Will We Be Broken or Broken Open?
Further Reflections on Preparing for the Year 2033
Dear friends,
As promised, I have recorded a short presentation to elaborate on, and bring more nuance to a number of things that I shared in my recent Faust Branch presentation on Preparing for Year 2033.
Soon I will announce a short course for the autumn that will enter much more deeply and practically into different forms of preparation that I feel will help us meet the enormous opportunities and challenges we face as we move toward this watershed moment in human history.
In the meantime, I am pleased to share that I will also be taking up this same topic at a half- day, in person workshop in Amherst, Massachusetts, very likely on Sunday, August 1. Stay tuned for more details!
Blessings to one and all!
Inspiring, as always, Robert! I had to listen several times to your thought about embracing “imperfect” research & researchers.. so true. Having witnessed how nitpicking in correctness runs roughshod over the tender shoots of fresh capacities and chills the sharing & environment, I think this could be a most wonderful
opportunity to invite each another in groups, to do the inner work to get a grip on the Spirit that is really speaking in those moments, and the Spirit that could be speaking, instead.
broken open, yes. there is an apocryphal story about Saint Francis, that when asked, "master what would you do if it is the end of the world?" said, "I would keep tending my garden, of course." We are experiencing an avalanche of artificial intelligence seeking to undermine our sense of reality, and our human unity, even the question of humanness. And we are facing a climate catastrophe of our own making. Is it the end of the world? Possibly the beginning of another? Anthroposophy gives us a long view into a distant future, and clearly, changes in humanity. If we are thinking of Christ as a cosmic impulse, and of Rudolph Steiner as a friend and guide, where does that leave us with our human garden? I feel, with the ground falling away beneath me, that all I can do is believe in this earth and the human community, as still able to hold the deepest impulses of kindness, which now are possibly inseparable from a sense of justice. There are people many people in America, our neighbors here, and in any case, our planetary neighbors, however, you can see it, who are being deprived of human rights and placed in concentration. Camps are set to concentration camps in other countries, by contract. If Christ is to circulate in the etheric, what that means to me right now, is that I have to at least stand up for my fellow man, and woman. It is really a moment of truth, of tending our human garden. The hideous strength of the system we have erected calls us, clearly, and simply to reach out to each other and attend to the garden of the human values that we know are true, they become tangible when we hold hands. And when we are holding hands, is this Christ in the etheric, as Christ can be known on earth? These are just my questions.