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Contents
Dementia the arts
Dementia, Renee Meyer, MD 50 9 63 The Elements of Painting, Laura Summer
15 The Eternal Now: Biography Work and Dementia, 69 International Eurythmy Tour: Storms of Silence Rinke Visser Heidi Drexel
19 De-mentia, Re-mentia, David Tresemer, PhD 72 The Isenheim Altarpiece by Michael Schubert, A book review by Treasa O’Driscoll Therapies
25 Physical Health from an Anthroposophic poetry Perspective, Vanessa Lee Storm Flowers, Eric Greinke 15 43 29 Just Reach Out, Mary Lou Sanelli Advice from the Spider, Karla Huston 48 69 31 Anthroposophic Medicine and Therapy Research, NINE SMALL POEMS, Ronald Baatz Gunver S. Kienle 81
33 A Mother Responds, A question and answer between a LILIPOH reader and Susan Johnson, MD IN every issue
36 Craniosacral Therapy for Sensory Motor 1 Editor’s Note Development: An Anthroposophic Perspective, Aurore Sibley, CST-T, MEd 77 Calendar of Events Classifieds 40 The Apothecary, LILIPOH publisher interviews the 80 63 new owner of the Apothecary in Chestnut Ridge, NY
29 education + childhood
44 The International Youth Initiative Program: A Personal History, Silas Beardslee
50 Train a Dog but Raise the Child: A Practical Primer, by Dorit Winter, A book review by Cindy Brooks, MFT
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Dementia
Renee Meyer, MD
here is an advertisement picturing a middle- anger and anxiety, and delusions. A third phase is aged couple walking down the beach. As characterized by muteness, failure to understand T they walk, the woman’s image slowly dis- eating and swallowing, incontinence, loss of the solves, leaving just one beach walker. Families of ability to walk, and eventually a bedridden state. people with dementia experience this feeling of Vascular dementia has a course similar to AD, dissolution and loss. In the early stage of demen- but occurs in patients with preexisting high blood tia, the afflicted patients themselves can often pressure, and first affects executive function, which feel loss and sorrow as their own organizational is the ability to gather information into patterns. principle weakens; their ego (as described by For example, those with early vascular dementia Rudolf Steiner) loosens, leaving them to battle with will be able to name the time, date, and current confusion and disinhibited impulses. Dementia events, but can’t quickly name types of animals, or may present as personality changes, delusions, or draw and interpret the face of a clock. Lewy body agitation, as well as declining memory and cogni- disease is associated with Parkinson’s disease, tion. The disease will relentlessly progress to in- and is characterized by early vast fluctuation of creasing dependence for all daily activities, and to memory and personality, early delusions and hal- shortened life expectancy. There are no cures and lucinations, and eventual Parkinson-type qualities few palliative treatments, but there may be some including stiffness, and often dramatic drops in preventive strategies. Experienced providers can blood pressure (hypotension) when standing. assist in charting the tricky future course, guide Hypotension results in repeated falls and injuries, the burdened families to resources, and provide leading to early wheelchair-bound status. Patients suggestions for financial and practical planning. with frontotemporal dementia may show compul- And gifted therapists can coax organization and sive and stereotyped behavior and pronounced enrichment for these prematurely fragmented personality changes. human beings. There is much overlap in the characteristic Alzheimers disease (AD) accounts for 60 to symptoms for all the types of dementia. Regardless 70 per cent of dementia diagnoses. AD has an of the initial symptoms, most types of dementia estimated ten-year life expectancy from the time are accompanied by the progressive memory and of diagnosis. Memory and competence with functional changes seen in AD. Except for a few everyday tasks (such as housework, laundry, and rare infections or nutritional deficiencies, dementia food preparation) usually deteriorate first. This diagnoses are based on the person’s history and phase is followed by loss of language and ability to verbal tests. There are no blood or spinal fluid perform personal tasks such as dressing, bathing, tests to confirm a certain diagnosis. Computerized toileting. Most patients will also have behavioral tomography (CT) scans and other image tests of disturbances such as wandering, outbursts of the brain may aid the diagnosis, but only if the
8 LILIPOH Summer 2018 LILIPOH Summer 2018 9 dementia SECTION The Lukas Community OPPORTUNITIES FOR An anthroposophic residential community • Residents AGED 18-30 for adults with developmental challenges located in Temple, New Hampshire • Houseparents • Co-workers person shows signs of dementia. At autopsy, the In addition to memory loss and increased need not a material body. But the ego • Volunteers brains of elderly people with normal memory and for assistance, behavioral changes are common needs an intact brain to carry behavior have been found to contain abnormal to all types of dementia. Behavioral changes are out the dynamic of elevating and non-functional proteins identical with those of the greatest source of consternation for families and directing human behav- CONTACT AD patients. However, the abnormal proteins are and caregivers. In our ordinary understanding, ior to higher standards than 603-878-4796 less concentrated in the memory and association- behavior has a conscious will component, an those of impulse and instinct. rich areas of the brains of normal people. As opportunity for the individual to choose a more In dementia, this ego force [email protected] pointed out by van Gerven, the locations of these rational or acceptable option of expression. We is loosened from the human lukascommunity.org abnormal proteins in the brain tissue seem to be assume that the normally developing ten-year-old being, permitting unbridled more important for memory and function than the might steal some money out of his father’s wallet wishes, impulses, and fears nature of the abnormal proteins themselves. not because he can’t do better, but that he won’t. to be expressed. Physicians can explain the progression of illness, the parts of the brain af- fected, and suggest strategies for families to use in diverting these outbursts and repeated Dogwood Spring Studio General advice to families is behaviors. 8 8 An example might be ob- Art Dolls Toys Stuffed Animals 8 structive behavior with attempts Play-Sets Waldorf-Style Dolls “try not to say ‘no!’ Find a way Accessories to deliver care, such as flinging a shoe or shaking a fist at the Fiber artist Kaysha Korrow creates one-of-a-kind to change the focus instead.” caregiver who is trying to bathe dolls and toys from 100% salvaged and the person. It may be helpful to re-purposed fabrics. Each creation is completely unique and is sure to be loved by view the behavior as a fear of children and adults alike. being touched and hurt, or irra- Brain imaging of patients with vascular dementia Is the man with dementia showing obstinence, tional fear of drowning in water Custom orders are welcome. typically show small strokes or poor blood supply obstruction with caregivers, and flares of anger while being bathed. A gentle etsy.com/shop/KayshaK deep in the brain, at the natural terminal (the so- because he won’t choose better behavior, or bath of the feet only, accompa-
called watershed area) of the blood vessel. Here because he can’t? Is the woman with dementia nied by a story, may pave the the vessels are very tiny, the blood flow is slowed, wandering, obtrusively searching through her way for a future washing. If ag- and they are more vulnerable to damage from high neighbor’s belongings, because she won’t do gressiveness persists, the bath blood pressure. Again, damage to the brain typical otherwise? Sometimes these behavioral changes must be considered optional of vascular dementia has been found in one-third are an extreme form of an already existing weak- at that moment and tried at a of brains of elderly people who had no evidence of ness; the elderly man who now shouts aggres- more opportune time; possibly memory disturbance during life. Both Alzheimer’s sively at others actually had the tendency to do a warm sponge bath given in and vascular types of dementia occur more fre- this in the past. It seems obvious that the dementia bed before going to sleep. quently with increasing age. Do they represent patient is not responsible in the usual sense of the Redirection is also powerful. accelerated brain aging? It is daunting to think that word for these outbursts. Nevertheless. families The lady who is rifling through dementia becomes more likely the older we be- struggling with difficult behavior need frequent her daughter’s or neighbor’s come. On the other hand, it would be encouraging reminders and strategies. The human ego (or “I”) as drawers might respond to the Embark on a journey of self development and discovery to find and use tools that slow brain aging. described by Rudolf Steiner is a force or dynamic, question, “what are you looking Study with us to become a Waldorf Teacher
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for?” She could be accompanied to her own room, impulse for social life…Outside choir time, the dif- or to another location where a similar article might ferences (in levels of dementia) become visible. be found. If not found, the hunt can be diverted During choir they almost disappear.” Once again LiLiPoHwww.lilipoh.com The Spirit in Life to absorption in something else, such as a puzzle; the ego, the “I” finds a foothold to briefly assume the looking at, smelling, and caring for some flowers; its role in full humanity. These occurrences remind The Teeth: in Their Significance in Child Development or a snack. General advice to families is “try not to us that fourfold human being is still present despite Relieving the Dental Experience Naturally say ‘no!’ Find a way to change the focus instead.” the illness. In his comments about dementia, Dr. with Bach Flower Essences Spirit Articles, art, poetry,Life reviews Therapists can often lure a fragment of the ego Matthias Girke refers to dementia patients as Holistic Astronomy into its rightful place during therapy sessions. In spiritually present but “veiled.” Those spiritual Dentistry and Agriculture of books, and news make Biodynamic $5.00 Planting Calendars Otto Scharmer, PhD the excellent book Dementia and I, Christa van forces can briefly be called together, sometimes How to Solve our Jobs Theory U and an Intentional, LILIPOH Magazine Crisis—A National Tithe Inclusive, Ecosystem Economy Telligen MD and Marco van Gerven MD have gath- surprising us by their full appearance. ISSUE 65 VOL. 16, Fall 2011 a well-rounded, solution-oriented ered thoughtful essays on the nature of dementias Many dementia experts are seeking ways to publication for creative, and patient care. Art therapist Jacqueline Stoop help prevent or delay the onset of dementia. Most described work with patients in early-stage de- of these suggestions involved long-term lifestyle green-minded individuals who have mentia. She begins a session by pointing out and changes, such as regular exercise, treatment an interest in spiritual inquiry describing hands; their size, shape, age, texture, of high blood pressure, avoiding smoking and and a desire to make a portrayed in multiple paintings hanging on the excess alcohol. A plant-based diet decreases the difference in the world. walls of her therapy room. A story about counting production of free radicals, which can harm brain your blessings on your fingers follows; but this cells. Nerve tissue has low vitality and poor abil- also could be a short poem, song, or object. The ity to regenerate, so it is especially important to ______Curbing Climate Change Helping Money Heal; group is asked to recall and tell hand memories guard it from injury. People with higher levels of Through Biodynamic The Vidar Foundation of their own, then draw and share hand portraits. education, with a rich and active thought life have Agriculture in Canada Finally, the participants wash their hands and the what Dr. van Gerven names “reserve.” If they do By Elizabeth Candelario By Trevor Janz, MD art therapist carefully applies rose cream to each develop dementia, many more brain associations As the certifying agency for Bio- "...we are responsible for where pair of hands. In listening and telling aspects of have been formed through life, so that normal dynamic farms across the USA, Demeter’s vision is to heal the our money is, and what effect it is their hand biographies, drawing them and then function can be maintained longer. Van Gerven planet through agriculture. That’s a having on all the lives it touches." sharing their drawings, the ego forces of the also discusses the injurious nature of chronic bold statement, because the very act of farming worldwide is responsible The Vidar Foundation is a participants have briefly connected and “fleshed stress. Consistently high stress levels gener- for at least 15% of global green- registered Canadian charity that out” the participants in their full humanity. Using ated from undigested childhood or adult trauma house gas emissions, the leading connects individuals wishing to cause of climate change. use their money in positive ways, a different therapeutic modality, the Dutch music contribute to higher levels of stress hormones. “There is this beautiful symbiosis with borrowers needing money to therapist Connie Alblas notes that music creates Increase in the stress hormone cortisol results going on beneath our feet, where grow socially responsible enter- inner movement. Musical memory is long! In my ex- in ongoing inflammation, poor immune function, the liquid carbon transforms into a prises in sustainable agriculture, solid, and is taken up by the micro- and is a risk factor for dementia. Meditation, education, health, cooperatives, perience, a former pharmacist and choir member biota (bacteria and fungi) that make and other areas. now with advanced dementia, dependency, and devotion, and a spiritual path can lead to some up healthy soil.”
