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September/October 2003 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE

Tribute to Rev. Taco Bay on his 70th birthday , Camphill Village, Dear Taco, We are far away from each other : you and caring . You could even share our dif- in the heart of Germany and myself at the ferent approach with those who belonged southern tip of Africa . But I would like to to other streams . I remember you telling address you personally, as though we were me about a discussion on death with together and I could speak to you out of many of your Samaritan colleagues, in my heart . which you put forward the challenging We have been friends for some fifty idea that we live in order to die! years-since the early 1950s-and your . . .Your term as the leader of The Chris- friendship has meant a great deal to me . flan Community began, and over the It has always had in it an element of guid- years your forces of heart and your deep ance, in spite of my being six years older: feeling for the realities of life - your love many times, in those early years at of humanity and your ability to devote Camphill in Scotland, our conversations yourself fully to the task in hand - have gave me guide-lines for a deeper connec- shaped your service . Outstanding has tion to Camphill, to and been your way of supporting new candi- to . In our backgrounds, our dates and leading them through the personalities and our stature we were very different threshold of the , which you have done with from each other, but just that has led over the years to full authority-exousia . . . .You have encouraged priests an enriching of our friendship, and Lenkers to be upright and clear in their personal You will recall the formative years of our belonging lives and to be social in their attitudes, to develop the to the 'Thursday Group', in which we also had quality of empathy. This you have done, not so much Friedwart, the son of , Mark, the son of Lothar by writing homilies and articles, but by the way you Gartner the developer of the lyre, and Renate, the have spoken at synods, and above all in personal con- daughter of Dr König. Of course there was also Suze, versations with your colleagues . People have recog- who later became Ita Bay, and I well remember the nized in you a true counsellor, and they have turned festivities at your wedding . . . Indeed we did many things to you, in spite of your high office, as a priest they together, including the running of social gatherings for could trust and a friend who enabled them to open the whole of Camphill in Scotland . their hearts . And then came our parting, when you had the call Now you are seventy, and maybe the time will soon to the priesthood . I followed your progress, and vis- come when your designated successor can take over ited you in Edinburgh when you took up work in the the task that you have carried for so long . May your congregation there together with Adam Bittleston . You health and stamina then give opportunity for you to were an exemplary congregational priest : I know this pursue your more personal interests, and bring to from many reports . You put everything you had into fulfillment much that you have had to lay aside . And caring for the youth ; the young married couples, the may these remaining years be a time of fostering your families, and the older people . Moreover, you reached many progressive impulses . out and connected with the Samaritans, and in this The full text of this letter appears in the work you developed your skills in counselling and your September-November 2003 issue of Perspectives, openness to the many other streams of religious life the journal of .

Cover Picture : front cover : The loss of innocence, the burning of the mother, the death of the sun, the resurrection of the flame and the journeys of Fable, David Newbatt back cover : Artaban : The journey to the ruined temple, David Newbatt

Contents The Michael Imagination Baruch Urieli 1 Building Inclusive Communities Address by Karl König at the presentation of the Raymond Friskney 2 / Crafts, Community and Tutzinger Star 12 Society Aonghus Gordon 3 I 'Doing the sparks' The Karl König Archives - a Possible Future? . . . . 13 Lana Chanarin 4 I 'Camphill' outside Camphill : Obituaries is it possible? Stephan Linsenhoff 5 /Visions Sophia Victoria Berger 14 / Further tributes to, from over the boundaries Ian Dollery 6 / The and memories of, Marie Korach 15 ghosts still breathe Neil Maclean 7 News from the Movement . . .and beyond 7 Teachers Conference Beaver Run Toni Russell 16 Foodwise / 's lectures to Hausenhof Camphill Village Johannes M. Surkamp workmen / A Diary : Life and Work During the 18 / Round the in 18 months Building / of The First / A Child in Jane Luxford 18 / 25 Years Corbenic Camphill Community / Vienna My Home Community Michael Phillips 19 / From the Camp- John Canning is 80 10 hill School Chas Bamford & Rita Kort 19

The Michael Imagination a key to the understanding of Rudolf Steiner's Last Address Baruch L . Urieli, Camphill Kyle, Republic of Ireland

The meditant working with Rudolf Steiner's'Michael Im- agination' may become aware that it cannot be under- stood unless one is well acquainted with his description of the working of the archangel Uriel in the lectures of 12th and 13th October, 1923 (GA229)* .There he describes the process of the sun and its radiant spirit powers out of which Uriel weaves the garment of Michael . This is de- scribed very clearly in the first verse of the Michael Im- agination . In the second verse the meditant is made aware that Michael, whose garment Uriel is weaving, is the mes- senger of Christ . The messages of what Stei ner calls U riel's 'historic conscience', the messages of moral and karmic judgement out of which Uriel weaves the garment of Michael, thus reveal themselves as messages of Christ to the human individual . Realizing this, the meditant can learn that this second verse of the Michael Imagination points to the fact that, in the course of the 20th century, Christ not only opened the sphere of the etheric to the striving human individual but He also became the Lord of Karma . Until then, the deeds of each human indi- vidual were put on the scales and judged, strict account kept of what was good or bad in the individual's life and the karmic account presented to every individual . This has now changed . Through the working of Christ as the Lord of Destiny even a mistake or failure can become a gateway to a new creative step in the development of an individual destiny. The harm done will eventually have to be made good or transformed but it loses its power to Parcival eats with Condwiramur, David Newbatt hold man in a debtor's prison . (see note on page 11) The third verse of the Michael Imagination can teach the meditant that Michael, the messenger of Christ who Only when this path has been walked for a good while, can now bring the Christ-endowed message of Uriel to can an attempt be made to turn to the riddle contained the individual, thereby leads her or him into that cosmic in the wording of the LastAddress . time-space where the true aim of one's incarnation can It is well known that many a reader of the LastAddress be beheld . Thereby the individual can decide in free- has been perplexed by the fact that Steiner speaks of dom what are the next steps he or she has to take in Lazarus John as being the of Elijah . Rudolf order to fulfil their destiny i n harmony with the choir of Steiner always spoke of John the Baptist as being the hierarchies . reincarnation of Elijah the prophet and furthermore John The final verse of the Michael Imagination calls the the Baptist was a contemporary of Lazurus John! How meditating individual to become aware of the Michaelic can this be understood? Dr. Ludwig Noll, one of the two guidance which is endowed by Christ's power of love . physicians who attended to Rudolf Steiner in that year Led by it, the individual can walk towards the ultimate went to him after his address and asked him for an ex- goal which a human can strive for. planation . Steiner replied that John the Baptist, who had been since his death the overshadowing spirit of the dis- Springing from powers of the Sun, ciples, penetrated from above into Lazarus as far as his Radiant spirit-powers, blessing all worlds! consciousness soul . However, this answer does not yet For Michael's garment of rays explain the connection of the Baptist to Raphael and • are predestined by thought divine. nor does it explain why Steiner never spoke of He, the Christ messenger, revealeth in you Novalis, Bearing mankind aloft-the sacred will of worlds . a further incarnation of the Baptist . Ye, the radiant beings of ether worlds, Rudolf Steiner said at the time that he hoped to com- Bear the Christ word to Man . plete this short address at a future time when his strength Thus shall the herald of Christ appear would allow it. However this was not to be . • the thirstily waiting , Thus the reader of the Last Address is left with a di- • whom your word of light shines forth lemma! What would Steiner have said if destiny had al- In cosmic age of Spirit Man . lowed him to continue and complete his LastAddress? Ye, the disciples of spirit knowledge, The writer of this article believes that intensive work Take Michael's wisdom beckoning, with the Michael Imagination can lead to this answer ; Take the word of love of the will of worlds this Imagination speaks not only of Michael but also of Into your soul's aspiring, actively! Uriel, the bearer of Historic Conscience and of Christ .

1 Let us now investigate how Uriel, Michael and Christ If we consider all this in its full reality we may ask our- worked into the life of John the Baptist . John called him- selves what this death brought with it . Here was a man self a preparer of the way of Christ. In order to fulfil this who for many years had awakened the higher self in aim he baptized people. Such a meant a full many fellow humans . Until one day he saw the highest immersion under water, where the person concerned self uniting itself with the man of Nazareth . Thus the went through a near-death experience . Thereby the per- future of humanity stood before him in such intensity son gained a glimpse of his or her higher self and this that come the hour of his own death he could become experience could be a guiding image for their further the first human being to reach the state of angelhood . As life. And there is no doubt that the baptizer himself was the first human being to become a member of the tenth not unaware of what happened to those he baptized . hierarchy he could then over) fight the destinies of Lazarus He could see the shining up of the higher self . John, Raphael and Novalis . Then came the hour in which he baptized Jesus of Becoming aware of this unfolding of events one is over- Nazareth . At that baptism he not only experienced the come with deep awe . The future of mankind stands be- shining up of the higher self of one of the greatest indi- fore the inner eye, sounds through one's inner being . vidualities in humankind but he could experience that Historic conscience, the gift of Uriel, has begun to be a the ultimate Higher Self, the Christ being, was not only Michaelic impulse in humanity and this impulse will glimpsed but united itself with Jesus . serve Christ evermore . It is unimaginable how deeply this experience must have affected the remainder of the Baptist's life . The fu- * GA229 was published in English under the title ture of humanity as a new hierarchy, the tenth hierarchy, The Four Seasons and the Archangels . stood before him and over-lit every step of his further life. It led him to a clash with Herodias and to his death Baruch is a retired priest of The Christian by beheading i n the spring of the year 32 . Community, working as a writer, speaker and counsellor.

Building Inclusive Communities Stn 11 t" May 2003, New Lanark, Scotland

A conference on Community Building and Social Renewal to mark the centenary of Dr. Karl König

Raymond Friskney, Deeside Houses, Newton Dee, Scotland

Roughly 150 people from Camphill communities and and supportto ethnic minorities with handicapped peo- many other organisations met for three days in New Lan- ple? Everywhere you go in Camphill-except a few ark Village where Robert Owen founded the famous places-you don't see many people of Asian or Carib- community and took over the mill to improve working bean descent, though Camphill centres have never said conditions . The conference was to mark the centenary No to them . It was a very interesting discussion . of Dr. Karl König and it was about building communi- In our group we had two Johns : John Fisher and John ties and social renewal . Heath, Lavinia Gordon, Ingrid and Margaret Hughes, Anyway, this very wonderful conference brought to- Moira Kinnair, Ian Mann-whose motherAnne had done gether many people . We had fourteen people from New- so much of the booking and accommodation-the rest ton Dee, some from Botton, Malton, Stourbridge, Tigh A' were Erica, Mr. & Mrs. Hughes, RobertTaylor, Russ Pooler. Chomainn, Simeon and places I've lost count of . We first met together in the visitors centre and were We had art groups and specialist groups . In the art welcomed and introduced by Jack Reed . We met a lot groups were : drama, drawing, painting, eurythmy, mu- of old friends like Ann Harris, Piet and Gerda Blok, sic, appreciation and storytelling . I took part in Stephen Hall, Simon and Paula-Maria Blaxlandde Lange, the drawing group with Allmut ffrench . We had to draw Lana Chanarin, Andy Paton and many others . our partners with our eyes closed, as a blind person We had talks : Dr. Margaret Colquhoun of the Life Sci- would be, feeling our partner's face to 'see' his or her ence Trust gave us a lovely description of the history of shape. I had Lana Chanarin and my portrait of her looked the Clyde River. Lorna Davidson from New Lanark spoke as if a two year old would draw her-not like Lana's about Robert Owen . Aonghus Gordon spoke to us on face at all! But blind people can draw pictures very well crafts, community and society ; about Ruskin-he was and play music superbly. very interesting. Rev. Kathy Galloway told us about the The specialist groups were : biography, community long Community. Vivian Griffiths gave an evening ad- building, art community and society, community medi- dress . The conference also had a social evening with a cal practice-taken by James Dyson and Stefan Gelder band from Edinburgh . and threefold social order taken by Michael Luxford . Now I had better say no more, but to thank all those Jane was also there, in the same group as I was-racial who organised the conference and made it possible : Jack equality and disability. This group was taken by two Reed, Vivian Griffiths, Simon Beckett and all the rest . amazing ladies, I think they were called Maya Varyani and Khushi Usmari, of Asian descent and very nice also . Raymond has lived for many years in The main point was: how can our communities give help Newton Dee, where he helps to run the Village Store.

