The Programme
The programme aims to –
• Provide a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to exploring
who we are as four-fold spiritual beings – from our
earliest years through to adulthood and old age, from our
temperament and soul qualities through to our earthly
personality and the work of the angels.
• Harness and strengthen our everyday gift of loving
remembrance and provide a practical introduction to
contemplation, concentration and meditation.
• Help clarify karmic paths of development and realise
connections between ourselves and others and the world we
live in.
• Provide over 70 practical experiments or activities.
The approach –
The
programme consists of five work Ebooks with hyperlinks to
this site (series title: ‘The Spiritual Science of
Everyday Life’) covering 21 study units, with a Programme
Presentation for each on this site, describing a spiritual
explanation of, for example, memory, consciousness and
‘growing up’ and often contrast this with
social/psychological and scientific accounts. (Print books
are also available.) There are then one or more practical
activities.
The programme as a whole hopes to explore how ‘it all fits
together’ and the common threads that weave many spiritual
paths together.
Across the whole five books you
will be able to explore, for example:
• An introduction to Steiner’s important concept of the
mind.
• The four-fold human being.
• The
significance of our earliest memory
• The
transformation of our 12 physical senses as a basis for
extra-to-sensory perception
• A unique Personal
Temperament Chart
• A unique Personal Soul Qualities
Chart
• A soul/spiritual view of the human life cycle
(in contrast to psychology’s view)
• How to see inside
things
• A practical guide to concentration and
meditation
• A Personality Profile – and the
significance of trust, fear and habit.
• A unique
Destiny Chart – The Matrix
• How to harness our Four
Everyday Gifts –
- Memory and The Gift of Remembrance
- The Gift of Temperament
- The Gift of Conversation
- The Gift of Conscience
• How to explore human duality
and work with the angels
• Over 1000 trigger questions
that help the user fill in “Memory Bubbles” to create a
personal biography.
Memory and thinking and how we
change are about experience – about activity. Reading
about it and reasoning it out is not the same as doing it.
These are workbooks, not textbooks. It’s about ‘soul
work’. So there are plenty of practical activities built
into the programme – we call them Games.
There are four types of Game:
These main Games are intended to bring some doing into
your study. These are our basic tools.
You will find a number of “Tickling Trout” Games. A
”Tickling Trout” aims to observe the world as an
expression of thought and is a practical exercise in
thinking, memory and observation.
You’ll find a number of “Memory Bubbles” both within some
of the Games and at the end of each book. These are used,
not so much for the memory itself (fascinating though they
can be) but to practice, develop and strengthen the
process of remembrance. The Memory Bubbles build up into a
mini biography.
You
will also find some questions from the game, ‘Do You
Remember…Who You Are?’ available from:
www.DoYouRemember.Me
A whole evening, train or plane journey can be spent
simply using some of these questions. The questions might
appear light hearted or mundane or absurd – it’s the
remembrance that matters. Some may have a cathartic effect
– be careful.
All Games have been tried and tested
during the course of 30 years working with scores,
actually hundreds, of willing participants – adults and
young people, from prisoners and teachers to company
employees and community group activists. My sincere thanks
to all those people – I hope they agree they were willing.
How to use this programme –
The programme has its own storyline with a definite
beginning, middle and end, for the individual to follow
but feel free to dip in and out of it according to your
interest. It can also be used as an activity pack for
group workshops, so facilitators may want to pick and
choose, adopt or adapt as appropriate. However, in either
case, if you jump ahead, bare in mind that each unit
builds upon the previous one – use the unit synopses if
you need to refer back for some clarification. Each unit
contains Tickling Trout strategically placed alongside the
other text but I suggest you come back to these after
reading the rest of the unit. The relevance of a Trout
will then be clearer and you won’t feel as if you’re being
‘sidetracked’. You might do the same with the main Games –
the Games should not be rushed – but do read through them
first, as part of the main text. Finally, a few Games make
use of a small glass prism – it would be helpful for you
to get hold of one at some point.
The ideas and
activities in these books have been drawn from or inspired
by the work of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner had a deep
understanding of ancient, well-rooted transformational
paths. But he was a modern human being and sculptured a
path suited for our times. He walked this path through and
beyond to its highest reaches. His work will be our guide.
This programme offers just a simple peek into a little of
what he found. There’s a risk here. If ever my compression
or expression risks becoming superficial I can only hope
that it at least serves as a catalyst for your own study
of Rudolf Steiner’s work.
Why call the practical
activities, “Games”? The capital G is in memory of
Goethe*, whose work had such a profound influence on
Rudolf Steiner, and âme comes from ‘heart, soul or spirit’
of the matter. ‘Soul work’ is serious business. Sometimes
the effort required in playing a Game can seem like we’re
paddling upstream against the current with a lot of
obstacles in our way. But if we approach the âme of each
Game with a certain lightness of being, we’ll find the way
becomes easier and the current in our favour. They’re
Games of ‘hide and seek’ and we play by enlivening our
imagination and loving remembrance. The time of the human
being living and learning as a mere spectator is drawing
to a close. So many people are realising in so many ways,
“We’re involved in this”, as a player in the Game.
To get involved – have a look through the presentations to
get a feel of the programme and then go through amazon or
other major platforms for the books – series title:
The spiritual science of everyday life
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* Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe was a 18/19thc poet, dramatist,
scientist, traveller, state minister and author of Faust
and many other works. When editing Goethe’s natural
scientific writings, Steiner recognised that he had found
a scientist who had been able to perceive the spiritual in
nature.