few remaining words, would occasionally break freeing from the unconscious, intense physiologic (Excerpts from LILIPOH Issue #86, Winter 2017) into the tenor harmony of a church hymn when stress, through better acceptance and integration others were singing the melody. Ms. Alblas leads of the past. ______TWO YEARS IN PRINT (8 ISSUES) - $30 a choir composed of people at various stages of References: dementia. She notes that “people cheer up by Girke, Matthias, Internal Medicine; Foundations and Therapeutic Concepts of Anthroposphic ONE YEAR IN PRINT (4 ISSUES) - $20 singing, and they radiate because they can form Medicine (Berlin: Salumed-Verlag, 2015). www.ivaa.info to order in English. van Geven Marko, van Tellingen Christina (eds), Dementia and I, and Bolk’s Companions E-READERS (4 DIGITAL ISSUES) - $10 words and communicate. Singing is a powerful on the Practice of Medicine. Kolisko Publisher, 2015. call 610-917-0792 or visit us at www.LILIPOH.com
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The Eternal Now Biography Work and Dementia
Rinke Visser
Now when I become a little older at 78, my professional questions as a biography consultant have found a new direction. I ask myself how can I be of service for people who suffer dementia.
nce I had a special experience working 76 to 102, and each one has a completely unique with a group of elderly people in a nurs- way of expressing him- or herself. The special thing O ing home. One of the participants told is that these people are talking to each other for me that he had no memory left anymore, and this the first time, although they have been living in this was not a problem because he had noticed that house for a long time already. They have never the present, the now, is big enough to be able to before asked each other anything, they have live within. He felt he always had a kind of wisdom never been talking to each other. They talked to around him that helped him to be in the present. their family members and to the caretakers, but not He did not miss the past, and he did not make any with each other. That struck me, and it struck me attempt at all to remember that past because his because it gave me the insight that these people life was in the now. are very lonely. This experience brought me to the insight that That seems to be a keyword: loneliness. we should see dementia not only as a phase of My colleagues and I work in a small group illness, but also as a phase of life; a phase of life together, and our ideas about dementia primarily with a special content and special experiences. concern the way people perceive dementia, how When I think back to that situation, I see a table they look at it. In our times attention is focused surrounded by a small group of elderly people who mostly on the physical aspect of dementia. We are talking to each other. The conversation is all see how modern medicine tries to cure dementia about the present, the now. We are there: my col- by finding how it physically progresses. I do not league and I, and the group. They are aged from want to say that this is not important, but a different
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In our small initiative group in The Netherlands As a Support Circle we create a new kind of we founded the Support Circle. A Support Circle community. I believe it is an early exercise for form- is a small group of people who are connected to ing a community based on the Spirit-Self quality. a particular person with dementia: neighbours, Here we have a group of people in totally different relatives, friends, and professionals. Because they life situations and tasks, including the person with
... it gave me the insight that these people are very lonely.
are all connected to the same person, they are dementia, working together in a new horizontal connected to each other. way in the Support Circle. I come back to the idea “The wisdom is around If Support Circles are formed around people myself,” echoing my experience with the rattling who have reached the final phase of their lives, bottles followed by the notion, “I am around me.” where they have become completely dependent, Now, in the Support Circle the person with de- this could also be a help for the professionals. The mentia finds a destiny community around him- or group could provide energetic support for the herself. The person is the center of that community. caretakers, who are often at a point of exhaustion and may not have time to pay extra attention to De-mentia, Re-mentia In order to be able to respond sensibly to the behavior and the words of the person suffering from the people around them. dementia, it is necessary that you know not only the Finally, engaging in Support Circles could mean David Tresemer, PhD past of this individual, but you also need to have a that professionals and non-professionals increas- general biographical background knowledge. Then ingly notice and remember three important core concepts in working with people with dementia: you are able to see the person with dementia from hen comparing Alzheimer’s with can- and the sense that “I” am here now. Manas also a fundamental loneliness; the need to live life in a new perspective. Professionals, family members, cer—clients in a counseling session hints at a future state of clarity that humans are the now, each moment complete in itself; and that close friends, and neighbors have to deal with share their otherwise hidden thoughts developing now. there is a wisdom that always surrounds us. W people with dementia. We think this can be more about such things—everyone prefers cancer. “I All this was part of Mr. Sikkema’s message. He Let’s look at how much mentia we have in our successful if they can find each other in Support had lost his memory, but was joyous throughout may be suffering but at least I’ll have my mind.” lives. When we sleep, our mind appears to desert Circles, sharing aspects of the life of this person, life, including at 86 years of age. Though Alzheimer’s is a specific diagnosis, it has the body. It goes someplace else, from which it learning together how to deal with this beloved per- become a general term for dementia in all its sometimes brings back shards of experience. son. This sharing can promote openness, creativity, Rinke Visser was born in 1939 in the Netherlands. After working as a Waldorf forms. The issue is mind, mens, mentia—going teacher in Haarlem, he developed a biography course for adults and pioneered When it comes back, the most interesting thing and flexibility, and also help reduce stress-related autobiographical writing courses. Together with Josien de Vries, his wife, he back to the Proto-Indo-European root, manas, happens. We “wake up,” and then act as if there complaints, which affect both the people with de- founded the Institute for Biography in the Netherlands. In his sixty-fifth year his international biography career began, and since then he has taught biographi- meaning mind in its most primal power of pres- is a continuity from the previous day. We bridge mentia and the family and professionals. cal skills and knowledge in Europe, the US, New Zealand, and China. ence, comprehension, reasoning, observation, between today’s awake-observing-mind and
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yesterday’s awake-observing-mind, ignoring the Even reading a book is a kind of taking the mind immense mystery of sleep in between. We simply away from itself to follow another’s path into a zone ignore the part without mind as we know it. of “nice/fuzzy.” Any screen-watching (including In most of our eyes-wide-open day-waking windscreens of cars) has also a quality of semi- time, we actually operate in a kind of sleep-walking sleep whose drowsiness and minor stimulations sort of way. We go through the motions, eat, dress, combine to mollify us into a dulled sweet state. preen, pull weeds or push papers, even talk with Walk past an office front where twenty people are
The issue is mind, mens, mentia— going back to the Proto-Indo- European root, manas, meaning
mind in its most primal power Please visit our website of presence, comprehension, camphillspecial A Living school.org for the reasoning, observation, and the latest Campus Tour dates. sense that “I” am here now. Education
others, in a sort of automatic activity. Yes, this eyes- gazing at computers, and sense the quality of mind Camphill Special School’s mission is to create wholeness for children and wide-open reality is lit by sun or electricity, but we there. The human beings have been reduced to youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities through education, are engaging primarily through habitual routines, slow-mind, and maybe temporary de-mentia. therapy, and a protective, socially and emotionally rich environment. Through using preset conceptual structures. We awaken to this present moment through Frankly, we are de-mented most of the time. something unexpected jumping out in front of these program areas their disabilities are better understood and moderated, Spiritual worlds as people yearn for them have us, a shock that pushes us to confront emergen- that they may more fully unfold their potential, and meaningfully participate also this feeling of mindless timeless bliss, and cies, small or large, with soul. Impulses of love in life. To learn more visit our website at camphillspecialschool.org. many people try to enter into that sleep-like sweet or hate coming from the secret realms of Will, world through drugs, desserts, repetitive activities or inspirations through the colors streaming JOIN US ON FACEBOOK. that pump up endorphins (exercise classes, skiing, from the realms of Feeling—these will knock our jogging, walking…), or long days at a sunny beach. Thinking out of endless churning of previously 1784 Fairview Road, Glenmoore, PA 19343 610.469.9236 camphillspecialschool.org
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conceptualized, thus dead, Thoughts, into a Those who ask about dementia are those who partnership with Feeling and Willing, as living have enough awareness to be asking about a processes, to grow our soul. Soul work is messy, friend or relative. “What do I do about mom?—she’s dramatic, intense, unexpected, energizing, and seldom ‘here.’” This wrenching question comes full of true mind. Soul work is fraught with failures all too often. Here I’ll go technical to a degree, when evaluated against preconceived dead within a four-fold model of the human being. If you standards of what success ought to look like. The can’t follow, at least you’ll know that some people wakened soul engages in the immense power of think about these things, and you could perhaps now: “I am alive!” consult an anthroposophic counselor (directories
Success at end of life is not necessarily about a longer “I”—your individuality—coming from spiritual realms the mind to return. One lures the “I” back with life but a life with quality, with to direct the enactment in this lifetime. Because of conversation—and I have witnessed the heart- shocks of many kinds—traumas, overstimulation, breakingly patient heroics of nurses in dementia “I” and soul bringing the also understimulation, tragedies, etc.—the “I” can wards. One can also lure the “I” back with artwork, move up and out, abandoning the others. The with color, with clay, with movement. Television astral body can then become rogue, unguided, increases the flight of the “I” and secures the project of this life to its natural showing behavioral wildness—“dementia” also mechanism of habit repetitions. (See my brief means going mad, and “dementia praecox” as an “How to Watch a Video” on YouTube). Parking an letting go. original term for schizophrenia, meaning “early elder in front of a television (the same goes with a onset de-mentia,” shows as an astral body gone youngster) lengthens the automatic de-mented wild with unusual and sometimes threatening will life. forces and thought processes. With the “I” gone, If the person is unable to make art, studies In our studies in anthroposophic psychology, at AnthroposophicPsychology.org or AAMTA.org). the etheric body can go into auto-pilot, and the show that simply observing art created by another we become very interested in the workings of The four bodies of the healthy human being include person enters a pattern of eat, defecate, sleep, can attract the interest of the observer’s “I.” When mind, because what is our most precious pos- a.) physical body (actually the most mysterious, not eat, defecate, sleep, the etheric body keeping the the “I” returns, an important aspect of the mind session? It is not only awareness, but awareness to be confused with the mineral substances that fill physical body to a strict rhythmic pattern. People returns—re-mentia—even if it returns to assist in that we are aware, permitting the profound body- out the physical body), b.) etheric or life body that working with those suffering from dementia no- the shutdown of automatic systems as a means of shaking enjoyments of the immensely complex energizes the processes of functioning and sets tice that the etheric body runs the physical body reclaiming integrity of the whole. Success at end of creation in which we live, move, and have our healthy habits in place, including important habits through these habit patterns, and the person has life is not necessarily about a longer life but a life being. Re-mentia is not easy, can be exhausting, such as heartbeat and breathing, c.) astral or soul a difficult time perishing—simply put, they don’t die with quality, with “I” and soul bringing the project and reveals just how much we are comfortable in body that gives home to consciousness and the when they ought to, when life has only the etheric of this life to its natural letting go. automatic mode. Being truly awake may visit us for interplay of Thinking, Feeling, and Willing, and d.) body’s habits to keep it going. Overly simple, but a beginning. What to do? David Tresemer, PhD, teaches in the certificate program in Anthroposophic only a small percent of the day, yet its preciousness the “I” or “I-organization” (a clumsy term, sorry). Counseling Psychology (AnthroposophicPsychology.org), and works also justifies the struggle. When functioning well, these integrate, with the Luring the “I” back to the other bodies can assist through StarWisdomAndSophia.com.
