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ISBN 90 – 77147 – 06 – 3
COSMOBIOLOGY on the base
of sonic phenomenology ISBN 90-77147-01-2
KARMIC ASTROSOPHY - a practical
method of experience ISBN 90-77147-02-0
SCIENCE OTHERWISE (Wetenschap
Anders) Translated into English ISBN90-77147-04-7 For an excerpt of Economics, click here. For an excerpt of the sevenfoldedness, here.
GRAIL CHRISTIANITY UNTIL
NOW In English ISBN 90-77147-03-9
WORKING with ELEMENTAL
BEINGS Also transated into German Bounded, 160 pages € 23, - ISBN 90 – 77147 – 07 – 1
ASTROSOPHY and the GRAIL
in English
LYRES in the form gestures
of the Zodiacal star images
Music therapeutic applications
out of the horoscope (Also translated
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THOUGHT GLIMMER (Gedachtengloren)
Music to Starry ways
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ON THE WAY TO GLIMMERING
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CD Three Songs of Parcival by Rik RunoR and Friends -Songs for lyre and voices € 6, 50
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Economics - Excerpt from ‘Science Otherwise’ I. Introduction. Economics as the Objectivity of Desires and Passions. Basics of the Twelve-Foldedness. In the Economy products or their manufacturers on the one hand and consumers on the other, find one another, and by the mechanism of demand and supply the prices of goods are determined. Underlying this principle is the scope of the needs of every human being who is part of the population on Earth. The primary necessities of life like nutrition, drinking, clothing and having a roof over our heads are such needs. This just as well goes for exchanging thoughts, manufacturing goods and therefore the refining of raw materials and the refining of our faculties, as well as the social need of the desire to mean something to the other and exchange warmth. In short, in the Economy the drives, which are connected to the life activities of our organs, find expression. Although, this realm of drives is mostly still unpurified, which is shown by the following. Warfare between people(s) and nations is increasingly considered as barbaric. But within the economy it is still thought of as quite normal to conquer markets, arouse needs rather than merely meeting them, compete with one another in a life-and-death struggle, take over or confiscate competitors, a.o. via the so called “hostile take-overs”. Every purpose of attaining an economic hold and to let it grow stronger, where ever possible, is generally approved of. Taken from an astrosophical point of view, the needs that come to light and well up out of Life, have to do and coincide with the twelve realms of Life, which are covered by the houses of the horoscope (as such the houses consist of a reflection of the Etheric World, which constructs and maintains the physical world, having its micro reflection in our Etheric and physical Body). The following is an elaboration thereof, via giving some of their contemporary forms of appearance in the Economy (+ their ruling zodiacal signs, mundane ruling planets and specific element). They are: I– The need for the realization of one’s self through action. A reflection of the function of the gall, the force of the Self in the blood (Aries, Mars, Fire). In the Economy this comes about within the creation of idols (e.g. within sports and the music and entertainment industry) and programmed profiles of activity (group travels, advertising and sponsoring, being absorbed in 9-5 jobs 5 days a week, fortified a.o. by mergers of large corporations). This shows the attempt and/or tendency to manipulate people in their activities of will. II– The need for a handhold in earthly things. This can be in the form of possessions, forms and goods in one’s surroundings like e.g. real estate. The transformation of the earthly by means of art is an expression thereof (also trading art is such a handhold). It is a reflection of the pancreas, whereby the fluxes of Life take care of the earthly handhold (Taurus, Venus, Earth). In the Economy this is reflected in the monetary and banking system which takes care of the flow and canalization of goods. Therefore the Stock and Option market and Long Term (goods) Trading markets belong to this, as well as the World Trade Organization, agriculture, brokerage, cattle breeding, the trade in gem stones and jewelry, and the oil-business. III – The need for impressions and exchange; the absorption of what is going on in the world. This is a reflection of the function of the lungs (Gemini, Mercury, Air/Light). In the Economy this is about the flow of information via TV, the internet, newspapers, magazines and other forms of media. Also education, in as much as it transfers knowledge (it is not meant here as in the sense of schooling). The trade in general as a connection and communication (which in its self is without a morality - trade is trade). IV – The need for a domestic enwrapment wherein one can inwardly digest one’s experiences and feelings. This is a reflection of the function of the stomach (Cancer, the Moon, Water). In the Economy this coheres with interior design. In music it comes about as the ballads of Life (also the sentimental ones) which try to intensify feelings. Other forms are doctors- and love novels, the film- industry, personal hygiene (fitness, bodybuilding, sauna’s, health resorts, massage, beauty parlors, cupboards for domestic medications and remedies), hotels and one’s favourite bar. Also: nutrition. V – The need to express oneself towards others and one’s surroundings as a centrally experienced being and as a unique individuality, and to conduct its direction. This is a reflection of the function of the heart (Leo, Sun, Fire). In the Economy this appears as the culture of recreation as in hobbies, going out, do-it-yourself, vacations and tourism. Also gambling, the care for the interior and clothing ([e-]mail order firms), taking care of one’s personal appearance (improvement of the body, such as artificial hair, silicone prosthesis, face-lifts). Besides this also the stock market as a hole in the economy, out of which one intends to manipulate its direction by a.o. creaming off the flows of money. Making a career and the looking for specific groups, like yups. Entrepreneurship; small- and medium sized businesses. Donations for good causes. VI – The need for a critical analysis and to
