November/December 2003 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE

believe that the vision of a federal world- order is linked to an increasing necessity to distribute the power of the state in two di- rections: one, towards a global federation and two, towards cultural autonomy of re- gions: We have to overcome Nationalism in all its forms. Nationalism is unable to solve any problems; it i s the problem-it poisons the peoples of the earth . The catastrophes of selfishness, of envy and hate are looming. We should be able to over- come these; however we are not doing it . We hand over our common global destiny to banks and multinational companies. At the same time it is unthinkable to return to a world of innu- merable isolated parts. We have to move to- wards a Federation and a Parliament of Cultures. The way I see it: Cultures and Na- tionalism constitute polar opposites . Nations hide behind walls and barbed wire, are state- property and guard more a claim to power than their own citizens. Cultures however ex- pandwithout hindrance. Art, literature, music, dance and poetry live in and between peo- ple. Like the world oceans they constitute a common heritage of humanity and are not the possession of nations or religious hierarchies . The Last Supper, Barbara Howell People like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Goethe and Schiller were true cosmopolitans . As long as one grows up as French, German or Spanish one is not yet a 'cosmopolitan' . A World Parliament of Cultures would be made up of men and women (definitely not professional politi- cians) who, because of their competence, their wisdom and their altruism, would be handed the tasks of producing conceptual solutions for certain problems . They would be people like Dag Hammarskjöld in whom vision became grounded . Maybe all of us should learn from these artists who know the way be- tween vision and reality. They go this arduous way day after day; they know the hurdles and they are able to assess true progress when claiming victory over a problem they have been working on, when claiming victory over themselves . lord Yehudi Menuhin

Every day around noon, a group of people in For the peoples of the world Simeon Houses, Aberdeen, organised by some of the elderly residents, meets to turn their thoughts 0 Christ, thou knowest and prayers to the needs of the world . For this The souls and spirits purpose they have chosen to work with the group Whose deeds have woven of verses printed here . The daily meeting is con- Each country's destiny. cluded with the 4th part of Steiner's 'Foundation May we who today Stone Meditation' . This initiative came about as a Share the world's life response to the war and the world situation . We Find the strength and the light are aware that the verse Resurrection could be mis- of Thy servant Michael. construed but are equally aware that our readers And our hearts be warmed will understand it as it is meant-with the wish to By Thy blessing, 0 Christ, forgive and to heal . We hope that in making this That our deeds may serve initiative more widely known, it may encourage The healing of peoples others to make similar attempts, and to know that one can indeed always 'do something' . The late ADAM BITTLESTON Adam Bittleston was a priest of The Christian Com- munity; Renate Sleigh is a pioneer of Camphill Resurrection Village South Africa, where she is still active . The kiss of death leads to life anew The suicide-bomber becomes a brother The human being has need Give me your hand, o brother, in death : of inward trust We need to walk together, towards the light. Trust in the guidance of The light of knowing, that we are one Spiritual Beings . One whole, one light, part of the Logos Word: He can build upon this trust What in life is torn apart His eternal life and being. Will find unity in death . And sense-existence thus The earth divides, The spirit makes whole . Empower and imbue Give praise to the Spirit, give praise to new life With eternal life Give praise to the One, who heals our strife .

RUDOLF STEINER RENATE SLEIGH

Cover Picture Glencraig Will Be 50! For many years this painting was hanging in the Hatch In April 2004 we will celebrate Glencraig's 50th birth- where Charlotte Baumert lived . It was painted in the day and with it also 50 years of Camphill in Ireland . late sixties by Barbara Howell, a 16-year-old pupil just We are planning a week of festivities from April 18th- a few months before she died from eating autumn cro- 24th, during which there will be plenty of time to meet cuses. From what I remember being told, it was Char- old friends . If you wish to join us for the celebrations, lotte who had encouraged Barbara to paint the Last you would be very welcome . Please let us know soon Supper. Being of an impulsive nature, Barbara had got and latest by the end of February 2004 . up in the middle of the night and set to work on the painting on the bathroom floor! Judith Jones The Organizing Group at Glencraig See obituary, page 11

Margareta and Norbert Kus, The Cover Quote is from a letter to Stephan Mögle- Siobhan Porter, John Nixon and Edeline LeFevre Stadel, author of Dag Hammarskjöld, Visionary for the Future of Humanity, translated by Christoph Jensen, Novalis Press .

Contents Ralph Waldo Emerson The American News from the Movement and beyond Prophet Manfred Seyfert-Landgraf 1 Developments at The Maartenhuis Peer Elstgeest 16 Building Inclusive Communities Camphill Seilen celebrates its first Offering Service The long Community Rev. Kathy Galloway 3 Petra Nehmer-van der Linde 16 From Dr. James Dyson's concluding address to The First shall be Last, and the Last shall be First Mark the conference Pauline Anderson 5 Barber 17 I From the Treasurer at the Goetheanum The silent monitor Neil Maclean 6 Cornelius Pietzner 18 Formation of an Association for those working in A Sense for Community I The Founders of Camph ill Curative Education and Social Therapy Edeline Obituaries LeFevre 19 Mary Poole 8 I Charlotte Baumert 11 Do you remember Happy School? Angelika Monteux further recollection of Lotte Sahlmann 12 19 I'An excellent place'-on returning to The Shelling Leonie Weston 13 I Stefan Lundin 14 Patricia Seifert 20

Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Prophet Manfred Seyfert- Landgraf, Clanabogan, Northern Ireland

Emerson, the great American poet, essayist and quently interrupted by ill health and the need to earn a thinker, was born 25th May 1803 . Before this living . Time and again he was called upon to preach, bicentenary year passes, we are happy to present from 1 826 onwards, at the Second Church in Boston, this essay, first published at Easter 1964 in until he was appointed finally to the ministry there in The Cresset, and now revised by the author. 1829 . When he was just approaching his twenty fourth birthday, on the 17th April 1827, he made an entry in his journal which conveys the deep earnestness with which Part One he repeatedly practised his severe self-criticism : merson College in Forest Row is undoubtedly one of Let the glory of the world go where it will, the mind the most important colleges for the study of Anthro- has its own glory. What it doth, endures . No man can posophyE in the English-speaking world . It is dedicated serve many masters. And often the choice is not given to the memory of the American philosopher and poet you between greatness in the world and greatness of Ralph Waldo Emerson ; therefore we ought to remember soul, which you will choose, but both advantages are him in this, the bicentenary year of his birth . This seems not compatible. The night is fine; the stars shed down particularly relevant if one takes into account that Rudolf their severe influence upon me, and I feel a joy in my Steiner said, to the best of my knowledge on several solitude that the merriment of vulgar society can never occasions, that if he had to introduce Anthroposophy communicate. There is a pleasure in the thought that into the culture of our time via the English language in- the particular tone of my mind at this moment may stead of the German, he would have to take Emerson's be new in the universe; that the emotions of this hour writings as its foundation, and not Goethe. may be peculiar and unexampled in the whole eter- Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on the 25th May 1803 nity of moral being. I lead a new life. I occupy new in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was minister ground in the world of spirits, untenanted before . I at the 'First Church' . He was the third of seven children, commence a career of thought and action which is of whom the eldest and the youngest died in early child- expanding before me into a distant and dazzling in- hood . He was born into a very old American family of finity. Strange thoughts start up like angels in my way parsons, who had lived since about 1 650 in Massachu- and beckon me onward. I doubt not I tread on the setts. One of his forefathers was co-founder of the little highway that leads to the Divinity. town Concord where, in 1774, the struggle for Ameri- ca's political independence from the British Empire had started . Ralph Waldo's grandfather, William Emerson, was at the time the parson of Concord; he played a de- cisive part in the drive for this independence . Ralph Waldo himself later continued this impulse of his grand- father with his own struggle for America's cultural, and in particular literary, independence from Europe . Ralph Waldo Emerson was only eight years old when his father died and, from that moment on, the boys grew up in rather frugal and hardworking circumstances . Aunt Mary Moody, a sister of their father, supported the mother with the education of her boys, and Ralph Waldo and his brothers revered her deeply, as also Ralph Waldo's own children in later years . She educated the boys un- der the motto : 'Always do what you are afraid to do!' He himself educated his own children according to this same principle. When he was about seventeenth years old he started to write his thoughts into Journals, and he kept this up for the rest of his life . They show that he had from the very beginning a rather serious and introspec- tive nature . After finishing grammar school in Boston and a four- year course of studies at Harvard College, he helped his older brother, William, as teacher in a girls' school, which the latter had established in their mother's house . How- ever, after three years it became quite clear to him that his true vocation was that of his father and forefathers . On 18th April 1824, shortly before his twenty first birth- day, he gave in his Journals a detailed account of his reason for this decision, and this is surely one of the most impressive self-criticisms at such a young age. Between 1824 and 1828 he studied at the Divinity School of Harvard University, yet these studies were fre- The Blind, Ernst Barlach

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Strong self-assurance, coupled with deep humility, is 73 .Of special importance during the last European jour- revealed in these words . And so it came about that he, ney was Emerson's meeting with the German art-histo- who in the beginning had devoted himself to the minis- rian Hermann Grimm . In one of his Karma lectures (on try with such zest, soon came into inner conflict with 23rd April 1924) Rudolf Steiner spoke in impressive de- his conscience between what he experienced as the 'true tail about the deep karmic connections between these divine service' and the dead forms into which the di- two individualities during previous incarnations . vine service in the churches had sunk at that time . Espe- Soon after he had settled in Concord Emerson drew cially the celebration of Holy Communion, as a many important writers to this special place, like Henry sacrament deadened to a mere outer formality, brought David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorns, the Alcotts and about for him great inner conflict, and it caused him in several others, and he founded with them the literary September 1832 to lay down his ministry . circle which became known as the 'Transcendentalists' . Though he was asked on many occasions in later years From now on he earned his living as a free-lance lec- to preach again, he never accepted another regular min- turer and philosopher. Most of these lectures he pub- istry. Shortly after this event, which caused him much lished later in various collections . He saw his main task heart-searching and severely affected his health, he in the deepening and spiritualising of nature observa- embarked on the first of his three extended visits to Eu- tion and of the 'natural life', and in the attainment of rope. This first European journey marked an important American independence and self-reliance in the sphere turning-point in Ralph Waldo Emerson's life . The three of culture as well . In his address to students at Harvard most essential experiences he gained on this journey University, 'The American Scholar', Emerson pointed out were : that it should be the task of a true American student to • His encounter with Italian art, especially the great apply the same pioneering spirit which drove his breth- treasures of the Italian Renaissance in Florence . ren to the conquest of new land in the West, to the realm • His impressions of the world of nature in France, of the spirit . where Emerson had a fundamental experience in July The following sentences illustrate the 'spiritual decla- 1833, during a visit to the 'Jardin des Plantes' in Paris . ration of independence' of the American scholar Emerson He wrote in his Journals about this experience : who, however, does not only declare with it the true Here we are impressed with the inexhaustible riches tasks of an American scholar, but the i nner attitude which of nature . The universe is a more amazing puzzle than today should ensoul every true scholar in the world : ever, as you glance along this bewildering series of The scholar is that man who must take up into him- animated form,-the hazy butterflies, the carved self all the ability of his time; all the contributions of shells, the birds, beasts, fishes, insects, snakes and the the past; all the hopes of the future . He must be a upheaving principle of life everywhere incipient, in university of knowledges . If there is one lesson more the very rock aping organized form . Not one form so than another which should pierce his ear it is this : grotesque, so savage, nor so beautiful, but is an The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the expression of some property inherent of man the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule observer-an occult relation between the very ofsap ascends; in yourselfslumbers the whole of Rea- scorpion and man . I feel the centipede in me, son. It is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all . Cayman, carp, eagle and fox . I am moved by strange sympathies; I say continually I will be a naturalist . It is my opinion that it is the greatest task of the method of Part Two nature-and one which just begins to be solved-to The struggle of Emerson, whose homeland was the spirit, explain man himself . against the superficiality and ignorance of the masses, One can perhaps compare this experience only with and his urge to draw the attention of his fellow-men, as the one Goethe had in Italy at the discovery of the 'thinking individuals', to their essential indwelling pow- 'Archetypal Plant'. ers, is content and meaning of all his future writings, • The meeting with the eminent Scottish historian and which deal with this subject in the most varied realms philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, who was undoubtedly of life. the greatest Goethean scholar in the British Isles. A The observation that nature is spirit condensed to sub- deep and lifelong friendship developed from this stance, which Emerson had first experienced in Paris, meeting in which they both inspired one another time occupied him especially . Therefore it was quite natural and again. that he called his first printed publication 'Nature' which No doubt, Emerson found during this European tour his was first published in the year 1836 . It contains a col- true task for the rest of his life ; yea, one could even say lection of eight essays . They have a common idea which that he had found his own true self on this journey . This connects them, namely the relationship between spirit is born out by the fact that, whilst he was before easily and nature, and man as the observer. They are arranged exposed to illnesses, and stood twice even at the thresh- in such a way, that one ascends step by step, chapter by old of death, henceforth he enjoyed perfect health and chapter, starting with elementary nature observation until hardly ever got ill again, even during the most strenuous one reaches i n the seventh essay the spirit . When read- and arduous lecture tours, except for his last illness in ing these essays one gets the impression that Emerson old age. must already have divined something of the After his return to America he settled in the little town sevenfoldness of the human being . The eighth chapter is of Concord, which was the home of his forefathers and then a kind of epilogue, a summary . he remained there until the end of his life, except, of In the essay 'Self-Reliance', which was published in course, for his many lecture tours, which also led him 1841, Emerson explains in vivid terms that man can twice more to Europe, in 1847/48 and again in 1872/ gain self-confidence only to the degree that he can

