| The
Jasper School
for Inner Development, Working with Elemental Beings and Landscape Healing
1. Jasper and the Grail
2. About inner development
2.1. History of Grail Christianity
2.2. What can you learn with Jasper
2.3. Schooling as a process
2.4. Initiation; Mother and Son of Man
2.5. The distinction between Astrosophy, Astrophony and
Astrognomy
2.6. The practical work
3. About elemental beings
3.1. Introduction; elemental beings in and around us
3.2. Methods; Singing, rhythms, movement. Some songs
3.3. Description of the work
4. About landscape healing
4.1. Introduction; how and where can we restore. Deva’s
4.2. Work in the sublitteral spheres for wounded places.
The becoming of a magician in acting along
4.3. Larger perspectives; cosmical sound connections
5.1. Subjects in 3 levels;
* Image; Spiritual Science
* Sound; Ojective Art
* Form gesture; Moral Technique
5.2. Courses
5.3. Educations
5.4. Teachers
6. Projects
6.1. Landscape healing; a good path of exercise
6.2. Music and Music Theatre as developmental work
7. Publications
7.1. Articles
7.2. Books
7.3. Music and music theatre als paths of initiation
1. Jasper and the Grail
Each man has the right to get to know his world, and grow from this. Nowadays
culture offers possibillities to investigate specifically the physical
world around us until in detail. Each child already learns to take apart
the apparatuses around him in order to learn how these function. But for
our own inner worlds of the life (your moods and feeling of well-being),
the soul (your feelings) and the spirit (your vision and ideals) there
have been offered little tools. And what lives in our willing and ideals,
we have to figure out by ourselves, wiyh falling and experiencing. This
latter mostoften goes together with resistances from the surroundings,
up against the flow, to be willing to go one’s own path. The experiences
from this realm initially are dark for present-day normal day-consciousness.
Within Jasper there have been developed methods with which one can learn
to discover and recognize the own inner world of organs, lotus flowers,
soul movements, willing impulses and ideals, and also the inner side of
the surrounding realities in their true being and statures. And therewith
one can also sharpen and school the inner qualities and faculties, to
be able to do something creative in those worlds of the spirit, the soul
and the life.
Such a development goes step by step, gradually. This is being called
the development of the inner Grail, the own developmental being, that
can have itself being ever more experienced as a closing egg of life forces,
in which the soul and the spirit express themselves distincive when you
start to develop these: ‘Grail’ comes from the Latin word
‘gradalis’ and means ‘step by step’. In the epic
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach the Grail is being called a ‘iaspis
ex silis’; a jasper stone from silicium; actually siliciumoxid.
So a cobble (?) stone. A Jasper is coloured brown to red, which indicates
that it is penetrated wìth iron oxid; just like our blood that
colours red by this. So an egg-shaped cobblestone (like a chalcedony or
agath) is an image for our life body that can develop. Silicon is coagulated
sun’s substance: the sun’s rays have formed the earth’s
crust with it; that has to do with consciousness. Consciousness we carry
in the soul body. So the silicon makes a skin of consciousness around
the life body, which has been formed from the watery, flexible. And the
redbrown colour of a jasper stone indicates the working of our spirit,
our ego all through the blood. Hence the name of the school.
The life body is build up with, and penetrated by the elemental beings
that we have absorbed with our sense impressions. To get to know and recognize
these beings and learn to work with them, is one of the methods which
Jasper has put as an aim; the inner side of the outern world. Or, learn
to observe in the realms where the consciousness is initially still dark.
And together with these beings we can also learn to direct the Earth and
to cure her where nessecary. Because during our development have done
much wrong to our fellowmen and the Earth, there are still many wounded
places, where the beings of nature cannot function well, as well because
there still hang around many traumatised dead people. Like previous battlefields,
concentration camps, places where people have been mistreated and killed,
and where nature has been violated. For this as wsell there have been
elaborated within Jasper basic methods to be able to do something with
it and transform the places and the connected beings to it and if needed,
free them.
One of the basic methods of Jasper is working with music, with which the
connection is made between the four juman bodies (the physical, the life
body, the soul and the spirit) and their orogin in the spheres of the
stars and the planets. That expresses itself specifically in measure,
rhythm and tonality, and is a precipitation in us of the har,ony of the
spheres. In this manner from a moment, or a birth horoscope, by approach
the harmony of the spheres can be rendered in measure, rhythm and tonalityt
for each sensitive point at the sky and for each planet. Music out of
the stars can help to show the people the way; in themselves and the elemental
beings. With this kind of music that has to do with the four bodies as
a precipitation of the starry script, one can also help to cure landscapes
by restoring the connection to the angel choirs out of the planet spheres.
There are also methods to transpose in sound and rhythm the star constellations
outside of the zodiac, which represent each one one of our ideals, so
that we can become consious of them.
Besides education Jasper offers as well personal schooling traces, with
which the coach tries to observe together with the participant. The liberation
of pieces of suffering that one observes, can give back faculties; hense
the personal traces in connection with karma and reincarnation.
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2.
About inner development
One of the biggest illusions which the common culture tends to uphuld
to us, is that we ought to express ourselves predominantly in our work,
posessions and status in order to feel happy. This because we then do
which is more or less expected from us, or what we exprect from ourselves,
on the base of the norms that have been taught to us. Merely striving
for this, however leads to hardenings.
Another misthought is, that ‘it will all turn out good, for God
and the angels do wake over us’. Experience learns that t can only
do something if we first come into motion by ourselves in making efforts,
and thus come into development. If not, are we invisible to them; we do
not radiate, when we do only our habitual acts.
The developmental possibillities for each individual just lay in the inner
enveloping of the moral force on the etherical, soul and spiritual levels;
there where we want to elaborate our inner ideals in the world, mostoften
in opposition to the habits, norms and values of the surroundings and
of society. This marks the development of the inner Grail. This of course
can well be given shape in the professional life, when the soul suffers
no damage of this. And this latter is what mostoften happens, by the tormenture
about events and the conclusions that are being pulled out of these by
the media and ruling instances.
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2.1. A short history of
Grail Christianity
Nowadays much is known about oriental and Indian initiations and esoteric
knowledge from there. It is less known that also our western-Christian
culture has a long tradition of esoteric knowledge and practices.
In Greek antiquity it was quite common that in order to learn a profession,
one went to a tempel or another special place or person, where one received
an initiation in non-visible workings and beings behind the physical reality,
of which the knowledge of their existence, and the possibillities to work
with these, were helpfull for the execution of the profession. And after
some time one returned for a longer or shorter period to the temple to
deepen the knowledge and faculties. In the Middle Ages this was transformed
in the different yilds, the professional unions where one was also initiated
in specific professional knowledge, and also in the angels and holies
that were connected to it.
After the entrance of Christianity and therewith the gradual victory of
the old, ‘pagan’ religions, the church as an institute suffered
strongly exteriorisation and dogmatising. The worst in this concern were
the concilies of the church leaders during the first millennium, of which
the one 696 in Nicea was the deepest point. Hier te human spirit was denied,
and per dogma only a piece of undying soul dascrived to him. The advantage
of this was that inside monasteries there were created possibillities
for a soul life that could be developed in wuietness and devotion. That
has brought forth beautiful mystical observations and works. Yet the life
of nuns and monks was onesided, for daily life was being excluded. One
lived in the union with Christ and God, not with the fellowmen. The Greek
philosophers were translates and studied, which fed strongly the thinking.
Besides the doctrine of the church there lived the more esoteric writings
of the Essenes, the order in which also Christ could stay and that owned
the building in Jerusalem in which the Holy Supper took place. The Essenes
had been transformed around 150 B.C. to a form of Buddhism that strove
for the inner chastity and thus kept outside the counterstriving forces
and beings. An amount of scriptures from their hand have been handed down
which comprise the more esoteric backgrounds behind the creation and history
of the cosmos, man and the Earth. Out of these so-called gnostic texts
many people could better understand the events around Christ. Also through
the knowledge and insight in these writigs Mani in the 4th century A.D.
has had some visions, and out of his clearvoyant talents has rendered
an understandable form of Christianity, called Manicheism, in which it
turned around the struggle between light and darkness and each one’s
relation to these in life and work. Until in the Middle Ages this remained
an confort and hold for many people, especially in the south of Europe,
because it also comprised of practical exercises for all-days life, to
which everyone could take part. Ultimately this became too much for some
dominant church leaders, and in 1244 on the Mont Ségur in the Pyrenees
the last cathars of albigenzes were defeated. From cathar comes our word
ketter.
