Near Death Experience (NDE)
2022-09-18 20:00 - 21:30 UTC
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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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.

Webinar: The UFO Challenge by Robert Filocco
2022-10-27 14:00 - 16:00
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The Spiritual Meaning of the UFO Phenomenon
In this presentation, three areas of the phenomenon will be touched on, the technological, intrapsychic and ontological/spiritual. Special focus will be on the so-called abduction literature. Similarities between what Steiner called Ahrimanic and Luciferic beings and the appearance and apparent agendas of UFO beings will be explored via quotes from Steiner and modern-day experiencers. The role of more benevolent beings, the “Vulcans” will also be discussed. The connection of this phenomenon with the Ahrimanic agendas of transhumanism and AI will be examined, as well as the potential hybridization and future evolution of mankind. The dangers of three forms of materialism will be touched on, offering an alternative blending the best of the “new sciences” and traditional supersensory organic development.
Robert Filocco, after completing his advanced studies in Psychology, began his work in the field of mental health which has continued since 1986, most recently in private practice. He has served as an adjunct professor of Psychology at several universities and colleges. Since his youth he has pursued interests in the paranormal, especially UFOs, publishing in The Bulletin of Anomalous Experience, Outer Limits Magazine, and related journals. He is also a children’s book author. Most recently he has pursued in depth reading and study of Rudolf Steiner, leading up to his recent paper “Steiner, Ahriman and UFOS” serving as the basis for the conference’s presentation.
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Divine Technology
2022-11-04 19:30 - 21:00
The Harmonic Secret of Living Forms

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Image: Remedios Varo – Solar Music (1955)

About this Workshop

In four presentations based on her book Harmony, the heartbeat of creation, Monique Pommier shares a path to the primal pattern of nature’s forms, which she uncovered while inquiring into the mystery of number 12. What emerges from looking at the forms of nature with an eye for their hidden sameness is the archetypal pattern of the spherical vortex. The kinship of this pattern with Steiner’s lemniscate lights up the inner dynamic of “consciousness” common to all forms of being. It also imbues our awareness of the day/night and earthly/cosmic cycles of the human “I” with a new quality of intimacy with the spirit world.

Engaging insights from Goethe, Steiner, Plato, Kepler, cymatics, we will approach such central mysteries as the primal phenomenon of the appearing of Life into form; the unique “means” that vehiculate Being in physical organisms, weave matter with soul and unite self with world; the cosmological enigma of 1 3 7 12, which Steiner refers to as the “spiritual music” of the human being.

Realizing how every form of being, from atomic to galactic, deploys the same triune core of harmony, and expresses the same “breath-of-being” inspires a new ground of communion with the manifold breathing consciousness we are as a universe.

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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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Intelligence, Knowledge, Wisdom
2023-03-14 20:00 - 21:30
AI and the Waldorf School
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The launch of the chatbot system ChatGPT in November, 2022 has taken much of the world by storm. Its speed, clarity, and writing skills appear to be harbingers of a new stage of artificial intelligence that may transform almost every field of human endeavor. Its disruptive power was recognized within weeks of its release when the New York City public school system blocked its use, even as myriad academics spoke strongly for or against its pedagogical value. And what about Waldorf schools? It is likely that some enterprising Waldorf high school students are already using ChatGPT to assist them with history essay assignments or mastering concepts in science, and there are certainly teachers contemplating its possibilities in lesson preparation and composing end-of-year reports. Given the Waldorf schools’ track record with TV, computers, and iPhones, it is likely to be damned in school newsletters and prohibited as a tool for students and teachers.In this lecture Eugene Schwartz contends that whether ChatGPT and its progeny are banned or beloved, the most important task facing Waldorf educators and parents is to understand the ramifications of artificial intelligence and acknowledge the role that it is already playing in the educational and social life of our students. Eugene will begin with an explanation of how a chatbot works that he promises will be comprehensible to even the most technophobic listener. He will then explore the ways in which our own approach to “intelligence” in the Waldorf movement has been influenced by modern technology, changing our relationship to knowledge and wisdom. And he will illuminate how the Waldorf approach can empower teachers, parents, and students to counterbalance AI’s nebulous counter-image of human cognition.
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About the Presenter
Eugene Schwartz, a graduate of Columbia University, was a class teacher and high school teacher at the Green Meadow Waldorf School and Director of Teacher Training at the Sunbridge Institute. A former Fellow of the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Teaching, Eugene has served as a consultant and mentor in schools worldwide and has lectured on education at Harvard, Columbia University, Brigham Young University, University of Tennessee Medical School, and the Aspen Institute.