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become one with God, and that we can find our inner- with a few sentences . I n the essay 'Swedenborg, or the most Self only in so far as we can free ourselves from Mystic' he says, for instance, the following : the opinions of our surroundings and can learn to pray In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of in the right way. vertebrae, and helps herselfstill by a new spine, with In another important essay, 'The Over-Soul', published a limited power of modifying its form, spine on spine, in 1844, Emerson describes how everything living is to the end of the world. Manifestly, at the end of the permeated by the Over-Soul . It is probably justified to spine, nature puts on smaller spines as arm, at the compare his concept of the 'Over-Soul' with the one end of the arm are new spines as hands, at the other Goethe calls the 'World-Soul', and what St . Paul means end she repeats the process as legs and feet. At the with the words : 'Not I but the Christ in me .' top of the column she puts out another spine, which At the beginning of January 1850 Emerson published doubles or loops itself over into a ball and forms the what is probably his best known work, Representative skull with extremities again ; the hands being now the Men. This book heralds the most essential and fertile upperjaw, the feet the lowerjaw, the fingers and toes decade of American literature and spirituality of the being represented this time by upper and lower teeth . whole 19th Century, which lasted from about 1850 to This new spine is destined to high uses . It is a new the beginning of the American Civil War. He describes man on the shoulders of the last . Within it, on a higher in this collection of essays, after the introductory chap- plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. ter 'Uses of Great Men', six different ways of viewing Nature recites its lesson once more in a higher mood. the world, illustrating each of them at hand of one char- On 22nd December 1863, almost exactly fourteen years acteristic personality, representing that particular ideol- after the first publication of his book Representative Men, ogy. He tries to show the importance, as well as the Emerson wrote in his Journals: limits, of each particular way for a true world cognition . When I wrote Representative Men I felt that Jesus was The representatives chosen by him are : 'Plato, or the the 'Representative Man' whom I ought to sketch ; but Philosopher', Swedenborg, or the Mystic', Montaigne, the task required great gifts, steadiest insights and per- or the Sceptic', Shakespeare, or the Poet', 'Napoleon, or fect temper, otherwise the consciousness of want of sym- the Man of the World' and, finally, 'Goethe, or the pathy i n the audience would make one petulant or sore, Writer' . In these essays he gives a survey of the history in spite of himself . To be concluded of man's striving for knowledge, which can be, of course, only aphoristic . It is so filled with essential ideas and Manfred, a senior Camphiller who has spent much of insights, that it is difficult to convey the right impression his life in Camphill Villages, is a keen student of literature, music and culture .

Building Inclusive Communities 8t"-11 t" May 2003, New Lanark, Scotland

This is the final part of reports on the conference on Community Building and Social Renewal to mark the centenary of Dr. Karl König

The lona Community Rev. Kathy Galloway, Leader of the lona Community

Extract of an address to the conference. A Common Story

am very pleased to be here, to share something of our The lona Community is : experience in the lona Community of building inclu- • An ecumenical community of men and women sive communities, in the hope that some of it might reso- from different walks of life and different traditions in nate with your own . But what do we mean by the Christian church . 'community'? Here's my definition, which will be the • Committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to basis for what I say. You may not agree with it, but hope- following where that leads, even into the unknown . fully you'll at least understand what I'm saying! • Engaged together, and with people of goodwill Communities are recognizable by three characteristics : across the world, in acting, reflecting and praying • Common identity, story or self understanding, for justice, peace and the integrity of creation . symbolized by name, ritual, badge, and so on . • Convinced that the inclusive community we seek Who people are together. must be embodied in the community we practice . • Common task, purpose or goal . What people do together. So we share a common discipline of: • Common life, contact, meeting, structures of • Daily prayer. support. How people do it together. • Mutual accountability for our use of time and I want to think about the subject of building inclusive money. communities in these three ways : who we are together, • Spending time together. what we do together, and how we do it together . • Action for justice and peace.

3 gins, the people written out of history, saying, 'We are here too . Stop overlooking us . We will no longer be invisible. Include us in .' So building inclusive commu- nities is first of all about recognizing that the historically dominant voice, that of heterosexual, able-bodied, suc- cessful white men, is not the only voice, and about lis- tening to the voices from the margins . We should not underestimate how dominant this voice still is . It is still the most powerful voice in every institution in this coun- try-economically, politically, culturally-and in the world, as current events sharply demonstrate . ACommon Task When you decide that building an inclusive commu- nity is an important aspect of your value system, there are implications on a number of levels . When we make decisions about who we are, or at least who we want to be, that then affects what we do, our task or purpose . George MacLeod, the Founder of the long Community, said, 'Only a demanding common task builds commu- nity', and you will know from your own experience that it is in working together on some task or goal that com- munity stops being theoretical and abstract and becomes experiential . The long Community started off as a movement, a re- ligious community . But somehow it got to a point where it discovered that it was also an organisation with a turno- ver of nearly £2 million a year, fifty staff, and hundreds of volunteers . In order to be true to itself as a move- ment, it has had to sit down and work out what it means to operate justly and with integrity as an employer, as a limited company, as a business . Inclusiveness is then The Blessed, Ernst Barlach worked out in lengthy deliberations about holiday pay and grievance procedures, in decisions about what kind The long Community was founded in Glasgow in 1938 of coffee to buy and how best to recycle the rubbish . by George MacLeod, minister, visionary and prophetic Sometimes it feels as if we have written policies about witness for peace, in the context of the poverty and de- everything! We have, as any socially responsible organi- spair of the Depression . Its original task of rebuilding sation must have, comprehensive policies on child pro- the monastic ruins of long Abbey became a sign of hope- tection, health and safety, employment procedures . We ful rebuilding of community in Scotland and beyond . also have a youth policy, an environmental policy, a Today, we are almost 250 Members, mostly in Britain, compassionate leave policy, staff training policies . We and 1 500 Associate Members, with 1 400 Friends world- conduct risk assessments, and we will increasingly have wide. Together and apart, 'we follow the light we have, to conduct various kinds of policy audits : that is to say, and pray for more light .' measuring our policies with regard to their impact on This description is the one that appears in our maga- equality, inclusion, the environment, and so on . zine, on our programmes and literature . If you like, it's All of this is a huge amount of work, much of it done the official version of our story, our self-understanding, on a voluntary basis . But it is absolutely a fundamental who we think we are . You will notice that it says that we of good practice if we genuinely wish to be inclusive, seek to be an inclusive community . because it's about creating the conditions of safety, jus- Part of the drive for this greater inclusion came as a tice and opportunity in which everyone can be nur- result of the major social changes and liberation move- tured and flourish . I think it's not enough to depend on ments happening in the latter part of the 20th century : the personal goodwill, or patronage, of a few influen- the women's movement, the anti-apartheid, anti-racist tial individuals, or even on the good intentions of a movements, gay liberation and so on . Although churches community. Nice people don't guarantee good prac- can often seem very reactionary to those outside them, tice, only appropriate structures do that . One of my in practice these have had a huge effect within churches predecessors as Leader of the long Community used to too . The long Community had an original commitment say, 'Good administration is a form of love', and I agree to the inclusion of working-class men . And in the 50s with him . and 60s, some of its members working in Africa were deeply involved in the anti-colonialist struggles there . A Common life Its original instincts were already towards inclusion . It In almost every area of life, from gender roles to the just became more and more aware of all the people nature of work to the role of religion, this is a time of who were excluded . radical transition which demonstrates crisis, kairos, both Many of the great democratic social movements of the danger and opportunity. But the focus of values is shift- 20th century have been about the people on the mar- ing now from the institutional to the relational . We now

4 increasingly judge, evaluate, decide what something is That safe space is a prerequisite for another kind of spir- worth to us, how much it matters, by the quality of rela- itual nurture : tionship it allows and invokes . In a free-market, capital- . Offering the freedom to ask questions, to ist philosophy, the criteria for evaluation are extrinsic, challenge, to disagree . In so many people's lives, they are set by the market. Value is added . The shift to there is a real hunger for meaning. And it is in the having these be the criteria for relationship is well struggle to name and articulate our truth that we underway. Our society is inclined to measure the worth learn to know ourselves. of people by how useful, productive, beautiful, success- And a third kind of spiritual nurture is that of ful they are, and to undervalue those who are not these . encouraging the art of sharing through a reval uing things. Inclusive community is, therefore, genuinely of the communal joys anda rebuilding of counter cultural, because it affirms diversity, and the confidence in relationship . intrinsic worth of all its members, regardless of their util- ity, rarity or success. It is also different because the ex- There is something profound in this most basic tenet of perience of most people is to live individual lives and community, that we are part of one another, bound up make space in them for doing things with others, while together. This is a struggle of spiritualities between a in community, the emphasis is on living corporately and spirituality of the market, of extrinsic worth and value making space for ourselves . addition, and a spirituality of intrinsic worth, of value So as well as the legal and practical implications of for people . It is a crucial struggle in a world in which seeking to be inclusive, there are also spiritual implica- we are always being told 'There Is No Alternative' . There tions. We need to be able to take care of ourselves and are so few icons of sharing around at the moment . There of each other, to nurture one another. are so many people struggling to break free of the game Spiritual nurture, of ourselves and of others, involves : of winners and losers, who want to rediscover the art of sharing, but don't quite know how. To create models of Creating safe space accepting, non judgmental, sharing, of communal joys, of new confidence in rela- encouraging, disciplined in which to know and tionship, is, I think, to serve not just our own communi- be known. ties but our whole society. It is a gift we have to offer.

