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Schooling
The Jaspis
Initiative
Out of a New Practical Goethean Science of the Stars
the Jaspis
Initiative
Tries to Develop Ways into the Realms of Life, Soul
and Spirit by Using the Sense-Organs and Experiencing and Investigating
the Phenomena of Life. Underneath you will find:
1. Introduction
on Goethean Science of the Stars
2. The one taking this initiative,
Nicolaas M. de Jong
3. Courses
in New Practical Goethean Science of the Stars: Astrosophy,
Astrophonics (via Music) and Astrognomics
( via Claymodeling)
4. An Education
in Working with the Life World
5. A Training
in Musical Therapy on the Basis of Astrosophy
I. Practical
Astrosophy- for Therapy and Inner Development. An introduction
II. Observation
of Elemental Beings in Plants and Colors
III. The Curing
of Landscapes in Cooperation with
the Elemental Beings and their Tasks in Connection with Cosmic Power Points
and Energy Flows
IV. Investigating
and Working with the Subterranean Spheres and the Beings that
Dwell There, by Means of Rhythmical Texts, Music and by Clay Modeling
V. Knowing Thyself
Through the Senses - By Means of Clay Modeling
VI. Course of the Planet Influences as Organ Processes
within Man and Organization - Through Rhythm and Clay Modeling
VII. Clay Modeling
the Virtues that Lead to the Development of the Lotus Flowers
VIII. Dancing
and Moving to the Virtues that can be Developed by the Petals of the Lotus
Flowers out of written Text and Music
IX. Working with
Elementals in Technique - By Means of Clay-modeling
X. Dancing to the
Planets Mercury and the Moon to get in Touch with their Influences
upon the Earth and within the Human Being
1. Introduction
on Goethean Science of the Stars
- Spiritual Science, Objective Art and Moral Technique -
Contemporary materialistic science in its methodology
and its results is totally inadequate and unable to explain the what,
how and why of our existence, and is merely a science that ‘describes’
the physical chronology and concerted action of the occurring phenomena.
Nevertheless the position it claims or that which is imputed to it is
one of bringing about the truth of things. Its methodology focuses on
proving things it ad random postulates and formulates itself (proclaiming
it is proven as long as the contrary hasn’t been proven, only by
statistics). Its basic presupposition is “there’s only matter”
as a cause in itself of existence, but that contradicts the necessary
fundamentals of an objective epistemology.
A clarifying comparison is how the science in question thinks about e.g.
the way how our planetary system should have come into existence. What
it comes down to is that it actually says it went like somebody who stirs
a drop of oil that’s in a glass of water with a needle. By it you
can see how the big oil drop is divided in various little oil-bubbles,
supposed to represent planets, all going their direction. With its methodology
the attention is only focused on the description of this loosening process
and the path the little bubbles follow. There’s no focus on the
hand and the needle, because they deny that any cause comes from the hand
and the needle. It’s like the denial of the wind when it blows through
the trees and makes branches and leaves move, because you don’t
see it. This means that its barrier is given by its focus and the concepts
and ideas it brings forth about it, and that is the physical plane. Within
that barrier the methodology should cohere with the essence and characteristics
of that plane. Any explanation of the what, how and why of the physical
phenomena is illusion, an abstraction. Therefore it is the belief in materialistic
science and its worldview we are confronted with in recent centuries.
The basis for a methodology of cognition is to be found in the four [4]
elements of existence, viz. fire, light/air, water and earth. In Nature
they are reflected in the four seasons (fire: spring, air/light: summer,
water: autumn, earth: winter) like they are traceable in the knowledge
of the North American Indians who say Life constantly goes about in a
cycle of four phases: birth, life, death and resurrection and the Brahman
Spirituality of India which talks about the evolutionary cycle of the
4 phases Iron, Brass, Silver and Gold.
The 4 elements and the 4 realms/aspects in the divisions of existence,
all basically differ from one another. They also coincide with the four
realms of our existence on Earth: the Mineral Realm, the Vegetable Realm,
the Animal World and the Human Realm. The first is purely material form,
the next is material form but also goes with the four seasons by instinct,
it grows, it drinks, eats and multiplies. The Animal World is bound to
the characteristics of their species. They are also embedded in the Mineral
and Vegetable Realm of the former two but animals also have feelings,
dream life, a sense of recognition: a form of soul-life. Humans have these
characteristics as well but they are coloured by our spirit. Because of
that we are all individuals who can do something out of our own free will;
those of the former three realms are embedded in the realms itself and
are not able to emerge from that and do the way humans can (like waking
up in the morning with a new idea: next August I’m going to study
Art etc.). Another characteristic of humans is that we walk up straight
on two [2] legs, which the others can’t do. Thus, these four [4]
realms can respectively and specifically be connected to :
Fire/Spirit World/ Human Realm, Light-Air/Soul-Astral World/Animal World,
Water/Life-Etheric Realm/ Vegetable Realm and Earth/Physical World/Mineral
Realm.
Seen their differing qualities and aspects it seems justified, logic and
appropriate to use a methodology of cognition which applies specifically
to the realm that’s investigated. This is not a novum in history,
but in the past two centuries some people were focused on working this
out in a contemporary way. Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) worked towards
this because he experienced the dynamic relation between the inner and
outer world. His milestone what this concerns was his “Phenomenology”.
W. von Humboldt (1767-1835) was dedicated to such an approach as well
and e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), a student of Goethe’s
work, had made this the basis of his methods of cognition. Subsequently
Rudolf Steiner (1859-1925) found out during his 15 years of studying Goethe
in Weimar that he experienced and perceived the inner and outer worlds
in a similar manner. He found out though nobody had yet sufficiently condensed
and clarified the basic differences of the methodologies that had to be
applied to the 4 different realms.
The combination of these methods of epistemology is
called Goethean Science and in short it consists of four coherent and
appropriate steps of research:
The first one is the sheer observation of the phenomena of its aspects,
qualities and quantities. Using our intellect to discern -but not judge-
and our senses to absorb the phenomena.