In the 12th century the order of the Templers was started, a munk order
of knights that kept free the road to the holy land, and also took along
from Jerusalem the secrets of the temple construction and had these given
shape in the Gothic cathedrals. The order had many secrets from the master
builders coming from old Egypt. The one that entered the order, gave it
his posessions, put his sword in the service of Christ, and begot a strong
initiation in the soul and in the will, thus, that he got in contact with
the higher development being of the man, that in the Apocalyps of the
Bible is being called the Son of Man. There was striven to develop this
all through the life and work. Besides this the Templars invented the
bank note, through which the first banking was formed. With such a bank
note the memberscould travel without money through Europe and to Palestina,
and were taken care of on the posessions of the order. This order brought
rest in large parts of Europe (in Germany there was started a parallell
order, the German Order). In the beginning of the 14th century the richness
of the order became a thorn in the eye of the French king Phillip the
Fair, and he had have the church legal proceedings against the Templars
in which they were being accused of herecy and treason, the members were
tortured and killed, and the order disbanded. Only in Portugal the order
as continued under another name (the Order of Christ, Convento Christi)
and lives on until today, albeit no longer active.
After the downfall of this order esoteric Christianity threatened to loose
its thread. Hereupin the initiate Christian Rosenkreuz has passed by different
royal courts with a similar doctrine as the Templars, but the noblemen
had become afraid of repercussions. Hence Christian has directed his Rosencrucian
movement more to the inside, towards inner work; to the outside his brothers
only took care of the ill. Inwardly they have elaborated further alchemy:
that is an active way to refine oneself together with the living substances
one tris to transform. They worked like this for centuries, and only came
to the outside in the 18th century, when chemistry tended to banish all
the life out of the dance of the substances with the doctrine of the chemical
elements.
At the end of the 19th century there also came an end to the spiritual
darkness in Europe, and with the rise of Theosofy the first clear observations
returned in our culture. Initially this still was strongly penetrated
with Indian-eastersn wisdoms. When as well the Indian Krishnamurti was
pushed forward as the new buddha (which this person himself denied however),
Rudolf Steiner has saperated himself from this movement, and elaborated
Anthroposofy. In it he works clearly over the Greek doctrine of the four
elements in an understanding for man and world, as being composed from
the four bodies physical, life, soul and spirit, of which the elements
are a precipitation, as well as the natural realms of minerals, plants,
animals and humans. Anthroposofy is a spiritual science, which means a
science that in its opinions deals as well with the spiritual perspective
of the phenomena and researches these. This latter was possible by the
already by Goethe elaborated phenomenology or goethean science, the qualitative
method of research of the phenomena, which also includes man as an observer.
It directs the soul towards the spirit, and tries to brake through the
abstractions of the mind, intellect, in making the thinking imaginative
and therewith body free.
All directioned mentioned have to do with a piece of inner development,
and hence are relevations of the Grail.
Since the middle of the 20th century there has been released a new way
to the spirit, going all through the heart. This as a result of a crucifiction
of Christ in the life world around 1942, in the middle of the time of
the Nazi’s. Becaus of this development it is now possible to develop
the inspirative and intuitive faculties in a conscious way, all through
the heart in which seize the feeling and the conscience. One learns to
bring the consciousness in the heart and to think and do from it. These
inspirative-intuitive forces are being called the Son of Man, the inner
developmental being. One could also call these clear feeling and clear
willing. Hence in the Jasper School specifically these faculties are being
taught, because the developer of the methods in them, Nicolaas the Jong,
has gone along this path of development. This as a complementation to
and in cooperation with the methods of the spiritual science of Anthroposofy,
which in itself predominantly lead to the imaginative consciousness, clearvoyancy
or the imagination. And specifically the younger generations come with
faculties and observations which are grounded in clear seeing, feeling
and willing; to this someoe who is schooled y Jasper can answer adequate
and conduct them on their road ahead. One can also enlighten with these
faculties much suffering in psychiatrical institutions, because in it
are many people that cannot handle well their inner observations and keep
themselves orient and balance, as well because they have not been coached
well in this. This makes the Jasper School to a modern mysteryschool that
stands in the natural line of esoteric Christianity.
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2.2. What can one learn
and develop at Jasper
*Experience that the cause of things and phenomena lies at the inner side,
from where these as well are being conducted and maintained: one learns
to observe the beings behind the workings of the physical events, forms
and phenomena. With as a result that one also can learn to work with these.
* One learns to recognize and go the paths within oneself; from out of
sense impressions, through the feelings to what lives within the will,
going all through the organ processes; the ideals that can impulsate to
acts, and the virtual gestures one has to make to be able to realise these
ideals all through the external and inner resistances; that is connected
to the development of the petals of the chakras, ones higher soul senses.
*That means one learns to develop the spirit tot imaginative, inspirative
and intuitive faculties, so of clear seeing, feeling and willing. Connected
to this, learning to distinguish what it is to follow the paths respecively
of the seer (the enlightened), the initiate (that can act in the workings
of the phenomena) and the magician (that can learn to observe the willing
germs of becoming of people and beings and help to develop these).
*Learn to recognize and go the paths in the external world: the angels
and the elemental beings, these are the thought beings that angels bring
forth, that cause and maintain the phenomena.
*As a practical help o this one learns to work with the forces of measure,
rhythm and tonality as the outworkings of the harmonsy of the spheres
that can be directed, with which both nature and culture are being conducted
and nourished out of the angel worlds. This is called astrophony.
*One also learns to comprehend the form language of the phenomena after
their element working and learn to work with it as a gesturing language
that forms the phenomena. This is called astrognomy.
*Getting an insight in the own shortcomings and wounds. T`hrough the willing
to work with these, a`s well because one gets to know the own inner world,
one can encounter new unexpected talents. That which one has won, one
can radiate over others. Overcome sufferings become the welfare to fellowmen
and world.
*One learns to give more easy shape to the path in life, out of the ideals
one has intended before birth. So with the deepening the consciousness
development of the seer, of the initiate, of the magician.
*Out of the inner healing, transformation and growth one can come to the
insight and healing in other personsn and in huses, parcels and pieces
of a landscape. This in learning to do out of the germs for development
that lay hidden in every being and circumstance or event: waking up the
Christ’s consciousness in oneself and the world and make it active
(‘See, my Ego makes everything new’).
*A help to this is knowledge about the application of the 12 warmth types,
which are the tools of our ego, our spirit germ, with which ultimately
we can transform ourselves and the world.
*Strengthen the social consciousness in learning to work within a group.
*One also learns to apply the mastered inner faculties in life and profession.
That can mean the renewal of the sciences out of the insights of the Son
of Man.
*More specifically one maybe educated as a music therapeut, a man and
landscape healer out of the workings of the stars and planets (astrosophy,
that is star wisdom in which astronomy and astrology enter a new fusion).
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2.3. Schooling as a process
For the clearvoyant the life body someone who has not or hardly developed
inwardly, looks like a kind of open bag under, that is somewaht more condensed
around the head and starts to radiate (in as much as his thinking has
become clear), and that is unshaped and open underneath. The in each other
fitting Russian wooden ‘babushca’-puppets are a beautifull
image for this; around the neck and the head a little tightened, furthermore
approaching the egg-shape. See the pictures at the side.
With the further refinement of the own being (which means adapting more
conscious the 12 types of warmth as the tools of the spirit) this egg
can close off more downwards, gets a more or less clear separation from
the surroundings, a kind of astral, radiatimng skin (shingel, Jasper)
and shows inner structures, around organs and chakras. There also come
movements, currents in this egg, and one starts to radiate to the outside.
The skin causes that one no longer lets beings and unconscious impressions
flow in and out without notice, but that one becomes conscious of these.
And therewith one also can learn more easily to close off for feelings
and willing impulses of other people.
The fact that one starts to radiate innwardly, also has as a result that
one becomes more visible for the beings that are not physically incarnated,
like the dead, and also all kind of spiritual beings that mean it more
or less good with us. This gives also some responsibility to learn to
deal well with them. It is necessary that one learns to see and observe
what these beings wand from os, and what we can do with them. It gives
a deepening of reality, because one receives a piece beside the allday
reality that has to doe with significance and deepening, and gives as
well tools to learn to deal with these new worlds (van causes). Hence
it is also necessary that one knows what one has intended to develop;
only then one can see if one can do something of meaning with the flow
of beings because of this inner light, or that one only should close off
for them.
We can experience innwardly the forming of gestures and currents that
go out of the different chakras. At a certain moment the inner experience
of the cross motive becomes important. Not so much because it is a Christian
symbol, but because it is the inner experience of the development of the
4-petaled byheart- or thymuschakra; this helps with the founding of the
ether heart, and therewith gives our inner developmental being a kind
of bedding, form and balance. Typical with this step of development is
that one can start to observe and experience the own and the other person’s
feelings as gestures.