From Dr. James Dyson's concluding address to the conference Extract of closing address to the Conference, from notes by Pauline Anderson

ames presented the conference with a final summing From long we hear the words Peace, Justice and Shar- up and drawing together of its rich content, taking it, ing for the community's motivation, a soul-based im- Jwith his usual inspiration, into further fields for thought . pulse in which the spirit shines radiantly . John Ruskin, He recognized Kathy Galloway, leader of the long Com- George McLeod, Robert Owen and pre-eminently munity, for her clarity in community procedures and Rudolf Steiner: through anthroposophy, he paved the Aonghus Gordon, from Ruskin Mill and the Glasshouse way to a knowledge of the spirit and the understanding College, for working out of his karma rather than out of of the human organism process, how it penetrates the theory-both as figures of leadership, leadership with three dimensional space of incarnation and can find a its incumbent danger of reverting to an old paternalism new appraisal of specific crafts and other activities to bring and not yet attaining to moral imagination and inspira- individual healing-to know this-to document it! tion which will empower the individual as 'inspirer' : an Also, through knowledge of the spirit, to recognize the advanced form for the future . Steiner's approach to spir- twelvefold archetype, a community body, to restructure itual life 'was republican, not democratic' . and build a future nature, to renew the etheric nature of Can we recognize the potential and enable fulfilment the earth . A community impulse that doesn't link to the in the individual, allowing mistakes and re-honouring new cosmology is going to be limited . the idea of leadership-along with mandates of group In the apocalyptic climate of what is approaching so- process-as the way forward? Herein lies the connec- ciety we need Education Research and Development in tion between the esoteric and the exoteric ; the former the spiritual cultural life, as well as the opening and not visible but giving 'impulse', the latter out there in awakening of person to person . the world, visible in our public organisations . James concluded the Conference by reading two pas- A wider concept is needed, a school of perception that sages by Karl König, for whose centenary the Confer- leads to the spirit. Here Robert Owen could be seen as ence was a celebration, a verse by Rudolf Steiner, and a precursor but lacking the spiritual insight to fulfil his encouraged us to 'meet each other as if the reincarnated educational aims . Now a new phase is necessary : des- John Ruskin is among us!' perate situations attract help, like gravity draws water ; but when there is equilibrium there is stagnation-that's Pauline andJimmy Anderson where the real ecology starts, but it won't just happen . pioneered BD farming in Scotland and now also There is pain in this situation, but it's needed, it's part of run a vegetarian guest house on their farm in Galloway the ecology. (See advert). Pauline is a Hauschka masseuse.

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The silent monitor Neil Maclean, Camphill Community Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

'Uncle David' was Dr. David Stark Murray, my grand- mother's brother, a senior pathologist, a committed so- cialist, who was very instrumental in the setting up of the British National Health Service, and a very interest- ing and cultured man . 'It'was the only known surviving 'silent monitor' from Robert Owen's New Lanark Mill . A silent monitor was assigned to each worker in the mill and was a method to encourage pride and respon- sibility in ones work . Each coloured face represented a degree of quality, and as the inspector passed through the mill he would turn the monitor to face the colour corresponding to the quality of the worker's work . Pride or shame. The result was very successful and New Lan- ark produced cloth of outstanding quality, with the mill being a great economic success as well . My great great grandmother Marion Stark was born in New Lanark on October 3 rd 1 She was the daughter of David Stark, millwright, and Mary Stark, nee Scott . The census of 1 851 records Marion Stark, cotton spin- ner, residing at 99 Double Row, New Lanark . What I do know is that she was educated at New Lanark school and that her upbringing there was very influential on the whole family, including, I would like to think, on myself, hergreatgreatgrandson, and myfamily, her great Robert Owen, portrait by Mary Ann Wright great great grandchildren . And here we are in Camphill, a modern grandchild of the same social impulse . t sat on my Uncle David's mantelpiece, a curiosity The story doesn't end here either, as I have another and conversation piece . Cousin Kate told me that she great great grandmother, Margaret Anderson, 1835- used to play with it as a child . It was a piece of wood 1915, also reputed to have been born in New Lanark . like a child's building block with a pyramid on top, each face a different colour. Uncle David got it from his fa- Neil, a young Camphill ther, Robert Murray, who in turn inherited it from his co-worker in Ireland, wrote about his experiences mother, Marion Stark . at the New Lanark conference in our last issue .

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In Camphill Correspondence, Jul/Aug 2003, Margit Engel referred to a Parcival play performed at Hogganvik's 30th anniversary. Many readers will want to know that the play we performed was an adapted version of Three meet- ings between Sigune and Parcival. It was written by Richard Anderman and Janet Lindenberg shortly before their tragic deaths . Angela Rawcliffe, Hogganvik From the Karl König Archives If you know of any letters of Karl Königs or notes from a Clinic or College Meeting with him we would be grateful to receive this for the Karl König Archive . Peter Selg, who works with the Goetheanum Archives, will visit the Archive 17-18 January 2004 Stefan Geider, Friedwart Bock

6 Reviews

A Sense for Community The Founders of Camphill A Five Steps Research Paper, 2003 This publication by Floris Books is scheduled Reviewed by Johannes M. Surkamp, for next spring. Ochil Tower School, Perthshire, Scotland Reviewed in manuscript form by Maria Mountain, Loftus, North Yorkshire ichael and Jane Luxford are to be congratulated for the unique and timely task they had undertaken, leven people have each written a chapter about the basedM on their years of group endeavour, in taking their lives of one of the founders of Camphill : Karl König, research to 15 countries and to over 80 research con- TillaE König, Barbara Lipsker, Anke Weihs, Thomas Weihs, tacts . Now a book of 180 pages is successfully com- Peter Roth, Alix Roth, Carlo Pietzner, Marie Korach, Alex pleted and available . It is by no means just an interesting Baum, and Trude Amann, as well as the Vienna Youth research record but a compilation of all the essential Group which led to the beginnings of Camphill in Scot- statements by Rudolf Steiner and Karl König on social land . I was very happy to read and review this manu- issues plus a methodical evaluation of the background script, to read about the lives of these determined and of over 60 years of experiences gathered throughout the committed people. Camphill Movement and beyond . The thing that strikes me when reading about the found- The authors deserve credit for having undertaken this ers is how so many of them had great hardships early on work at a time when throughout the Camphill Move- in life, often but not always because of the Nazis in the ment existential questions and doubts are being ex- late 1930s . A number of the early Camphillers came pressed . They launched an active research endeavour from Vienna and had been part of the Youth Group that allowed them to quote from hundreds of conversa- formed by Dr. König. As Nazism came in to power and tions, to make insightful comments and to sum up their Austria was threatened, the people in the Youth Group experiences in thoughtful after-images . The well-struc- had to flee for their lives as most of them were Jewish . tured book can serve any socially interested person or They eventually met up again in Scotland and the rest is community as a counsellor and reference book stimu- history! Many of them lost relatives and friends, and some lating their own concepts and metamorphic thinking . lost their immediate family and all their possessions to The whole work is permeated with the faith that the the German persecution . seeds of the fruit of 60 years of Camphill experience Each chapter is written by a different person, which I will sprout in manifold ways in the future, with love and found helped to bring the people described to life . I gratitude to the inaugurators and pioneers of this social must say I felt moved to read about these individuals, enterprise and with hope that what was developed in their idealism, their commitment, their goodness, their the 20th century will be an answer to the ever increasing wisdom-and sometimes the lack of it-and their social needs of the 21 St century. struggles . . .a lot of the chapters don't gloss over the dif- Professor A. Gidden's statement, 'Socialism is dead ficulties and flaws of the individuals, thank goodness! It and no one has any alternative to capitalism' may be was helpful to read about people's weaknesses as well proved wrong if the precedents set by Camph i I I are as their strengths and with some I was moved by their taken seriously. human frailties . Interestingly I found I could not read The book sets out new ways, replacing old models of this book quickly, as each person's life needed time to social engineering with empathetic and altruistic mod- be absorbed and was quite filling . I appreciated reading els based on trinitarian principles tested by experience . as much about the life of each person before Camph ill It is therefore of great value to all community-building and what brought them to it as much as reading of their efforts and to all people engaged in social questions . life within Camphill . I was struck by the importance of this book, for it serves A Sense for Community is available from Botton as a record of the lives of people who together created a Bookshop, from Ann Harris at Delrow College, real deed for humanity; a whole new concept of ap- and in North America from Copake Giftshop . proach and outlook towards handicapped and indeed British library CIP data: ISBN : 1 897 839 22 1 all people . It has helped me to place individuals in Camphill with greater clarity and insight . A big thankyou Michael and Jane are available : to those who worked so hard to write about each per- c/o Camphill Nottawasaga, 7841 4th Line, RR1, son, and to those who brought it all together into one Angus, Ontario, LOM 1 BO, Canada . book!! I hope people will find this book illuminating to emai I : mjluxford @hotmail. com piece together what sparked the beginnings of Camphill, what it was all about, and who the people were who Johannes, who spent made it all happen . much of his working life in Camphill communities, lives in active retirement at Ochil Tower.

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7 Obituaries

Mary Poole 20th June 1912 - 22"d January 2003 Nicholas Poole, Botton Village

he advent of Beatrice Mary Poole Nevertheless, she reflected that her (nee Wildig) over ninety years ago childhood was blessed in many ways . occurredT in what seems to us now a Despite the turmoil which periodi- distant age more ordered and secure cally engulfed her, she was always than our own, but it stood on the cusp dimly aware of a hidden 'presence' of change. With the sinking of the SS that lived behind everything-'some- Titanic the first cracks began to ap- thing alive and beautiful which made pear in Britain's unshakeable confi- itself felt from time to time', as she dence in its primacy, its sense of put it. This unseen presence cast its world destiny and the duties of em- protecting cloak about her in many pire, yet the distant rumblings of ap- difficult moments, and sustained in proaching conflict went unheeded . her a lifelong conviction in the abso- Like an eyeless dancer on the crum- lute reality of a spiritual dimension . bling heights of Dover, life pursued She called it 'one of the most treas- its accustomed course until the del- ured blessings of my life' . uge of the First World War swept The family tensions obviously af- away the old familiar certainties . fected her school days, but her gifts Mary was born into that starched and were apparent and she gained a place servanted world . at the Royal Academy of Music where Her home was just outside Harrow- her professors expected she would on-the-Hill, at that time a rural vil- become a concert performer-which lage north of London encircled by she did . But before beginning her open fields and woodland . Although 1999 studies she had rather inexplicably she grew up surrounded by nature, in which she de- become engaged (after the usual heavily chaperoned lighted, and the simple rhythms of country life-the par- courtship), to an officer training at Sandhurst for the In- son still visited on horseback; the doctor owned one of dian army. The cultural divide between her artistic, musi- those new-fangled horseless carriages-her childhood cal world and that of conventional military circles in the was anything but tranquil . Her elder brother (whom she dying days of the British Raj can be imagined-she must described from photographs as the most beautiful child have seemed an utterly perplexing enigma to her fian- she had ever seen), died tragically of tubercular menin- cee! In the end it all unravelled in spectacular fashion . As gitis following months of agony which her mother could her twenty-first birthday approached, the family predica- only watch in helpless anguish . The experience affected ment became critical . Within the space of about a week her so deeply that she rejected her two younger chil- she took and passed her L .R.A.M. exams, broke off her dren, Mary then aged two and a younger brother who engagement and left home precipitately to live tempo- was but a year old . (A third brother was born later .) Thus rarily with an aunt . This proved to be anything but the Mary was a second child but took on the destiny of a haven she needed, and thus she found herself in London, first-born . young and very bewildered, where she took a secretarial From her widely gifted father, a director ofthe London training and worked in the music department of the BBC . Press Exchange, she inherited many talents, both ath- She described this period as a rather 'grey' existence, nev- letic and artistic. She learned to play the piano at five, ertheless her debut on the concert platform was the pres- and from an early age music provided a world of sol- tigious Wigmore Hall, and thereafter she broadcast many ace into which at times she could retreat when family piano recitals for the BBC's Third Programme . But her life's tensions became unbearable . Often she found herself direction was to remain unclear for a number of years. caught up in the frictions of her parents, standing be- Eventually, in her late twenties, through a close friend tween an unhappy father whose musical and literary from her Academy days, she met her future husband, gifts went unrecognized in his marriage, and a mother Richard, at a London concert in which he was singing . whose simple goodness, charm and rather unworldly After Oxford, he had been ordained in the Anglican innocence was not his intellectual equal . Mary carried Church and was then a curate in St . George's, this childhood legacy with her throughout life, but spoke Bloomsbury, at that time a congregation with strongly little of the hurt it must have caused her. In later years she pacifist leanings, which echoed his own radical ideal- said of her mother with deep feeling : Poor, poor woman ; ism . The wedding was planned for 2nß September 1939 how she suffered!' Of her father, whose nervous collapse (a High Anglican Nuptial Mass filled with glorious mu- she witnessed in her early twenties, she said only that for sic performed by their many friends), but the gathering someone of his refined and cultured temperament the storms of war finally burst and at the eleventh hour they competitive stress of the business world was utterly alien . had to abandon everything well, not quite ; the wed-

