Three-part Seminar in Observation with Roger Druitt
Where: The Bee Classroom, Ashurst Wood, West Sussex RH19 3RX
When: 30 Jan 2012 to 26 Mar 2012 - From 09:30 to 17:45
Event Information
Monday 30th January, Monday 27th February and Monday 26th March 2012
(Please note these three sessions form a whole and attendance at all three is strongly encouraged. Also, the sessions do not involve observation of bees/hives)
The Natural Beekeeping Trust is delighted to have the opportunity of welcoming back Roger Druitt to lead an exciting three-part course in Observation. Roger is one of the foremost practitioners in the field of anthroposophical approaches to perceiving Nature and has been teaching “anthroposophically-based observation” (Goethean Science) for 25 years at the Priest Seminary of the Christian Community in Stuttgart.
This course of three sessions, one each month, is aimed at deepening our perceptions of the natural world and in particular the world of bees.
This is to be achieved through observation exercises in the realm of plants based on the key to observation offered by Rudolf Steiner in his lectures, namely, to work first on outer forms, then metamorphosis and finally try to grasp the gesture of the being that is being observed. This method quite unabashedly involves the use of the human soul and senses as observational tools, yet is completely “scientific”.
It is as outer forms that we perceive the things around us. Whichever sense we are using, the sensation is called a Form. By letting these forms relate to one another – a soul activity – we become aware of the Metamorphosis between them. This is like the step from single note to melody in the realm of music, and we are familiar with this in all areas of sense perception. The soul combines the individual items of perception and makes them into one continuous flow; or: the soul has the capacity to let the individual items of perception group themselves within herself into a meaningful flow. This is a second stage in the whole process and leads over into the third, namely, to perceive the causation expressed in this flow or metamorphosis. This is Gesture.
Each separate day will be devoted to the practice of one of these areas as a kind of disciplinary tool, which will then be applied some aspect of bee life. In other words, the first meeting will be devoted to the observation of outer forms in plants and then in the life of bees: what you we actually see, hear, smell, touch, place. What movements do we see; what life and death do we see, and so on. The second meeting will build on this and look at the respective metamorphoses and the final session will be devoted mainly to moving into the realm of the gesture that reveals intentionality of the bee nature in the different realms of its functioning.
Time: 9.30am sharp until 5.45pm each day
Cost: £160 for all three sessions/£75 for each individual session.
Suggested preparatory reading: Lectures 4 & 9 of “Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and the Kingdoms of Nature” (GA136), Rudolf Steiner; Lecture 2 of “Mystery of the Trinity “ (GA214), Rudolf Steiner
Please note that places are limited and booking is essential.
For further information and to book contact miranda@naturalbeekeepingtrust.org