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An Anthroposophic Perspective Physical Health
Vanessa Lee
hen one speaks of physical health with memory and capacity for creative thinking; and an Anthroposophic doctor, the physical these forces maintain our resilience to heal from W aspect cannot be looked at in isolation. stress and adapt to the stresses and changes of In modern society, holistic health models encom- life. pass mind, body, and spirit. Anthroposophic health Dr. Johnson noted that modern science is models look at Rudolf Steiner’s threefold image of currently proving the importance of a protective the human being (with body, soul, and spirit) as well and nurturing environment during early childhood as the fourfold nature, consisting of the physical that Rudolf Steiner also advocated. In a 2010 re- body, life body or etheric, soul or astral body, and port from the Harvard Center on the Developing “I” (ego or spirit body). Child, “The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Steven Johnson, DO and anthroposophic doc- Built in Early Childhood,” the authors conclude tor with the Fellowship Community Associates in that the capacities self-healing are imprinted into Chestnut Ridge, NY, states that the most critical our biological systems in the earliest years of life.1 factor is the interaction between the way we treat “An extensive body of scientific evidence now protect the physical body in early childhood and shows that many of the most common chronic the way we understand the etheric life body, the embodies forces of vitality. diseases in adults (such as hypertension, diabetes, Rudolf Steiner spoke of the importance of the cardiovascular disease, and stroke) are linked to early experiences of human beings (from 0-7 processes and experiences occurring decades years), which lead either to health or disease before, in some cases as early as prenatally.” in adolescents and adults. The way we nurture The study cites examples of respiratory illness in the physical body through good nutrition and infants and young children who were exposed to warmth, the way we protect the etheric body secondhand smoke and also given poor nutrition through age-appropriate education, loving, as early as the pre-natal period, leading to later supportive relationships, all have health effects cardiovascular problems. on the developing organs. The forces that build The Harvard report links the early childhood our organs and physical body are the same origins of lifelong health to three overarching forces that later transform into the forces of concepts: stable and responsive relationships;
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safe and supportive environments; and sound and Sound and appropriate nutrition influences appropriate nutrition. health at every stage of life, “beginning with the Stable and responsive relationships as dis- mother’s pre-conception nutritional status, extend- In anthroposophic medicine, cussed in the article echo what Waldorf early ing through pregnancy to early infant feeding and childhood (EC) educators stress: the importance weaning, and continuing with diet and activity doctors work with the rhythms of strong, positive bonds between children and throughout childhood and into adult life.” Nutrition their caregivers (including their teachers); and the is especially important for growing children, as the importance of rhythm (as in regular schedules), proper nutrition helps their organs develop and of the body. They work with the especially related to waking, eating, and sleeping. their bodies to grow. These build a child’s sense of trust and develop As Dr. Johnson reminds us, Waldorf educa- body’s salutogenic forces — the a healthy stress response and emotional balance tion was created as a healing impulse for the in children. social ills of the early twentieth century. “The forces that keep us well. Safe, supportive environments mean pro- foundations of Waldorf education are based tection from chemical/toxin exposure and also on a deep knowledge of the universal stages emphasizes the importance of having the of child development; on seeing how a child opportunity to play, be outside, and socialize unfolds on both physical and spiritual levels”2 the biological sciences as well and are identified anthroposophic medicine is to use remedies and within a community. The authors say that “…this Both Waldorf EC educators and anthroposophic as: breathing, warming, nourishing, secreting, therapies to aid the body in its natural healing. neighborhood-level phenomenon, called ‘collec- doctors are trained to respect the connections maintaining, growing, and reproduction (includ- Dr. Johnson expresses his hope that such ideas tive efficacy’ or social capital, has been linked to between childhood and development and long ing generative processes). The gestures that the could be recognized as “best practices” for health lower rates of childhood obesity [and] better adult term health. Their approaches support the bio- mental health….” Waldorf Education frequently logical life processes which support physical, EC teachers use and the way they work with the care in the future. sites the importance of healthy movement on emotional and mental capacities through life. children are intended to support these seven life In our modern culture, we see the effects cognitive development. These seven life processes are well defined in processes, which in turn support the health of of too much stimulation of the nerve-sense each child. systems of children; such stimulation weakens In anthroposophic medicine, Dr. Johnson and the etheric and life processes dramatically. As other doctors work with the rhythms of the body. a result we are witnessing a rise in impaired They work with the body’s salutogenic forces, cognitive development, environmental allergies, meaning the forces that keep us well. Working food sensitivities, increased anxiety and reduce In our modern culture, Dr. in this way takes time, as healing therapies work coping skills. There are things we can do to help to preserve and strengthen the etheric forces ourselves and our families counteract some of Johnson has seen the effects through taking care of the physical body. If we the ills of modern society, such as eating biody- can take the time for our children to go through namic and local food, getting exercise, spend- fever in a healthy way (without fever reducers) or ing time outside, diverse creative play, sending of too much stimulation of the go through an earache in a healthy way (without our children to a Waldorf school learning about antibiotics), we are building our children’s immune developmentally bsed education and parenting, nerve-sense systems of children; systems and also helping their future cognitive also being mindful of our media habits and the development. When we hurry children through potential harm of over exposure to technology such stimulation weakens the these normal childhood illnesses, the expected at an early age. result, from an anthroposophic perspective, can There are also some Waldorf and anthropo- etheric dramatically. be chronic allergies, eczema, and food aller- sophic therapies that enhance overall healing, gies, among other issues. The intention behind adapted from LILIPOH, Fall 2014: 3
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Curative or Therapeutic Eurythmy things in the classroom that just don’t show up in supports the etheric or vital forces and activates the doctor’s office.”4 LILIPOH, Fall 2014. self-healing. In our community, Green Meadow Waldorf School Rhythmical Massage supports the etheric offers Therapeutic Eurythmy, Occupational forces through the therapy of touch. Therapy, and Extra Lesson work. We also have a school nurse who supports the children with The Extra Lesson supports spatial integra- anthroposophic and homeopathic remedies tion and strengthens the will. when parents have approved such interventions. The Fellowship Community Associates have Oil Dispersion Bath Therapy supports practitioners trained in anthroposophic medicine, the healing through warmth and the quality of rhythmical massage, oil dispersion bath therapy, substances used. cranial and osteopathic therapy, counseling, Homeopathic and Anthroposophic creative arts therapy, and much more. Medications can be helpful for both acute and “The growth of Waldorf education and the chronic conditions. increasingly complex needs of children today help make Rudolf Steiner’s insights into child de- Therapeutic Horseback Riding allows velopment particularly potent and timely.”5 These Just Reach Out children to relate to others outside of themselves insights into child development are now being and cultivates the ability to make use of their acknowledged and proven by the mainstream Mary Lou Sanelli senses in a healthier way than before. medical community. And all this time, our Waldorf Early Childhood educators have been nurturing Creative Arts, Speech, and Music this capacity within our children; nurturing their Therapies can be helpful to children and adults physical and etheric bodies, and nurturing their ’ve been lying on the couch, sick with a summer something that reveals more of who I am, of what I on an emotional and physical level. latent cognitive, adaptive, and creative abilities. cold, the coughing, lightheaded, feverish cold really think. I still try to tap into the part of my brain There are many opportunities to learn and de- I that you’ve either caught by now or fear that that needs to face, head on, the empty page. Cranial Osteopathic Therapy and velop these ideas in diverse educational and par- you will. I feel a bit of relief as I try to think of something Cranial-Sacral Therapy can be helpful to Summer colds seem especially unfair in the worth thinking about. enting practices for those who are interested. children and adults who have had cranial compres- Northwest. Just as the months finally begin to I even marvel at my effort. sion due to birth trauma or concussion. Dr. Johnson practices in upstate New York and consults with children, parents warm, your body chills to the bone. But the truth is, I can’t even remember what day and patients with chronic diseases. He is currently president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM) at paam.net. He currently pio- I haven’t been outside in days. I can barely sit of the week it is. I’m just going to have to trust that Occupational Therapy and Spacial neering a public health outreach to further these ideas into the mainstream of up long enough to write this. my mental capacity will come back. God knows Dynamics are two different movement thera- healthcare policy and development. Learn more in the special LILIPOH “Holistic Wellness Guide” or contact his office at 518-721-8417 if you’d like to learn more. I know to rest, drink plenty of liquids, be patient. when, but it will. pies that can help the child or adult with gross and But I will never be a patient sick person. I want In the meantime, I have an elderly neighbor fine motor skills along with orientation within the Vanessa Lee is Bulletin Coordinator at Green Meadow Waldorf School Chest- to be a patient sick person, patient enough to who is sicker than I am. I know because I can nut Ridge, NY. physical body and surrounding space. luxuriously catch up with Netflix, patient enough hear him coughing through the wall we share. It’s References: to make home-made soup. Patient enough to the same cough I have, but raspier. It’s so bad, it Anthroposophic Observation is used 1 the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, “The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood,” 2010 report. www.developingchild.harvard.edu put my work aside and surrender without fear or reminds me of something my mother said years in Waldorf schools, who bring in anthroposophic 2 “The School Doctor,” LILIPOH, Fall 2014. complaint. ago when she was in her fifties and she had an doctors to observe children in a school setting 3 basil Williams, DO, (adapted from) “Medical Care Needed for the Illnesses of the Twenty- But none of this is easy for me. I get so bored awful cold and I remember her coughing and First Century,” LILIPOH, Fall 2014. (whether classroom, outdoors, or gym class). 4 adam Blanning, MD, “The School Doctor,” LILIPOH, Fall 2014. watching TV and I have a really short attention coughing and crying out to my dad that she was According to Adam Blanning, MD, “you get to see 5 Ibid. span in the kitchen. Sick as I am, I still want to write too young to die.