8 ding cake arrived as they scrambled to catch the last letter of the long Com- train out of London to Richard's new parish in Sussex . munity in Scotland . It Communication was impossible (many guests arrived was the turning point to find an empty church), and all transport was in chaos . which would lead them With extraordinary ingenuity, Richard's elder brother, the eventually to anthro- Precentor at Winchester Cathedral, managed to smug- posophy (she joined gle out its costly vestments and commandeered a taxi, the Society in 1948), driving across country through the blackout . and to Camph i I l . Arriving in Sussex, makeshift arrangements were hur- Because the army riedly made; flowers gathered from local gardens, guests had requisitioned all invited from the highways and byways (none of whom the local hospitals in were known to either of them), and the local vicar gave anticipation of the D- the bride away. Curious onlookers remarked wryly, 'The Day invasion of Nor- bride's arrived with a cake and no parents', but the wed- mandy, the situation ding was furnished with guests . A nearby hotel welcomed became daily more the honeymoon pair, but the following morning (3rd Sep- chaotic, so it was hast- tember), the outbreak of hostilities was broadcast to a ily arranged that Mary nation united in a wave of patriotic fervour-with the would go to an alterna- exception of two of its citizens who declined to stand tive maternity home in for the National Anthem! Consequently they found them- Somerset for her con- selves summarily ejected . The incident typified a non- finement . When she fi- conformist trait in Richard's character that over the years nally got there after a Mary and Richard made for numerous confrontations ; situations made journey so a traumatic doubly painful for Mary whose sensitivity to tension re- that she could later recap nothing of it, she described it mained from her troubled childhood . Yet, for all her dis- as 'an oasis of peace and care where the roses were in like of friction and disagreement, she never wavered in bloom, the skies were blue, and it was divinely quiet!' her support of her husband whose ideals she largely Returning to Hove with her baby son, the sombre re- shared . Hers was a softer, more intuitive way, and her alities of wartime closed round her again and weighed graceful charm very often saved the day . ever more heavily, but slowly a new light began to dawn . The war years were dark and filled with uncertainty. Richard had attended a lecture by Dr. Alfred Heidenreich Living close to the south coast they were directly below of The Christian Community, a religious movement based the flight path of the Luftwaffe squadrons heading for on the teachings of an Austrian philosopher whose name London which, when turned back by the British fighters they had heard but whose ideas they had never explored . would jettison their bombs on the English countryside As their interest kindled and the profound implications over 200 once fell on the parish in a single day! Despite of this philosophy began to sink in, both felt an urgent the dramatic situation, filled with suffering and destiny need for a period of undisturbed peace to grapple with for so many, Mary recalled how much kindness she re- inner questions . Fortuitously, or so it seemed, the sym- ceived from the parish . Surrounded by the army (whose pathetic Bishop of Salisbury (like Richard, a pacifist), military imperatives everyone was subject to), inundated offered a tiny parish in rural Oxfordshire, to which they with evacuees, all food tightly rationed, these country initially agreed to go . However, it felt to them just too people nevertheless rose to the challenge with a spirited perfect-the after-image of a motionless pool whose goodwill that was extended with generosity and toler- mirror-still surface concealed lifeless waters, appeared ance to their unorthodox curate and his new wife . Com- in a disquieting dream-in short, a cul-de-sac. For Mary, ing from a socially enlightened background in London who went to see it after the birth of her daughter, there they must have seemed two very queer fish in that con- was something unreal, almost surreal, about its idyllic servative pond! So there were, inevitably, many tense beauty that deeply depressed her . They declined the post . moments occasioned by this radical priest whose paci- The decision was momentous, for with it grew the cer- fist views were so starkly opposed to the outlook of the tainty that Richard should withdraw from the Anglican time . Mary's constitution was frail and gradually it all clergy, which he eventually did . Although this left them wore her down until eventually she became unwell . almost rudderless, the prospect of training for the priest- Richard's pastoral work often took him into hospitals hood of The Christian Community, embracing the spir- where he observed the inadequacies of conventional itual landscape of anthroposophy with its selfless, divine medicine, and this prompted them to search for an alter- conception of religious compassion, offered a possible native approach to healing . Homeopathy was embraced, new direction which they began to explore . In a visit to as were the ideas of Jungian psychology, but as yet no Albrighton Hall, then the centre of The Christian Com- clear way forward was apparent to them . Richard's un- munity in Britain, Mary experienced a strange, unset- compromising views brought him increasingly into con- tling haunting which, among other considerations, in flict with his church, while Mary needed peace to find the end decided them not to follow that path . the inner certainty of a life direction she sensed but could Before this, however, they had met Dr . König and dis- not yet name . By this time (1944), they had moved to cussed the possibility of joining CamphilI, but at the time Hove on the Sussex coast, and Mary was expecting her the idea seemed premature and was abandoned . Rich- first child . One day, Richard burst in brandishing a pam- ard had attended the first British anthroposophical medi- phlet, saying, 'You must read this!' 'This' turned out to be cal conference in Clent and was deeply impressed by an article written by one Dr. Karl König on the place of the work being done there with handicapped children . faith, hope and charity in medicine, published in a news- While in the throes of extricating himself from the An-

9 glican Church and exploring future options, he had timbered outdoor shed whose noisome interior remains worked for a period in Towerlease, a well-known na- a pungent memory! But Mary weathered all these trials ture-cure clinic in Bristol, and had become friends with with grace and competence . Orderliness spread around Miss Irene Groves, a founder of Michael Hall School her as if impelled from within, and her children thrived in who was then engaged in helping Catherine Grace es- the atmosphere created from the wellspring of her artistic tablish a school for handicapped children (St . nature. Music filled the house, often accompanying Ri- Christopher's), in her own home in Bristol . One day, chard's madrigals with her exquisitely light playing, and musing on the urgent need for a residential hostel to spilled into the community at festival times . She brought help the fledgling venture, Miss Groves turned to Rich- a natural refinement to everything she did, and the best ard and said, 'Why don't you do it?' With that almost aspects of her English cultural heritage contributed in some casual remark the die was cast ; their future destiny was measure to the slow Anglicising of a community which glimpsed and gradually began to take shape . at that time still had a distinctly European flavour. During this time Mary remained alone in Sussex with In 1961, she and Richard were asked to take on her two children, expecting her third child in the winter Kidbrooke Mansion, the hostel for Michael Hall School of 1947, which turned out to be one of the coldest on in Sussex, a task they accepted in response to Dr . Königs record. Life was very hard at times-in the seventh month call for Camphill to assist the Waldorf movement in every she succumbed to an epidemic of dysentery-since dis- way possible . This lasted but a year before they were on tance only partly spared her the worry of her husband's the move again, to 122 Harley Street, the London centre frenzied escapades which she accompanied vicariously at which Dr. König held his clinics . As its leasehold was through news received from time to time. And the news then under compulsory purchase for redevelopment, the must have seemed improbable indeed! Despite his obvi- search began for alternative premises, and thus Delrow ously empty pockets and less than water-tight pledges of House near Watford was bought and became their har- finance, Richard's boundless optimism persuaded law- bour for a while. However, the demanding work of a yers and estate agents-never easily convinced-to al- new venture in its pioneering stages took its toll on Mary's low the purchase of an old, rambling Georgian pile in an health, always delicate, and she needed relief . So she endearing state of disrepair which he had discovered in returned to Scotland, leaving Richard in Delrow to fol- the village of Thornbury, some fifteen miles from Bristol . low his single-minded vision for a new form of training This was Thornbury House, the intended hostel for St . college, and moved to Camphill House where she Christopher's School whose governors were understand- cooked for a while, enchanting Dr. Königs Viennese soul ably appalled to learn what had been purchased in their with her culinary arts . name during the summer recess! (Although too distant Cooking was very close to Mary's heart . In this she from Bristol for practical purposes it began neverthe- possessed an almost 'musical' gift, conjuring exquisitely less, a daily transport being run in an old, borrowed car subtle flavours from a wide palette of herbs and spices . that would periodically grind to a halt in clouds of steam Her reputation in this field soon grew and she began to from an overheated radiator, or whose door would fall give occasional courses, although these were never theo- off at whim .) They moved in one dark November day in retical, being very much a hands-on experience for the 1948, to make everything ready to receive the first chil- participants . Over the years she was often encouraged dren, but it was an inauspicious welcome . The chilly to develop this into a full course on nutrition, but to the damp seeped down stairs and through walls to wrap disappointment of many-and, one suspects, perhaps them in its clammy embrace, and their first attempt to also to herself-she did not find the time to do so ; in- kindle a fire nearly brought the venture to an abrupt deed, it would have been a Herculean labour to convey halt: with an ominous roar the chimney caught, belch- her largely intuitive knowledge in written form . ing smoke and flames into the room . As a local crowd Mary then lived for a time in the Grange in Glouces- gathered to watch the fire brigade, one was heard to tershire, after which she and Richard moved to Botton remark, 'Them folk be just moving in ; they'll soon be Village in Yorkshire in 1966 . Once again they were a moving out.' But they did not! Thus began a long, al- united force, contributing richly to the cultural fabric most single-handed struggle which might have come to of a vibrant and rapidly-evolving experiment in com- nought had not Dr. König (at that time the visiting con- munity living. Many former pupils of Botton School sultant for St. Christopher's), been aware of their pre- remember Mary for the love of music she instilled in dicament and begun to send experienced coworkers them, and her delicate playing of piano and harpsi- down from Camphill in Scotland to assistthe beleaguered chord embellished the festivals of the community for pair. However, as a hostel serving St . Christopher's it many years . But her own playing of keyboard instru- was not to last, and Thornbury House eventually be- ments gradually diminished as arthritis reduced the came part of the Camphill Movement . dexterity of her hands . Instead, she taught herself the In 1952 the family moved to Scotland to join Camph ill recorders, and with these, too, she achieved an ex- proper, first to Newton Dee Cottage for a period, then to traordinarily sensitive, expressive way of playing ; the the Lodge for many happy years spent alongside Dr. tonal purity and quiet beauty of her phrasing remain Königs elderly parents-so inseparable that they were an abiding memory. Having mastered these, she then affectionately referred to as a single entity ; 'grandmother- turned to the strings, specifically the medieval viols, and-grandfather'-who lived downstairs . But those were forerunners of our modern-day strings . Eventually, these straightened times . One cold water tap and a tiny 'Baby also became too much for her hands and she had per- Gelling' electric cooker with a single hotplate provided force to give up playing, but music had always been for the family plus four maladjusted teenage boys ; the an immediate, inner world for her and no scratched or laundry was a lean-to outbuilding with just a boiler and poorly recorded disc ever distracted her listening be- cold rinsing sink; the only lavatory an earth-closet in a cause, as she said, she heard only the music .

