Living Questions: Exploring the Role of Individual and Community in Spiritual Scientific Research
| Place: | Threefold Educational Center, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977 |
| Start date: | Friday 30, September 2011 |
| End date: | Sunday 02, October 2011 |
| Times: | see schedule |
| Price: | Fee: $100-$300 (sliding scale), includes lunch and dinner on Saturday. |
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Living Questions, Threefold Educational Center’s 2011 Research
Symposium, offers a rare opportunity to join in conversation with people
from all corners of the anthroposophical movement on the theme of
spiritual scientific research.
We live in a golden age of science, and benefit from an unprecedented technical mastery of the physical world; yet each day brings news of new social upheaval, economic catastrophe, and environmental disaster. The search for solutions seems only to yield controversy and dispute among elites representing competing scientific, ideological and theological world views.
Clearly new insights, new approaches, and new methods are needed to uncover constructive solutions to the world’s problems. The insights of a spiritual scientific world view are needed today more than ever.
Join us at Threefold Educational Center for a weekend of collegial exploration of the role of individual and community in addressing these most pressing questions of our time. We invite you join in creating a living laboratory for spiritual scientific inquiry as we gather in intergenerational colleagueship to support and foster the cultivation and articulation of our living questions.
Frank Chester and Dorothea Mier, Threefold's 2011 Researchers in Residence, will share the fruits of their collaborative work into the nature and workings of the etheric heart.
Robert Karp and John Beck will offer presentations on the social dimension of spiritual research, and the task of anthroposophy in America through the lens of the Threefold Verse.
Contemporary research perspectives: Concurrent sessions will provide insights into ongoing work of Frank Chester, Rev. Jonah Evans, Seth Jordan, Michael Judge, Edward Kiewra & Bob Sandstrom, Sampsa Pirtola, Michael Ronall and Joaquin Tan.
Immersive artistic experience: We will be surrounded by a visual and aural atmosphere created by Andrea Baker, Marcus Macauley, Dorothea Mier, Katrina Tan, and Jorge Sanz-Cardona out of their creative research.
Conversation: Small conversation groups will engage the participants in a social research experiment investigating questions freshly harvested from a diverse cross-section of the anthroposophical movement.
Open Space sessions: Open Space sessions throughout the weekend will provide opportunities to share personal questions, findings, initiatives with other symposium participants.
The symposium has been supported by the Henry Barnes Fund for Anthroposophical Research, which is administered by the North American Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science.
Fee: $100-$300 (sliding scale), includes lunch and dinner on Saturday. Paying the highest amount that you can afford helps make it possible to include everyone who wants to attend, regardless of financial means.
To register: Click here to download a printable registration form.
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Information: Email events@threefold.org or call 845-352-5020 x18.
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Symposium Schedule
(Subject to Change)
Friday, September 30
9:00am Immersive artistic mood with paintings by Katrina Ann Tan and Jorge Sanz-Cardona, music by Marcus Macauley and eurythmy directed by Dorothea Mier
Welcome & Introduction by Jordan Walker and Ray Manaças
10:00am Break
10:30am The Social Dimension of Spiritual Research: An Exploration by Robert Karp
12:00pm Lunch; Introduction to Open Space Technology
2:00pm Research Perspectives: Concurrent Presentations
Michael Ronall: Clairvoyance Through Annoyance: The Redemptive Homeopathy of Everyday Troubles
Seth Jordan: Threefolding Today: How the World Has Taken Up Anthroposophy's Forgotten Task
Frank Chester: Chamber Archetecture: The Geometry of the Body as Temple
Michael Judge: Human Evolution-Spiritual Science and Material Science
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Social Research Experiment: Conversation groups
5:30pm Dinner; Open Space Meetings
7:30pm Collaborative Learning and the Contemporary Scientific Research Landscape by Edward Kiewra and Robert Sandstrom of IBM Laboratories
Saturday, October 1
9:00am Immersive artistic mood. Artistic activity with Michael Steinrueck
10:00am Break
10:30am Research Presentation by John Beck: The Past and Future Tasks of Anthroposophy in America through the Lens of the Threefold Verse
12:00pm Lunch; Open Space Sessions
2:00pm Research Perspectives: Concurrent Presentations
Edward Kiewra & Robert Sandstrom: Insights into the 4th dimension of Space
Rev. Jonah Evans: "And Jesus answered them....You are Gods": Research into the Divinity of the the Human Self
Joaquin G. Tan: Illness as the Revelation of Self: Healing as the Search for Spirit
Sampsa Pirtola: Think, Find, Make - the Art of Arts Management
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Conversation groups continue from Friday
5:30pm Dinner; Open Space Meetings
7:30pm An evening with Frank Chester and Dorothea Mier
Sunday, October 2
8:00am Class Lesson / Concurrent introduction to the First Class for non-members
9:00am Break
9:30am Conversation groups final session
10:30am Full symposium group conversation on perceptions gathered
12:00pm Symposium Closing, followed by lunch
