Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, In the years following World War II the disintegration of complex multi-ethnic, multi-religious societies spread as a fracturing impulse across most of the globe. The artificial cohesion imposed by European colonial powers across Asia and Africa...
[caption id="attachment_5755" align="alignleft" width="397"] Chantal Lamothe, Suzie Couture and Manon Sévigny (photo Michel Dongois).[/caption] The protagonists of this adventure are three ladies, all having links to the Waldorf School Les enfants de la Terre, located in Waterville*. One fine day, Chantal Lamothe mentioned that she would...
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, Many years ago, I was very fortunate to be part of the architectural group at Emerson College in Sussex, England when one of the leading anthroposophical physicians from the Netherlands visited the college and spoke about...
I wanted to share with the membership some personal reflections of a recent Council retreat. This January the Council with our General Secretary visited Calgary for a retreat and also to meet active members. Landing at the airport on a Thursday in a cold, snowy landscape...
[caption id="attachment_5688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Reviewing our joint art work[/caption] A first conference exploring the General Anthroposophical Section as experienced in Canada included local (Toronto area) Class members as well as Class Holders and Council members. My questions going into this conference were about deepening my understanding of...
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, During a series of autumn meetings, the gift of an uncommitted afternoon made it possible for me to spend several hours with a companion who, unfamiliar with Rudolf Steiner or anthroposophy, was visiting Dornach for the...
[caption id="attachment_5646" align="alignleft" width="307"] Renée Cossette, Bodo von Plato and Arie van Ameringen (photo Michel Dongois).[/caption] What is a human being? This question was the starting point for a spontaneous four-way conversation over coffee and croissants which took place in Montreal in early November. The conversation...
[caption id="attachment_5605" align="alignleft" width="280"] Detail from the Red Window, Goetheanum[/caption] Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, The respite that summer brings comes all too quickly to an end with the cascade of meetings and conferences that fill the autumn months. This fall’s schedule...
[caption id="attachment_5598" align="alignleft" width="297"] Jean Poyard in a garden on the banks of the Seine, a stone’s throw from Notre-Dame. (Photo courtesy of the author).[/caption] Since 1967, Jean Poyard has been interested in the history of esoteric Christianity, by way of Eastern orthodoxy. For over 30...
On the west coast, the Vancouver Mystery Drama group is alive and active. We are a group of about 12 or more who rehearse one weekend a month. Marie-Reine Adams, who has had much experience working with a mystery drama group in the UK, travels...