put oneself at the service of others or processes. This is a reflection
of the processes in the digestion (Virgo, Mercury, Earth). In the Economy
this can be agriculture, therapeutics as a guiding path for process (within
different therapeutic professions), the care taking professions (doctors,
nurses and other hospital staff), providing service (logistics, tax lawyers),
accountants and consultancy’s (who’s work is mostly confined
to critical analyses and VII – The need for somebody else, being and getting together, listening, opening one’s self up to the other; to organize in a communual manner. This is a reflection of the function of the kidneys (Libra, Venus, Air/Light). In the Economy this will be diplomacy, mediation between corporations (like in cartels, joint-ventures, holdings etc.) and between corporations and employees (like employment agencies, secondment companies, recruiting and selection companies and headhunters), between people (marriage/family cases) and mediation in e.g. labour cases. Also legal counseling, arbitration and psychotherapy. VIII- The need to experience the intensity and challenges
of Life; the pure drive of survival (this is closely connected to sexuality
and death experiences). This is a reflection of the forces of the Tree
of Life that well up from beneath the coccyx and at first reveal themselves
as the libido and sexuality. A certain drive for power and control coheres
with this need (Scorpio, Pluto, Water). IX – The need to enlarge one’s views, spiritual development and growth. This is a reflection of the synthesizing function of the liver and the up striving force of the muscles of the thighs (Sagitarry, Jupiter, Fire). In the Economy this comes about as books (through publishing companies, but also via websites, etc.), education and schooling, sports activities, propaganda (advertising) as an expansion of the market for products, the (cultural) travel industry (e.g. to places of pilgrimage), economic growth as a belief, trainings for (spiritual) management, religion as a commercial product (TV-priests etc.), visiting exhibitions and museums, the broadcasting of cultural programs. X – The need to distinguish one’s identity by means of (social) status. This is a reflection of the function of the spleen as a gesture of will that has become, the skeleton as an articulated and cohering whole and which build up shows a hierarchy (Capricorn, Saturn, Earth). In the Economy this appears as professional trainings, the cultivation of symbols of status, the public economy (departments, the administrative machinery on provincial and municipal levels), big national and multinational corporations and their inner branches and their relationship to one another (the tendency of and urge for mergers brings about superficiality and a de-individualization of humanity and its culture). Management consultancy. Chambers of Commerce, the revenue, exclusive clubs (Rotary, fraternities, secret societies and orders). The film industry as an objectivation of the watch sense; so also camera, TV, internet, video. Alpinism. XI – The need for the exchange of warmth, forms
of culture and the nourishment of one another, friendships and spiritually
akin friends. This is a reflection of the connection between the functions
of the heart and the spleen; gestures of warmth and will (Aquarius, Uranus,
Air/Light) XII – The need to draw back in one’s self to inwardly experience the richness and oneness. This is a reflection of the functions of the heart and the liver; clair-audiency of inner sounds and images that are formed. This can turn into drawing back from the world and the desire to be taken up within the larger whole, generating the battle for either going up into nothingness - viz. dissolving – or into the beingness – i.c. the spiritual world (Pisces, Neptune, Water). Forms in the Economy are the large institutions like hospitals, retirement homes, sanitariums, monasteries, psychiatrically homes and clinics etc.. Included are also funeral directors and the collection of refuse and combustion services. Besides this the satisfaction of the need for a depth psychology, meditation, yoga, the group consciousness around a guru (the dissolving of the one’s ego), experiences of myths and fairy tales (e.g. the one of Christophorus). Also audio techniques belong to this (the auditory organ); classical or popular music concerts, visiting discotheques, techno, house which e.g. gives the tendency of forgetting one’s self for a while. This latter aspect carried further points to means of intoxication (drugs and alcohol; also the newer forms of smart pills, xtc etc. although these have been developed out of the need for analysis and the guidance of processes of the sixth house). This list, although