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Psychedelics and Spirituality

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Karl Maret, MD
David Eyes

Today’s Psychedelic Renaissance

An Anthroposophical Perspective

Tuesday April 23, 2024 at 7:30PM 

Resource Center for Nonviolence

612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA

Today we are unquestionably in what many term a “psychedelic renaissance,” with increased social rehabilitation of these powerful agents taking place, perhaps foremost in the domain of therapy for behavioral health issues.

Many individuals who are exploring psychedelic drugs will experience, with varying degrees of intention and readiness, what can be recognized as encounters with the spiritual world.  With its strong materialistic leanings, our culture is lacking the concepts needed to begin to think or talk about these experiences from a robustly conceived viewpoint, such as is provided by Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy.

Join us in a dialog with our panelists, where we explore questions of how anthroposophy may relate itself to the surging interest in these powerful tools.

Douglas Wylie will moderate the conversation.

Dr. Karl Maret is clinic director at the Tree of Health in Aptos, CA providing Integrative Medicine services including Clinical Nutrition, Functional Medicine and Energy Medicine modalities.  He has given many presentations promoting health and wellness.  He holds an M.D. degree, a Masters in Biomedical Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He has been a student of Anthroposophia for many decades.
David Eyes is a lifetime student of anthroposophy, and current member of the Core Group of the local branch.  He is the author of the recently published Growing Up Psychedelic: Becoming Human in a World of Spirit.  It details his youthful experimentation with LSD and its transformational impact.  His experiences serve as material for a look at the psychedelic experience through the lens of Steiner’s teachings.

Celebrating Easter: The Meaning of the Earth

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Saturday, April 13 at Paloma Hall

Hosted by the Christian Community, Movement for Religious Renewal

in collaboration with the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay Branch of the ASA

PROGRAM

9:30: Family Program (Story and Service for the Whole Community)

10:30: The Consecration of the Human Being – childcare available

11:40: Children’s Easter Gold Hunt

12:00: Potluck Lunch

1:00: The Grave of the Soul Becomes an Altar

Community Artistic Activities 

Singing • Painting • Drawing • Eurythmy 

3:30  Closing

Feel free to join us for all or part of the Festival program

Location:  Camphill California, 4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel

For more information contact Cindy at 831-325-3111

An Inner Journey Through the Year

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The North American Tour

Presented by the Karl König Institute

May 3-5, 2024

Fair Oaks CA

Your chance to experience Karl Konig’s 52 Drawings for each Calendar of the Soul Verse and also hear Richard Steel’s insights from his 50 plus years of working with these verses.

“The course of the year has its own life. With this life the human soul can unfold a feeling-unison. If the soul opens to the influences that speak so variously to it week by week, it will be led to a right feeling of itself’ Rudolf Steiner, preface to the second edition of the Calendar of the Soul in 1918.

Complete Program Below.

Advance Registration $75 for the entire weekend

(Registrants may schedule a guided tour- Space limited)

$80 at the door

$25 Friday Evening Only

Co-sponsored by The Faust Branch and The Christian Community of Sacramento

Singers Wanted

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Singers Wanted!

There will be an Easter Festival Event organized by the Christian Community on Saturday April 13 at Paloma Hall.  (More information to come!)

A small group of singers will be singing a beautiful Easter hymn in the morning during The Consecration of the Human Being service on the 13th of April, and also helping the community to sing the same song in the afternoon program.  

Singers are needed to prepare the song!  


Esther Centers will be leading our practices on Sunday March 17 and Sunday April 7, at 10:30, at Susan Cook’s home on the westside.  Please consider joining us!  The song is S-A-T-B.  A youtube recording of the hymn is attached.  Esther can provide you with a recording of the part you would like to sing in advance, if you would like.  Contact here if you want to join us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmyxqST_ypE

Easter Sunrise Singing

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Easter Sunrise Singing!

You are warmly invited to join in Easter Sunrise singingEaster Sunday, March 31st
Meet in Capitola* at 6:30 AM; sun rises at 6:54 AM.
Armand Ruby will provide music for all and lead the singing. 
*Same location as in recent years, on the Capitola/Jewel Box bluff. That spot has a nice southeasterly view, so weather permitting we will be able to see the sunrise, and there is plenty of free parking.

Location: aim your GPS for 1375 Prospect Ave., Capitola, CA 95010
As with every site, although unlikely, there is always the possibility that we will encounter another group of Easter celebrants, so if that happens we will adjust accordingly.
Parking: there should be plenty of free, open parking on Prospect Ave. and adjoining streets; you will see signs prohibiting non-permit parking, but that only applies during May-September. There is also paid (metered) parking down below on Cliff Drive, but we shouldn’t need to use that.
Please join us in singing-in the Easter sunrise!
There will also be an Easter Festival Event organized by the Christian Community in connection with the Branch on 
Saturday April 13 at Paloma Hall.  More information to come!

Why Evil?

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Looking at the human being as the battlefield

for the future of humanity

Tuesday March 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM
 Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA



Please join us in a salon-style conversation led by Penelope Baring, Co-founder and Vice President of Camphill Academy
Penelope Baring was born in Nova Scotia and has spent most of her life involved with Camphill in Ireland, India, and the United States. She has served the Anthroposophical Society on both the Eastern Regional and National Councils, the Asia-Pacific Initiative Group, as well as the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. Currently concentrating locally on teaching Anthroposophy at Camphill Academy, she has lectured and led workshops for the past forty years.
We request our usual donation of $20
or $10 for current paid branch members.

Writing About Dying and Returning

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Robert McDermott
On his forthcoming book:Writing about Dying and Returning

Tuesday February 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM Resource Center for Nonviolence

Several months after the start of my retirement from the California Institute of Integral Studies in June 2022, and the simultaneous death of five of my closest friends,* all deep anthroposophists, I began research for a book tentatively entitled Dying and Returning. 


Early chapters will cover karma, the evolution of consciousness, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, and Amerindian contributions, followed by two chapters on Christian teachings on the afterlife. The entire book will be based on the research of Rudolf Steiner concerning the process of death of the physical, etheric, and astral bodies, and the journey of the “I” toward rebirth. Using Christopher Bamford’s book, Staying Connected, the concluding chapter will summarize Steiner’s teachings and practices.

*Patti Smith, Gertrude Hughes, Gene Golligly, Christopher Bamford, and David Gershan, M.D.

Lecture by Tomáš Zdražil

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Please join us for the unusual opportunity in hearing Tomas Zdrazil present from his original research into the beginnings of Waldorf education. He is currently on the faculty of the College for Waldorf Teacher Training in Stuttgart. Mr. Zdražil has published several books and his most recent one is based on findings of undiscovered archives in the basement of the first Waldorf School. He will introduce and guide us toward an understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s work and relationship to the teachers and students at the school.

The talk will be presented in German and translated into english by Dorit Winter.

Sunday March 24, 3 pm @ 470 West Portal Ave. San Francisco Waldorf High School Eurythmy Room

Donations are gratefully accepted at the door.