The Son of Man itself, our inner child, at a certain moment one can see
of feel developing in the belly; it namely develops between the navelchakra
(that plants and maintains the life body) and the solar plexus chakra
(that plants and maintains the soul body). From the cooperation between
soul and life, there arises the Son of Man.
Out of the navel lotusflower, through insights from out of the solar plexus,
one can also learn to observe the statures and gestures of the beings
in the outern world; the angels and elemental beings. And one can see
rising up from the own inner world beings, because we take these in with
every sense impression that we take. And learning to deal with these,
gives back possibillities for inner growth and exernal transformation.
If one also learns to look well at ones life of desires and thrifts (and
the throughliving of sexuality with a partner can be a good help to this),
one can learn to observe and conduct the own forces of the life tree coming
out of the Earth and being bundeld at the tailbone chakra. To learn to
bring these forces up and apply them consciously in the acts, can give
lots of extra force to the acts, and give life energy. One then erects
the kundalini, and through this can connect all through the crown chakra
more easy to the cosmos and the angels living in it. Through the connection
of the foreheadchakra with the crown, one strongly can learn to see, feel
and act clear, as being a tool for the angels. This is what a magician
can do at certain times; it then acts within him, he is partly a spectator
of the strong play of forces allthrough him. And his ether egg, hisn Grail
then is very strongly differentiated and radiating.
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2.4. Initiation; Mother
and Son of Man, star image forces.
The initiatiator to this school, Nicolaas de Jong, has got his initiation
by Christ, who pulled him inside a cloud and had experience His workings
as sounds, colours and shapes. Later on an a angel has made him experience
that those force workings in sound, colour and form also in were hidden
within himself. Upon this base he has developed the methods that lay as
a base to the Jasper School. The test took place during workshops, courses
and educations hich he has developed out of these ever since, and in which
the participants came to similar observations.
Him was known that different people had observed Christ in an imaginative
way, as He has been expressed by Rudolf Steiner in his sculpture of the
representative of man: striving through the worldsea (the life world),
through which the counter forces fall. That is an imaginative image, that
one can observe with a soul that is directed to the spirit. These workings
in the cloud however were of a different kind; it were movements, forces,
form gestures. That which in spiritual science is being called the inspirative
current (the clear feeling in and along), and the observation of the intuitive
germ of becoming as a gesture (the clear willing). Christ points at this
distinction when hanging on the cross. He speaks to His mother together
with the pupil John: ‘Son see your mother. Mother, see your son’.
Until that time namely there gad been two mystery currents in different
cultures, that were strictly separated. It ath the one side were the light
mysteries, that led to the imaginative thinking. If you were an initiate
of these mysteries, you were called a ‘son or daughter of the widow’,
namely Isis. At the other side there were the mysteries of darkness; those
of the inspiration and intuition, that play in the life and physical body,
and the processes in it are dark for our consciousness. These were called
the development of the Son of Man, of shortly son, the creative spiritual
child that hides in each human. John before his initiation (the apparent
resurrection from death) was Lazarus, a singer. He often lay listening
at the chest of Christ to the cosmical sounds that arose from it: he was
inspirative initiated. And Mary, Christ’s mother, despite the sufferings
done to her Son, yet had th cunning to look through this and perceive
the spiritual realities behind it: she was imaginative initiated, a seer.
In that Christ indicates to observe in and at each other, He connects
the mysteries of light with those of the darkness. Through this the imaginative
consciousness, the mother, can take from the life of the son, through
which her images remain vivid and willnot lead to dogmas. And the inspirative-intuitive
initiated can enter the darkness with the light, the insight forces of
the mother. Both fructify one another in this way. And this is what Jasper
aims for; grow in doing in the worlds of the life, the soul and the spirit,
being initially dark for the consciousness, with using the light of the
spirit, the mother, the imaginative consciousness. Hence with each exercise
there is tried to do in these worlds, and afterwards there is modelled
out and deliberated what one has observed in it. Thus one grows slowly,
step by step (gradalis) into the higher worlds in that one brings in it
the light of insight. And is initiated in these worlds.
In the darkness of the will also lay our ideals. In the star constellations
(outside the zodiac) the ideas of the Divine plan of creation can be found
back, that have given shape to man and the Earth. what we see when we
look up, is the outside of a group of angel beings that represent that
idee. Inbetween two incarnations on the Earth, we visit more of those
groups of angels that work on a specific idea. Coming on the Earth, we
take along these ideas as our ideals. We namely know in the inside that,
when we want to realise these on the Earth, we can transform ourselves
and the Earth, and become larger spirits, going all through the resistances.
We absorp these ideas because in realising them i ourselves and the Earth,
we cooperate with the realisation of that plan. Hènce forces of
the star constellations in us form our ideals on the Earth. These are
present as warmth crystals in the non-substantial physical body that envelopes
us, and often is called our phantom body. At specific moments in our life,
being determined by the transition or angle of certain planets at the
sky to positions in our birth horoscope, the protective angel will wake
up these ideals and work these into our blood (via the spleen process),
and he will also try to bring us in cintact with people and circumstances,
in which from the outside we can recognize the ideal we have intended.
For instance when we meet abuses that we want to put straight out of this
ideal. Then we have to realise the ideal all through our own resistances
in soul and body and the external ones. This mostoften does not succeed
at once, and needs to be repeated in a rhythmic way, with which we can
refine and strengthen our being in relation to that ideal. We develop
good habits, which means to say virtues, through which it may succeed
better and better. This virtue opens higher soul- and spiritual faculties
in us, through which we can grow out into a being with higher powers,
an angelbeing or even higher. And thus we transform this ideal in us,
with which it can be realised ever more in the world around us.
This process runs all through the life. In schooling however this can
be reinforced, and also as a start be made recognizable, for not everyone
recognizes so easily his own ideals. Next one can learn to apply this
ideal as an active force.
One of the reasons to this, is that also the counter force that is called
satan or ahriman, tries to exteriorize these inner talents to be developed,
and put them before us as technics. For it, we do not need to come into
motion by ourselves, only pay the money that is needed for its acquisition.
In this view, our means of transport (car, train, airplane), our means
of telecommunication (telefone, tv, internet) are all exteriorized faculties
that we could develop by ourselves (telekinesis, telepathy, imgaginative
consciousness). It is good besides the use of these external technics,
also to persue the own inner development in these directions, because
with this, we can help to bring further in development ourselves and therewith
the Earth.
There are 72 star constellations outside of the Zodiac; they are called
in the Bible the 72 keys of David. Jasper offers methods to become conscious
of these star constellations in sound, rhythm and formgesture and to learn
to work with them. Because the cosmical Word lives in the stars, Jasper
is an expression of the Word mysteries. In sound and formgesture, and
with the help of singing and clay modelling, these forces are being interiorized.
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2.5. The difference between
Astrosophy, astrophony, astrognomy
Jasper offers practical research methods and schooling trajects with which
modern mans with exercising can make himself with the own strength a path
to the superphysical realities of life, soul and spirit. A starting point
with this is knowledge about man in all his bodies and the coherences
of these with the workings of the higher angel beings upon man out of
the stars and planets. This latter has been given shape in Astrosophy,
the new star wisdom, and its further elaborations and applications in
Astrophony (sound horoscopy) and Astrognomy (searching for the essential
form gestures of each phenomenon and being).
Astrosophy is a form of star knowledge that considers the four bodies
of man and their anchoring in the four natural realms of fire, air, water
and earth and also their relations to the star constellations and planets.
Starting point form anthroposophical viewpoints, that are being tested
by means of newly developed methods of research, and thus enriched with
new rechearch results. It awakens the imaginative faculties.
Astrophony is an outworking of the star and planet workings in man which
can be approached in sound, music and rhythm. Research has been done by
means of singing improvisation, and as well the results of research are
being applied in compositions, that are performed when possible. Singing
opens the soul for the observations of higher worlds, wherewith one connects
through singing. Furthermore there has been elaborated a music theory
that indicates coherences between musical laws and the workings out of
planets and zodiacal signs, as these express themselves in the human constitution.
Astrognomy is a further elaboration which tries to approach and investigate
the astrosophic and astrophonic starting points in organic design by means
of clay modeling . Each act, accomplished by man, his attitude, feeling
and gesture, are expressions of the absorbed workings of stars and planets
and the beings that are active through these. This is investigated by
means of formgiving, within man and in the phenomena.
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2.6. The practical work
In order to learn to go the way in the own being, and observe and acknowledge
in it the higher bodies of life/formatich forces, soul and spiri, and
work out of these, in the Jasper School there have been worked out methods
with which can be obtained insights while exercising and image building,
but also developing faculties. the phenomenological methods in sound,
rhythm and clay modelling, leaves the participant free to get to know
his own form language and apply the inner paths and faculties in a practical
way. Observing and clay modelling help to develop and apply further inner
faculties and higher senses (the lotus flowers).