The second step consists of to ultimately come via our thinking to an
archetypal imagination of the observed phenomena, giving us possibilities
to develop the faculty of clairvoyance.
The third consists of moving this imagination aside and to empathize,
with our feeling, into the processes which created it, giving the possibility
to develop the faculty of inspiration (clair-audiency and clair-sentiency).
The fourth is to explore what the purpose, the why, the meaning is of
generating this creative process, and to be able to do accordingly, having
its basis in our will, and giving the possibility to develop the faculty
of intuition (clair-volitancy).
The basis of the methodology of the second step is formed by Anthroposophy
and Astrosophy. Through these one can get an insight into the meaning
of life and its phenomena by visualizing them. One cannot directly come
into action through this. The anthroposophical methods of training can
purify and metamorphosize the astral- or soul body and therefore eventually
open up the Grail-chalice of that body for the spiritual world, which
then may be perceived as imaginations.
For the purpose of trying to specify, develop and shape Goethean Science
further out of working with the stars and planets, its approach on the
basis of the four steps is here referred to as a: Goethean Science of
the Stars. This because the third and fourth step are specifically shaped
to focus on making the effects of the stars and planets in us experienceable
in an artistic way, which includes the observer into the observed phenomena.
To establish this these developed methods of Goethean Science have their
basis in 'phonics' and 'form'. They consist of communal singing and visualizing
images which are created by life forces, of clay-modeling in which the
feelings and willing-impulses can be made objective, and of music-theatre
as a means of investigating phenomena by acting.
Through those having to do with 'phonics' one is able to experience and
act in the life forces, as well as to observe in what way one has already
created paths of life forces within oneself, to be able to observe the
realms of life within and around us. The tools that are developed with
and within music and its link to the human bodies help to develop the
faculties of clair-sentiency and clair-audiency of those direct phenomena.
The ones having to do with 'form' enables understanding of the gestures
that objectify the willing of phenomena and the willing within oneself,
so one can learn to recognize those germs of development within oneself
and within every creature and phenomenon and thus the faculties of clair-volitancy.
The realms of feeling and will can also be referred to as those of the
Holy Wine and the Holy Bread (Christ’ Blood and Body) and they can
therefore be seen as the Grail-substances that fill the Grail-chalice.
The various steps can also be traced back in two
different Mystery-streams. The second step has to do with our thinking,
viz. the Mystery-stream of Light and the third and fourth step, originating
in the realms of the feeling and the will themselves, have to do with
the combined Mystery-stream of Darkness. In B.C. ages they were separated
from one another. In the Gospel of St. John Christ, when hanging on the
cross, invokes their necessary dynamic cooperation and initiates the combination
of these two different streams, by saying “Mother, behold your Son”
and “Son, behold your Mother” to resp. Mother Mary (representative
of the Light-Mysteries) and St. John (representative of the Darkness-Mysteries;
he was e.g. always listening to the Cosmic Music stemming from Christ’s
heart - John Lazarus was a singer). This means that by acting and afterwards
bringing into consciousness what one has done, one opens up insights into
one’s own being and bodies, as well as learning to use these insights
as directive forces.
What one can encounter is that the outcome of the various realms might
contradict, but it is possible that they actually say something (else)
about a realm out of their own specific perspective. Through this meant
mutual fertilization out of a structural dynamic cooperation, it is also
possible to solve such problems of e.g. one-sidedness and/or conflict,
that might occur within these methodologies and their results of research.
Rudolf Steiner made the first step to achieve this by bringing the two
mystery-streams together in the Christmas-meeting in 1923, calling this
impulse the start of the New Mysteries. However, so far his impulse mainly
brought about the realization of the Imaginative Mysteries - those which
Christ called the Comforter, through which you can see Him -, although
Rudolf Steiner brought different people together, among whom were bearers
of these Darkness-Mysteries. But because of Rudolf Steiner’s death
soon after this accomplishment and the arisen quarrels and subsequent
rupture, the development of likewise safe and constructive new methods
for developing the consciousness of inspiration and intuition - by which
you can enter and gain awareness in the realm where Christ is creating
and become co-creative with Him - has not been possible and has not happened
since then.
Thus, by taking Astrosophy as the basis, one can recognize within a horoscope
the archetype of man and of mankind. In the stories that are written in
the star images, as well as an understanding of their form gestures, one
can learn a lot about the forms on earth within the realms of life and
the plans that the gods have with man and the earth. The conscious insights
(Light, Mother-side of development) and the faculty of acting and directing
(Darkness, Son of Mankind-side of development) thus complement each other.
One may call the Universal Language which is written in the stars, planet-spheres
and within the human being as well as in nature, the Language of the “Cosmic
Word ”, or “Logos”.
In this way Astrophonics and Astrognomics may help in the quest for this
Language, and Anthroposophy and Astrosophy may help to make it clear in
the consciousness.
When the abovementioned is combined with a further
clear reference to and distinction of the three realms at issue which
Rudolf Steiner made, this adds up to what is referred to as the Goethean
Science of the Stars. As such it wants to contribute to the possibilities
of development in current times. It then looks as follows:
1. The first step of sheer observation . We therefore
we apply an aspect of our intellect, stemming form the physical brain,
and open up specifically our physical senses, to be able to perceive,
arrange and discern (but not judge and decide about its character, essence
and being) and absorb the phenomenon in our soul in all of its aspects,
qualities and quantities. Thus, the being of the phenomenon can eventually
reveal itself through the other steps.
2. The Clairvoyant is able to see the Spiritual World via the faculty
of imagination. The intellect, viz. the faculty to abstract, is fully
used but simultaneously transformed into vivid spiritual thinking, viz.
loosening thought-life from the thoughts merely stemming from the physical
brain, to fill it up with the concepts and ideas of the Spiritual World,
viz. in the form of images. This second step, generating such concepts
and ideas (forming archetypal images), leads to Spiritual Science, viz.
