July/August 2000 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE Ibuntu is very difficult L, to render into a Western language . It speaks of the very essence of being human . When we want to give high praise to someone we say, 'Yu, u nobuntu'; 'Hey, he or she has ubuntu .' This means they are generous, hospitable, friendly, caring and compassionate. They share what they have . It also means my humanity is caught up, is inextricably Mary Fedden, The Black Bird bound up, in theirs . We belong in a bundle of life . We say, 'a person is a person through other people'. It is not 'I think therefore I am'. It says rather: 'I am human because I belong.' I participate, I share. A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does nol feel threatened that others are able and good; for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are . Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness

The Building of a Hut Eros and Fable, An excursion in Social Therapy IFC Notes from the Novalis Festival 11 Thoughts on Suicide The future is now! 12 In Memoriam 2 Voices of children 13 Mario's Window 4 Obituaries 14 Sixty years Camphill 6 lain Smith Fragments from Meg Farquhar the Story of Camphill 1939-1940 6 Anne Maciver Funny Ideas 8 The Ash 17 Seasonal Plays by Dr . König 9 The Good Friday Play in Russia 10 Hazel Straker, 80 19 The Land Question Camphill Correspondence financial status 1 9 Camphill Agricultural Conference 10 Announcements and Co-Worker Needs 20 The building of a but-an excursion in Social Therapy Andrew Hoy, Camphill Svetlana, Russia

t is in the chapter called 'Changes in Dream Life' in In writing about the model that Count Zinzendorf pre- his book How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher sented to the Camphill Communities Karl König wrote: Worlds, that Rudolf Steiner explains what the expres- It was his conviction that 'there is no Christianity sion means 'to build a hut' in the language of spiritual without community'. We would rather reverse this science . He wrote : saying as we have experienced that 'there is no The pupil must seek out some place that he has community without Christianity'. explored thoroughly and take possession of it in Zinzendorf was the founder of a special chapel within spirit. He must establish a spiritual home for himself the Protestant church . in this place and relate everything else to it. Ultimately such social projects are dependent upon The context of this passage is that it follows upon a de- the inner flame that is able to be enkindled in each sin- scription of the 'wanderer' in the language of spiritual gle member of a village community. science. Both of these expressions are familiar to us from everyday life, and yet their value has been increased The Prologue of St. John's Gospel when applied to the inner path . Rudolf Steiner meant The changes that occur with the taking up of a medita- them in the sense that we know them, for he wrote that tive content can be quick to reveal themselves, in par- it is as if a person were born somewhere on earth and ticular the distractions and hindrances for the task we yet, in the sense that he intends it, would have to re- have undertaken . Other changes can take longer to ap- create such an environment anew in order to find his pear, as when the content begins to 'offer' a response in way, his 'location', within the spiritual world . the form of revelations of inner secrets. These often oc- With such a description of 'the building of a hut' we are cur at moments when we are not occupied with the led to contemplate the scene of the Transfiguration in a content itself. Time needs to play a role . And after a different light. There it is Peter, James and John who ask while the content becomes so familiar, as if it were a Christ whether they shall build three huts-one for Mo- space in which we might retire . It is in this way that I ses, one for Elijah, and one for Christ-for we would dis- begin to have an understanding for the use of the ex- cover an archetype for the early Christian churches where pression, 'the building of a hut' . Perhaps I am being three altar spaces and three separate chapels were cre- overly naive, and yet it is a simple expression . ated for worship . We could be led to other expressions of It is not easy to make remarks about the Prologue of St . 'the hut', as in Goethe's fairy tale of The Green Snake John's Gospel . It is a much-frequented place and we stand and the Beautiful Lily, where the 'hut' undergoes a trans- in awe of its achievements . Words are used that contain formation, or in Dr. Königs Christmas Story. a primal power, both in directness and simplicity, as well It is this conscious 'building of a spiritual home' that as their potential to have several meanings . With the open- has accompanied the creation of village communities ing words, 'In the beginning . . .En Arche', we find our- for those with soul needs and, if the truth were admit- selves in contact with a spiritual being, an Archai, while ted, essentially everyone living today . We might even experiencing that we are within the realm of the arche- consider such village communities as gatherings of 'hut types, and 'In the beginning . . .' We are also referred to builders' in the moment that they perceive the spiritual the opening lines of Genesis and the story of the Crea- orientation that unites them . Then the individual inten- tion . It is a wonder with what simplicity it unfolds as 'be- tion may become communal . That such village com- ing-that which was' turns into 'becoming (egenito in munities created in the name of social therapy are, as Greek)-was made' in most English renderings . There is yet, a poor expression of such a longing, ought not to even an echo of the creation of Adam with the words erase such an archetype from our inner intentions . It is egenito anthropos-'became a man, name to him John' . often that longings as these awaken counter forces which In English this is 'There was a man, named John' . And all appear as hindrances, and yet are intended to awaken a this is described with magical simplicity. much stronger resolve within us . The descent of the Logos as the Being of Christ follows And yet the foundation for such a 'hut' can be mod- in a manner quite different from the other Gospels . We est-say, the lighting of a candle, or the speaking of a are led to experience that it is a heavenly event . grace before meals, or the tidying of a room, or appear- These indications are only intended to describe a ing on time for a meeting-long before a particular pic- process, a becoming familiar with an inner content, ture is hung to awaken us . It is through the manner in for I wish to turn to the architectural quality of the which our inner life is allowed to find expression in the Prologue, and this is yet slower to reveal itself. We world around us, and with the consent of those with begin to discover, within what has become for us a whom we live . Within the Camphill Villages, the ex- familiar space, that it has become differentiated . The pression of the Three Pillars within our social life im- Logos, the Word, has progressed from 'being' to 'be- plies 'hut building' as much as 'village building' . These coming', from 'creating' to 'dwelling among us' ; the 'pillars' are an expression of the Threefold Social Order Greek can be rendered even more literally with 'to where a differentiation between the cultural/spiritual tabernacle among us' . We find ourself, to begin with, realm, the social realm of rights, and the area of work in in the presence of the Word ; then within a world cre- which the Fundamental Social Law is applied . (Karl ated by the Word ; and finally, that the Word has come König: The Three Pillars of Camphill) to dwell among us . The transition occurs where we learn that we may be called 'sons of God' . The Divine reach the passage that says,'And the Word became Word is now to be sought within each one . What was flesh and dwelt among us' we could discover the first formerly outer has become inner . line of the meditation-'In me is God'-'In me is the With the awareness of this moment of transition in I am'-or 'the Spirit of God', or whatever other expres- the Prologue I feel that I am entering another mood, sion you care to use . The more inward mood, con- one that would lead to the experience of 'grace and tained in the second part of the Prologue, 'In me is truth' . I am called upon to kneel and turn my thoughts God', would belong to the evening, while the words inward . For some it could be that space that is set aside of the opening lines of the Prologue, ' I am i n God', for prayer; a kind of chapel . I can even have the feel- to the morning activity . ing that this is where we might be allowed to celebrate Again I find myself within a differentiated realm that those Deeds of Christ on earth that are described in the has a fore room and an inner or evening space . It is ensuing chapters of the gospel . with this sense of differentiation that I can find my- Later in the Gospel of St . John, we come to where self, as mentioned earlier, 'within a gathering of but Christ says, 'I am the Way, I am Truth, and 'I am Life', builders'-social therapists . and 'I am the Resurrection and I am Life', and 'I am What has been indicated or suggested, with all too the Light of the World'-that which was expressed in few words, takes its inspiration from continual con- the Prologue as, 'In Him-the Word-was Life, and the templation of the first Goetheanum-The House of Life was the Light of men' . 'The Word' has now become the Word . It was there that the 'I Am' was written 'The I am' . A further transformation has occurred . within its innermost space . It was there too where an For those of us in curative education and social indication of the ego sequence might have appeared . therapy who have taken up the Point and Periphery It is also indicated within the sculptural / architectural Meditation given by Rudolf Steiner in the Curative form of the Foundation Stone Meditation . Course, we might feel that there is a relationship with In our work in social therapy we are fortunate to be what has been described above . In the Prologue there able to live together with people who may possess far was an interchange between outer and inner worlds, greater social graces than we who have encountered while in the meditation this interchange occurs be- the achievements of an intellectual development . Re- tween point and periphery. If we would go so far as ligious questions too, can be far less problematic for to see the 'I am' in place of the'Word', it would read, them . Initially we may have felt we would be help- 'In the beginning is the I am, and the I am is in God, ing them, and yet this has to be seen as being recip- and the I am is Godly.' rocal . It often seems that 'the helpers' themselves have We have to use the present tense, as this is when the far greater problems . I can recall the amount of time 'I am' is to be experienced . We would then discover that is usually spent in an attempt to solve these . one line of the meditation 'I am in God' . When we I sense that the main 'events, happenings, miracles, changes . . .' that occur in social therapy, are brought about in the meetings between soul with soul, ego with ego, I am with I am . They can occur in the si- Needs lence that follows an encounter, and are often beyond our individual expectations, particularly when we Far beyond the bright lights of wishes, observe them within our own being . It is only through such encounters that we enter the realm where Christ constantly changing in color and speed, is to be experienced, 'wherever two or three are gath- beyond the glow they cast ered together in my name' . upon the soul The realm of the encounter has often been described creating images of who we might be by Rudolf Steiner-particularly in his notebooks . We discover there descriptions of a marked fluctuation of consciousness-from sleeping to waking to sleeping Beyond the quiet stream of hope, occurring repeatedly, or from sympathy to antipathy moving through life with constancy to sympathy-and, maybe, from evening to morning that always flows forth to a new bend to evening moods . It is within such fluctuations that opening new lands we can at times catch hold of ourselves and experi- ence their mercurial quality. The moment that a per- our search beyond the son expresses need or distress, we are lifted above present desolation ourselves. It is in such moments that it seems as if 'the of our horizon huts we are building appear to play a role' . All the rest is outer. Even the social life around us comes un- Beyond the changing patterns der this influence . I notice how my activities during the week are lifted the pictures holding and taunting us up during the Saturday Bible Evening. This experience we meet our needs : can become communal, so that together we enter into bread, words and the reading of The Gospel . We have moved from an an embrace. outer into an inner realm and begin to awaken to the interweaving of these two, seemingly separate realms . Please allow what I have written to be tentative, ex- Richard Neal, Copake ploratory, questioning, rather than emphatic . I write in a sense of sharing, rather than one of knowing .