-The 7 steps to come from a sense impression to the development of virtues.
This helps to use better the 12 senses, that are directed towards the
physical world. Besides with the recognition of the own ideals one brought
along.
-Learning to acknowledge and go the paths in the own inner organ processes,
through which one learns to act different from habitual, and can learn
to come out of circles of conduct.
-The development of virtues that can help to develop the own chakras,
the higher soulvsenses. This brings faculties.
-Learning to feel into and recognize the soul forces and -conflicts, like
these can be found back in the birth horoscope as a reflection of the
own destiny. Through learning to move along with this in sound, measure
and rhythm, one can learn to apply these soul forces in oneself and the
other, and thus handle better the different bodies. It gives also the
development of faculties, when one accomplises tot apply this as an active
force (also to the outern world, because the beings in nature move along
with similar sounds and rhythms). Besides this one again can learnt to
follow the way back to the harmonies of the spheres. As support to this
there have been developed a lotus flower dance, a Moon- and a Mercury
dance.
-This can be deepened when one lets resound the specifical sounds and
rhythms of the star constellations outside of the zodiac, that are connected
to the personal destiny and represent the ideals one took along, and one
can get these clear with clay modeling tasks.
Ultimately in doing one learns to observe, know and handle the inner being
and many of the faculties that slumber in it, through which can bring
into development the inner spiritual faculties of imagination (clear seeing),
inspiration (clear feeling) and intuition (clear willing). With these
future-directed faculties one can help and be active in transforming in
the world, in oes profession and beside these.
Presentation of the endlabour
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3. About elemental beings
3.1. Elemental beings
in and around us
An elemental being is the creatyive thought of a angel, that with it has
started a phenomenon upun the Earth. These elemental/thought beings weave
all through the phenomena of man, nature and culture and cause and maintain
these; they weave behind the elements earth, water, air and fire. With
each sense impression we take them in. These form our thought contents,
and we change them when we think them over. Thus they have also been banished
in our culture and technics, waiting for a further transformation and
refinement through us.
3.2.
Methods; singing, rhythms, motion
In Jasper there have been developed schooling methods to learn to get
in contact step by step with the different groups of elemental beings.
First one is learned directed to observe them; by means of common singing,
observation, motion and clay modelling. With communal singing one opens
ones heart and soul, which makes possible a more direct contact with them
– they are basically beings of feeling. It is being tried to discover
the inner tools that can open doors to the life worlds. Then these inner
observation possibillities are eing directed to the beings that work in
and all through the elements, which they direct and maintain. The singing
helps to open the soul through which it can be connected to the inner
and outer phenomena. The clay modeling helps to condense and objectify
the observations. In deliberations it is tried to make more conscious
the experiences and observations.
Next it is tried to communicate with them – and that is for each
group a specifical task. After this there is viewed whether in the area
that one works, they can be reiforced at places where they are needed.
By learning to work with them in a directed way, they and also we can
come further in development, and work together on the Earth further on,
transform these in directions choosen before.
Some tools to get in contact with elemental beings appeared to be the
in Astrophony developed rhythms, for these connect our life body with
them in the different life force realms (each house of the horoscope corresponds
with a specific life realm behind one of the elements). The elemental
beings are connected to a specifical element in a treefolded hierarchic
wayn, of which they take charge and which they conduct. That is dependent
on their consciousness.
There as well has been developed music and musictheater to have them adapted
better to our time, and to take away their fear for counterworking spirits,
so that they can become more active in the development of themself and
the Earth, together with the people.
3.3.
How does this go
For work in the field there is mostoften waited until there comes a question,
from either one of the elemental beings, or from people that experience
parts of nature as being wounded. The latter happens a lot in nature that
is influenced by the hand of man, like buildings, new quarters and roads.
Then there is being observed by a group of people what is wrong there.
We intruduce ourselves to the landscape deva at the place through singing
of the mood of that moment, agaimst which with the lyre there are being
played the sounds and rhythms of the planets out of their position at
the sky, after the the astrophonic outworkings. Thus is made contact with
the deva, and she can help us with further steps. From the observations
it mostoften shows what ineeded in that place. It mostoften comes down
to balance one or more groups of elemental beings that are too much or
too few at some places. We look for a place where there ara enough of
them, tune in to them in walking the rhythm in concern, and try to get
in a dialogue. After this each participant models out the gestures that
he or she has observed. With this model we retturn to these beings, ask
them wether they want to come along and get an extra task, and we then
bring them through the model to the intended landscape point where they
are too little represented. This is closed off with a ritual with gestures
and rhythms, many times as well with the singing of specific colours,
and thus the landscape can come to rest for some time. Afterwards we observe
again ont time, to observe whether our work succeeded or not and needs
more.
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4. About the landscape
healing
4.1. how and where can we restore
Just like the human body, the Earth is kept alive by a web of life forces
and this is concucted by soul beings. These beings are the elemental beings,
that work in a hierarchic order, each one after his own element, and that
each has to execute specific tasks. Th life unit of a landscape is being
guarded by a landscape angel, that is an angel of Mother Earth; she mostoften
is being called a Deva. She seizes at a landscape at three points; a point
of inflow of the cosmical forces, a point where these cosmical soundforces
are being mingled with the life processes in that landscape, where is
being digested and transformed; the point of transformation. And a point
of outflow of these transformed forces, where there returns as well a
refined current under the Earth to the point of inflow. At each of these
points the elemental beings from the different realms and of different
order cooperate to bring forth this digestion.
This has ever been directed by the angels and ha`s worked like this for
thousands of years. The last centuries however, now that man seizes ever
deeper in natur, many of these landscape units are being disturbed. Also
by the many wars, specifically in Europe (where has been fought and destroyed
in a much larger scale), entire landscapes and regions have been devastated
or were fixated.
As well because the guidance of the elemental worlds has been put in our
hands, we have a task to the landscape and the beings crowding it te restore
it if needed, or also to install new landscape unities where if that appears
to be necessary. Thus there will be much won for man and the natural beings,
for we can learn to get in contact with them again and do something back
for them, and through our work, especially when this goes along with offering
forces, they can further develop. Offer forces namely are warmth elemental
beings, transformed consciously by us, that the regular ones can elaborate
because of this transformation. We make this offering out of freedom:
that is a characteristic they can master only with hardness. Thus arises
liens of cooperation between man and the elemental beings on a new basis.
In Jasper there have been developed methods to at first come back in contact
again with the different elemental beings in their realms, and second
to be able to do something to the landscape in a dialogue with their wishes.
That often comes down to the grounding of the or a deva in her landscape
points, and the connection of her to the beings of the different other
elemental worlds, through which disturbed workings can get back into motion,
and an entirely new élan can arise in the landscape in concern.
4.2.
Work in the subterrranean spheres for wounded places. To become a magician
in doing along.
Besides this there has been developed work in the mostly still dark 9
subterranean spheres, with which the beings banned in these can be observed,
acknowledged and if they wish so, are helped to get alomg in developed.
Mostoften one then frees at wounded places, for instance where have been
executed of committed acts of war, the people that are emprisoed herein
fear or indignation about the injustice done to them, human souls that
are stuck there and cannot get further in their development.
The methods of work are the in-living in the phenomena, singing of the
play of forces that lay as a base to these phenomena, the walking of rhythms
that connect us to the life worlds, and ultimately the modeling out of
the observations, wherewith the own observations can be transformed into
wishes for development of the landscape. At last these wish models are
placed around one of the sensitive landscape points. This goes together
with gestures and sayings, mostoften on rhythm and music, which the participants
learn to one another and that each one are being danced into the landscape
with movement and music; there thus arises new forms of rituals that are
being executed together with the elemental beings. Observations indicate
that they from their side join in, and extract the intentions and form
gestures that have been put into the models to work on with these.
Capital thought with all this is that the models, gestures of planet rhythms
and wishes are held before the elemental beings in freedom, and they can
choose freely what they want to do with it. This learns them as well what
freedom can be. Mostoften they welcome these kind of developments; in
the future we do have to cooperate ever more and fix things together to
guide and transform the Earth.
With each landscape there is traced what is the actual question or need,
where are the bottle necks, and how we can anticipate to this. That is
mostly a creative process in which at most some methods and directions
are clear. In doint the path to follow mostoften shows itself. And thus
the participants become co-creative to the processes of nature and culture
through activating the good that lies hidden in the beings and things
als germs for becoming. Man is becoming a magician.
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4.3.
Larger perspectives; cosmical sound connections.