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And without thinking he said, “Well, you’re neighborhood has become, we need to remind already too old to die young.” ourselves that we are neighbors now more than Oddly, she didn’t yell at him, which was so ever. Just so we might be able to offer each other Anthroposophic unlike her. I think she’d spent so many years be- the best generosity we still have to give. Nothing ing annoyed at him for one thing or another that beats reaching out a hand to a neighbor when she just didn’t have the energy to be any more Medicine and Therapy we can. There are always things we can do for annoyed. I felt so bad for her that I sat on her bed one another. and rubbed her back and let her cry. Within hours of making my soup, I brought my Now, here’s something I can do. It’s next to Research neighbor a bowl. And when I said, “We’re neigh- nothing on my part, but I can bring my neighbor bors and we’re in this together,” you should have a bowl of the not-too-terrible soup I made (al- seen the look on his face. The effect of my words Gunver S. Kienle most) from scratch. Because while most of my neighbors are not elderly and living alone, this was instant. one is. Helping someone worse off than ourselves is It’s been a year since his partner of thirty good medicine. It lifted me up. It showed me that ince .its beginning, anthroposophic years died. They used to hold hands in the even with my head about to explode, sharing is medicine has been deeply involved elevator and just being in their presence made possible. It made me feel connected to this larger S in research and intensive research col- you feel like their affection was a validation of community of people living inside of my Vine Street laborations. Research goals are to find solutions never-giving-up, and positively hopeful about building. And now that I’ve hung this 670-word for general healthcare challenges, and to clarify love-springing-eternal. star in my sky, it’s right back to the couch for me. issues of efficacy, effectiveness, and principles of It’s hard to begin to explain how much Seattle action in its interventions. Herbal remedies, for in- Mary Lou Sanelli works as a writer, speaker, and dance teacher. Her latest has changed in the last couple of years. And I think book is A Woman Writing. She’ll be a guest author at the 2018 GFWC Interna- stance, are analyzed to understand their active ingre- in this increasingly-transient-Amazon-campus my tional Convention. marylousanelli.com dients and to improve the clinical application: mistletoe extracts inhibiting malignant properties of cancer cells; lemon and quince intervening in allergic pathways; bryo- phyllum in reproductive medicine; birch bark improving wound healing. These are just a few of the many successful but I will never be a patient sick examples. Also art, eurythmy, speech (poetry), music, massage, and nursing applications have been investigated in regard to person. I want to be a patient their influence on physiologic capacities like heart rate variability, or body warmth. Clinical studies and clinical trials (nearly 300 so far) have assessed sick person, patient enough the safety and effectiveness of both single anthroposophic interven- tions and the integrated system of the anthroposophic medical ap- to luxuriously catch up with proach. A large variety of conditions has been investigated: cancer, acute infections, pain, cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, dermatological Netflix, patient enough to make diseases, rheumatism, arthrosis, neurological or psychiatric diseases, gas- trointestinal or gynecologic conditions, allergic, atopic diseases and many home-made soup. others.
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For instance, a methodologically sound and of atopic diseases connected with restrictive use large randomized controlled trial investigated the of antibiotics and vaccination, as well as compara- effect of mistletoe therapy on the disease course tively broader exposure to farms and livestock. in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and Altogether, research in anthroposophic medi- found significantly prolonged survival as well as cine is far reaching. Beside laboratory research A Mother Responds substantially improved quality of life, less fatigue, and clinical research, this research also includes more appetite, gain of body weight, less pain and methodological research, high potency research, less need for pain medications. Similarly, the many economic evaluations, pharmacovigilance, quali- A question and answer other studies on mistletoe in cancer, with varying tative research, development of questionnaires, between a LILIPOH reader and methodological designs and rigor, also describe research on spirituality, and conceptual research Susan Johnson, MD rather consistent positive effects on survival and on basic concepts of health and disease. quality of life: improved coping, sleep, appetite, en- For the future, research on anthroposophic ergy, ability to work, and emotional and functional medicine will follow a research strategy that inte- Dear LILIPOH, into the child’s brain from birth. It is true that well-being, as well as reduced fatigue, exhaustion, grates a variety of complementing methodologies. nausea, vomiting, depression, and anxiety. I’m a devoted reader of your magazine and, as the children who have too much screen time may The challenge is to combine the highly complex The Anthroposophic Medicine Outcomes parent of a child with non-verbal learning disability suffer from short attention spans (different from holistic and individualized anthroposophic medical Study investigated the outcome of more than 1600 (NVLD), I was especially excited to see Susan ADD), kids who are pushed to read too early care with the rigor of modern research standards patients who suffered from chronic disease with R. Johnson’s article “Is Our Educational System may resist and struggle with reading and writing and thus contribute to progress in modern health Contributing to Attentional and Learning Difficulties an average of 6.5 years under routine anthropo- later on (different from dyslexia and graphlexia), care. in our Children?” Perhaps I am misinterpreting and children who have poor diets may suffer sophic healthcare. Three months after initiation Among the currently interesting research her message, but it seemed she was arguing health consequences—but these are quite dif- of multimodal anthroposophic intervention (art projects are: the clinical mistletoe trial started at that learning disabilities are caused in part not by ferent from learning disabilities, which originate therapy, rhythmical massage, eurythmy therapy, John Hopkins Hospital, funded by the Believe Big nature but by nurture: our current cultural climate in the brain. My son with NVLD (now age 10) was physician-provided counseling, anthroposophic of pushing kids to read early, screen time, lack of raised in the so-called Buddha state: he has no medications) the disease scores, general and Initiative; the large randomized controlled trial on time in nature, and a diet high in sugar. She writes: TV or video games, a predictable rhythm to his specific, improved substantially and sustainably, mistletoe therapy in advanced pancreatic cancer “In addition to pushing children to read by sight... days, a warm and loving home, attended Waldorf and so did the health-related quality of life, while conducted at several highly recognized Swedish cancer centers; the initiative on how to address I wonder if our current epidemic of attention and school through kindergarten, spends plenty of symptoms ceased and direct and indirect health learning problems is also caused by our ‘American’ the challenge of the increasing antimicrobial re- time in nature, and eats a healthy, balanced diet, costs were slightly reduced. In particular, less diet... as well as by watching too much TV, playing and we follow the edicts of Waldorf education sistance; trials in preparation on ways to improve hospitalization was necessary. This improvement too many video games, and spending too little in our home (though he now attends a special 1 the situation of elderly people with chronic disease stayed stable for four years. time out in nature.” school for kids with learning disabilities). I do and impaired mobility with eurythmy therapy; and The International Integrative Primary Care Though I am admittedly not a doctor, it has not think there’s anything I could have done to Outcomes Study compared conventional and an initiative on case reporting to capture individual- been my understanding that learning disabilities prevent him developing NVLD no matter what anthroposophic intervention for acute respiratory ized care and therapeutic processes. are inherent, not a result of the child’s environment we did. and ear infections. It found quicker recovery with Gunver S. Kienle is a leading researcher in the field of Integrative Health and at home or at school. I wholeheartedly support It seems, in sum, that Johnson may be conflat- much lower use of antibiotics and antipyretics. is associated with the University of Freiburg, Germany. the “Buddha state” that Johnson advocates, and ing two issues: the benefits of letting kids be kids Many other examples could be named. Patient I agree that it benefits children’s neural pathways and loved unconditionally with plenty of time in satisfaction was high in all studies and surveys, References: 1 H. J. Hamre, et. al, “Anthroposophic Therapies in Chronic Disease: The Anthroposophic and helps them to learn, but I don’t think the nature, rhythmic days, and a healthy diet (with and therapeutic expectations were fulfilled.2 Medicine Outcomes Study,” European Journal of Medical Research, July 30, 2004. Buddha state is going to prevent dyslexia, autism, which I agree wholeheartedly) and the benefits Other interesting insights are provided by epi- 2 m. Heger and DSM Haidvogl, “International Integrative Primary Care Outcomes Study ADD, NVLD, and other learning disorders, which (IIPCOS-2): An International research project of Homeopathics in Primary Care,” British of these things in preventing learning disabilities demiologic research, uncovering a decreased risk Homeopathic Journal, Vol. 89, supplement, July 2000. are actually mental health disabilities hardwired (with which I would argue).