In Memoriam Some Thoughts on Suicide Andrew König, Minnesota, USA

s I struggle to write this piece a pledge I made my at the vast diversity of deaths by suicide, and by touch- late sister and promised myself to do-it is now well ing on that deeper realm of intermingling factors, it is overA three years since Veronika's untimely, unexpected hoped to challenge, perhaps dispel the dreadful blan- and unforeseen death in Forest Hill, East Lon- ket judgement, censure and reproof that we so don, England, a place which must have been, easily and quickly direct at those driven to ter- except in name, the most unlikely spot for her on minate their life . earth . Her sudden departure, by her own hand, What do we say of the aged, ailing, perhaps the deeply shook and saddened those who knew and infirm who are left or choose to 'remain behind' loved her, left us with a profound sense of loss to die when they become a burden and threaten and emptiness, and raised a host of questions the well-being, safety, perhaps the very survival of which will ever linger on, ever dangle with no their kin or tribal group-this was a sanctioned clear answers . b~ *,,practice in certain cultures perhaps still prac- I have pondered and 0NI \ tised in some remote ar- lived with many of I\4#Q eas . Or in a current, more tc Fay ~ln these questions for a TQp~~p{~ woa~e .~ familiar setting; what do . long, long time, and MAR .M.t"? - GFPY 18,1946 we say of those stricken then Veronika's death LE,M& QP4fE1G'ißl w' L with a lingering terminal H ~ ,,yKy Mv6+t snit . z aogr4 suddenly „~Y ~N ME brought , i « Nor o RosE i I I ness who find that nec- them into sharp and (r r4OiDNti~NTh1b 1 tD essary care and treatment painful focus . What is T"'""' will rapidly deplete long, RE At t~IY+ •AIWAYi Tn rnersoE it that can bring some of P hardearned-, assets decide A us to the point of taking '-to intervene in their own lifesupport rather our own life? Who of us has not at some time or ----' than to leave their family destitute? Or the termi- another contemplated such a measure and not nal patient endlessly kept alive by modern medi- proceeded-and why not? Or who of us has actu- cal technology, who manages to disconnect the ally come to making the attempt but has not suc- tubes from which life dangles precariously? What ceeded-why? What brought Veronika to that do we say of the passionate idealist who self-de- point of conscious, willful earthly departure? structs in protest at political outrage, injustice, or I have come to realize that we can never fully for some moral cause? Or the person who chooses understand or fully know the answers to any to die-self-inflicted or by the hand of others of these questions . Sometimes, however, at rather than submit to extraction of guarded infor- least on the very surface one might imagine mation, false confession, or other degradations? that conditions, life events, circumstances are These are not uncommon scenarios today, count- telling one that reasons, answers seem clear less others, countless variations could be added . and simple . But often they are fraught with Do they fit our stereotype of suicide? contradictions and merely beg ever further And what can we say of those tormented by questions, and one enters the uncertain realm the extremes of pain and human tragedy? In of speculation and judgement, an area, I be- this context perhaps a more likely, more fa- lieve, one rightfully cannot entertain . mi I iar road but one that is no less poignant It is not my point or purpose here to push and compelling . It's a path where untold mul- for answers and conclusions but rather to titudes ply their lonely way of unimaginable reach beyond this area of judgement and suffering; the path of grief, of fear, of an- speculation, to try to look more deeply into rn, . ..~ guish and despair, of guilt and shame, of what at first may have seemed obvious . loneliness and depression, of sheer raw And also, ever so tentatively, touch on other A memorial made by the author for his sister . pain . . .pain in its endless forms and varia- deeper realms of intermingling factors which tions where the relentless and unmitigated may at that final, fateful moment of choice intercede and suffering, for some, can simply no longer be endured . tip the scale either to arrest, or to drive such a profound Is this to be condemned? It's the loneliest place on terminal contemplation to its ultimate completion . earth-the edge of the proverbial abyss-where, in the Suicide is a brutal, inflexible and unforgiving word, in- absence of all hope, all sense of purpose, all sense of stantly damning and condemning ; narrow in its impli- meaning, one is faced with the ultimate choice of cation, sweeping in its incriminating application . The whether life is, or is not worth living . stigma of self-inflicted death invariably carries the no- Is it the pain alone that compels some and yet not oth- tion of moral feebleness, weakness, cowardice, failure, ers to destroy themselves? It seems to me that this fate- despair, and so on . Suicide is also widely seen as sinful ful juncture is a moment of utmost clarity . But more than and therefore, in the context of this mind-set, further that too, it's a moment of heightened sensibility or respon- consequence and retribution are sure to follow . From siveness to other influencing forces which become ur- questions that arise from even the most cursory glimpse gently engaged to intercede, either to prompt or to pre-

2 vent this final act. I see this as a confluence of our total will to live were invariably far more vulnerable to the self-our destiny, the record of our life, our conscience severe conditions and excesses of their captors, and there- with other spirit beings, other forces hard at work . Our fore were the first to succumb to the infamies of the helping spirit guides, and sometimes very clearly too the camps . Dr. Frank) came to believe this life force is directly souls of departed friends or kin, are there to play a part . related to a person's sense of purpose and meaning, and Also, of course, the retarding forces constantly tempting, constitutes the foremost motivating element within us . testing, tormenting us are there to throw us off our 'right- Nietzsche noted : 'He who has a why to live for can bear ful' course . I see this as a microcosm, a snapshot of the almost any how . . .' Using this phenomenon, Dr. Frank), individual within the vast battle arena of the two mighty of course, went on to develop what he called opposing forces, where we are the subjects and the spoils 'logotherapy' which became an important school of psy- i n a kind of end-game over our soul . And here, I suppose, chiatry and psychiatric practice . whether we succeed or fail our rightful call, we are ulti- For those i n whom there lives no sense of meaning, no mately accountable. sense of purpose, for those in whom there lives no hope, I n Darkness Visible the eminent writer, William Styron, the option of death will surely begin to linger as a con- briefly yet intimately describes his long and bitter battle templation, perhaps become a growing desire . And here with severe depression which brought him to the very it doesn't take a major stretch in one's thinking to ask, to brink of self-destruction . suggest, that the line between death by suicide and death '. . . the pain of severe depression is quite unim- by natural or accidental cause can become indistinct, aginable to those who have not suffered it, and it indeed perhaps indistinguishable, for is there, in fact, kills in many instances because its anguish can appreciable difference between permitting death to oc- no longer be borne . . .' cur on the one hand, and on the other, helping or mak- '. . .to those who are compelled to destroy them- ing it happen? And furthermore one might ask what re- selves, there should be no more reproof attached ally is implied in 'being ready', in 'being prepared to cross than to the victims of terminal cancer. . .' the threshold'-a state of being, it seems, we all should Mr. Styron writes of other friends and colleagues similarly strive to reach i n life? These are delicate questions, pro- afflicted who were not so fortunate to overcome their ill- vocative, perhaps naive, irrelevant and obviously refut- ness . For them, as for so many countless others, the se- able-imponderables we can answer only for ourselves . verity of their affliction had not been recognized until it In our need to know or better understand, in our search was too late . His own turn-about, triggered almost at the for reasons or answers, we can surely never fully com- moment of his final act, came as an intervention far be- prehend the driving elements, the motivating factors, the yond himself, far beyond that of someone else's doing . multi-fold intangibles-the collective cause, so to Depression as an illness is evidently not well under- speak-that surround a suicide . Here it must rest. One stood because it has no prominent and specific predis- might see the cause as failing at a point, never for us to position ; it seems to 'choose' its victims entirely at ran- determine, somewhere along a broad spectrum, one end dom . This may not be surprising if one can consider of which may indeed meet the touted narrow stereotype . 'depression' as a kind of catch-all reference-a mani- On the other end of this broad spectrum, one might find festation or symptom of anyone or more of the vast and the most noble, selfless and heroic deed of sacrifice, diverse forms of human anguish already mentioned . And driven by a sense of mission-a destiny call that is therefore too, it will not be surprising to find that this spiritually acceptable . illness is far more prevalent than is generally realized . I believe we need to become more expansive in our So often it simply is not obvious or recognizable . Need- thinking, more tolerant, perhaps more forgiving in our less to say depression, from whatever cause, is 'treated,' attitude towards suicide, and in certain instances perhaps or better to say, suppressed or masked by liberal, often also less self-recriminatory . There may have been lessons careless, perhaps reckless use of pharmaceuticals-a for us to learn, examples to be heeded, perhaps sacrifices mindboggling array of substances easily available by were made for others left behind we can never truly know . prescription or otherwise . Also, of course, by the use of To return once more to Veronika : we do know the as- alcohol and other drugs . These substances bring about pect of burden-the pain and sorrow of others was a a false sense of general well-being, but very often draw dominant component of her destiny . This was eloquently the afflicted into the downward spiral of chemical de- and insightfully expressed in the obituary by her sister, pendency. This obviously is a gross over-simplification ; Renate Sleigh . (See Camphill Correspondence Novem- responsible administering of chemicals is clearly now ber/December 1996 .) a major dimension in the control and treatment to re- . . .Gradually the cloak of other people's pain covery of mental and emotional illness . A bitter, cryptic perhaps one could call it world pain-weighed irony lies in the fact that it is precisely these substances, too heavily that her two legs could no longer carry used in excess, that are the vehicle for a very large pro- her, they became ill and immobile . . . portion of suicides today . Veronika carried this destiny unflinchingly and fear- What might be referred to as 'the will to live', an intrin- lessly-one might even say joyfully-ever with an open, sic, untold force that has no measure and defies all clini- compassionate heart . Humbly and selflessly in her quiet cal comprehension, is known sometimes to sustain life gentle way, she always gave abundantly of all that she through the most unprecedented bodily trauma . This was and the little she had . phenomenon was recognized in the concentration camps Veronika suffered this illness to her legs and feet for sev- by the psychiatristViktor Frank)-himself a prisoner-and eral years-no cure was to be found . Then there was no is noted in Man's Search for Meaning, a book that de- longer any available means of support in South Africa for scribes his wartime experiences . More importantly here, herself and Michael, her husband ; no housing, no medi- however, Dr. Frank) observed that those who lacked this cal services, no subsistence support, and they decided not

3 to return to live in Camphill . When their two children had It is my sense that the needs of our departed friends are reached the point of finding their own way in life, more closely related to needs they recognize for us-i .e. Veronika consented to leave South Africa-a country she the necessity for us to make certain shifts in our own life dearly loved and considered her home-to return to Eng- which, from their elevated vantage, so to speak, become land, to an area in London where Michael had his roots quite literally painfully apparent to them . Perhaps it is and where some of his family still live . And here, not their task, their need in order to proceed themselves, to many weeks later, Veronika ended her life . . . help us . . .see to it that we move forward in our life, be One final note; I have long pondered the aspect of com- it in our inner development or whatever else that we ne- municating across the threshold-an activity that evi- glect or fail to accomplish . For this, of course, we need dently is, and needs more and more to be taken up in our to be open, be awake to their call . time . Though I'm not so familiar with much of the avail- Frequently a death-particularly a suicide-tends pro- able written material, my own perception is somewhat foundly to change the life of persons who have suffered different from what I have gleaned through conversation such a bitter tragedy. Yet here one can perhaps catch a and from print . Emphasis seems ever to be placed on the glimpse of that most exquisite provision or opening given needs for 'nourishment' of our departed friends which, by to us by the spiritual world whereby the possibility is al- means of certain activities undertaken on their behalf, we ways there for tragedy, for human failure, for sin . . .to be are able to avail in order to help them with their journey transformed, to be redeemed . And here perhaps, the onus on the other side of the threshold . may sometimes lie on us to consummate redemption!

