Volume One : summer 1997 http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/oajnr.html
Volume Two : beginning of Lent 2024
OUTLAW (rebel) ANTHROPOSOPHY
Vol. II, Issue no. I, Winter 2024
{Vol. I: 1997: http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/oajnr.html }
another declaration of independence: spiritual science with passion – light and heat
Birthing the Future – the Next Hundred Years of the Anthroposophical Society.
Once upon a Time there came to be a Place in Space, called: the Earth. More of a state of mind, than anything else. To use the term Womb is not inaccurate, although we need to grasp the ideal, and not the physical. A Womb is a place of magical growth, warmth and peace, yet this state gets sacrificed for the Life of the Biography.
Pagan (Zen) Anthroposophy
– a fable –
the members of the A. Society have done considerable wonders – there is, however, more to do, which is to optimize how we present the works of the Steiner spirit to the world – to get better at it.
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/ZenA.html
I’ve done the heavy lifting. Scouted the territory. Carefully drawn new maps. Revealed a Way to get Steiner better known in the whole world. Made possible a healthy direction for the emerging new civilization. Use it or loose it. The Source sees another direction – the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature, is the Autumn Michaelic Festival pointed to by Steiner. The Culmination Idea is to create an annual Spring Festival, centered on Earth Day, when environmental lawsuits are filed where the Planet is the named plaintiff. The Anthroposophical Society will find its true next hundred years task in being involved in, and perhaps leading, the work of remembering the Goddess Natura in a scientific fashion.
Such involvement means nothing more than sharing what has been thought in me … after confirming it yourself … and then taking up – as friends of the spirit once named Steiner, the works of the Goethean scientists … along with study groups on Steiner’s GA-2: “Goethe’s Theory of Knowledge.”
Or not. “Not” just means the end of civilization, with the result that the life sphere is in ruins, and the Mother is dusting off the plans She made before guiding Atlantean civilization to magically
disappear into myth. Welcome to:
Orphaned in Steiner Land – an esoteric comedy. We are actors in a Play rendered by a Mad God. Stuck in our own movie, star, writer, director, critic … “you are me and I am you and we are all together” the Beatles … “all the love you’ve been giving has all been meant for you” the Moody Blues. Welcome to the Circus.
If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny. The Anthroposophical Society is not on the Earth in America. Not grounded. And, this is not surprising.
Time to come down from pie in the sky (the three Chakras above the heart, and learn to muck around in the dirt (the three Chakras below the heart). To understand, recall Steiner: “Karma will hold sway”. There isn’t a problem, that some self-honesty can’t address. That there are problems, … no worry, these are signs of life, which is never meant to be easy.
Dear friends of Rudolf Steiner, and other creatures of the Moonlight, dancing to the songs of the Holy Mother-Earth Mother … although … Steiner’s Verse for America is lacking – connection. He was not born in the Americas. Better short version: “We dream America; We sing Her Shadow and Her Light; we dream America, and America Dreams us” Long version: “Bye, Bye miss American Pie”.
I am going to do some Zoom gatherings. A year ago Andrew Linnell and I discussed me doing such “presentations”, and the material next below is what I offered to him in an email. By the way, nothing came of it. ~!~!~!!~!~!~!~!??
“Webinar Idea
Thank you for the opportunity.
An overall title?: “Eternity in the Now, some brief explorations”
#1. Title: “Introduction to the Hermetic Science (Magic) of the Ancient Egyptians” Description: One of the aspects of human history is that ancient people were aware of the Divine, and their Mysteries remain as true today, as they were true in the past. Same divine powers, just different names used today. A second crucial fact is that those earlier Mysteries all had very definite ideas as to the Divine Feminine aspect. Spiritual Science, via Rudolf Steiner, only mentions these matters in passing. Whether it is the Hermetic Science of the Ancient Egyptians, or the Kabbalah of the Hebrews, or the Cosmology of the natives of the Americas, the Mother Aspect is crucial to having a complete spiritual picture of the Macrocosm, which must include knowledge of the Goddess Natura.
#2 Title: “Understanding the Present Crisis of Humanity – the Dying and Becoming of Western Civilization” Description: What is happening on the Earth Realm today can best be understood if we appreciate the social and political phenomena as – from the point of view of Love – entirely focused on the Individual Biography. What we worry over today, whether wars, or philosophies, or religions, or sciences, is just secondary effects of the primary event – the growth in this moment of the spirit and the soul of the individual human being, via their biography, in the Holy School of Hard Knocks and Shared Pain.