far from complete, reveals that the contemporary created and existing forms are there to satisfy the twelve basic needs, but that these forms also have a deteriorated, misformed, one-sided and/or abusive character, e.g. labeling people as being merely “consumers”. This becomes apparent when one tries to gain awareness about a way how these needs could be shaped in an authentic manner so they will be able to coincide with the nature of those needs. Thus, a striving can come about focused on creating such forms and products that fulfill as much as possible the real underlying needs which cohere with the characterizations of and seeds for development which human beings carry within. At first this requires the development of cognition about the needs of the human being, then about the social organism of the society in which the human being is embedded, and then it requires making moral decisions - over and over again. This process of gaining cognition and awareness goes quite far, for each object that you make, each deed you execute has an economical consequence, because by it you make a choice to either enter the economic intercourse or not. The sphere of Life is strongly and directly connected with the Economy, although every action doesn’t have to directly take place in the money and exchange market. But, the effects of an action are indeed registered in the World Memory (Akasha Chronicle), and other people take this up either consciously or subconsciously. Every action thus at least forms a social gesture. Besides the needs outlined above, which create Life on an economic level, there are the processes of the organs which form the mediating force between Life and its drives. They generate seven workings of the soul which reflect this (this is the part of the soul of the processes of Life) and these are thus transposed in wishes and/or desires: * The desire to strive for the clarification of the strivings of will by means of doing research (a reflection of the function of the spleen in the soul/Saturn). In the Economy this coincides with the desire for development via professions; also with new ways of manufacturing through carefully selected research. * The desire to understand and synthesize, to meditate on the effects of an action or an idea (a reflection of the function of the liver in the soul/Jupiter). In the Economy this appears as the desire to ascend on the societal ladder, so one can acquire a better clarity of arrangement and positions for making decisions. The attempt to gain influence in policy making and thus to contribute in determining future events by thinking about it. * The desire to realize strivings of the will (a reflection of the function of the gall in the soul/Mars). In the Economy this reflects the mobilization of labour to be able to finish manufacturing in a clearly directed way. This leads to undertaking of initiatives and (the) management (thereof). * The desire to create a balance between what comes from outside and that what comes from inside (a reflection of the function of the heart in the soul/Sun). In the Economy this comes about in attempts of gaining positions of central power, so one can group others around oneself and become in charge in a guiding, directing way (in small, at home, as well as in the bigger contexts). *The desire for clarity in the exchange of feelings and to “fall asleep” into the being of the other by connecting (a reflection of the function of the kidneys in the soul/Venus). In the Economy it appears in creating space, wherein the organizational forces can flow. Often by doing organizational, administrative or secretarial work; also office work. * The desire for communication and connection (a reflection of the function of the lungs in the soul/Mercury). In the Economy this comes about as the market in its broadest sense, where supply and demand meet through personal contact. * The desire to support, care, reflect, consume and
grow (a reflection in the soul of Life with its germ forces and ongoing
processes in the brains/the Moon). In the Economy it consists of each
consuming unity (single people, families, communities etc.), as well as
the manufacturing party All these workings of desires operate in a modifying way on the needs, through which more combinations become possible that form the configuration of a company. As such the products meet needs on the one hand and the way of manufacturing and of selling on the other according to the “soul-quality” of the company - the specific colouring of its being. As a matter of fact this also goes for the specific colouring of a working and living community (research on this can be done out of sociology). All the time there is a quest for new ways of manufacturing, viz. techniques that can ease up, speed up and thereby reduce the costs of manufacturing. To this aim someone has to set him/herself free from the economic sphere and do research. Thus, he can condense an idea stemming from the spiritual world into an operating principle (Steiner calls this the incarnation of a spiritual-idea into a means of manufacturing). All these ideas, each originating from one of the twelve directions of the world, are brought forth and indicated by the star signs of the Zodiac. Some of the indications are as follows: Aries - explosion engines, starter machineries
As a result of the unpurified condition of our life
of feeling and the therewith cohering variety of needs, which reflect
themselves within the Economy, we find the above described 'barbarism'
in what these days is referred to as the “Free Market Economy”.
