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Creating Social Health

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The World is in Our Hands

How Could We Contribute to a More Human Society?

the online summary and deepening event in the

Sunday, June 28, 2026
1–4 pm Eastern Time / 10am–1pm Pacific Time
19:00–22:00 Central European Time

• How can social threefolding reduce the polarization of our time?
• What are rightful limits to individual freedom?
• What turning points would lead to a healthy economy?
• How can we make a difference and contribute to the necessary transformation?

Gerald Häfner is the leader of the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and a former member of the German and European Parliaments. He has co-founded many initiatives including the Green Party in Bavaria, Democracy International, and Purpose Economy.

• Substantial time for facilitated Q&A
• Purposeful participant conversation
• Optional follow-up conversations after the conference

Suggested fee: $25–$50 US

Register Here

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This conference is the last of a series in loving memory of Edward Baumheier who at age 87
discovered and became a passionate advocate for social threefolding.

Imagination or Manipulation

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The Role of the Human Being as teacher/guide towards Imaginative Thinking

Lecture by Claus-Peter Roeh
Sunday June 14, 2026 @ 5 pm 

Marin Waldorf School,
755 Idylberry Road,
San Rafael, CA
94903

Claus-Peter Roeh

Imagination or Manipulation

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Organic Thinking through Chapter 5 of How to Know Higher Worlds

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AnthroposophySocial.com

A social, learning, and research platform for Spiritual Science

ORGANIC THINKING 5-Week Online Study with Mark Riccio

Sundays • 8:00 AM Pacific • 11:00 AM Eastern

Dates: June 14, 21, 28; July 5, 12, 2026

Join us for a close study of Chapter 5 of Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds, exploring the Seven Foundational Exercises through the practice of Organic (Living) Thinking.

Course Features
• Custom numbered translation preserving Steiner’s original structure
• Guided group study and discussion
• Artistic exercises using simple materials (colored pencils)
• Access to class recordings and study resources

About the Instructor

Mark Riccio has worked with this method of studying Steiner’s texts for more than thirty years, building upon the pioneering work of George O’Neil. Mark was taught by Florin Lowndes and has decades of research and experience teaching living organic thinking in groups.

Informational video

Register through AnthroposophySocial.com

Membership includes this course, class recordings, study materials, and access to additional classes, groups, and resources within the Living Thinking • Heart Cognition community space.

A social, learning, and research platform for Spiritual Science.

Three Springs Community Farm needs your help

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Three Springs Community Farm needs your help. 

We still need to enroll 9 more CSA Members for this season to meet our operations budget, otherwise we will have to consider cutting staff and will have a very difficult time completing our season. 

So far this season the vegetables are beautiful and the farm fields are all planted out, now we just need to fill our membership so we can get that beautiful produce to the community! We all buy food–please consider supporting a Biodynamic, Anthroposophical initiative with some of your food dollars.

We have pickup locations throughout the Bay Area, and the CSA Membership includes unlimited free camping at the farm in Freestone, Sonoma County ($75 value). (We suggest if you would like a half-share, to please find another family to split a share with). See below for details…

Click here to Join our CSA Vegetable Share Membership

Three Springs Community Farm

BIODYNAMIC VEGETABLE SHARES FOR THE 2026 SEASON

weekly • seasonal variety • regenerative • local • nutrient dense

Delicious flavor, optimal nutrition and a resilient future, all in one box!

PICK UP FRIDAYS AT 8 BAY AREA LOCATIONS
$200-$300 per month. 

Your Membership Supports Your Health and our Biodynamic Farm Organism:

We apply all the Biodynamic preparations and honor the farm elementals and individuality…our soil is remineralized & enlivened with Biodynamic compost to ensure your family has the highest quality produce, taste the difference. Save on healthcare costs with food as medicine!

FRIDAY DELIVERY SITES:
• Marin Waldorf School: 9:00-5:30
• San Francisco Pacific Heights-Waldorf School Grades: 11:00-dusk
• San Francisco West Portal-Waldorf Highschool: 12:00-5:30
• San Francisco Excelsior-Golden Bridges School: 12:30-5:30
• Oakland-Berkeley Rose Waldorf School: 1:30-5:30
• Sebastopol: Morning home delivery
• Bodega: 11:30-dusk

* VEGETABLES * HERBS * FLOWERS * PRESERVES AND TEAS *
* FREE MEMBER CAMPING, EVENTS & WORKSHOPS * WINTER U-PICK *

Questions, please text: 510-409-3214

Click here to Join our CSA Vegetable Share Membership

What Is Forged in the West

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What Is Forged in the West

an Interview with Alejandro Urtizberea

The following is a conversation between Western Regional Council Member Jeremiah Turner and Alejandro Urtizberea, visiting board member of the Anthroposophical Society of Argentina. It took place at the Plant Cafe Organic in San Francisco on May 10th, 2026, as part of the regular “Second Sundays” monthly meetings hosted by “Medical Freedom, San Francisco” and “Plant Community”.