The correspondence betweeen the cosmos filled with angels and the Earth
is maintained by a high deva of the cosmical sounds, who hears what resounds
from the harmony of the spheres at each moment. She transmist this onto
sensitive lines, and the landscape devas over the Earth absorp this and
work it into their landscape. Through the scirm of satellites and electromagnetic
radiation that we humans apply however, this cosmical web is being troubled
and opposed. Within Jasper we try to map the larger connections and restore
at different sensitive spots on the continents the relevant sound forces,
and thus call a halt o this troubling. This in working at the sensitive
planetary points.
Within Jasper to this matter there also have been developed songs of the
planets and the star constellations, with rituals and dances (such as
the lotus flower dance) to have these places permanently beig tuned to
what comes to us from the angel worlds.
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5. Doctrines in 3 levels
The already mentioned sections Inner Development, Working with Elemental
Beings and Landscape Healing are closely connected. Through inner development
one observes easier in nature what lives there, And what is going wrong
there. Through observation in nature one learns to know the processes
out of which we have also been constructed. ‘Know the world, know
thouselve, for the world, that art thou’.
Besiedes one grows together with the elemental beings, from high to low,
which brings new faculties to both sides. An important starting point
with this is that Christ is the lord of the Earth, lives in the life world
and also lord of the elemental beings is. One joins His fight for the
transformation of the Earth.
5.1.
About the distinction beween spiritual science, objective art and moral
technics
In order to be able to make a connection with the worlds of life, of soul
and of spirit, one needs to develop alertness in the feeling with which
one can develop the soul organs and can learn to use these. There are
some aimed artistic activities specifically apt to this, because these
can connect us to the phenomena on a refined way that can give unexpected
subtleties of the senses as observational organs, and at the same time
possibillities to open creative faculties. Jasper strives for the realisation
of a renewed school for spirit impulses amidst our society from which
it can be nourished and be inspired. It will consist of the sections:
I. Spiritual science. A science which broadens
out itself because one cultivates thinking and aims it at the functionings
of the spirit, through which it will be impregnated with the imaginative
consciousness. As a basis can serve for that purpose astrosophy which
has been developed within the Rune workshop. When one develops imaginative
qualities, one can become clairvoyant.
Under it ressort:
II Objective art. A manner of practising art
that searches for the outworkings in people, in nature and the cosmos
in artistic creations. This offers the possibilities to experience and
apply the inner guidance within processes , and gives possibilities of
developing inspirative skills (clear feeling and clear hearing). A basis
for this can be astrophony. When one develops inspirative qualities, one
can learn to conduct in the processes; that is the consciousness of an
initiate.
Under it ressort:
III Moral technique. A technique which tries
to bring into development the good that hides in every phenomenon and
being. In this way such a technique can help with the development of clear
willing, the intuitive conscience. Basis for this can be the working methods
of astrognomy. When one develops intuitive qualities, one acquires the
consciousness of the magician.
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5.2. Courses
-Course Clay Modeling
out of the Senses
There will be given impressions of one of the 12 senses, and with a series
of directive questions one learns to know the way in the own inner world
through experiencing. From the way through the own being, via feeling,
organ/soul space, willing intention and ideal,`one comes to the development
of a virtue. Clay modeling tasks and deliberation afterwards.
Time: a half day in the week of 3 ½ hours.
-Course Experiencing
of the organ processes
With the help of measure types and directive questions one gets a feeling
for the different organ processen and the possibillities these give in
our consciousness to start to conduct differently, in such a way that
one begets tools to better go through difficulties. Clay modeling tasks
and deliberation afterwards.
Time: a half day in the week of 3 ½ hours.
-Course Development
of the Lotusflower Petals
With directive questions and clay model tasks one gets a view on the different
virtues that lead to the development of the petals of the lotus flowers,
therewith awakening our higher senses and also faculties.
Time: a half day in the week of 3 ½ hours.
-Weekend course ‘Working
with Cosmical Sounds and Rhythms in and around you’
Herein is being worked specifically out of the horoscope transposed in
sound amd rhythmin sound to experience and elaborate the force workings
in the soul and the life body. Again helps here the clay modelling to
enlarge the consciousness of the inner processes, and as well the strengthening
of it.
Time: a weekend, Saturday and Sunday from 10 –
17. Saturday evening concert.
-Weekend course Find
your Way in the Life World
In it the schooling methods are being given as an orientation, such as
these are being given in the education ‘Son of Man’.
Time: a weekend, Friday evening from 20 – 22.30
p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 – 17.
-Schooling weekends
out of one of the organ processes
In it every time the effects of one specific organ process is made to
be experienced. With the help of rhythms and the own planet position in
the personal horoscope. As well the star constellations that stand parallel
with the planet in the horoscope in concern. Clay modelling of the inner
observations.
Time: a weekend, Saturday and Sunday from 10 –
17.
For a more extended course offer, see down
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5.3. Educations of Jasper
1. Working with the
Life World and the Son of Man within Oneself
The starting point of this education is Astrosophy and praktical uitworkings
of it by means of sound- and formphenomenology, the Goethean science.
Gtting along with the life world means that one sees the Earth as the
field of work for development and learns to work with it in a transformative
way. The sociale of the group process is important to this.
The artistical-phenomenological methods with the help of common singing
and clay modeling help to open up the soul and the spirit for the realities
of clear feeling / inspiration and of clear willing / intuition.
During the education every participant makes an assay that is directed
towards hir or her own field of work. It is expected that there will be
worked with these assays in the Blocks II and III at home. At the end
these will be presented.
There is a study paper for each block. No forknowledge demanded. But an
open interest for life, soul and spirit.
Study plan: a long weekend every month, consisting of:
Friday afternoon from 14 – 20 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10
– 17.
Start (mostoften) 1 hour introductory lecture
Rest of the day practical work; living oneself into processes and phenomena
with the help of singing and being elaborated with clay modeling.
Block I Introduction in different
life realms:
Clay modeling out of sense impressions; Introduction to Astrosophy; 7
Planet processes in man and organisations; 12 World visions; Elemental
and colour beings in the plants and the atmosphere; Elemental beings in
techncs and their coherence with man
Block II Elements
to the development of inspiration:
Elemental beings and landscape work; Lotusflower petals and inner development
– virtues as gestures; Astrophony in connection to the different
inner bodies; Working with sound horoscopy; Astrognomy and form studies;
the double, Son of Man and life world; Working with kundalini
Block III Elements
to the development of intuition:
Finishing up landscape work; the 9 subterranean spheres; Earth geomancy;
Development of observations at one anothers willing being as a start to
the intuition; Sayings and gestures out of the lotus flowers; Star constellations
as ideals; Planets and development; the Moon’s dance; Making and
presenting the own work pieces
Time: 3 blocks of each 5 long weekends, Friday 14 –
Sunday 17 p.m. The blocks build upon each other.
2. Working with cosmical
sounds and rhythms of the planet harmonies
In this education there is a directive approach to the four bodies. In
short, the spirit, or an isea, can be recognized as a misical motive,
that is carried by a tonality, on a rhythm and in a measure type. Concerning
the musical uitworkings, this includes working in a directed way with
rhythmic metres and measure types. Rhythmic metres bring one in contact
with the different life realms, and mearure types with the organ processes.
These are the inner reflections in time of the planet movements towards
the Earth, that bring forth our organ processes. This inspirative path
through the heart is made possible since the crucifixion of Christ in
the life world in 1942.
The starting point for the music therapy is the in the astrosophy developed
extended interpretation system of a birth horoscoop about problems and
possibillities of the individual development. Each section is being approached
in an artistical-phenomenological way.
With the music there can be brought up the soul contents and willing gestures
in a directed way, and there can be worked at parts that are out of balance.
Clay modeling help to condense the observations. This gives insight in
processes in the own inner world, a clearer sight to onesidednesses and
weaknesses and new possibillities for development. There will be worked
with singing and the lyre. There will be moved on intervalls and tone
scales in an inliving way. Rhythms and measure types are being walked
or danced. All working methods are phenomenological in their nature.
This education gives tools to work with clients at specifical problems
in a directed way. Initially there will be worked with the own horoscope,
which gives insights out of the experience. This can be applied to others
later on.
With the music one works on soul level, with the rhythms in the life processes,
and with the measure types the body’s organs in a directed way.
Thus arises a pallet of possibillities to work with clients in a directed
way.
The first part of the education offers an encadrement of notions about
Astrosophy out of imaginative experiencing and living in, through which
in a birth horoscope there can be read an analysis of the bodies, the
temperament, the constitution, soul type, world vision, strong and weak
organ processes, soul qualities and conflicts, and the direction of the
karma.
In the second part of the education these elementen will be approached
musically in tonality (major and church scales), rhythm and measure types.
These are being experienced through singing together, movement and dance.
Hereupon these elements will be integrated and there will be elaborated
on planet positions (soul realms) and configurations.