Anthroposophy and Astrosophy.
3. The Initiate knows how the Universal Laws of the Spiritual World work.
Such cognition is gained via experience. Here a methodology of practicing
Art (e.g. singing, claymodeling, music-theatre and movement) is how one
is able to know how these Universal Laws work, leading to an universal
experience. This is the third step, experiencing the creative processes
in our feeling, our heart, enabling us to develop the faculty of inspiration
and it can thus lead to an Objective Art. This methodology is referred
to as Astrophonics.
4. The fourth step is that of the Magician. S/He knows when, where and
how s/he can do something with the knowledge gained by clairvoyance and
that of the initiate. Because via Objective Art we have weighed the creative
processes of the phenomenon by our heart it brings about a morality. Combining
this with a way of doing, a technique, adds up to a Moral Technique, which
gives us the possibilities to develop the faculty of intuition. Its methodology
is referred to as Astrognomics.
(note: In daily life we apply and train these faculties indifferently
in a dynamic process. The discernment of these methods is to clarify the
fundaments of each faculty enriched by tools for their possible further
development).
Because the methodologies also directly have to do
with the Etheric-Life World, this needs to have a further clarification.
With the Etheric-Life World is meant the world of the living and creative
formative forces (some call it energies) which are also the maintenance
power of Nature. It reflects in itself the four components of our (physical)
existence discussed above. Attributed to those are the specific elemental
beings : Fire/Spirit World: Warmth-ether/ so-called salamanders; Light
& Air/ Soul or Astral World: Light-ether/ sylphs, elves, fairy’s
; Water/Etheric-Life World: Sound- or Chemical ether/ nymphs, undines;
Earth/ Physical World: Form- ether or Ether of Purpose/ gnomes).
Back to above
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2.
About the founder Nicolaas Marius de Jong
Nicolaas M. de Jong has come to this form of Goethean
Science of the Stars on the basis of methods of phonics and form. He does
research into the processes of life in their formative effects, as well
as the sense of these forces. This by making the connection with the influences
of stars and planets in formative life-forces, which eventually bring
forth the phenomena and appearances on earth. At first he studied biology,
later on astrology.
For the last eighteen years Nicolaas has been studying and experimenting
intensively with the specific and strong influences that are generated
by the stars and planet-spheres. He has been using the spiritual and scientific
methods and results of Rudolf Steiner, but along the way he was able to
develop his own methods of research out of his experiences and has come
to own new observations as well. These methods though deal more with the
paths and languages of the realms of life, in which the effects of planets
and stars are reflected most directly (viz. the realm that hides directly
behind the surfaces of the physical world) and they realize their direct
experience of and access to those realms. Thus, he tries to make a universal
bridge between the inner and the outer world, soul/spiritual experiences
and the physical phenomena through the research and experience of the
cosmic processes.
In the courses and workshops these methods of spiritual research are developed
by acting and experiencing. By these methods of research the sense and
meaning in life forces are discovered, which were written down by him
in theoretical books, music, musical theatre and worked out in sculptures
and architecture.
The ways to experience the cosmic forces more directly are of major importance.
One of them is through music. By the musical method (Astrophonics) that
has been developed, the four human bodies can be used to approach the
life forces that bring forth a plant by communal singing.
The musical instruments, that are made according to the principles of
star images and planet influences and which call forth specific sound
effects, and the phonic sculptures are part of this artistic Goethean
scientific research.
In the music-theatre plays, ways are developed to make it possible to
experience the forces of stars and planets within nature, man and the
social organism. This by trying to give form to the profound phonic phenomenological
relations between man and the cosmos, so that these may be lived in and
explored by the players and the public within image, word, music and gesture.
Other ways are through methods of clay-modeling (Astrognomics).
Besides this, astrosophical horoscopes are made, by which indications
for therapy and inner research are given by means of rhythm, images, music
and clay-modeling.
With these methods of spiritual research the possibility has been created
to link the outside phenomena with the inner realms of the organs- and
more hidden soul processes, with the centering and moral weighing organ:
the heart.
The basis of this work are experiences of those realms and especially
a strong experience of Christ, whom he once saw, heard and felt in interweaving
colors, organic forms and huge symphonic movements.
The Goethean scientific reflections and analysis are meant as possibilities
for deepening the background of the developed artistic experienceable
methods. It has led to the realization of the following items:
3.
Courses in Practical Goethean Science of the Stars: Astrosophy, Astrophonics
and Astrognomics
I. Practical Astrosophy-
for therapy and inner development. An introduction.
This course is divided into three separate courses.
The first one is a phenomenological approach to the horoscope. A horoscope
made on the basis of astrosophical insights can give indications about
the temperament, the constitution, the main soul attitude, the specific
world vision and karmic direction, as well as life areas in which one
has decided to be active. The second is a phonic phenomenological approach
out of the horoscope and the third is one on the inner form-language of
man based on the horoscope, to be designated as impulse, ideal and virtue.
Each course consisting of seven half-day lectures.
II. Observation of
Elemental Beings in Plants and Colors (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
The effects of elemental beings in plants can be
observed and inwardly experienced through singing together. Thus observing
the true phenomena living within it, we come across expressions of our
own four bodies (physical and finer) in relation to the elements. Through
repetition we can make the experiences more and more objective. By subsequently
modeling them in clay we may discover the fine effects of elemental beings
in soul attitudes and gestures of will.
These two methods complement each other and help to develop the finer
senses for living beings and forces in and around us. By discussing the
experienced qualities afterwards, we may become more conscious of these
physically hidden realms and may learn to think about it and within it.
These ways of artistic experience may help to restore our connection with
nature and the beings living in it. This may close the gap that nowadays
science has created between nature and us.
We finish by modelling the archetypal gesture of the plant, and holds
this before our different lotus flowers. While the plant is an objectivation
of our conscience, or the virtue we have to develop to come to life spirit
qualities, the experience of this model tells us which lotus flower needs
further development, and in what way, in order to develop that specific
virtue.
