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...
by John Glanzer, Dorothy LeBaron, and Robert McKay John, Dorothy, and Robert are part of the Gift Money Mandate Group of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. Reporting to the Society Council, the Mandate group will raise funds to support anthroposophical projects. We will also be available...
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, We are a cultural organism. We can marvel at the challenge that Rudolf Steiner gives to us during the Christmas Conference, for it is here that he creates an imagination of how to carry and sustain anthroposophical...
[caption id="attachment_5541" align="alignleft" width="227"] Matthias Girke[/caption] Dear readers, Our concern about the earth’s health moves us and inspires us to worldwide activities. The climate question is linked to our thinking and to our actions. The one-sided pursuit of personal interests and egocentric needs damages the climate on...