Mario's Window Hartmut Berger, Camphill School, Hermanus, South Africa

But then, in the aeroplane from South Africa to England, I was surprised how clearly and comprehensively I could imagine how Mario must have felt, what went through his mind when he went to the bridge intending to jump, pacing up and down its length several times . Thoughts of not wanting to accept his situation were going through his mind : a whole life as a handicapped person, ill physically and mentally ; unemployable? No! That is not me! I know there might be some truth in what my parents have told me about existence after death, the consequences of committing suicide ; also what George Richie writes in his book Return from Tomorrow actu- ally makes sense to me-but can I really get more stuck after death than I am now? My own body is my prison to be blind and ridden by arthritis-a useless existence! Mario, Robin Berger No, I will not be stuck for the next 50 years like that, I offer here some very delicate and subtle observations will break free and carry whatever the consequences! and experiences ; the reader may, of course, take Now! Today! Yes! them or leave them . When these thoughts went through my mind, on wak- I do so for two reasons . Firstly, I believe there is de- ing up, or during quiet moments, it was as if they came spondency among some of us about having so called to me from outside me . More and more it was, as if I 'spiritual experiences', and I would like to encourage was for moments in Mario's mind . But was it really so? others to trust their own experiences . I was not sure. The second reason is one of research : we often take it Standing on the bridge myself and hearing from some as a fact, that people suffer a heavy burden of isolation workmen who had seen Mario jump, that he had indeed and a kind of imprisonment after taking their own paced up and down several times, was a slight confir- lives . . .) seem to glean that it might sometimes be dif- mation . The next thing happened about two weeks later ferent! Does not 'moral fantasy' and 'moral technique' back in Hermanus when I acted as a lay service holder hold good even in this field of reality? for one of our school services . But I want it to be understood that everything I write It was during theYouth Service, when I went from teen- must be questioned-everything except the reality of ager to teenager, addressing them with the beautiful love and forgiveness . words, 'You have been led in the first age of your life It happened in September 1998 . Mario's mother through the spirit of Christ, who overcame death so that wrote about his story (Camphill Correspondence life is saved for human souls . . .' I felt Mario as a clear, March/April 1999) . My first reaction when hearing that strong presence behind me, listening with joyful recog- my son had killed himself was denial : surely there is nition to every word! He had, of course, witnessed the some mistake? Then, after some seconds, pain and youth service as a young teenager . Then, i n the Ch i ldrens questions of guilt : what could I have done that it did Service he was felt as a jubilant visitor, listening to the not come to that? The reason for his deed was easily words ' . . .without love Man's being becomes waste and guessed at in general terms . void ; Christ is the teacher of the love of Man' . This ju-

4 bilation of Mario's soul-spirit was well known to me as London for some years, told me, when I asked her, that a wonderful quality of his, though in later years it was she often imagines meeting her brother. I n her imagina- rarely directed to the wise words of religious services . tion she then always puts a protective blanket around his But . . .how much sober reality is in all this? Are these ex- shoulders, woven with golden and red threads of love . periences based on wishful thinking? These critical ques- During these months Mario's presence could be felt tions wentthrough my mind when I had gained a distance during all the three school services . Then also when vis- from these subtle experiences . At the same time as being iting his older sister's family in Cape Town, when all the fleeting and subtle, they also felt real and fresh . I tried now four young children came running through their lovely regularly in daily quiet moments to tune in to him and to big garden to greet us, Mario was there, no longer nos- send him the peace of Christ . Another doubting question talgic, but delighting in the human situation . arose: Why just me-of all people? The others of our fam- But how can I say this? Describing it, is the first step ily had an equally good, or better, connection to him? to understanding . Just then I received a letter from a friend in Germany, It was just like a friend standing on the right hand side a retired priest, who reported having experienced Mario next to me smiling and being grateful about being hu- as a strong listener in The Act of Consecration, the com- man . These sentiments were put into my experience munion service of The Christian Community . She had through the region of my heart-a subtle yet at the same known Mario as a young teenager . Now there were two time powerful experience . 'sightings' independent of each other. Now Mario ap- But why just me-and so clearly and regularly? I car- peared to listen with special jubilant intensity to the ried this question with me for some weeks until one words of the Offering Service ' . . .out of Man's morning on waking up the realisation came to me like offering . . .spring the life creating fire of love . Christ, we an intuition : there is an opening like a window between receive you, for the healing of our body . . .soul . . .spirit' . Mario and I, and it came about through active forgive- It was with reassurance, but also with a smile, that I ness! Forgiveness? Yes, in the last proper conversation pondered Mario being now so religiously inclined, he we had in this level of existence, here on the stoop at who had rejected religion in later years . Dawn House, we had a wonderful conversation : we had It was at this time that our youngest son completed a talked about what I felt were his strange and distorted large painting of his older brother, an amazingly percep- memories, and suddenly he said, 'Dad, I forgive you eve- tive picture : Mario sitting on a very high mountain, so rything you did or might have done wrong to me, re- high that the horizon is curved and the sky black . He membered or incorrectly remembered . Yes, everything' . wears a red T shirt falling loosely over blue jeans . 'Why Then I had said, 'Oh, Mario, I want to say the same to did you give him the colours of Mary?' 'Oh, I did not you . Out of my deepest heart's decision I forgive you mean anything like that' . everything you might have wrongly thought, written or Then, weeks later, he came for a visit from Cape Town said about me, all and everything!' with some of his former classmates from Aberdeen, a Then father and son embraced each other . Forgiveness worthy gathering of cleverly chatting, charming, joking became a window from me to you and from you to me! seventeen year old young men . We went for an outing Lately, the experiences have changed to being subtle, to a neighbouring town and coming back over the hills more gentle, less involved . It is as if he is perhaps in- through a forest, driving in convoy with my son's battered volved somewhere else . If even some of this is more or old beetle, I felt a wave of pleasant nostalgia filling my less true, it becomes obvious that Mario, after his self- soul . 'Oh, how nice it is to have this young son with his inflicted death, has become amazingly mobile and free! friends around . . .all too soon this also will come to an end He is obviously searching intensively and joyfully for the again' . The darkening forest to right and left enhanced the kingdom of heaven! There is definitely change, progress, feeling of togetherness on a journey, rolling safely home a path towards further horizons . Perhaps we should not to a cosy house . 'Why do I suddenly feel like this?' I asked take it for granted that suicide cases exist only in nar- myself. 'I must be getting old to become so sentimental .' row circles of imprisonment. And yet . . .the feeling persisted becoming stronger so that I experienced, of course, only moments of his exist- I nearly started to cry! What is it? Ah yes, of course! It is ence; what might have happened in the long times be- Mario! He wants to be with us, by being remembered! tween is unknown to me . But I have the impression that He wants to be right in the middle of us and wants to something extraordinary might have happened to him! get through to his younger brother! I had to tell them . Is it, perhaps, that many individuals and groups have met They had all known Mario and had come to his funeral faithfully and have effectively helped him, helped the a year ago . There was a moment of silence-not of em- angels to help him to become free? barrassment, but of recognition . Some weeks later I had a conversation about Mario with He lives, he wakes 'tis Death is dead, not he ; his younger brother. He said he had had no experiences Mourn not for Adonais.-Thou young Dawn, of Mario . I mentioned his picture, but he was surprised . Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee 'It just happened like that' he said . 'Did the black sky and The spirit thou lamentest is not gone ; the colours of Mary happen 'just like that?' 'Yes .' Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan! In our next conversation, he told me how during exami- Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air, nations he often comes to think of Mario 'and it is not Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown disturbing', he added, 'but after remembering him my O'er the abandoned Earth, now leave it bare mind becomes calm and clearer' . We agreed, that every Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair! time we happen to think of Mario, he has actually gotten through to us . He was obviously relieved about this . Our From Adonais, John Keats younger daughter, the one who had lived with Mario in

5 Sixty years Camphill 1 June 1940-1 June 2000 Friedwart Bock, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen he beginning of the third millennium presents our antler Fleming discovered penicillin, revolutionising the time with great tasks and challenges . Camphill is also whole of modern medicine . In 1940 the Lascaux cave challenged . How can we meet these tasks with equanim- paintings were discovered linking us to a high early civi- ity and clarity of vision? At the Camphill Schools, Aber- lisation . The last leg of the Baghdad railway was com- deen, we have entered into partnership with Northern pleted linking Europe with the Middle East . The Second College in matters of training for Curative Education. We World War was spreading like wildfire over Europe . co-operate with the Autistic Society and have hired a France capitulated and England was threatened. Neville training co-ordinator to help us find our way through the Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill formed a maze of government requirements . Foremost in our minds coalition government . In the USA Theodore Roosevelt is the thought how to attract the children whom we can was elected for the third term and Charlie Chaplin made help in their incarnation process. The challenge is, how- the film The Great Dictator, a true comic relief. ever, to deepen and develop our insights into the Image of Man and the methods of teaching and therapy which are informed by Anthroposophy . Karl König spoke variously of the end of the century and Camphill's inner structures which should be car- ried actively forward to this point so that a new phase can be initiated . König never said that Camphill should last until the end of the century! He knew too well the growing needs of our time and that Camphill had the capacity to meet these . From humble beginnings sixty years ago our work in Curative Education, Youth Guidance and Social Therapy in a community setting has developed . Sixty years ago in 1940 the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter occurred . Then it was a triple conjunction : August and October 1940 and February 1941 . It was also in Ram, like this year. Into this year 1940 belongs also the entry of the women The year 2000 sees a single conjunction on the 28th May into Camphill House on the first day of June, making it just four days before the sixtieth anniversary of Camphill effectively the birthday of Camphill after a period of ges- on the 1 S' June 2000. It is the 100th conjunction of these tation beginning in Vienna, Paris, Arlesheim, London and great planets since the beginning of the Christian era . Kirkton House. Due to the threatening invasion after the While the conjunction of 2000 is not visible this time in defeat at Dunkirk, Karl König was interned on the Isle of the glare of the sun, it is part of the signature of this year . Man together with Thomas Weihs, Hans Schauder, Pe- Some of us remember those special children who were ter Roth and Ernst Lehrs, while Alex Baum, Willi Amann, born during the great conjunction of 1940141 ; they pre- Carlo Pietzner and Bernhard Lipsker were sent to Canada. sented enormous questions including autism . The writer On the 29th August 1940 Karl König had the spiritual had two of these children in his class in 1950. meeting with Zinzendorf on the Isle of Man which led to The re-appearance of the northern lights on 6 th April the establishing of the Bible Evening in 1941 . The weekly this year also belongs to this signature and asks us to readings can be sustenance and act as a uniting content raise our sights. across the world . At sixty years the impulse of the Bible In 1940 the first autistic children appeared beset by a Evening leading to the Sunday Services waits for renewal non-individual intelligence . Kanner and Asperger wrote of commitment. This can help us to face together the their classic works about autism in 1943 . In 1940 Alex- challenges and tasks of the coming years .

Fragments from the Story of Camphill 1939 1940 Part 3 Anke Weihs wo things were making it difficult for us to honour between ourselves and our hosts, Mr . and Mrs . our undertaking to integrate into and become help- Haughton, became strained . In their experience, we ful in our new country. With the outbreak of the war, we, were carrying out certain ideas given to them by Dr . Ita who were predominantly Austrian and therefore tech- Wegman when she visited Williamston a year or so be- nically citizens of a Nazi-dominated country, became fore . In our experience, the Haughtons were providing enemy aliens . And then, very early on, the relationship a stepping stone for the development of a future move-