2 Crafts, Community and Society Aonghus Gordon

From a talk at the conference 'Building Inclusive ceptual mindset of the intellectual establishment . At Communities' New Lanark, 9t" May20o3 this time, the concept of co-operation as the key to social development had not been accepted by society . Margaret Colquhuon had opened the Conference by Ruskin delivered lectures on the subject which were looking at the landscape of New Lanark with a Goethean, popular with the public, drawing audiences of 2000, interdisciplinary, holistic approach . There are human, but not with the establishment . He was seen as too geological and botanical issues to be considered, as well challenging of the establishment's reductionist route and as the question of human destiny . Aonghus also seeks to was marginalised because of this . He also decided to address social and community issues by doing an 'au- go through an 'unconversion', away from conventional dit' in this Goethean way-taking apart and reassem- church Christianity which did not conform to his godly bling what is around us and looking for the threads that view of Nature . This was also a brave and unpopular might link holism and reductionism, which is the domi- position to take at the time . nant world-view in our society . This is an approach that originated at the time of the painter William Turner, who developed it artistically. The Applause of Angels Turner Thoughts after the conference Artists are visionaries, forerunners of scientists and social Building Inclusive Communities reformers, who use what they are looking at to inspire others . Turner had a 'reductionist' training as a realist They seem to say, painter, an 'architectural' artist . He could focus on any- 'Don't be afraid, don't worry so much, thing and draw it accurately . But he didn't leave it at that . don't be burdened. Influenced by Goethe'sTheory of Colour, he broke through Keep doing what you're doing; don't doubt. into a transcendent wholeness . He dissolved form into And let's clap! an array of elucidated colour,' a deconstructed, holistic Thank you for what you've done. view of Nature without boundaries which is, however, We see you. underpinned by his accurate Iooking .This deviation from Remember your roots, the pioneers, what was the norm of the time led to his marginalisation the anniversaries, the traditions; by the public and the artistic establishment . But love the world too. We do. Ruskin Let's clap noisily. At the age of 19 John Ruskin defended Turner in an arti- There's always time the heart creates time . cle in The Times. This developed into the six volumes of The head on its own wastes so much time . his classic work Modern Painters which, as well as art Let's clap noisily and often .' criticism, incorporates evolution, geology, the human being. He does in art theory whatTurner does in art . Are they angels? Of course . From the age of 5, Ruskin had written sermons, having They're also friends, residents, villagers, been soundly educated in the contents of the Bible by Sisters and brothers and comrades. his mother, and by the age of 13 he had had poems Companions. published in The Times. At this same age he saw a book 'I am in God, God is in me', of Turner's pictures and had a kind of nervous break- Is my meditation with you. down . He travelled Britain, with his father who was a As the droplet's in the ocean, sherry merchant, visiting the locations that Turner had and the ocean fills the droplet. painted, checking the pictures against the real loca- You are in me, lam in you . tions-discovering thatTurner had transcended the land- We are one another. scape and created something spiritual . Aged 19, Ruskin went to Oxford University to study We include each other. geology-which was the genetics of the time : cutting- 'Into my head, I welcome your thoughts. edge science. He was the only person to stand up and Into my heart, I welcome your will .' oppose Darwin, with whom he debated, challenging his Is my meditation with others. theory of evolution . Darwin says look at the single entity, But who are the others? the constituent parts; Ruskin looks at wholeness, arguing Who dares open their heart? Their mind? that evolution and society are based on co-operation . As Who dares enter? Margaret Colquhuon said, evolution takes place 'at the You in me, I in you. edge', that is, through meeting what is different or other We could be one another. through co-operation . That Ruskin failed to convince Darwin of this, he counted the great failure of his life . We could include each other. And we could applaud, Warm social thinking infinitely generous, for ever. At a time when society was developing along the in- Peter Howe dustrial, reductionist route, Ruskin challenged the con-

3 Ruskin saw flaws in the reductionist industrial route and emerged that the Learning and Skills Council which fi- argued against capitalism . His work Unto This last was nanced the project, was, through one of its members, an anti-capitalist, anti-reductionist statement and has greatly influenced in its aims of a practical skills-based been highly influential . I n 1919, George Bernard Shaw training, by Ruskin's ideas . conducted a survey to establish who had most influenced How do you take this thread of warm social thinking, people's thinking : it was Ruskin . Unto This Lastwcs trans- going back through Ruskin, Turner, Goethe, and link it lated into Gujarati by Ghandi, who organised small com- with Steiner?You can build bridges by basing the work munities based on practical work, and it remains one of on Ruskin and Morris and then begin a dialogue about the most influential books in India . It is noteworthy that Steiner. Steiner's contribution is that he brings con- there was no bloodbath in India's revolution because it sciousness . was person-centred . If you can build a management structure from the bot- Tolstoy was also influenced, especially by Ruskin's new tom, with holistic, Goethean thinking, you can make a economic thinking, and because the book is anti-capital- vibrant, living organisation . In Dudley, there had devel- ist, its influence survived the communist era in Russia . oped a culture of exclusion . Chain makers and sign His influence in Britain was largely indirect, viaTolstoyan makers developed separate languages based on the dif- and Ghandian thinking . Ruskin was an inspiration for fering rhythms of their work . When those trades disap- the welfare state, and argued for a minimum wage, which pear, the communities are destroyed and social of course has only recently been implemented . factionalism breaks out . On top of this, there is Although he was spurned by the establishment after Unto unintegrated ethnic diversity, racism and schools failing This Last, he put his warm social thinking into British soci- to deliver. We had been asked to help with ideas on ety. A highly dysfunctional personality, he was neverthe- working with youth, yet warned by the local authority less good at bringing people together around issues and not to get involved . In parts of the local authority, there common interests; a great creator and member of Socie- was outdated, reductionist, leftwing thinking . ties. William Morris was a follower who, unlike Ruskin, We started with a Goethean audit of Dudley . Thus the could manage people . Morris' work developed out of an agenda came from the community, instead of being im- engagement with Nature and with 'the sophistication and posed on it; our curriculum is drawn outof the commu- simplicity of the hand' . Later, Karl König also picked up nity-its people and its working traditions . We came up on this and built it into his communities . He knew the with the concept of enabling the local youth to 'own' significance of Ruskin's approach, linking human activi- their area . RECAST: Regeneration, Education, Commu- ties with the earth . nity, Arts, Science, and Technology . But it also means recasting the local community . We work with the local Glasshouse College trades, notably glass, and with regeneration of small The Glasshouse project, a recently set-up college for businesses . When the curriculum does not have a pre- young people with learning difficulties in Dudley, near scriptive, divisive quality, but a 'Ruskinian warmth', it Birmingham, was born of taking Ruskinian thinking enables everyone-the Gujarati, the Chinese and the about industrialism and his concept of earth and man local white boys-to work together . Those working on and applying it . the project feel they are heard and bridges are built. There was the challenge of how to reconcile Ruskin's Transcribed from notes by Sam Sinclair, Facilitator of thinking, British establishment thinking and Rudolf Camphill Scotland, and Peter Howe. Steiner's teachings . When you mention Steiner, people go blank, but when you mention Ruskin's name, people Aonghus, is the founder come out of the woodwork' : at the Glasshouse, it of Ruskin Mill in Stroud, and of Glasshouse College.

'Doing the sparks' After images from New Lanark Lana Chanarin, Loch Arthur, Scotland

It is always such an impressive sight as you wind your community more relevant in our time and looking to way down to New Lanark and the deep gorge of the the future to see where and how the impulse towards River Clyde appears, forested with beech, birch and a community can express itself in the 21 St century. variety of other trees-then you are struck by the sight It became clear to me over this time that 'Inclusiveness' of the huge buildings which stand proudly along the is not just a matter of trying to take everything and eve- length of the valley . If it is your first visit the sight takes ryone in . This can actually become destructive to a com- your breath away. munity building process . But, in order to be truly Apart from the beauty of the landscape, the bold ges- inclusive, you need to be very clear about what you are ture of the large buildings and the attempt that was made doing and who you are-what are your intentions, ide- at community building within these buildings is inspir- als, aspirations-not to become narrow and closed but ing . This first physical impression was deepened and to be clear so that others can join in a constructive proc- enriched by the content that was shared during our days ess within a clear context . together, which helped to define and clarify many as- Inclusiveness is also a state of mind which works into pects of community living. But it also left us with impor- our thinking and speech and then out into the world . I tant and challenging questions regarding individual met Ruth Wilson, who now lives in Norway in Camphill creative initiative and the need for consensus ; making but spent many years on a kibbutz in Israel . We spoke

4 about her experiences and on returning home I found port from the recent Camphill Movement Group meet- an article she had written for Camphill Correspondence ing, June 2003, some of the closing words from Peter Summer 2001, about kibbutz and Camphill . She spoke Bateson were 'We experience the transition from the of the rapid disintegration of the kibbutz movement and established community forms and guidelines in Camph ill the ideals that stood behind it, as people who lived on to a less certain landscape where ethnic laws and proc- kibbutzim became more involved in the world of mate- esses hold sway and what lives between individuals is rialism, wages, rights . She also spoke of the danger of felt to be of crucial significance. To recognize each other, Camphill extinguishing its 'spiritual flame' if care was to love one another, to support one another, to help one not taken to be clear about our intentions as we go out another : this is what concerns us above all .' into the world more and more and try to 'include' many A similar sentiment was expressed in Lee Hall's radio different aspects and activities in our community life . play Spoonface Steinberg about a young Jewish autistic The other thing which became clear during the con- girl who is dying of cancer. She is told by her doctor ference was our need for each other, within communi- about the Hassidic Jewish people and the way they ap- ties, between communities, between different initiatives proached life and God and prayer and she then describes and within the world generally. It was exciting to be at a it to us i n her own words, gathering which included so many different people from because when the world was made, God made it out a diverse cross section of community activities and so- of magic sparks-everything that there is, was all made cial initiatives and it became obvious that we can learn of magic sparks-and all the magic sparks went into a great deal from each other if we work together. things-deep down and everything has a spark-but I would like to express my gratitude for having been it was quite a while ago since it was made and now able to attend this gathering . I have been to many con- the sparks are deep down inside and the whole point ferences and meetings over the years, but this seemed to of being alive-the whole point of l iving is to find the have a special quality. Maybe it was because we were spark-and when people meet, the sparks jump like all 'away from home' in a beautiful and inspiring place electricity-sparks God put there-and the sparks or because it was such a cross section of people from so were put there for each other 'cos God wanted peo- many different walks of life . Whatever the reason, there ple to find them in each other seemed to be a real buzz of excitement throughout and In New Lanark people were 'doing the sparks' . the quality of meeting, person to person was quite ex- traordinary-it seemed immediate and direct . In a re- Lana is a homemaker and co-founder of Loch Arthur.

'Camphill' outside Camphill : is it possible? Stephan Linsenhoff, Sweden

When I came to Murtle in 1945, I was eleven years old, Later again, I was denied employment and that same at the threshold of adolescence and Camphill was cel- day I discussed this with my counsellor Cecilia from ebrating its 14th anniversary. Returning as a Seminarist the Swedish Parents Association . Her answer was that seven years later I was at the threshold of ego develop- 'this calls for jealousy. Instead you should describe your- ment. My body left Camphill in 1964, but my soul and self as the complement to normality, what they miss mind stayed connected with Camphill's essentials in all without you .' I realised that here was the answer for al the years to come . those who had to live with the shame and guilt of be- One reason for leaving was that my ego development ing disabled . had to take place outside Camphill . Another was to find These four keywords-having been seen, been trusted, people i n Sweden who would be interested i n forming a offered responsibility and being a complement to nor- school in the wider society for disabled children whose mality-which were gifts from Karl, Harriet, Lars and parents were looking for . The late Cecilia-became the future focus for my counselling Karin Ruths-Hoffmanns introduced me to Susanne, Ake with Cecilia . My adult students should be offered the and their deaf son Martin and on the evening and night same tools . of the 12th October 1965 the idea of Martinskolans was The Swedish years made it clear : I should not work in born, years later to be known as Martinskolan/Söders a school but be an 'inclusive' part of society-far differ- Waldorfskola, named after the son . ent from the anthroposophical 'island-like' lifestyle . To Four key words have been important to me. 'render unto Caesar that which is Caesars' meant in my I felt that Karl König had seen me in 1953, when I case using the Camphill essentials in my daily work ; not reluctantly met him in a clinic at my Waldorf school . as method but as attitude . In 1973 I felt that I had been offered trust when my One is the use of money, the Fundamental Social Law, manager Harriet Lindhe countered doubts from her man- which I have practised since 1954 . ager that I could do the work as a teacher for pre-school The College Meeting is another essential . I compare children with special needs . my counselling with Celia to the practice of the College In 1989 I was denied employment as a class teacher Meeting.' for the disabled by Lars Thorsel I but offered responsibil- The Bible Evening as the third essential connects my ityto work with the extremely difficult and autistic 'Per' . mind with Camph i I I : whether I am i n or outside Camph i I l . His behaviour showed me during the following three When the Bible reading is available, I live with the text years how to differentiate between the experts political- for the week, knowing that others, connected with economical autism chart and autism's 'landscape' . Camphill, do the same .'

