So pleased to have found your Stack, John! Your writing is excellent, and your perspective is one I appreciate, having been a part of the Waldorf world for a number of years. (In 2020, I found myself on the outside of the group-think that seemed to swallow Waldorf whole.)
I'm also married to a hypnotist who specializes in healing root causes -- which often means working in past lives or within the "life between lives" of his clients -- so your questions and thoughts have a familiar underpinning, but are also fresh and intriguing. Thanks for your wonderful work!
Thank you! As a Waldorf teacher, I'm not sure there are many who are taking that - the assault on the pedagogy by strange and extreme ideas - as much to heart as I am. We are far from alone, however and that is good to know. There are many teachers asking the right questions, but as everywhere, are cautious to speak up.
The root causes are exactly what we need to focus on - in a biography for sure, and also in society at large - why is this trend driving all things 'enlightened', and what is it?
I heard recently that AWSNA is now taking the tack that it wants to disassociate itself from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science as being a negative influence on Waldorf School enrollments. This comes from Eugene Schwartz, and continues the trend that sees Waldorf pedagogy as very viable as a new paradigm in education, but now needs to drop the Steiner baggage. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, no less. Read Rudolf Steiner's, "Renewal of Education" lectures to the Department of Education in Basel, April-May 1920 for a full description of what he had in mind from the beginning.
No, I don’t believe so. Eugene has been a strong proponent of the Waldorf curriculum and has said that the evisceration of the same in the name of these trends has made Steiner “less of a presence and ever more of a specter among the American daughter movements”. I think he is doing everything he can to keep the substance in the pedagogy. He was merely reporting.
I would reiterate what I said in part 1 that issues of human identity today are indicative of the sub-earthly powers in enforcing a kind of spiritual materialism in which the body and gender become matters with destructive potential. That is why the present conditions wherein Spirits of Darkness have been cast down to earth meets with a human being that is crying out to know if there is a spirit, and an eternity, and an immortality. In the life between death and rebirth, a process takes place which begins in the Moon, and then returns to the Moon in order to make the ancestry and parentage of the next incarnation on earth the main point for what has just occurred in the long travel through the higher spheres. We participate keenly in what the the Hierarchical Spirits of the Planets inform Us of our karmic outcomes, debts, and what recompense means, and we return to the Moon Sphere eager to make up for these prior infractions in order to move on in the spiritual-evolutionary progression toward the New Jerusalem.
And, we are born into this world with every intention of meeting every obligation that has been imposed by the Moon Dwellers of the Moon Sphere. Yet, all Karmic conditions when they return to earth, also meet with that which has descended to earth since 1879; Spirits of Darkness, who can only reside in the sub-earthly domains in order press materialism to the greatest degree in all directions, and this is where we find human beings suffering with these identity issues, which are really of the nature of prior lives within the alternating male-female dichotomy. In today's world, this becomes an aberration, which displays destructive outcomes in various ways that express the stranglehold of materialism against humanity, and the resultant 'Rage Against the Machine'.
In reality, to affiliate more with one's male or female side in a human incarnation is completely normal, and history prior to 1879 is a proof of this. So, what is being experienced today is due to what was predicted when Michael won the War in Heaven between 1841 and 1879, and then cast down to Earth these Spirits of Darkness, which still infect the world. That is why the so-called "fallout of Kali Yuga", has been the 20th and 21st centuries. The most destructively vicious centuries in the history of the world. Everybody suffers, and it takes insight to help to resolve it. This is the true Consciousness Soul today.
Well said! It is in fact a kind of great battle for the soul of the human being, and we are seeing the influence and inspiration of these great powers with ever more openness.
So pleased to have found your Stack, John! Your writing is excellent, and your perspective is one I appreciate, having been a part of the Waldorf world for a number of years. (In 2020, I found myself on the outside of the group-think that seemed to swallow Waldorf whole.)
