What’s On

An experiential workshop and performance of the Paradise Play tith Geoffrey and Maria Norris
The Christmas plays from Oberufer represent a continuation of the medieval mystery drama tradition and offer deep insights into spiritual truths. The Paradise Play portrays creation and ‘the fall’ together with the spiritual forces that lie behind the events we see acted out on the stage. The workshop will offer the opportunity to experience the play in song, speech and eurythmy and to explore how these art forms carry its message. The afternoon will conclude with a performance of the play directed by Geoffrey Norris.
Further details please visit www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science/
Everyone welcome, no booking or experience of acting required. Donation towards expenses welcome.

Advent Spiral Celebration With The London Lyre Choir
24th December - 4th January 4pm - 6pm
The days and nights between December 24th and January 6th cross the boundary between the old and new year. These days can be seen as a time to prepare for the coming 12 months. We gather round our Christmas tree, decorated with sacred symbols, roses and candles, to enter into the spiritual significance of this special festival of reflection and renewal. Each evening includes light refreshments.
Full details of the Holy Nights events are available from:
Adrian Hotten Email: ssatrsh@virginmedia.com Dr. Sue Peat Email: suejoanpeat@gmail.com Tel: 07770577372
Donation towards expenses welcome

With Rupert Spira
The Essence of Non-Duality
This is a contemporary, experiential approach involving silent meditation, guided meditation and conversation, and requires no affiliation to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. All that is needed is an interest in the essential nature of experience, and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.
In his meetings, Rupert explores the perenial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Adavaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Sufism and Zen, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience.
Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased online via: https://non-duality.rupertspira.com/meet/#united_kingdom
For full details: www.rupertspira.com  Enquiries: niya@rupertspira.com

With Rupert Spira
The Essence of Non-Duality
This is a contemporary, experential approach involving silent meditation, guided meditation and conversation, and requires no affiliation to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. All that is needed is an interest in the essential nature of experience, and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.
In his meetings, Rupert explores the perenial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Adavaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Sufism and Zen, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience.
Tickets cost £160 and can be purchased online via: https://non-duality.rupertspira.com/meet/#united_kingdom
For full details: www.rupertspira.com  Enquiries: niya@rupertspira.com

With lectures by Martina Maria Sam
A study weekend for Members of the Anthroposophical Society
Rudolf Steiner confided in his closest companions, Marie Steiner and Ita Wegman, his fear that one day his name could be separated from his work.  One aspect of this concern is that in the biography of a modern initiate, the life and work are one.  The life of Rudolf Steiner is an archetypal example of this interdependence.  What he wrote and spoke about came from his own experience, and the unfolding of anthroposophy is an expression of his own life.  The five lectures this weekend are an attempt to illustrate this on the basis of the notes he made about his occult schooling in conjunction with what we know from documentary and oral testimonies.  There is a significant turning point in this process before and after his initiation.  As far as 1903 we can follow his inner path with our own inner sensitivity, after that his work allows us but a peripheral view of the higher stages of his development. The mutually illuminating aspects of his life and work give us new insights into the course of his life and also a wider horizon onto anthroposophy.
The weekend (from Friday 7.30pm till 1pm on Sunday) will include five lectures on the following themes with time for questions and discussion 1861 - 1880 Childhood and Youth: Discovering the Higher I 1880 - 1889 Student days in Vienna:  Beginnings of the inner path 1889 - 1898 From Vienna via Weimar to Berlin: Changes and Crises 1898 - 1903 Trials of the soul, Crossing the abyss, initiation 1903 - 1924 The sacrifice fulfilled: the higher stages of the inner path Dr Sam, an authority on Goethe’s Faust and on Rudolf Steiner’s insights into language and speech, has been engaged in the research of this theme for a number of years.  From 1997 to 2012 she led the Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, and is also a eurythmist and author. She is currently working with Stefan Hasler on a new edition of Rudolf Steiner's Eurythmy Courses, is involved as editor in the six-volume edition of all of Rudolf Steiner's letters and, after last year's publication of her book "Rudolf Steiner. Childhood and Youth 1861-1884”, is now writing the second volume of his biography.

With Rupert Spira
This is a contemporary, experential approach involving silent meditation, guided meditation and conversation, and requires no affiliation to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. All that is needed is an interest in the essential nature of experience, and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.
In his meetings, Rupert explores the perenial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Adavaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Sufism and Zen, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience.
Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased online via: https://non-duality.rupertspira.com/meet/#united_kingdom
For full details: www.rupertspira.com  Enquiries: niya@rupertspira.com