6 ment of community with the handicapped . Besides, they police were on their way to intern all the men ; they had were so very British and we were so very continental . already fetched Mr. Roth, and the other men residing at Misunderstandings hardened into antagonism and Wi I I iamston, and as he spoke, we heard the police van these antagonisms were incompatible with our inner- coming up the h i l I . One or the other of us had witnessed most aims which were to serve the dignity and the good- people being fetched from their homes by Nazis . The ness of Man in men . With increasing force it dawned kindly Scottish police were considerate and apologetic on us that we would have to leave Kirkton House if our and gave us time to pack suitcases for the men . But all intentions were not to be entirely suffocated . at once, they went away with the men to some unknown But where would we go? destination . That Whitsun evening in Kirkton House was During one of his visits to London, Dr König had been very still and it would not be true to say that we were approached by W. F. Macmillan, head of the publish- not profoundly stunned . But we tried to carry on the life ing side of the Macmillan family, as to whether we could with the children in as full and active a way as possi- take his twenty four year old son, Alistair . But as an ex- ble, so as not to burden them with the weight of an event ample of the congestion that prevailed in Kirkton House, we ourselves could hardly grasp . the fact was that i n order to make room for Alex, we had The retreat of the British 6th army from Dunkirk had to saw a section out of the shelves in a tiny room opened up the extreme vulnerability of the British Isles which served as a telephone booth, office, linen cup- to a possible German invasion . In the next few days board and ironing-room, to make space for his feet! In after Whitsun, our first British child was withdrawn . these circumstances we could not have taken one more Others were to follow. person in, and so Dr . Königs response to Mr. Macmil- The move to the new place in the DeeValley had been lan was that were he to find a suitable place with suffi- planned for the 1St of June, Camphill having meanwhile cient scope and land and help us financially to acquire been bought by Mr. Macmillan for our use . (We subse- it, we would take his son . quently bought it from Mr. Macmillan .) But now that Dr. Early in 1940, Camphill in the DeeValley came onto König and the other men had been interned, our chil- the market . It had formerly belonged to Lady Aberdeen, dren were being withdrawn, and the situation in the but was now owned by a Mr. Gill, director of a well- country worsening, Camph i I I receded behind the hori- known paint firm, (which fact was to prove a remarkable zon like a bright dream before harsh realities . advantage to ourselves, for the paintwork in the house But what were the realities of our own existence? was in perfect condition!) Talks began with influential Six women, Mrs . König, Alix, Marie, Trude, Lisl, who people and with friends as to the wisdom of our under- became the wife of Hans Schauder, and I, sat upstairs taking a larger project such as Camphill would imply . in the music-room around a little table in the light of a In twos we travel led over to the Dee Valley to see the candle and struggled to find these realities . Reason wres- new place. I myself saw it for the first time on March tled with idealism . 26th in a snowstorm . In those days, the east drive was Kirkton House was small . We were known in the dis- densely wooded with beeches, and an incredible giant trict. The Haughtons supplied us with oats, milk and silver cedar stood in front of the main house, towering potatoes free of charge . With the two or three children above all the other trees in the estate . This cedar fell in remaining with us, we could with great care just man- a gale during our first Fasching at Camphill in 1941, and age to see our way until we knew where the men were the majority of the beeches on the east drive fell in the and when they would be likely to return . Moreover, how freak storm of 1951 . In those days, Culter and Milltimber would we manage without Dr. König who had con- were virtually separate villages outside the city of Aber- ducted all our business himself and who was the one deen, and Camphill was surrounded by farms . Lying who attracted the children needing help? The voice of close to the river, secluded by its trees, fragrant from reason was powerful . The voice of idealism seemed in- pines and well looked after, it seemed paradisical after appropriate under the circumstances . Did it come from the bleak, windswept, draughty manse at Kirkton and a sense of frustration at Kirkton House, from ambition, our thoughts and love began to circulate around the new from a craving for more civilised conditions such as place like bees around honey, although our actual fu- Camphill would offer? Or did it come as a summons ture as enemy aliens in a country valiantly and single- from out of the future? handedly at war remained obscure, to say the least . In those evening hours upstairs, an archetypal strug- On the 12th May 1940, we celebrated our second gle took place in the six women : a struggle to discern Whitsun at Kirkton House. By this time, the Sunday Serv- what was self-will and anxiety, what was spirit-will and ices had been established as the core of our festivals . It courage. Reason and idealism were two extremes . It was was a warm and sunny day . We sat down to our not a question of which would prevail over the other. It Whitsunday dinner around the big table laid with fes- was a question of abandoning one's own opinion and tive care. Outside in the world, the drama of Dunkirk one's own strong feeling to allow the presence of a third had just been enacted with all its implications for the agent to enter and reveal its nature and unite the sepa- future course of Britain and the war in Europe . But in rate hearts and minds into one strength and one deed . the sunfilled dining-room on our remote hillside in the And so we resolved not to remain in Kirkton House, north, we were striving to grasp the meaning of Whit- but to make the move to Camphill which was ready and sun as a singular human event and were united in a waiting for us . strong mood of peace and light . To be continued During the meal, the telephone rang . Peter went out to answer it and on returning to the dining-room, he We regret that in Fragments 2 there was an error in whispered something in Dr. Königs ear, and the meal the date of Karl Schubert's visit to Camphill . He went on . When we had finished, Dr. König said that the visited Camphill in 1948 and died in 1951 . Ed.

7 Funny Ideas Jonathan Stedall This contribution was given at the celebration of 70 years of curative work in Britain, at St. Christopher's School, Bristol, earlier this year .

ow is Camphill and the Rudolf Steiner inspired in such matters thirty or forty years ago . In various sur- H curative educational movement in general per- veys, for example, an increasingly high proportion of ceived by that famous 'man in the street'? As a documen- people declare not only their belief in some sort of God tary film-maker who has known Camphill in particular but also in the existence of angels and in the notion of for over thirty years, I have been asked to comment . It's reincarnation . They may no longer go to church in such not an easy brief. numbers, but the search and the questions are very Despite numerous articles over the years, as well as much alive . So why the block about Anthroposophy? films by myself and others I think it would be true to say Why this tendency to keep at arms length the philoso- that for very many people, the majority of people, phy that underpins movements like Camphill, however Camphill, for example, is not an organisation of which much the actual work is admired and appreciated? One they are aware . The L' Arche communities which I be- problem is, I think, the word anthroposophy itself. I know lieve came later, are probably better known . But there it took me, and probably most of you, some time to even are, of course, many for whom Camphill and the other learn to pronounce it! We all know that Steiner recom- schools and homes are very real, very important-par- mended changing the name constantly-yet nobody ever ents, relatives and friends of those children and adults does. Nor do I think that 'spiritual science' is much bet- who live there-you, the co-workers-the various pro- ter. So these labels, as it were, already give out unhelpful fessionals in the field of Special Needs-those who are signals . But the most unhelpful signal of all-and here I your neighbours whether in Yorkshire, Aberdeen, am treading on very sensitive ground-is the appearance Thornbury or elsewhere-and lastly those who have in of Anthroposophy as a cult . And people are, quite rightly, one way or another come across the work through the suspicious of cults . And what does one mean by a cult? press and television . It's this last group-the so called The most helpful insight I have had in this respect is meet- general public' about whom I will try to speak, for it has ing certain people who follow other teachers or teach- been with these people that I have attempted to com- ings and whose starry-eyed zeal and above all whose municate over the years . certainty make me want to rush off to the nearest pub! Is As a young producer in the BBC I remember being told this, I have asked myself, how I come across? once that we should always assume our audience was Another pitfall is jargon . Of course we have to use ignorant but also assume that they were intelligent . It words-but when and how do words become jargon, seemed to me a good guide . But gradually I've come to insights become cliches? It's a problem . Perhaps, for realise that perhaps the most important quality that one example, it would be more acceptable, more helpful to hopes for in an audience, any audience, is open- use the term 'etheric body' if we made far greater effort mindedness . It is, I fear, a response that for all sorts of to be aware of how other people, using other words, are reasons is far less in evidence than intelligence . Lots of arriving at the same insight . And certainly from my read- people are quite intelligent . But I am not going to put ing in, for example, the journal of the Medical and Sci- the sole blame on the general public for the fact that entific Network, it is clear that this is happening . In other initiatives like Camphill, with its strong spiritual content, words I think that we as anthroposophists, as students attract so little attention or are simply written off as of Rudolf Steiner, need to take a far greater interest in otherworldly. 'They do wonderful work but have funny what is going on in the culture around us, and to the ideas', is still a common response from people who extent that we don't, we will, quite understandably, be encounter not only Camphill but all sorts of initiatives perceived as a cult . And by culture I mean culture in the in education, medicine and agriculture that have been widest sense . I am saddened and, if I'm honest, some- inspired by Steiner . And I am not going to put all the times angry when people say things like : 'I can't be both- blame on this 'man in the street' because I believe that ered to read the newspapers' or 'There's so much rub- we who have been deeply touched by Steiner's life and bish on television-I never watch it' or 'Films are just work are sometimes also at fault, also to blame . And for dominated by Hollywood' . Of course there is rubbish me the question of how, say, Camphill is perceived is on television . There's plenty of rubbish in bookshops inseparable from how what Rudolf Steiner called too. There are newspapers and newspapers . Hollywood, Anthroposophy is perceived-the problems and the IikeAmerica itself, is capable of triviality at its worst, but challenges are essentially the same . also produces works that are both profound and at times What I am going to say may sometimes sound harsh, sublime (if I had twenty minutes instead of ten I would but I say it as a friend who admires your work deeply, happily hold forth on at least three recent American as someone who wants to be helpful and someone films: Sixth Sense, Bringing out the Dead, and Ameri- whose own life has been profoundly affected by Stein- can Beauty.) er's insights . The challenge therefore for those who are consciously First let me say that for all the materialism and outright searching for meaning and understanding in life is not, philistinism that permeate our modern world there is, I I believe, whether to opt in or to opt out, but rather the believe, a far greater interest and openness to matters challenge is to discriminate-and that entails taking an of a spiritual nature than when I started to be interested interest, becoming involved . If we don't we will fail to

8 encounter and therefore benefit from the wisdom and our gurus they want to hear quoted . They want to know compassion that is, despite the many obstacles, con- about us . What do we feel and think? How do we act stantly manifesting in all sorts of situations and all over and respond to life? Does our compassion match up to the world . There are dangers, I agree-trends that are our intellectual and philosophical endeavours? That is deeply disturbing. But there are also signs, many excit- what carries weight and conviction . I believe that Stein- ing signs, that we are on the slow and painful road to er's work, and therefore initiatives like Camphill would building a better, wiser and more caring world . have much greater impact on society if we all had far But perhaps the greatest challenge of all, for those for- more courage to speak out of ourselves, stopped being tunate enough to have been helped and inspired by gi- overreverential about Steiner, and took an even greater ants like Steiner is to make the insights their own . Jung interest in what is happening around us . Then these so- called it 'individuation' . I call it 'learning to stand on called 'flaky ideas' would move out into the world to a one's own two feet' or 'finding one's own voice', how- far greater extent, be kicked around somewhat but ulti- ever feeble and inadequate it may seem in comparison . mately do what they were always intended to do-en- In all humility one has, I believe, to stick one's neck out . rich our knowledge and understanding, stimulate our The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, in writing about a imagination and above all encourage each one of us to kingfisher, expressed it thus-'What I do is me . For that carry the torch further . I came!' Jonathan Stedall is a documentary film maker, well- We can study Steiner, of course-or Gurdjieff, known throughout Camphill for his Candle on the Hill . Best, perhaps, all of them! Krishnamurti, Jung, whoever films, as well as other TV documentaries and publicity But when other people meet and speak with us it is not videos about Cam phi/I.

Seasonal Plays by Dr. König Richard Steel, Föhrenbühl, Germany

n the middle European Region we have started a 're- Friedwart Bock. On the other hand the Hermannsberg search group' around the plays of Dr . König. community has gained interesting experience using After a long tradition of performing these plays for com- masks for the zodiac signs in the St. John's Play. munity festivals throughout the year and indeed through- Secondly, there is of course the question of the back- out the world it now seems right to look at the plays and ground to the plays . To know how to produce a play one at our experiences with them anew . really needs to know a little about what was intended . For some years now various plays have been per- The content of the plays is very diverse and deep ; one formed by Camphill groups outside the community set- can discover new aspects with each production . But tings-often they have been asked to take a particular how stimulating can it be to be able to profit from the play somewhere . A very special example is the deed of work of others and by conversing also to come to new the Lehenhof community who performed the Good Fri- discoveries! A great deal has been worked on over the day Play in Hauteroda during the communist period . decades and it is very rewarding to delve into the es- Some plays are now performed by 'outside' groups says that have helped individual centres to prepare the such as The Christian Community without any of the mystery-content, setting an appropriate mood for a play players necessarily having a connection to or even and deepening an understanding for the respective knowledge of the origin . Of course this development Christian festival . is to be greeted and encouraged . We have also pub- I am sure that many of you around the movement lished the plays, albeit privately, in German as well as would have valuable contributions to make, documents, in English . photographs or even anecdotes from the time of the birth However, new questions do arise in our changed times of the plays and their first productions . Please let us with the plays finding their way out into the world, with know and maybe we can make an effort movement- many unprepared visitors also attending performances wide to strengthen and renew the impulse of these very within the centres and with the growing and changing special plays that deserve their own category amongst population of Camphill around the world . stage productions . They are community-based but have Up to now we have tried to build contacts with long passed beyond our borders ; they are contributions those people in our region who are particularly in- to a christianisation of time rhythms-within the cycle volved in producing the plays, those who are specially of the year but also within the cycles of world history . interested in them and those who have experienced They are mystery-plays in the sense of being material the long history and maybe even the original produc- for Imagination . Today the preconditions for this process tions of the plays . are the penetrating light of developing consciousness Firstly, it is a matter of exchanging experiences and and the protecting warmth of human involvement . impressions about the many aspects of producing a Whoever feels called to contribute in any way is play-stage setting, lighting, costumes and so on . For in- invited to contact us via Richard Steel, Föhrenbühl or stance, Günther Lehr made sketches for the masks of the Peter Beier, Hermannsberg. Perhaps at a later date we four Gospel animals for the Book of Keils. Brigitte Köber can make some of our research known in had kept copies of these along with photographs of the Camph i I I Correspondence . first performance including Hans van der Stok and

