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A Long Breath Finding Each Other in Confrontation No. 10 • December 2004 Goetheanum: Meeting of First Class Holders 3 General Secretaries, Branch and Group Leaders Meet 3 Council of General Secretaries: Rules of Procedure 4 Business Audit 5 Anthroposophical Society: Christmas Appeal 2 Norway: New General Secretary Frode Barkved 6 Estonia: 80 Years of the Anthroposophical Society 8 Anthroposophy in the World: Goetheanum: First Cleaning Conference 8 India: Meeting of Asia, the Pacific and the Goetheanum 9 Photo: Ulrich Rösch Brazil: 30 Years of Biodynamic Engagement 10 Goetheanum Excecutive Council Members U.S.A: Youth Conference Cornelius Pietzner and Paul Mackay on the Working of Christ 11 in India (p. 9) Feature: Traces of Biodynamic Agriculture in Estonia 12 A Long Breath Finding Each Other in Confrontation Thinking is 'exposition of differences' [Ger- Yet at the same time this obstinacy of man auseinandersetzen: literally to set out, set youth is thought-provoking for many adults. apart, i.e. lay out the component parts.] One Will these strong personalities ever manage to sets oneself out from, or apart from the world, step beyond their clear viewpoints and begin to in order to abstract it. This thinking has some- communicate again, to sit down together thing defiant, like young people running away instead of setting apart? In our day and age this from home to then also seek out the sorting- concern is unfortunately more than justified. out confrontation with the world. They want What is needed is a long breath and the to make clear that they just are how they are, ability to endure confrontation of this kind. and don't give a hoot about convention. Con- Only those who know who they are can really ventions are after all actually contracts in sit down together again, if old power struc- which arrangements are laid down to bridge tures and dogma are not to take up the scepter. over the confrontation of differences. Unfortunately we have to realize that while But someone who is defiant does not want thinking can be liberating, it will unavoidably bridges. He wants to state clearly: 'This is what bring with it severe confrontation. I am, and I won't put up with anything that I The world will not be able to get around don't want! This is my opinion and my point this painful process if it wants to go the way of of view and I won't have anything prescribed freedom. Trust can grow in confrontation, to me.' As an adult one needs to say: 'It's good without having to give oneself up in the that these young people develop and form their process - trust in finding the other, in connect- own personality. This belongs to our time.' ing in a new way out of one's own free will, as This is namely the time in which thinking, is actually said in the old word 'religion'. thanks to the successes of science, has won a Patrick Züfle, Zurich (Switzerland) final victory over just believing. 1 Christmas Appeal 2004 S.J. 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