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I would appreciate some clarification of this for their sensory processing pathways of proprio- preschool and kindergarten and, sometimes, time, if you wish to speak with me. We can speci message, as it could be very frustrating to parents ception to develop, followed by their development even in the first grade is what I believe causes a fically focus on your journey with your son. of kids with learning disabilities to believe that it of bilateral integration pathways (that is, the connec- lot of the non-verbal learning disabilities, attention My clinical experience over the past 30 years is somehow their “fault” for not providing the right tions between the right and left sides of their brain); problems, and anxieties that I see in my clinical and my journey with my son has taught me that if environment for their child—unless this is the case. phonemic awareness; and phonetic-based reading practice. I know this because they are reversible nutritional changes, movement therapies, avoiding Caitlin Van Dusen (that is, stringing sounds together to rapidly and and can heal and disappear. Finally, having an screens, holding off on early academics, and a Brooklyn, NY fluently sound out words). This is why I frequently unresolved cranial compression or compressions “Buddha” environment are not working, then there recommend Waldorf schools, which still have play- from the birth process (often caused by vacuum usually is an unresolved cranial compression(s) that Dear Caitlin, based preschools and kindergartens, and provide suction, c-section, fast delivery, use of pitocin to is partially blocking the neurological pathways and I really appreciated your response to my article! I lots of healthy movement, artistic, and musical activi- augment contractions, and/or a prolonged labor causing continual stress in the autonomic nervous agree that there can be some genetic factors in a ties from first grade through high school. Waldorf more than 12 hours) will also lead to blockages system, so the child remains in fight/flight, no mat- family, or a condition that a child is born with that schools seem to recognize that individual children in neurodevelopment. Such compressions can ter what you do, and the pathways cannot seem to influences the timing of when certain neurologi- develop differently and uniquely, so reading is more block the development of sensory processing fully develop. Even with extensive occupational or cal pathways develop for learning. Some families slowly introduced in the first three to four grades. pathways, including tactile, vestibular-balance, physical therapy, the child may be able to perform are gifted with artistic and intuitive capacities, and Often children are writing words and copying sen- proprioceptive, bilateral integration. And they can certain movements (like cross-lateral skipping or therefore have a dominant right hemisphere. Their tences before they actually are able to sound out impact eye tracking and eye convergence in one jumping rope), but the movements will seem stiff children will need more time to develop the right the words or read the sentences. The curriculum or both eyes. These cranial compressions are also and mechanical rather than flowing and effortless. side of their brain before they can more fully de- also provides lots of visual, auditory, and especially, treatable by non-manipulative, Biodynamic Cranial Even with extensive tutoring, the child may learn to Osteopathic treatments that I find more effective slowly sound out words instead of reading by sight, than just cranial sacral therapy. but the reading and writing never become fluent Please see my website, susanrjohnsonmd.com, and effortless. This is because the child cannot yet and click on articles. I have written more than 48 fully develop his or her proprioceptive and bilateral In Finland, teachers wait until parent articles that can be freely printed from the integration pathways. So in addition to still having website. Especially read the article about my jour- struggles with paying attention, sitting still, standing at least the first grade before ney with my son, called “Healing Our Children with still, spatial awareness, and reading social cues, Attentional, Emotional, and Learning Challenges,” the child will also not be able to simultaneously and the articles “Teaching Our Children to Write, create inner, imaginative scenes and pictures while introducing letters & sounds. Read, and Spell: Parts 1 and 2”; “The Assessment reading. This impacts their memory and overall of Pre-Reading and Reading...”; and “Visual comprehension for what has been read. This also Tracking and Eye Convergence.” Also please makes writing a book report or understanding math look at “The General Clinic Recommendations” concepts and math word problems much more velop their left side. Since phonetic-based reading hands-on kinesthetic learning experiences. Also, article, especially #1, that talks about the clini- challenging. Then the child receives all these labels is predominately a left-hemispheric activity, these if you look at the educational curriculum used by cal signs and symptoms of unresolved cranial and the family is told that the challenges are all more artistic and intuitively gifted children often Finland, you will notice that they wait until children compressions and gives the website where you genetic and life-long. This is what all the children become fluent sight readers that are then labeled are at least in the first grade before they even intro- can locate practitioners. The article “The General and their families have taught me over these past as having non-verbal learning disabilities, because duce letters and sounds. They also seem to realize Clinic Recommendations” on my website is the key thirty-plus years. they were pushed to read too early. that boys may not be neurologically ready to read article that I give to every family I see in my clinic, Fondly, Also, the brighter the child, the more time that phonetically until at least the third grade. Their entire and it is one of the key articles that I have parents Dr. Susan child needs before phonetic-based reading seems reading curriculum is phonetically based. read before we speak on the phone. Please call to develop. In my experience, boys often need at In this country, our pushing of sight reading my office voicemail at 916-638-8758 and my office Susan R Johnson MD, FAAP A Healing Place for Children, P.O. Box 1621, Colfax, CA 95713 YouAndYourChildsHealth.org, AHealingPlaceForChildren. least an additional year or two, as compared to girls, (that is, speed reading or spatial reading) during manager, Jeanette, can schedule a free phone com, or SusanRJohnsonMD.com
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An Anthroposophic Perspective Craniosacral Therapy for Sensory Motor Development
Aurore Sibley, CST-T, M Ed
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information. — Albert Einstein
isualize a child that you know. What does is a manual therapy that works directly with the her movement tell you about her? Does structural integrity of the physical body while also V she move with ease? Is she able to come supporting the nervous system, and thus other to stillness? Does she have mastery over her bodily physiological processes in the body. This support instrument? Or does she struggle to find herself in will have an effect not only on a person’s move- space, to sit in a chair and write, to move with fluid- ment capacities, but also on general health and ity and ease? Can she coordinate the movement well-being: body, mind, soul, and spirit. of right and left, upper and lower body, when she When we consider this, we see that craniosa- skips or jumps or runs? Is she able to do two or cral therapy is a modality that has the potential to even three things at once, such as count and clap benefit all levels of our human experience and in unison, or are some of these things particularly development. We know that there is an interrela- challenging for her? tionship between body, mind, and spirit, and that Often when there is a motor or movement treating or bringing attention to one will affect the dysfunction or disharmony, it may be arising others. Perhaps the more integrated and aligned from the structural body itself, and may be sup- our structural-physical body is, the more we are ported through a manual therapy or structural able to incarnate into this life on earth and engage support such as craniosacral therapy (CST). CST in the world with purpose.
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Think of the human being as a musical instru- and health (or vitality) develop. Rudolf Steiner, an become convoluted. When thinking through their toward the alignment of the pelvic bones, the ment. When one’s structural body has integrity Austrian philosopher, inspired the development movements requires effort, children have to work whole body tendency toward vestibular dysfunc- and is tuned correctly, the muscles play beautifully. of Waldorf education and biodynamic agriculture, harder than they should to pay attention to other tion began to be reversed over time. Fluid movement is music. When there is too much and cultivated a philosophy of approaching hu- things. This then may manifest as behavioral or Another example: Alana was an eleven-year or too little muscle tone or there is nervous system man understanding through the aspects of physi- learning challenges. Working with an occupational old girl who had been severely dyslexic until see- agitation, movement may be compromised and cal, etheric, astral, and ego, or body, mind, soul, therapist, audiologist, vision therapist, or special ing a craniosacral therapist. After two sessions the song is out of tune. The instrumentalist must and spirit), spoke of our having twelve senses, education teacher may be enormously helpful. she found that she could read at a fourth grade work harder to make a fluid sound, and there not just the five or six that mainstream science But if part of the child’s awkward movement arises level, when previously she had been at a second may be a particular note that is simply stuck, a recognizes today. from a structural restriction within the body, un- grade level. Why might this result occur? When little sharp or flat. We moderate and evolve our The four lower senses mentioned above are less this is addressed through structural support we consider that craniosacral therapy is able to music to fit the instrument, and it still may sound the foundations of our sensory motor develop- such as craniosacral therapy, it will always be address tension within the intracranial membrane beautiful. There is no perfect body without flaw, ment, and are the senses that relate to the later something the child has to compensate for or system; and that ocular motor function (as well just a perfect archetype. But when our instruments development of our higher senses of hearing, work around. as the vestibular and auditory systems), can be are tuned, when we know the patterns that make language, thought, and sense of self. (The senses Some concrete examples may serve to directly affected by mobility or restriction within up coherent rhythms and melodies, movement of warmth, sight, taste, and smell fall in the middle). illustrate the relationship between learning po- the cranial membrane system, it is not surpris- becomes easier, and thus everything else in life The lower senses are also senses which, through tential and sensory motor health. Gabriel was a ing after all to see a clear difference in the way becomes easier. the stresses of the modern day lifestyle (or ten-year-old boy who was noted by his parents someone is able to visually process information, When an infant is working through the phases through trauma, such as a difficult birth or serious and teachers to be particularly restless, and he or in the way that their auditory and vestibular of developmental movement patterns that lead injury), can often be compromised or hindered. frequently fell over in his chair during class. He function might improve. to standing upright and walking, he is laying In Waldorf schools, the children entering the was distractible and had a tendency to reverse These examples do not guarantee that cra- down the neural pathways that will serve him first grade are assessed for first grade readiness. numbers and letters in his writing. niosacral therapy can address all learning chal- throughout life. By the time a child is ready for This does not involve testing their knowledge of Gabriel was brought in for a series of cranio- lenges or sensory motor disturbances; however, grade school, everyday movements should be the alphabet or whether they can count to ten. An sacral therapy sessions over a period of several there is great potential for CST to benefit and mastered in a way that support the child’s en- educational specialist takes each child through months. His teachers immediately noticed that support these areas of development. In addition, gagement in everyday activities. If, however, a a series of movement activities and games that he became more centered during class, and when it is possible to remedy sensory motor child has to think about his movement (such as allows teachers to observe the child’s movement that he no longer reversed his letters. Some health through manual therapy or other structural whether to use right or left, how to coordinate capacities. If a child is able to stand on one foot of his tendency toward silliness and his lack of support, all the other therapies addressing the two movements at once, the independent move- and count to ten without falling over; if she is able uprightness continued to reappear, but over same issues become more effective. Freedom ment of one limb); or if he has to think about how to freely cross the vertical midline without having time there was improvement in his participation of movement compliments the integration of everything else. to find his balance while sitting at a desk without to think about it; if she is capable of coordinating in the classroom. Observe the people around you. Notice the falling over, then the higher centers of the brain movement and speech together; and if she can Structurally, Gabriel had a good deal of ten- ease or lack of fluidity within their movement. that should be freed for learning are focused on toss and catch a beanbag with ease, it is likely that sion and restriction throughout his Dural tube Notice where in their bodies they might benefit more mundane tasks in order to participate at all, she will be successful in the classroom. (the membrane that surrounds the spinal cord), from a little structural support, and how their and details might be missed during instruction. If a child struggles to do many of these things, originating in the pelvis, as well as compres- movement changes or integrates once this is Distracting behaviors may present themselves. the higher centers of the brain, which should sion of the occipital base, and temporal bone achieved. Notice if this has a ripple effect in the Sensory-motor development becomes observ- be ready for learning in a school-age child, are restrictions causing his craniosacral rhythm to way they are able to engage with the world. ably challenged. distracted instead, by having to think through a be out of sync. By addressing the occipital base Notice how the music sounds with more fluidity Movement development and the foundational series of movements, or how to find balance while compression and temporal bone dysfunction, when the instrument is tuned. senses of human development begin before sitting in a chair at a desk. The child does not his vestibular system was able to integrate and Aurore Sibley is an Extra Lesson teacher, educational support consultant, and birth, but it is particularly in the first years of life have mastery over his movement, and the neural operate more healthfully. By following these has a craniosacral therapy practice in Santa Cruz, California. Her website is that the senses of touch, movement, balance, pathways he is are developing while learning may restrictions through his Dural tube and working headhearthandshealing.com
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Storm Flowers
I bought chrysanthemums on the last day of summer. I made sure to get some in bloom (white as nothing, yellow as a soothing dream song) & some big plants loaded with buds, ripe with hope. I like to get both, to carry us through to the season when snowdrifts obliterate. We planted them in rows, bloomers & budders arranged to maximize our viewing pleasure. A week later, bent on revenge, a storm came with angry wind & rain that flooded our yard. In the aftermath, blossoms floated in a muddy flood that flowed inexorably into the thirsty, sucking storm drain. New blooms opened the next day.