9 Karl Königs Good Friday Play in Russia Margit Engel

n Russian Good Friday, the 28th of April, Swetlana with true seriousness spoke at the end . village and its inhabitants achieved to perform the I think only a few of us realise how in this Russian vil- GoodO Friday Play of Karl König. lage every bit of life is wrung out of endless obstacles . We all had to walk down to the airy, open space of The little amount of income comes from very small pen- the barn and sit on narrow planks of wood and listen sions of the villagers and from the sale of cheese and while the rain was pouring down outside and calves and dolls. How much did we, who were privileged to wit- hens played their accompanying part . ness this big effort, appreciate what was brought to us Two young German violin players gave first a musi- on this day! The heart that is mentioned in all its varia- cal introduction . Then they rushed to take their parts tions of human handicaps shone forth . The Russian heart in the play. The blind person appeared with Galina shines particularly bright when it is set free of intellec- who proved a very gifted actor. Minka, our star, was tual consideration and judgement. the one suffering from leprosy. He represented his part Easter is the time when the soul hopes to free itself of in solemn fashion and then one after the other of the its earthbound subjectivity, worry, doubt and criticism . villagers entered the stage-some planks put up for the They have to die for the heart to become able to listen purpose . Luke from the USA was lucky to be the mute into the new dimension of resurrection, to this etheric one, as his Russian is not quite up to standard . It was world wherein the Christ appears and spreads the essence a deeply moving event until the last soldier, Katja, of Christianity, the never-ending substance of true love .

The Land Question Camphill Agricultural Conference, Newton Dee Village, March 2000 Vivian Griffiths, Camphill Houses, Stourbridge, England here's something in the air at the moment when it group of young 'social' land workers set a high ideal in comes to the question of the community and the land . bringing people with special needs as a social example How is the sustainability of our communities affected to a land alienated society. People must be brought back when the awareness of the land-its work and the ben- into the centre of land work instead of mechanisation . efit it gives in tangible produce and beauty of surround- It was the 1960's that saw the land as the centre of com- ings-is seen by some people to have become munity life, being the foundation of production from marginalised? Maybe we caught this mood when we met milk to jam and the source of the materials for the craft in Newton Dee at the beginning of March for the first workshops, wood, wool and clay . Through this social Camphill Agricultural Conference in Britain for many years . endeavour the altar and the market place-cultural and It wasn't long before we were deeply embroiled in why economic life-were brought back into harmony after there are few 'community' farmers coming towards our centuries of neglect . This is part of the story of the Chris- centres and how with all the many responsibilities of tian social impulse of land and community . carrying a community, the land work of farming and If we come to the present time we may be forgiven for gardening was getting 'a bit lost' . On the one hand is observing that land consciousness has moved sideways . the spirit of what is mentioned in Karl Königs First In its place is the emergence of the modern culture of Memorandum to the Camphill Community about the care as people get older, and of administration with its care for the land and, on the other hand, the day to day rules, regulations and records, and a 'softening' towards multifarious life we lead where a set of instructions is land work, which is seen as a pleasant place to be rather hastily given as to the land work before the farmer hur- than as a working environment . This may be a provoca- ries off to attend a review, for instance . tive statement and the conference realised that there are We wondered at the conference how to lessen the different land situations in different Camphill commu- potential agony and misunderstanding that can come nities . For example, there are Camphill communities when land husbandry and community husbandry don't where land work is in association with other local bio- mesh together. How far are they the same fundamental dynamic initiatives : Oaklands and The Severn Valley stream and how far are they not-and where is the wis- Training ; the biodynamic experimental farm at Camphill dom to know the difference? Hapstead . And there are Camphill places where people To what extent, are new forms for land work in the con- from neighbouring towns can experience working on the text of a Camphill Community appropriate and even nec- land as volunteers : Larchfield, Camphill Houses Stour- essary. For example, in some of our communities, a sepa- bridge . These are some of the ways forward where the rate land entity has been created which has no associa- land is not marginalised . For some, the conference came tive relationship to the educational or care-orientated at an important time when the need for new forms to community, thus transforming the integrated approach enable the work to continue is a major issue . Hence, the which by and large we have worked with until now . serious look at the associative work idea which came up From the first work with the children to the great hopes throughout the conference . This was felt to be a justified of land work in the village communities culminating in response to the conference's title 'What sustains us in our the Earth and Man lectures of 1962, Dr. König and a biodynamic work within the context of Camph ill?'

10 Eros and Fable Notes from the Novalis Festival, 25t'April - 2"d May 2000 in Glencraig, Northern Ireland

From the Seventh to the Sixth Art rything together during Holy Week in Glencraig . Both communities were most generous hosts to us . a performer's view What a joyful experience this was for us as eurythmists! We went with our audience through new blossoming John Ralph, Camphill Schools Aberdeen perspectives that changed the whole experience of the stage and auditorium . The audience moved with us on oming home from the Novalis Festival after Easter, the stage and we heard new voices in us as we moved . I feel that we have eaten of the fruits of Paradise, a The engagement of everyone i n the workshops brought gardenC of delights that arose as the Hesperides of us closer to the inner truths of the fairy tale and to each eurythmy and social artistry worked intensively and har- other. moniously together . Although we are physically tired, People also spoke of the successes they had experi- we are filled with a deep strength that confirms the re- enced while engaging in artistic activity based on the ality of the experience . Here is a brief description, and fairytale before the Festival . It seems that Novalis' time some remarks from the Festival that I remember because has come for many souls . they made an impression on me . The Festival ended on Novalis' birthday, 2 nd May. The Festival centred on Novalis' fairytale of Eros and Certainly we have not reached the end of this work . Fable which relates an apocalyptic imagination of the There are still further years of unravelling and spin- seven Earth Epochs . ning that beckon to us . Fable sings of the healthy so- Jonathan Reid from the Camphill Eurythmy School had cial life as she spins ; 'Each will in all be dwelling . And ploughed the ground for us by organising the 33 per- all in each one too .' formers from 10 centres, and in the field of Glencraig Baruch spoke of the way the seventh art, the social art, Camphill Community the seeds of spiritual research could weave together with the sixth art of eurythmy and could root and green . I experienced the reality of this in our artistic work . An evening eurythmy performance of the first of the 'Eurythmy is not possible without a social organism .' seven pictures prepared the opening day's study . 'The The rehearsing and performing was a nourishing and old hero beat upon his shield . . .' He repeated the signal harmonious experience beyond all expectations . three times . The following morning, that first picture re- Our gratitude goes to everyone who made a contri- sounded through the music written by Andrew Dyer for bution towards bringing the idea of this Festival into piano and lyre, with additional lyre material by John reality, and especially those in our centres who re- Billing. Baruch Urieli then spoke about the picture, re- leased us for so long . I hope that this Festival can pro- lating it as an apocalyptic imagination of the first Earth vide a model for future events as the gulf between au- Epoch . The inner beings of the characters in the tale dience and performance has been so effectively were unfolded and the whole related to the Michael bridged by working i n this way. Stream in Earth evolution in the light of Rudolf Steiner's 'Fable's technique of moving through worlds brings Michael Imagination, also shown in eurythmy. Artistic them closer together.' workshops continued to deepen the themes in eurythmy 'We must create moments where Art can live .' (three groups), speech, paint, and clay that led the The King called out 'All will be well . Iron, hurl your groups into conversation . sword out into the world that all may know where In the evening the same picture was repeated and the peace rests .' next picture was shown in eurythmy, inspiring the fol- lowing day. And so we continued for seven days, look- ing back and forward each evening and extra events in the afternoons . The opportunity to see the eurythmy The 'Eros And Fable' experience more than once was very much appreciated by many, especially some who found themselves swimming in so many impressions the first time round . At the end the Edeline LeFevre, Camphill Community whole tale was brought to life in about two and a half Glencraig, Northern Ireland hours of eurythmy, speech and music . About 65 participants followed the whole and many ast week was a week like no other week I had ever others came to the lectures and performances . We were experienced . A unique week! Seven days of bathing in all 28 eurythmists, 3 speakers and a speech chorus from inL colour and movement and seven days of enlighten- Glencraig, 2 musicians and a lighting technician . ment through the word . Jonathan directed the performance with Evamaria Rascher What I am trying to express in these introductory words who had directed the eurythmy when Baruch gave a is a gratitude for having been allowed to take part in the course of lectures on the fairytale 9 years ago, now pub- conference here in Glencraig on the theme of Novalis' lished by Camphill Press . We had rehearsed twice for two fairy tale of 'Eros and Fable' from his (unfinished) book weeks in Botton Village then we polished and sewed eve- of Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Like many of us intending to take part in this conference, tiful, concise way. In fact it would take the time of seven I had read the story a few times . I had been to readings lectures to do justice to it! But what should be said, is of it during the Holy Nights, had seen the wonderful that each instalment was being looked forward to with series of pictures made by David Newbatt, but in spite baited breath and that the characters became so famil- of all this I had not really been able to grasp the gist of iar, at least this is how I experienced it, that it will be the story . difficult to ever forget them again! On Tuesday after Easter the guests started to arrive It became ever clearer through Baruch's talk that No- and after a festive welcome we were presented with valis was a divinely inspired writer to be able to de- the first scene of the story. All through the play there pict the whole of the evolution of the earth within one was wonderful music, played and composed by An- story. No wonder there were so many images involved, drew Dyer (piano) and John Billing (lyre) . After the ini- showing the ever-changing nature of the Earth towards tial music the stage was filled with the colours and the a future existence where love and peace will reign in tones of the Zodiac and the planets, when in the first freedom . scene we were introduced to King Arcturus, his daugh- It was not only evolution as such which Baruch de- ter Freya and the Old Hero . Their 'electrical' meeting scribed, he also spoke about empathy, the after-image, set the whole play into motion and from then on there the organ of Gabriel, sexuality, man and woman, evil, was no end to images . . . love . All these subjects, which have occupied Baruch Baruch's first talk, the next morning, shed light on for so many years now and which we in Ireland have many of the questions which had come up the evening been privileged to have become acquainted with before! Who is Arcturus? Why are the servants rubbing through him, all came up naturally out of the various Freya's arms? Who is this Old Hero who throws his iron pictures in the story. sword into the air and what does he set into motion? Although the eurythmists were clearly exhausted on the After Baruch's first talk there was panic among the last day, one could sense from them that this had been a eurythmists! It had become obvious that to be able to very important experience for them all and that they also get the most out of Baruch's words the same scene felt enriched by Baruch's contributions . would need to be shown again . This proved to be ex- An interesting observation from one eurythmist was tremely helpful, but a lot of extra work for the poor that she had the feeling that the first 'run through' on eurythmists . And so a pattern began to form : every Easter Monday had been like a 'performance', while the evening the scene from the night before, followed by a last 'run through', a week later, was a totally different new scene . As for the Friday it had been planned to experience, one of 'audience participation' . show two scenes, we ended up having three scenes two For me it was an amazing experience to be in a con- days running! I really began to feel that I had never ex- ference in which art is the main feature . As was also perienced such a delicious treat in my life, day after day expressed in the final plenum, it is to be hoped that this after day! may become a model for future conferences . All too In the second scene we were introduced to Fable and often in our conferences there is too much talking and Eros, to Eros' mother and father, to Fable's mother and too little real experience . In this conference very much Eros' wet nurse Ginnistan and to the scribe . The scene of real content has become real experience through the a 'typical German family' as Baruch put it, soon began right use of the medium of art . to change into something completely different, through A heartfelt 'thank you' to Baruch, Jonathan Reid, all the the find of a bit of iron from the Old Hero's sword . eurythmists and to John Nixon, who was very much the It is impossible here to tell the whole story, as this driving force behind the incarnation of this conference would take longer than Novalis took over it in his beau- in Glencraig!

