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New Courses for Awakening to the Supersensible World

August 14, 2022 By Amelia

Dear Friends,

You are invited to attend two courses that will take place this fall in San Rafael, CA, a Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening from September 15-18, 2022 and Intensive Course 1: Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental World, from October 7-10, 2022.

In 2020-2021, Armen Tougu, a Christian Community priest based in Stuttgart, Germany, introduced a range of spiritual-scientific methods in a series of one preparatory course followed by seven progressive courses. The courses share a common theme of finding Ways to Social Healing. Participants will be introduced to reliable and practical methods to find one’s tasks in different life situations and to bring more harmony and meaning to one’s life. The methods expand on those based on Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds and are a well-developed process of concentration, observation, and imagination.

Preparatory Course for Spiritual Awakening
Thursday, September 15-Sunday, September 18
Thursday: 3:30 pm-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: $175
RSVP here: https://social-healing.org/contact/
First-time participants are required to attend all units

This is a 3½ day course in practicing meditative methods leading to a deeper understanding of other beings through empathy, finding one’s own higher I, perceiving and fulfilling one’s karmic tasks. We will practice these seven steps:

Separation: Learning to detach from one’s subjective perspective
Logic of the Heart: Learning to order one’s feelings and uncovering one’s sense for truth
Practicing Empathy
Dialog with spiritual beings
Meeting one’s higher self
Manifesting free impulses (the Zodiac meditation)
Bringing it all together


Intensive Course 1:
Awakening to the Supersensible and Elemental world
Friday, October 7-Monday, October 10
Friday: 3:30-7 pm
Saturday-Monday 10am-7pm
Location: 108 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Fee for First-Time Participants: $350-$450 (Sliding Scale)
Fee for Repeat Participants: $250
RSVP here: https://social-healing.org/contact/

In this 3½ day course we will learn and practice methods to awakening to the supersensible and elemental world. Prerequisites: Participation in the preparatory course or equivalent experience. Attendance required for all units.

Looking forward to a further course in winter 2023

Intensive Course 2:
The Purification of the Soul
February 2023, dates to be announced
Open to all participants of Intensive Course 1

Please RSVP via the Contact page. Checks can be made out to “Max Gunther.” If you cannot afford the course fees, please contact us.

Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes & Max Gunther

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