In the third part there will be exercisesed with the musical sections,
and the inner expriences of horoscope positions can be modeled out.
Besides there will be given an introduction of the lyres, developed in
the Rune Workshop, that each have the form gesture of one of the zodiacal
star constellations as sound forming principle within. These can sharpen
the therapy.
Tìme: 5 long weekends, Friday 14 – Sunday
17 p.m..
3. Working with the
12 Warmth Types
The twelve inner warmth types are the tools of the ego, our spirit germ,
to be able to built it out to a higher spiritual being; a angel of still
higher. With these warmthsoorten we work all through our bodies, order,
direct and transform these. We are active with them in the world, for
our will is embedded in the warmth.
In this education we try to get alomg with these warmth types and apply
them, so that we can accellerate our inner schooling with them, and start
working with them in the world in a creative way. Acting out of the good
with the warmth creates new spaces, relations, coherences and spheres,
and ultimately transforms our cosmos of wisdom into the one of love, The
quintessence, the conscious warmth or the shamballa. To this aim we try
to deepen their workings all through our being like we have been able
to experience them in previous educations, with the experiences and workings
of the warmth types, and thus learn to handle out of them. A means of
help is at each time the horoscope as self choosen startingpoint for the
own developmental being.
It is following the religious progress of the year, because this connects
to the development of the ego.
Time: 5 longe weekends, Friday 14 – Sunday 17 p.m.
Also some loose days (Xmas Eve, Epiphany, Ascention Day, Whitsunday)
4. Working with colour
and elemental beings and landscape healing
Nature is penetrated with living beings, that give shape to and maintain
her. For present-day consciousness these beings are not directly observable,
allthough most people can sense them in moods and workings. In working
directedly with sonic and formphenomenological methods, these beings can
be onserved all through their workings. To this we will try to sing them
as we perceive them in the phenomena, through which we can connect our
soul to them. Hence the beings can speak themselves out in us. Afterwards
we try to lift up our half conscious observations in the consciousness
by modeling these out.
In the morning we imagine weather conditions in nature, of which we will
sing and later on model out the colours as workings in an improvised way.
Afterwards we deepen ourselves in the form workings of a specific plant,
and singen the play of forces that has brought it forth out of the four
elements. This we model out and thus try to let speak in us the elemental
beings that have brought forth the plant.
In the afternoon we observe outside one or two groups of elemental beings
that are connected to a specific element (earth, water, air or fire) and
try to get in contact with them. Each day we take a group of beings that
stand behind one specific element.
Ultimately we work towards landscape healing in integrating the beings
in the landscape temple better. With this there are developed new rituals
through which we can maintain better the landscape temple and its beings.
There is worked towards landscape rituals, with which each group of elemental
beings is worked into the landscape eenheid wordt ingewerkt and being
reinforced. This is a preparation to working with elemental beings in
landscapes and landscape temples in other places.
Time: a midweek, 5 dagen from 10 – 17.
5. Working in the subterranean
spheres
With the creation and development of our Earth and cosmos there heve been
at each time angels from the havenly hierarchy, consisting of nine spheres
of consciousness levels, developed on through the deeds they have done.
At each there have also been angelbeings stayed back in their developent,
and these started to oppose the regular development, in a way as light
throws schadows. The regular angels each have a seizinhg point in one
of the planet and starry spheres. The counter-angels each have become
a sphere underneath of the Earth’s surface, so that there have arisen
as well nine subterranean spheres. These angels are the cause of workings
that we can experience as counterstriving and mostly negative for the
development in the phenomena and events around us. Learning to recognize
them, can learn us al lot about ourselves in impulses and feelings to
become clear, and about the world around us. It gives as well tools to
do something to the degenerations in ourselves and the world .This latter
specifically at wounded places, such as former battlefields and concentration
camps. But also in houses and at fields where there has passed lots of
sufferings.
The work in the subterranean spheres strives to learn to recognize the
beings in these spheres, so the fallen angels and their helpers the fallen
elemental beings, get in dialoog with them, and also proposing them to
transform into a being that can get back again in the regular development.
Hence that the education is glanned at a place where still hangs a lot
of suffering. One can offer the still raoming dead people tools to continue
their path through the spiritual world. One learns to transform the beings,
and as well recognize and transform oneself in the still unclear layers
of the soul that coher with the sphere in concern. One liberates the landscape
of these beings and the still hauntimng people, through which the landscape
angel of the place and her elemental beings can work better again and
the surroundings can be cured.
This education is a còmpl;emention and continuation of the educations
‘Working with Elemental Beings and Landscape Healing’ and
‘Working with the Life World’, but can also be followed independantly
from these. It educates the participant deelnemer to do also work in the
subterrenean spheres at wounded places all by himself. It offers praktical
handgrips to interfere with the pace events in the world through cleaning
and directing the life realms at the place. It is expected from the participants
that they stand sturdy in their shoes, because the fallen angels can be
manipulative in the consciousness. A thorough selfknowledge is a premise,
for each ‘leak’ in the soul can be an entrance to them. The
education offers insight in the becoming clear of this, but from the participant
is demanded alertness also besides the work.
After a general introduction each day section is being used for the approach
of one subterrenean sphere. This is preceded by recognition of the working
of that sphere upon the own being and the double. In the evening some
songs are being played and sung, that have a strong healing effect on
the landscape and the elemental beings.
Time: a midweek, 5 dagen of 10 – 17 uur.
These are the usual educations. It is possible in
Jasper to make educations at measure, such as for the different sciences
out of the forces of the Son of Man, which haven been described in the
book ‘Science Otherwise’ (see underneath
for the litterature list).
5.4.
Teachers
Nicolaas the Jong – initiativetaker of Jasper and teacher in the
realms mentioned above
Bastiaan Bohlmeijer – alchemist
Patrick Steensma – landscape healer and spiritual firm and personal
coach
Angelique Steensma – landscape worker
Marion Groenendal – energetic healing, music therapy
Cisca van der Straaten – landscape healing, dance therapy
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6.
Projects
6.1. Landscape healing
On the initiative of Jasper at frequent times there are organized landscape
healing projects in home and foreign lands, mostoften at wounded places.
These are good places to exercise for those who followed a Jasper schooling
path. See to this the Agenda.
6.2.
Music and musictheatre als developmental work
Music theatre group LaukaR Unja, connected to Jasper, gives performances
of the music theatre play ‘Once – an Ode to the Spirits of
the Hours of the Day, to the colours in the atmosphere, to the Spirits
of Nature. There is being worked with choir pieces of colour moods, and
with other performances. The group works as well with the long songs that
have been written for the elemental beings at wounded places. See underneath
for the list of music and music theatre als schooling projects. These
theatre pieces all have a strong schooling aspect within, and can as such
being asked for at the school.
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7. Publications
7.1. Articles
Different articles in Bruisvat (the Roaring Kettle) and Sampo, See also
with Articles on this site.
7.2.
Books
-Artistic Method of Experience on the Base of Communal Singing / Rhythms
of the Sun, Moon and the Planets – Movement and Sound
-Cosmobiology on the Basis of Sonic Phenomenology
-Karmic Astrosophy
-Esoteric Christianity until the Present
-Working with Elemental Beings
-Working with the Sounds and Rhythms of the Planet Harmonies
-Science Otherwise
-A Philosophy of Love
All Rune-books
7.3.
Music as a Path of Initiation
-Song of Memory of the inner Grail
-Widar Songs
-Music on the Base Sound Horoscopes
-Songs of the inner Temple
-Song for the Roaming Death
7.4.
Music theatre as a Path of Initiation
-Thought Glimmering
-Starry Ways
-People’s Worthiness
-The House and the Mother
-Once
7.5.
CD’s
-Once parts I - III
-Sound Horoscopes of Xmas 2005 and of 2012
-Widar Songs
-Song for the Roaming Death
-Song of Becoming, Decay and Healing
-Song of Memory of the inner Grail
7.6.