The future is now! Joan de Ris Allen, Vidaräsen, Norway

he Place : Northeast Scotland, Camphill Rudolf spiritual world ; Camphill Hall modestly peopled with Steiner Schools, Murtle Estate . those of us who had come to see and hear his second The Time: Late March, with nature clothed in shimmer- Mystery Drama, The Soul's Probation ; but the Hall filled ing spring green blended with the brilliance of early to overflowing with those whom we could not behold flowers and blossoms . Fleeting patches of sunlight with physical sight, yet who were joyfully present in through the mist and drizzle . order to share in this courageous event . The Mood : Waiting, pondering, seeking to under- The Setting : Throughout the thirteen scenes, performed stand the challenge, like a holding of one's breath be- i n the course of two evenings, the stage was dominated tween inhalation and exhalation . Sixty years of Cam- by a gigantic hammered metal seal, whose five-fold phill's history inscribed in every tree, building, turning design had been given for the play in 1911 . Hanging on of the way; the past and present merge, the future is a blue background, its powerful forms metamorphosed unclear, veiled in the mists . Inner longing seeks for clar- by the changing stage lights, it lifted the spoken word ity, understanding, new convictions, perhaps for crea- into other realms of being . tive transformation? The Unfoldment : Time ceased to be relevant, as the The Deed : Thursday evening, 30th March 2000, the more than forty people taking part proceeded to lead us 75th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's crossing into the into the future . Each actor had created his own role

12 through inner searching and suffering . Some had stepped whose souls we have planted seeds for the future, in during the last days, others had prepared themselves seeds which will ripen when these souls find their way during many weeks . Eurythmy played an important role, into a future life on earth' . the twelve peasants were members of the audience, the The message was clear : the future is now . The words actors at times were on the stage, at times with us in the rang true and convincing . Thank you Bernhard, for Hall, and then in the Chapel area for the final temple bringing about this courageous event, and thanks to all scene. The drama unfolded around us and in us, and we of you who had the will to take part in this endeavor, could identify with the members of the cast . who put on the first play last year, and who now have It was deeply moving and actual when the Grand the enthusiasm to continue with the third and fourth . Master, a young man from Hungary, spoke his pro- And thank you Paul, for being one of those who in- phetic lines, 'For us as well the hour is close at hand spired this important activity . when these protecting walls must fall . . .' and 'into * Bernhard Menzinger, Paul Allen

Voices of children . . . Gerda Blok, The Mount, England

little girl approximately 6 years old, is skipping cited voice, 'It looks to me like some piece of a pre- ahead of other children along a rough road leading cious vase' . 'Perhaps it was made long ago and in a upA to a building site . She halts and stoops down-then far-away country?' calls excitedly : '0 look, what's here-I've found a pre- Now all the children are getting interested in the cious stone, a piece of marble I think!' She shows it to thought of a precious vase! 'Who were the people who her sister, who has come to see-but is soon off again made such a precious vase? Maybe even a hundred to look for more . The rubble consists of the usual years ago? Very, very long ago . . .!' A little boy chips in, crushed brick and stone material, but also of small frag- 'Perhaps, I think, I have also lived in that far-away land, ments of a different sort . The children's eyes pick these where people made such vases!' 'I really want to know out: pieces of pottery, flint, coloured glass, even small who these people were, I love this blue and gold frag- crystals and some stones with special patterns . There is ment you found, it is very precious!' Someone else, no end to their joy in discovering! 'Maybe you were once, long ago, an old fisherman with The excited voices soon draw together the rest of the a net, and among the fish you also caught this piece of children . They too want to participate in finding treasures . precious pottery?' 'I think, I may have been a princess The children are full of wonder. They seem to have who was brought over the big, big sea from Persia to discovered a world previously unknown to them : 'I can marry the king of Norway!' 'It was my grandfather, who see something glittering here', and 'Over there, look, it told me of Persia, a rich land far away where people is something beautiful too, a fragment with a little bit of used to make beautiful things' . 'When I was on the big decoration on it!', and 'I can even see some precious sea, a wild storm destroyed the boats and I drowned!' glass, all green and smooth', and 'Look here, I've found 'The big vase I had with me in the boat was shattered a very small piece of red pottery!' into many small pieces and they sank to the bottom of At last, I too have arrived, pushing the pram with the the sea!' 'Perhaps you got this one in your net?' sleeping baby. I secure the brakes and now can join the This little story stirs the imagination of the children and group of children and . . . I begin to understand . These I can experience i n their sudden silence that, as if look- children do not just pursue some childish game-no, ing through a window, they see themselves living long they have made a real discovery of what usually goes ago and somewhere else-in another land . . .! Then unnoticed in the world of adults! I realise that in these again, 'Who were those people who made this beauti- children's eyes the so-called rubble on the road has ful vase?' 'Maybe we were there too! Maybe it was us?' taken on a life of its own, and all the collected pieces The children quickly polish their treasures . are looked upon with wonder and the great expectation Their 'window' had opened wide into a timeless space . of learning more about them . Each fragment, held in a It was a moment of an important truth for us together . child's hand and looked upon with a child's innocence, The sun had almost sunk behind the forest and it was begins to tell a story! A window opens into a past and time to go home for supper . We left with our treasures the children's imagination is deeply stirred . . . . and with the glimpse of a golden memory into the past, As I admire a piece of black marble, a small voice when we knew one another . Maybe we will meet again next to me pipes up, 'Maybe this marble was in a posh in the future? If I was to ask the children, they would lady's castle?' Another voice, 'Look, perhaps this piece harbour no doubt at all! comes from some beautiful pottery-I can see it was A true experience, written by a grandmother. blue and there is a thin golden stripe on it too!' An ex-

13 Obituaries

lain Smith, M .B.E. OstJ . J .P. Friedwart Bock, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen

n Palm Sunday lain Blind implored him to help completed his them . For forty years he earthlyO life after a brief worked there and as the but intense illness . Al- manager he transformed the ways presenting a picture Asylum into Workshops with of health and fitness at commercial viability. People eighty-eight, he had cared with other disabilities than for his invalid wife Betty blindness joined the original whom he had known and workforce arising from lain's loved for seventy-three initiative . His concern for years . So his death came each worker was carried by unexpectedly in several lain's warmth of interest . ways and too quick to be lain had his first contact able to say farewell to with Camph i I I around 1960 lain . His passing at the be- through a group of Scottish ginning of Holy Week, country dancers to whom he the still week, was a grace belonged . He agreed to for him who had lived a serve on the council of man- deeply devout life . The agement of the Camph i I I Ru- Catholic Church of St . dolf Steiner Schools and Francis of Assisi at the proved helpful beyond any western edge of the city of expectation . When the Aberdeen was filled with former chairman J . Downie- workers of the Aberdeen Campbell died, lain became Workshops for the Blind, Chairman of the Council in with friends and family 1974 . His active interest and and representatives of concern for each child and voluntary organisations co-worker went far beyond lain had served, the the call of duty as a chair- Camphill Schools in par- man . In the monthly meet- ticular . lain was a man of ings his competence and ex- deep compassion who gave his help and friendship to perience were backed by Lawrence W. Milne as his so many . secretary. Many a time we went to lain for advice be- lain Smith, a true Scot was born on the 2nd October tween meetings . 1911 in Surrey, where his father was gardener in a large After twelve years the seventy-five year old lain horticultural business . His father, Alexander Watt Smith handed the chairmanship to George Morgan in 1986 . came from West Lothian, his mother Mary Anne Monk lain was not too old for the task but he knew when from a 'black house' on the Hebridean island of Ben- to make room for his successor . lain continued ac- becula . At the outbreak of World War One the father tively on the Council and was made Honorary Presi- volunteered at thirty-nine like the younger men and fell dent in 1995 . It was only due to Betty's needs that he at the Somme, 29th' June 1916 . Neither lain nor his sis- missed any meeting, open day or cultural event at ter Annie, three years his junior, had consciously Camphill . known their father. The sister died at the age of four- Through the International Board Members Meetings teen in 1928 . The mother moved to Aberdeen where starting in 1987 lain extended his friendship to those lain went to Skene Square Primary and Rosemount Sec- delegates he met from all over the world . This came ondary School . But he had to be the bread winner for to a culmination on his trip to the USA given to him the family at a young age . As a warehouseman in the for his 80th birthday. The Offering Service was one of Aberdeen Workshops for the Blind, he found some- our observances he treasured especially and he made thing like a vocational field . sure we had this service at the International Dia- When lain joined the army in World WarTwo he be- logues . In the forty years of lain's association with came a physical instructor, boxing, wrestling, moun- Camphill he had known Karl König, Thomas and Anke taineering and swimming being his personal ardent Weihs, the principals and the co-ordinators and al- pursuits . After the war he went to Jordanhill to train ways gave invaluable help . I want to express deep as a teacher of physical education . Yet he sacrificed gratitude to lain and his wife Betty, true friends to us his career as a teacher when the Workshops for the at Camphill .

14 Meg Farquhar an address given at the funeral 18th April 2000 at the Michael Chapel, Newton Dee by Friedwart Bock

hen we turn to our dear contribution to the life and work of friend Meg, Margaret Jane the community at the Camphill WFarquhar, we think of her as Rudolf Steiner Schools . She Alistair's mother because her life learned to know the message of was bound up for well-nigh fifty Anthroposophy in our time and years with his special destiny . became a special and sincere Dedication and selflessness are representative of this . Meg was in unique traits of Meg's character . Camphill House, St Andrew's and These shone out into the Newton Dee House and then took community around her . She gave on the task of a teacher of our of her wit and her uncom- children and co-worker children in promising conviction for what is St John's School in 1965 . She was true and important in our time . the housemother in a small unit Meg was born seventy-five and was renowned for giving years ago in Aberdeen as the guidance to the most challenging youngest of three sisters . Her children and co-workers . father became the last Provost of For the twelve years that Ellon . Meg married in 1948 and followed 1972 she made a vital AI istai r was born i n September contribution to the Bay family in 1949 with a frail constitution but Edinburgh enabling Ita to follow with a capacity for sparkling joy the priest's training . Meg then had and special forces of the heart . an experience of Shalesbrooke His education and care were not before she joined the Newton Dee really met by the provisions Village Community for some three available at the time and Meg's years . During this time her parents marriage was going through died in 1976 and 1978 . Then she difficult times . In 1959, Meg had worked for a period at Park been working at a dairy and at a Attwood Clinic and there followed fruit merchant's, she followed an four years of teaching at the advertisement placed by Ann Aberdeen Waldorf School when it Harris to take on the laundry at Murtle House for was located at 44 Bon-Accord Street . Meg was one about eighty souls . Alistair came to St John's School of the founder teachers of the school . as a day pupil and soon Meg found a spiritual home In 1982 Meg and Alistair moved to Newton Dee at Camph i I I . She moved i n as a co-worker exactly and for the following eighteen years she made her forty years ago on the 20th April 1960, Alistair special contribution to the Village community. In became a boarder at the Camphill Schools and his October 1998 Alistair's health failed and he died . needs were met . Meg struggled now with her own health . For the next eleven years Meg brought a unique She was born in the North East of Scotland on the day following Rudolf Steiner's death at Dornach seventy-five years ago, as if she had heard the call . It was also the pre-Easter time then and Easter fell on the 12th April that year . The same date this year Meg was released to join her Alistair and the great host of the dead who send their help and strength to those living on the Earth . Meg has transformed the pain she experienced in her younger years into interest and helpfulness towards children, young people and adults of a wide spectrum, whose gratitude is offered up to her now. Her passing has brought us to this moment of farewell in the light of the death on Golgotha and Christ's resurrection .