5 As a disabled teacher for the disabled, I am guided by to the point of desperation .' Every year hundreds of em- Camphill's essentials . I communicate anthroposophy . issaries of the disabled, co-workers and seminarists leave , one of the founder members of Camphill, able to take with them this knowledge of the Camph i t I, observed i n a report i n 1975 that 'there is a essentials of Camphill wherever they go-that 'new en- danger that we become self absorbed and thusiasm which is so needed and longed for in the world' . philistine . . .forgetting how privileged we are in possess- If 'exclusive' knowledge triggers jealousy out of despera- ing something which the world around us is thirsting for tion, 'inclusive' consciousness is asked for by society .

Visions from over the boundaries Ian Doll ery, Swanmore, Hampshire,

With so many communities breaking new ground, it is Yet all of these changes lead to more and more people surprising to so often hear doubts as to what the future knowing the good and to see how the spirit and values holds-when from outside so much good can be seen, of community can touch so many lives in so many ways . inspiring a prospect of exciting opportunities, be it a dif- But their application in creating community differs from ferent manifestation of community or new areas of need . that in meeting a broader social impetus . This was dem- Perhaps this is what Karl König had in mind when he onstrated at the New Lanark conference by the strong said that 'new forms of community will be revealed' . ideology of the long Community and the wide social But sometimes day-to-day living and the increasing strug- involvement of the Ruskin Glasshouse Project. What can gles to maintain community can make it difficult to step inclusion and community be? back and allow new ideas to be revealed . This was par- Whilst a community needs to be focussed and clear ticularly expressed at the recent conference on commu- about its identity and although this may imply certain nity and inclusion at New Lanark, when a broad boundaries, it can provide a foundation for others to visu- audience came together . alise other possibilities and the willingness to let them For many history holds the key to the future with a become involved, can inspire both new areas and new tendency to reflect that may then lead to a search for a forms of community. seminal event to mark a new road . But from over the Could new areas be developed and these values be boundaries, history may help explain how Camphill applied to a wider range of need?-those at odds with came to be, but it is the present which excites a vision life, those riven by drugs, the elderly? for the future . Could new forms develop, where the concept of com- However, it may be difficult for these visions to find munity would be better emphasised as a 'community of voice, as Camphill gatherings are organised by Camphill spirit', with no boundaries-to touch, reflect and to be and express internal concerns . This reflects a more fun- inspired by? To take this inspiration out to individuals damental issue : that those living outside of community not draw them into community-and both give help and cannot know or hold the light of community. Here is the provide a meaning that many look to find in their lives . essence of the future-should the light be held within And in both, would closer ties with other communities the community or let to shine outside? and social groups add meaning to community? In this light, are the struggles to preserve and to hold In all of this, those whose special needs have flour- on to community, a reflection of a concern or resistance ished and who have been able to show their worth to change, against a growing impetus to step out? Is through the many forms of community, now stand to Camphill being 'nudged' by those pioneers that looked show their spirit and to lead community out and even to the future and inspired the nature of community, to now to care for those who have cared for them . now show these values for life? Then for so many co-workers, the prospect of now This impetus can be seen through the challenges of : a finding real recognition of the value of their achieve- government desire to realise a common language, bring- ments and to see these expressed in social practices ing greater understanding ; new external 'employees' through greater involvement and understanding of their being needed, taking Camphill out to a wider life ; an work-and to inspire others-would be a fine legacy emphasis on wider social inclusion, where 'inclusion' and destiny. means allowing others to be included with 'community', Perhaps a forum 'Visions from over the boundaries' in the ways and associations that they are led to . would share and give these many thoughts expression, as they are now finding in new Camphill and other com- munity initiatives . If such a 'coming together' inspires you-whatever side ofthe boundary or community you First national conference for villagers may be-and if there is a real interest, then we could meet to explore ideas and let inspiration grow and vi- The first national conference for villagers sions become reality. in the UK will be held at Ruskin College in Oxford 18-20 September 2003 Ian Dollery, Families & Friends of Camphill (UK), Mayhill Farm, Mayhill Lane, with representatives from Swanmore, 5032 2Qw, UK. 15 adult communities across England . 01489 878682 emaII: iandollery~familiesandfriends.co.uk

6 The ghosts still breathe Neil Maclean, Ballytobin, Republic of Ireland

The ghosts still breathe within the empty spaces of It was very emotional for me to be in New Lanark . I did Double Row. find Marion Stark's house from the census records . In The vitality of their lives has permeated the sandstone 1 851 as a cotton spinner aged 17 she was living with walls, her family at 99 Double Row, the same street we were staying in, and I identified the empty house. In 1841, From empty gaping windows women still roar at their aged 7, she was also in Double Row but the numbering children playing below, was less clear. They were the seventh entry, which at while the bairns still greet* in their mothers' arms as one room per family, and six rooms per house, puts her they gossip outside blocked up doors. in theYouth Hostel dining room, where I ate my break- I can still hear the mighty Clydesdales eased around fast! (Will someone do this for me in 200 years?) It was a the sharp bend, delivering hot cotton from Egypt or strange sensation . What is our relationship to our fore- Mississippi, bears? Do we just share some genetic material or is there an etheric thread of some significance? And as for a so- and returning with warp and weft for Europe or the cial impulse bridging the generations from Marion in colonies. New Lanark to Neil in Camphill, well I just don't know, I can still smell the smoke and hear the hammers from but the conference certainly gave me much to mull over. down by the engineering works, and constant hum And talking of mull, the strangest thing for me was in and rattle as hundreds of machines keep men and connection with Margaret Colquhoun's talk, where she women on their toes . mentioned the connection between long, New Lanark, The mill workers boots and feet are still heard on the and Govan in Glasgow where George Macleod founded cobbles as they return home tired and hungry after the long Community. work, In my studies of the census of New Lanark of 1 851 I confirmed the hitherto unconfirmed tradition that a great and in the Hotel where Wedding Breakfast is being great grandmother on the Maclean side had also been served, the spindles still whirr as nimble fingers fix in New Lanark . MargaretAnderson aged 15, cotton spin- thread and wee Annie crawls underneath . ner, lived with her parents at Braxfield Row . In 1 859 she And out in the street in 1841, right outside the Youth married Neil Maclean , mariner, from the Isle of Mull, Hostel where we sleep, 7 year old Marion Stark is quite close to long . Margaret was later tragically wid- playing with her friends: owed from a ship wreck and left destitute in Glasgow, The child who will become my Great Great but her son, also Neil Maclean, eventually became the Grandmother. first Labour MP for Govan, a position he held for 30 years, covering the period that George Macleod founded * babies cry the long community.

We are aware that important contributions to the conference are not represented in these reports and afterimages, and hope to feature some of these in the future . We're happy to note that a meeting to review the conference and look forward to further activity is planned for the autumn . Editor

Food wise Books by Wendy E, Cook The physical body is discussed and the process of diges- Clairview 2003 tion explained . Throughout, there are references to Rudolf Steiner which will delight his followers and enhance the Reviewed by Ruth Wilson, Solborg, Norway theories in the text . The category on the cover of the book is 'Food, Drink There is an interesting and unusual mixture of biologi- and Health' but this belies the book's human and spir- cal facts of different plants, their symbolism and their itual content, that has a distinct Rudolf Steiner slant to it . importance in our diet, together with the history of cer- This is no ordinary recipe book! tain foods and their cultural significance . The author studied at Emerson College and taught veg- There are tales and legends and rituals, all related in a etarian cookery at a Waldorf School . Besides that, she readable and personable manner. The nutritional aspects has immersed her whole life in the joyful subject of food, of the different families of foods are well documented, nutrition and nourishment of the soul . and these are interspersed with relevant quotes from The scope of the book is wide, starting with the history Rudolf Steiner. of nutrition, way back to the Garden of Eden, and end- The book has a wide and original perspective, dealing ing with the food on our plate in the form of a few reci- with the subject of food in a wholesome and holistic pes . It covers a vast spectrum from ancient myths and way-recommended for anyone with an interest in the legends to the historical and nutritional aspects of food . deep significance of the food we eat . Ancient civilizations are spanned in relation to the de- Ruth is a housemother in Camphill Solborg, velopment of agriculture . with wide experience of different forms of community.

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The Nature of Substance; Spirit and Matter with-where we tend to forget what the meaning of and nutrition really is-these books are relevant and help us Nutrition; A Holistic Approach to remember what it is all about . Both the scientific ap- proach and its insight into the real life processes make Sophia Books 2002 Nutrition a very readable book . It feeds us already when Reviewed by Christiaan Franken we read it, thus illustrating the words of Angelus Silesius : I t is not the bread which nourishes us 'Reprint of a classic' we read on the cover, and that is What nourishes us in the bread certainly not an exaggeration . These books should never Is God's eternal Word be out of print, and always available. Nevertheless it Is Spirit and is Life would have been a good thing if the covers were given a more attractive or colourful look . And also the black Both books are highly recommended for deeper insight and white pictures modernised . into both the elements of nutrition and nutrition itself . The content of these books is invaluable for our time, Books to 'digest' and to incorporate into the fabric of when we live in a consumer society-in the widest sense our being . of the word . In an age where we are daily confronted by how polluted the earth is and our food messed about Seven volumes of Rudolf Steiner's lectures to workers at the Goetheanum, and answers to their questions : Book Offer Free on the Internet From Crystals to Crocodiles The Sick and Tired Mamma From Sunspots to Strawberries Towards Community Agriculture From Beetroot to Buddhism By Christoph Jensen with an Afterword by MJ Benghu, MP From Comets to Cocaine From Elephants to Einstein available from : www. transintelligence . org From Limestone to Lucifer (look under 'Agriculture') or directly from the author : christophC~ camphill.org From Mammoths to Mediums Rudolf Steiner Press, London A small fee is appreciated which will go towards our land ac- count here in the village for special projects . Reviewed by Christiaan Franken

I always wonder how it must have been for the 'ordi- Book Announcement nary' workmen to build the Goetheanum(s); and how He's Not Drowning He's Waving they would have experienced listening to these lectures and question and answer sessions . Lectures which gave By Marlene Spencer insights into life that they-and who not?-would never Daniel Spencer was a pupil have dreamed . He's Not of Camphill Schools, Aber- Now they are reprinted and it would be good if the Drowning deen, and a student at workman' of today could encounter these works . One He's Waving Templehill . His mother can question the word 'workman' . Who are the work- Marlene has written this men of today? Salman, the Dutch author of The Inner book 'out of 27 years of a Sun, points out in his books that because of the struggles mother's experience of sup- after the death of Rudolf Steiner and the consequences porting her learning disa- thatfollowed, many people who are born with the wish bled child, Daniel, whilst to find anthroposophy can't find it, and therefore join balancingthe needs of other other movements-new age and so on . In that sense we family members .' are all workmen these days : seekers for the spirit . These books have received bright and colourful covers, He's Not Drowning He's kindling the interest of the reader-because the content Waving is currently avail- is printed on the covers . From Crystals to Crocodiles for able at the special price of example, announces that it covers : left handedness, di- Learning, laughter and tears Living witir learning disability £5 .50 (RRP £8 .50) Please nosaurs, the real nature of Adam, cancer and its origin, Marlene Snencei send your details together alcohol, migraine, and much more! with your cheque made pay- They were, however, not printed for a long time be- '()IO 1dV~tHITFF' 131I('1IlO"'- able to: L & M Spencer cause of the specific situation in which they came into being-now they are published and as much as possi- to: Solomanwhite Publications, ble in their original state . The publisher's Foreword says 5 H a l egate, Wootton, 'This may not always accord with accustomed literary Bedfordshire, style, but on the other hand it preserves directness and MK43 9LD, vitality' . This has been carried over into the revised Eng- so/oman whitepublica tions @2hotma i/. corn lish translation by Matthew Barton . By mail order : add 75p postage 7 packaging. For more than 1 copy and 25p for each additional copy up to 9 copies . Christiaan lived in Botton Village For 10 or more copies : please contact Linbert Spencer on 07711 521 352 for details of additional discounts . many years ago, and has since worked as an art therapist, counsellor and editor in North Holland .

