We are living in the time Rudolf Steiner foresaw—an era where the line between the human being and the machine is becoming increasingly blurred.

How do we maintain our spiritual integrity in the face of “mechanical occultism”? What is the true nature of electricity, light, and the “Ahrimanic double” that seeks to interpenetrate our lives?

These are not just philosophical questions; they are the defining challenges of our age.

The MysTech Winter 2026 Study Courses are starting now. These free study groups (you only need the guidebook) offer a rare space to explore these deep questions with a community of like-minded seekers.

Whether you are new to these concepts or deepening your study of the “Mysteries of Evil,” there is a group for you.

Here is the new schedule for the upcoming term:

First Course (Mechanical Occultism & The Future)
Host: Lindsey | Wed @ 8:00 pm ET

Second Course (Michael, Ahriman & The Nature of Thought)
Host: Cheryl | Thu @ 3:00 pm ET

Third Course (The Eighth Sphere & Moral Worlds)
Host: Lawrence | Thu @ 1:30 pm ET

Fourth Course (Dangers of Mechanical Occultism)
Host: Andrew | Mon @ 8:30 pm ET

Destiny of the Human Body
Host: Colin | Sun @ 6:30 pm BT (UK)

Refined Breathing (NZ/Aus)
Host: Herman | Tue @ 3:30 am ET / 7:30 pm NZ

Refined Breathing (US/EU)
Host: Andrew | Wed @ 2:30 pm ET

Mysteries of Evil Vol 1
Host: Mark | Tue @ 8:30 pm ET

Mysteries of Evil Vol 2
Host: Malana Maher | Wed @ 6:00 pm ET

Light & Electricity
Host: Mark | Thu @ 8:30 pm ET

Social Threefolding
Self Study

How to Join:

Each course is free to attend. You simply need to purchase the study guidebook and sign up to receive the Zoom link.

Click here to view full course descriptions and register.

Waldorf Education Needs Well-Prepared Teachers to Meet the
Challenges of Our Time.
 
BACWTT Annual Appeal 2025-2026

Dear Friend,

We have nearly reached our goal to meet the $20,000 matching donation by the end of this year. We need to raise less than $5,000 to achieve that match and then we will be over the halfway point towards our annual fundraising goal! If you haven’t donated yet, please consider doing so now.

Your donation directly supports the effort and commitment of our students. When you give to BACWTT, you make a direct impact on the educational experience we are able to provide and the quality of learning for many children in Waldorf classrooms.

Help us meet our matching donation by the end of the year!
We need to raise less than $5,000 before December 31st.
Every dollar you donate will be doubled till we meet our matching donation goal.

Donations received with matching donation by December 16th: $15,285

By supporting our students, you are shaping the future of Waldorf
education and the world!

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Camphill Winter Fair 

Sunday, December 7,
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM  Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive,
Soquel  

Winter Craft Fair at Camphill with a small amount of outside vendors – food and drinks available

Camphill Winter Fair Flyer

The Shepherds Play Players

The Shepherds Play

One Performance Only

Friday, December 12, 7:00 PM
  Actor’s Theater 1001 Center St.
Santa Cruz 

The Oberufer Shepherds play is a unique community Christmas event that has been performed every year since medieval times by people around the world. It takes the Christmas story from the point of view of the shepherds in a unique, humorous, and warm-hearted way, with amateur local actors and musicians. The special community feeling engendered by this event will be palpable to everyone.”City people today are hardly capable any longer of completely appreciating to its full depth what is connected with our annual festivals. It is hardly possible to feel that magic which passed like a spiritual breath through the souls, through the minds of those who believed that they were carrying Christ in their heart during the great festive events at Christmas or Easter. To feel this magic, which passed through humanity in these periods, like a spiritual breath, has become really quite difficult. … If we look at what ordinary people were able to feel when they were presented with the child in the manger…then we can say: such moods, such feelings should awaken in us when we look at what can be born in our soul.” ~ Rudolf Steiner, discussing the Oberufer play, Berlin, December 22, 1910 

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$20, $40 for families

Millefolium Cultural Program: Armand Ruby

The Four Elements:
A Scientific/Spiritual Perspective 

Saturday, December 6, 12:30 PM  
Blossoms Farm,
2033 San Juan Road,
Aromas CA 95004 

The four classical elements – Earth, Water, Air, Fire – represent a set of principles that apply widely throughout Earth’s planetary system, AKA Gaia: the Earth as a living organism. 

These principles are living at the macrocosmic level: in Earth’s geology, oceans, atmosphere and energy sources; and at the microcosmic level: in the atoms that are fundamental to the composition of all biological life and in the substances needed to sustain life. At both scales, macro and micro, the four elements intermingle in interesting ways that we will touch on. 

The “four elements” are commonly understood to represent aspects of – and be integral to – life on Earth: they’re present throughout the natural world, and they can be seen as having a correspondence to the kingdoms of Nature. 

From an anthroposophical viewpoint, these four principles also are exemplified in the human being as a spiritual/physical organism; this more comprehensive, spiritually-oriented fourfold composition can then also be related back to life on Earth more broadly. 

This presentation draws upon modern scientific understanding, as well as the anthroposophical (spiritual scientific) teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of biodynamic agriculture. 

4 Elements Presentation – Armand RubyArmand Ruby was educated at Cornell University (B.A., Biology; Ecology Concentration) and University of CT (M.S., Ecology), as well as informally in anthroposophical and biodynamic study groups, courses and lectures at Rudolf Steiner College and elsewhere. 

He has had a long (>40 year) career as an environmental scientist, specializing in freshwater surface water quality. He has for decades also been a supporter of biodynamic agriculture and practitioner of biodynamic gardening, and is an anthroposophist of long standing. 

He is also a musician, composer, playwright and aspiring filmmaker of musical films focused on topics of social and cultural relevance.

$30.00 donation to support Millefolium, the non-profit organization associated with Blossoms Farm. Pay at the door or online: add the talk to the cart at: 4 Elements Presentation – Armand Ruby

The Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society
is pleased to present:

Coleman Lyles

The Mystery Dramas

Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 PM  

Paloma Hall
4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel

Once again Coleman leads us further into insight into the Mystery Dramas. The evening will be sure to include interaction, anecdotes from Coleman’s own work with the Mystery Dramas, and insights that help us look ahead to Spring when we will be visited (again) by Laurie Portocarrero. 

The ultimate Mystery Drama is life itself. In this regard every branch meeting is a scene from an ongoing play conceived before we were born. This reality, arising out of the karmic ground of previous earth existence, finds artistic expression in Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas written between 1910-1914. 

It is sure to fun, illuminating and social.

We request our usual donation of $20

or $10 for current paid branch members.

November 19 – 7 PM Pacific Time

Admission  – $10 non-members, $5 regular members,
Supporting members no fee.

No one turned away for lack of funds.
Fees may be paid in advance via PayPal at 
faustbranch.org and clicking “donation”,
or by check to Sacramento Faust Branch,
mailed to Treasurer Carol Nordaas,
7620 Woodglen Drive, Fair Oaks, CA 95628.

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