‘The Worst Must Be the Cause of the Best’ (Jakob Böhme)

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Recognizing the attacks of evil is one thing. Confronting these attacks is a more complicated challenge. However: how can I create armor against these attacks? – that is the central practical question of this talk.

My focus will be on the questions such as: 1) How to recognize the working of Ahriman?, 2) How to confront the working of Ahriman?, and 3) How to shield oneself from the working of Ahriman? – with my emphasis on the third question. I will speak about experiences with meditation. See my books ‘Ways to Christian Meditation’ (Floris Books) and ‘Meditation in der westlichen Welt’ (Verlag am Goetheanum). See also the chapter ‘Manichaeism and the Redemption of Evil’ in my newest book ’Trust in the Future’ (Floris Books).

Speaker: Bastiaan Baan

Bastiaan Baan (*1949) was born in The Netherlands. After teacher training, he worked at a ghetto school in Los Angeles (called ’The roughest place in the world’), in Gandhi Schools in the slums of India and as a Waldorf teacher in The Netherlands. From 1981 on, he works as a priest and lecturer in The Christian Community and as a teacher in the priest training in Germany and the US. He has written several books on the themes of spirituality and religion (see Bastiaan Baan – AbeBooks). He and his wife Æola have 4 sons and 12 grandchildren.