It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of a humanitarian, devoted husband, caring father, loving Opa and friend. Roland passed away at home on Thursday 9th, November with his loving family by his side. Roland is survived by his dedicated wife Marja of...
[caption id="attachment_3757" align="alignleft" width="224"] Mary at her 90th birthday 23 May 2013![/caption] Mary Carmack Whybray was born in Basingstoke Hampshire, England 23/05/1923. The middle child of Robert and Alberta Jane Dudman, she received her early education in the county that she so much loved, frequently at...
Snapshots from "EverythingFlows", A Water Conference held in North Vancouver BC at Cascadia in September 2017 Jennifer Greene opened the conference by showing us her many-times-taped-together copy of “Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air” by Theodor Schwenk, an anthroposophist, engineer and pioneering...
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...