Branch Library

For information, to take out a book or to arrange a visit, contact

Valerie Hope, portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com

The Book Catalog is now on our website – the ‘search’ function is really helpful.

You can now return books at any time to the box on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave.

To schedule the space for an event or meeting

Contact James Knight, j365@yahoo.com

Contact the Branch Council: portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com

Website: portlandbranch.net

OCTOBER Newsletter/Calendar

Contents:

• Glen Williamson October 1st & 2nd

• Portland Biodynamic Stirrers

• Library News

• October 2024 National Society Conference

• A Call to Artists

• inner/

• Classes offered through Portland Eurythmy

• Micha-el Institute, Foundation In-Person Course

• See new listing in the ‘Ongoing Groups’ section re. a new study opportunity with the Foundation Stone Group.

• See First Class time and location change for October in Ongoing Studies and Groups

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

Coretta Scott King

This statement touched me in a way that warmed my heart in gratitude for the community we are continually creating. Our Portland Branch of the Anthroposophic Society in America is a beacon radiating throughout America, the world, and into the cosmos. We may not see our labors as affecting people in all the areas of the continent but our light shines on them through our work in bringing Anthroposophia into being here. I hope you are as proud to be associated with our Oregon branch as I am.

At the beginning of the year, we were gifted a $4,000 matching grant generously offered for our operational expenses including rent, website, branch sponsored events, and marketing for the library. To use the full amount of this gift, we must match it with the funds so freely given by our members and patrons. We have approximately $2,500 to go before the end of the year.

This is our Michaelic challenge this season. Can we help spiritualize the financial realm? Can we, collectively, take on this task? Offering the least amount you can afford opens portals for those who can offer the most they can afford. It is an exciting task to take on in that we need only engage our will to click a button or write a check that will create consequences of spirit giving around the world. How bright will our light be viewed from the cosmos with this level of participation?

I hope you can join me in donating right now.

With Blessings and Love,

Kathy Rem

The Portland Branch

The Portland Biodynamic Stirrers

We will keep you posted as more stirrings are planned. We want you to know that those who can’t participate in stirring but would like the preparations spread on their land/potted plants/tiniest patch of soil, please contact Denise at deeprootsfarm@harbornet.com and we will try to arrange delivery of the activated preparations to you. You do not need to have a farm or a garden to use and benefit from the preparations. If you are interested in getting on the Portland BD Stirrers email list for notifications of events, email the address in this paragraph

Library Update

If you have outstanding books it would be helpful to complete the process. We ask that you return them if you are finished.  

They can be returned 24/7 to the book box located

on the porch at 2606 SE 58th Ave. Portland, Or

A Call to Artists,

Join the Anthroposophical Society  Annual Meeting Art Dispersal coming up in October.

Art Dispersals are a small step towards removing Art from the economic realm. Laura Summer (Free Columbia) has been sponsoring these events over the last 30 years.

Here’s how they work. We set up a gallery space where the work is viewed by participants of the Annual Mtg at the Crown Plaza Hotel.  Participants can choose a painting and take it home to become its steward (which means you can keep it for as long as you want).

Then one has an opportunity to donate a sum to help support the artists involved, Free Columbia and the Anthroposophical Society.   This amount is your free choice. 

Each piece of Art has work to do in the world and It is your  opportunity to have original art in your home or workplace, for an amount you freely decide best fits  your individual situation.

The collected amount gets distributed equally among the artists whose work gets dispersed, a percent goes to Free Columbia, and the Anthroposophical Society.  If you would like to join in with your Art please contact Patricia Lynch patriciahomanlynch@gmail.com

COMMUNITY EVENTS

PORTLAND BRANCH CALENDAR

Glen Williamson  Tuesday October 1st, 6pm and Wednesday October 2nd, 6pm Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back.