— BY Eric Greinke
This poem was originally published in the Aurorean
Eric Greinke has new work forthcoming from Cape Rock Poetry, Freshwater Liter- ary Journal, Gargoyle, Lake Effect, New York Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Plainsongs, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Trajectory. His most recent book is The Third Voice—Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration, Presa Press.
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i seek out goodness and justice in the world; and where it is lacking I attempt to create it, alone and together with others. a personal history on a biodynamic farm; from travelling to India on an internship of my own design; and from planning and executing a conference with 300 participants, The International Youth I learned and changed and grew. One could argue About YIP that any year in any life spent doing anything has the potential to be life changing, and I would agree. The International Youth Initiative But this was a fundamental shift in how I experi- Program, YIP, is a societal entrepre- Initiative Program enced my present and viewed my future. It was a neurship training, offering a holistic process of being laid bare to the world, stripped educational program that promotes Silas Beardslee of any facade, and doing so with a community of an expanded global and personal peers, some younger and some much older than awareness. YIP aims to strengthen I; and doing so with mentors, willing to remain at young people’s capacity to take my side and support me no matter what my state, initiative in the face of current global he only truthful way for me to illustrate in her my yearning to return to a learning environ- witnessing and encouraging my becoming. challenges. Up to 40 participants, the International Youth Initiative Program ment while also expressing my disillusionment and In addition to this experience of personal between 18 and 28 years old, from all (YIP) in Sweden, I believe, is with the story unease with the college and university circuits I T growth and connection to a vast community of en- over the world, live, learn, create and of my own experience as participant, alumnus, witnessed my friends navigating. I longed for deep gaged individuals, I left YIP with the practical skills organize together for ten months. With co-worker, and then contributor. With each pass- relationships and a community of peers that could to organize, facilitate, and communicate on a large its format YIP provides a platform for ing year, and each group of individuals passing relate to my strivings toward social engagement. scale. The program is organized into one-week young people to develop their fullest through the program, YIP becomes ever more I received the acceptance letter from YIP on intensive courses led by experts in their respec- potential, expand their understanding diverse, and continues to prove that it is what you my twentieth birthday. As I packed my bags I was tive fields, such as Consciousness and Mentoring, and find their authentic task in society make of it. unaware that I would be one of 40 participants, Politics and Governance, Ecology, Technology, and the world. I heard about YIP in the winter of 2007 from my aged 18 to 28 years old from 18 different countries, Portrait Painting, and even Knife-Making. The To learn more, or to apply, visit sweet mother who came across a display ad in an pioneering the inaugural year of the program. diversity of the curriculum reflects the diversity in www.yip.se/apply or write to [email protected] anthroposophic magazine (it may even have been The eleven months I spent in YIP changed my the participants—where they come from and what LILIPOH!). Two years separated me from the end life. (The time for current participants is now ten their experience is. This is part of the reason I am of my high school experience, and I had confided months.) From living together in one large house telling my story of YIP and not the story of YIP.
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Advice from the Spider
Walk carefully. It’s easy to trip over all those feet. Throw your draglines with care, or you’ll end up attached somewhere you don’t want to be. Wind is your enemy. Hunker under a branch, hide beneath a shingle, a slat. Twist yourself into a puff of silk while you wait to spin fling spin. Know that some will fear you, your many legs, those sticky brushes. Some will dread your eyes looking eight ways at once. Some will admire you, carry you outside to safety, some will watch while you spin chew spin. Some are ready to fold you into a tissue, pinch your small body flat and toss you into the toilet. They’ve forgotten the egg sacks hidden in corners and shoes.
—by Karla Huston
“Advice from the Spider” was previously published in the chapbook Grief Bone. Five Oaks Press.
Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2017-2018) is the author of A Theory of Lipstick (Main Street Rag: 2013) as well as 8 chapbooks of poetry including Grief Bone, (Five-Oaks Press: 2017). Her poems, reviews and interviews have been published widely, including the 2012 Pushcart Best of the Small Presses anthology. She teaches poetry writing at The Mill: A Place for Writers in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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book review Train a Dog but Raise the Child: A Practical Primer, by Dorit Winter
Cindy Brooks, MFT
any parent education books now focus and cortical centers. These physical connections, on helping parents with two dimensions which are built through the soothing activities of at- M of the parent-child relationship: fostering tuned parents provide the neurological foundation secure attachment and parent-child connection; for the child’s emotional maturity and resilience for and promoting children’s emotional intelligence. the whole of life: Ever since the 1995 publication of psychologist For the rest of the life span, the right hemi- Daniel Goleman’s ground-breaking best-seller, sphere, which has been imprinted and Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More organized by early relational experiences, Than IQ, and the concurrent development of brain is dominant for the nonconscious reception, imaging technologies and research with those, expression, communication, and regulation parenting educators have focused their attention of emotion, essential functions for creating who are more likely to have better physical capacities being taught to parents include: noticing more and more on parenting skills that build emo- and maintaining social relationships, espe- health, academic success, and social-emotional the child’s emotion and one’s own; recognizing tional intelligence and neural integration. cially intimate ones.1 Brain-imaging studies of infants and parents well-being; fewer behavior problems including the child’s emotion as an opportunity to have have clarified the awesome significance of This “vertical integration” of the right hemisphere, less violence; fewer negative feelings and more intimacy with and give help to the child; listening parent-child interactions in the first year of life established in the first year, is also seen as the positive feelings; better self-regulation skills; empathetically and validating the child’s feelings for the child’s later development. During the first neurological basis for the child’s later development and higher levels of resilience when faced with and needs; responding empathetically to the year the infant’s neurological development takes of trust, empathy, and morality.1 distress.1 child’s expression of feelings, wants and needs; place primarily within the right hemisphere where Researchers also have found that parents who So it makes sense that parent educators and setting boundaries for behavior while helping repeated experiences of parental soothing help attune to and guide their children with emotional have been exploring how to help parents grow the child solve the practical problems that are establish connections (“wiring”) between limbic intelligence throughout childhood raise children more emotionally intelligent children. The central causing the child’s emotional distress.