8 A Diary: Life and Work During the Building of A Child in Community the First Goetheanum Veronica van Duin Alfred Hummel Vienna My Home Translated by Friedwart Bock Spiral-bound, A4 landscape, 19 pages, Reviewed by Jenny Bradley, Glasgow plus 53 illustrations, mainly photographs Available from CamphiII Architects, Newton Dee, I've just read two interesting, open and honest books . Aberdeen, AB 15 9DX They are not lectures, ideas or theory, but they consist of tel : 01224 867450 fax : 01224 867007 experience, reality and life itself. Review by Christian Thai-Jan tzen Gosh, how many adventures Veronica brings back to reprinted from the my mind; I'm almost living it all again! Singing songs Newsletter of the Art Section and rounds in rest-hour and then later on in buses and of the School for Spiritual Science coaches . Heathcote and Murtle were both wonderful houses to explore : the dungeon, the hidden winding This little gem of a work is more a personal account of stairs, the coal bunker and plenty more! Veronica seemed the building of the first Goetheanum in the years 1914 to beat me in having roasted potatoes for some meals and 1915 . The author, Alfred Hummel, is a second year something I really missed in Camphill . Yes, she's right, student of architecture, age 22, who arrives in Dornach lots of meals should be forgotten . in March 1914 on an overnight visit that turns out to In spite of these great adventures and happy family be extended for a year until he is called up by the Ger- life, Veronica felt lost at times . Grown-ups not quite man army in the spring of 1915 . His arrival is a mere answering her questions, just as I experienced at times ; few weeks before the highest point of the roof struc- even wondering whether one was allowed to ask the ture is completed with the so-called 'Topping Out Cer- question at all! I find it quite special that during one of emony' held on 1 St April 1914 . These first five months her difficult moments, when her parents had moved to of his stay are perhaps some of the most intensive dur- Botton and she was looked after by somebody else, ing the construction period-intensive because of she started thinking about the ill children . She realised Rudolf Steiner's concern that the building be finished that they were also parted from their parents . After by the 1 St August 1914 . which, later on, she helped the spastic children in The intensity reflects itself in many different ways de- Thornbury. scribed by Hummel, including the fact that the carving After leaving school and having worked hard in of the capitals and bases, which took place in the con- France, Veronica eventually landed at a children's crete podium structure, was by then completed by home-a kind of community, but nothing like Camphill ; teams of sculptors working in shifts around the clock . practically the opposite . On arrival Veronica was told Hummel explains that the erection and carving of the to forget everything she had picked up in Camphill . architraves could not start until the bases and the capi- She liked working with the small children and babies, tals had been carved and then put into position so that but didn't get on with the girls whom she shared a room the timber of the architrave could be put into position with . They always had pop music on and she kept tell- and then carved . The young architectural student, ing them to put it off-which reminded me of when I within a day of arriving in Dornach, found himself was working in a mental hospital and constantly chang- employed in the architect's office as an assistant . It so ing the radio from Radio 1 to Radio 3! She eventually happened that one of the assistants decided to go on a got a room of her own . In her holidaysVeronica would study trip to write a thesis on the Monastere de Cluny visitThornbury for a'breath of fresh air', longing to see and needed to be replaced . the festivals celebrated, for she missed them so much . One of Hummel's important tasks was to create the She painted eggs for Easter at the children's home, but templates in brown paper at a scale of one-to-one for was laughed at by the other students who said it was use in cutting the timber with a band saw in prepara- sentimental claptrap and the children, following the tion for gluing it with other similarly cut pieces ready example, broke the eggs . It's wonderful what the festi- for carving. One of his particular areas of responsibil- vals meant to Veronica, how real they seemed, always ity was the external oak of the 'drum' of the main 'reappearing' afresh . auditorium, including the motifs over the windows . Although she never intended to go back to Camph ill, This task involved him working directly with Rudolf life led her back there . She was welcomed back home Steiner. where the festivals and all her friends were . And she is Young Hummel experienced the first lecture series still there now! ever given by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, which com- The beginnings of Camphill from Hans Schauder's book menced on the 7t" June 1914 and was originally pub- was of really great interest to me, quite new in certain lished under the title Ways to a New Style of Architecture ways as I had only heard a few hints from this corner of (currently available within the book Architecture as a Camphill . Fancy not being allowed to marry without Synthesis of theArts published by Rudolf Steiner Press, permission! London 1999, edited and introduced by myself) . This Hans mentions what a genius Dr. König was with his text includes many telling anecdotes from the build- incredible insight into children and grown-ups, but he ing campaign, some rather humorous. Although called also explains how this genius or skill could become a 'A Diary,' this might be more appropriately entitled kind of power which domineers and doesn't appreciate 'Recollections : Pinnacle of Alfred Hummel's Profes- what other people do-as when he came back from the sional and Human Years of Learning .' Isle of Man and no gratitude was shown after all that

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had been done in Camphill House . Some people suf- search for the good ; the same theme runs throughout fered under this . It must be one of the hardest things to the whole book . do : to lead, help and serve, without domineering . We should thank W.H . Franke for faithfully recording Hans learnt a lot from Dr. König, but in the end had to Hans' life on tape and clearly presenting it in words . leave Camphill-not without difficulties and needing lots One must look towards the future of course, and no doubt of support from his wife Lisl . After running Garvald for a Camphill has changed a great deal since its early days . while he felt it was time to leave the 'anthroposophical No more lumpy semolina-Veronica's book-and plenty boundaries' and learn the reality beyond . He started of holidays now; and a lot more improvements no doubt . counselling in Edinburgh and discovered that he had no But what's wrong in keeping the good of the past? Why inkling of the level of poverty which some people had to do we still listen to Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven? Is that face, so he got a job as a kind of social worker in Saughton out of date now? What struck me being i n Camph i I I i n Prison . I like the way he mentions the thieves being in- the fifties was that people were really people, not just telligent, pleasant to be with and remarkably honest! teachers, doctors, cooks, gardeners . They lived as well Towards the end of the book and having experienced as worked . One could meet and talk in all sorts of cor- the 'world' again, he mentions the many changes in west- ners and sometimes would gain something quite deep . ern society : how the capacity to engage with a text is These little moments helped build the background of growing smaller ; how electronic media are replacing Camphill which I found so special . In today's world these reading; sports, games and the arts are done for money things are increasingly hard to find and so I feel that and competition, not for enjoyment . He concludes that these books will be of great value in their own way. What 'People's life style has gone completely awry' . Every- would Dr. König have thought I wonder!? thing has become more and more outward . The inward nature of man has been blocked-no withdrawal into Jenny was a pupil in Camphill Aberdeen, stillness anymore-therefore the demons get i n without later a co-worker in Ochil Tower. She now teaches us knowing. music at the Glasgow WaldorfSchool. Her This may seem quite negative, but due to the way autobiographical book 'One Turn More' published in Hans writes, it makes one think inwardly and want to 1992, is available from Camphill bookshops .

Happy Birthday John! John Canning is 80 Mary Canning, Grange Village, Gloucestershire

As John has reached constructed a special piano for him with ten keys, four his 80th birthday in inches apart, which he could strike with his fist . In three remarkably good months he learnt to play ten full folk songs by heart and health, I would like played these to his parents, to their astonishment . John to recall a few of the also adapted a typewriter so that he could use it . highlights of his years As a result, Dr. Lotte invited John to return to Thornbury in Camphill . Before Park after the Seminar to develop a workshop for Alan joining Camphill, and others so they could move to GrangeVillage . John when he was en- chose woodwork and finally devised 'jigs' which ena- gaged in radar re- bled Alan to make faceted napkin rings . They had made search, John spent his 5000 rings in five years, when sadly Alan had a nervous spare time befriend- breakdown and had to leave . ing deprived chil- During this time John also constructed numerous jigs dren . Following the so that other villagers could make dolls' tables and chairs. strange experience of It was finally recognised that these gadgets were too being 'called' to elaborate for a Village workshop and this was closed . Camphill, this gift John took over a fruit processing workshop where for was soon transferred many years Grange fruit was made into jam and juice . to the Camphill chil- Every summer 4,000 lbs of raspberries and other fruits dren, especially were brought for John to freeze and later process . On those with autism . top of this he took on the overseeing of the Grange and Towards the end of Oaklands accounts . This office work expanded until for his seminar course he had one term devising and carry- several years he was preparing all fifteen accounts for ing out remedial exercises with a group of autistic teen- the auditor. agers in Newton Dee . Only one of these spoke. He made More recently he has developed some new images a special 'secret' connection with 'Freddy the weaver' depicting the work of Lucifer and Ahriman, linked closely who always greeted him at later meetings . with the polarity of feminine and masculine. He is about During his first year atThornbury Park he was particu- to offer a book on this theme . larly moved by the frustration of Alan at his spastic ity On the cultural side, John has contributed with lyre and inability to express his intelligence, due to his very and piano music, numerous talks and-with great satis- disturbed speech and movements . John designed and faction! the part of Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' .

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I wonder how many people have the time and effort to and thoughtful articles could be taken up and 'replied read back through past editions of Camphill Correspond- to' by those other readers whose minds work along simi- ence. As I look back through each edition I am amazed lar streams of thought . Such respondingwould make the at the quantity, quality and depth of thought, informa- articles more alive and ongoing for all of us . tion and news from so many names surrounding our I was very taken by the verse by Christian Morgenstern, Camphill Movement. Of course, it is not always the 'Your desire no more to suffer', printed in May/June 1999, names that matter, but the effort of work which has gone as it reminded me of a poem I have had for many years into all these articles should be greatly appreciated and attributed to the ancient wisdom of the Maori peoples . acknowledged . I have sometimes wondered if we tend 'My Law', as its name indicates, is a description of the to read these great efforts and then let them slide into reincarnation of the spirit-soul through its evolution from the 'dead matter' of the past as we are so busy dealing the eternal spark of God-the builder-through the with the present and working for 'the future' . The word worlds of the elements, the minerals, animals and man, correspondence indicates the communication by letters with all the responsibilities which accompany such cy- and articles, the giving and sharing of news, ideas and cles of development . replies, so it would be fruitful if many of these creative Sandra Stoddard, Peterculter, Scotland

My Law Tieme Ranapiri

The Sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun Will sweep on its course till the Cycle is run . And when into chaos the system is hurled Again shall the Builder reshape a new world . Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal : Move on-for your orbit is fixed to your soul . And though it may lead into darkness of night The torch of the Builder shall give it new light. You were. You will be! Know this while you are : Your spirit has traveled both long and afar. It came from the Source, to the Source it returns The Spark which was lighted eternally burns . I t slept in a jewel. I t leapt in a wave. It roamed in the forest . It rose from the grave. It took on strange garbs for long eons of years And now in the soul of yoursel f it appears . From body to body your spirit speeds on It seeks a new form when the old one has gone And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought On the loom of the Mind from the fibre of Thought . As dew is drawn upwards, in rain to descend Your thoughts drift away and in Destiny blend. You cannot escape them, for petty or great, Or evil or noble, they fashion your Fate. Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow Parcival chooses Feirefiz to accompany him Your life will reflect your thoughts of your Now . to the Grail Castle, David Newbatt My Law is unerring, no blood can atone The pictures on page 1 and 11 are from a book by David The structure you built you will live in alone. Newbatt which is in preparation to be published at the end of From cycle to cycle, through time and through space the year by Wy nstones Press. Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace, David has illustrated the story of Parcival with colour crayon And all that you ask for, and all you desire on black paper. The hardcover book is 25cm by 21 cm with 240 pages and 112 Must come at your bidding, as flame out of fire . Illustrations in colour. Please turn directly to Wynstones Press for Once list' to that Voice and all tumult is done information on price and availability. Your life is the Life of the Infinite One . Wynstones Press, Ruskin Glass Centre, Wollaston Road, Stourbridge, In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause West Midlands, DY8 4HE, England With love for the purpose, and love for the Cause . tel : 01384 399 455 fax : 01384 399 463 You are your own Devil, you are your own God e mail : infoCwynstonespress .co .u k