Portland Branch Council Meeting   Monday, October 14th, 6:30 pm,  Branch Library/Community Space, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, entrance off parking lot in the back. All Branch members are welcome to attend, and/or call us with agenda items, proposals, suggestions, or to observe. Please contact us at portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com to let us know you’re coming. Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month.

Annual General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society in America October 11-14

ON-GOING STUDIES/GROUPS

First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. October First Class will be held just before the AGM (Annual General Meeting/Conference of the Anthroposophical Society) on October 11 at 1:00 p.m.  at the conference hotel, which is the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 1441 NE 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232 in rooms Windsor A and B on the ground floor.  There is plenty of free parking in the hotel lot.  We will hear Lesson 16.  Please remember your blue card, and allow yourself plenty of time to park and find the Windsor room, as we start promptly at 1 p.m.  Instead of a conversation after the Lesson, after a short break there will be an artistic exploration of the Lesson, led by Laura Summer, expected to end by 3:30 p.m.  contact: Cheri Munske cherimunske@gmail.com, Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or Rebecca Soloway rrsoloway1@gmail.com

Foundation Stone Study Group  The Foundation Stone Group is beginning a new study with the book The Christmas Foundation; Beginning of a New Cosmic Age, by Rudolf Grosse. The group meets each Thursday at 7 pm • If you would like to join in, contact Valerie at valerieannhpdx@aol.com, 503-775-0778 The author’s purpose was “to learn to see Rudolf Steiner within the overall process of world history…enthusiasm and new impulses will be born out of encountering and experiencing the nature of the Christmas Conference.”

Community Eurythmy Wednesday mornings from 8:45 to 9:30 at the Portland Waldorf School

Astrosophy Class First and Third Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St. • Contact Diane Rumage, 971-271-7479 drumage@comcast.net This class will introduce participants to the basic principles of Astrosophy in a study of the works of Willi Sucher and Diane Rumage’s work with the stars, with indications that Rudolf Steiner gave for those interested in the cosmos. No previous knowledge necessary. Please bring blank paper and colored pencils to the class in case we need to use them. If you are just curious if you’d be interested, please feel free to come and check us out. Free

Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha, (GA 175).  Ten lectures given in Berlin between March 27, 1917 and May 8, 1917 by Rudolf Steiner  • First Monday of the month, 7:00-8:30 pm • Currently conducted in person and on Zoom • Contact Heidi Sheppard, HSHEPPAR@LHS.ORG Free Please join us for lively discussions.

Speech Formation and Mystery Drama Group   2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm • 8654 NE Boehmer St, Portland, OR 97220 • Contact Diane Rumage drumage@comcast.net or 971 271-7479. Free. No experience necessary, just enthusiasm and a love of the Word.  Besides speech formation and acting exercises, we are currently reading and discussing Rudolf Steiner’s book of lectures, Speech and Drama, copies of which are available in the Branch Library.

The Tarot in Light of Spiritual Science • Presently once per month  

For more information contact James (j365k@yahoo.com), This is a free class. Registration for the class happens through Meetup (meetup.com) where you can learn more about the class and RSVP at this page: https://www.meetup.com/experiences-in-spiritual-science/.

A newer feature of the newsletter is this Community Bulletin Board, the brainchild of Christine Badura, who now finds that she has time to make it a reality. Community members can post their offerings and/or things they are looking for. To post, please call Christine at 707-494-6741 or email badura88@hotmail.com. Possible categories that can be posted:  Housing, Give Aways, Help Wanted/Offered, Announcements, Items Wanted.

Great gratitude to the members and friends whose 2024 memberships and donations make this newsletter and our library/community space possible.

For donations and membership please click link below      

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Embryo in Us & Embryo in Motion: Two Seminars with  Jaap van der Waal.  Two separate DVD sets recorded live in Portland in 2010 & 2017, available only here.  These two seminars explore human prenatal development and show how biology is expressing the essence of human spiritual enfoldment.  Jaap van der Wal, PhD, MD now retired, was an associate professor for anatomy and embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland.  Contact the Portland Branch.