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Waldorf education also values the emotional experiences filled with wisdom and truth, such as health of the child, and many Waldorf schools and stories from the world’s great mythologies, or biog- teachers are adopting strategies such as these raphies and stories of the great figures and events to promote healthy communication and conflict- of human history. It also comes from activities and Researchers also have found resolution practices in their communities. As a child experiences that call forth what is noblest and best therapist and parenting educator, I have welcomed in the child (and in us), especially adventures in that parents who attune the increasing interest in fostering emotional in- places that are life-giving and full of beauty. Family telligence and neural integration in children. The or community celebrations, regular moments of one aspect of this flood of interest in emotional reverence and ritual, creative play, artistic and to and guide their children intelligence that concerns me is the emphasis on musical activities, experiences of graceful, flowing talking to children about their feelings and ask- movement—these are the kinds of activities that with emotional intelligence ing them to reflect and be self-aware about their open and nourish the heart and life forces of the emotional lives before the age of twelve. child and build emotional intelligence, far more throughout childhood raise My concern stems from having learned that if, in than conversations about feelings. the first seven years, we talk to the child abstractly, If we ask our children to talk and think a lot ask the child too many questions, or regularly about their feelings before age twelve, we are children who are more likely ask the child to be aware of adult concerns and encouraging them to use self-awareness, a capac- concepts (including feelings), then the child’s ity that belongs to the astral body, which normally to have better physical health, integration with the physical body is weakened. becomes active about age twelve. The more we I have seen firsthand in my therapy practice how wake up a child’s astral body in the years before an overly intellectual parenting style can lead to twelve, the more the child begins to feel and academic success, and social- anxiety, dysregulation, and poor adjustment in behave like a teenager: full of sass, with a desire a young child. Young children thrive when they for independence and teen-like interests, and emotional well-being; fewer have plenty of physical movement, rich sensory less inclined to admire and revere parents. It is experiences, purposeful work, and can learn healthier for children to grow a strong and vibrant through imitation and doing. During these years, life body during the years from seven to twelve, behavior problems including adults can best support a child’s healthy growth and not have their astral body awakened early. by engaging alongside the child in purposeful Early awakening of the astral body floods children less violence; fewer work and by communicating through action and with its teenage impulses at a time when they are action-words when relating with the child. This is really still children and not ready to handle these what I have emphasized in my parent education forces. negative feelings and more work and in my own parent education materials. Another adverse effect of too much talk and In the second seven years it is similar. If we self-awareness during the elementary years is that positive feelings; better emphasize and activate the “head” forces through thinking uses astral forces which “eat” the child’s talking to children using our intellect, explaining etheric (life) forces. Since these are the years when and giving reasons about why we want them to our children’s life-store of etheric forces is being self-regulation skills; and do certain things, involving them regularly in adult created (the forces that will support their well- concerns, or sharing abstract concepts (includ- being and physical health for the rest of their life), higher levels of resilience ing about feelings), the child’s “heart” and life it is important to protect children from activities that forces are weakened. True nourishment for the inhibit or diminish the fullness and vibrancy of their heart at this time comes from imaginative, artistic life body. Since Waldorf communities know about when faced with distress.
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Waldorf Teaching or Early Childhood Education 2-year, part-time diploma programs the developmental phases of childhood, it seems relationship without recommending intellectual includes comprehensive to be that we have a unique responsibility to help conversations with the child. Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy parents recognize the importance of strengthen- Reading Dorit’s book, Train a Dog but Raise the [can be attended separately] ing and protecting their children’s etheric forces in Child, is a bit like going for a hike in the mountains: Arts & Education Summer Courses the years from seven to twelve, since the culture at first you walk through dense forest enjoying the in late June at large does not recognize the need to protect plants, rocks, and creatures that are in close view; LEARN MORE: ALKIONCENTER.ORG the etheric and is bursting with trends that work and then the trail mounts a hill and a panoramic against a strong and healthy etheric in the child.1 vista unfolds that takes your breath away. There alkion center | ANTHROPOSOPHY, ART & WALDORF TEACHER EDUCATION 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075 • 518-672-8008 • [email protected] • alkioncenter.org Dorit Winter, retired master Waldorf teacher and is plenty of food for thought in this unpretentious mentor, has written a book for parents and teach- book, for parents and teachers alike. It is written
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PLUS Discovering the Essential In Our Lives Bruce Lipton, phD Inner Autumn: Nature, our Drive to Your Soul, & Death intrusive sense impressions that regularly Bond others children’s behavior in positive directions while is tackled well. Dorit recognizes that in consider- with how Spaces Shape us overwhelm their nervous systems and acti- & how We Unfolding a whispering or not even speaking out loud; how to ing such questions it is important to understand Shape Spaces $5.00 $5.00 Health vate their lower brain centers (fight or flight); Better $5.00 ISSUE 73 VOL. 18, Fall 2013 ISSUE 77 VOL. 19, Fall 2014 C anticipate children’s needs in order to keep order the changing consciousness and needs of the ISSUE 69 VOL. 17, Fall 2012 Separation of NatioN & State • UNStoppable occUpy • charleS eiSeNSteiN doctor/patient relationships • illness • areschool doctors World EnERgY PsYcHOLOgYBrain. • LOVIng Body. 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Whether the child is happy reflects ing good judgment and moral values like Nutrition and the Land Honoring Our Elders empathy and compassion. give rewards that foster health in the child and in part the degree to which the child’s true devel- Fall/Winter 1997 #53 social Health Women’s Health help build a positive sense of self; how to choose opmental needs are being met: young children There is much to contemplate in this grand finale #54 Cognition #14 special Issue: #55 Education consequences for misbehavior that are effective in need freedom to move and play imaginatively; of chapters. What makes for true sustenance Guide to Self-Care #57 new Society preventing the next impulse toward inappropriate older children need deep engagement with their in the world of the child? What will make for a #15 allergies and Asthma #58 fear and the Flu action; and how to help children have a healthy subjects and to be challenged by their teachers future world reflecting the highest and best in #19 mysteries of the Heart #59 flower Essences relationship to food, and how to avoid being and parents. The bottom line seems to be: children the human being? How can human spiritual ca- #22 the Soul’s Health #60 Inner Ear and Balance controlled by children’s obstinate proclivities in are happy when they are confident in their teacher, pacities be protected and strengthened? There #23 Death & Rebirth #61 Economy this realm. and that confidence needs to be earned. The is much for parents to decide as they encounter #26 tension and Relaxation #63 Living Without All of the skills that the book explores require same goes for parents. It is a big responsibility to a culture that seems increasingly inimical to #27 a Rich Offering of being comfortable with being an authority for guide the next generation to adulthood! We have deeper values. Therapies #64 When Disaster Strikes children. They also involve being “cool” and some- to be models worthy of imitation in the early years For Waldorf-trained teachers and anyone #28 spiritual Science #67 food Rights what detached from particular outcomes, and not and worthy of admiration in the elementary years. familiar with the meditative path found in anthro- Reflections #68 Relationship being invested in meeting one’s own ego needs The remainder of the book opens our eyes to posophy, Dorit’s book will inspire and motivate; #31 Stress #69 brain. Body. Soul. as the primary motivation in one’s interactions with even bigger questions. How do we protect and and how to develop the capacities she highlights #34 bone Health & #70 redemption of Labor Osteoporosis the child. Dorit recognizes repeatedly that this is foster the inner strength, vitality, and spirits of will be clear. I’m not sure that parents who have #82 encountering Others #36 Biography more easily done by teachers than by parents who our children in the face of cultural trends which no active relationship to anthroposophy will feel #83 the Healing Arts as able to put the author’s inspirations into prac- #37 Sexuality have much more reason to be subjective, warm, interfere with or threaten their free and healthy #84 summer 2016 tice. It is not usual in my experience for parents #38 Health in the Workplace and invested in their own ego needs when relating development? Here Dorit introduces us to re- #85 fall 2016 nowadays to have a sense for the importance of #39 cleanse and Detoxify to their own children. 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The Elements of Painting
Laura Summer
hen I was a student in painting school I surface, and composition. How can we learn to was given cloud studies as an assign- respect this lawfulness while at the same time W ment. Sitting on the lawn, gazing at the playing in its realm? Blue is a reality that has a sky, trying to capture on paper the form language certain quality; it makes me feel a certain way. of the clouds, I had a major realization: God is When I put it next to red, something very specific much better at composition than I am. The natural happens that is different from what happens if I put world is filled with interesting, dynamic, coherent, blue next to yellow or black. How can the painter and incoherent harmony, vastly more interesting develop a sensitivity to feel this lawfulness and at than what I can draw when I think of cloud or tree the same time be in a state of experimentation and or stone. As a painter I wondered how I could dialogue? Where is the realm that exists between harvest some of this vast harmony and have it expressionism (“it’s all about what I want to say”), inform my work. So began the past 30 years of and impressionism (“it’s all about what is outside struggling to bring what is behind the world, what me”). Not only can we find this realm, we can creates the world, out onto the canvas. The effort also live there as painters, and be continuously is never completely successful, but it is ever more nourished and inspired by moving between the and more a fascinating exploration. polarity of self and other. The painter works with the world of two dimen- How do we do that? By patiently exercising our sions, which is lawful. Color is lawful, as are line, perceptive capacities while painting and drawing.
The painter works with the world of two dimensions, which is lawful. Color is lawful, as are line, surface, and composition. S u mm er . y L aura ork b
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By painting blue and adding red, then painting blue and adding yellow. By comparing these feelings, locating the realm of quality within me. Where do these feelings live? Then bringing these feeling capacities to my work. For me it’s not about what I want to tell the world, but it’s also not about what blue wants to tell the world; it’s about my conversation with blue and what is said there. My conversation will be different from yours, just as my conversation with my neighbor over the fence about how to grow sweet peas in the sun, will be different from yours with that same neighbor, from the shady side of her yard. Both conversations hold the potential of interest. So I wonder: Are there other people who want to explore these things? At Free Columbia we have experimented with many forms of teaching, and now in this season of 2018-19 we will explore low residency intensives. What happens when a group of people come together a few times a year to explore painting together? What changes in my work because I see yours? What aspects of the Royal Art (as Rudolf Steiner called the art of working together socially), can inform our paint- ing? It seems like it is all about listening, learning to perceive the other.
...just as my conversation with my neighbor over the fence, about how to grow sweet peas in the sun, will be different from yours with that same neighbor...
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Experimenting with new forms is always chal- lenging, and so it is the perfect activity for artists. For artists stand always on the edge, sensing the vast discomfort and the exhilarating strength of the unknown. My question is: can we work here together? 2018-19 Free Columbia will offer a series of weeklong intensives in the basic lawfulness of color and composition. We will explore and exer- cise our capacities in the realm of quality. If you are interested in painting and wonder how to take your work beyond your own expression and into the realm of conversation with the elements of two dimensions, you are very welcome to apply. If you have been painting for years and long for enlivening dialogue with other painters; or if you are a beginner, but you’re fascinated and commit- ted to this work of learning through artistic process, you are very welcome to apply. The four sessions will be held in November, February, April, and July. There will be individual work to do between Laura Summer is co-founder of Free Columbia. Her approach to color is influenced by Beppe Assenza, Rudolf Steiner, and by Goethe’s color theory. sessions and the studio at Free Columbia will be She has been working with questions of color and contemporary art for available during the year. 30 years. She founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces in Hudson NY, 345 Collaborative Gallery and Raising Matter—this is not a More information is at www.freecolumbia.org gallery and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-18 where 450 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices.