#3 Title: “Simple Qualitative Physics”, or what does it mean that behind every aspect of reality modern science investigates, there stands the action of Comic Beings. Description: We have Gravity because of a Divine Attribute. We have Electromagnetism because of a Divine Attribute. We have Life and Light because of a Divine Attribute. We have Rogue Weather and Climate Change because of a Divine Attribute. The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse have a Rider.
Given that we are the microcosm, all the features we describe, such as Ahriman, Lucifer, Sun Demon, Azuras, …. from God to Gnomes, are attributes of us. The Deep Mysteries of the Eighth Sphere and the Third Force will become observable by all, as well as the ongoing aspects of the Return of the Moon. <[ perhaps include my blog address: https://thecollectiveimagination.com ]>”
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I have observed recently the increase in Steiner-related Zoom meetings, many from the periphery. I don’t want my offerings to have a conflict with others. This leads me asking to be listed in the ASIA website Calendar, as well asking of others that they share the announcement of my presentations with their existing email lists.
If my past history with the Society is any indication, I will not end up on the Calendar, or be told what dates to avoid, or be included as an announcement in a relevant email list, or have an article published in the ‘being <mostly> human.’ In any event, below is the link to the three planned Zoom-Conversations. Let me know if there is to be a conflict.
There will be no charges or fees or inducements, or prizes required. Thank you’s takes the form of sharing. Humiliating commentary welcome. “Are we having fun yet?” In community,
Joel A. Wendt
7 pm EDT Moonday 3/18/24 item #1 Title: “Introduction to the Hermetic Science (Magic) of the Ancient Egyptians”
7 pm EDT Moonday 3/25/24 item #2 Title: “Understanding the Present Crisis of Humanity – the Dying and Becoming of Western Civilization”
3/31/24 Easter
7pm EDT Moonday 4/1/24 (April Fools Day) item #3 “Simple Qualitative Physics, or what does it mean that behind every aspect of reality modern science investigates, there stands the action of Comic Beings.”
Zoom Link:
A ROAD NOT YET TAKEN
One of the ways the Mystery teaches humanity is through individuals that the Spirit World is willing to support.
A secondary problem is that when a particular human spirit is not received, by those for whom it is meant, that Source leaves the messenger – the GateWay as it were – which is experienced by such an individual as a kind of death.
A third nuance is to realize that all the works of all the sages, and gurus , and masters, and initiates, and shamans fail to even begin to offer what appears through poetic and musical genius (Mozart, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, and Calvin & Hobbes, for example).
Among initiates, Tomberg had just begun to give his lectures on the Apocalypse, when he was asked to leave the A. Society. At this point he had to leave that work unfinished – those for whom these revelations were intended, no longer were open minded enough.
The spirit world has multiple communities, who support different kinds of change. There is occurring an alteration in the stream of thought I experience. Another “door” to knock upon …
This death of connection does lead to new life for the messenger, … in Tomberg’s case he went on to join the Catholic Church, after writing his overlooked masterwork – during World War II: “The Art of the Good – the Regeneration of Fallen Justice”.
I have brought to the A. Society a work of many decades. For example, I have created a fully developed Goethean Science of the Social and Political Sphere of Human Life. I have also seen how to deal with the Culmination Event, although at this time the Aristotelians refuse to listen.
According to Steiner, if the Aristotelians don’t integrate the work of the Platonists (initiates in the Feminine Mysteries) the coming civilization will become ruins.
Will someone please explain to me why this is not the central task of the Society in the present?
This logic-knot is oddly driving me toward the more mystical aspects of Catholic Religion – the Mysteries of the Holy Mother – Earth Mother. At some point the question comes: Is the A. Society a viable community for sharing the Steiner spirit’s works? What should I tell others about the Society?
The raw truth is that the leadership over the years has failed to “practice” the epistemological aspects (the New Thinking) of “anthroposophical” spiritual “science”, and with the endless quoting of Steiner as an authority, the Society has become a religion – a belief system.
The members and friends know little about Steiner’s science of knowing, as a deed. These same folk know little about Goethean Science – again as a deed, … yet can quote from Steiner’s lectures and books at the drop of a hat.
