MysTech Study Groups forming now for January through March
2021-12-03 00:00 - 2021-12-31 00:00 UTC
Start 2nd week of January and run for 12 weeks using Zoom. Each class has a study guidebook consisting of passages from Steiner lectures and books. Each session has a theme with study questions and commentaries. Feedback has been 5-star. Sign up at https://mystech.org/study-courses/.Courses:
Beginners (NA, EU, Asia, and Aus/NZ)Intermediates (a) Mondays 5 pm ET or (b) Wed 8 pm ET or (c) ?Light & Electricity TBDDestiny of the Human Body TBDRefined Breathing TBD
You can sign up for any but it works best if you take the Beginners course first. The lecture material is often surprising and commonly challenging. You can work on it by yourself, but the group perspective certainly is very helpful. Groups have bonded and look forward to meeting each week.
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AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Imbecility? Can machines think and feel?
2022-01-09 19:30 - 21:30
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This second webinar squarely confronts the notion of “intelligent” technology. By attending this, you will learn:
Thinking: the possibility of self-determining the next thought and free will. Searle’s Chinese Room. Machines will never think in the human sense, and they will never have free will. Sensations and feelings: individuality and subjectivity. Machines will never have sensations and feelings. Mind: thinking, feeling and willing and the role of the physical brain. Consciousness and self-consciousness. Intelligence and the Turing Test. Electronic chess and Kurzweil’s prophecies. New classifications of intelligence and “Artificial Intelligence”. Should AI mean “Artificial Intelligence” or “Automated Imbecility”? Machine Learning: implementation, the new programming paradigm, social problems. Man-machine symbiosis and the “singularity”. The films Artificial Intelligence (by Spielberg) and The Bicentennial Man (by Columbus) and their absurdities. The dangers of considering humans and living beings as machines and how to reverse this trend.
After attending these two webinars you will better understand how to work with:
The indications Rudolf Steiner gave concerning technology and how to apply them today.The adversarial powers behind technology, how to confront and transform them. The necessity of our future and how we can rightly accept these things out of freedom.
This is the 2nd part of a 2-part series that includes:
The Turing Machine and what computers can and cannot do AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Imbecility? Can machines think and feel?
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More About the Speaker
Valdemar Setzer is an Anthroposophist and a retired professor of computer science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (USP) where he continues to supervise theses, research, and teach. He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Texas in Austin and at Stuttgart in Germany. He received his doctorate from USP in 1967. He was founder and Director of the Electronic Computing Center at USP, head of the departments of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at IME, President of the Undergraduate Committee of IME, and active in his profession in numerous ways. He has published 12 books (see list on his website) and has published numerous technical articles in national and international magazines and congresses. He has been an invited speaker for events that the Goetheanum.

Facing the Future Without Fear: 5 Webinars
2022-01-16 19:30 - 21:00
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The direction of modern society appears to be sending everyone sliding into the abyss. Rudolf Steiner talked about a period of pandemonium that we must endure. Are we in the autumn of humanity’s earthly evolution? Have we already succumbed to Ahriman? Where is Michael when we need him?
We cannot understand society’s issues with materialism. These webinars intend to give Rudolf Steiner’s picture of the future to enable us to face this future without fear, to be able to act with wisdom in this Technological Age.
1/16/22 Webinar 1: Evolution Leads to Ahriman’s Incarnation (recordings available)
1/23/22 Webinar 2: Transhumanism and the Double (recordings available)
1/30/22 Webinar 3: Sheep and Goats
2/06/22 Webinar 4: Spiritual Science’s View of Our Future
2/13/22 Webinar 5: Refined Breathing: The New Yoga
You will want to attend this webinar series to know:
What were Steiner’s indications about technology?What is the role of technology in human evolution?How do we face the incarnation of Ahriman?What becomes of our Ahrimanic double?What will be unavoidable for our future and what can we do out of freedom?If sexual procreation will end, how will we carry on?How should we understand and confront the adversarial powersbehind technology and to transform it to the good!
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Fear of the Future grips many today. Such fear is food for Ahriman.
Spiritual Science can teach us how to stand with enthusiasm in the face of what seems to be a grim future. Our webinar series of 5 webinars give us the means to overcome these fears. I will guide you through the pertinent indications made by Rudolf Steiner about these times.
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Recordings | MysTech Conference 2022
2022-08-22 08:00 - 2022-09-30 00:00

Near Death Experience (NDE)
2022-09-18 20:00 - 21:30
Offering Insights into Mind, Consciousness, and Reality with Robert and Suzanne Mays
Based on evidence from extensive NDE research, Robert and Suzanne Mays will address the question: What do near-death experiences (NDEs) mean to us as conscious physical beings living on Earth? Their talk will present their hypotheses derived from NDE phenomena. They will focus on significant new material, NDE Evidence, and their next steps in Mind-Brain Research. As well-known and highly respected researchers, they bring Anthroposophical concepts into NDE concepts such as their mind-entity hypothesis that proposes that human beings have a physical body and a conscious, nonmaterial mind that is united with the body. The mind-entity is the seat of consciousness. In ordinary consciousness, the mind is united with and works with the brain through direct interaction. During an NDE — and after physical death — the mind separates from the body and operates independently of it. The meaning of life is implied: we are eternal spiritual beings in an earthly incarnation and we do not die with the death of the physical body. The implications are huge for our sense of reality.
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Venue: Online MysTech Webinar
Cost: FREE, donations accepted
When: Sep. 18, 2022, 8 – 9:30 pm
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About the Speakers: Robert and Suzanne Mays have studied NDE phenomena together for over 40 years, although neither has had an NDE. They are also students of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and helped found the Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, NC. They are particularly interested in veridical perceptions during NDEs and apparent interactions during NDEs between the NDEr and physical reality. Their recent focus has been the study of NDErs’ prophetic visions of future world events which includes a survey of NDErs on visions they have had of future events.

The Stars Spoke Once to Man
2022-12-11 19:00 - 21:00
MysTech-Anthroposophy NYC Event
Sunday Dec. 11, 2022, 7:00pm EST
with Mary Stewart Adams
This was to have been jointly sponsored by MysTech and Anthroposophy NYC. Unfortunately, Mary is unable to be live in NYC for the event. She will still be present on Zoom.
Christmas will be the 100-year anniversary of when Rudolf Steiner gave Marie Steiner the verse “The Stars Spoke Once to Man.” Mary will speak to how this verse is the precedent to the Foundation Stone Meditation.
About the Presenter
Mary Stewart Adams is a Star Lore Historian and the host of the weekly public radio podcast The Storyteller’s Night Sky. In 2011 she established one of the world’s first International Dark Sky Parks, and in 2021 published the book The Star Tales of Mother Goose. Mary met the work of Rudolf Steiner simultaneous to encountering ancient star wisdom in the 1980s, which was galvanized into a life path through encounter with astrosopher Hazel Straker in 1995. Mary serves on the board of the Great Lakes Branch of the Anthroposophical Society and has recently joined the Anthroposophical Society in America’s council.
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