a long time in the intensive care up into a hard working schoolboy and unit . He needed artificial respiration . a loving companion . He learned to His lungs were infected and later also work in house and garden and was his heart . proud of his achievements . In 1997 his Kabo was a lovely boy with Down's schooltime came to an end and Kabo Syndrome . He was warmhearted and joined Legodimo as a trainee where he loved by all people who came in con- became a good worker . He kept his tact with him, his housemother, the cheerful and warmheartd nature and teachers and all the children in his was loved by fellow students, staff and house and class . coworkers alike .

A Parents and Friends Meeting Vivian Griffiths, Camphill Stourbridge, England

I am sitting next to a kind and sincere person at a Par- with the television and contented walks along the prom . ents and Friends meeting . She is deeply concerned But also, as the sister explained with a concerned look about the future of Camphill and when we talk about her on her face, his life went out of him, his true self receded interesting story I begin to see why . Her brother went and she was left with the shadow of the person she knew to a Camphill Community and in her eyes he thrived, he he was and it was like losing someone you loved . And became a person with a challenge, a person who began she loves Camphill and comes to the Parents and Friends to become his true self. As is sometimes the case, the meetings, convinced that the coming to the true self brother struggled a bit at this life in community . 'Who through the challenges of living and working together is doesn't in your communities', she said in a clear and the gold that we care for in our Camphill Communities, knowing way . And the brother, after one or two diffi- a unique phenomenon that she hopes will give her cult encounters-'No you can't listen to your CD player brother his life as a true person again . now'-told the social worker he didn't want to be in this This story illustrates our time, when we are confronted place anymore. So a nice residential home in an Eng- with the fact that our communities can be difficult and lish seaside town was found and the brother settled challenging places for many of our friends with special down to a life of leisure activities, warm sitting rooms needs, while the comfortable alternatives of a life of lei-

18 sure activities in the context of a secure residential home To end with, I shall return to the beginning of this can be a strong and tempting contrast . The times we live meeting, to an invited guest social worker, a team leader in, and how Camphill reacts to these times, are impor- whose job was to set budgets . He admires Camphill, tant and vital matters . not just for its value for money but also for its commu- In the same meeting a report on the likelihood of quali- nity aspirations . Yet in a friendly warning he cited the fications was given and I was touched to receive com- results of a straw poll done amongst his team of social ments from parents who were concerned about the in- workers . 'You are either loved or loathed' he reflected ; evitability of these requirements and how, just how community life with its disciplines, interferences and could we be expected to go and get these qualifications demands is not every social worker's cup of tea, let alone on a semi full-time basis as well as live the full-time the clients whom he or she serves . involvement of a carrying person in a community . So perhaps our greatest strength can be our vulner- ' @# impossible!' came the animated reply, 'You'll kill ability, our uniquely challenging yet warm and lov- yourselves . . .' ing community environment, which is not always in It is gratifying to know that the parents, relatives and evidence and is not easy to understand for our disa- friends are aware of our plight in responding to mod- bled friends . Meanwhile society, short of work itself, ern requirements which edge us more and more into is quietly and with good conscience removing the the role of carers and away from community interde- disabled from the workplace and finding safe and pendence . Indeed, it was lovely to hear of one parent secure places instead . How do we react to this with summing up the day by urging his colleagues to un- a good heart which doesn't despise the very good derstand the 'communityness' that lives between peo- offerings of residential accommodation and the im- ple in Camphill, taking the rough with the smooth, the portant offers to train our carrying members and yet ups and downs of life, which give real security, far still retain the 'communityness' of our places? How more than 10 metres of centrally heated space com- do we render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's plete with all mod cons . and unto God the things that are God's? A book review Autism, a holistic approach Bob Woodward and Dr. Marga Hogenboom This is also the case in Camphill-any Camphiller is pain- Floris Books fully aware of the dichotomy between the ideals and the everyday reality Review by John Addison, stroud, England . The dichotomy is no less glaring in main- stream places . The difference is that Camphill is not so This book is a solid presentation of therapeutic ap- adept at the dubious art of surface presentation, of literally proaches towards children with Autistic Spectrum Dis- papering over the cracks! orders . These approaches are more than ingenious theo- The advent of the PC and the photocopier have provided ries-they have been wrought in the alchemical caul- the wherewithal to present vast and impressive quantities dron of the social forms of Camphill Communities over of paperwork . Among the many problems this creates is a period of several decades . that the paperwork becomes the primary goal . The tick In one way, the book is a culmination of this work boxes, charts and programme formats step off the paper, the inclusion of wise and heart warming pieces by Hans as it were, and become actual etheric social forms . Müller-Wiedemann accentuates this quality. A holistic approach however, does not lend itself to In another way, it is a potential point of departure for a such confines . It will not fit into categories or boxes ; dif- developing future. There is an open ended quality run- ferent disciplines and job descriptions blend and pass ning through it, which spares the text the deadening fate over into one another. There appears to be no point at of becoming a definitive work . This allows a heart qual- which a box can be ticked to say that someone has ity to resonate which enlivens the sober, prosaic style achieved something . The holistic approach cannot, out which is necessary for such presentations to be taken se- of organic, inner necessity, conform to objectives and riously by mainstream professionals . time scales . Unfortunately, all this is experienced as an The book has relevance both in the sense of 'outreach' indication that it is unprofessional . to the mainstream, but also of affirming the validity of This is a tragedy . Of course, there is much research Camphill to Camphillers . Many of the communities have which Camph i I I would do well to avail itself of, but there a hard time of it . Internal tensions and fissures have arisen is equally much which Camphill has to offer . The chal- in the Movement as it has grown and expanded . These lenge is twofold : to enliven modem research so that it are not necessarily bad in themselves-more an integral can flow harmoniously into a holistic approach, and to part of the organic development of such an impulse . translate the methodology and underpinning insights of However, the increasingly intrusive scrutiny of the au- the holistic approach into the common language of the thorities can create the feeling in Camphillers of there mainstream . being a big, 'outside' world which is so professionally ac- This is something that this book achieves to a great de- complished that it renders Camphill an obscure and ama- gree. It avails itself of what the world has to offer and teurish anachronism . presents the Camphill approach coherently and profes- However, such an impression, though possessing a par- sionally. tial validity with regard to particular details, is largely Camphill communities harbour immense reservoirs of illusory. The formidable professional demeanour of the wisdom which are in a state of 'enchantment' . By this 'outside' is not a true indication of actual ground level is meant that it has become crystallised into the social practise. forms and traditions of the communities .

