Ways to Heal the Social Disease of Our Time

A WORKSHOP AND CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP JACOBSEN

Humanity is suffering from the social disease of our time, when human beings struggle to understand each other. As a step toward healing, we need to become aware of the barriers that hinder the human encounter and discover ways to find help from the spiritual world. We will have a closer look at two ways of social healing. On one hand, we will consider the way Rudolf Steiner undertook to heal the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference in 1923/1924, which gives a model for building human communities in the epoch of the consciousness soul. On the other hand, we will talk about the necessity and ways to attain help from the deceased by collaborating with them.

Sponsored by the Threefold Branch, donations welcome.

Literature:

• The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society 1923/1924 (CW 260). Please bring it with you, if you have it!
• “Death as Metamorphosis of Life” (CW 182): Lecture of June 30 1918, in Hamburg, especially the first ten pages.

Philip Jacobsen grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. He earned a master’s in psychology at the University of Zurich, and worked as Human Resources Manager in Insurance, IT, and retail. From 1988 until 2018, he studied the art of speech with Christian Althaus in Zurich. From 2009 until 2023, he was active in “Ways to Quality” in Waldorf schools in Switzerland and Germany as well as institutions in curative pedagogy and social therapy.