June 2010
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St. John's Tide Bonfire and Celebration, June 24,...
St. John’s Tide Bonfire and Celebration at Ashwood There will be a gathering of people on Thursday June 24, 7:30 PM at Rosewood ECC for social time and a bonfire, to be lit at dusk. We will collect dry Christmas greens and brush at the fire circle after June 11. If you would like more information, to share ideas about the celebration, or help plan a special activity for children, please...
March 2010
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Please Join Midcoast Anthroposophical Society for...
From Steiner Books http://www.steinerbooks.org/detail.html?id=9780880105705 on The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, A Fairy Tale:
“Goethe’s fairy tale is one of the most important stories of the Anthroposophic and Rosicrucian streams. It is a timeless, allegorical tale of initiation and had a profound impact on Rudolf Steiner and on the formulation of his teachings. He called the...
February 2010
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The Wed. evening Esoteric Study Group will take a...
The Wed. evening Esoteric Study Group will take a hiatus at the end of February. It is unclear at this point if it will reconvene at a later date.
Summary of Generations Talk with Susan Silverio
In our conversation about the generations that each of us experience, it took on an immediately personal turn when Susan Silverio enumerated the characteristics of those people born to live through the World Wars and the great Depression, versus those of us Baby Boomers, or Generation Xers, Millennials, or since 2000, Gen-Y. These are labels and generalities that raised questions and a few...
January 2010
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CHANGE of DATE!!! to FEB. 7, For Susan Silverio's...
As happens with many of us in mid-life, Susan has responded to the call to tend to her aging parents in Ohio on the date previously scheduled for her talk. She regrets any inconvenience to those planning to attend on Jan. 31.
The NEW date for her presentation will be the following weekend, February 7. Same place, same time. We realize that Feb. 7, is also “Super Bowl Sunday”...
An invitation to a community conversation, on Sunday January 31 from 4 pm to 5:30 pm at Ashwood’s Early Childhood Center:
Generation Gap? Or Differences to be Celebrated?
While at Rudolf Steiner College this summer with a gathering of early childhood training directors, Susan Silverio had the pleasure of having dinner with Waldorf educator Betty Staley, author of many books...
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“Calendar of the Soul
[January 10, 2010 - January 16,...”
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The Three Kings Play
The pleasure of your company is requested. Will you join us? According to ancient tradition (at least 5 years now) We will gather at the Silverio’s on January 3, Sunday at 7:00 p.m. for a dramatic reading of The Three Kings Play from the medieval island town of Oberufer. Who ever finds a bean in her/his cake will be a king, we will draw lots for the other parts. R.S.V.P to...
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Holy Nights Update
The New Years eve offering at Seth and Cheryl’s was postponed due to conflicts in schedules. They have rescheduled and invite you to come to Lincolnville for one last Holy Night offering at Cheryl Martine and Seth Lester’s home on Proctor Road, Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 7 pm.
We will finish Prokofieff’s short book on John the Baptist and John the Evangelist and discover how...
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Calendar of the Soul [January 03, 2010 - January 09, 2010] Thirty-ninth Week Surrendering to spirit revelation I gain the light of cosmic being; The power of thinking, growing clearer, Gains strength to give myself to me, And quickening there frees itself From thinker’s energy my sense of self. ___________________________________ English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch ...
December 2009
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Calendar of the Soul [December 27, 2009 - January 02, 2010] Thirty-eighth Week The spirit child within my soul I feel freed of enchantment. In heart-high gladness has The holy cosmic Word engendered The heavenly fruit of hope, Which grows rejoicing into worlds afar Out of my being’s godly roots. ___________________________________ English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch ...
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Calendar of the Soul
Thirty-seventh Week
WINTER
To carry spirit light into world-winter-night My heart is ardently impelled, That shining seeds of soul Take root in grounds of worlds And Word Divine through senses' darkness Resounds, transfiguring all life.
English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch
Zu tragen Geisteslicht in Weltenwinternacht Erstrebet selig meines Herzens...
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Celebration of the Holy Nights
The planning group for Midcoast Anthroposophical Society Group is happy to announce four evenings of reading, discussion, lead pouring, a dramatic reading of the Three Kings play along with a social time with light refreshments.
The short text that we will read and share conversation around will be: The Mystery of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist at the Turning Point of Time, an...
New Study Group: Philosophy of Freedom hosted by...
Midcoast Anthroposophical Society Group has received an announcement of the formation of a new study group! Bill Laurita will host a Monday evening Study at his home on 35 Harden Ave. in Camden.
The group will meet weekly from 7:15 to 8:45 pm. The book that will be taken up is Rudolf Steiner’s “The Philosophy of Freedom” which is currently listed as “Intuitive...
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Calendar of the Soul [December 06, 2009 - December 12, 2009] Thirty-fifth Week Can I know life’s reality So that it’s found again Within my soul’s creative urge? I feel that I am granted power To make my self, as humble part, At home within the cosmic self.
___________________________________ English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch ...
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“In secret inwardly to feel
How all that I’ve preserved of old
Is...”
– Calendar of the Soul [November 29, 2009 - December 05, 2009] Thirty-fourth Week
English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch
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Possibilities for Anthroposophical Group Work
By Susan Junge
The uncertainties of our particular time in history seem magnified by the enhanced technologies of communication and information. We hear news and see images faster and in greater quantities than we can process with our thinking. This can create questions which come in the absence of trustworthy guidance. Should we prioritize our worries about the rising oceans predicted from...
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Anthroposophical Nutritional Supplementation
Submitted by Cheryl Martine
Rudolf Steiner has said that one of the greatest challenges to our spiritual development would be the lack of adequate nutrition and spiritual forces in our foods. Without adequate light-filled nutrition we would not have the physical basis for healthy spiritual development. This, says Dr. Ross Rentea, has proved to be the case in our time.
Dr. Ross Rentea is one of...