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For instance, though the ideals of the Threefold Social often entails a working environment where the rights of Order appear in Camphill in only a partial manifesta- the users are upheld to a degree which stands in stark tion, the very fact that the attempt has been made is the contrast to the providers rights! It is bemoaned that care antidote to the social chaos that so easily arises in care workers often seem to need almost as much care as the work . users' . There appears to be no solution to such problems ; The low social profile of the caring professions is a real but there is one which is so obvious that no one sees it, obstacle to the implementation of modem research . All namely : Why not accept this as a given fact and create too often the rest of society regards them as 'Mickey models of care which cater for the providers as well as Mouse' careers and the level of remuneration reflects this . the users? And what better example of how to do this than As a result many care workers are on the poverty line . a Camphill community? Also, many find themselves there by default . Just as the To return to the Threefold Social Order : in an environ- Industrial Revolution destroyed traditional trades and led ment where such a conscious social philosophy is ab- to urban ghettos for the disenfranchised, so the Informa- sent something comes about to fill the vacuum . And this tion Revolution destroys traditional professions-by re- something is precisely what Rudolf Steiner warned us placing people with computers . The people who are dis- could happen-the war of all against all begins to mani- placed in this manner, if they cannot keep pace with the fest itself already. This is occurring only partially and in technocracy, are driven to find paid work wherever they limited locations-but often care homes play host to it can get it. as they provide the most conducive vacuum . Furthermore, the current designations of 'service user' This is perhaps a too melodramatic idea, but how else and 'service provider' in the field of learning disabilities could the social diseases which blight ground level care practise be described? The social environment becomes so distended that the will to heal becomes crippled by fear Happy 60th Birthday, Camphill of litigation, disciplinary procedures or bad publicity . The light shines in the darkness Disability is waved away by a politically correct seman- and the darkness has never overcome it . tic magic wand . The concept of 'therapy' becomes po- Happy 60'h Birthday, Camphill . Well done! litical anathema . . . All the best and many happy returns . Yet this is precisely what this book so bravely portrays May your light shine evermore! the love that wills to intervene in the karma of another . In short, it is a book which is important as much for what it From Shirley Vannet, Dundee, former pupil of bears implicitly as it contains explicitly and is composed Camphill Schools Aberdeen (1978-1986) by authors who are both theoretically and practically quali- fied . In this sense it delineates a genuine path of vocation which is as valid for this century as it was for the last . John completed the training course in Camphill Schools Aberdeen, and then lived with his family in Beannachar and Copake Camphill Communities. He then worked in a home run by the National Autistic ( V Society in England, and currently works for C phi LCuRth the Home Farm Trust.

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CuRyzhmy tdJninjxwithin CamphitC Camphill Correspondence (Formerly : KnXjtuaxi-YXiiccxti E-.t xny'~ctxx~Ü We are happy to welcome Christoph Hänni of Cairn lee House in Aberdeen to the Camphill Correspondence team . Christoph has for some time been responsible for Vile offer the opportunity to complement the the lay-out of Perspectives, the English language journal study of the healing art of eurythmy with of The Christian Community, and he is now doing this computer based work also for us . practical experience in the curative and We maintain our connection with Room for Design of therapeutic work of two Communities of the Stokesly, N . Yorkshire, who have done excellent work Camphill Movement. for us for many years . They continue to see us through the printing process . Applications now being taken for We would also like to thank Lawrence Stroud of September 2000 Staithes, Yorkshire, who is known to many in Camphill,

Enquiries to; for the long-term loan of a package of computer equip- Camphill Eurythrny School, ment for Camphill Correspondence. One immediate Shelling Community, Horton Road, Ringwood, Hampshire, result of this is that the editor is now emailable. My ad- BH24 2Eß, England dress-peterhl @beeb .net-will always appear with Maria's and Christoph's on the back cover . Letters, cards, Tel: ++(ü)1425 482444 Fax : ++(0)1425 482445 phone calls, faxes and pigeons are still welcome . email: RBEuSch@aol .com Your editor, www.camphilleurythmy .org .u k Peter Howe

20 Announcements and Co-Worker Needs Please help us to cover our costs of editing and printing with a suggested contribution of £1 5 per co-worker need/advert . Cheques can be sent to the Subscriptions Editor (address on back cover), made out to Camphill Correspondence . Thank you! The Editors .