Dances
-Moon’s Dance
-Mercury Dance
-Lotus Flower Dance
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Out of a New Practical Goethean Science of the Stars
the Jasper
School
develops Ways into the Realms of Life, Soul and Spirit by Using the Sense-Organs
and Experiencing and Investigating the Phenomena of Life. Underneath you
will find:
1. Introduction
on Goethean Science of the Stars
2. The one taking this initiative,
Nicolaas M. de Jong
3. Courses
in New Practical Goethean Science of the Stars: Astrosophy,
Astrophonics (via Music) and Astrognomics
( via Claymodeling):
I. Practical
Astrosophy- for Therapy and Inner Development. An introduction
II. Observation
of Elemental Beings in Plants and Colors
III. The Curing
of Landscapes in Cooperation with
the Elemental Beings and their Tasks in Connection with Cosmic Power Points
and Energy Flows
IV. Investigating
and Working with the Subterranean Spheres and the Beings that
Dwell There, by Means of Rhythmical Texts, Music and by Clay Modeling
V. Knowing Thyself
Through the Senses - By Means of Clay Modeling
VI. Course of the Planet Influences as Organ Processes
within Man and Organization - Through Rhythm and Clay Modeling
VII. Clay Modeling
the Virtues that Lead to the Development of the Lotus Flowers
VIII. Dancing
and Moving to the Virtues that can be Developed by the Petals of the Lotus
Flowers out of written Text and Music
IX. Working with
Elementals in Technique - By Means of Clay-modeling
X. Dancing to the
Planets Mercury and the Moon to get in Touch with their Influences
upon the Earth and within the Human Being
1. Introduction
on Goethean Science of the Stars
- Spiritual Science, Objective Art and Moral Technique -
Contemporary materialistic science in its methodology
and its results is totally inadequate and unable to explain the what,
how and why of our existence, and is merely a science that ‘describes’
the physical chronology and concerted action of the occurring phenomena.
Nevertheless the position it claims or that which is imputed to it is
one of bringing about the truth of things. Its methodology focuses on
proving things it ad random postulates and formulates itself (proclaiming
it is proven as long as the contrary hasn’t been proven, only by
statistics). Its basic presupposition is “there’s only matter”
as a cause in itself of existence, but that contradicts the necessary
fundamentals of an objective epistemology.
A clarifying comparison is how the science in question thinks about e.g.
the way how our planetary system should have come into existence. What
it comes down to is that it actually says it went like somebody who stirs
a drop of oil that’s in a glass of water with a needle. By it you
can see how the big oil drop is divided in various little oil-bubbles,
supposed to represent planets, all going their direction. With its methodology
the attention is only focused on the description of this loosening process
and the path the little bubbles follow. There’s no focus on the
hand and the needle, because they deny that any cause comes from the hand
and the needle. It’s like the denial of the wind when it blows through
the trees and makes branches and leaves move, because you don’t
see it. This means that its barrier is given by its focus and the concepts
and ideas it brings forth about it, and that is the physical plane. Within
that barrier the methodology should cohere with the essence and characteristics
of that plane. Any explanation of the what, how and why of the physical
phenomena is illusion, an abstraction. Therefore it is the belief in materialistic
science and its worldview we are confronted with in recent centuries.
The basis for a methodology of cognition is to be found in the four [4]
elements of existence, viz. fire, light/air, water and earth. In Nature
they are reflected in the four seasons (fire: spring, air/light: summer,
water: autumn, earth: winter) like they are traceable in the knowledge
of the North American Indians who say Life constantly goes about in a
cycle of four phases: birth, life, death and resurrection and the Brahman
Spirituality of India which talks about the evolutionary cycle of the
4 phases Iron, Brass, Silver and Gold.
The 4 elements and the 4 realms/aspects in the divisions of existence,
all basically differ from one another. They also coincide with the four
realms of our existence on Earth: the Mineral Realm, the Vegetable Realm,
the Animal World and the Human Realm. The first is purely material form,
the next is material form but also goes with the four seasons by instinct,
it grows, it drinks, eats and multiplies. The Animal World is bound to
the characteristics of their species. They are also embedded in the Mineral
and Vegetable Realm of the former two but animals also have feelings,
dream life, a sense of recognition: a form of soul-life. Humans have these
characteristics as well but they are coloured by our spirit. Because of
that we are all individuals who can do something out of our own free will;
those of the former three realms are embedded in the realms itself and
are not able to emerge from that and do the way humans can (like waking
up in the morning with a new idea: next August I’m going to study
Art etc.). Another characteristic of humans is that we walk up straight
on two [2] legs, which the others can’t do. Thus, these four [4]
realms can respectively and specifically be connected to :
Fire/Spirit World/ Human Realm, Light-Air/Soul-Astral World/Animal World,
Water/Life-Etheric Realm/ Vegetable Realm and Earth/Physical World/Mineral
Realm.
Seen their differing qualities and aspects it seems justified, logic and
appropriate to use a methodology of cognition which applies specifically
to the realm that’s investigated. This is not a novum in history,
but in the past two centuries some people were focused on working this
out in a contemporary way. Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) worked towards
this because he experienced the dynamic relation between the inner and
outer world. His milestone what this concerns was his “Phenomenology”.
W. von Humboldt (1767-1835) was dedicated to such an approach as well
and e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), a student of Goethe’s
work, had made this the basis of his methods of cognition. Subsequently
Rudolf Steiner (1859-1925) found out during his 15 years of studying Goethe
in Weimar that he experienced and perceived the inner and outer worlds
in a similar manner. He found out though nobody had yet sufficiently condensed
and clarified the basic differences of the methodologies that had to be
applied to the 4 different realms.
The combination of these methods of epistemology is
called Goethean Science and in short it consists of four coherent and
appropriate steps of research:
The first one is the sheer observation of the phenomena of its aspects,
qualities and quantities. Using our intellect to discern -but not judge-
and our senses to absorb the phenomena.
The second step consists of to ultimately come via our thinking to an
archetypal imagination of the observed phenomena, giving us possibilities
to develop the faculty of clairvoyance.
The third consists of moving this imagination aside and to empathize,
with our feeling, into the processes which created it, giving the possibility
to develop the faculty of inspiration (clair-audiency and clair-sentiency).
The fourth is to explore what the purpose, the why, the meaning is of
generating this creative process, and to be able to do accordingly, having
its basis in our will, and giving the possibility to develop the faculty
of intuition (clair-volitancy).
The basis of the methodology of the second step is formed by Anthroposophy
and Astrosophy. Through these one can get an insight into the meaning
of life and its phenomena by visualizing them. One cannot directly come
into action through this. The anthroposophical methods of training can
purify and metamorphosize the astral- or soul body and therefore eventually
open up the Grail-chalice of that body for the spiritual world, which
then may be perceived as imaginations.
For the purpose of trying to specify, develop and shape Goethean Science
further out of working with the stars and planets, its approach on the
basis of the four steps is here referred to as a: Goethean Science of
the Stars. This because the third and fourth step are specifically shaped
to focus on making the effects of the stars and planets in us experienceable
in an artistic way, which includes the observer into the observed phenomena.
To establish this these developed methods of Goethean Science have their
basis in 'phonics' and 'form'. They consist of communal singing and visualizing
images which are created by life forces, of clay-modeling in which the
feelings and willing-impulses can be made objective, and of music-theatre
as a means of investigating phenomena by acting.
Through those having to do with 'phonics' one is able to experience and
act in the life forces, as well as to observe in what way one has already
created paths of life forces within oneself, to be able to observe the
realms of life within and around us. The tools that are developed with
and within music and its link to the human bodies help to develop the
faculties of clair-sentiency and clair-audiency of those direct phenomena.
The ones having to do with 'form' enables understanding of the gestures
that objectify the willing of phenomena and the willing within oneself,
so one can learn to recognize those germs of development within oneself
and within every creature and phenomenon and thus the faculties of clair-volitancy.
The realms of feeling and will can also be referred to as those of the
Holy Wine and the Holy Bread (Christ’ Blood and Body) and they can
therefore be seen as the Grail-substances that fill the Grail-chalice.
The various steps can also be traced back in two
different Mystery-streams. The second step has to do with our thinking,
viz. the Mystery-stream of Light and the third and fourth step, originating
in the realms of the feeling and the will themselves, have to do with
the combined Mystery-stream of Darkness. In B.C. ages they were separated
from one another. In the Gospel of St. John Christ, when hanging on the
cross, invokes their necessary dynamic cooperation and initiates the combination
of these two different streams, by saying “Mother, behold your Son”
and “Son, behold your Mother” to resp. Mother Mary (representative
of the Light-Mysteries) and St. John (representative of the Darkness-Mysteries;
he was e.g. always listening to the Cosmic Music stemming from Christ’s
heart - John Lazarus was a singer). This means that by acting and afterwards
bringing into consciousness what one has done, one opens up insights into
one’s own being and bodies, as well as learning to use these insights
as directive forces.
What one can encounter is that the outcome of the various realms might
contradict, but it is possible that they actually say something (else)
about a realm out of their own specific perspective. Through this meant
mutual fertilization out of a structural dynamic cooperation, it is also
possible to solve such problems of e.g. one-sidedness and/or conflict,
that might occur within these methodologies and their results of research.