I'm also married to a hypnotist who specializes in healing root causes -- which often means working in past lives or within the "life between lives" of his clients -- so your questions and thoughts have a familiar underpinning, but are also fresh and intriguing. Thanks for your wonderful work!
Thank you! As a Waldorf teacher, I'm not sure there are many who are taking that - the assault on the pedagogy by strange and extreme ideas - as much to heart as I am. We are far from alone, however and that is good to know. There are many teachers asking the right questions, but as everywhere, are cautious to speak up.
The root causes are exactly what we need to focus on - in a biography for sure, and also in society at large - why is this trend driving all things 'enlightened', and what is it?
I heard recently that AWSNA is now taking the tack that it wants to disassociate itself from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science as being a negative influence on Waldorf School enrollments. This comes from Eugene Schwartz, and continues the trend that sees Waldorf pedagogy as very viable as a new paradigm in education, but now needs to drop the Steiner baggage. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, no less. Read Rudolf Steiner's, "Renewal of Education" lectures to the Department of Education in Basel, April-May 1920 for a full description of what he had in mind from the beginning.
Wait... EUGENE wants schools to distance themselves from Steiner?? Did I read that right, Steve?
No, I don’t believe so. Eugene has been a strong proponent of the Waldorf curriculum and has said that the evisceration of the same in the name of these trends has made Steiner “less of a presence and ever more of a specter among the American daughter movements”. I think he is doing everything he can to keep the substance in the pedagogy. He was merely reporting.
I see. Thanks for clarifying, and I'm glad to hear. One more question -- sorry for my ignorance! I'm not familiar with "American daughter movements."
Meaning Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, Camphill, local economy, the arts, medicine, etc. But it’s the schools that are changing.
Here it is.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/index.html
Thank you for talking openly about this, Hazel.
It is a delicate balance - but I'm glad we have the chance to do it.
What are you talking about?
Hazel?
I would reiterate what I said in part 1 that issues of human identity today are indicative of the sub-earthly powers in enforcing a kind of spiritual materialism in which the body and gender become matters with destructive potential. That is why the present conditions wherein Spirits of Darkness have been cast down to earth meets with a human being that is crying out to know if there is a spirit, and an eternity, and an immortality. In the life between death and rebirth, a process takes place which begins in the Moon, and then returns to the Moon in order to make the ancestry and parentage of the next incarnation on earth the main point for what has just occurred in the long travel through the higher spheres. We participate keenly in what the the Hierarchical Spirits of the Planets inform Us of our karmic outcomes, debts, and what recompense means, and we return to the Moon Sphere eager to make up for these prior infractions in order to move on in the spiritual-evolutionary progression toward the New Jerusalem.
And, we are born into this world with every intention of meeting every obligation that has been imposed by the Moon Dwellers of the Moon Sphere. Yet, all Karmic conditions when they return to earth, also meet with that which has descended to earth since 1879; Spirits of Darkness, who can only reside in the sub-earthly domains in order press materialism to the greatest degree in all directions, and this is where we find human beings suffering with these identity issues, which are really of the nature of prior lives within the alternating male-female dichotomy. In today's world, this becomes an aberration, which displays destructive outcomes in various ways that express the stranglehold of materialism against humanity, and the resultant 'Rage Against the Machine'.
In reality, to affiliate more with one's male or female side in a human incarnation is completely normal, and history prior to 1879 is a proof of this. So, what is being experienced today is due to what was predicted when Michael won the War in Heaven between 1841 and 1879, and then cast down to Earth these Spirits of Darkness, which still infect the world. That is why the so-called "fallout of Kali Yuga", has been the 20th and 21st centuries. The most destructively vicious centuries in the history of the world. Everybody suffers, and it takes insight to help to resolve it. This is the true Consciousness Soul today.
Well said! It is in fact a kind of great battle for the soul of the human being, and we are seeing the influence and inspiration of these great powers with ever more openness.