| |  | Branch Library For information, to take out a book or to arrange a visit, contact Valerie Hope, portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com The Book Catalog is now on our website – the ‘search’ function is really helpful. To schedule the space for an event or meeting Contact James Knight, j365@yahoo.com Contact the Branch Council: portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com Website: portlandbranch.net | | July Newsletter Calendar | Betty Baldwin Celebration of Life! Tomorrow, 2 pm
Our dear friend and Branch community member Betty Baldwin crossed the Threshold in 2020. Her family has invited us to a Celebration of her life on Saturday, July 8 at 2 pm. (see details below). Please reply to her daughter Jennifer if you will attend.
A warm, generous, and humorous soul, Betty had a ready smile and willingness to help out with whatever needed doing, in service to Anthroposophy, family and friends. She had a particular passion for creating opportunities to help children who need extra help. Her daughters have let us know that Betty has left a bequest to the Branch, one more example of her generous spirit.
We are blessed to have known her on this earth, and are blessed to continue the relationship across the Threshold. It will be great to see you there on July 8! |  | | |  | |  | Presented by the Mystech Group | | | Perseid Meteor Showers Anyone? |  | Dear Friends, Timothy Kennedy would like to organize a field trip to a dark skies location where we can take in and attempt to consciously experience the homeopathic meteoric iron shooting into our blood during the August Perseid meteor showers, which are a gift from the Archangel Michael to dispel anxiety and fear, and promote courage and strength. This year the peak of the meteor showers, around August 13, will be during a waning crescent moon, making them more visible. The meteor shower will be active from July 17 to August 24, so we can practice being aware of them. “Practice Spirit Sensing”
If you are interested in attending, and being in the loop as plans progress, please reply to this email.
What Rudolf Steiner tells us about our condition in summer, and the role of the meteoric iron (link to the Michael Imagination lecture at the end of these passages:
In August, as we experience a sulphurizing process in our physical and etheric bodies, which causes us to shine finto the cosmos in a ‘glorious astral light’, which beings there experience experience as ‘a majestically beautiful sight’.
“But at the same time it gives occasion for the Ahrimanic power to draw near to man. For this power is very closely related to the sulphurising process in the human organism. We can see how, on the one hand, man shines out into the cosmos in the St. John'slight, and on the other how the dragon-like serpent-form of Ahriman winds its way among the human beings shining in the astral light and tries to ensnare and embrace them, to draw them down into the realm of half-conscious sleep and dreams. Then, caught in this web of illusion, they would become world-dreamers, and in this condition they would be a prey to the Ahrimanic powers. All this has significance for the cosmos also.”
“And when in highsummer, from a particular constellation, meteors fall in great showers of cosmic iron, then this cosmic iron, which carries an enormously powerful healing force, is the weapon which the gods bring to bear against Ahriman, as dragon-like he tries to coil round the shining forms of men. The force which falls on the earth in the meteoric iron is indeed a cosmic force whereby the higher gods endeavour to gain a victory over the Ahrimanic powers, when autumn comes on. And this majestic display in cosmic space, when the August meteor showers stream down into the human shining in the astral light, has its counterpart — so gentle and apparently so small — in a change that occurs in the human blood.
This human blood, which is in truth not such a material thing as present-day science imagines, but is permeated throughout by impulses from soul and spirit, is rayed through by the force which is carried as iron into the blood and wages war there on anxiety, fear and hate. The processes which areset going in every blood-corpuscle when the force of iron shoots into it arethe same, on a minute human scale, as those which take place when meteors fallin a shining stream through the air. This permeation of human blood by the anxiety-dispelling force of iron is a meteoric activity. The effect of theraying in of the iron is to drive fear and anxiety out of the blood.” -Rudolf Steiner, The Michael Imagination
|  | Calling all eurythmy enthusiasts, alumni of Waldorf Education, and seekers of artistic expression, joy and the healing arts!
Pacific Eurythmy, a part-time eurythmy training initiative in Portland, Oregon is starting a new class this Autumn! September 2023!