A major flaw is to imagine that the Michaelic Impulse is carried only by the
A. Society. Another aspect of limited thinking is to not appreciate that there is also a more earthly impulse. For example: “She has the whole world in His Hand”.
Imagine the following scenario. Steiner called our attention to the Bodhisattva incarnations of the future Maitreya Buddha. This means that in almost every century, this “unusual individuality” is incarnate.
Without question Steiner’s work is crucial to the future of civilization. Many thoughtful anthroposophists have speculated on this individual becoming connected to the Society at some time, in the past, present, or future. I appear to be this legendary phantom – if there is proof, of a sorts, that is in my works – don’t study them, you won’t know*. I say that this way, because right from the start we have to understand that what the sages of the East, and the initiates of the Center, have said about this “imaginary” figure is mistaken, raised to the level of myth.
{*https://www.lulu.com/shop/joey-and-joel-wendt/the-mystery-of-the-maitreya-buddha/paperback/product-7kygzj4.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Just consider the “literature” available today. Indian sages talk about this great and lofty
being, the Maitreya. Books exist telling us what this mythical creature will teach. Really? How do you know that if it hasn’t been done yet? One group in the East thinks that this “incarnation” will be the fifth and final Buddha. Meanwhile, Steiner sees this personality as the seventh of twelve Buddhas, who orbit the Sun, … and so forth …
The person is not the name.
Steiner also sez – if recollection serves – something on the order of “he will be the great teacher of the Christ Impulse in the Age of the Consciousness Soul”. Keep in mind these “reports”, from sages and initiates, are colored by their assumption that they know already what is to be the goal of human evolution – such as Enlightenment and Initiation. The East remembers the Past, and tends to seek that former ideal. The Center tries to illuminate the Present, while the West births the future.
The view of many “spiritual” teachers is that all are born incomplete, when “compared-with” these mythologies, and ought to be improved following certain teachings, which they – the teacher – are prepared to provide.
Anthroposophists propagate the view that there is a higher nature the individual needs to find. Must every human being seek that “road”? My experience is that there is only one Way, and that is the one we Author ourselves as individuals. Emerson was of the view that we lose our spiritual core, if we place Our Mind in orbit around that of an-”Other”.
Tomberg had an interesting take – I paraphrase: This “Bodhisattva-Maitreya spirit” would seek to be a very down to earth human, and from this human nature and thinking, find a way to join that thinking with the higher cosmic thinking potential in us all. http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/SacramentalThinking33x.html
Steiner also said that this entity will not incarnate in the normal way, but will take over the ethereal, astral, and physical bodies of another, around their thirty-first year.
As a human being, I am pretty fed up with the A. Society. I’ve devoted decades of my life to the “work”, and been basically rejected. I even have to wrestle with hurt feelings sometimes, and my ears tingle with the echos of gossip. Although, … Mary Stewart Adams recently said that the Society needed to open up to other voices.
Recall from above the idea of “Sources”. While people might think I have a huge ego – I don’t blame them – the fact of the matter is that my skill is as a student. I am more of a hermit, and an esoteric librarian (you should see my wizard’s “cave”), than a preacher or teacher. I am a nexus – great genius from many others has come my way, and become integrated with my world view. Meanwhile the most important figure in the “myth” is the one who lives in the body for about thirty-one years. The sages and initiates saw only outsides, and that in terms of their own “system” of thoughts and teachings.
My body-brother Joey was an innocent, and a deep empath. His role in our collective dance was to receive the world into his soul, and to feeling spirit-pain for all the “confusion”. http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/Joey.html [Joey’s signature above, and my signature below
He left me with three riddles: What is evil? (my incarnation as Socrates) Why is Christianity so lost? (my incarnation as St. Matthew), and what has happened to America (George Washington and Clara Barton).
This idea of the B-M – in the present – needs to be seen in this context, which is that I read a lot of books. Many of the best of them came … and … What happened to America? (my incarnations as George through the authorship of Divine Providence. I have not succeeded with all that I have tried learning, but please keep in mind that my life had years of visions and encounters with such as the Holy Mother, the Son, the Father, Jehovah, and some Thrones – at Their initiative. Like all of us, my spirit wanders in a cosmic pinball game. We get up in the morning – from leaving the body – and are then shot into the next day’s game.