Transcribed and edited by Jeremiah Turner and Colene Turner.

First published on Substack at “Medical Freedom, San Francisco”. Reprint permission is freely given to all. 

Jeremiah: Welcome, Alejandro!

Alejandro: Thank you.

Jeremiah: First, could you please introduce yourself to our readers who might not be familiar with you or your work?

Alejandro: Well, I consider myself an entrepreneur. I am working in Argentina but also now all around the world. I am very focused on working with young people and on financial literacy courses. I have been working for the last five years on the board of the Anthroposophical Society in Argentina. I am part of the School of Spiritual Science in the School of Michael. I am trying to really experience all of this activity not only as an individual or as a member of the community, but rather – I really have this impulse to connect with the world. And I would say this is a need in Anthroposophical work. 

Jeremiah: Yes. Please say a little more about that need. 

Alejandro: I can give some practical examples. Many people can say that certain things in the Anthroposophical Society are not happening. And I would say that you are the Anthroposophical Society. You are part of the Society. So this comes down to what kind of consciousness we have about who we are, and where we are, and when we are acting. We are acting in the name of what? Where is the awareness around this?

I think that things are changing in a very fast way. The world is getting smaller and in some ways we are becoming more and more connected, and yet at the same time many people are experiencing the opposite. So why is humanity experiencing a profound sense of loneliness at the time of this age of rapid communication?  Why are we experiencing a kind of inner life that goes in the opposite direction?

Jeremiah: Right! We’ve got this increase in interconnectedness in terms of the facility of global travel and communication. You can post something instantly and people can see it all over the world. This has all increased. But at the same time, you’ve got young people who have become more inward or isolated or don’t know how to connect with other people face to face. They’ve lost something … or maybe this indicates that they are developing new capacities, perhaps that haven’t quite evolved or developed yet? 

But I experience there’s something of a hyperindividualization happening, where people are in the process of  becoming more themselves but simultaneously losing a sense of their relationship to other human beings or to the world around them. Is that partly what you’re referring to?

Alejandro: Yes. I think that my reflection about that is that we have a big challenge in this epoch. A challenge to become really an individual, a strong individual. And that has a collateral effect on the antisocial impulses that arrive with this individualization. So many times we are having conversations about Fraternity and Threefolding – and this is very challenging, because how can we achieve those grand ideas, these big images, and at the same time develop our individuality? And how can we be sure that the steps we are taking in this process are not steps before the proper moment, before the proper time?

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[Click on the link for the full article]

https://open.substack.com/pub/colet1/p/what-is-forged-in-the-west?r=172vbo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Imagination or Manipulation

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The Role of the Human Being as teacher/guide towards Imaginative Thinking

Lecture by Claus-Peter Roeh
Sunday June 14, 2026 @ 5 pm 

Marin Waldorf School,
755 Idylberry Road,
San Rafael, CA
94903

Claus-Peter Roeh

Imagination or Manipulation

$
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Crossings: Caring for Our Beloveds in Life and Death

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Spiritual content, specifically related to karma and reincarnation (from GA236 to GA240, and others), is linked to the permeability that human beings need to develop in order to grasp it through life experiences, since it is not possible to attain it solely through intellectual thought. The efforts of Crossings as an initiative are specifically aimed at developing this permeability through exercises. These exercises also address two specific recommendations of Rudolf Steiner: strengthening our vital structure under waking consciousness and intensifying our activity during sleep under dream consciousness.

The Planets: our cosmic family

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A Zoom talk by Howard Smith

10 am Pacific Time – Saturday, May 16

Rudolf Steiner often spoke of the planets from different aspects: for example as the homes of spiritual beings, and as physical entities in space. Some of his views were far ahead of his time and many can be related to modern findings.

Modern space research has produced phenomenal insights into the physical aspects of the solar system, and NASA has released many astounding close-up photographs.

In this talk Howard will attempt to bring these two approaches together, to narrow the gulf between natural science and spiritual science.

Howard is a life-long student of Anthroposophy, has a PhD in Chemistry, and founded the Science Group of the Anthroposophic Society Great Britain.https://sciencegroup.org.uk/

Admission $10.
Faust Branch Members $5.
Supporting Members No Charge

You may pay using the donate button on our website faustbranch.org

Join the talk here

 A Mighty Devotion: The Manichaean Path in the Consciousness Soul Age

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A talk with Andrew Sullivan

ZOOM ONLY – May 6th – 7 pm Pacific Time

Andrew Sullivan is a poet, philosopher, educator, and interdisciplinary artist and thinker. He has been connected with the Sacramento Waldorf school for most of his life as a student, high school teacher, and teacher of teachers. He seems to be getting more interested in and devoted to spiritual science as the years and incarnations pile up and feels much that we are experiencing today has been incarnations in the making. He lives in Midtown Sacramento with his wife, Megan, and has two adult daughters, Rosa and Lily.

