All Study and Conversation Groups Events

Our reading groups provide the opportunity in a very informal setting to explore Rudolf Steiner’s work with others. There is no need for any prior participation or knowledge, and everyone, young and old, is very welcome to join us at any time, just once or as often as it suits. We aim to create a friendly, inviting atmosphere, as good humoured as it is serious. Working together, we share our reflections on the immediate theme and try to pay as much attention to listening as to speaking. We find that studying together provides a wonderful opportunity for the whole group to advance in knowledge and understanding. Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book.

All welcome, no need to book. Suggested donation at the door £3/£2. Online events are currently free.

For more details, please email Adrian Hotten: ssatrsh@virginmedia.com

Meetup website: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

Online events are highlighted in blue.

  • Tuesday 19 March
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Brendan McQuillan

    In lecture 2 of ‘Lucifer and Ahriman’ (GA 101) Rudolf Steiner likens their influence upon us to two scales of a balance whose beam we need to hold in equilibrium. One way for us to achieve this that Steiner speaks of is to permeate with a strongly Luciferic element what has an Ahrimanic form within us. Rather puzzlingly he adds that since nothing is more Ahrimanic than the delusion of material knowledge, then if we can be filled with fiery enthusiasm and interest by the deceptions that arise out of chemistry, physics, astronomy and the like, then through this Luciferic interest we can wrest from Ahriman what is his own. All welcome.

    For further information: ben.mcquillan@outlook.com

    Our reading groups provide the opportunity in a very informal setting to explore Rudolf
    Steiner’s work with others. There is no need for any prior participation or knowledge, and everyone, young and old, is very welcome to join us at any time, just once or as often as it suits. We aim to create a friendly, inviting atmosphere, as good humoured as it is serious. Working together, we share our reflections on the immediate theme and try to pay as much attention to listening as to speaking. We find that studying together provides a wonderful opportunity for the whole group to advance in knowledge and understanding. Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book.

    Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many can be purchased in the Bookshop or accessed online at at the Rudolf Steiner Archive.

    For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Wednesday 20 March
    2pm - 4pm

    with Trevor Dance

    We will be reading and discussing these deeply penetrating but very accessible lectures given in Dornach July-Sept 1916. A wide variety of topics encompassing, ‘the duality of human nature – the heavenly and earthly aspects of human beings’, ‘enlivening the sense processes and ensouling the life processes, aesthetic enjoyment and artistic creativity.’

    For further information: trevordance@hotmail.com

    Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many may be accessed online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive. For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Thursday 21 March
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Brendan McQuillan

    We will continue to read these lectures (GA 128) given by Rudolf Steiner in Prague. Steiner reflects in them on the two stage evolutionary process involved in the foming of the human spinal column and brain, contrasts conscious and unconscious processes in the various human organs, considers the archetypes of the nervous system and blood in the astral body and the ‘I’ (ego), and looks at the organic processes that accompany some spiritual exercises in order to explain their effect.

    All welcome. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    For further information: ben.mcquillan@outlook.com

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many may be accessed online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive. For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Thursday 28 March
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    Back to Basics. First published in 1904, Theosophy is an invitation to start to understand who we are as human beings in all aspects and stages of development, including reincarnation and karma.

    All welcome. For more information, iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Please specify ‘Theosophy’ as the subject.

    Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many may be accessed online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive. For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Thursday 4 April
    7pm - 8.15pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    As one of the recognised tasks of Anthroposophy, we will be reading to the so-called dead, to establish and/or reestablish a connection with the dear ones who have crossed the threshold.

    Please contact Iaia Chiesa via email to join the group: iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

  • Thursday 11 April
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    Back to Basics. First published in 1904, Theosophy is an invitation to start to understand who we are as human beings in all aspects and stages of development, including reincarnation and karma.

    All welcome. For more information, iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Please specify ‘Theosophy’ as the subject.

    Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many may be accessed online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive. For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science

  • Thursday 25 April
    10.30am - 12pm

    with Iaia Chiesa

    Back to Basics. First published in 1904, Theosophy is an invitation to start to understand who we are as human beings in all aspects and stages of development, including reincarnation and karma.

    All welcome. For more information, iaiac53@yahoo.com

    Please specify ‘Theosophy’ as the subject.

    Members and friends are warmly invited to groups at any time even for one-off visits. Previous participation is not necessary and there is no need to book. Small donations towards expenses welcome: £3/£2

    All the Rudolf Steiner lectures and writings that we are studying are available from the library at Rudolf Steiner House and, in addition, many may be accessed online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive. For updated news on these and other events please see: www.meetup.com/rudolf-steiner-spiritual-science