10 After leaving the harsh weather of North Yorkshire be- But blessings come in many guises . That autumn Mary hind in 1979-ostensibly for softer climes, but in reality suffered a fall and broke her hip . She endured the pain so as not to be a burden on our children' two of whom with hardly a murmur and through sheer determination had just joined Botton-she and Richard 'retired'tothe gradually achieved a limited ability to walk again . Afacet Shelling School near Ringwood in Hampshire . Since of her nature hitherto unnoticed in a life lived some- retirement is a word hardly recognized in the Camph ill what in the shadow of an extrovert husband emerged ; lexicon, it was still a pretty active time for them both her frail body masked an iron resilience which now until Richard's health declined a few years before he helped her to see her predicament in a positive light . died in 1994 . But during the years in Ringwood an un- Her empathy with those on the ward less fortunate than expected tributary began to flow into the wide river of herself sustained them and was deeply appreciated, while her gifts as Mary took to illustrating nursery rhymes and she drew comfort despite failing eyesight from a slim, fairy tales for her grandchildren . These were delicate well-thumbed volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry which watercolour paintings whose modest, almost child-like she loved. Of this time in hospital she said later what a innocence seemed to express something of the tender- privilege it had been! ness she herself may have lacked in her own childhood . However, Mary longed for Camphill, her spiritual She often laughed in unselfconscious delight at these home, and so she eventually returned to convalesce in naive efforts to paint the flowers and nature she loved . Botton . In the days leading up to Christmas the As the years drew on, living alone became less ten- encumbrance of her body became a source of mounting able, and so in 1998 her daughter Celia felt she should frustration, and her resolve to linger on diminished . bring Mary back to live with her in Botton, and when She turned increasingly inward but was still able, with the family later moved to a house just outside the vil- assistance, to write a tender letter of farewell to her lage she went with them . Her ninetieth birthday was a many friends, a last gesture of gratitude . From childhood glorious occasion among family and friends on a radi- on Mary was steadfast in her trust in the spiritual world antly beautiful summer day. An elegant reminder of more and its guidance of her life towards Camphill and gracious times, Mary sat swathed in a pink feather boa, anthroposophy. Now it seemed as though her gaze rested her eyes twinkling merrily at the ridiculous opulence of upon it, asking to be fully embraced in its reality at last . it all, saying how grateful she felt for everything life had She died before the sun rose on the morning of 22 given her and how blessed she was . January 2003 .

Charlotte Baumert

23" June 1916 - 2nd August 2003 Lisa Steuck, Mourne Grange, Ireland

great star with a humble soul has re teacher if she did not concentrate . After all turned to her rightful home . This home, the teacher had put a lot of preparation into theA spiritual world, was ever present in and the lessons . She also intended to become around her. For most of her life Charlotte sixty-four years old . Because when really old lived closely with the gate of death, gain- you could become really wise . And to live ing a deep insight into life after death and for any other aim was a waste of time. into life on earth . This made her very wise, Charlotte left school at sixteen going for a and enabled her to help the dead and the year to relations in England . Afterwards she living alike. Many a person would receive worked as a receptionist for a lady doctor advice from her; she helped to disentangle for three years . Once during that time she many destinies . had a very strange experience . Literally, out Often though it needed a bit of scratching of the blue, the following words were im- of the surface-a very rough shell would en- parted to her : 'It is not easy to be completely close the fine, tender and warm kernel . You silent, to forego all one's own wishes, and could meet a grumpy, ever interfering, very bossy per- only to will what destiny wills .' These words became son . But having reached that inner core, steadfast friend- her motto for life . Whenever there were difficulties in ship and never-wavering loyalty would meet you . her life Charlotte would remember them and they would Born in Constance in the middle of the First World help her to accept her destiny . War to an English mother and a German father, she was She then took a course in chemistry in Munich that the eldest of five children . There were two more sisters enabled her to get a post in the laboratory of a steel- and brothers . works. Also then, 23 years old, she offered her services Early school years were uneventful . She had faithful to the Hitler Youth . The laboratory where she was work- friends and a happy home . Still she was a lonely child . ing was bombed . She lost her job, and was fully em- Her friends would often shake their heads about her and ployed by the Hitler Youth . There she befriended a young say: 'Charlotte, you are funny.' When entering High woman who was her superior within the Hitler Youth, School, with her practical mind she decided that she very active, very idealistic; but someone who could also would acquire as much knowledge as possible and learn see the negative sides of the Nazi regime . This woman as much as possible with the least possible waste of time . knew a young man who had quite a high position in the Also she felt that it would be very rude towards the Hitler Youth . Through this he gained insight into the

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Nazi's Black List, the list of Jews who were meant to be to decide to either leave or to become '65 years old at taken to concentration camps . They wrote letters of warn- once' in order to conform . She decided in favour of the ing to these people . Charlotte had the task to distribute former. The Sunday after this decision she spent a day at them and whole families were able to flee the country . The Christian Community where she met Peter Roth who It was a very dangerous job, but it never occurred to asked her whether she would like to come to Camph i I I . Charlotte to refuse . So she went to Newton Dee working in the house of Once during a conversation with other Hitler Youth Peter and Kate Roth . Later, together with Tilla König, members a girl spoke great words regarding Hitler, about she wentto Wraxall House, and from thereto Ringwood patriotism, the war and so on . Charlotte found herself with Ann Harris . Finally she went to Thornbury as teacher saying, 'Hate is death, love is life . If we want to be alive and housemother. we must love.' Having said this she was sure she would Here her wonderful inner qualities came more and be put into a concentration camp . But within six weeks more to the fore: selflessness, humbleness and sacrifice, the war had come to an end . which had their roots in the motto she had received so In 1946, already thirty years old, Charlotte decided to many years previously. On the other hand, she was not matriculate and become a Waldorf teacher. She obtained completely free from occasional grumpiness, bossiness a permit to stay in the American Zone of Germany and and interfering . Her ever-increasing artistic abilities were studied at the Waldorf Teachers' Seminar at Stuttgart . a great help to her. She painted many very beautiful Nobody thought that she would make a good teacher. pictures using watercolours : fairy tales, Christmas pic- Through the Gartners she heard about Camphill, but tures and portraits . meanwhile she went to England to stay with her grand- In 1966, a great change came about . She became a mother. The grandmother lived outside London and on godmother, and part of our small family for whom she her days off Charlotte took the train into London and became a very important member-and no longer a went to lectures at Rudolf Steiner House or The Chris- lonely person . tian Community. Grandmother was not amused . She Charlotte reached the aim she had set for herself when wanted Charlotte to be with her and her lady-friends . very young . She had become loving, understanding, self- She disliked Charlotte's independence . So Charlotte had less and wise .

Judith Jones, Camphill Schools and Simeon, Aberdeen

y first memory of Charlotte is from the early 70s, Charlotte's experience of elemental beings in the gar- wearing her red woolly hat . She showed me around den, and her feeling of being fully incarnated when ThornburyM on my first visit, telling me then about the she lay in bed with a high fever. What was more ac- fundamental social law and how she could not buy new ceptable was a game she introduced me to, which had shoes if others needed them more . become for her a daily habit . This was to guess who Charlotte was my first housemother in the Hatch, a was at home when entering the Hatch on return from task she carried out in unique style . I think she rarely evening activities in the Park . Charlotte's experiential came for breakfast but walked through the dining room, approach to testing invisible realities was a help to my toothmug in hand on her way to the bathroom, roared somewhat sceptical self . I remember her having great at some misbehaving child-and that seemed sufficient regard for St. Paul's words, 'The truth shall make us to maintain order for the rest of the meal . free', and always felt Charlotte, in her pragmatic way, In retrospect, that year the Hatch had a difficult assort- to be a real seeker. ment of co-workers as well as children, and I dare say During my year in the Hatch, I experienced on more Charlotte had taken on those others may not have wished than one occasion Charlotte's possibility to lift me up for. There was one memorable occasion when human when I was down . She had an understanding of human conflicts were brewing in the house and one co-worker weakness, matched by her strong dislike for profession- had already packed his bags to leave . Charlotte called alism . I think Charlotte's great gift was the faithful sup- us all together and said that when we could get on we port she gave to many-and am grateful to be amongst could all leave, but until then we must stick it out and those who experienced her friendship . work things through-so we did! This remains for me an What picture comes to mind now? Charlotte's blue important lesson in community building . eyes, serious and soulful but often lighting up with a In those days I was having my first encounters with mischievous twinkle . . .and of course, still seen proudly anthroposophy. I remember being apprehensive about worn two years ago her red, woolly hat!

Lotte Sahlmann further recollection Morwenna Bucknall, Camphill Milton Keynes, England

can well remember a moment in Ringwood when It seems that as a teenager this lad had been caught up in Lotte heard with dismay that one of her former pupils a street gang and taken a fancy to the sister of the gang's in South Africa was to be tried for the murder of one of leader who had insisted that money should be paid for our Camphill co-workers! She flew straightaway to bear this honour! So the lad had gone to one of his teachers at witness at his trial in South Africa and was able to make it Camphill to procure the necessary sum of money! Sup- possible for him notto go to prison but to a place of care . posedly, on refusal, or unwanted advice, he had killed her.

12 Leonie Weston 23" June1939 - 8t" June 2003 Vivian Griffichs, Camphill Houses, Stourbridge

or a person whose life was largely dedi- proach and a whole new training . Her cated to speech, to die on Whit Sun- struggles with the hierarchy in Hohepa, day-theF day of the Word that all can and her father's death, brought Leonie to understand regardless of language-is a re- another crossroads . She was exhausted, in markable event. Rev. Pearl Goodwin said, need of new inspiration, and left once more at a funeral service packed to the doors, for England . that Whit Sunday was the moment when Leonie was now 37 and began a four year speech could realise its highest truth-to drama course with Peter Bridgemont in unite human souls in community. South London, working nights at the Eng- Leonie Weston was born the eldest of five lish National Opera to support herself. She children in Taihope, New Zealand . Her fa- did not complete the course but moved on therwas, as Leonie's brother Richard said in to Masie Jones' speech training at Rudolf the funeral address, a great role model, hard Steiner House . It was here that many of worker, problem solver and a loving family Leonie's strengths came to the fore, re- man with a good sense of humour, a Town flected in the Study Group, remembered Councillor and Rotarian . Leonie's mother, with gratitude by Glenn Charles, and her Mona, of Scottish and Irish parentage, had contribution to the Rudolf Steiner House the task of keeping the family going on very theatre and bookshop . The speech course limited resources in the war and post-war came to its conclusion in 1981 and Leonie years. The vulnerability during those years found herself moving to Wynstones School, of Leonie's early childhood, when New Zea- Gloucester, where she was involved i n land felt isolated in the Pacific and open to speech work with students and teachers . occupation from Japan to the north and with Thus the last phase of her life began with most of the male adult population away in Europe, is not her discovered vocation in place, coupled with her enor- normally understood by northern hemispherians Leonie mous talent for the spoken word . A highlight of her work articulated this very strongly at times . was to stage a complete performance of Rudolf Steiner's Leonie set a standard that her four siblings were ex- Mystery Dramas . Leonie was at the centre of the pro- pected to follow. She was 'Dux' of Dunneruke South duction, advising on diction-setting the word to work Primary School and at High School she was Head Pre- a hard and exhausting task for actor and speech worker fect, passing her University Entrance exam, taking bal- alike. let and highland dancing lessons, learning to play the Contacts made through the Mystery Dramas brought piano and playing a lead in the school's Gilbert and Leonie to Stourbridge to work part-time with the West Sullivan production . Meanwhile she had to put up with Midlands Eurythmy School, living first in Rosie Phillpott's her younger siblings' mischief and Richard told the story house and then joining Camphill Houses Community as of how he and his brothers spied on her when she came a co-worker. That meant sharing a house with people home with her night's suitor. The brothers picked up her with special needs who were striving for their own indi- boyfriend's Mini, carried it round the corner and left it viduality in a community setting, trying to balance shar- between two trees so it couldn't be driven out! ing with independence. Teacher training college followed and after two years Just as Leon ie was finding her stride i n the work she practical experience Leonie set out at the age of 23 to wanted to do, health problems began to show them- do her 0 (overseas experience to us Europeans!) She selves in the very area in which she strove to achieve spent two years working and hitching around Europe . perfection . It highlighted to Leonie her need to work ever When travelling through Switzerland she was struck by harder on speech . John Masefield's poetry sprang to life the sight of a radically different looking building with in her hands : in Cargoes the 'dirty British coaster' highly sculptured, curved walls . She later found out of sounded every bit as beautiful and wonderful as the course that it was the Goetheanum . 'Quinquereme of Nineveh' . The Ledbury Poetry Festival Returning to New Zealand in 1964 she had some trau- drew her to find more material . Involvement with the matic times : her younger brother died of exposure after Eurythmy School brought Leonie into some challenging a kayaking accident and, full of her European experi- relationships-colleagues struggled, students despaired ence, she had difficulty in adjusting to life in provincial of their ability to come through the 'eye of the needle' New Zealand . Itwas a time of crisis and of reading many and master a poem . Leonie was a natural teacher and books. A job in a private school in Christchurch followed, the question of how to teach adults brought challenge then joining the Theosophical Society and meeting and pain, especially when they refused to be taught the Margaret Farrow from Sunf field in England who was start- way she wished . ing up the Hohepa Homes in Christchurch . Leonie was Apart from the Eurythmy School, Leonie's life was fully a great admirer of Margaret and it was Margaret who engaged with Camphill Houses . The mid 1990s saw her introduced her to the works of Rudolf Steiner. Margaret taking on a full household . Then there was the commit- later became ill and Leonie took up her teaching work . ment to anthroposophical life in Stourbridge . This en- This for Leonie was an enormous challenge a new ap- gaged Leon ie's life to the full and her work with Mark