Topics on Bridging Spiritual Science with Technology
2023-04-22 14:00 - 15:30
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Today’s world is full of technology; mechanical, electrical, digital and so on. About one century ago Rudolf Steiner, as well as other spiritual scientists, gave us insights into the spiritual realm. But how do these two connect? Building the bridge is indeed important. However, not much has been understood, tried or even achieved up to now. This is so in spite of clear indications and even task descriptions to get on the way. In this webinar we will be walking through this landscape of indications, trials and tasks in the field of spiritual science and technology. The webinar is intended to be of interest beginners in this field, as well as to spark enthusiasm for new experimental work in the expert. The English and German sources from which this content is taken are broad and may reveal new facts not known to everyone.
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https://mystech.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Goetheanum-Windows-3.jpg Spaan, born Dutch, now living in Dornach / CH, obtained a degree in Astronomy / Physics / Mathematics / Astronomical Instrumentation from the University of Utrecht, a PhD on Digital Image Compression from the University of Delft, worked in several academic and industry positions – for example on direct exo-planet imaging and on X-ray space telescope optics,- and published over 30 articles and books. Once he encountered Anthroposophy, he also took classes in art-therapy, music-therapy, Christology, Steiner-teaching and biographical counseling; furthermore he worked in the Section for Astronomy in Dornach and initiated the Elisabeth Vreede Institute / NL. Currently important areas of activity are research into Anthroposophical Astronomy and how to create art from Rudolf Steiner’s indications on painting. Languages are English, German, Dutch. See also www.lanz-spaan.ch/astronomie
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The Robot Who Could Paint and other Modern Fairy Tales
2023-05-21 14:00 - 15:30
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How can we assess artificial intelligence (aka applied statistics) and the externalization of thought? What is the Turing Test? Who are the players — OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Jaron Lanier, and John Searle’s Chinese room? What is the difference between strong AI and weak AI? Memory vs. storage. What is the difference between representation thought (Kantian critical idealism) and grasping a thought in the Goethean sense? The experience of observing your own thinking vs. machine representation.How does an artificial intelligence play chess?move generator,static evaluation,recursive search for a high score to a given level of depth —> it plays this move. How does chatGPT work? Training on a large corpus of text (almost half the Internet! Project Gutenberg, Steiner elib, Wikipedia, Facebook posts, GitHub, Twitter it all goes in — a Generative Pre-trained Transformer — it is a Statistical Mimic it breaks down these texts into smaller tokens that statistically complete any given pattern of previous tokens — giving the appearance of answers which are statistically similar to the answers provided by other humans in the corpus of human literature on which it has been trained.How do robots create images? Just like the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop — midjourney and other stable diffusion methods micro-sample an enormous library of human-labelled images and then iteratively diffusely-dithers samples from multiple images requested by the user to create a believable synthesis of their request.After Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov in 1996 — it was like a human trying to outrun a lawnmower engine or use pencil and paper to out-compute a calculator — Kasparov’s vision of the future was that a human with a computer could beat a computer alone. He saw that the game could continue to progress by leveraging the tools we have built ourselves. Man is a clever animal — yet in so many ways, we are just more busy beavers (using colloquialisms to bridge the techno and Anthro worlds here, and the busy beavers to add some humour to the delivery).
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John Roland Penner graduated from the Waldorf teacher training in Toronto in 2009 under the guidance of Diana Hughes and currently works in IT. He worked previously as a technical writer for the 3D animation company SideFX and did technical support for the architectural CAD firm Graphisoft. His main area of study is Goethean Science, Rudolf Steiner’s epistemological works, and artificial intelligence. To this end, he has written three of his own ‘artificial intelligences’ — a chess engine, a connect4 engine, and a hnefatafl (Viking chess) engine, as well as an ELIZA (conversational robot). He wrote these computer programmes to answer his own epistemological investigations regarding intelligence and cognition, which has led to a knowledge of the subject without resorting to magical beliefs about machines.
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Main image used for this webinar: A digital image generated by AI system DALL-E from the prompt: ‘Humanoid robot creating art on canvas with many colors in Art Nouveau style.’ December 2022. (Image generated with the assistance of DALL-E)

