Awakening to Community

Greetings from the team of human beings working in the Programs Department at your ASA! We want to thank you for the work you are doing in your local groups and communities. In our most recent programs planning meeting, we considered this passage from Rudolf Steiner:

"...human associations are the secret places where higher spiritual beings descend in order to work through individuals, just as the soul works through the body."

- Rudolf Steiner, Brotherhood and the Struggle for Existence

The work that each of you are doing to create and foster these associations in which the angels can work is so very important. We want to acknowledge the power of our anthroposophical communities to bring warmth and light to our world. Shared attention and study on an idea, image or spiritual words can help us connect and a grow the strength of our associations. With that in mind, ask that you share this invitation with your community: attention on the set of ten lectures Awakening to Community.

Beginning already on January 23 and continuing until March 4, we will be releasing an audio recording of each lecture on the 100th anniversary of the date that Rudolf Steiner delivered it. If you are looking for study materials for your community this year, we hope that these readings might spark an interest in working with these thoughts that Rudolf Steiner found to be important in the weeks after the Goetheanum was burned. If many groups and individuals are reading (or re-reading) this series of lectures together, we increase our potential to awaken in the souls of each other and find our future work together.

The lectures are gathered under the title Awakening to Community

The book can be bought  here and a digital copy is available here.

Visit our Awakening to Community page here

We are planning to have more suggested readings and study topics throughout the coming year. Please write to us if you have thoughts about shared study materials.

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With gratitude and in service

Warmly, 

ASA Programs Team

Tess Parker, Angela Foster, and Katrina Hoven