13 and Rosalind Gartner was an important milestone . Stud- crossing the threshold one's ideals and reality meet . That, ies on Britain-a challenge to a New Zealander : 'I'm for Leonie, who felt the gap between the two so strongly, only an old colonial'-speech festivals with Elmfield so painfully at times, will come as a blessed relief . parents-'She's a remarkable person ; I feel completely Cargoes addressed'-and her increasing work with the First Class Festival Group which she enjoyed enormously . Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Itwasa heavy commitment . The illness, the hard work, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, the struggles with colleagues, produced a crisis and With a cargo of ivory, Leonie needed to spend time away. She went to Boston And apes and peacocks, for a beautiful autumn of sharing another community's Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine . life, with time to observe and breathe in from a gentler Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, standpoint . Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, Leonie returned to Stourbridge, had rooms to herself, and for a brief couple of years had a life of speech work, With a cargo of diamonds, study and comradeship, which could even be seen as a Emeralds, amethysts, coming to peace . In the last few months of her life she Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. became a full member of the Association of Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack Anthroposophical Speech Therapists . Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, Her illness in the final months came surprisingly With a cargo of Tyne coal, quickly, so quick that some colleagues could not attend Road-rail, pig-lead, the funeral . Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays . Pearl Goodwin's work with Leonie was a golden thread in a busy life, and she pointed out in her address that in JOHN MASEFIELD

Stefan Lundin 25th July 1969 - 8th September 2003 Sabine Campl ing, Staffansgärd en

ust a few days before the violent death the illness taking such a fast course that it of our Swedish Foreign Minister, one of would take him away from his earthly Jour companions, Stefan Lundin, crossed home within only four months . the threshold at only 34 years of age. Other With his diminishing strength Stefan's than a local newspaper's death announce- challenging sides also disappeared and an ment no articles were written about him . incredible warmth and radiance began to Yet nothing touched our hearts more than take their place . Even though suffering Stefan's fight for life during the last months from severe pain and sleepless nights, of his illness and the love he radiated es- Stefan got up every morning to go to his pecially during this time . beloved workshop . He received all the Stefan came to Staffansgärden in Janu- ki ndnesses shown to him with words of ary 2003, and after his life-long search for appreciation . Many wanted to help him, a place to be, he himself expressed his feel- yet what we all noted in the end was that ing of finally having 'come home' . Stefan it was actually Stefan helping us by bring- was a complicated and colourful person . ing out the best i n us . He was as 'stubborn as a mule', as he him- Until a week before his death Stefan self put it. When he put his mind to some- turned up at the workshop. By then he thing it was as good as done . His strong had come to terms with the fact that 'his will made him continue with digging up a illness was not going to go away for the buried car-wreck bit by bit-and carrying rest of his life', as he stated without self- the pieces into his room . He never wanted to be at gym- pity and with only the slightest sigh . He still intended to nastics-except for the fun of shooting the badminton live for a long time, now that he was so happy with his balls into the audience ; and his special touch in cloth- daily existence . Only during times of unbearable pain ing was a pair of non-matching socks. he would talk about dying, yet his concern was only for After months of nagging Stefan finally got a work place- us: for would not we be terribly sad if he left us! ment in the wood workshop, and his happiness was com- Stefan had to spend the last days of his life in hospital . plete. He had an assistant on a daily basis who loved He slept for longer and longer spells, drugged by mor- him and whom he loved, he had work he enjoyed and phine, his frail body fighting a losing battle against pneu- he was happy in his living situation . For the first time monia. On September 8th, only a few weeks after his Stefan did not want to move again after three months, birthday, Stefan at last gave up the struggle and died but felt that he had 'come home' . peacefully in the presence of three of his closest friends. When Stefan was diagnosed with cancer in May '03, We promised him to keep him in our hearts, and this nobody, least of all himself, thought of the possibility of promise we will keep .

14 Children of the Dream For Martin Luther King

They will not be satisfied Till they have had more, These children of the dream. These dreaming children draped In all colours of the sun . Till they have had more, They who are black and white And all colours of the spectrum, And all colours of the dream, They will not be satisfied Till they have had more . What more do they want? They want the earth and the stars And the beautiful heavens . They want to be free And they want the possibilities That freedom brings . And also Freedom's weight and dark side . They want to love who they want. They do not want to be defined. They do not want to be limited. They do not want to beg for Their humanity, or the right to be Creative, or different, or unexpected The Perceptive, Ernst Barlach Or wild, or surprising, or defying Of boundaries . They do not want Condescension, or assumptions . They want to rebel, even against Themselves . They want to celebrate, Even that which didn't celebrate them. They want to love the best fruits Of the earth, in music, in art and In dreams . They want to be the best That freedom promises, without explanation Or apologies. They want to astonish, Casually, like angels do. They want to amaze . Simply, like geniuses do . They want To fail, bravely, like explorers do . They want to quest, nobly, like Passionate pilgrims do. Nothing can Be too much or too little for them To dream, and to accomplish, if it Belongs to the possibility of being human . The unfathomed magic of the unmeasured Spirit. And so they let freedom Sing into their new transformations Of self everyday. They are the new Warriors and masters of the earth . They are the best of what has emerged. From time's sufferings and history's love. They are the children of the dream . And no prison of mind or steel Will hold them down any more . The Pious, Ernst Barlach They have burst open the door. We are all children of the dream . BEN OKRI

15 News from the Movement. . .and beyond

Developments at The Maartenhuis, Texel, Holland Peer Elstgeest

fter our visit to the wonderful conference in New anything else of that nature . Any 'gift money' to be spent Lanark, Scotland, we realised that the culture of our is thus a consciously individual matter and responsibility. CamphillA impulse is better suited to the Anglo-Saxon Discussions about, and with, our residents and other countries than to those of Central Europe . Geologically, participants, in the form of a College Meeting, are gen- the Netherlands-and certainly Texel-fits in with the erally accepted . Residents and participants have their Anglo-Saxon 'continent' . Here at The Maartenhuis we biennial Care and Work Plan Review where their bio- are heavily involved-and what community is not?-in graphical records are looked at to see what develop- seeking contemporary answers to the impetus Camph ill ments have taken place . has placed on daily community life . There are also biennial Development Consultations The present situation is such that the cornerstone of with all internal and external staff and here too the bio- Religion and Spirituality is embodied by arranging an graphical record, and therefore personal development, evening each month which has a social content, in the is of prime importance . form of a Bible evening, for everyone living in The But The Maartenhuis has also developed its own cor- Maartenhuis ; the traditional form of reading the Bible nerstone : Neighbourly love, which is actually a coordi- after the evening meal is also followed . But it is the an- nating and/or supporting element which nurtures the nual festivals that are for us the most important moments existence and working of thepreviously mentioned cor- of spiritual experience, since the preparations and the nerstones . The main ingredients are openness, respect, celebration itself involve and occupy many people . Dis- safety and, above all, trust . Application of these ingredi- cussion of religion and spirituality is a continuous dia- ents is fundamental as nurture to the continued exist- logue, particularly when in daily life the term 'inspiration' ence of the essence of The Maartenhuis . And this is to is mentioned . Becoming aware of this cornerstone is our be understood as the aura that everyone at The ultimate goal . Maartenhuis feels, experiences and maintains daily . We interpret the cornerstone of Buildings Community Our form of organisation by means of sociocracy helps by our weekly 'At Home' evening for residents and 'fel- us in no mean way to give substance and content to our low residents' and also by the weekly meeting-with- ideals about building a community. out a prior fixed agenda-of the fellow residents . The Nurture is also necessary in order to arrive at a well- idea and the feeling of being involved with one another running whole as a working communityfrom equal en- are confirmed in both evenings! We have replaced the counter in functional inequality, which includes skills traditional Social Fund with individual awareness of and responsibilities . One of the means for this is our money or salary. We no longer have a joint financial Foundation Stone Proverb which is said once a week at 'pot' for internal staff, but have developed an awareness our morning prayer, and at other times . of what is individually earned by each person accord- The living community itself takes care of the contin- ing to the CAO-a Collective nationally standardised ued existence of the working community . At the mo- Employment Contract . Each individual decides for him/ ment there are 12 internal and 30 external staff with 23 herself what is done, and in what way, with money re- residents and 25 participants who visit our working ar- ceived in their name . Discussions and backbiting and eas, including the three residential houses, daily . displays of power over the communally earned money At our website : www.maartenhuis.nl you can see a few to be spent are in this way deliberately avoided . Personal photographs . responsibility is here experienced and shared commu- Peer, Marthe, and their four children, nally. The Maartenhuis is of course also fully subsidised have lived in Texel since 1997 . His background is in by the government and is not dependent on donations or secondary school and Waldorf school teaching.