You fashioned the paths your footsteps have trod . The pictures on the covers are available as prints from David : And no one can save you from Error or Sin The Studio, Cairnlee Estate, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9BN Until you have harked to the Spirit within. tel : 00 44 (0)1224 861583

11 Address given by Dr. Karl König at the presentation of the Gold Medal of the Tutzinger Star on October 27, 1963 in Tutzing Ladies and gentlemen, be trained in curative education . This You will understand that it is a very is how the Camphill Movement began . special moment for me to be permit- And now we are permitted to say: re- ted to receive this great distinction . It tarded human beings looking for help, is an extraordinary honour given to my in need of help, are educated, guided, work and my colleagues . I had never treated in South Africa, in Northern expected that something like this America, in Germany, in Holland, in would ever happen . Switzerland, in England, in Ireland and Now I receive it with much gratitude Scotland . Of these we manage to lead and great humility. approximately one third back into nor- Ladies and gentlemen, I would like mal life. For the others we try to found to say a few words about those whom villages, where they can live as human you are truly honouring . You are not beings, not as patients but as citizens just honouring my work, not only those of the country where they grew up and who have built up this work together where they are at home . with me, but you honour especially Ladies and gentlemen, the strength for those for whom we are trying to do this this work is due to one thing only, and work. These are the children, the young I would like to try to describe this in a people and those adults for whom so few words . few people can spare a thought today. To be truly human, to be ready to When we began this work-it was in Silesia in Ger- help, as you know, are wonderful ideals ; but how is it many at the end of the twenties-one knew very little then possible to live with these ideals permanently and about these young people . They were either hidden in ever again, ever newly in such a way that one's strength their families, or one tried to do something for them as does not fail?There is one thing : this is human trustwhich from the state . Special schools were founded for the develops between each other. ones who were educable . However, those who had This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the most impor- physical disabilities, whose who were handicapped, tant soul foundations of our work . We co-workers must who suffered from severe disturbances of the brain, of have trust in one another. We must be open to one an- those one presumed: 'Well, they happen to be like this other. And we do our utmost to be so open among each and we can't do anything for them! Subsequently, a great other, that never the slightest wall shall stand between man by the name of Rudolf Steiner, spoke extensively the one and the other. However, if a wall would arise, in 1924 to a small group of young curative teachers we try to pull it down . But also this trust needs some- and doctors about such human beings . He showed them thingthat would al low for daily an hourly renewal . And the way to do much more than they imagined, how to this trust one can only create out of an attitude of utter help those retarded persons, the feeble minded and the conviction that there is one thing that guides us, that spastic, the blind and the deaf : Stimulated and enthused stands beside us . This is that we normally and often so by Rudolf Steiner's words this group of young people ununderstandably describe with the word God . Faith began to occupy themselves with those who were re- in God, the conviction that not we, but the working of tarded-to educate them, to live together with them, to the divine Spirit is above everything and that we are meet them as human beings . To do the same what you permitted to serve Him . It is this only that renews our have written in the banner of yourTutzinger Star. This it human trust ever again . Furthermore, that we know that is what all these human beings need who are not fully One is with us hourly and daily, next to us, above us, developed : human warmth and one's irrevocable readi- and for us : Christ, our Lord . ness to help. When subsequently, in my hometown Vi- When He was once asked by one of His disciples why enna, a befriended group of young people who were a certain man was blind-today one could also say deaf ready to help, were forced to leave the country through and dumb, retarded and feeble minded-and the disci- political circumstances, we made a united promise to ples did not know whether the blind person himself or find a place where we could do this work . his parents were guilty, He said : 'It is not he who has Friends in Scotland made a small house available sinned, neither have his parents, but that the works of where our work began . It grew visibly and more and God reveal themselves in him!' And it is this that we more parents came to us with their children, as well as experience daily and hourly with our children, with patients seeking help . It was truly exemplary how the those seeking help, with those who are damaged : that English-Scottish government dealt with us who were in them, and especially in them and through them the after all, outwardly seen, their enemies during the sec- works of God can be revealed . ond world war. They provided everything we needed . That you have seen this-that you have recognized it, With the help from new friends we could acquire houses that you were ready to honour this was a great deed of for the work, and thus more and more children were human worth, for which I thank you from the depth of brought to us to be educated . my heart . I will share it with all my children, all my After the world war, when the borders opened up again young people, all my co-workers . slowly, many young people came to us who wished to Once more, accept my deepest thanks .

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The Karl König Archives a Possible Future?

This last year, throughout the Anthroposophical move- • To promote interest in Karl Königs way of thinking ment, many commemorative and celebratory activities and his ideas. centred on Karl Königs centenary have taken place . It • To host seminars, conferences, study groups, edu- seems that the centenary has highlighted Karl Kön ig as a cation and research in connection with Königs work. significant spirit, not only i n bringing about the Camph i I I • To assist in maintaining a true connection to the Movement, but also in terms of his individual contribu- impulses and core values of Karl König. tion to the issues of human welfare as a whole . Increas- • To acquire the appropriate accommodation for the ingly, people from the wider Anthroposophical above-mentioned activities . movement and even those outwith the movement have This Institute would need to be seen as a new body, with become aware of the importance of Königs contribu- a life and purpose of its own and not simply a continua- tions and many have expressed a wish to become ac- tion ofthe status quo . Rather, it should aim to be a source tively involved in furthering the development of his many of inspiration and sustenance and a strong countering ideas and initiatives . In Aberdeen this has sparked ques- influence against the distortion and humiliation of the tions, concerns and possible initiatives relating to Karl image of man and the earth, which so pervades current Königs archives . society-issues with which Karl König closely identified For those not familiar with the original Camphill House and addressed . where König lived and worked, the following descrip- The Institute could embody and connect these two areas : tion gives a thumbnail sketch . The archives consists of • safe-guarding the literary and wider archives and two rooms and their contents within the house, which taking them into the future although recently redecorated, remain largely unaltered • providing a focus and voice for the values/ideas of since König inhabited them . That these rooms should König in the wider world. remain a place of quietness and peace where study and Through the Institute one could envisage new physical research can be pursued, was thus clearly expressed in surroundings for the literary estate being created . This Karl Königs will . From the windows there is a beautiful could consist of: view of the Rose Garden, where König and his close • a large work/conference room, associates are remembered . Both the unique atmosphere • space for the archives itself and the extensive collection of books have impressed • an office area. friends and guests who have visited these rooms . How- This would not necessarily have to be within the Camph ill ever, further untapped treasures, the many lecture notes, Rudolf Steiner Schools but such a setting would be pref- articles, correspondence, diaries and contemplationsof erable. In addition, the existing archive rooms could be König, are not currently in a suitable form to be accessed gifted/rented to the care of the Institute, if they are to be by the public and are thus locked in the cupboards . There maintained in their present form . Considering the pro- is no doubt that much of the material would be suitable found effect these remarkably preserved rooms have had for publication once sensitively edited and prepared . on so many people over the years, this is a question for To date enormous work has already been put into de- careful consideration . veloping the archives in order that Karl Königs heritage Founding of the Institute could come initially via the and work might soon become accessible to a wider au- Camph i I I Movement, with finance being sourced from dience. At this point it is appropriate to mention some of a wider arena . Further, an active, more locally orien- the people who have shown tremendous commitment, tated, support group would be essential for its ongoing dedication and hard work in developing the archive to maintenance and development . its current state : Nick Poole, Botton ; Michael Luxford, The foregoing ideas are merely an outline of the po- Pennine ; Christof Andreas and Norma Lindenberg, Bea- tential that lies before us, and clearly they need to be ver Run ; Brigitte Köber, Rüttihubelbad ; Marianne Sander, elaborated and critically examined . Therefore, we would Och i I Tower; Friedwart Bock, Camph i I I Estate . These in- invite as many as possible to voice their concerns and dividuals have formed the core group around the ar- suggestions, in the first instance to the authors of this chives, its maintenance and dissemination . article . We are currently planning a weekend in mid- There is always a danger that archives of important January 2004 to which we would like to invite Dr Peter people become museums, where history is merely pre- Selg, who is working intensively with the Dr served rather than tapped into as a source of knowledge archive in Arlesheim . It is significant that the questions and insight . As such they can potentially become a heavy and concerns of both the Dr Karl König and Dr Ita burden on those who are charged with their preserva- Wegman archives have been coming to the surface dur- tion . To mitigate against this, an exciting proposal arose ing the last few years . These are surely issues which we in a number of circles, especially here in Aberdeen are being prompted to address . the creation of a Karl König Institute. In addition, we would also welcome interested parties The main purposes of the Institute would be : to present themselves with a view to forming a group • To care for and develop for the future, the literary which might move this project forward . estate of Karl König Stefan Gelder Friedwart Bock • To encourage and facilitate research and study Camp hillMedical Practice St Hilda's into these archives, particularly around the themes St John's Camphill Estate of Curative Education, Medicine and Community Murtle Estate Milltimber Building Bieldside Aberdeen • To promote the archives and make them more Aberdeen AB 15 9EP AB 13 OAN widely accessible. emaII : stefan .geider@ camphill.grampian. scot. nhs . uk

13 Obituaries

Sophia Victoria Berger 12t'' August 1975-26'h March 2003

Sophia, who chose to be called so she went to London instead of Julie a few years ago, was born in the Norwegian Folk High School . Bristol where her family had just There in Mario's flat in Belsize moved from Camphill Schools in Park in N . London, several young Aberdeen to start the work at Cherry adults lived and were engaged in Orchards . She joined our family as finding their way in life, and alco- ourfourth child, her sister being five hol and drugs were part of this proc- years older and her little brother six ess. Julie fell into this life with an years younger. open soul, very soon finding her- Already as a baby and young self in a relationship with Glen, the child she was unusually awake and son of the owners of the house . aware, with a strong presence and Soon Mario and his girlfriend will . Being surrounded by people went on a trip to S . America, Julie from all walks of life, 'from the high- was left in London with Glen . To- ways and byways', her first words gether with him the road went into were 'shus-up', shocking our resi- drug addiction-by age 22 Julie dents into instituting a swear-box, was injecting heroin . During these which stopped daily swearing in years she visited her family in Ab- our community. Julie went to erdeen and kept regular contact ; it kindergarden at the Bristol Waldorf was not obvious to us that she was School, and continued there com- an addict. She kept up her appear- pleting Class 3 . She was an active ance and was a good 'actress'. child, always busy with something We were aware that Mario had a and very interested in people . She problem with drugs' but thought liked to 'work' with her mother in this was a passing phase which the office or in the weavery with many young people go through . her good friend Marcy. She liked to be around where Julie also kept contact with her older sister, visiting her things happened and she enjoyed organising other chil- several times in Berlin and helping with her children who dren's play. She was an initiator and other children gladly were always very fond of their 'auntie Fia' . followed, even the cats who allowed her to dress them When we, her parents and younger brother, moved to up in dolls clothes-her dolls were objects to admire S. Africa in the late 1990s, Julie asked to be included in rather than playthings : she preferred what was alive . our application for permanent residency and come along Although Julie was very musical and quick at learning with us. This was unfortunately not possible as she was and remembering, lessons and formal education were then over 21 . So Julie stayed on in London and got fur- difficult for her. It took her several years to master the ther into the drug world in all its horrible aspects . She basics of academic school work . lived on benefits and never held a job . At age 10 Julie moved to Aberdeen with her family, We only knew about her heroin addiction after her first to Cairnlee House and later to Murtle . She attended younger brother's visit to her at Christmas 1997-and classes 4-8 atAberdeen Waldorf School and spent a fur- after some efforts her father managed to get Julie to travel ther two years at Cults Academy. Not coping well with with him to S. Africa in 1998 . She stayed for three months, secondary school streaming, her results were either top but decided to return to London . She was there when or bottom-all or nothing . She left and spent a year at Mario died in Bristol in September 1998, and came with Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School but did not find her Glen to his funeral at Cherry Orchards . She was deeply place there either-so she left formal education age 17 . shocked and blamed herself for his death, but she could So what to do next? She was keen to grow up, to meet not 'get away' from London . the world-her older brothers and sister were young However at Christmas time her brother again went to adults by now, with their own struggles and adventures . London to fetch her-she came with him and stayed in S . Julie helped out in St . Devenicks for a while, she spent Africa for more than a year. She got off her drug habit, some months helping in a co-worker family at Cherry receiving help and medical treatment . She stayed with us Orchards and some time at Camphill Blair Drummond . at Camphill Hermanus and for some time with her sister She wanted to spend a year in Norway at a Folk High who had meanwhile relocated to . There she School, as both her older brothers had done, but first attended art classes, helped with the children, and the she had to reach age 18! Her brother Mario, living in future seemed positive and full of hope . She phoned Glen London, visited with his girlfriend-Julie had always at times and for her birthday received a letter containing had a special love and concern for him . They invited substance from him . After nearly overdosing Julie was her to come and stay with them in London, to get to admitted to Stepping Stones, an in-patient rehabilitation know the 'real' world . Mario had gone through a chal- provision outside CapeTown . She completed their initial lenging life and Julie wanted to help and support him 4 week program and joined a half-way house . This latter