The Polarities of the Internet
2023-06-11 14:00 - 15:30
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This webinar will take you on a journey to discover the polarities of the Internet. We will start with the technological basis of modern computers, chips made out of silicon that I call “Ahrimanic water.” After that, we will take a look at cyberspace and its impact, especially on children and young adults.
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Uwe Buermann was born in 1968 in Oldenburg, Germany, and is currently a pedagogical, therapeutic Media advisor working with parents, pupils, students, and teachers. He gives lectures and seminars in schools and universities across Europe. He is the author of several books as well as many professional articles – and he is the happy father of three children. www.erziehung-zur-medienkompetenz.de.
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Rudolf Steiner as Philosopher of Technics
2023-07-09 14:00 - 15:30
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Aaron French, PhD, is a lecturer in Religious Studies. His research explores the intersection of science, religion and technology. He lives in Germany, where he creates sacred spaces.
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MysTech Conference Q/A
2023-07-27 20:00 - 21:30

You Are Designed to Achieve Enlightenment
2023-09-17 14:00 - 16:00
You Are Designed to Achieve Enlightenment
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As human beings, we are thrown into, and live through, many different developmental processes. All developmental processes have spiritual, interpersonal, and individual aspects. Some of these processes are obvious, such as our growth from infancy to adulthood. Some are less obvious but can be discerned with effort, such as identifying and understanding the workings of karma in one’s destiny. Still others, such as our journey toward enlightenment, can only be engaged as a living question by most people. From the work of Rudolf Steiner, we can form a clear idea of this journey toward enlightenment. We can see that we are in fact designed to achieve enlightenment. This is a natural development process that occurs over many incarnations, provided we are trying to be a good person. We are all on the slow and gentle-as-it-can-be path of karma and reincarnation. Through anthroposophical meditation, we can accelerate this natural developmental process. The anthroposophical path begins with everyday experience. Rudolf Steiner identifies those aspects of everyday consciousness that have developmental potential and shows how to activate latent forces. In general, these occult doorways are hidden in plain sight. It is important to understand that accelerating a developmental process brings challenges into the life of the meditant. The path of knowledge must be undertaken thoughtfully and for good reason if one is to proceed effectively toward the goal. The student of the path must become a student of the path, meaning that one must understand the process of transformation ever more clearly as one engages in the work of meditation.
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Robert McKay is a student of Rudolf Steiner’s. He met anthroposophy at the age of 17. He is a member of Anthroposophy in Toronto and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Rudolf Steiner College Canada. He provides lectures and workshops on anthroposophical meditation and other topics. He is also a member of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities. Robert work in healthcare management and lives in Toronto with his wife Linda Chapman, art therapist.
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Progressing Towards Hygienic Occultism
2023-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Progressing Towards Hygienic Occultism
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Aristotle in his metaphysics made a wonderful statement, about like this: the form by which the physician treats the patient is health. So, the physician should carry within him a living concept of health in order to cure with it. It is clear that as human beings we carry this living active concept within us as the ether body, which works beneficially in equilibrium disturbances within the sheaths of man. In our time, it is possible to already develop an awareness of this and take the first steps on the path to continuous self-healing. In the future, this will be an inborn quality of those born “east of the Rhine as far as Asia”. How do we develop a conscious healing principle already now?
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Mieke Mosmuller studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and practiced as a doctor for over twenty-five years. Working with illness and death raised questions in her about the nature of life. Since 1994 she has been writing about the spiritualization of intelligence. Her first book, Seek the Light that Rises in the West, lays the philosophical foundation for her later novels and books on spirituality such as Posthumanism and Singularity. With the well-known Dutch comic, cabaret artist and poet Toon Hermans, she wrote Just God. She has published more than sixty books, most of which have been translated in German, some also in English, Danish and French. She has given lectures and workshops in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and France.
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Social Threefolding in an Age of AI
2023-11-05 20:00 - 2023-11-19 22:00
Social Threefolding in an Age of AIA Three Part Series
Sundays November 5, 12, 19
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How might we best navigate these times of fast-paced change in technology and society? Do these increasing disruptions in our time represent an opening to demonstrate the benefits of societal threefolding in facilitating a decent and humane future for all? How might we participate and contribute together? These themes and more will be explored in this special webinar series facilitated and attended by veterans of the technology industry – additional source documentation and software prototypes subject to iteration attached below.
Webinar Agenda
Nov 5th:
Brief welcome/intros from leadership and presenting team
Attendees initial thoughts and reflections on threefolding, tech trends, and readings (to be sent upon registration)
Deep Dive: Societal Threefolding around Narrow AI, Open Source et al
Introduce initial software prototypes facilitating charity and social threefolding
Q&A, Reflections on Next Steps?
Email

Nov 12th:
Welcome and icebreaker
Brief follow up thoughts from audience on readings, email and current events in tech?
Deep Dive: Towards Addressing AGI and Transhumanism, Threefolding approaches around open source, blockchain technology, deep learning et al
Collect Feedback on Initial Open Source Prototype
Discuss Possibilities for Iterations and Adjustments