We are the only training on the west coast with a pathway to a recognized diploma through our affiliation with Eurythmy Spring Valley.
Come join us! Discover yourself through the artistic, healing movement of Eurythmy! Take the first steps on your journey of creative expression and self-discovery!
This is an opportunity to dive deeply into the fundamentals and foundations of this art form. Along with the eurythmy curriculum, guest teachers cover the basics in anatomy, painting, music theory, creative speech, geometric form, and more.
For more information visit: https://pacificeurythmy.com/ To register: https://pacificeurythmy.com/application Email: PacificEurythmy@gmail.com
| | | Portland Branch Council Meeting Monday, July 10, 7 pm (note date change) Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back. All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. Please contact us at portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com to let us know you’re coming. Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month.
| COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES | Michael Institute Early Childhood and Grades Summer Intensive June 18-July 9 Michae-el School, Milwaukie, Oregon For more information see flier below the calendar, click here for their website. | ON-GOING STUDIES/GROUPS | First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. No Classes in July and August, Summer hiatus (usually second Sunday of the month with a few exceptions) 9:30 am sharp, Lesson 4 • (no admittance after the class starts) • Bothmer Hall, 5915 SE Division St. • Remember your Blue Card. For more information contact: Cheri Munske cherimunske@gmail.com, Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or Rebecca Soloway rrsoloway1@gmail.com
Beginning Astrosophy Class First and Third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St. • Contact Diane Rumage, 971-271-7479 drumage@comcast.net This class will introduce participants to the basic principles of Astrosophy in a study of the works of Willi Sucher and Diane Rumage’s work with the stars, with indications that Rudolf Steiner gave for those interested in the cosmos. No previous knowledge necessary. Please bring blank paper and colored pencils to the class in case we need to use them. If you are just curious if you’d be interested, please feel free to come and check us out. Free
Mary Isis Sophia, Her Mission and Ours - Vancouver, WA Study Group Every other Wednesday, 6:00pm - 8:00pm, in person - Contact KathyRem@gmail.com
The Occult Significance of Forgiveness Study Group • First Monday of the month, 7:45-9:00 pm • Currently conducted in person and on Zoom • Contact Heidi Sheppard, HSHEPPAR@LHS.ORG Free Please join us in lively discussions centered on Sergei Prokofieff’s The Occult Significance of Forgiveness.
Pacific Eurythmy: Enroll for new classes which begin in September! Please visit our website for more information and registration:https://pacificeurythmy.com/events-and-workshops Pacific Eurythmy Teaching FacultyJolanda Frischknecht & Carrie Mass, jolandamf44@gmail.com & Carecare0@gmail.com
Speech Formation and Mystery Drama Group 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St, Portland, OR 97220 • Contact Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or 971 271-7479. Free No experience necessary, just enthusiasm and a love of the Word. Our group will start a new reading and studying of “The Portal of Initiation”, Rudolf Steiner’s first Mystery Drama dealing with the karma and reincarnations of a group of people around the turn of the 20th century, on April 12, 2023.
The Tarot in Light of Spiritual Science with James Knight • Every other Tuesday James (j365k@yahoo.com), is leading a class on "The Tarot" in light of spiritual science and practical occultism. This is not a class on the use of Tarot for divination. In this class we focus on the major arcanum of "The Tarot" as a practical tool for self development and insight into oneself and the world. The classes take place approximately every other Tuesday from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Branch Library Space (5415 SE Powell Blvd) Entrance off the parking lot in back of the church • This is a free class. Registration for the class happens through Meetup (meetup.com) where you can learn more about the class and RSVP at this page: https://www.meetup.com/experiences-in-spiritual-science/.
