Last September there was a short report in “Glimpses” and e-News about “The Canadian Folk Spirit”. In the meantime this was a topic in the annual joint meeting of our Council and the Canadian Class Holders of the School for Spiritual Science. As a result a number...
Class Holders, Council and Collegium members will be meeting together, and in their separate groups, over a long weekend in the Community Room at Hesperus, Thornhill, Ontario: Friday 13 - Monday 16 October 2017. The theme of this meeting is carried in three questions: --'How do we enable the School for...
On Saturday, August 19, 2017, approximately forty people attended a day-long workshop on the practice of anthroposophical meditation, led by Robin Schmidt. Robin co-authored, with Heinz Zimmerman, a book on this topic, and his teachings on the workshop day were mostly based on the content...
According to Rudolf Steiner many countries have folk spirits who guide their people and, if they connect more deeply with their folk, then they also provide them with a national identity; this gives them their “Frenchness” or their “Britishness”. Our neighbours, the United States1 have...
Two things we offer when we die. To the earth we offer the substance of our body; to the spiritual world we offer our life story. This is the offering of Antje Ghaznavi. Antje Eva Bertha Ursula Christina Harding was born on October first, 1936 in...
Sponsored by the Anthroposophical Society in Canada and the Thornhill Branch Dear friends, In the fall of 2017, TQuest Productions will perform Rudolf Steiner’s mystery drama, The Portal of Initiation, twice in Thornhill, Ontario: once over the course of a weekend conference; and again a week later...
Hamo was born November 9th,1937, the second son of Joan and Percy Hammond. His brother Tim was already nearly 5 years old. He grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa and described his childhood as being “well held”, but that he was a sensitive child. When...
In the first two years, we plan to finance and establish childcare centres in the Greater Toronto Area as models, and then reach out to the rest of the country. We are looking for the right person to take on the role as Waldorf Childcare Enterprise...
For a number of years now, I have been engaged with "Theory U", a methodology, a framework, a process, that helps individuals and groups access a deeper level of awareness, and acting from this deeper source, create and find solutions not based on patterns of...
Agata Nardelli began life in Montreal on September 11, 1929, and she crossed the threshold of death on August 1, 2017 in Unionville. She had many questions about God and Man, and this led her through ups and downs. She was the first-born child of...