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Get to Know Your Heart

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A zoom talk with Frank Chester

ZOOM TALK with Frank Chester – Get to Know Your Heart

November 20 – 7 pm Pacific Time

This lecture will cover:
 The essence of all forms
 Cube
 Vortexes and muscles have the same movement.
 Organic forms
 Pentagram and the right ventricle of the heart
 Balance in life experiences

Biography of Frank Chester
Frank is an artist, sculptor and geometrician who lives in San Francisco. He has taught
art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Frank has been exploring the
relation between form and spirit. In 2000 he discovered a new geometric form never
seen before. This geometric form demonstrates a remarkable correlation to the formand functioning of the human heart.

We appreciate your support of the ongoing work of The Faust Branch in making these offerings available.

Admission for lectures (no one excluded for lack of funds) :
Faust Branch members: $5, Non- members: $10, Supporting Members and Donors: –no fee.

Admission fees may be paid:

  • Online (here or by using the donation button on our website https://www.faustbranch.org/
  • By Check to Sacramento Faust Branch (mail to Treasurer, Carol Nordaas, 7620 Woodglen Dr, Fair Oaks, CA 95628)

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All Souls Gathering in San Francisco

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on Sunday, November 3 @ 3 pm

You are invited to gather in the eurythmy room at the SF Waldorf High School, 470 West Portal Ave

Please arrive promptly and find your way quietly to the eurythmy hall downstairs. We are offering music, eurythmy and some readings to set and develop a mood of openness and calm in which to honor the connection we have with those across the threshold. Candles to light will be provided.

This is an event for adults and held in a quiet mood. If you choose to bring children please make sure they are able to sit quietly for an hour, thank you.

Parking at the HS on that Sunday will be limited due to other activities in the Bushnell Gym. Use public transport or prepare to park in the neighborhood streets.

For questions please contact skyleitz@gmail.com

Exercises for differentiating our Astral, Etheric and Elemental Bodies

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An Online Practical Workshop with Are Thoresen

November 2, 
Saturday 12pm – 2 pm ET, US 11 am – 1 pm CT, US 9 am – 11 am PT, US 
4 pm – 6 pm GMT
Please check time of the event for your region on https://24timezones.com/difference/

Unfortunately, Are Thoresen’s planned tour of Canada, and the West Coast of the US was cancelled, so, we have organized his planned seminars in an online format. We are opening a new series of PRACTICAL Workshops with Are Thoresen, dedicated exclusively to practical exercises.The ability to read in the book of Nature is one of the tasks set by Rudolf Steiner for us 100 years ago during the Christmas Foundation Meeting. These seminars are for those who want to implement this in life.The basics of this group of exercises were described by Rudolf Steiner in his lectures in Helsinki in 1912, GA No. 136, April 3.

To Register 

1. make your payment using credit/debit cards or PayPal, please, follow the link 

DONATE

Workshop fee $15.00

!!! Please type “Are Thoresen- practicum #1“!!!

 on the first line of your payment application.

2. !!!  Email your payment confirmation (electronic receipt)  to 

threefoldmankind@gmail.com    !!!

3. We will reply with the link to zoom workshop 

REGISTRATION will be stopped 4 hours before the workshop

Are Thoresen is an anthroposophist, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he has also studied anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy and agriculture. Since 1981 he has run a private holistic practice in Sandefjord, Norway, for the healing of small animals and horses, as well as people.

He’s the author of many books, including Spiritual Translocation: The Behavior of Pathological Entities in Illness and Healing and the Relationship Between Human Beings and Animals; Transforming Demons: The True Story of How a Seeker Resolves his Karma; Demons and Healing: The Reality of the Demonic Threat and the Doppelgänger in the Light of Anthroposophy; The Lucifer Deception: The Yellow Emperor Unveiled; Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation, and more.

Andrey Onegin

Chicago Program Initiative

Renewal of Science Conference

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The Foundation for Cultural Renewal  https://www.renewalofculture.org/ – invites you to a conference that will bring together various streams of science under one umbrella, including color, heat, electromagnetism, astronomy, chemistry, biology, social science and a discussion on AI.

The Natural Science Section, Medical Section, and (tentatively) the Pedagogical Section of the Anthroposophical Society will be represented at this conference.  It will be ideal for anyone who has an interest in the basic ideas of science, and even suited to those in a university or tech sector setting. Both those who are familiar with anthroposophy and those who are not should find significant value in the presentations. It would also be a great help for Waldorf pedagogy, and hence could also double up as teacher training for faculty or as a field trip for 10th-12th grade students. If parents want to know more about the source of the scientific ideas their kids are being taught – this should work for them too. Note that students have the option of requesting a scholarship. 