From God Mankind has Being In Christ Death becomes Life In the Spirit's World Thoughts the soul awakens .

IS Anne Maciver 22 March 1964 - 21 January 2000 William 'Mac' Maciver

nne Maciver, much loved daughter of much, and indeed the testimony of those who Mary and 'Mac' Maciver of work with children/adults with learning dis- Northwood,A Middlesex, died at the age of abilities has often been that they have been 35 years at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cam- the teachers of their teachers, the therapists bridge on 2Pt January 2000, following a se- of their therapists . rious spinal operation . Anne had taught us something about the Anne's first four years of schooling were paradox that her Church was both a place of spent at Breakspear Special Needs School in familiarity and awe. He recalled Anne occa- Watford but in the hope that her speech could sionally during worship moving to the front be developed she joined the Camphill Rudolf of the church and swinging gently to the Steiner Schools in Aberdeen in February music because music soothed her while, at 1973 . She remained there and at the Camph ill the same time, she always sat on the floor Templehill Community near Aberdeen for never far from an exit to facilitate a rapid de- nine years . From there she went to the young parture because of her claustrophobia . Anne adult Camphill Community in Thornbury, had also taught us something of the give and Bristol for five years, during the last six take of God's grace . Once when, along with months of which her health deteriorated other congregants, Anne brought a parcel of markedly, and eventually an under-active thyroid con- harvest gifts to the Harvest Festival, and brought them dition as well as claustrophobia were diagnosed . Whilst forward, then, despite being supposed to be shy, Anne recuperating, she lived at home for two years, during the boldly moved forward again and took them back-the last twelve months of which she attended the Balmoral give and take of God's gifts . Anne too had a remarkable Day Centre in Watford . empathy with people. She took strong exception to any In November 1990 Anne became a resident at Herald parental scolding of her brother in their formative years House, part of The Home Farm Trust's Bedfordshire and if, when out shopping and an ambulance passed by, Scheme in Shefford, where she was lovingly cared for she would remark 'Mum, not well' . until she entered Addenbrooke's in December 1999 . Finally, David Dickinson paid tribute to the high level After approximately two years there it was clear that of professional and loving care Anne received from staff Anne regarded Herald House as her home as distinct at Breakspear School, Balmoral Centre, Camphill, The from her earlier abode at Northwood . Home Farm Trust and, most recently, at Addenbrooke's Anne had an unusual characteristic in that although Hospital . We hear much criticism week by week about she had the ability to speak she rarely did so (elective our National Health Service but the high degree of pro- mute), and only on the rare occasion when showing fessionalism and loving care which she received during some distress did she utter a few words . her six weeks approximately in the Critical Care Unit When at home Anne worshipped at Northwood Meth- at Addenbrooke's was of great comfort to her loved ones, odist Church and the Reverend David Dickinson con- and for which they are most grateful . ducted a moving Memorial Service there on February William 'Mac' Maciver is a member of the Camphill 3rd, 2000, at which some 120 people were present . Rev- erend Dickinson reflected with wonder about the fact Milton Keynes Community Council . He has worked selflessly for Camphill Milton Keynes for many years, that Anne, notwithstanding her disabilities, taught us and continues to do so .

Address at the funeral of Anne Maciver Dr loan Platford, Camphill Milton Keynes, England

would like to begin with some thoughts of Dr Thomas quote from Dr Weihs, 'the other person's potential be- Weihs, one of the founders of Camphill . Dr Weihs was ing, something that i n rare moments can be perceived a pioneer of the therapeutic work with children with and experienced by others, and hardly ever of the self learning disability . He met Anne with her parents, Mac by the self . When the Holy Spirit descended on the and Mary, in 1972 and described her as 'a beautiful lit- heads of the disciples at Pentecost, none perceived the tle Down Syndrome girl' . Thereafter, Anne was a pupil tiny tongue of fire that hovered over his own head, but of the Camphill Schools, Aberdeen, for nine years . each saw it hovering over the heads of the others' . Dr Weihs was concerned that we should all strive to Anne was burdened by her difficulty with speaking, experience the true potential of the other, whoever they something with which we know she struggled during her are : gifted, average or disabled in some way . Some of school years and later . In her last years she also had to us are burdened by greater physical or mental difficul- struggle with a severe physical disability . ties than others, but we must not lose sight of, and I When Dr Weihs and his colleagues began their work

16 in the 1940's there was a great deal of discrimination In the field of medicine discrimination is rare . My own towards the person with learning disability. Physical experience of attitudes of GP's, hospital staff and so on, segregation occurred in the form of the large hospitals, has nearly always been positive . many of which have now closed . Parents were some- Improved treatments are enabling many, in particu- times advised to 'put their children away and forget lar perhaps people with Down Syndrome to live a about them' . Some children were deemed ineducable . longer, healthier life . We detect thyroid problems ear- Parents were often left bewildered, frightened, with lit- lier. Advancing anaesthetic and surgical techniques tie support after being told of their child's difficulty. mean operations are possible on, for example, heart I think that during the last 50 years or so many steps defects which were unheard of some years ago . The have been taken towards acknowledging the true po- list is endless . tential of persons with learning disability. In education there are many, many wonderful schools In my work I have listened to a few hundred parents and colleges . Now we are trying to further integration of young and older adults telling of their experiences . by keeping as many children as possible in mainstream Even now rarely, and I am sad to say this, some par- schools . There are strict policies on bullying contribut- ents recount negative experiences in their encounters ing to the success of these children's education . with professionals . On the whole, however, the stories No longer are our friends with learning disability shut are positive and heartening . away, hidden in big hospitals, but they live in flats, group There is, for instance, generally a more sensitive homes, family fostering situations or community settings . handling of the conveying of the initial information They are being enabled to contribute to society in a to parents . We have learned a lot about the impor- meaningful way and, as Dr Weihs said : 'It will be im- tance of how such information is communicated . In portant for the future to create communities based on all fields help is available early . I even have a friend the mutual recognition and help between the so-called with a young Down Syndrome child who felt she was normal and the so-called handicapped as a contribution offered too much help too soon! to the social rejuvenation of the wider community' .

The Ash Leopold Sparr he ash shows many of the qualities depicted in the that is necessarily flexible and does not easily snap, is 'World Ash' Yggdrasil, of Norse mythology . Thus it made of ash . There is no wood that lends itself better to favours damp stands, indeed it likes best to stand by the spear, the weapon that needs to be hurled with di- clear flowing water. Where ashes stand there is always rected aim towards a perceived mark . moisture . Of all trees it develops the mightiest root sys- Translation, Jens Holbek. tem . As its Latin name Fraxinus excelsior indicates it is a tall-growing, lofty tree . The trunk is rarely crooked . In lovely simplicity the ash grows in slenderness to- Colours wards a sunny light goal . The bark of the trunk of a young tree is light grey : in maturity it shows a beauti- Across my blue fully drawn network of fissures . It is remarkable that only fairly high up does the up- solitude ward-reach of the tree fork in a Y . After the fork the two cuts a slash parts, usually of similar size, stretch near vertically up- wards . Thus especially the young tree presents a pic- of red violence ture of youthful sinewy tautness, the image of an 'I' driving consciousness, proudly striving higher. It is as though the tree, at each fork of the trunk or of the limbs gets a the rings renewed spur to decide for clarity of form to pursue its of peace pre-ordained goal . Right down to the formation of the ever further finely pinnate leaves we follow this gesture, peculiar to the ash . away. It is interesting, particularly in connection with what An has been said about the world-ash, Yggdrasil, how the ash as a nostrum against illness and other adverse mat- inconsequential ters, comes up in folk-lore . The sap from the top-most edge of white foam branches of the ash is said to be a specific against snakes . fades The smoke of burning ash-wood is supposed to drive snakes away. Some usages specify the gathering of the on a shore specific just on Midsummer day, St John's day, at the far away solstice; others say it should be on Good Friday . The golden-yellow, clearly marked grain of the wood from me. of the ash is hard and is notable mainly for its tough- ness and elasticity. It is full of restrained tension, taut and Richard Neal, Copake sinewy. The bows, hammer and axe handles, anything

17 Books Crop Circles The Greatest Mystery of might. For, indeed, I believe that part of the an- Modern Times swer will be found in the natural world, portrayed L. Pringle in the form of a new understanding of maths, Thorsons, London 1999 physics and medicine; knowledge that was al- ready recognised intellectually and intuitively by Review by Gerda Blok, The Mount, England. our dim and distant ancestors but later lost to his book has been published only recently and I us . . . When the crop circle 'energy' has been de- T would like to draw your attention to it . coded, what will it reveal?. . . How long will the Over a period of approximately ten years L . Pringle and shapes continue to adorn our fields? Have they her friends have been researching the phenomena of got a message for us. . . ? circle formations, especially in England, but also in The content of the book is open for contemplation . many other countries around the earth . L . Pringle has gathered up in this book the fruits of her research . One can be astounded by not only the beauty but also the geometrical exactness of these imprints on corn- fields, cabbage and potato fields, on sand, grass and pebbles, even in winter on snow fields and on frozen rivers . Most interesting reports and experiences are in- terspersed with beautiful photographs of manifold cir- cle formations . Among other themes, the book addresses the crop circle hoax, physical and emotional effects on people, effects on human consciousness, on animals, on mechanical things like cameras, portable telephones, even cars and aeroplanes. L . Pringle's approach is serious, also enthusiastic and open to as yet unknown realities . She is not able to of- fer conclusive answers . However, among others she Gardening for Life the Biodynamic Way adds one rather humorous excerpt from Lords and La- by Maria Thun dies by Terry Pratchett : Hawthorns Press . At Circle time, when walls between this and that Review by Maria Mountain, Loftus, N. Yorkshire, England. are thinner, when there are all sorts of leakages . . . ! Ah, then choices are made, then the universe can -F his book surprised me with its sheer wealth of ex- be sent careering down a different leg of the well- perience and advice, based no doubt on the many known trousers of time . . . Crop circles burst like years Maria Thun and co-workers have been testing, raindrops. . .splatl. . . They appear when the walls experimenting, and observing plants in relation to the between realities get weaker . . . You'd be able to heavens and the earth . It has been written i n a down- walk from one universe to another. to-earth, unassuming way, which makes the informa- It appears that crop circle formations have been part of tion it gives very accessible . I found it inspiring about human existence and known about for hundreds of biodynamics through its practical and matter-of-fact years . Only during the latter part of the 20th Century have approach ; this is very welcome because biodynamics they sprung into public awareness . is often perceived as being difficult to explain and to L . Pringle expresses her thoughts in the last chapter . understand . There are one or two sentences which I want to add, as Maria Thun does not go into too much depth about they seem to open a door, albeit only a chink, to let in the 'whys' of biodynamics, but she says just enough some light for the reader : . . . to enable a newcomer to understand the fundamen- I wonder ifthose ancientpeople would have had tal truths . I found it also re-inspired me for their ex- an explanation for the crop circles? I suspect they periments so obviously proved that the healthiest, most profitable and most natural way of gardening is to work with the forces of the world rather than in ignorance of them . The photographs and drawings were also of top- quality-the photos are clear and relevant to the text . My only reservation is that it is all very well to de- cide to sow, transplant, hoe, harvest, spray, on the right flower day, leaf day, root day, and fruit day as I have just decided to do (again)-but incredibly diffi- cult to be able to stick to such a vow with life and the weather being what it is! I think even the most experienced of gardeners could find gems of information in this book, and for someone new to biodynamics Gardening for Life could be an excellent guide .

