April 6, 2013
“ Reverence awakens a power of sympathy in the soul through which we draw towards us qualities in the beings around us, qualities which would otherwise remain concealed.
Rudolf Steiner, ‘Knowledge of the Higher Worlds’ •
sydneyrudolfsteinercollege: Have your say on children, education and technology… The Draft Australian Curriculum: Technologies is available for national consultation from Tuesday 19 February on the consultation portal of the Australian Curriculum website http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ along with an online questionnaire. Consultation will close on Friday 10 May 2013. Feedback, including ratings and detailed comments on key elements of the curriculum, can be provided directly via the online questionnaires or as written submissions. All feedback during the consultation period will be collected and analysed by ACARA to guide the revision of the draft curriculum before it is published as the final curriculum.

sydneyrudolfsteinercollege:

Have your say on children, education and technology…

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Technologies is available for national consultation from Tuesday 19 February on the consultation portal of the Australian Curriculum website http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ along with an online questionnaire. Consultation will close on Friday 10 May 2013.

Feedback, including ratings and detailed comments on key elements of the curriculum, can be provided directly via the online questionnaires or as written submissions. All feedback during the consultation period will be collected and analysed by ACARA to guide the revision of the draft curriculum before it is published as the final curriculum.

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February 9, 2013
“ ‘…From what source does the moral and spiritual arise, which binds people together in a social way, which knits the threads uniting person to person? There is only one true source of the moral and spiritual in mankind, and this is what we may call mutual understanding and a love for humanity that is based on this human understanding. Wheresoever we may look for the arising of moral and spiritual impulses in mankind, in so far as these play a role in social life, it will invariably prove to be the case that, whenever such impulses have sprung forth in their pure form, they have arisen out of human understanding and human love. These are the actual driving force for the moral and spiritual impulses in the social sphere. And fundamentally speaking, in so far as he is a spiritual being, man lives on one thing only when he is with other human beings, and that is the development of human love and understanding….’
Rudolf Steiner, ‘Man as Symphony of the Creative Word’ •
January 20, 2013
“ ‘…We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has…’
Milan Kundera, ‘Laughable Loves’ •
December 5, 2012
Human Beings as Cosmic Co-Creators  In earlier times human beings experienced the forces of nature as acts of volition of powerful transcendent beings. Nature religions were formed for the purpose of relinking (religio) with these transcendent beings. At that time science and religion were integral paths to the Divine. Modalities of ritual and magic provided vehicles for interacting with transcendent beings that yielded insight into forces active in the physical world.  With the rise of empirical science, the experience of the beinghood of the forces of nature was replaced with the cognitive separation of transcendent beings and physical forces through empirical experimental methods. With this separation, transcendent beinghood was relegated to religion and knowledge of physical forces became the domain of science, opening a void in the soul betweenmysticism and empiricism…read on

Human Beings as Cosmic Co-Creators 

In earlier times human beings experienced the forces of nature as acts of volition of powerful transcendent beings. Nature religions were formed for the purpose of relinking (religio) with these transcendent beings. At that time science and religion were integral paths to the Divine. Modalities of ritual and magic provided vehicles for interacting with transcendent beings that yielded insight into forces active in the physical world.  With the rise of empirical science, the experience of the beinghood of the forces of nature was replaced with the cognitive separation of transcendent beings and physical forces through empirical experimental methods. With this separation, transcendent beinghood was relegated to religion and knowledge of physical forces became the domain of science, opening a void in the soul betweenmysticism and empiricism…read on

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October 31, 2012
“ I sense the essence of my being:
Thus does feeling speak
Which unites with the flooding light
In the sun-bright world.
It would bring warmth
Into clarity of thinking
And bind fast in one
The human being and the world.
Rudolf Steiner - verse for this week in the Southern Hemisphere in his Calendar of the Soul •
“ Here’s the thing always to remember. The crazy changes that we’re seeing now, the—you know, the fact that we broke the Arctic this summer, the fact that the oceans are 30 percent more acid, that’s all that’s all happened when you raise the temperature of the earth one degree. The same scientists who told us that was going to happen are confident that the temperature will go up four degrees, maybe five, unless we get off coal and gas and oil very quickly. And to do that, you know, it’s nice to talk to Washington, but in certain ways Washington has turned into customer service for the fossil fuel industry. It’s time to take on that industry directly.
Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: “If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It” (via theamericanbear)

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September 4, 2012
O sweet spontaneousearth how often havethedoting           fingers ofpurient philosophers pinchedandpoked thee,has the naughty thumbof science proddedthy       beauty      .howoftn have religions takenthee upon their scraggy kneessqueezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceivegods        (buttrue to the incomparablecouch of death thyrhythmiclover           thou answerest them only with                         spring) e.e. cummings

O sweet spontaneousearth how often havethedoting

          fingers ofpurient philosophers pinchedandpoked

thee,has the naughty thumbof science proddedthy

      beauty      .howoftn have religions takenthee upon their scraggy kneessqueezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceivegods        (buttrue

to the incomparablecouch of death thyrhythmiclover

          thou answerest

them only with

                        spring)

e.e. cummings

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September 3, 2012
“ ‘Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.’
William S. Burroughs •