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DJ Burr, LMHC, LPC's avatar

Sending you lots of love.

Peter O'Connor's avatar

Goethe's scientific idea of metamorphosis

is necessary to understand Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposoohically oriented spiritual science.

The relationship between turning inside out and metamorphosis can be approached by your own construction of

http://www.kuboid.ch/shop/en/product/invertible-cube-cardboard-coloured/

and study of the two essays Über Umstülpung 1 and 2 in

http://gideonspickerverlag.ch/goethe.html

Of course:

https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA001/

Peter O'Connor's avatar

http://gideonspickerverlag.ch/Sinn%20und%20Sein.html

About the common origin of gestalt (shape) and movement.

Peter O'Connor's avatar

https://eurythmie.net/

There appears no organization for Eurthmy in general on the Goetheanum website, but above is link to the German organization for Eurythmists.

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There was an Eurythmy school in the vicinity of Überlingen at Lake Constance where I visited Gisela Funke, who lived in her motor van like you. However this Eurythmy school no longer exists and I lost contact with Gisela.

https://www.goetheanum.org/fileadmin/srmk/2022/Ad_for_MA_2022.pdf

Peter O'Connor's avatar

Gisela atrended that Eurythmy school.

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Dear Dr Sprout

You would be far better off to learn Eurythmy in German and simultaneously learn German. You need to meet the Eurythmy instructors and visit the various Eurythmy schools to determine which you prefer. Here are three more:

https://www.eurythmeumstuttgart.de/

https://www.eurythmie-wien.at/

https://www.eurythmie-berlin.de/de/

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Dear Ms Sprout

You need the two lecture cycles spoken by Rudolf Steiner about Eurythmy as visible speech and visible song in original German to become acquainted with the German vocabulary and in English translation, which you should never trust.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA278/

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/

There are wooden figures of the various Eurythmy movements of vowels and consonants.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/Appendix4.html

Your aim should be to focus on what the Eurythmy instructors tell you in German and to do everything possible to learn Eurythmy and German simultaneously so you can teach Eurythmy to other persons and to read Rudolf Steiner in original German and converse in German with psychologists about Anthroposophically oriented epistemology. Don't expect Eurythmists to be qualified as scientists,

if you need your teeth fixed, you don't seek help from shoemakers.

Peter O'Connor's avatar

Try changing your environment and milieu and move to German-speaking region to learn both German and Eurythmy - here's one of several schools:

https://www.eurythmieausbildung-nuernberg.de/

Anastasia Sprout's avatar

There is a community in my area that studies Eurythmy...I went to a play they produced. They seemed like deep, remarkable folks.

Anastasia Sprout's avatar

Thanks Peter. Danke schön.

Peter O'Connor's avatar

I listened to the beginning of the video on "Politeness in Germany" and to my anguish heard the man mispronounce even "danke" - a word which, if he even spent a day in a German-speaking region, must have heard several times. Please confirm my impression the speaker is dubbed and this might be the problem. As Rudolf Steiner writes:

Durch nichts [by, thru nothing]

wird eine Anschauung. [a view becomes]

besser [better]

BELEUCHTET [stem: leuchten]

als [as]

durch die Auf+deckung der

ihr [refers to Anschauung]

ent+gegen+stehenden [op+posite]

Irrtümer. [errors]

9. Denken und Bewußtsein

https://anthroblog.anthroweb.info/rudolf-steiner-werke/grundlinien-einer-erkenntnistheorie/#GL-9

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Grundlinien einer Erkenntnis+theorie der Goethe+schen Welt+An+schau+ung

Rudolf Sreiner's first book of which published another edition shortly before he died explaining why no alterations in the new preface. I compare sentence for sentence of this text with his published dissertation under revised title and with Die Philosophie der Freiheit - texts which present the epistemological foundation of Anthroposophically oriented spiritual science.