14 was not successful and she returned to her parents in for a few weeks until her stay atVallersund could begin . Hermanus, only to decide to go back to London in Febru- She reconnected to old friends and relatives and on 3 rd ary 2000 . Also her brother returned to the UK at this time . March we went toVallersund . I left the next day, leaving Julie did not move in with Glen but stayed with a girl Julie there for one initial week, after which she returned friend, helping to look after her two children . This friend to Bodo, to finally make up her mind . She was asked to also helped Julie to get into further education courses . It let the people in Vallersund know after thinking it over worked well for some time and Julie wanted to take up for 3 days . nursing. Her drugs past, however, made this not an op- To the shock and disbelief of her family and friends, tion for her. Meanwhile her friend discovered Julie using Julie decided not to return to Vallersund, and with an drugs again and threw her out; she returned to Glen . She amazing determination . She had made up her mind and was back to her old life and even if she appeared to be in arranged to go and stay with her female friend in Lon- control, her life deteriorated . In February 2002, her don and no reasoning could change this . As her mother, younger brother intervened-responding to an SOS from and we had again come very close to each other during her-and got her out of London with police help . He took this time, what could I, should I, do? I had my return her to Aberdeen and to his student flat in Edinburgh and ticket; I could not leave Julie in Norway ; I got a ticket for supported her through withdrawal, arranging for her to her to travel with me to London with the possibility for resettle in Edinburgh via professional agencies . After 2-3 her to come along to SA . I could have refused to give weeks Glen fetched her from Edinburgh, Julie having con- her passport back to her, which I had kept in my safe tacted him . Back in London her life of misery continued . keeping, thereby preventing her from getting through In August Julie was in such despair that her sister went to passport control in London . I felt, though, that I had to London, and with her brother's and police help got her respect her decision, to accept and support her choice . out and to S . Africa . A full scale rescue mission was pre- The last words I said to her at Heathrow were 'I love pared-medical help was arranged and she was soon you' as we embraced, and we went our different ways . I admitted to a rehabilitation centre and detoxed under did not know that just one week later she would be dead . professional supervision . Julie experienced a few set-backs, Julie died at the house of Glen in London, in the late she spent some time with her parents in Hermanus, then afternoon on Wednesday, March 26th; she was born on back to rehabilitation-until finally she walked out, reach- a Wednesday morning . ing the end of this road at New Year 2002/3 . Although her body contained a large amount of heroin Staying in Camphill Hermanus, we explored many and injection marks were visible on her body, the exact avenues of how to go forward . Julie was keen to get on cause of death was not established . Was it suicide, acci- with her life, she made many close friendships during dental, or otherwise? We do not know. What happened this time, but in her darker moods she toyed with the to her during her week in London? idea of going back to London, seeing no other way for- Her funeral at Camphill Schools in Aberdeen was a ward . As her visa for SA was running out and provisions beautiful and dignified community festival, attended by available here unsuitable or too expensive we explored many friends from near and far . places in UK and finally took up contact with Vallersund On her way down to earth her family lived in Neahbur, Gärd in Norway. Julie, having meanwhile moved to one in Murtle-we moved to Bristol four weeks before Julie of the village houses in the Farm Community next door, was born . During the time before her funeral, Neahbur was now very motivated and keen to go to Vallersund was made available for us and for some days it became Gärd . She was very happy and excited-and all her our home again . friends and supporters with her, when we finally knew A remarkable rounding off of a special life of a beauti- she could go there . ful, kind and loving human being Julie Sophia Victoria. She left S . Africa with her mother on 18th February and together we stayed at her aunts house in Bodo, Norway Mette Berger, Hermanns, South Africa

Further tributes to, and memories of, Marie Korach Dear Marie, When we met first, it must have been in the beginning him with such warmth that this experience stayed in my of 1966; I was seven years old and in the first class of the memory until I, as a seminarist in Scotland many years Waldorf School . My teacher got pregnant and later, realized that this man was Karl König. you came to replace her . It must not have been easy for Karl König had also given several lectures at our you to meet our very big and badly behaved class . We Waldorf School which my parents visited . One sentence loved our first teacher and it was difficult to love the which my mother remembered was, 'Am schlimmsten new teacher in the same way. I remember well you sit- sind die Unterlassungen .'-The worst is what you leave ting at your teacher's desk in front of the class, wearing undone. your glasses always with a necklace round your neck . When I met you again in Scotland in 1980 I was teach- But I remember also that you were the first teacher who ing in class 5 and you were watching what I did . After- sent me out of the classroom for misbehaving . wards you told me that I should do those exercises with My classmate, who I was talking to lately, still remem- much more conviction . Well, I was not sure about what bers the beautiful legends you told . I remember well one I was doing, that's why I asked you to help me . This ad- lesson in March 1966 when you told us about a very vice, to do what you do with conviction, I took along special man who was a friend of all of us and who loved into my further life and often, when I thought I was not and knew us all . He had just died and you spoke about managing, I thought of this and managed .

15 At the Camphill Symposium, Easter 1998 in Murtle, I determination and conviction without which I would met you last . You invited me to St . Brides and together certainly not have arrived in Estonia to help to bring about with Jack Reed we had supper . You were setting the ta- a new Camphill Community. ble and everything was very proper . Writing those lines, I realize it is again the time of Karl In my notes of the plenum session of the 18th of April I Königs death day, 27th March, 37 years after we met first found also your contribution : 'Ask the questions of the and you told us about Karl König with so much warmth . angel, the angel of the community. But the questions Thank you . need to be asked .' This shows again something of your determination . Thank you, for giving me for my life this Katarina Seeherr, Camphill Pahkla, Estonia

Marie Blitz was surely an essential participant in the Vi- that she would also have learned much that Sonnenhaus enna Group and it was fitting that she should be the last trained Trude would have been able to teach her . . . Fif- one to cross the threshold, just a few weeks after the teen years later Marie was a curative eurythmist in centenary. But she wasn't a person who sought the lime- Ringwood-where I arrived as a very raw co-worker. light. Rather she was someone who would just be on Her discerning eye recognized that I could myself be the spot when there was a task for her to do . She wasn't helped by curative eurythmy-and I was soon experi- one of the originals who, unknowingly, celebrated encing what it means that 'I ride on my horse with my Stei ner's fourteenth death day with the first beginning of sword in my hand .' Kirkton House: but she had arrived by the time of the . . .Sadly, that was Marie's last term in Ringwood, and it dramatic move to Camphill . In fact she played a quiet was more than ten years before I met her again, in Aber- but essential part . The men were on the Isle of Man ; the deen . She at once remembered me but she was pleas- move had to be carried out byTilla, Alix and Anke. Mrs antly surprised to find me still in Camphill : she had been Roth-Alix's mother, who had a guesthouse at Heathcot, doubtful whether I would get through my seminar years . on the other side of the river . . .helpfully accommodated Maybe I wouldn't have managed without her spontane- all the children for this time, butTrude would not have ous and generous help . been able to look after them on her own . Marie's help surely made all the difference : but perhaps we can guess Nina Rowley, Camphill Village, South Africa

We have heard of the deaths of the following friends: Gregg Brewer, priest of The Christian Community, died June 23~' in his 81 St year. Robin Woods, of Oaklands Community, Glocestersh i re, died recently, aged 56 . Leonie Weston, Camphill Houses Stourbridge, died on Whitsunday 8th June. Charlotte Baumerz, who died 2nd August. Anette Grimm from Stonehaven near Aberdeen, who died 5th August.

News from the Movement. . .and beyond

International Camphill Teachers Conference, Beaver Run, 2003 Toni Russell, Australia

Recently Pauline Fitzgerald and I, as members of the ing of, the worldwide Curative Education movement Association of Rudolf Steiner Curative Education and that the Association decided to send representatives to Social Therapy in Australia, were fortunate to represent this conference . We were certainly not disappointed Australia at the 2003 International Camphill Teachers in any respect, and our questions and experiences in Conference at Beaver Run Children's Camphill Village Australia were reflected in some measure by all of the in Pennsylvania, USA . The theme of the conference centers represented at the conference . 'Unlocking the Waldorf Curriculum for Children in need In the keynote address onTuesday night, Ingelore Maier of Soul Care' seemed timely in relation to current dis- planted seeds-questions which would repeatedly call cussion both in the Association and with the broader us back to the theme of 'Unlocking the Waldorf Cur- Waldorf movement in Australia about the relationship riculum' as we focused on aspects of the continuum of between Curative Education and the Steiner Schools Waldorf, Therapeutic and Curative Education from dif- movement . With the growing expectation of the inte- ferent perspectives, in our changing groups and sessions . gration of students with special needs, the declining Michaela Glöckler's'Healing Education', created a strong support for and availability of boarding school options, common ground . Studying this in Goethean conversa- and the physical isolation of the regional Waldorf tion, in the form that the teachers at Beaver Run have Schools in our vast country, these are important ques- been working with, was a great experience for Pauline tions for the future of curative education in Australia, and me, and has created new inspiration for our study and it was with the hope of finding some international back home. The practical workshops, twelve in all, con- perspectives on these issues, as well as to support and tinued to weave the theme through the practical aspects enhanceAustralia's relationship to, and our understand- of teaching and the curriculum .