I’ve become familiar with such minds as Steiner, Tomberg, Franz Bardon, Owen Barfield, George Adams, Catherine MacCoun, Stephen Clarke, the Moody Blues, Liz Montgomery, Rudolf Hauschka, Erst Lehrs, Wolfgang Shad, Albert Einstein, Tom Cowan (Medicine’s Einstein), … I suspect the reader of this will recognize me as an eighty-three year old book lover that has traveled some odd paths. I also became a scientist of the soul and spirit.
Fortune (Divine Providence – the Mother) and Fate (the Artist of Karma – the Son) gifted me with riches, in spite of the fact I am a normal flawed – intoxicated with Mother’s medicine that grows like a weed – human being – riding the same waves as the rest of us.
GateWay, remember. These riches do not belong to me, and I am not their author. I am, however, a kind of a curator of ideas, and my writings are the museum.
Steiner speaks of the “not I” in thinking. To the extent I reflect consciously on this “state”, another reason “I” am not there is that this serves the “Sources”. Think on your knees, sez Tomberg. It thinks in me, sez Steiner. Even when we think we are alone, we never are alone, sez Wendt. And, the choice of what to express is fully ours. The Source does not compel so much as It – as the Wind in the soul – serves the yearnings of the own heart’s mind. We come to experience the fullness of Presence, and the presence of Fullness – as the Wind in the Soul. This reality does not tell us what to do or what to think. It does, however, supply extra-strength – a form of Love – in our life of trials.
Right now the Sources nearest me are preparing to withdraw, as regards any future role for me in the A. Society. I’ve reached the limit of reaching out. All the same, I think the A. Society will end up liking it better if I am inside our community – tending those gardens, rather than outside explaining to the world the weaknesses of the Religion of Steinerism, and the problems and damages caused to American Anthroposophy by “Spiritual Imperialism” (the vain belief of emigrating Steiner experts, explaining our soul life as if that should be just like theirs) .
There is Steiner lore, … saying that he was standing on a hill near Dornach, looking down at their work, and said to his companion Georg Unger senior: “We might have to come back at the end of the Century and destroy this place.”
I seek connection with other American Steiner students, and often receive the “cold shoulder”. Not always, but far more than necessary. For example I belong to a Steiner Facebook group, which only allows posts that have been vetted by one of the “administrators”. My posts never get past that gatekeeper. No replies. No interactions. Hard to keep certain fires burning in such a social environment. Even if no one ever contacts me personally, or reads my stuff, or buys my books … and,PLEASE TAKE UP THE TASK TO INTEGRATE THE ARISTOTELIAN WAY, WITH THE PLATONIST WAY …
Meanwhile, happy new year, and welcome to the end of the world …
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Nino Baldachi, chief legal strategist … aka: Lazy Bear, aka: White Eagle
S omething in my soul is dying, in part because my heart is ignored by an
institution that I have served since 1978. The problem may lie in
karma, yet that doesn’t lead to understanding.
Where is the dissonance? Why am I a problem? Because I serve the truth more? A gadfly? The fool who sees that the clothes do not have an emperor. This necessity has been the same, going all the way back to the late ‘90’s, when I published a small journal called: “Outlaw Anthroposophy”. Its two main articles were: “The Study of Rudolf Steiner’s Lecture Cycles, and the Problem of Cognition – musings on the epistemological swampland of the Anthroposophical Movement” & “The Anthroposophical Society: Is it a living social form?”
I got a friend to pass 23 copies out at a national conference, and later learned that the attendees were advised to be on the lookout for a “subversive” document.
If GA-2 and GA-4 are worked with successfully, we learn how to unite experience with thinking, or percept with concept, and thereby acquire “knowledge”. Most of the time, we produce concepts and ideas (complexes of concepts) from reading Steiner – that is thinking and concepts are at play. Yet, without the encounters that Steiner had – that is the experiences and percepts, we can only get “understanding” from reading.
This is further proven by reading the introductions to “Theosophy” “and Occult Science: an Outline”, where the word “understanding” is used over and over again, but not “knowledge”. Now many Steiner students do gain from reading the lectures. The “understanding” – to introspection – is in between “knowledge” and “belief”. It is an excellent practice to look at the “understanding” we have of Steiner’s teaching, and ask our own inner judgment if the concepts and ideas are a belief or knowledge.