The workshop lasts one day.
III. The Curing
of Landscapes in Cooperation with the Elemental Beings and their Tasks
to Transform the Beings connected to Cosmic Power Points and Energy Flows
(Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
Landscapes are maintained by elemental beings in
a hierarchic range. The highest in this hierarchy is a Deva of a Cosmic
Power Point who receives her messages as sound patterns coming from energy
lines and fields, that are ether fields (with specific form gestures)
encircling the earth within the atmosphere. These sound patterns stem
from the cosmos, the harmony of the spheres and are transposed upon those
energy fields by a high lightether Deva. A Deva of a Cosmic Power Point,
who stands at the level of consciousness of an Angel (though not equal
in being and task), has three points of impact upon earth, positioned
in a triangle. A Point of Impact, Point of Transformation and a Point
of Outflow. Within this triangle she transforms the cosmic patterns and
differentiates them for the specific landscape she maintains. In these
places elemental beings of a water and earth-quality come out of the earth
fulfilling these harmonies with rhythm and measure. The famous concentric
stone circles at Stonehenge, England, are of this nature, viz. the stone
circles themselves direct the rhythms (in which the loose outer standing
stones play an important role). In former days the people who were initiated
in this nature and its processes, kept contact with the Deva and her servants
by means of rituals (one of the servants being a ritual Deva of the site).
During the development of the consciousness soul and the propagation of
Christianity, these rituals were considered to be pagan, and due to the
witch-hunt many of the natural landscapes, used to be called landscape
temples, viz. Cosmic Power Points, were forgotten and have decayed
In this same consciousness soul-era (1417-3577 A.D.), we have to get in
contact with these nature beings again, because we share the same interest
in the maintenance of a landscape and Cosmic Power Point. Going back to
the Middle Ages and repeating the old rituals is not the way here, for
this does not allow the elemental world to develop with us, which means
in the end that the world will not be able to change.
Together with a group of interested and dedicated people Nicolaas has
developed a method to work with Cosmic Power Points and its beings and
it can function as a guideline and example. It consists of working with
the musical aspects at work at such a Point: the measures, rhythms, intervals
and musical lines. The focus is on empathizing into the state the Point
is in and trying to discover what it (might) need(s). Subsequently it
is tried to condense this into a ritual wherein something is offered by
means of music (incl. lyrics) and sculptures that reflect the appropriate
gestures, which contain warm-hearted wishes towards the spot. When this
is done according to the nature, characteristics and essence of the spot,
combined with that warmth of our heart, an attempt is made to open up
a dialogue with the elemental world present there and it generates quintessential
qualities for the spot (but also in ourselves) through which it (and we)
can reflect upon itself (ourselves) and have opportunities to develop.
In this course, which consists of four weekends during a year, divided
by the seasons, we will try to make contact with the elemental beings
each living and working in one of the four elements, and simultaneously
try to help to restore or cure the landscape temple. By making contact
with the different elemental beings -each participant in his own way-
we will get to know their tasks in the whole and may help to restore that
if necessary. It is important that each participant develops his own way(s)
of access to the different landscape beings.
Each group of elemental beings which maintain an element (fire, air-light,
water and earth) consists of three levels, connected to their different
levels of consciousness. This requires different methods of opening the
human senses. Therefore, there will be communal singing and clay modeling
as well as movement to empathize into the gestures of those beings. We
will e.g. get in contact with tree Fauns, Fairies, Nymphs, a Deva and
the landscape god Pan.
The overall purpose is that we gain cognition of how a temple in a landscape
and its connection to a Cosmic Power Point functions in its flows of Life,
and that we add something to it out of our own sacrificial forces, enabling
the elemental beings to work further with these forces.
IV. Investigating
the Subterranean Spheres and the Beings that Dwell There by Means of Rhythmical
Texts, Music and by Clay Modeling (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
The purpose of this work is to ‘see the Sun
at midnight’. This means to enter the subterranean spheres and to
"look through" the Earth and her darkened veils, and to also
see how we can perceive "the Spirit-light of the Sun at night".
Quite a big goal indeed, but each time impulses can be given to achieve
this, and each participant can do that in his own way, according to his
own possibilities, and the inner senses and faculties he has already developed.
Besides this, you will be able to meet all kinds of fallen creatures in
the different spheres, which you then need to encounter out of your own
morality and of which you also need to figure out how you can try to get
them along with you. That makes this work far from being free; it is to
be considered as work on the level of spiritual high school with deeper
going consequences.
Underneath the surface of the Earth there are nine layers of counter-spheres,
wherein adversary-angelic beings dwell, together with fallen elemental
beings (e.g. kobolds and ufo's). Together they form the veils of darkness
which prevent us from seeing the Sun at midnight. The rhythmical words
for each sphere are written in such a way that they establish the direct
connection of the processes of our life bodies and lotus flowers with
that what lives in these spheres.
Each layer shall at first be described in words, followed by movement
on the rhythms belonging to the specific sphere. Then the rhythmical sayings
will be sang, followed by improvisational singing of the participants,
by which we may observe into the sphere. Afterwards our observations are
discussed, and after three spheres there is the possibility to clay model.
This will be continued until the last sphere, and in a final ritual the
models can be placed on the central spot of a Cosmic Power Point.
This workshop lasts one full day and evening, but needs to be repeated
three or four times a year.
V. Knowing Thyself
Through the Senses - By Means of Clay-modeling (Astrognomics)
Through the twelve sense-organs, of which only six
are directly accessible, we experience ourselves and the surrounding world
and are capable of finding our way. Normally we are hardly aware of the
deeper outer and inner influences.
By observing thoroughly what effect a certain sense-impression has and
by expressing this impression and what it calls forth in us through clay-modeling,
one can get a steadier relation towards the muddle of every day impressions.
