A Resurgence of Research: Announcing the 2010 Threefold Visiting Researcher Frank Chester and a Call for Applications for the Fellowship By Bill Day
Submitted by WeStrive on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 15:07
Thirty years ago, Henry Barnes called on every anthroposophical institution to set aside resources to support research. Of “the urgent need for research arising from anthroposophy,” Henry wrote: “We must find the way to work for future values (the purpose of all genuine research), while meeting the needs of today, tomorrow and the next day.” Henry was inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s call at the 1924 Christmas Foundation Conference for the establishment of research institutes that could support and carry forward spiritual scientific research. Through the work of these institutes, Steiner said, the insights of spiritual science will penetrate the general culture.
Today, anthroposophy has proven its ability to foster (for example) beautiful schools and productive farms that freely acknowledge Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research as the basis of their work.
But even the most prosperous and stable anthroposophical institutions still devote most of their resources to simply keeping the wheels turning, paying the bills, and staying alive for the next school year or planting season. Our people are busy just doing their jobs, we say, and there’s hardly enough money even to meet our immediate needs.
Reflections on Spring 2010 Meet-up with Jane Lorand by Leslie Loy and John Beck
Submitted by WeStrive on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 18:25
On March 20, WeStrive had its first 2010 Meet-up, featuring the research and knowledge of Jane Lorand, a social entrepreneur out of California who has had made extraordinary ripples at YIP (www.yip.se). The Meet-up challenged participants to consider their own ways of thinking and educational paths; how well, Jane asked, do we know ourselves and how are we actualizing our potential to better serve the world?
There were Meet-ups in over four countries, including: Philadelphia-area (USA), Dornach (Swizterland), Toronto (Canada), Jarna (Sweden); more will continue in Germany and Lebanon. In the meantime, there is also a group coming together to collaboratively re-imagine the WeStrive Meet-up; if you are interested in being part of that conversation, please contact leslie@westrive.org.
John Beck wrote a reflection on his Meet-up in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania: Read more »
Special WeStrive eNews: Focus on Focus
Submitted by WeStrive on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 22:54
There is a community of individuals who have agreed to re-imagine the world. Some have taken up their tools as craftsmen, sculpting and forming the substance of the earth. Some are grappling with the thought forms that hold us to the present image of the world, and are attempting to free these thoughts from their entrapment. Some are searching on hidden pathways for the heartland’s language. They are all artists and all have different tasks. They recognise each other as essential for the activity of re-constituting existence. All argument has ceased, and the roles played are recognised. This is a new sister-brother-hood. It seeks to bring the imagination of the future beyond the narrowness of the present picture by breathing heart heat into the ice of today to create the water of tomorrow…
Not a conference. Not a report. But a fireplace where we can come and meet and talk. Meeting around the fire. Meeting around our fireplace. What are the frames/context so that I can grow? Read more »