Date: October 31st – November 2nd, 2024

Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

Event Website and video: Here https://www.renewalofculture.org/renewalofscience

Ticket link:  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/foundationforculturalrenewal/1268808

Michael Festival this Sunday in San Francisco

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You are warmly invited to join us for a Michael Festival on Sunday, September 29, 3-5 pm, @2938 Washington St., Dakin Hall, Grade School campus of SFWS. The Bay Area Eurythmy Ensemble in collaboration with Bruce Donehower are preparing to take you on a journey through the themes of Rudolf Steiner’s last address culminating in the Michael Imagination. You may wish to read the text prior to the gathering but you are certainly welcome without having done so.

Parking in the neighborhood is limited and public transportation or ride share is encouraged. If you come in your own vehicle please leave ample time to find parking in the neighborhood.

A sliding scale donation $10-20/person at the door is welcome. Thank you for supporting the artists.

We are using the following translation:

Michael Imagination

Springing from powers of the sun,

Luminous, world-blessing

Spirit-powers, to be Michael’s garment of rays

You are foreordained by the thinking of gods.

He, the Christ-proclaimer, reveals in you––

Mankind sustaining––holy cosmic will;

You, the bright world-ether beings,

Bear the Christ-Word to human beings.

So Christ’s herald appears

To waiting, thirsting souls.

To them, your word of light streams forth

In the world-age of spirit-man.

You, students of spirit-knowledge,

Take Michael’s wise directing,

Take the word of love of the will of worlds

Into your souls’ high aims––actively.

Rudolf Steiner

Michael Celebration in San Francisco

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You are warmly invited to join us in a festival celebration to honor the spirit of Micha-el. The Bay Area Eurythmy Ensemble has been inspired to work with the Michael Imagination by Rudolf Steiner in preparation for this festival and aims to trace he arc or Rudolf Steiner’s last address (given September 28, 1924) as a centenary tribute. Through eurythmy, speech and visual art we offer an artistic experience of the individualities R.Steiner mentions in this final talk.

Bruce Donehower will follow with a talk addressing the significance of Novalis and connect this to the festival of Michael.

We hope to welcome you at 2938 Washington Street, Dakin Hall* at 3 pm for this special event. Doors open at 2.30 pm.

Parking in the neighborhood is very limited and SFWS requests that you consider taking public transport or ride share as much as possible. If you come in your own vehicle please plan for ample time to find legal parking.

For more information contact Monika Leitz, through skyleitz@gmail.com

*please note this is the Grade School campus of SFWS

Ways to Social Healing

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Course 1: Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental World

In this 3½ day course, we will learn and practice methods for awakening to the supersensible and elemental world. Invited are participants of a preparatory course (or equivalent experience) including previous Course 1 participants who want to deepen their understanding and practice. Attendance is required for all units. 

Next date

This course will take place if there are 6 or more participants. 

Thursday, November 7 – Sunday, November 10, 2024

Thursday: 3:30-7 pm

Friday-Sunday 10 am-7 pm

Location: 108 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA

Fee for First-Time Participants: $350-$450 (Sliding Scale)

Fee for Repeat Participants: $250

Checks can be made out to “Serving Social Healing”

Prerequisites: Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening

RSVP via the Contact page

Ways to Social Healing

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Introductory Course 10/24 – 10/27

Methods for meditative work and spiritual schooling

While we tried our best at writing an introduction to this work (see: https://social-healing.org/books/), experience shows that it is really helpful to be introduced to the practices by experienced practitioners.

On this page, we will provide ways for you to get in touch if you’re interested in trying out methods like the Logic of the Heart for finding Inner Peace and your sense for truth, the Logic of the Will for finding just and harmonizing actions in the world, Image Dialogue Work for getting an in-depth understanding of life situations and karmic tasks, or Spiritual Dialogue Meditation which is a deepening of all the previous practices and gradually strengthens your connection to your Higher Self, unfolds your potential capacities, and connects you to your life mission or vocation, i.e. the conscious application of your capacities for the benefit of others.

More about the Basic Methods and & Preparation for Spiritual Awakening

You’re invited to a 3,5-day in-person workshop in San Rafael to experience an introduction to the Basic Methods of Social Healing.

Dates: 10/24 – 10/27

Times: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm PDT

Location: 108 Greenwood Ave, San Rafael, CA 94901

Cost: $350

Sign up here: contact page