For artists stand always on the edge, sensing the vast discomfort and the exhilarating strength of the unknown.
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book review The Isenheim Altarpiece by Michael Schubert
Treasa O’Driscoll
rejoice in the recent publication of an mounted in the Isenheim monastery chapel; English translation of Michael Schubert’s it became a source of hope and healing for I magnificent book, The Isenheim Altarpiece: hospice patients afflicted by St. Anthony’s Fire, History—Interpretation—Background, the origi- a fatal disease caused by the consumption of nal German edition of which was published in contaminated rye. An icon of heavenly harmony 2007 to wide acclaim. The three-tiered, winged and healing grace, the painting constitutes an altarpiece was painted more than 500 years ago antidote to the turbulent stream of our daily by an artist of exceptional imagination and skill, concerns in a time of unprecedented global Matthias Grunewald, about whom little is known. unrest. The ever-growing number of visitors The painting was commissioned by an Antonite to the museum in Colmar, France, where the abbott at the turn of the sixteenth century and polyptych is currently housed, attests to its
A true work of art is said to perform, of its own accord, the act of transforming the soul of the viewer.
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enduring significance as a sublime and seminal depths to be revealed beyond what meets dismantled and moved artistic creation. the eye. between Germany and A true work of art is said to perform, of its The reality of this response was borne out in France over the centuries, own accord, the act of transforming the soul the life of the book’s author, Michael Schubert. escaping the hazards of of the viewer. This purpose is implicit in the al- He was “shattered and overcome,” moved to war, eluding the covetous tarpiece. Like other great religious paintings of the core of his being, when he stood before the grasp of kings and col- the Renaissance in which aesthetic and spiritual Crucifixion panel of the altarpiece for the first lectors, always destined values are at one, its inherent marriage of beauty time, having discovered the Colmar Museum, lo- to advance the spiritual and truth is communicated through an inspired cated less than an hour’s drive from his home. He well-being of those drawn to study it. Blind faith and a belief in miracles prevailed in Grunewald’s time, but the Goethe recognized that every painter appears to have been of a more evolved disposition and might have color has a direct relationship been a member of a se- cret society. The panels, with something spiritual, and apart from highlighting fa- miliar biblical scenes, also that it is in creating directly out give pictorial expression to unconventional religious of the play of light, darkness, viewpoints that are rooted in esoteric Christianity. The author of this book left no and color that a true painting stone unturned in his efforts to decipher the countless comes into being. details that are, he notes, like letters of a forgotten language embedded in the panels. combination of color and form. The beauty of did not have a religious background or church af- Michael Schubert ad- these biblical images and the mysteries that filiation, but experienced a moment of epiphany, opted a Goethean sci- attend them can leave us breathless in a part sensing that every gesture, every detail, every entific approach in his of the soul that has not been touched before, scroll is laden with meaning. Deep questions research, keenly observ- inducing a state of wonder, of peaceful calm, and flooded into his mind, setting the course for ing each detail while keep- gratitude. This experience of beauty goes beyond the next forty years of his life, when he would ing an open mind until words as does the recognition of its underlying devote himself to piecing together the history understanding dawned. truth, a word termed aletheia in the original and meaning of the altarpiece. Miraculously pre- His previous experience Greek, which means “unhiddeness,” implying served despite all odds, the painting had been of Waldorf education had
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Nov 16–18: Jacksonville Beach, FL Oct 11–14: Mount Desert Island, ME Nov 15–18: Mount Desert Island, ME “Where Consciousness Explorations: Phenomenology, Mapping Culture with Soul with Bar- Engaging Silence, Heart & Earth Meets Wilderness” IntuitiveThinking and Metalwork bara Booth, Kathryn Booth and guests. with Joan Jordan Grant, Barbara Booth with Michael D’Aleo. The Playgarden: The Alcyon Center: +1.207.244.1060; and Liz Leuthner. The Alcyon Center: WEST •Custom class trips +1.904.241.3259; [email protected]; +1.207.244.1060; office@alcyoncenter. •Summer programs [email protected]; www.alcyoncenter.org org; www.alcyoncenter.org www.theplaygarden.org/explorations •Semester school Oct 18: Copake, NY Rhythmical Nov 26–30: Mount Desert Island, ME Einreibungen for nurses, care Silent Week in Community Kroka Expeditions Jun 2: Fair Oaks, CA Biodynamic Plant www.kroka.org | 603-835-9087 EAST givers, parents, teachers and mas- with Eric Erickson. The Alcyon sage therapists. Anke Smeele will Center: +1.207.244.1060; Sep 15: Chestnut Ridge, NY Biodynam- teach part 1 of the Foundation Course. [email protected]; ics & Earth Evolution Autumn tasks for +1.518.610.3525; anke@camphill www.alcyoncenter.org Pathology Join An Introduction our to diseasevibrant community! farm & garden with Mac Mead. Pfeiffer village.org; naana.wildapricot.org/re Center: +1.845.352.5020x120; Dec 1: Chestnut Ridge, NY Large INTERGENERATIONAL | NON-DENOMINATIONAL [email protected]; Oct 26–28: Chestnut Ridge, NY Toward Animals & the Farm Organism www.pfeiffercenter.org a Deepening of the Christmas Foun- with Steffen Schneider. Pfeiffer prevention and pest management dation Impulse 3rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Center: +1.845.352.5020x120; Sep 24–28: Chestnut Ridge, NY Regional Gathering. Christa Lynch: [email protected]; Celebrating 50 years as an Sacramentalism and Alchemy with +1.845.352.5020x122; christa@three- www.pfeiffercenter.org anthroposophic life-sharing Rev Jonah Evans and Rev Bastiaan fold.org; www.threefold.org/events through plant and soil vitality with Cyndi Baan. Open course to research the Dec 6–9: Mount Desert Island, ME community in Spring Valley, NY. connections between alchemy and Nov 3: Chestnut Ridge, NY Soil Building The Portal of Sacred Text with Pamela sacramentalism. Seminary of The & Composting: Seed Saving Basics with Shellberg and Joan Jordan Grant. The We are dedicated to eldercare, farming, gardening, healthcare and education. Christian Community: +1.845.356.0972; Mac Mead and Megan Durney. Pfeiffer Alcyon Center: +1.207.244.1060; Pointer and Bradley Tonnessen PhD. We are currently developing new [email protected]; Center: +1.845.352.5020x120; info@ [email protected]; educational programs leading to www.christiancommunityseminary.org pfeiffercenter.org; www.pfeiffercenter.org www.alcyoncenter.org degree certifications in health fields. We We invite you to join us in creating Sep 27–30: Mount Desert Island, ME Nov 7–11: Chestnut Ridge, NY Bridging Rudolf Steiner College: 916.96and Sean the future of cmmunity together. Engaging Silence, Heart & Earth Natural Science & Spiritual Science INTERNATIONAL with Joan Jordan Grant, Kathryn Anthroposophy & Science 2018 Annual Seeking dedicated co-workers Booth and Liz Leuthner. The Alcyon Conference with Dr Peter Heusser. An- Sep 7–10: Dornach, Switzerland with diverse skill sets as well as Center: +1.207.244.1060; office@ nual conference of the Natural Science, Listening to Students: Teach the Teach- nurses / clinicians interested in Gordon, Celtic scholar, storyteller and developing our health care programs Math & Astronomy sections at the Three- er in Teaching Anthroposophic Medicine alcyoncenter.org; www.alcyoncenter.org and medical office. fold Educational Center. J Andrew Linnell: at the Goetheanum. From imagination to which date? —> Oct 13: Sep 15: [email protected]; inspiration. +41.61.706.4444; (845) 356-8494 Chestnut Ridge, NY Introducing the www.naturalsciencesection.org [email protected]; Biodynamic Preparations with Mac Blue Badge guide. Gillian: 610.469.0864; C OMMu NITy www.medsektion-goetheanum.org Rudolf Steiner spoke about Mead and Megan Durney. Pfeiffer Nov 9–11: Litchfield, CT Forgiving: fellowshipcommunity.org “a future worthy of the human being.” Center garden: +1.845.352.5020x120; Logos Working Group retreat at Wisdom M EDICAL OffICE [email protected]; House. Annual gathering in the tradition fellowshipmedical.org How do we get there? www.pfeiffercenter.org of Rudolf Steiner and Georg Kühlewind. [email protected] Joyce Reilly: [email protected] or Sara Ciborski: [email protected]; www.rudolfsteiner.org
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Calendar, continued Sep 12–13: Dornach, Switzerland Oct 8–15: Tuluá, Columbia Dec 9–16: Calcutta, India Darkness–Color–Light: Light on IMPT International Conference of IMPT International Conference of NINE SMALL POEMS the meditative path of knowledge of Anthroposophic Medicine with the Anthroposophic Medicine with the the Michael School. A Conference for Medical Section at the Goetheanum. Medical Section at the Goetheanum. the School of Spiritual Science in the In Spanish and German. Paola In English. Swapna Narendra: Anthroposophical–Medical Movement Grajales: +57.317.342.9699; [email protected] or My hands holding leaves- at the Goetheanum. +41.61.706.4444; [email protected]; [email protected]; exchanging [email protected]; www.medsektion-goetheanum.org www.medsektion-goetheanum.org veins www.medsektion-goetheanum.org Nov 14–21: Tultenango, Mexico What a day! Sep 13–16: Dornach, Switzerland IMPT International Conference listen to how loud Living Light: International Annual of Anthroposophic Medicine those dead leaves are Conference of the Medical Section in with the Medical Section at the at the Goetheanum. What is a healthy Goetheanum. In Spanish and Ger- No rain- relationship with light, the sun, and man. bird bath like how to find its therapeutic efficacy? In [email protected] or a begging bowl German and English. +41.61.706.4444; [email protected]; [email protected]; WhatsApp: +5215528531581; Evening rain www.medsektion-goetheanum.org www.medsektion-goetheanum.org writes its own haiku in a spoonful of dust
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