The Economy in itself is an unselfish organism, but the people who engage
in its realm haven’t reached that stage on numerous domains. Various
ideological systems have run aground because of this (liberalism, socialism,
communism), and only the crippled and eroded “Democracy-in-name”
still seems to function somewhat. Its burocracy is more and more starting
to become an autonomous unity, whereupon not a single citizen who isn’t
willing to lobby, has any influence at all. Together with the deteriorate
legal system they form an Economy of and on its own, with its own laws. One can also try to communually sing the divisions of the company or institution in the way how it unfolds as a whole. In this way one creates with each other an artistic sound image, that is connected to one’s soul, with which one can make the historical course, by which the organization came into being, experienceable in one’s soul, and thus become aware of it. One can subsequently focus on claymodelling that what the will of the organization actually is through its products and set goals (this can be done for a football club as much as for a church community or a company). By going into this artistic process, one can get a better understanding for the organization and gain awareness of it, as well as the individual tasks and possibilities for development containing this. Viz. one can try to connect one’s self inwardly with the guiding Archangel, on the one hand by clarifying the organs through which he expresses himself within the organization, and thus to achieve a good division of tasks on the other hand. The latter by asking him to directly work into the thus developed consciousness of the participating people. Here the mentioned artistic processes help to connect and develop consciousness. Then one can ask one’s self the question of how the goals and possibilities of development can be attuned to each other. One then comes to making moral decisions on which basis the goals and/or products can be attuned. Here one enters into the realm of the superpersonal, in which the Archangel is active who leads the organization, and can decide to work with this or not. These Archangels, who connect themselves to an organization or institution, aren’t always the most harmonious beings, because they are in the middle of their development for they connect themselves through a company in a stronger way with the Earth. Earth itself isn’t their realm because of their personal karma. For participants who start to observe him, he can often show himself as rough, dragon-like, and this can be frightening. In order to come to organizations that are comprehensible and viable for each human being, one could unite in clearly structured, connections of cooperation, that can make practicable what every one has as qualities, talents and possibilities for development. To achieve this goal one has to focus on transforming the in itself unpurified economic life by connecting with one another on the basis of love and understanding for each others being (this is a basic prerequisite to subvert the competitive tendencies into a striving for associative connections). An ordinary company can be a model for this, which has been shaped and has been operating for several years, and has stabilized in growth and runs quite well. Thus the following organic functioning units can be distinguished herein: -The department of Research (& Development) Thus, these seven joined 'organs' are mutually active as separate divisions, each having their own colouring and task. In these organs the Archangel impresses itself as being in the process of incarnating in the company and inspires the people who work there and thus guide them. If one meditates about its consequences, one can come to the insight that the total social organism, spans the Earth and is active in smaller and larger organic cooperating units, which goes from government of the state to that of a district, as well as companies and associations and that they function in these divisions. This seven-foldedness occurs within a three-foldedness. The first two divisions have the predominant characterization of thinking: research and development and directing a company especially exercise policy determination by the faculty of thinking. In the middle one finds how three divisions express, though somewhat hidden, the social aspects inside a company; viz. the execution of decisions, a platform of communication and the inner setting by the secretariat. This brings about the predominance of feeling. In the last two divisions the Life of the will of the company becomes visible; the manufacturing and flow of goods from and to the company. Here it is embedded in the entire economy, for it is connected to the life units of people who have needs of consuming. This seven-foldedness irrevocably reveals the visibility of the three-foldedness of the social organism (see the figure at p. 346; also compare with p. 287) The seven-foldedness can serve as wherein the 3 ideals of The French Revolution (freedom, equality and brotherhood) can be traced and worked out. The relative freedom that prevails in the division of thinking which is more directed towards the spirit (R&D and the directorate), the division in the middle is that is more directed towards the soul and meeting each other (management, policy gathering and the administration), in which there could be a striving more or less for equality, and the third division is more directed towards the will through purchasing and sales and manufacturing. Thee latter could serve as wherein the ideals of brotherhood could prevail (and be developed) in the Economy. However, because of the so intense struggle of competition this doesn’t come out at all. A lot is still directed at the mere survival (of the fittest) and growth of the company (it has always wondered me extremely how employees can get so