Western Regional Conference 2008
The Dawning Clairvoyant Gaze:
Charting a Safe Course
Rudolf Steiner College
March 7-9, 2008

Schedule and Registration Information


Study Conference on Rudolf Steiner’s How To Know Higher Worlds

Preparation: Please go through the book and collect together: What did he ask people to be cautious about? Half of our work will be on the chapter on the chakras: What kinds of distortions can occur, and how can these be corrected? Then the rest of the time we will take up other important cautions from the book which participants want to address.

SUMMARY OF THE SCHEDULE

Friday, March 7 - Philadelphia Hall, Rudolf Steiner College
12:00 - 1:30 Registration
12:30 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:40 Alleluia – Gabrielle Atkin. Verse – Peter Rennick
1:40 - 2:05 Welcome – MariJo Rogers
2:05 - 2:15 Introduction – Beth Wieting
2:15 - 2:45 Planning Committee Panel: Why is this topic – the warnings and
cautions given by Rudolf Steiner in How To Know Higher
Worlds – important?
2:45 - 3:15 Whole group: Voicing questions
3:15 - 3:45 BREAK
3:45 - 4:30 Introduction to the Lucifer and Ahriman speeches from Scene
IV, The Portal of Initiation. Helen Lubin and Daniel Bittleston
4:30 - 5:15 First Session Artistic Activity – Sally Rutledge
(Half of participants, including Bay Area people)
5:30 - 6:15 Second Session Artistic Activity
(Half of participants)
5:15 - 6:15 Bay Area Meeting, Classroom opposite Stegmann Auditorium
6:30 - 7:15 DINNER
7:30 - 8:00 Welcome to new participants
Dawn Stratton, Anthroposophical Clown:
“Getting One’s Meditative Practice Right!”
8:00 - 9:00 Conversation: sharing experiences preparing for the
conference work with assignment sheet, better ideas for
working with How To Know Higher Worlds.

Saturday, March 8 - Stegmann Hall, Rudolf Steiner College
8:45 - 9:00 Announcements. Singing.
9:00 - 9:30 Eurythmy – Gabrielle Atkin
9:30 - 10:30 Conversation: Distortions in the Chakras
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 Conversation continued
12:30 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:45 A Song – Margaret Shipman/Dawn Stratton Anthroposophical
Clown
1:45 - 4:00 Conversation: Other important warnings
4:00 - 4:30 BREAK
4:30 - 5:15 Work with the Ahriman and Lucifer speeches. Helen Lubin.
5:15 - 5:45 Small groups – practicing the speeches and talking about what
they mean.
6:15 - 7:00 DINNER

8:00 - 9:30 Performance: Goethe’s Faust, by Glen Williamson

(Remember to turn your clock forward.)

Sunday, March 9
8:45 - 9:00 Singing
9:00 - 9:15 Clown – Dawn Stratton
9:15 - 9:45 Conversation: What would be the characteristics of clairvoyance
if it came about in an Ahrimanic or Luciferic manner?
9:45 - 10:45 What did people find important about the conference?
What should be written up and offered to newsletters?
Who could do this?
10:45 - 11:15 BREAK
11:15 - 12:15 Plenum: How does our higher development benefit the higher
Beings? the nature spirits? the earth? Discussion.
A song. Closing remarks and Verse.
Alleluia – Gabrielle Atkin.
12:30 LUNCH




Questions and information: Please contact the conference planning committee: 



Lori Daub, Escondido, CA                       Peter Rennick, Arizona

760-291-1720                                               480-642-2246

Dorin Del Alba, Alaska                                Sally Rutledge, New Mexico

907-978-5056                                                505-883-4815

Heather Fields, Fair Oaks, CA                      Stephanie Sugars, Bay Area, CA

202-558-8780                                                707-833-1298

Jane Hipolito, Los Angeles Area                   Beth Wieting, Oregon

714-993-6498                                                503-774-8764   (Registrar)

Daniel Bittleston, Santa Cruz, CA                 Michael Pinchera, Idaho

831-212-1947                                                208-265-2200