Nov 19th:
Welcome and review, discuss possible next steps?
Collect Interim Feedback on threefolding prototypes, further iterate on systems
Follow-up Thoughts on technology trends, threefolding concepts, current events
Discuss Follow Up Reading Materials / Deep Citations, Wikipedia et al
Discuss and Finalize Next Steps moving forward
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The House of the Word Becomes the Word
2023-12-16 14:00 - 16:00
First and Second Goetheanum by Mirko Luccini The House of the Word Becomes the WordSaturday, December 16th,2pm Eastern Time

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An exploration of the artistic metamorphosis of the First Goetheanum to the Foundation Stone MeditationAbout the Presenter

Andrew Wolpert has been giving courses, seminars, and lectures on Language, Art History, Shakespeare, and Parzival, at Emerson College, at the University in Stuttgart, and for various schools and institutions in Europe, Australia, and Asia. He coordinates the Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science in Great Britain.

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The Spiritual Destiny of North America
2024-01-28 20:00 - 21:30
THE SPIRITUAL DESTINY OF NORTH AMERICA: URIEL AND THE MYSTERY OF THE THREE OCCULTISMS

A Two Part Webinar

Sundays, January 21 & 28, 8pm Eastern Time

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Does the Archangel Uriel have a special connection with North America and with the development of mechanical occultism?

Is there a Parzival mystery embedded in the physical and etheric geography of North America?

How can we cultivate the new etheric heart forces and capacities which can help us to awaken and embody the good spirit of America?

Is there a relationship between the three occultisms and the threefold social order?

These Are Just A Few Of The Questions That We Will Explore In This Two-Part Webinar That Will Bring Together Over 30 Years Of Research I Have Conducted Into The Spiritual Character And Destiny Of North America.

In The First Webinar, Building On The Pioneering Spiritual Research Of Frederich Benesch And Robert Patterson, We Will Seek To Penetrate To An Understanding Of The Spiritual Geography Of North America, Encompassing The Mighty Forces Of Both Good And Evil That Are At Work On This Continent. We Will Explore The Way The Soul Forces, The Elemental Beings And Spirits Of Place Work Here, And The Ways In Which This Knowledge Can Help Us Bring Healing To Our Troubled Social And Ecological Landscapes. Gradually, We Will Work Toward An Understanding Of The Mystery Of The Center, The “Failed Rift Zone” Of America’s Heartland, Where The Grail And Arthurian Streams Of The Continent Flow Together And Where The Forces Of Anthroposophy, According To Rudolf Steiner, Concentrate Themselves And Then Ray Out Over The Entire Continent. How Can We Serve And Protect This “Woman Clothed With The Sun” Ever More Consciously?

In The Second Webinar, We Will Explore The Relationship Of The Three Occultisms (Eugenic, Hygienic And Mechanical) To The Beings Of Gabriel, Raphael And Uriel Respectively And The Way In Which Michael Is Seeking To Work With These Beings, Through Us, To Bring About A Healthy Expression Of These Three Occultisms. This Will Open A Doorway To A Recognition Of The Special Role That The Archangel Uriel Plays In The Destiny Of North America, And Will Allow Us To Examine The Signature Of Uriel In The History And Present-Day Life Of America. On This Basis We Will Explore Uriel’s Archetypal Way Of Working In The Human Soul, Which Is So Essential To Root Anthroposophy On This Continent, And To Create A Foundation For The Unfolding Of Those Healthy Social And Economic Forms, As Well As Etheric And Moral Technologies For Which Our Culture Is So Hungry.

Note, Each Of These Webinars Will Be Designed As An Independent Whole. While The Second Webinar Will Build On The First, It Is Not Necessary To Attend The First Webinar In Order To Attend The Second.

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About The Presenter

Robert Karp, M.Ed. is an educator, writer and social entrepreneur informed by the insights of Rudolf Steiner. Robert is a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement in the US and is the former executive director of the Biodynamic Association and of Practical Farmers of Iowa. Robert’s writings include Toward an Associative Economy in the Sustainable Food and Farming Movement; Social Justice in the Light of Anthroposophy; The Sacred Wound: Understanding and Responding to the Call of Grief; and Agriculture and the Sacred, which was published as a chapter in the book Journeys and Awakenings, Wisdom for Spiritual Travelers, published by Sacred Spirit Books. You can learn more about Robert and find many of his writings on his website at www.robertkarp.net