Besides this one can get clear on the intentions of one’s own will
and the specific ideals (also causing a more conscious dealing with hindrances),
by which one can become more clear what one wants to realize within one’s
lifetime. Fascinating above all is that through this way of working, creative
abilities are being stimulated; therefore the workshops may be interesting
to those who want to do more with organic sculpturing and modeling.
The twelve senses can be divided within three groups. The senses of the
first group, consisting of the taste, the smell, sight and warmth-sense-organ,
have a more or less direct relation to the outside world. The senses of
the second group make it possible to observe what is going on between
the outward and the inner skin (the bones), consisting of the touch sense,
the life sense and the senses of movement and balance. The third group
consists of more spiritual orientated senses: the sense of hearing, thinking,
the speech - or Word sense and the I-sense.
The workshop takes four hours for each sense.
VI. Course of the
Planet Influences as Organ Processes within Man and Organization -Through
Rhythm and Clay-modeling (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
Each of the planets move in a specific rhythm and
gesture along the sky and can thus be differentiated and recognized. Within
us they bring forth the organ-processes, that guide the life processes.
Therefore we experience specific soul moods, we think in certain ways
and we are addressed by them within our way of acting. Normally we are
hardly aware of this.
It is possible to live oneself in into the effects of a specific organ-process
through directed instructions. Through clay modeling one can experience
within artistic acting such a process, by making it objective and placing
it within the consciousness. Comparing each others work further reinforces
this consciousness-process.
By experiencing the kinds of measures and rhythms of each process one
can learn to experience and recognize their effects upon life. Through
the comparison of rhythms with those of the other planets one can get
a feeling for the organizing and conducting forces they provoke.
In a more objectively perceptible way the planet-processes work within
the sections of economic organizations. I.e. the sales-department has
to do with Mercury, which has to do with the lung-process - that is input
/ output; literally breathing - what comes in, must go out (e.g. by the
Romans Mercury was seen as the God of Trade).
Learning the observation of planet workings within organizations gives
a good possibility to get to know the mutual interactions.
This course thus offers different ways of losing oneself in the planet
and organ effects and can also stimulate one in developing the empathetic
abilities for the consciousness of inspiration.
The course lasts half a day, but needs to be repeated for each organ process
(7 in total).
VII. Clay modeling
the Virtues that Lead to the Development of the Lotus Flowers (Astrognomics)
Lotus Flowers are higher sense-organs that can help
us in the observation of the realms of life, soul and spirit. We can develop
them by striving for the good. This means that out of understanding and
discernment (freedom) we can conduct our actions (thus becoming conscious
warmth), as to develop the good in ourselves, the other and the circumstances
in which we live.
Every action/deed is a form in the life-world and creates gestures in
it. Yet we do not ‘see’ this gesture. By conducting our actions
consciously, we envelop its gesture with a layer of insight, viz. soul-substance.
At the same time the possibilities are created to observe it. We can deepen
this observing activity by clay modeling the gestures of our actions or
virtues and by verifying them if they fit or not. Discussion with fellow-students
helps to intensify this consciousness-process.
In this course various virtues are clay modeled, which all cohere with
specific lotus flowers and one of its petals. The work is individual and
one’s life-experience is the material to work with. Working group-wise
creates a basis of concentration and confidence, which helps to clarify
and if necessary correct things during the review.
The seven major lotus flowers and the total of petals they have adds up
to 64. Half of them still need to be developed by us. It is possible to
go through two petals in 5 hours.
VIII. Dancing
and Moving to the Virtues to can be Developed by the Petals of the Lotus
Flowers out of written Text and Music (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
By dancing to the purposeful gestures which help
to develop the petals of our lotus flowers, we can become more aware of
them, and help our life body to act in this way. Thus, we create entries
for ourselves to the realms of life and of the soul. The gestures are
only given in a rudimental form, and can thus be improvised on by the
participants. The music and words are written in the scales, rhythms and
measure types that cohere with and help our souls and life bodies to move
easier into those. The words describe the processes. Each participant
chooses a specific petal which he will model out in clay as a gesture.
Afterwards he will learn that to the other participants.
The course lasts five hours.
IX. Working with
Elementals in Technique - By Means of Clay-modeling (Astrognomics)
There are more and more technical inventions and machines in our culture
which are applied in our daily life. We can not neglect these or put them
aside. It is more important to struggle for a more conscious connection
with them, which can create possibilities for further development for
them and for us. In this workshop we will work with the methodology of
clay modeling in a sequence of 7 steps, by which the participants can
experience what lives within us and what our connection is to the elemental
being that dwells in the machine. The focus is to try to achieve a better
relationship with it, by which we can trace within ourselves what the
ideal is we inwardly strive for which the machine provokes in us. Then
our attempt is to figure out which virtues can and may be developed to
come to a common development with that elemental being. Those virtues
which are to be developed help us to unfold and shape the petals of our
lotus flowers. The clay modeling helps in the process of achieving this.
Like this technique can become a moral technique.
By observing through one or more of the twelve sense-organs, we experience
ourselves and the surrounding world and are capable of finding our way.
By observing thoroughly what effect a certain sense-impression has and
by expressing this impression and what it calls forth in us through clay-modeling,
one can get a steadier relation towards the impressions. Besides this
one can get clear on the intentions of one’s own will and the specific
ideals (also causing a more conscious dealing with hindrances), by which
one can become more clear what one wants to realize within one’s
lifetime. Fascinating above all is that through this way of working, creative
abilities are being stimulated, also in relation to the elemental being
in the machine.
The course will take four hours. You can bring in your own machine (like
computer, cell phone, coffee machine etc.).
X. Dances to the Planets
Mercury and the Moon to get in Touch with their Influences upon the Earth
and within the Human Being (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
Through their rhythmical dances and different phases
the planets work upon us and the Earth in specific ways, activating the
various elemental beings of the Earth. By singing rhythmical songs, dancing
and clay modeling we can try to get in touch with these forces and the
beings which are active therein. The movements of the dances are to be
developed by the participants themselves as they occupy themselves with
a specific part. By modeling the gestures of some of these parts in clay,
one can deepen these experiences. By learning these gestures to the others
one by one, we can develop the inner faculties to come closer to the beings
in the planet spheres and their connection to our inner being.