Waldorf Education and Teacher Training Lectures and Courses Conducted throughout the year by the Micha-el Institute Email us at inquiry@micha-elinstitue.com or call 971-808-1640
| |  | A new feature of the newsletter is this Community Bulletin Board, the brainchild of Christine Badura, who now finds that she has time to make it a reality. Community members can post their offerings and/or things they are looking for. To post, please call Christine at 707-494-6741 or email badura88@hotmail.com. Possible categories that can be posted: Housing, Give Aways, Help Wanted/Offered, Announcements, Items Wanted. **** Housing Wanted: Interested in hosting a Waldorf teacher, or teacher trainee this summer? The Micha-el Institute will be putting on its annual summer conferences this year, and we are in need of housing for teachers from across the country who will be attending. Our various programs run from June 18 – July 9. Contact David Axelrod at david@micha-elinstitute.com or 971-808-1640 with offers and /or inquiries. Thank you for your consideration.
Student Support: I am Soma Baker, a 23 year old Portland Native and student at YIP, the international Youth Initiative Program in Sweden. I am currently in the final 3 months of the one year program focused on social entrepreneurship for young adults, based in Iterjärna Sweden (an anthroposophical community). I am mainly studying culture today, and how to bring consciousness to it through art and ideas, exploring what it means to be a free human being today. I would like to further/finish my studies this year and need financial assistance. If you would like to help please reply to this newsletter email and the Branch will put us in touch with one another.
|  | | Experience the Mystech Conference 2023, Resonance as a Bridge Between the Spiritual and Physical - and Benefit the Portland Branch Last year the Portland Branch received a generous contribution from the Mystech Conference, who donated part of each registration fee from those who registered for the conference through the Portland Branch. They have made the same offer this year, so whether you sign up through this ad to attend in person or online, we will receive a contribution. Click on the flyer below for more information and to register. |  | |  | |  |  |  |  |  | |  | Please consider becoming a member of the Portland Anthroposophical Branch. The annual recommended membership is still $50, or what you can afford. Annual memberships renew every January. This supports our community workshops, presenters, festivals, branch rent, website, and library.
Please join, renew, or donate (for instance to the $4,000 matching grant for rent) on our website at https://www.portlandbranch.net/don(ations/. If you send a check, we will receive 100% of your donation. Make it out to Portland Branch, and send to: Portland Branch *c/o Valerie Hope * 2606 SE 58th Ave. * Portland, Or 97206.
Thank you for your commitment, your participation, and the community building your help gives to ensure that Anthroposophy is alive and in action here in the Portland area.
Great gratitude to the members and friends who have donated thus far in 2023 to make this newsletter and our library/community space possible. (This list will be updated in the next newsletter.) Jerry & Rebecca Soloway, Nancy Peirce, Julie Foster, Robin Lieberman, Pamela M Rico, Robin O’Brien, Deborah Ham, Sandra & Wes Burch, Rene Kehwald, Kathy Rem, Robin O’Brien, Tish Johnson, Mihoko Lunsford, Kimberly Sinclair, Vicki Hess-Smith, Mark & Valerie Hope, Diane Rumage, Linda Sussman, James Knight, Marsha Johnson, Timothy Kennedy, Jeremy Davis, Lisa Masterson, Donna Patterson, Cheri Munske, Julie Foster, Lucy O’Neal, Michele Limas, Kendall Weaver, Geelim Soowhan, Pamela Rico, Brian McClure, Miriam Ward, Christine Badura, Laura Elmore, Walter Rice, Amada Eastman, Karen Nelson, Constance Stokes, Anne Kollander, Nancy Peirce, Robin Lieberman, Pamela Rico, Deorah Ham, Susan Andres, Rene Kehrwald, Diane Schell-Rowley, Barbara Strong, Marsha Johnson, Magic of Waldorf | |  | Embryo in Us & Embryo in Motion: Two Seminars with Jaap van der Waal. Two separate DVD sets recorded live in Portland in 2010 & 2017, available only here. These two seminars explore human prenatal development and show how biology is expressing the essence of human spiritual enfoldment. Jaap van der Wal, PhD, MD now retired, was an associate professor for anatomy and embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland. Contact the Portland Branch. | | | | |
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