The Grange A New Venture for Overcoming Addiction A striving rural Camphill Community is now looking for enthusiastic A small group is forming to establish a training and therapeutic' couples or families who would like to join and support our Camphill way community in Gloucestershire for people committed to living of life. without drugs. This would be in a farming environment providing a We are a community of about 80 adults, some with special needs, and safe community for up to 8 people initially, including children . 13 children . Our work areas include woodwork, pottery, a small farm The therapeutic work would include: with vegetable gardens, basketry, estate work, bakery and a developing - working with horses and other animals seed workshop . - bind ynamic /organic gardening There is much to do and much to learn . If you feel you would like to building accompany us for at least 2 years please write to domestic work Reception Group, Grange Village various crafts Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucester, GL 14 1 HJ all of which will lead to accredited qualifications (OCN/NVQ) . We would like to offer a variety of therapies, such as Eurythmy, music, drama, painting, clay, massage, counselling, biography Camphill Milton Keynes Communities work etc. is a registered home for adults with learning disabilities, providing resi- This project takes its spiritual impulse from the work of Rudolf dential care and garden/craft workshop activities . We are in need Steiner. of houseparent/s for a house of five residents and two co-workers . Duties We are looking for people who would be interested in include household management, residents' care, and involvement in the joining this project and exploring their involvement . Community's working and cultural life . This is a residential position offer- We would invite anyone with an interest, questions or offers of ing full board accommodation and personal expenses . help to contact: People interested in working with those with learning disabilities or experienced in residential care work, should write to Lyn Townsend or Andrea Sprenger The Secretary, Camphill Milton Keynes Communities Willowbrook View Japonica Lane, Willen Park South, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK15 9JY Downend Further information : 01908 235000 (fax/ansafone 01908 235606) Horsley GL 6 OPO 01453-833487 Camphill Community Clanabogan Our community is in its l7' year. Over the years we have built four houses, developed a flourishing B.D.impulse, and established a bakery, a Lukas Community New Hampshire USA weaving and a wood-workshop . We, The Lukas Community in Temple, New Hampshire are seeking We have started medical therapeutic work, and we are open to the those individuals interested in working with developmentally disabled Arts. adults in an Anthroposophic community. Our most immediate need is for Involvement in social cultural cross-community initiatives in the local- houseparents for one of our residences . ity features high on our agenda . The Lukas Community Also, a stream of toddlers floods into Clanabogan daily, to the Steiner PO Box 137 Playgroup . Temple, NH 03084 Our population is 80, comprising 26 adults with special needs cur- tel: (603) 878-4796 rently. fax: (603) 878-4111 A 5th new house will be completed around Christmas, the last one, we e-mail: lukas@monad. net hope. We now urgently need more, and experienced houseparents, single people, and/or a small family and a weaver. Camphill Blair Drummond We welcome especially those with an interest in the above impulses, A community living and working with young adults in need of special which are very dear to us. care. Enquiries to : Blair Drummond is home to some 50 people, 29 of whom have learn- Hetty van Brandenburg ing disabilities; a further 7 people with learning disabilities join the com- Camphill Community Clanabogan munity on a daily basis . 12 employed staff currently support the commu- Drudgeon Road nity as houseparents, workshop leaders and administrators . Community Omagh members are involved in a varied range of educational, craft and cultural Co. Tyrone activities both within Blair Drummond and locally. BT78 1 TJ Currently we are engaged in a process of review and revision of our Northern Ireland services and wish to recruit a Manager to work with the newly appointed tel. 02382 256120 Director of Operations to manage the operation on a daily basis . This new post will present an exciting opportunity to a person with substantial experience and proven ability. Applicants should hold the Exhibition on Broadway New York City Diploma in Social Work or an appropriate nursing or equivalent qualifi- There will be an exhibition of Beeswax Paintings, entitled 'Inner Vision' cation, as well as training in curative education, social therapy or related by artist-eurythmist Bonnie Maffei, opening 12'" October 2000 at the Agora sphere. Gallery on Broadway in Soho, New York City, NY. Bonnie's paintings Full details available from Mrs Ena Wood at Camphill Blair Drummond, may also be viewed at Studio Sophia, her online gallery : Blair Drummond House, Cuthil Brae, By Stirling, FK9 4UT, Perthshire, www.waldorfshop .net/studiosophia/home .htm Scotland. Tel : 01786 841 573 . Fax : 01786 841 188 . E-mail: cbd@btinternet .com

The Risen Christ, Carlo Pietzner, Stormont Church

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