Join the conversation

Admission $10.
Faust Branch Members $5.
Supporting Members No Charge

You may pay using the donate button on our website faustbranch.org

SCMB Branch Meeting on the Section for Inclusive Social Development

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

Anya Hobley     Gleice Paulino da Silva Natalia Paredes Lopez

An Evening on the Section for Inclusive Social Development 

Tuesday, May 26, 7:00 PM

Please join us for an evening on The Section for Inclusive Social Development, which is a faculty of the School of Spiritual Science (Goetheanum). 

Its core tasks are: 
– research, including through spiritual-scientific methods of inquiry
– personal and professional development, including through inner (esoteric, contemplative) pathways of practice
– building communities of practitioners to facilitate professional exchange
– peer consultation
– research and development in the various professional fields. 

The Section’s context is the interdisciplinary field of supportive education and inclusive social development, encompassing special needs education, early intervention, inclusive education, social work, social therapy, social pedagogy, inclusive community building (through intentional communities and through inclusive processes in the wider community) and related disciplines oriented towards supports for persons with disabilities or otherwise at risk of marginalization. 

We will hear how this work is currently taking place in our community, and in the wider world.

Anya Hobley is the Executive Co-Director of Camphill Communities California, where she has lived and worked for 16 years. She also serves as Director of Development & Outreach and as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors. She is a Waldorf graduate, with studies in Waldorf early childhood education, curative work, Social Therapy. She is a board member of the North American Council for Inclusive Social Development ( NAC), and has served for 8 years as the region’s international delegate to the work of inclusive social development in the world.

Gleice Paulino da Silva is a curative educator, a member of the Academy faculty at Camphill Communities California, and a teacher of professional adult education programs internationally. She particularly enjoys sharing the gift of healing stories and the power of storytelling and imagination to transform human situations. 

Natalia Paredes, originally from Puebla, Mexico, is a Physical Therapist with a degree from Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla. A graduate of Camphill Academy, she has lived and worked as part of the Camphill, CA community since 2019. She was part of the group, as were Anya and Gleice, who attended the opening of the new Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum in Dornach.

We request our usual donation of $20
or $10 for current paid branch members.

Susan Cook, Jeanie Elliott, David Eyes, Douglas Wylie 
The Core Group

Visit the Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Anthroposophical Society website for calendar of latest events

coregroup@anthroposophysantacruz.com 
www.anthroposophysantacruz.com

Please Raise the BAR by purchasing Biodynamic And Regenerative Foods

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Dear Community Members,

Please Raise the BAR by purchasing Biodynamic And Regenerative Foods

Grocery store foods, both Organic & Conventional, are Fossil Fuel Food.

In these chaotic times, I am writing to you to encourage you to lock in Food Security for your family by investing in local, Biodynamic & carbon-neutral food producers like Three Springs Community Farm, and our Farming Friends listed below.… for your safety and security, and the health of the community & planet.

News reports forecast that fuel at the pump could rise to over $8 per gallon this year. Production and distribution in our current unsustainable food system relies heavily on fossil fuels.

Rising gas prices means higher costs at the pump, and the cost of the grocery store FOODS we rely on every day will also rise as a result.

Local, regeneratively-grown foods are orders of magnitude lower on fuel use, insulating them from these effects.

We may not be able to stop the forces that are driving rising fuel prices, but each of us can take steps to create the world we want by investing in our local farms to create a secure food system.

We do have the power to vote with our dollars! 

Checklist for Voting with Your Dollars in Our Community to Source and Support Biodynamic And Regenerative Foods:

1. Join the Three Springs CSA Vegetable Share Membership
We grow 45 different crops throughout the year, bringing LOCAL and IN-SEASON to a new level of nutritional value for your family. Our Members tell us they can TASTE the difference—and I’ll let you in on a secret—FLAVOR=NUTRITION. 

Our vegetables also represent a great value for the cost. They compare well with current organic grocery store prices, and even more so if you factor in the reality of FOOD as MEDICINE and rising food costs. 

We encourage you to take action in 2026 to bring high nutrient-density and food security to your plate. We deliver to locations throughout the Bay Area (San Rafael, SF, Oakland, El Sobrante, West Sonoma County)

2. Create locally sourced meals by also signing up with our Northern California Farming Friends:

A Better World Is Possible… 

Join us in localizing our food system. 

~Thank You, Willow Summer, Three Springs Community Farm