hooked up on the goods they were taking care of or manufacturing, and I could hardly find in them any inward affinity – for them it apparently was more about the functioning within the totality of the corporate organism than about the product itself). Indeed being able to work for somebody else out of inward interest, and to want to strive for the three above mentioned ideals of freedom of spiritual life, equality and mutual understanding in the social setting, and brotherhood in the economic realm, one could start up associations of cooperations that indeed have this seven-foldedness as their basis, where one is not merely focused on the expansion of the company/institution/one’s self, but on the realization of the ideals and strivings of will that are present within those who cooperate. To achieve this goal or to get into the process to try to strive for that goal one can then support each other and strive for clarity in this realm. The consequence is that you thus, in an ordering manner, work in on one anothers karma. An underlying purpose here is that one can invoke a higher guiding Archangelic being with whom one can further work out of one’s own goals. Such a cooperating unity can have the following structure, arranged by the organic division (also see theognomics and sociology): * Saturn/spleen division. * Jupiter/liver division. * Mars/gall division. * Venus//kidneys division. * Mercury/lungs division. * The Moon/sexual organs division. * The Sun/heart division. All this can function as a socially breathing entity, because the more spiritually directed part, out of which research and the shaping of ideas originates, is quite an inward happening. In the middle framework there‘s space for taking initiatives within a sound inward setting, meetings can take place, especially within the policy-organ which is in the core of it all. Therefore a platform needs to be created focused on and enabling to meet one another, exchange and consultate together - also with organizations from outside the cooperating body. That what shapes the basis of the company that stands within the economic realm, consists of the contacts with the surroundings, with other initiatives and work-relations, and the products that make contact with the outside world. There the manufacturing and products become visible (note that courses, trainings and service are products as well). Outlined it looks like the following:
Core of activities that are directed towards the spirit
(I & II): The participants or representatives of these divisions
can step in or out of these divisions as they please (although when they
want to step out they will have to take care of adequate succession that
has to be accepted by the others ). The freedom creates possibilities;
the implementation of the divisions and positions can occur according
to their (soul) qualities. It has to be clear that within this structure
a person, I.e. who’s major task within the organization it is to
take care of connections with the outside world - depending on his/her
karma and cohering faculties - positively can embark in other fields,
like R&D. It is more about an emphasis of filling in a position linked
up with the acceptance of responsibility, enabling to come to a good cooperation.
By acknowledging and stimulating each others initiatives, qualities and faculties the participants can endeavour to produce the spiritual images and ideals which they carry inward in a better way. Thus, strivings for spiritual life (the essence of every ideal is actually such a striving) is addressed by cooperating out of its source. Out of such structured bodies of cooperation, which have such an open structure democracy can be transformed from the bottom up, out of consciousness. By lateral connections between mutually cooperating organizations and companies interactive forms of cooperation and associative networks can come into existence, each with their own platforms of exchange and questions. This prevents a lot of unnecessary competition, and fosters more cooperation and further refinement of manufacturing. As a matter of fact within society this can only become well practicable, when there is a build up, advancement and maintenance of a spiritual life, viz. (the coming into existence of) an ongoing constructive quest for the meaning and purpose of Life, that will nourish the social and economic Life. So, it calls for a renewing culture of New Mysteries. At the beginning of the 20th Century Rudolf Steiner also called forth for this, but it has hardly been taken up in culture. Cohering with this is the possibility to bring this about in society via an impulse of renewed education and a renewed Spiritual High School - this is elaborated on in chapter 7. In short it comes down to the following division (coinciding with the steps 2, 3 and 4 of Goethean Science): * Spiritual Science. The working out of a keen, acute
and vivid thinking towards an imaginative consciousness (coinciding with
the workings of the star images of the Zodiac; workings of Uranus) Such an organization of spiritual life needs to go along with schooling, training and the protection of its contents for those who aren’t yet mature enough to receive it and/or work with it. This is logic since, as is described above, the realm of the will (passions) and the soul space (desires) initially are still unpurified. Shortly summarized: * The Economy serves to provide in a 12-folded pattern
of needs Out of these insights one can try to approach the economy and transform it in a way that does justice to each human being on his/her own level of development. For this purpose the forms mentioned above give some possibilities, but they can be worked out per division and group as is desired, preferred or needed. This can be achieved by: * A striving for understanding in stead of a self-directed
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