Camphill Seilen celebrates its first Offering Service Petra Nehmer-van der Linde

lot has happened in the last two years in Camphill are home to 52 villagers, several families and co-work- Sellen. We would like to share with you a few of ers. Last spring we had a whole week of celebrations ourA important steps. Camphill Dorfgemeinschaft Sellen with participation and recognition from the wider com- is located in the northwestern part of Germany close to munity. We realised that after a big struggle for accept- the Dutch border. We are not as widely known as some ance in the founding years, Camphill Sellen has become of the other German Camphill villages though in June an important part of this area . We started the festivities 2002 we celebrated our 10th anniversary . in our small hall with an ecumenical service with priests Eleven years ago the Liebeck family moved into one of from each of the two big churches here in the town . The the two old farmhouses and started this Camphill place next event was to present our mission statement . With with five villagers . Now we have seven houses, which the help of a supervisor, Herr Kotschi, we accomplished

16 a lot of reflection and voiced our goals and hopes for nity have been working through the words of the Offer- the future . Everyone who participated in this intense ing Service . The Christian Community priest Johannes workshop agreed that it was of tremendous importance . Lauten has guided us in this process . He strongly en- On the 10th anniversary we also celebrated a Bible couraged us to pick up the impulse now. For years he Evening, open to everyone, with many friends, parents has been a strong support to the village and until now and neighbours . This was followed by cultural evenings, held the Act of Consecration of Man regularly here in lectures and plenums during the following week, end- Seilen . We are so thankful to him for his loving guid- ing with a grand Open Day on the Sunday . This effort ance through all these years . On the 12th of October we and all the feedback we received showed us how far held our first Offering Service in our newly renovated Camphill Village Sei len has come and how much we gathering space . We have the intention to hold the Serv- have already achieved . ice every Sunday from now on . On this special day, to Ascension Day 2003 was also a very special date for my personal delight, we will also have the christening us, because that was when we finally performed Carlo of our third daughter, Fiona Johanna, only the second Pietzner's Kasper Hauser play, after half a year of rehears- christening ever held in our place . als. It was a dream, dreamed for a long time by some I would still like to mention that on the 9th of February people, to make this happen in Seilen . The play was very 2003 our dear housemother BernadetteMaarsen passed impressive and Johannes Moora did his usual wonderful away. At the age of 57 she had a stroke . She was found job directing it . It was received with much gratitude. It by one of her villagers in the morning, and died two was also performed in Camphill in Berlin and for our weeks later in hospital . With her passing we have lost a friends at the Christopherus School in Bochum . strong pillar of this place. We see her creative works Now in the season of St . Michael we take another im- and her tracks everywhere in the village and will al- portant step . We want to start celebrating the Offering ways remember her. Her funeral was the first to happen Service here in Camphill Seilen . This was of course a here, and left many of us with a deep sense of commu- hope of Camphill Community Members and some other nity and a special understanding of why we are here co-workers for a while, but somehow it never seemed together. the right time to take it up . Now the time has come . The Petra is trained in Waldorf right constellation of co-workers has come about and education and has lived in Camphill in N . America we feel strong enough to take the step . Since the Holy Beaver Run and Minnesota-where she met her Nights a group of permanent members of our corn mu- husband, with whom she has two children .

The First shall be Last, and the Last Shall be First Mark Barber, Svetlana Village, Russia

aditionally in Russia, people with Special Needs, as a deed against the current of the times . And yet no-one we call them today, played an integral part in the would have accused König of being a romantic, yearn- flife of the village. Indeed, they were often regarded as ing for a lost age . On the contrary, he was an extremely holy-'God's people' . However, we all know the story practical and unsentimental man . He perceived that just how, in the course of just three or four generations, all such a setting would allow these special people to free this changed . A mass exodus of people left the villages themselves of the stigma of being labelled 'invalid' by for the towns and cities, to take up jobs in industry and the modern world . bureaucracy. There, life was fast and unfriendly . People The idea of the Camphill Village implied a return to a became sub-divided into an inordinate number of spe- simple mode of life : to true community; and to a re- cialised sub-categories : engineers, teachers, government newed connection with the cycles of nature, connected workers . The villages themselves in turn became sub- as they are to the Christian festivals . These simple peo- sumed in this process with collectivisation . In place of ple can find their place in such a society . They can re- the eternal peasantry came tractor drivers, mechanics, late to it and understand it on a 'heart level', instead of agronomists and so on . These simple people became with the intellect demanded by modern life . In such set- lost in a complex and intellectual world . They did not tings they can cease to be 'invalids', and instead take up have the ability to fit into any of the new categories of the simple vocations of vi I lage life : 'farmer', 'cook', 'gar- the industrial age, and so an additional one was created dener' and 'baker' . They have space to grow, to fulfill especially for them . They were labelled 'invalid', and their potential . dispatched in their millions to closed institutions, or sim- In fact, it was Königs dream that the villages might ply left to a domestic life of unemployability . mature to the point where these people could begin to This process was not unique to Russia . Something simi- take possession of the village for themselves, so to speak . lar took place across the western world, if not perhaps Almost 50 years after the first village was created, one characterised by such extremes . Everywhere, the twenti- can perceive that this 'taking possession' has to some eth century witnessed the slow death of traditional vil- extent occurred . In many places these people are the lage life, and accompanying this very often, an ostracising stability, the conscience and often the very soul of the of people who could not find a place in the new society . village . And this is one of the defining features of a When Karl Kön ig conceived the idea of recreating vi I- Camphill Village: that it seeks not so much to 'cater' for lage life anew, in the form of life-sharing communities the person with special needs but, as far as is possible, for people with special needs, it was therefore very much to empower them, to liberate their individual destinies .

17 Too often we, the so-called 'co-workers', fail to under- alongside the brightness and richness of the lives of stand the full subtlety and depth of Königs vision . How- some of our villagers . In one's stress and rush, one can ever, in one's quieter and more humble moments, one at times feel quite small and petty in comparison . The can sometimes get a sense of it . If allowed to 'blos- point is surely that these simple, 'holy' people repre- som', our 'villagers' can become such full-blooded sent something truly human in a world that is fast los- characters and the relationships between them so warm ing its humanity. . . .and that was Königs great insight! and so genuine, that as a co-worker one can feel at times little more than a spectator of village l ife . l t can Mark, who is English, almost seem as if we lead a mere shadow existence is a senior co-worker living in Camphill Village Russia .

From the Treasurer at the Goetheanum Cornelius Pietzner, General Anthroposophical Society, The Goetheanum, Switzerland

ichaelmas is the time when the briskness in the air know so far in advance whether our hopes and trust will and retrenching of nature braces one for the need be met. toM estimate how the fiscal situation will look at the end of the year. At the Goetheanum we base our assessment Reliance on goodwill on details of what has happened so far this year regard- Four main sources of income for the Goetheanum are ing expenditures and income, and then make a projec- members' contributions ; gifts and grants; legacies and tion for the remainder of the year. Are we keeping to our bequests; and institutional contributions . These are budg- budgets or are there surprises to anticipate? Were there eted at approximately 10 .3 million . We are grateful for unexpected events or necessities that caused significant membership contributions and that they can be sent regu- deviations in what was planned? Can we cover greater larly. However, membership contributions only meet expenses through other budgeted items that did not cost about 23% of the yearly running costs of the as much? We need to calibrate now as carefully as pos- Anthroposophical Society. As Treasurer, I would like to sible if we can meet our budget. Already now we must see this percentage increase to 50% . Purely from a fi- take remedial steps if we discern significant deviations nancial perspective it would seem thatthe Society should or problems. either increase the annual membership request, or that we should make every effort to increase the member- Variations in budget limited ship itself throughout the world! This is an interesting At the same time we begin the process of determining thought and has many perspectives that one would need our budget for 2004 . In October 2003 we must estimate to include. with our colleagues what activities we will undertake, I believe it is appropriate for the Society and how much it will cost and what kind of income we can Goetheanum to rely heavily on the generosity and free expect. How many people will come to the Michaelmas support of individuals, yet to do so for over 75% of run- conference in 2004, or the Christmas Conference-over ning costs is too high a proportion and too much of a a year away! We have to try to budget conservatively, burden or risk. This is a discussion about which I would not knowing themes, programs, presenters, or what will welcome thoughts. happen in the world . This is all a part of the imperfect We are always grateful for those members and friends world of budget making . We have to calculate as pre- who have included the Society in their testaments . While cisely as possible with expenses and income of approxi- this is exceedingly difficult to estimate in advance for mately 25 million Swiss francs! History is a partial guide obvious reasons, we have been grateful to be able to for budgets, yet the future always brings new elements, regularly count on these gestures of connectedness that initiatives and conditions . Our guideline for 'acceptable' can be so strongly experienced through bequests . deviations from the present budget is that they may be The Goetheanum has many diverse financial commit- no more than 3% (on a total budget of 25 million Swiss ments . Two very significant ones are the Faust produc- francs we can only accept a total actual difference of no tion and Rudolf Steiner Halde building renovations. With more than 750,00 Swiss francs) . This is a relatively small public support of 1 .3 million from several Swiss Can- amount (as it includes the possibility of deviation of both tons we are encouraged even further in our efforts to income and expenses) and it takes a tremendous amount make this enormous artistic and cultural effort signifi- of discipline, planning and supervision for the entire cant and transformative not only for the Goetheanum Goetheanum community to manage a budget approved and the members and friends who will attend, but for a in December of the prior year . However, we need this broader public . We are hopeful that the one million in clarity as the Anthroposophical Society has no cash re- further gifts and support still needed will be possible . serves to cover larger swings in expenses . Nor can we Watching the historically and architecturally signifi- count on more income . cant Rudolf Steiner Halde as it undergoes complete reno- Indeed, our budgets must also plan with the goodwill vation brings not only the normal financial anxiety of and generosity of members and friends a year in ad- having to find funds to meet payments, but a deep and vance, and with the hope that our activities can be met profound sense of fulfilling an obligation, and making with enthusiasm and practical financial support . There something right and ready for future use and activity for is tremendous goodwill and a sense of connection from decades to come . Many friends and foundations have all over the world, yet although we must budget for gifts also sensed this as well, and of the 3 million total reno- and grants, for legacies and bequests, it is impossible to vation cost, we are making efforts now to find the last

18 500,000 so the building can be ready for new life in the other or create questions or even tensions? With limited spring of 2004 . finances one is obliged to determine priorities and make sometimes difficult choices . How can these priorities Identifying essentials and choices be recognized and discussed within the Finally, and returning to our budget, we are going leadership of the Society? These are the sorts of ques- through a gradual but complete process of trying to make tions that also accompany the budget process, as a re- a longer term assessment of the financial outlook and flection of our current possibilities and the need to needs for the Society and the Goetheanum . What can continually and carefully renew and review our com- we finance, and what must we forego? What are essen- mitments and capacities . These questions pose invigor- tial and key elements, without which one could not re- ating challenges. ally go forward? Where do the rich traditions of thepast and the needs and possibilities of the future support each Cornelius'background and experience was with Camphill, chiefly in Northern America .

Formation of an Association for those working in Curative Education and Social Therapy - Work in Progress, Nutley Hall, June 11th 2003 Edeline LeFevre, Camphill Community Glencraig, Northern Ireland

o far two meetings, convened by the British and Irish Simon Fielding , the chairman of the Anthroposophical members of the Curative Education and Social Health Professionals Council, AHPC, attended both TherapyS Council in Dornach, have been held in order to meetings and was helpful and supportive . He stressed form an Association of those working in Curative Edu- that the curative movement is very important in the con- cation and Social Therapy. The push to work towards text of the Anthroposophical Health professions, as it is this came out of the founding of the Anthroposophical a practical application of anthroposophical healthcare . Health Professionals Council . The membership of this The AHPC is keen to help the curative movement to Council consists partly of representatives from the vari- continue its path of development and self-regulation . ous Health Professional Associations . Anumber of peo- There should be a link, irrespective of whether the Asso- ple working in curative education and social therapy ciation is represented on the Council or associated with had come together several times during the process of it in a different form . The 'Curative Association' could the formation of the Council . A strong wish was felt to accredit people and register them . It should be a regula- support the work of the Council and also to reap the tory body which protects the interests of people with benefits of the Council's link to the wider community in special needs . Simon expressed his dismay over the dif- making the work of Anthroposophical Curative Educa- ference of opinions and concepts and urged us to focus tion and Social Therapy better known . on what unites us, rather than on our differences. The decision to form an association was taken last Feb- Angelika Monteux, who represented the BA Course in ruary. Working out the details appeared to be quite com- Curative Education in Aberdeen, came to the second plicated, due to differences in opinion about various meeting . She pointed out that in setting up the course issues, one of them being 'professionalism' versus 'liv- they had argued-and won the point that 'Curative Edu- ing and working together on an equal footing' . Another cation' is a generic term, embracing all the aspects of the issue was the names 'Curative Education' and 'Social profession, includingYouth Guidance and Social Therapy . Therapy' and 'Youth Guidance', in relation to whether They had convinced the authorities that Curative Educa- these are the right terms to use in the wider community. tion is a profession in its own right, and includes educa- Yet another discussion dealt with the term 'Social Care' tion, care and therapy, as well as 'social therapy' . versus 'Mutual Care' . The question came up, whether We looked for a new working title for the Association the Association should be one of places or of individu- but failed to make a decision . als, and what the level of training or qualifications would Edeline is an experienced be required to join . Camphill co-worker active in many fields of life .