There is nothing “wrong” with any of us, whatever our skills at thinking in an awake fashion. If, for example, we take a paragraph of a lecture and try to self-perceive the described materials – that is we try to recreate in our own understanding and imagination what Steiner has described, there can be a result. The concepts riding in on the text can feel enriched. Some times we discover previously missed connections, among the various sub-ideas on the page.
Just keep in mind that deepening the concepts or ideas woven around – say the Bodhisattva incarnations of the future Maitreya Buddha – is not the same as what Steiner experienced. The key for all of us is in the application of the will to self knowledge. We don’t just read to read, we read to become more inwardly aware of that which we first learned to do instinctively.
For example, … when reading the text GA-2 [Goethe’s Theory of Knowledge], at each sentence and paragraph we pause and confirm by self observation. Simple. The book points a finger, and we then take a look.
The most curious aspect is that some people will react negatively to my demonstration of the curse that goes with becoming a messenger. I’m not the only messenger by any means, … we live in an age where all manner of Predictions and Fables are coming true.
Imagine the library of genius, who is not a specialist, but a generalist. Read and take account of over 40 books, and several hundred essays, a couple dozen short stories, one novel, some mostly long poems, and a screen treatment. https://thecollectiveimagination.com/2023/03/15/artists-studio/
Think I brag? It is a poor artisan that doesn’t recognize their own skills.
the gift of the word
[ best results if read aloud, with an occasional rush of words,
or have someone else read, and listen only ]
Speech, / Words, letters, sounds, / heard by both the inner ear and the outer.
Letters, sounds, words, / linked invisibly to ideas and thoughts.
Ideas, thoughts, letters, sounds, words, / a woven tapestry of meaning,
carried by Speech, / sometimes with grace, / but most often just carelessly.
Meaning, / a weaving of thoughts, sounds, words, letters and ideas,
spoken into the air and left there, / abandoned.
Words, spoken and heard. / Meaning intended. / But what is heard?
That which is heard is also intended. / Two intentions, two purposes, two meanings.
How difficult then communication, / suffering as it does the contrary pulls of multiple intentions, purposes and meanings.
I speak, you listen. / I mean, you grasp. / Somewhere in this delicate dance of words, sounds, letters, thoughts, ideas and purposes; / understanding is sought after.
Perhaps. / Sometimes.
Voice. / Speech reveals the unspoken. / Anger, fear, pride, arrogance, true humility.
The ear of the heart hears what is hidden in voice.
Posture, gesture. / Speech is more than sound. / The eye hears things the ear cannot, just as the ear sees things the eye cannot.
One mind. / Two minds. / Speech a bridge of woven light between two minds, and sometimes, although rarely, / between two hearts.
Speech, rich and full of flavor, / a light bridge, / joining two separate beings.
Speech denatured, / No sound, no gesture, no posture, no voice.
Speech reduced to lines of dark on light. / Written. / A treasure map in code spilled across a page
Words, letters, ideas, thoughts, sounds, / reduced to marks upon a parchment. / Speech dying.
Yet, / even in death, murdered by pen or pencil mark, / some essence of Speech still.
Meaning embalmed. Understanding buried. / Until read.
Reading. / Words, sounds, letters, thoughts, ideas, meaning, purposes, intentions,
Speech resurrected in the silence of another mind.
Speech. / Light bridge dying into print, / reborn when read in the inner quiet of another soul.
Speech, / The Spoken Word. / Writing, / The Word entombed. / Writing read, / The Word resurrected.
That this is so, / that human beings live in such an exalted state having Speech, this is Grace.
The spoken word, the written word. / Things so ordinary, so taken for granted, so pregnant with possibility.
The emptiness between two souls is always / chaste, virgin, pure, / waiting for Grace, for the bridge of light, / for Speech.
The Gift of the Word, originally called Speech, was written on
Epiphany, Jan. 6, 1997, in the evening, in about a third of an hour.
My photographs above, of cut and paste art, came more recently due to extension tremors. The bead-work was done over twenty-five years ago, when hands and eyes were more “functional”. The child in the center is Joey. {clockwise from just below: Rainbow Warrior; Silicon Angel, Heart of the Matter, and the Four Directions.
Vol. Three is under construction.
Fake Ancient Alien Theorist Foolishly Visits the Collective Imagination 