The course for each planet lasts one day, but can be repeated several
times.
All the above mentioned courses can be given upon request. Their costs
depend on duration, attendance and own expenses. Instruments of the Zodiac
can also be built upon request. Books can be ordered (shipping costs will
be added).
For further information call:
Nicolaas de Jong: 00-31-(0)72 – 5898991 E-mail runewerkplaats@hotmail.com
or
Patrick Steensma :
Tel: 00-31-(0)72-5718504
Fax: 00-31-(0)72-5718541
E-mail: dolfijnmail.com@wolmail.nl
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Education
Working with the
Life World
-Learning to get along with the Life World as the
field of work of the Earth, the Soul and the Spirit.
-Learning to get along with the beings that work in and through the Life
Worlds in nature and technique; the elemental beings and Deva’s
-Discovering the developing being within oneself and the beings that are
active in us
-Working with the own double
-Working out practical applications in life and work
A starting point is Astrosophy and practical elaborations
of this by means of sound and form phenomenology (Goethean Science).
Dealing with the Life World means that one sees the
Earth as the realm of development and wants to learn to work with it in
a transformative way. The social aspect of the group process is very important
with this.
The artistic phenomenological methods by means of communal singing and
clay modeling help to open up the soul and spirit for the realms of clear
feeling / inspiration and of clear willing / intuition.
During the education each participant will make a
assay which is connected to the own field of work. There is being expected
that each participant will work at home at this assay during the blocks
II and III. At the end it will be presented.
There is a syllabus for each Block.
The courses are being conducted by Nicolaas M. the
Jong, astrosopher, writer and artist.
Structure:
Each Tuesday, existing of:
Morning 9.30 - 11 o’clock Introductory
lecture
11.15 - 17 o’clock Practice work; living oneself in by means of
singing and movement, and working this out in clay modelling.
3 periods of each a trimester - 14 Tuesdays: these
build on each other.
There are two weekends ‘Finding your Way in
the Life Worlds’ in which several of the education methods in the
worlds inside and outside world are being presented.
6 – 8 August in Bergen N.H.;
3 - 5 September in Warnsveld, near Zutphen.
See below.
Period I 14
September - 15 December 2004 Introduction in the different
life areas:
Modelling out in clay from the sense impressions onwards
Introduction in Astrosophy
7 Planet processen in man and organisation
12 World visions
Elements and colour beings in plants and atmosphere
Element beings in techniques and their coherence with man
Period II
4 January - 5 April 2005 Elements to develop inspiration:
Elemental beings and landscape work
Lotusflower petals and inner development - virtues as gestures
Astrophony in connection to the human being to their part
Working with sonic horoscopy
Astrognomy and form studies
Human double, Son of Man and the life world
Working with kundalini
Period III
6
September – 6 December 2005 Elementen to develop intuition:
Finishing of the landscape work
The 9 sublitteral spheres
Earth geomancy
The development of perceptions to each other's will being as a beginning
to intuition
Sayings and gestures from the lotusflowers
Star constellations as ideals
Planets and development; the Moon’s dance
The making and presentation of the own pieces of work
During the periods II and III it is being expected
from the participants that thay make a piece of work at home. There can
be deliberated on this after appointments.
Dates:
Period I from 14 September 2004 onwards each Tuesday 9.30 - 17 o’clock;
14, 21, 28 September, 5, 12, 19, 26 October, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November,
7 and 14 December.
Period II from 4 January 2005 onwards each Tuesday 9.30 - 17 o’clock:
4, 11, 18, 25 January, 1, 8, 15, 22 February, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March,
5 April.
Period III from 6 September 2005 onwards each Tuesday from 9.30 - 17
o’clock:
6, 13, 20, 27 September, 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November,
6 December 2005.
CURRICULUM
Period
I September - December 2004 introduction in several life
areas:
I. 14 September 9. 30 - 11 o’clock introduction
`Finding the Way in the life world ' and `Senses as gates to our being'.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Self knowledge through one of the senses by
means of clay modelling: Sense of smell/ Sight sense.
21 September 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Colour perceptions, plant language
and natural beings by means of communal singing and clay modelling.
II. 28 September 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction
`Astrosophy and the four human bodies’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Self knowledge through one of the senses by
means of clay modelling: Tactile sense / life sense.
5 October 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Idem: Hearing sense / being or ego
sense.
III. 12 October 9. 30 - 11 o’clock: ` Planet workings
in astrosophical view’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: The planet influences as organ processes, experienced
in rhythms and inner spaces.
19 October 9.30 - 17 o’clock: clay modelling of inner organ spaces.
IV 26 October 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `An organic sevenfoldedness
in company and organisation
11.15 – 17 o’clock: Practical perception of 7foldedness along
a company: by means of image building, communal singing and clay modelling.
2 November 9.30 - 17 o’clock: The economic principle of the needs
in relation to the rhythms; experienced in movement and clay modelling.
V. 9 November 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `The twelve world
visions as considered from the Zodiac.’
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Observing of its own world vision along clay
modelling tasks.
16 November 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Perception of one another’s
the world vision. There is being worked in groups of three persons.
VI. 23 November 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `The houses
of the horoscope as reflections of the life world; the four elements experienced
through the rhythms of the houses.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Experiencing of the life world within by means
of rhythms and clay modelling.
30 November 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Rhythms from the elemental worlds
and our access to the there living
beings by means of observation and clay modelling.
VII 7 December 9. 30 - 11 o’clock: `A future vision
on the development of man; Astrophony as an operative appliance.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Experiencing of elemental beings in technique
by means of clay modelling.
14 December 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Searching for an ideal and virtue
gesture from ones own horoscope by means of rhythms and clay modelling.