16 In 'The Inner Path for Soul Care in Curative Education' Rüdigerianisch, teacher and house parent at Beaver Run, took our group on a journey through the Curative Course given by Steiner, exploring the question 'Is there a dis- tinct inner path for work in soul care?' Rüdiger certainly renewed in me an enthusiasm to actively work again with these lectures . Warrah is now initiating a study group in Sydney, to work with the Curative Course, inviting teachers, therapists, and parents and others interested from curative and Waldorf and therapeutic backgrounds, to participate . My afternoon workshop was 'Guiding Teenagers on the Garden Path' given by David Schwartz, houseparent at Whitestone and co-coordinator of the vocational workshops for students at Beaver Run . The main theme of this workshop was about how to establish a prevoca- tional gardening program with students Grade 9-12, and meet and speak with personally . The evening created a David skillfully guided us on an in-depth exploration healthy balance of social dialogue and exchange and into the critical elements necessary to create an inner spiritual study. In this it was a wonderful preparation for transition in our students from curative education to so- joining the Beaver Run community for the Offering Serv- cial therapy, how to make a bridge from school to voca- ice on Sunday morning . tion, and positive involvement in the adult world . Of course, Sunday evening was the grand Another central experience of the conference for me finale . . .American style! The program included stunning was the richness of community activity. There was a di- performances of Gershwin preludes on piano, Appala- versity of special social activities available for us to share, chian singing and music, and finally rocking, clapping, delicious meals and snacks, including our sumptuous and singing with the gospel songs of the Bethel Baptist 'Thanksgiving' dinner, all lovingly prepared and pre- Inspiration Choir. sented-with the delight of an'International Grace' each This report would not be complete without acknowl- day; there were insights into the broader spiritual history edging my experience of the warmth and 'embrace' from and life of the Pennsylvania area and of America, and an the Beaver Run community towards us all . While there inspiring taste of life in the Beaver Run community . were 26 of the Conference participants and presenters David Schwartz gave a remarkable lecture, 'The Spir- from Beaver Run and neighbouring Soltane communi- itual Streams in Pennsylvania', which embroidered the ties, there were many beyond these official representa- imagery of the conference theme, awakening imagina- tives who supported and cared for all the daily tions of 'locks and keys', while giving a background to practicalities with meal preparation, cleaning and or- aspects of spirituality in America and valuable insights ganising, giving lifts and as guides . Beginning with the for the visits we could choose to historical and modern lively breakfast in Whitestone, unfailingly heralded by examples of these spiritual streams in the Chester and Guy's laughter at the early morning meeting of the Con- Lancaster Counties which surround Beaver Run . I chose ference organizers, this sense of caring and embrace to visit the Ephrata Cloister, a historical site in the Amish continued throughout the day. In the morning exercises and Moravian area of Lancaster County . Others visited Karsten would gently challenge us to physically enter the MasonicTemple in Philadelphia, the Moravian Com- the world of the children we all care for . . .What is it munity or the local Quaker Meeting House . really like? Perhaps he was also inviting us to enter the On Saturday evening we were invited to join the houses community from the child's perspective . at Beaver Run for their Bible Evening . Again, this evening It's no wonder I slept soundly for most of the 20 hours was prepared and planned carefully to strengthen the of the homeward flight!! 'international weavings' within the conference . In the My thanks go to the Curative Association, to Warrah group I joined at Woodledge Cottage, this gave the pos- and to the Beaver Run Community for supporting me to sibility to meet and share more closely with several peo- undertake this wonderful experience, and I look forward ple, global colleagues I had not had the chance to really to sharing the benefits wherever possible . Notice Houseparents needed Pinewood Pottery We hope that all at the Cascadia Society part of Camphill Community Glencraig, will urgently need a work master . The person interested in this position will need to have a readers have received North Vancouver BC, Canada Canadians abroad and others! thorough knowledge of pottery including throwing on the wheel, their free replace- Are there any experienced houseparents who would designing, decorating, glazing and firing, marketing, selling and book ment copies for the like to join our urban community? We are a Camphill keeping. In addition the person will work with three learning disa- May/June issue which initiative for adults, in a small city nestled between bled people, all of which are well skilled . contained many flaws the mountains and the sea . We have an urgent need This is a position for someone with initiative, creativity and the to expand from our current two to three households, ability to work with and motivate the three learning disabled people due to a printer's er- eventually to five. This will complement our ever-ex- in such a manner that their best abilities shine, ror. If you have not re- panding artisan workshops in the town centre . A long-term commitment would be desirable . The successful can- ceived it and would If you are interested in participating in a new model didate will live in Camphill Community Glencraig and be part of the like to please contact of Camphill in an exciting Canadian city, please write, Community. Please note common with most people working in Maria Mountain . Her fax, phone or e-mail us at the camphill Ireland this position is unsalaried, Cascadia Society for Social Working, 165 East 1st If interested please contact the Reception Group, Camphill Com- address is on the back Street, North Vancouver BC, V7L 1 B2. Phone: (604) munity Glencraig, Craigavad, Holywood, Co. Down BT18 0DB cover. 987-3407, Fax. (604) 987-3408, email: office gencraig.org.uk More information about our Com- Your editor, Peter email: cascadiaCcascadiasociety.org munity can be found under wwwglencraig.org.uk

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The fullness of life and an atmosphere of confidence The amazing Hausenhof Camphill Village Johannes M. Surkamp, Ochil Tower, Scotland

Hausenhof, about one hour's drive from , Windsheim. Who would have thought in 1983 what was the venue of this year's meeting of the Movement parents andmembers of the association would achieve Group . As this was my first visit, the impressions were in this place Hausenhof-a protected heritage build- especially vivid . ing. This 'tenderplant, 'the building up of a village com- munity with agriculture and workshops forpeople with Approach special needs, has developed into a place which is A short distance from Würzburg or Nuremberg is the clos- recognised by the state, admired by the population est railway station Neustadt/Aisch from where visitors are and by the world of experts. In our district it became a taken by car to the closest village, Altstadt, and a further model project, . . . easing the worry of parents. . , and 3 km . to what used to be a lonely farmhouse and stead ings more: the Hausenhof enhances the fullness of life and and now is a vibrant and beautiful village community. rays out an atmosphere of confidence. The Story The Present In January 1980 a group of parents were assembled There are eight house communities, bearing the names around Ursula Herberg the founder of Karl König Schule of the jewels mentioned as the foundation stones of the in Nuremberg . They decided that they should found a Heavenly Jerusalem . The guests experienced genuine village community and started their three year search hospitality, excellent catering and samples of the cul- for a suitable property . Then a small advert caught their tural life, with music, eurythmy, drumming and a taste attention : 'A well situated old single farm holding, 28ha of magic . The workshops-weavery, bakery, creamery . . .at low cost . . .' The search party was positively im- and candle workshop-are well equipped, therapeutic pressed, although the house, under heritage protection, and productive . The garden and greenhouse was well and steadings were rather dilapidated and the area suf- stocked and yielding richly and the agriculture was in fered from drought . The purchase was completed in the good heart . On two mornings therapeutic riding takes name of a small association, which owned Karl König place and on Saturdays the villagers can visit their own School, and parents actively engaged in the renovation cafe and buy at the store. The surrounding of the houses of the buildings . Gradually the farm with sheep and cat- is in full bloom, especially roses, and the fruit trees were tle was worked with biodynamic methods . Later, with laden with fruit and ripe cherries . the guarantee and support of aTrust, founded in support of this Camphill village and uniting the group of parents The Future and supporters, state funds became available, which fi- We were shown the plans and the site of a large exten- nanced the building of four new houses, workshops and sion to the community centre which will allow visitors meeting rooms to 80% of the cost . The foundation stone to also participate in cultural events . was laid on 30th November 1986 .On 1St Oct 1987 the real beginning took place when family Schötta with 9 Kaspar Hauser 'villagers' moved in . The close proximity to Nuremberg and Ansbach allows the friends at Hausenhof to connect themselves in a Local Welcome particular way to the places of Kaspar Hauser's first ap- The beautifully designed booklet commemorating the pearance on Whit Monday 1 828 and his death in 1833 . first ten years of work quotes the local Mayor spelling It was the good fortune of the Movement Group to be out the friendly local interest and support : taken on two excursions in the footsteps of Kaspar Camphill and the Village Community Hausenhof have Hauser from the Unschlitt Platz, the place of his ap- a good name in the district of Neustadt-Bad pearance in Nuremberg, and all the other stations of

Round the Camphill Movement in 18 months Readers may recall the article with the above title, The copies and the CD's are a gift, made possible by a which was published in the May issue of Camphill grantfrom the Camphill Foundation UK and donations Correspondence. from the many places we visited . If you would like In the above article I described the project which more copies they can be obtained from Botton Book- Michael and I had been involved with over the previ- shop and Ann Harris in Delrow, in England, at a cost ous 18 months . We have since written a book based on of £10 .00 plus post and packaging. the experiences we had in visiting forty Camphill com- As yet this book is only available in English, but we munities during this time. It is called : A Sense for Com- would be happy to hear from readers as to whether munity. you think translations are required? We look forward One or more copies and a CD will be mailed to each to receiving any comments on what we have written . community, to arrive in September. Please ask about Our address for the next year is : it, so it just doesn't get stuck on someone's desk, or get Camphill Community Nottawasaga, Ontario, Canada used to prop open a door! email: mjluxford .@hotmail .com Jane Luxford

18 his short life right to the place of his fatal attack and his his view of a similar destiny . He also sees the increased grave in Ansbach . Our knowledgeable guides helped loneliness, isolation and lack of orientation in our time to make it a lasting experience . The visit to Nuremberg personified in Kaspar . These visits became most memo- ended with a high quality performance of Carlo rable. Pietzner's play . . .And from the night, Kaspar, performed by friends from Föhrenbühl and Hermannsberg . In Conclusion Ansbach we were lucky to have as our guide the direc- The awareness of the being of Kaspar Hauser accom- tor of a local theatre, Eckart Böhmer, who for twelve panied us throughout these days and was enhanced by years has researched Kaspar Hauser and who found two contributions given by Ursula Schötta and Richard much resonance with anthroposophical authors . It is Steele. In Karl Königs Christmas Story, 'Kaspar in the amazing how alive this issue is in Ansbach . During a house' is building the new community. In our time he Festival week in August there will be some thirty Hauser can be experienced as giving a lead to all mankind events . The local museum houses many memorials and towards karma recognition . The Hausenhof opens its the library well over two thousand books and writings doors wide to this being . May it in this sense be seen as on the same subject . To date five films have been shot . the 'Hauserhof'? Böhmer has coined the name 'Kasparzival', expressing Our great thanks go to our hospitable friends!

25 Years Corbenic Camphill Community A birthday festival weekend

Michael Phillips, Sturts Farm, England

I would like to share some impressions gained while lis- that Corbenic has been the vessel for giving to each one tening to the living history that unfolded in the Sunday who came to live and work there, that for which, con- morning celebration, where many aspects of life at sciously or otherwise, they sought . Some needed the Corbenic, from early beginnings to the present time, were land, others found expression in building and in archi- spoken out by many of the 75 or so participants . tecture, others in kitchen, laundry, workshops and the The name Corbenic means the 'corbi us' or raven, be- all-embracing tasks of housemother . And the many cause there were so many about. However, the raven friends, parents, siblings, workmen, social workers-all was also the name for a certain degree of initiation, a touched by Corbenic's "mission" and who, in coming to messenger between two worlds . But one also comes help, were thereby helped . across this name in the many Arthurian legends, where In all this, one suddenly caught a fleeting glimpse of we hear of the Castle Corbenic . . . 'and so they came to that which sustains the weaving life-community . In short, Corbenic'-or Carbonek as it is sometimes spelt . This the Christianising of ordinary life . was a Grail Castle-and it is not too difficult to let one's Corbenic has undergone many changes in its 25 imagination find comparisons with this theme . When years-much of it quite hair raising . It began differently viewed from the hilltop on this sunny weekend, Corbenic than it is now, and it will be different again tomorrow, appears like a jewel in the landscape, and one had to because different people will have different needs, and remember how harsh this had once been and how, the social life shaped accordingly to deal with our times . through common endeavour, a change had been But the endeavours being made to keep alive this 'sense wrought, the land tilled, buildings renovated and all of quest'-through those supportive forms of Bible corners cared for and made beautiful . How softened and evening, gospel study, graces, the festivals, services and transformed it had become! all that helps raise and sustain daily life-is what will be We remembered the impulses that had brought all this both strength giving and decisive in the future . about, begun through Anke and Thomas and the early We would send all our friends at Corbenic our good pioneers. thoughts and active encouragement for the times to come . From the Grail, one is given that for which one seeks Michael lived for many years in Corbenic or desires in order to move on and develop . And so it is and is presently a senior co-worker at Sturts Farm .

From the Camphill Eurythmy School Chas Bamford & Rita Kort, Botton Village

It is almost a year since our last students graduated . They Eurythmy Fairy Tale Group and has been working are now spread far and wide : on a Beethoven symphony with the and Melissa McCall is busy at the Seattle Waldorf School Goetheanum stage groups combined. and performing eurythmy with Sound Circle in the Vincent McElroen is doing eurythmy with the children USA . and young adults in Glencraig and at the KatheStepenuck Johnson is doing eurythmy in Botton Holywood Waldorf School. and has taken on a house . Yvonne Kroon is in The Hague doing the Educational Michele Polito is in Stuttgart performing with the Eurythmy Training.