18 Hazel Straker, 80 Lavinia Dent, The Speech School, East Grinstead, England

azel celebrated her 80'" birthday at Coleg Elidyr setting up a school for 'exceptional' children in the on April 6'" with the whole community, plus a few United States and worked with them there for seven friendsH who had travelled to be with her for the occa- years . sion . Hazel originally trained to be a nursery nurse in It was a particularly lovely, sunny day with a clear Tunbridge Wells . She was invited to Sunfield, Clent night sky-a bright sickle moon and a line up of the for the weekend and stayed there for seven years . planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn . Apparently, the Aurora Hazel went to Coleg Elidyr in the late 1970's . Her Borealis could also be seen at one point. contribution has been invaluable . She has been very Hazel is known far beyond the confines of mid-Wales supportive of the educational, cultural and religious for her many talks, workshops and articles on astroso- life of the College . phy. She has travelled extensively in this connection in In her time, she has taught the seminar and groups of the United States, Europe, New Zealand and Australia . youngsters to share her love of the stars, and continues Hazel, as a young woman, was challenged by Willie to be a service holder and play her part in the celebra- Sucher to take up the work with the stars as a life's task . tion of the festivals . The acceptance of this task was perhaps precipitated by Her love for, and knowledge of nature has enabled her a severe bout of typhoid which took its toll on Hazel's to beautify her physical surroundings and her steady, physical strength and was to curtail her practical activi- inner work provides an essential element in the being ties although she joined Willie and Helen Sucher in of Coleg EI idyr.

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Camphill Village USA, Copake, N . V. Grange Oaklands Camphill Communities Our community is undergoing several shifts in responsibility . seek a kindergarten teacher for September 2000 . There will be a group Consequently we are looking for co-workers in the following areas : of around 7 children . If you require further details please contact : • House Parents for two Village houses Karen Kamp, Briar Cottage, Oaklands Park • People interested in being part of a Care House team Newwnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, GL 14 1 EF • An experienced biodynamic Farmer Tel : 01594 516515, Fax: 01594 516821 • An Estate Manager (this includes woodlands, roads, lawns, maintenance and a great team of workers!) The Grange, • A Bookbinder a striving rural Camphill Community, is noe looking for enthusiastic couples Camphill Copake is an exciting Community with diverse activities and of families who would like to join and support our Camphill way of life. a tremendous amount of human warmth . We are looking forward to We are a community of about 80 adults, some with special needs, and welcoming at least two new families in the next year to join our active 13 children. Our work areas include woodwork, pottery, a small farm circle of committed co-workers . Please send correspondence to Penelope with vegetable gardens, basketry, estate work, bakery and a developing Roberts at Camphill Village Copake, NY 12516, telephone 518-329-4851, seed workshop . e-mail: cvvolunteer@taconic .ne t There is much to do and much to learn. If you feel you would like to accompany us for at least 2 years please write to the Ruskin Mill Further Education Centre Reception Group, Grange Village A Rudolf Steiner Charitable Educational Trust Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucester, GL 14 1 HJ founded by Ruskin Mill & Cotswold Chine School . We are a specialist residential college providing further education for Simeon Care for the Elderly students with emotional and behavioural difficulties aged 16 to 24 . is a Camphill Community in Aberdeen . We have vacancies for fee paying We are looking for house parents to live in a family type group with up residents and for senior co-workers. If you are interested to know more to three students and to be responsible for these young people out of about our unique community or to request application forms, please write college hours, providing them with a safe and harmonious home life, to the giving a continuation of the therapeutic education programme they follow Senior Co-workers, Simeon Care for the Elderly during the day. Accommodation will be provided . Caranoc, Cairnlee Road, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB 15 9BN You will be expected to help the students to implement the relevant elements from their Individual Learning Programme . This includes Wynstones School-Steiner Waldorf Education Independent Living Training for each student in the household, covering needs a Kindergarten Teacher trained and experienced, to work with our personal hygiene, household responsibilities, personal finance and social second Kindergarten group . activities. And a Kindergarten Assistant, trained, or willing to take up a part-time Please write or telephone for further information to training . Richard Robers, Residential Services Manager, Also Upper School Maths Teacher Ruskin Mill Further Education Centre, Old Bristol Road, A/S History Teacher (part time) Nailsworth Glos. GL6 OLA Telephone : 01453 837504 Keyboard Skills Teacher (part time) Please send an application letter and CV to : Transport hopes The College of Teachers, Wynstones School Is someone intending to travel, by large enough car, from Scotland to Whaddon, Gloucester, GL4 OUF England in the next few months, and able/willing to transport a wooden or e-mail on : wynstones@ukonline .co .u k single bed-frame and mattress and beside locker from Blair Drummond? Tel : 01452 522475 for further information It should reach Devon, but somewhere in the Bristol/Gloucester area Wynstones is an Equal Opportunities employer would also be a great help . Wynstones School is a registered Charity Number 311719 'Official' transport costs as much as a whole new bed . A transport contribution will of course be offered . Camphill Milton Keynes Communities Please contact Ilse Jackson at: Camphill Devon Community, is a registered home for adults with learning disabilities, providing Hapstead Village, Buckfastleigh, TQ 11 OJN . residential care and garden/craft workshop activities . We are in need Tel. (01364) 642492 or Fax (01364) 644188 . of houseparent/s for a house of five residents and two co-workers . Duties include household management, residents' care, and involvement in the The Healing Voice : Community's working and cultural life . This is a residential position offering Discover the Power of Singing as a Healing Force full board accommodation and personal expenses . New Paradigms in the Emerging Field of Voice Therapy : People interested in working with those with learning disabilities or Uncover and Free your Singing Voice experienced in residential care work, should write to Explore the Relationship between Voice and Self The Secretary, Camphill Milton Keynes Communities World and Sacred Voices : Healing Perspectives Japonica Lane, Willen Park South, Milton Keynes, Buck MK15 9JY Led by Michael Deason-Barrow, with Melanie Harrold and Jenni Roditi Further information : 01908 235000 (fax/ansafone 01908 235606) 31 s' Jul y - 6'" August 2000 at Hood Manor, Dartington, Devon Enquiries : TONAL/S, Tel/Fax 01285 712001 Group Holidays for children or young people with disabilities . Self-catering Interested in Community Living? accommodation in West Wales : 18 beds in 9 bedrooms . Fully equipped. Large urban house for 13 (when full) Wheelchair friendly. Bathroom and 3 showers . Large lounge/dining room . We are a group of people living together in North London, some of us Situated on the bank of the Aeron river, 3 miles fromo the harbour town have special needs (4). We share cooking, housework and enjoy being of Aberaeron. Sandy beaches a short drive away. together but all have our own lives and agenda and repect the need for Cost £375 per group per week, including heat & light and laundry personal privacy. We are looking for new residents (2 presently) . We have facilities. a garden with very small embryonic permaculture beds, a dog and a cat . Weekend bookings available from September to April. 15 min from Hampstead Heath, 1 min from tube . For a brochure write or phone Call 0207-263-5094 for more info . Rosie de Bree, Ty Glyn Davis Trust, Tanwinllan, Lampeter Road, Aberaeron, Ceredingion SA46 OEE, Tel 01545 571604

20 Letter from Glencraig Dear Friends, We, in Glencraig, are sharing this letter with you in the hope of find- ing new co-workers/work masters who would be able to offer a com- Ga rdsfellesskape t mitment of one year or longer. Grob unn Glencraig is a Camphill Community situated on the shores of Belfast Lough on 100 acres of beautiful land . We are around 200 souls com- Frenning Vestre prising co-workers (i.e. house parents/therapists/teachers/seminarists) and 2344 Ilseng both children and adults with learning disabilities . Grobunn Telefon 62 58 75 75 Since its founding in 1954 Glencraig has grown and developed to Telefax 62 57 33 44 include a lower, middle and upper school and a training scheme for 18- Gards fellesskape t 23 year olds. Among workshops for those who go forward into adult life we have a B. D. farm and garden, an orchard, estate team, weavery, Grobunn is a non-profit organisation trying to work laundry workshop, store and places in the pottery nearby (which is as- sociated with Camphill) and the bakery/coffee shop belonging to out of the spirit of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy. Camphill Holywood. We are situated in the east of Norway, on a farm We also have a medical centre covered by a team of residential doc- tors and therapists who provide a wide range of medical/therapeutic not far from the beautiful Lake of Mjosa . care for the community and further afield. Our curative boarding school for handicapped A rich and varied cultural life complements the working/school day and the lives which we share in our many different homes in the community. youngsters is based on practice related learning Glencraig also offers a foundation course followed by a 3-year course and preparing for adult life . The school is inte- in curative education and social therapy to all new co-workers . Furthermore we have a local Waldorf School which our staff children grated into a biodynamic farm . We have a fruit, attend with transport provided by the Community. vegetable and flower garden, and animals . We We are looking for new co-workers (house-parents, teachers and work cultivate a strong cultural life . masters) within the Community and to help carry our work and life into the future. We have openings for 'praktikanter', coworkers We would welcome any enquiries for those who would like to come who are interested in experiencing and working with to Glencraig from the end of the summer onwards . If you feel interested please contact : handicapped youngsters in a school and farm setting . Eileen Haywood, Camphill Community Glencraig, Craigavad Send an application stating name, age, and a bit Holywood, Co. Down BT 18 0DB Tel : 028 9042 3396, Fax : 028 9042 8199 about your background to us at the address above, or contact us by e-mail : grobunn@online .no Rhythmic Massage Therapist required by the Bridge Camphill Community in the Republic of Ire- land. Situated 50kms South West of Doublin in the small town of Kilcullen . The community consists fo 40 people some with special needs with a sister community near by. This could be a live in or employed position of something in between. The therapeutic work for the community would only be about half time, but this could be supplemented by outside practice or other community tasks . Therapy would be planned in con- junction with Camphill doctor Nick Blitz phRt CuRyth Please contact Jeremy Hart at The Bridge Camphill Community, Main 9 Street, Kilcullen, Co Kildare, Ireland . Tel 00353 45 481597 m Raphael House home to 9 adults with Learning Difficulties, is looking for a 'Core Member' to join the staff team in September. Experience, although not necessar- ily nanagerial, of working in this field is essential . Schoot Applications will need to have an active interest in developing and working with the therapeutic ideas of Rudolf Steiner and be prepared to URt participate in all aspects fo the work of the house . hm tr nin within C mphii Approx 35 hours per week (Formerly: R woo i bo t.on Ctii hm +ckxO For further information please phone 0117 9745297 (Bristol)

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills We offer the opportunity to complement the Join our adult agricultural community of 110 people, which includes adults who are developmentally disabled . We are inviting you to share study of the healing art of eurythmy with in our growth and renewal . practical experience in the curative and The Kimberton Hills community is 450-acre farm which includes a dairy farm, biodynamic garden, and orchard, bakery, coffee shop, crafts therapeutic work of two Communities of the workshops and 20 households. We are located 45 minutes northwest of Camphill Movement . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the rolling hills of Chester County . Our community offers work in our craft workshops, family house- Applications now being taken for holds, and on the land. Currently, we have need of the following : One set of householders for a village house, an estate manager to maintain September 2000 and develop our gardens and grounds, especially converting areas to Enquiries to: meadow. A manager for the Community Supported Garden (CSA) to Camphill Eurythmy School, work with our master gardener. Long and short term coworkers to assist in the care of retired coworkers and older people who are Shelling Community, Horton Road, Ringwood, Hampshire, developmentally disabled . Two textile apprentices to work and learn in 8H24 2E8, England the expanding fiber arts workshop . Contact the Personal Forum Tel: ++(0}1425 482444 Fax: ++(0)1425 482445 PO Box 155, Kimberton, PA 19442, Phone and fax : 6 1 0 935-3963 emai : R [email protected] m Email : [email protected] www.camphilleurythmy.org .uk -Hibernia oba School v{ Art~st~c Therapy 0 An integrated training in art therapy based on Anthroposophy

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