Period II
January - April 2005 elements to development of inspiration:
I. 4 January 9.30 - 11 o’clock:
Introduction `The difference between experiences of light and darkness
-
the development of inspirative capacities; Lotusflowers and inner growth.’
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Moulding the virtue gestures which lead to the
development of lotus flowers: stirnlotus.
Evening 20 - 22.30: Discussion of the individual pieces of work.
11 January 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Working with element beings by means
of observation and acting.
II 18 January 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction `Landscape
work’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Working with air beings in a landscape temple.
Field work.
25 January 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Idem.
III 1st February 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction
`Astrophony and the human bodies’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Tonalities and measure types from the planets.
8 February 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Mould the virtue gestures from the
throat lotus flower.
IV. 15 February 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Continuation
`Astrophony and the human bodies and `The twelve main
virtues in connection to the heart.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Sound and rhythm as experienced from ones own
horoscope.
22 February 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Moulding of the virtue gestures from
the heart’s lotus flower.
V. 1st March 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction `Astrognomy
and form studies - an entrance from astral’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Communal singing the aspects and moulding the
perceptions from ones own horoscope
in sound and rhythm.
8 March 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Moulding the virtue gestures from the
Solar Plexus lotus flower.
VI 15 March 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `The human double,
Son of Man and the life world’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Perception of ones own inner world on the basis
of the sonic horoscope by means of rhythm and singing.
22 March 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Moulding the virtue gestures from the
belly lotus flower.
VII 29 March 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `Kundalini and
the tree of life in myth and human development’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Moulding the virtue gestures from the tailbone
lotusflower.
5 April 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Working with kundalini by communal singing
and clay modelling.
Period III September
- December 2005 elements to the development of intuition:
I. 6 September 9.30 - 11 o’clock:
The mysteries of the darkness and the inspirative-intuitive development.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Observation of ones own elemental being and
aspects of the double by means of communal singing and clay modelling.
13 September 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Moulding the virtue gestures from
the crown lotus flower.
II 20 September 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction
' Earth geomancy'. Detailed discussion of the pieces of work.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Working with earth beings in a landscape temple.
Field work.
27 September 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Idem.
III 4 October 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction `Working
in the sublitteral spheres.’
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Sayings and gestures from the lotus flower petals.
Movement and clay modelling.
11 October 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Working in the sublitteral spheres
by means of rhythmical sayings and clay modelling.
IV 18 October 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction `
Will being, karma and intuition’.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Observing of willing gestures from the horoscope
by means of rhythms and clay modelling.
25 October 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Observing of the will being in each
other's gestures along movement tasks
and by means of clay modelling.
V. 1st November 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Introduction
`Ideals from the star constellations in relation to man.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Working out star image ideals from the horoscope
by means of music and clay modelling.
8 November 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Idem.
VI 15 November 9.30 - 11 o’clock: `The place of
landscape temples in the live being of Mother Earth. Earth lotus flowers
and development. 11.15 - 17 o’clock: Working with fire beings in
a landscape temple. Field work.
22 November 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Idem, water beings.
VII 29 November 9.30 - 11 o’clock: Overview of
developmental possibilities in several directions of research and science.
11.15 - 17 o’clock: Moon’s dance on the basis of text and
music, by means of movement and clay modelling.
6 December 9.30 - 17 o’clock: Presentation of the end pieces of
work and evaluation.
Dates with reservation.
Address: Brugstraat 5, Arnhem. Outside CS Arnhem to Right,
beyond bus station, 2nd street to the right.
Costs: € 750. – per Period
Possibly participation per day € 60. - (For course participants which
have formerly missed pieces of the schooling path)
Reduction in consultation.
Weekends `Finding
your Way in the Life Worlds'
introduction to the education `Working with the Life Worlds '.
By means of observation, communal singing and clay
modelling we try to discover handles in ourselves which
can open doors to the life worlds. The singing helps to open our souls
as a result of which we can link ourselves with the phenomena in and around
us. Moulding helps to condense and objectify the perceptions. In discussions
we try to make our experiences and perceptions more conscious. Some elements:
- Singing and moulding pictures in colour moods,
- Singing and moulding the strength formative forces of the elements and
elemental beings in a plant
- Singing of the moods of a moment, against the astrophonical sounds of
the day horoscope
- Moulding from sense impressions to the inner world
- Further studies of the inner world through the organ processes by means
of moulding and planet measure types; willing gesture, ideals and virtues
to be developed
- The development of lotus flower petals as virtue gestures by means of
clay modelling.
Time: Friday evening 20 - 22. 30
introduction, Saturday and Sunday the whole day from 10 - 16.30.
6 - 8 August in Bergen, Wetering 52. Bus 160, 162 from Alkmaar CS;
3 - 5 September in Warnsveld, near Zutphen. Kerkelaan 17, Warnsveld. Bus
80 from Zutphen CS
Costs: € 125. - including coffee,
tea, lunch, material.
Information and registration:
N.M. de Jong
Wetering 52
1862 HT – Bergen, The Netherlands
tel 0031-(0)72–58 98 991 of 0031-(0)6–40 22 8769
email runewerkplaats@hotmail.com
See as well www.bruisvat.nl.
Payment: Rune-werkplaats
Bergen
Post Bank account (Girono.) 9276505
Naming ‘Education Working with the Life World’
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Training
Music Therapy on
the Basis of Astrosophy
- analysis of a birth horoscope to temperament, constitution,
soul type, world vision, soul constellations and the karma, from astrosophical
insights
- working in music from the four human bodies of spirit, soul, life body
and the physical, from astrophonical insights. This means working to tonality,
rhythm foot and measure type.
- tackling concrete of life areas and body processes
- curing by means of healing sounds and rhythms
- handles to self insight and schooling
by Nicolaas M. de Jong, astrosopher, writer, sculptural
and musical artist, instrument builder.
