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Articles of interest to us all.
Information and discussion of related topics.
Articles of interest to us all.
Our study of our gardens is closely linked with our study of ourselves. Here are some basic considerations to begin our discussion:
The mood of meditation should not be: I will inwardly lie down in a
warm nest, which must become warmer and warmer for me. Rather,
our mood must be that we are about to dip into reality, to grasp
something real. Devoted attention to little things, indeed to the least
thing, is what it comes down to.
Rudolf Steiner,July 5, 1924 Curative Education
View his blackboard illustration for this lecture at
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/36.html
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Radical Optimism
--Beatrice Bruteau
"We tend to experience ourselves by thinking *about* ourselves and
feeling *about* ourselves. We form self-images and we are very careful
and concerned about protecting these self-images......We have developed
a cult of the descriptive self, our own personal image industry. It is
indeed a matter of images--pictures of the reality but not the reality
itself. The living person cannot be pinned down in any set of
descriptions: someone is a white American male, a Republican, a
Catholic, a businessman, married, six-feet tall, 180 pounds, IQ 120,
earns $60,000 a year, and has a golf handicap of twelve. He is an
extroverted perceptive type born under the sign of Taurus and attached
to his own opinions......But all these descriptions could be otherwise
and that person, the real person living inside, would still be there
with the same interior sense of "I am, I am here, I am now, I am I."
It is this interior sense of actually existing in this moment as a sheer
"I am" that is the real living person. This person is undefined,
indescribable, and transcendent of all categories, roles and
descriptions. ......
It does not identify itself by seeing how it is distinct and different
from others. It does not establish itself in being by drawing a line
around its being, outside which are all those other beings which it is
*not*.
Because it is not defined, the real person is not cut off from other
beings; it can flow into them and admit them into itself without fear of
losing its own identity and reality, since these are not dependent on
setting up some kind of contrast relationship......Finally, because the
real person is not defined, there is nothing which is it *not*.
Therefore, while remaining itself and retaining its personal identity,
it can be united with all.
[....]
Once we see that our deepest self, the real person in us is not limited
to being any one particular image-self but is actually a child of God,
one who simply says "I am I, here, now"-once we really grasp that, all
need for this elaborate and expensive defense system evaporates. Then
we are free to love others, to will abundant being to them, to all. We
no longer have to struggle to maintain a favorable balance of trade in
our interactions with them in order to keep a good sense of
self-feeling. Our sense of feeling good in being ourselves...comes
directly and immediately out of our realization of being a creative act
of God, simply unique and absolutely precious."
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EQUISETUM
For those of you who have been curious about the Horsetail plant so often referred to over the past few weeks there is a great description, not only of the plant but of its use as a homeopathic remedy at the following location:
http://www.lyghtforce.com/HomeopathyOnline/Issue4/bohle.htm
Just as soon as the snow begins to disappear I'll be off to Glenwood to collect some plants. They are propagated by division so there should be ample opportunity to share these specimens with the entire group.
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You look at a plant and say to yourself: I am a being of which I see only
a mirror image, an inessential reflection, while on Earth. The more I turn
my gaze to the stars, the more I see the true being up there. Nature is
revealed in its entirety only when I look up from the Earth to the stars,
when I consider the Earth and the cosmos as one. Then I can look back
to myself as a human being and say: that which in the plant reaches up
to the heavens has been compressed (bunched together) into myself on
Earth. As a human being, I carry the physical world, the soul world, and
the spiritual world.
Physical world Human being Animal Plant
August 12, 1924 True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation, 39 x
59 inches, chalk on paper, GA 243
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/39.html
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A DEFINITION
The astral body is the whole field of our thinking, feeling
and doing in the world. But our higher Self (or I), when we get to know it, can control this astral
body and purify it.
For more see this
http://www.xs4all.nl/~busbi/
The mood of meditation should not be: I will inwardly lie down in a
warm nest, which must become warmer and warmer for me. Rather,
our mood must be that we are about to dip into reality, to grasp
something real. Devoted attention to little things, indeed to the least
thing, is what it comes down to.
Rudolf Steiner,July 5, 1924 Curative Education
View his blackboard illustration for this lecture at
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/36.html
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Radical Optimism
--Beatrice Bruteau
"We tend to experience ourselves by thinking *about* ourselves and
feeling *about* ourselves. We form self-images and we are very careful
and concerned about protecting these self-images......We have developed
a cult of the descriptive self, our own personal image industry. It is
indeed a matter of images--pictures of the reality but not the reality
itself. The living person cannot be pinned down in any set of
descriptions: someone is a white American male, a Republican, a
Catholic, a businessman, married, six-feet tall, 180 pounds, IQ 120,
earns $60,000 a year, and has a golf handicap of twelve. He is an
extroverted perceptive type born under the sign of Taurus and attached
to his own opinions......But all these descriptions could be otherwise
and that person, the real person living inside, would still be there
with the same interior sense of "I am, I am here, I am now, I am I."
It is this interior sense of actually existing in this moment as a sheer
"I am" that is the real living person. This person is undefined,
indescribable, and transcendent of all categories, roles and
descriptions. ......
It does not identify itself by seeing how it is distinct and different
from others. It does not establish itself in being by drawing a line
around its being, outside which are all those other beings which it is
*not*.
Because it is not defined, the real person is not cut off from other
beings; it can flow into them and admit them into itself without fear of
losing its own identity and reality, since these are not dependent on
setting up some kind of contrast relationship......Finally, because the
real person is not defined, there is nothing which is it *not*.
Therefore, while remaining itself and retaining its personal identity,
it can be united with all.
[....]
Once we see that our deepest self, the real person in us is not limited
to being any one particular image-self but is actually a child of God,
one who simply says "I am I, here, now"-once we really grasp that, all
need for this elaborate and expensive defense system evaporates. Then
we are free to love others, to will abundant being to them, to all. We
no longer have to struggle to maintain a favorable balance of trade in
our interactions with them in order to keep a good sense of
self-feeling. Our sense of feeling good in being ourselves...comes
directly and immediately out of our realization of being a creative act
of God, simply unique and absolutely precious."
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EQUISETUM
For those of you who have been curious about the Horsetail plant so often referred to over the past few weeks there is a great description, not only of the plant but of its use as a homeopathic remedy at the following location:
http://www.lyghtforce.com/HomeopathyOnline/Issue4/bohle.htm
Just as soon as the snow begins to disappear I'll be off to Glenwood to collect some plants. They are propagated by division so there should be ample opportunity to share these specimens with the entire group.
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You look at a plant and say to yourself: I am a being of which I see only
a mirror image, an inessential reflection, while on Earth. The more I turn
my gaze to the stars, the more I see the true being up there. Nature is
revealed in its entirety only when I look up from the Earth to the stars,
when I consider the Earth and the cosmos as one. Then I can look back
to myself as a human being and say: that which in the plant reaches up
to the heavens has been compressed (bunched together) into myself on
Earth. As a human being, I carry the physical world, the soul world, and
the spiritual world.
Physical world Human being Animal Plant
August 12, 1924 True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation, 39 x
59 inches, chalk on paper, GA 243
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/steiner/39.html
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A DEFINITION
The astral body is the whole field of our thinking, feeling
and doing in the world. But our higher Self (or I), when we get to know it, can control this astral
body and purify it.
For more see this
http://www.xs4all.nl/~busbi/
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