Do you remember Happy School? Angelika Monteux, Aberdeen

ome time ago I wrote an article about Padmavathi, So, now is the time to help and send anything you can, to : an Indian curative teacher who had a little school in herS flat in Chennai, which was threatened by closure Registration number: 075900925 because neighbours objected to her activities . Nature Educational Social I can now report that after a long time of searching for No:11/21022/67(045)/2000-FCRA-III an adequate building and many disappointments she SB Account Number 14463, Svavalambana Trust has now been able to find one and create a Trust that Abhiramapuram Branch, State Bank of Mysore has permission from the Indian government to receive CP Ramaswamy Road, Abhiramapuram donations from foreign countries . Chennai, India

19 'An excellent place' on returning to The Shelling Patricia Seifert

ast July I had the privilege of being taken back into the academic training. Within weeks they begin to blossom . Ringwood Shelling Schools Community . 30 years ago The kicking and screaming fade and are soon forgotten . IL started my Camphi I I life here, to do my state school The joy of each little face each morning when they ar- teaching practice. In Ireland and N . America I taught, rive at school for another day's learning-the pride in those married and started a family, living in five different com- same faces in the afternoon when they pass you push- munities all less than 21 years old . I wondered now ing their wheel-barrow to the recycling, or walking back what would life be like in a community that had passed from the bakery with new baked bread in their baskets . its 50th birthday? They love being in Camphill, their parents sigh with re- We arrived in holiday time, my husband Randolph, our lief after years of struggle . two teenage children and I . How beautiful this sandy piece How I enjoyed myself here this last year! Riding on the of land had become . So many new shrubs and trees . The waves of others' hard work . The previous two years the village green was now laced with buildings : a child-sized school had gone through an arduous process preparing mufti-coloured therapy building, a swan-frescoed swim- for government inspection . I arrived in time to read the ming-pool, a classroom cluster round a well-equipped report! They loved it. Especially the abundance of thera- gym-these charming new spaces had all settled into the pists and the happy respectful life in the houses . They landscape, snuggled in their brightly coloured flower-beds . were struck by the broadness of the Waldorf curricu- The leafy lane that had once been a footpath to a few lum . The Shelling Schools were found to be an excellent cottages in 'the Dell', now led to the Lantern Community, place. a busy centre for adults, with baking, gardening and a The floodgates burst open . Many times a week Heide coffee/book shop . Right beside this, a bustling, purpose- popped her head around the classroom door to show built Waldorf School with a new kindergarten 'village' round prospective pupils and their parents . We cannot where three groups play together in a secluded area . Born yet take the children waiting in the wings-our six open of a Camphill mother, the school now stands on its own houses are filled to bursting point . Martin House, a sweet feet to serve the needs of 200 local children . little wooden house for no more than four or five children Returning up the hill I passed the pottery, weavery, is a lovely place for a single houseparent or a couple to woodwork and basket-making workshops and felt how start-or finish!-their houseparenting life. Or, if families the lives of the adults and children mingled with one wish to join us, our faithful old Watchmoor House is get- another as close neighbours do . Passing under huge old ting a state of the art makeover, with a four-bedroomed oak and walnut trees I came to Dr . Lotte's garden, from flat attached, to accommodate a family of any size! which she emerged, brown as a berry! As I crossed by How can we manage so many children in this age of the bell-tower, through a wooded path of Scots pine I accountability? Well, the porridge pot of community sub- reflected on the quality of the peacefulness that flows stance began to flow into the locality a few years ago from a place that has been cared for biodynamically for and we now have 30 skilled and enthusiastic people five decades . It is balm to a world-weary soul to walk from the local area who work here daily as therapists, through such a landscape . teachers, craftsmen and administrators . Pulled in by our There were still seven people here who were my men- need and their willingness to add breadth and depth to tors and teachers from 30 years before. Still busy, still our work and lives . Between us we have more than 35 enthusiastic, giving space to new faces and voices yet staff children under 18, rounding out the ring with the still involved with the children and parents . Wow! As the children in our care . The two Waldorf Schools : ours for year went on and two of them joined the throng of the child with special needs and the other for children Camph i I lers beyond the threshold, I joined the 'perma- living in special times . Next year we will be employing nent' co-workers circle-sixteen 30+ to 50+ year olds houseparent assistants to give help to our houseparents . from N . and S . hemisphere and the Middle East . On a This should give back time for 'living and loving'toour weekly basis my older friends join this richly diverse group post-inspection homemakers . to concern themselves with the 'now' and the future . Ten And what did the Inspectors notsee? The friendship of days before she died Eva Sachs took time to seek me out the other three centres in our community of communi- for a chat at her favourite picnic table . I thought I'd come ties. The joint Community Members meetings, the co- for just a year but she gently led me thinking down an- administration of the Shelling Trust, the joint seminar . other path . Acertain special child had been brought here They missed the three open days, the four barn dances, two years ago by a dying mother-now recovering!-in- the huge St. John's circle, the rich Holy Nights . . .and fant-like at the age of 8, still in a crib . Through the work of much, much more . many folk here she was upon her feet and ready for school . One thing I learned about 50 year old communities is She needed a teacher and classmates . That apparently that they don't realise how good they've got it . 'A lean was where I, with all my shortcomings, came into the year culturally', they said . 'Only three professional picture. What a refreshingly old-fashioned idea, to make eurythmy performances!' Communities stagnate at 50? one's destiny decisions at the hand of the karma of a handi- No, I don't think so . I haven't had so much fun or felt so capped child . By this last September, eight new children energised for years . I think I will stay. had managed to slip around governmental hazards to find Written with special thanks to their way to join 'little Carmen' . She is plainly delighted . Eva Sachs and Lotte Sahlmann, both of whose I had forgotten what a child had to go through to be sent wisdom before death, and strength from 'the other side ; here. How they arrive exhausted by testing and force-fed have lifted up our eyes and brightened our hearts .

20 Vidaräsen Camphill Village Norway Self Catering Holiday House We are situated in a rural setting surrounded The White House Killin by forest, an houranda half southwest of Oslo. Vidaräsen is the home for 150 people aged College 1 to 85 . Many of our workshops need strengthening . We are looking for a wood- worker, a baker, a potter and a car mechanic . A residential college established by The weaving workshop and laundry could do Ruskin Mill, working with Rudolf with some additional help. Steiner's philosophy, and providing We have a well-established Norwegian further education for students with course to cater for any language problems, special learning needs, has vacancies for Close to the famous Falls of Dochart and the and a nearby Waldorfschool to provide ap- Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, The White . Residential House Parents propriate education for any children House is in an ideal location to explore the natu- For further information please contact: ral beauty of Highland Perthshire, Scotland . This vocational post involves living in a Jorgen Ulvund, Vidaräsen, N-3158 Situated in a secluded setting near the shores family type group with up to three of our Andebu, Norway, of Loch Tay, this area offers outstanding oppor- students in one of our houses . We provide tel . 0047-33444-120 tunities for touring, walking, cycling, bird watch- all household expenses and a salary . or 0047-33444-139 ing and canoeing. Comprises 5 bedrooms with We particularly welcome accommodation for up to 12 persons sharing. applications from couples . Please help tel : 01764 662416 For details, please contact Jeanette I am Julio Tasayco, a 25 years old Peruvian for a brochure and availability Waldorf teacher of elementary school chil- Withers Tonalis Music Trainings dren . I am interested in travelling to England The Glasshouse College to study Arts at Emerson College . As I am yet The Tonalis Music Trainings-part-time, 2 Wollaston Road unable to afford the fees, I hope to be able to year-in Community Musicing, Music Edu- Amblecote earn the necessary money in the United King- cation, Uncovering the Voice, Choir Leading Stourbridge DY8 4HF dom . My knowledge of English is very basic. and Music in Spiritual Practice will be start- Tel : 01384 399400 If anyone is able to help with information on ing in July 2004 in Stroud. Please contact jobs or in any other way, please contact me Tonalis for more details on 01666-890460 email : .ruskin-mill . uk at: j ulatmCyahoo .co m or tonalisc aol.com. Jeanette.withers@glasshouse .org 28 Dec.-1 Jan . 2004, Stroud: Opportunity in Estonia Shelling School Thornbury 'And I Stood at the Gate of the Year' Who wants to take on the challenge and Looking ahead to September 2004 we are Celebrate the Birth of the New Year come as a FARMER OR GARDENER to Pahkla urgently seeking people who can live in and Join in a Sacred Festival with Choral Camphilli Küla (Camphill Village) in beauti- learn to take responsibility for small house- Music from Medieval to Contemporary, ful, sunny Estonia? holds in our community, possibly beginning Dances and Prayer Several experienced villagers, cows, pigs, as the main support to the present For a leaflet contact Tonalis 01666- houseparent/s. Applicants should ideally be 890460 / tonalis~aol.com hens and 75ha land wait for the person who between the ages of 25-35 and with some wants to work with them . previous experience of Camphill and/or cura- Loch Arthur Community More information : tive education . We would like to hear from Loch Arthur is a Camphill Community situ- Katarina Seeherr, Pahkla Camphilli Küla, anyone interested in this opportunity to par- ated in southwest Scotland, seven miles from 79702 Prillimäe, Rapla mk ., Eesti /Estonia ticipate in developing the life of our commu- Dumfries. It is a land-based community, in- Tel . 00372 48 34449 nity in a time of transition . spired by the insights and philosophy of Rudolf Fax : 00372 48 97231 Please phone the office (01454 412194) to Steiner. Atpresent 72 people, including fami- e-mail : pahklack C h ot .ee leave your name and contact details, or write lies with children, adults with learning to Mrs . S . Wood ward, Shelling School, disabilities, and volunteers from many coun- Demeter Market Garden near Bremen Thornbury Park, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 tries, live in seven households on 500 acres People needed to take on a small modern 1 HW. mail@2sheilingschool .org.uk of land. We have a large biodynamic farm Demeter market garden in North Germany, and garden, a creamery, bakery, wea very, near Bremen . Well established outlets . En- Camphill Village Kimberton Hills papermaking and wood workshop . Loch terprise also includes responsibility for two Seeks Gardener Arthur Farm is very well established and cen- residents. Land and large house (including Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is an inten- tral to the biodynamic and organic activities two self-contained flats) owned by a trust . A tional community centered around the needs in southwest Scotland. little own capital necessary. ofadults with developmental disabilities . We Farm: Our farmer, Peter Darwell, is hoping Contact: are about 100 people living on a beautiful to find someone with experience in biody- Annette and Detlef Maas 430-acre farm in Southeastern Pennsylvania . namic farming to help carry the responsibil- Tel . 0049 (0) 4793 3414 We have a rich cultural life, craft workshops, ity for this large, vibrant farm with its varied a bakery, and a biodynamic orchard, herb activities. Netherfield Farm garden, and dairy farm . House: We are also interested in hearing Vegetarian Guest House Currently we are seeking an experienced from people inspired by the idea of carrying bordering Galloway Hills, offers rest, care, re- organic or bindynamic gardener to run a veg-the responsibility for a house community juvenation . It is warm, welcoming, comfort- etable garden . within Loch Arthur. able, sunny with beautiful garden, hill, forest For more information, please contact Anyone with experience and enthusiasm and sea walks. Creative cooking,-organic, Personal Forum, who is interested in joining us, biodynamic certified produce. £20.00 ppn Camphill Village Kimberton Hills please contact: Hauschka therapies offered . Massage, oil PO Box 1045, Kimberton, PA 19442 Lana Chanarin, Stable Cottage, Loch Arthur baths, facial treatments . Also 2 delightful (610) 935-3963 Community, Beeswing, Dumfries DG2 BJQ, bothy cottages available information @camphillkimberton. org tel : 01387 760687 fax : 01387 760618 Contact : Anderson 01 387 730217

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