In this music therapy training there is a specific
treatment to the four human bodies. Briefly said can the spirit, or an
idea, be recognised as a musical motive, that is carried by a tonality,
on a rhythm and in a measure type. What concerns musical elaborations,
this includes targeted work with rhythm feet and measure types. Rhythm
feet bring us in contact with the different life areas, and measure types
with the organ processes. These are inner reflections in time of the planet
movements towards the Earth, which bring forth our organ processes. These
inspirative path through the heart has become accessible since the crucifixion
of Christ in the life world in 1942.
The starting point for the music therapy is the vast system of interpretation
of a birth horoscope about problems and possibilities of the individual
development, developed in the astrosophy. Each component is being approached
in an artistic way.
With music the soul contents and willing gestures can be brought up in
the consciousness, and it is possible to can be worked at parts that are
out of balance. Clay modelling helps to condense the observations. This
gives an insight in processes in its own inner world, view on onesidednesses
and weaknesses and new possibilities for development. There is being worked
with the voice and the lyre. There will be moved in an experiencing way
on intervals and tonalities. Rhythms and measure types are being walked
upon or danced. All working methods are phenomenological of nature.
This training gives handles to be able work with patients to specific
problems in a directed way. Initially there is being worked with ones
own horoscope, which gives oneself insights through experience. This can
be applied at others later.
With music one works on the soul level, with the rhythms on life processes,
and with the measure types targeted to the body organs. Thus a pallet
of possibilities arises to be able to work with patients in a directed
way.
The first part of the training offers a basis
concept framework of astrosophy from the imaginative
experience, through which a birth horoscope can be read as an analysis
of the bodies, the temperament, the constitution, soul type, world vision,
strong and weak body processes, soul qualities and conflicts, and the
direction of the karma.
In the second part of training
these elements are approached musically in tonality (major and church
scales), rhythm and measure types. These are being experienced by means
of communal singing, movement and dancing. These elements are being integrated
and there will be worked aimed on planet positions (soul regions) and
configurations.
In the third part there
will be practised with the musical components in a directed way, and inner
perceptions of the planet positions can be modelled out in clay.
Moreover an introduction is being given of the lyres as developed in the
Rune workshop which each has the form gesture of one the zodiacal star
images as sound producing principle in it. These can tighten up the therapy
still further.
It is worked with voice, lyre and the body. Moreover
inner experiences are being modelled out in clay. Some knowledge of the
musical notation is necessary. Take along easily sitting clothing and
shoes.
There will be worked with the book ` Karmic Astrosophy - a practically
experiencable method in images, music and plastic. Costs € 32. -.
CURRICULUM:
Period 1. (4
days): Introduction in astrosophy:
Subjects:
1. Components of the horoscope from macrocosmical-earthly phenomena. Observation
aznd lively thinking. Star images - symbols as gestures of star images;
Planets - movements and spheres, connections as flowers; Houses - earthly-etherical
reflections of celestial 12foldedness; pointed instead of peripheral.
will character; from ego targeted the world.
2. Connection with human bodies and the soul: light and darkness, the
four elements.
Coming to the image of the different components of the horoscope. Groping
of the qualities and the
Possibility of experiencing these; recognition of the life tableau before
birth.
3. The four earthly elements; experiencing of this on the growth of a
plant.
Elements and human bodies. Feedback to the own horoscope; Temperament
and constitution.
4. Arc of the planet environments and angel hierarchies up to in the human
bodies and the link with the horoscope. Life destiny in the horoscope.
Planet typing from their phenomena; link to the inner organs. Planet connections
(aspects) as flower gestures.
5. Houses, life areas: sharply, from ego to the periphery, the world.
World directions experienced as rhythms. nature picture from houses and
link with the elements.
6. The northern and Southern constellations as archetypes and ideal workings.
7. The making of a rhythmical poem of planet cogs. Retrospection, summary
and questions.
Period 2. (5
days) Astrophonical elements:
Components:
1. Introduction `The four human bodies in measure, rhythm, tonality and
musical motive’.
Perception of the musical intervalls: separately and in singing and percepted
movement.
2. Zodiacal star images and their experience with the major scales.
Listening, experiencing. Some examples from a horoscope.
3. Planets and their perception in the church tone ladders; experiencing
these by singing and moving.
Modelling out of feeling and inner movement of the tonalities.
4. Planets experienced als organ processes from there movement, transformed
in measure type.
Walking of the measure types, as well as rhythm differentiations in these,
and modelling out of one or more as inner experienced spaces.
5. Houses as reflections of the life body, experienced in rhythm feet.
6. The making of musical motives within tonality, rhythm and measure type
of a planet position in ones own horoscope.
7. Experiencing aspects as musical tensions and harmonies; working on
the own horoscope and singing of aspecting planets to each other from
an example horoscope.
8. Experiencing of sound spaces in zodiacal lyres.
Period 3. (5
days) Elaboration to astrognomy:
In this period is being practised with several planet constellations in
music, singing to each other and with the lyre. Components of this are
being moulded.
Modelling out of a certain planet constellation in measure, rhythm, melody:
- the feeling,
- the soul space in which that feeling lives
- the willing gesture of its rhythm;
- the willing gesture which the musical motive calls forth in measure,
rhythm and tonality
- ideal in which this has been founded in a willing gesture
- the virtue to be developed to be able to realise the ideal.
Or: what can be done against the influence for the good.
The same for constellation; aspected planet constellations
to one another.
The element qualities and organ processes can be recognised and indicated
from this.
Place and time: On application.
Expensive: 14 days from 9.30 - 17 p.m., spread over a trimester;
one day in the week.
Costs: € 750. -
Information and entry:
N. M. de Jong tel. 0031 (0)72 - 58.98.991 or (0)6
- 40.22.87 69
e-mail runewerkplaats@hotmail.com
See also www.runework.com
Payment:
Rune-werkplaats, Bergen
Girono. 9276505
Writing `Training music therapy on the basis of astrosophy’.
This training falls under Jasper
schooling courses
and is a javelin point of the Fjodor
foundation
Info. tel. 0031 (0)72 - 571.85.04
for information, see www.fjodor.org
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