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Tatjana Lunic has returned to Croatia where she is Moscow. These Russian exchanges remain a very valu- traveling all over the country doing eurythmy with able aspect of the life of our two schools . an amazing number of differentgroups of children It is a worldwide phenomenon that student numbers and adults. are low in all the eurythmy trainings . However we be- Crystal Wu has returned to Taiwan . lieve we are still meeting the strong need in many indi- Roman Chinov is continuing his eurythmy studies at viduals to train as eurythmists . It is clear that the traditional the Moscow Academy. format of eurythmy training needs to change, that there needs to be more co-operation between the different Our Eurythmy School Steering Group has been very eurythmy schools and that ways need to be found to help helpful in accompanying the school's steps . Since our the students take more responsibility for themselves . We move from Ringwood i n 2000, the settling-in process i n also need to be able to measure the quality of our trainings Botton has been aided immensely by the twice-yearly and to strengthen our links to the educational, therapeu- Steering Group meetings . We are very grateful to them tic and social eurythmy professions . Recognition needs all, particularly our representatives from further afield : to be sought among other streams of movement art, Barry Graham, Scotland ; John Nixon, N .Ireland ; Piet therapy and education . We have made a modest first be- Blok, Eurythmy School godfather ; and Tom Blake, Eng- ginning on these daunting tasks by meeting with those Iand .The Eurythmy School Group in Botton is more con- creating the new therapeutic eurythmy training in Brit- cerned with the day-to-day running of the school . ain, the London College of Eurythmy, the Glasshouse We have rented a small house outside Botton for four College, Stourbridge, and representatives from the edu- of our third-year students, to ease the pressure on ac- cational and social eurythmy areas . commodation in the village . We hope that our badly It is interesting that in the Eurythmy, Speech and Drama needed Studio extension and renovation can start in sum- Section of the School for Spiritual Science, (Section Leader mer 2004 . The existing building has remained unchanged Werner Barfod who we recently welcomed to Botton) since 1982 and is showing its age . With the school com- these questions are also burning . It was very interesting to bined in Botton, we need more space . We still need to read in a recent invitation to a meeting on these topics : fundraise at least £155,000 over and above the sum . . . the only possibility for today's generation to get a con- promised by the CVT Rent Group and are working on scious hold of its present tasks is out of community. how to do this . Thornage Hall At the fourth year meeting in Dornach We have no Farmer plus for sale. In the past before the farmer who many people commented favorably on the During the past few years, a team who has I im- established the farm left us, we had pigs, goats eurythmy our students showed and the re- ited farming experience has operated the farm . and a horse as well. sult has been many enquiries to join the Unfortunately the one leading the team, will Apart from a variety ofgrains, 2ha of the land are given to a vegetable enterprise, consisting school . We are offering a new intake this leave us in the autumn . We would like to find an aspiring young farmer-or an experienced of both field grown andsmall-scale specialities coming autumn 2003, and are busy look- old hand to take on the running of the farm in a greenhouse. Any surplus is sold locally via ing for potential students! and work alongside the marketgarden together a popular box scheme and other local outlets . Rascher was away, with our residents and co-workers . We have also established a loose association Last year Evamaria with a neighbouring organic farm (365ha) and leaving Rita Kort, Jonathan Reid and Chas Who are we? are hoping in the future to market our produce Bamford in Botton to carry the teaching We are a working community of about 35 jointly. work of the school . In May the third year people, some of whom have special needs, sup- The farm/market garden has all the machin- porting people who choose to live and work ery and equipment needed to run this size of went on a successful three-week trip to together with shared aims in a mutually sup- operation with a great variety of crops . portive environment. Apart from four houses, Great emphasis is also placed on nature con- which operate as family units, we also have a servation in line with our organic/biodynamic weavery, bakery and woodwork shop, plus the approach . smallholding and market garden . The Farm is Though we are a Camphill Community, where approximately 30ha . It has been registered as traditionally everybody takes part in everything, College organic since 1988, following Demeter stand- we are open to a situation where a farmer A residential college established by ards and is a mixed arable/livestock farm . The would live outside the community perhaps on Ruskin Mill, working with Rudolf Steiner's live-stock consists of a short horn dairy herd, an employed basis. philosophy, and providing further education with four milking cows, providing fresh dairy For further information please contact : The for students with special learning needs, has products for the community, some Buckler cows Secretary, Thornage Hall, Thornage, Holt, Nor- vacancies for and Hebridean sheep for meat with some sur- folk NR25 7QH . Tel : 01263 860305 Self Catering Holiday Apartments Residential House Parents ; 4 'ßc0 a flo OIdTuscan biologically-run olive oil farm peacefully situated This vocational post involves living in a family on a hilltop with stunning views and all amenities close by, type group with up to three of our students in offers comfortable accommodation, spectacular walks and one of our houses . We provide all household excellent local Tuscan and international food . Arcobaleno is expenses and a salary . perched on a neighbouring hill to Cortona, a famous old Etruscan town steeped in Italian history and well positioned to offer day We particularly welcome applications from couples . excursions by car to many places of interest; for example, within ca. one hour you can reach : Florence, Siena, Perugia, Assisi, For details, please contact Jeanette Withers Arezzo and within about two hours : Rome & Pisa . Additionally, The Glasshouse College the famous wine growing areas of Chianti, Montepulciano and Montalcino are all within an hours' drive of Arcobaleno Wollaston Road . Amblecote For further details, you can access our homepage in the Internet : www.agriturismo.com/arcobaleno or email or call me personally at Stourbridge DY8 4HF following: Lucas Weites, San Pietro a Cegliolo CS 59, 1-52044 Tel : 01384 399400 Cortona A R Tuscany, Italy email: email: arcobalenoC~technef.if tel: + 39 0575 612777 jeanette . withers @ glasshouse. ruskin-mill. org. uk Toscana 9La is The picture is ir7intin,~ of Arcobaleno's olive groves b' Fliz~t th Cochrane .

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For a relaxing Autumn Break William Blake House Eurythmy therapy training in GB in beautiful West Wales Would you be interested in a new challenge The first course of the new eurythmy therapy The Ty Gl yn Davis Trust-Self Catering Holi- with unlimited opportunities for both per- training in Great Britain will begin in April day Centre in West Wales . Ideal, peaceful, sonal and professional development? 2004 . It will be a part-time training that will wooded location, 2 miles from the sea . Ideal We are a small care community based on take place over a two-year period with a three- for group holidays, families or retreats . the principles of Rudolf Steiner and located week block at Easter and a six-week block in Sleeps 16 (9 bedrooms) comfortable and in beautiful S. Northants, providing opportu- August and the beginning of September. In spacious, light and sunny lounge, lovely new nities for young adults with special needs . total there will be three Easter blocks and deck and picnic furniture. Full central heat- We utilize local facilities for culture, leisure two summer blocks, finishing in the spring of ing, good family facilities for disabled and and work via supported work placements 2006 . The venue will be Stourbridge, W. Mid- track hoist in one of the bathrooms . Beauti- whilst developing activities both in-house lands in the spring and Stroud, Gloucester- ful walled garden in the estate. and in the immediate village community . shire in the summer. Weekly rate £495 pergroup. £222 per week- We were established 18 months ago and in The course carriers are Ursula Browning, end. Open all year round. that time we have formed many positive and Patricia Mulder and Shaina Stoehr . Ursula Aberaeron, pretty harbour town with coastal fruitful relationships with a broad spectrum Browning originally qualified as an SRN and walks, nice outings throughout county . Al- of local initiatives, some with no previous has worked as a eurythmy therapist in ternative Technology Centre and Cadar Idris experience of having special needs in their Camphill settings and Waldorf schools and mountains, one hours drive . Many beaches lives . We have also been very warmly wel- at St. Luke's Medical Centre (an NHS sur- to explore. Theatre and Arts Centre in Aber- comed into the village and participate in all gery) for 18 years . Patricia Mulder has taught ystwyth . the local events . eurythmy in Waldorf schools for 12 years and 60 minutes from Fishguard ferry for Irish The vision and vibrancy of our lives has has been working as a eurythmy therapist Region groups . been recognized by both prospective fami- for 15 years at Park Attwood Clinic . Shaina For brochure telephone lies and professional colleagues and conse- Stoehr was a teacher in the eurythmy train- Rosie de Bree quently, many young adults wish to join the ing in Stourbridge for 12 years, has been 01545 571604 initiative . Three residents inhabit any one teaching in the eurythmy therapy training in e mail : tyglyndavistrust@care4free .net house supported by house parents and co- Peredur for 7 years, and has been working as Oaklands Park worker(s) in an intimate, extended family situ- a eurythmy therapist at Park Attwood Clinic ation, fostering diversity and social creativity for 15 years. Both Christine Hebert and Titia is a Camphill Village Community in rural in a homely environment . It has been no- Jonkmans, who have been active in the Gloucestershire with a population of 116 ticed that not only do the residents seem to eurythmy therapy training for many years in people of varied abilities, ages and nationali- thrive in small houses, but also more atten- Peredur, will continue to teach some blocks . It comprises 160 acres of farmland, gar- ties tion can be paid to their needs and, indeed, within the new training . Dr. James Dyson and dens and woodlands . Our emphasis is on hopes with the attendant paperwork imping- Dr. Frank Mulder, both doctors at Park biodynamic land work . Other work areas are ing less on our lives. Attwood Clinic and teaching in a wide range a weavery, a large woodwork shop, ten house- We seek enthusiastic and motivated house of contexts, will be the core carrying doctors holds and the administrative work that un- parents and co-workers, with varying degrees of the training. There will also be visiting doc- derpins all this . of experience, who would like to grasp this tors, therapists and other professionals who We are now looking for pioneering opportunity and help guide and will bring their expertise in different fields . The- • Individuals and families with initiative form the community into the next phase of group size will be limited to fifteen people. and vision its development. All terms and conditions are If you are interested in applying please • who would like to take an active part in negotiable. We encourage professional train- send for a brochure: the development of a modern community ing and offer, via personalised developmental Ursula Browning, 143 Slad Rd, Stroud, living, with all its challenges and ques- aims and objectives, support into the ethos of Gloucestershire GL5 1 RD, UK tions, out of the ideals of anthroposophy care and all aspects of living, working and em ail : eurythmytherapytraining@)hotmaii.corn and the Camphill Community. guiding the residents to meet their aspirations . If We are also seeking a gardener (& family) and breathe into the community at large . Newton Dee you are interested you would be welcome to If William Blake House interests you, please a Camphill Community in the beautiful North come and meet us. contact: Tuija and Clive Denby on 01327 East of Scotland welcomes Our local Steiner-Waldorf School is 45 min- 860412 or : William Blake House, Farm Cot- Enthusiastic individuals, single or with fa- utes away and we have facilities for a small tage, Lois Weedon, Towcester, Northants N N 12 home school within our community. There is a milies, to take part in all aspects of our life 8PP e mail : C1iveWBlakeHousec2aol.com local kindergarten . We also have a chapel, and in particular: are served by a visiting Christian Community • In our lively cafe and village shop priest. • In our office Please contact: --HibQrrlia • In our households Sybille van deVoort, Reception Group, On our Bio-Dynamically farmed land CamphilIVillageTrust, Oaklands Park, • • You will need to be able to work as part of Newnham, Glos . GL14 1 EF, tel : 0044 Professional trainings based 1594 516 551, fax : 0044 1594 516 821 a team together with others of varying on the holistic approach of [mail: welcomeoaklands C~ h otmail.com ability Anthroposophica/ Medicine . • You will need to be open to taking on responsibility Mourne Grange Art Therapy Training • You will need plenty of enthusiasm, a good Booklets Rhythmical Massage Training sense of humour and be willing to commit make inexpensive, Anthroposophical Health Studies yourself for at least a year. • Appropriate training will be provided worthwhile presents . Short courses for everyone, where necessary Subjects : Fairy Tales, Legends, and for health professionals • An enhanced disclosure/police check will Proverbs, Zodiac, Etheric Forces, be necessary Hibernia Temperaments, Crafts, Jewels and ARE YOU INTERESTED? Metals . Te101453 751685 • Fax 01453 757565 Centre for Science and Art Write for a Price List to : For more information contact Craft Shop, Mourne Grange, Newry Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB Vibeke Sunddal on tel : 01224 867074, or Road, Kilkeel, Co . town, Northern h [email protected] .u k Maggie Pooler on 01 224 869216 Or visit our website at Ireland BT34 4EX website : www .anth .org .uk/hibernia www. newtondee. org. uk The Dove Logo of the Camphill Movement is a symbol of the pure, spiritual principle which underlies the physical human form . Uniting soon after conception with the hereditary hod'% it lives on unimpaired in each human individual . It is the aim of the Camphill Movement to stand for this 'Image of Main' as expounded in Rudolf Steiner's work, so that contemporary knowledge of the human being may be enflamed by the power of love . Camphill correspondence tries to facilitate this work through free exchange within and beyond the Camphill Movement . 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