Rudolf Steiner made the first step to achieve this by bringing the two
mystery-streams together in the Christmas-meeting in 1923, calling this
impulse the start of the New Mysteries. However, so far his impulse mainly
brought about the realization of the Imaginative Mysteries - those which
Christ called the Comforter, through which you can see Him -, although
Rudolf Steiner brought different people together, among whom were bearers
of these Darkness-Mysteries. But because of Rudolf Steiner’s death
soon after this accomplishment and the arisen quarrels and subsequent
rupture, the development of likewise safe and constructive new methods
for developing the consciousness of inspiration and intuition - by which
you can enter and gain awareness in the realm where Christ is creating
and become co-creative with Him - has not been possible and has not happened
since then.
Thus, by taking Astrosophy as the basis, one can recognize within a horoscope
the archetype of man and of mankind. In the stories that are written in
the star images, as well as an understanding of their form gestures, one
can learn a lot about the forms on earth within the realms of life and
the plans that the gods have with man and the earth. The conscious insights
(Light, Mother-side of development) and the faculty of acting and directing
(Darkness, Son of Mankind-side of development) thus complement each other.
One may call the Universal Language which is written in the stars, planet-spheres
and within the human being as well as in nature, the Language of the “Cosmic
Word ”, or “Logos”.
In this way Astrophonics and Astrognomics may help in the quest for this
Language, and Anthroposophy and Astrosophy may help to make it clear in
the consciousness.
When the abovementioned is combined with a further
clear reference to and distinction of the three realms at issue which
Rudolf Steiner made, this adds up to what is referred to as the Goethean
Science of the Stars. As such it wants to contribute to the possibilities
of development in current times. It then looks as follows:
1. The first step of sheer observation . We therefore
we apply an aspect of our intellect, stemming form the physical brain,
and open up specifically our physical senses, to be able to perceive,
arrange and discern (but not judge and decide about its character, essence
and being) and absorb the phenomenon in our soul in all of its aspects,
qualities and quantities. Thus, the being of the phenomenon can eventually
reveal itself through the other steps.
2. The Clairvoyant is able to see the Spiritual World via the faculty
of imagination. The intellect, viz. the faculty to abstract, is fully
used but simultaneously transformed into vivid spiritual thinking, viz.
loosening thought-life from the thoughts merely stemming from the physical
brain, to fill it up with the concepts and ideas of the Spiritual World,
viz. in the form of images. This second step, generating such concepts
and ideas (forming archetypal images), leads to Spiritual Science, viz.
Anthroposophy and Astrosophy.
3. The Initiate knows how the Universal Laws of the Spiritual World work.
Such cognition is gained via experience. Here a methodology of practicing
Art (e.g. singing, claymodeling, music-theatre and movement) is how one
is able to know how these Universal Laws work, leading to an universal
experience. This is the third step, experiencing the creative processes
in our feeling, our heart, enabling us to develop the faculty of inspiration
and it can thus lead to an Objective Art. This methodology is referred
to as Astrophonics.
4. The fourth step is that of the Magician. S/He knows when, where and
how s/he can do something with the knowledge gained by clairvoyance and
that of the initiate. Because via Objective Art we have weighed the creative
processes of the phenomenon by our heart it brings about a morality. Combining
this with a way of doing, a technique, adds up to a Moral Technique, which
gives us the possibilities to develop the faculty of intuition. Its methodology
is referred to as Astrognomics.
(note: In daily life we apply and train these faculties indifferently
in a dynamic process. The discernment of these methods is to clarify the
fundaments of each faculty enriched by tools for their possible further
development).
Because the methodologies also directly have to do
with the Etheric-Life World, this needs to have a further clarification.
With the Etheric-Life World is meant the world of the living and creative
formative forces (some call it energies) which are also the maintenance
power of Nature. It reflects in itself the four components of our (physical)
existence discussed above. Attributed to those are the specific elemental
beings : Fire/Spirit World: Warmth-ether/ so-called salamanders; Light
& Air/ Soul or Astral World: Light-ether/ sylphs, elves, fairy’s
; Water/Etheric-Life World: Sound- or Chemical ether/ nymphs, undines;
Earth/ Physical World: Form- ether or Ether of Purpose/ gnomes).
Back to above
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2.
About the founder Nicolaas Marius de Jong
Nicolaas M. de Jong has come to this form of Goethean
Science of the Stars on the basis of methods of phonics and form. He does
research into the processes of life in their formative effects, as well
as the sense of these forces. This by making the connection with the influences
of stars and planets in formative life-forces, which eventually bring
forth the phenomena and appearances on earth. At first he studied biology,
later on astrology.
For the last eighteen years Nicolaas has been studying and experimenting
intensively with the specific and strong influences that are generated
by the stars and planet-spheres. He has been using the spiritual and scientific
methods and results of Rudolf Steiner, but along the way he was able to
develop his own methods of research out of his experiences and has come
to own new observations as well. These methods though deal more with the
paths and languages of the realms of life, in which the effects of planets
and stars are reflected most directly (viz. the realm that hides directly
behind the surfaces of the physical world) and they realize their direct
experience of and access to those realms. Thus, he tries to make a universal
bridge between the inner and the outer world, soul/spiritual experiences
and the physical phenomena through the research and experience of the
cosmic processes.
In the courses and workshops these methods of spiritual research are developed
by acting and experiencing. By these methods of research the sense and
meaning in life forces are discovered, which were written down by him
in theoretical books, music, musical theatre and worked out in sculptures
and architecture.
The ways to experience the cosmic forces more directly are of major importance.
One of them is through music. By the musical method (Astrophonics) that
has been developed, the four human bodies can be used to approach the
life forces that bring forth a plant by communal singing.
The musical instruments, that are made according to the principles of
star images and planet influences and which call forth specific sound
effects, and the phonic sculptures are part of this artistic Goethean
scientific research.
In the music-theatre plays, ways are developed to make it possible to
experience the forces of stars and planets within nature, man and the
social organism. This by trying to give form to the profound phonic phenomenological
relations between man and the cosmos, so that these may be lived in and
explored by the players and the public within image, word, music and gesture.
Other ways are through methods of clay-modeling (Astrognomics).
Besides this, astrosophical horoscopes are made, by which indications
for therapy and inner research are given by means of rhythm, images, music
and clay-modeling.
With these methods of spiritual research the possibility has been created
to link the outside phenomena with the inner realms of the organs- and
more hidden soul processes, with the centering and moral weighing organ:
the heart.
The basis of this work are experiences of those realms and especially
a strong experience of Christ, whom he once saw, heard and felt in interweaving
colors, organic forms and huge symphonic movements.
The Goethean scientific reflections and analysis are meant as possibilities
for deepening the background of the developed artistic experienceable
methods. It has led to the realization of the following items:
3.
Courses in Practical Goethean Science of the Stars: Astrosophy, Astrophonics
and Astrognomics
I.
Practical Astrosophy- for therapy and inner development. An introduction.
This course is divided into three separate courses.
The first one is a phenomenological approach to the horoscope. A horoscope
made on the basis of astrosophical insights can give indications about
the temperament, the constitution, the main soul attitude, the specific
world vision and karmic direction, as well as life areas in which one
has decided to be active. The second is a phonic phenomenological approach
out of the horoscope and the third is one on the inner form-language of
man based on the horoscope, to be designated as impulse, ideal and virtue.
Each course consisting of seven half-day lectures.
II. Observation of
Elemental Beings in Plants and Colors (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
The effects of elemental beings in plants can be
observed and inwardly experienced through singing together. Thus observing
the true phenomena living within it, we come across expressions of our
own four bodies (physical and finer) in relation to the elements. Through
repetition we can make the experiences more and more objective. By subsequently
modeling them in clay we may discover the fine effects of elemental beings
in soul attitudes and gestures of will.
These two methods complement each other and help to develop the finer
senses for living beings and forces in and around us. By discussing the
experienced qualities afterwards, we may become more conscious of these
physically hidden realms and may learn to think about it and within it.
These ways of artistic experience may help to restore our connection with
nature and the beings living in it. This may close the gap that nowadays
science has created between nature and us.
We finish by modelling the archetypal gesture of the plant, and holds
this before our different lotus flowers. While the plant is an objectivation
of our conscience, or the virtue we have to develop to come to life spirit
qualities, the experience of this model tells us which lotus flower needs
further development, and in what way, in order to develop that specific
virtue.
The workshop lasts one day.
III. The Curing
of Landscapes in Cooperation with the Elemental Beings and their Tasks
to Transform the Beings connected to Cosmic Power Points and Energy Flows
(Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
Landscapes are maintained by elemental beings in
a hierarchic range. The highest in this hierarchy is a Deva of a Cosmic
Power Point who receives her messages as sound patterns coming from energy
lines and fields, that are ether fields (with specific form gestures)
encircling the earth within the atmosphere. These sound patterns stem
from the cosmos, the harmony of the spheres and are transposed upon those
energy fields by a high lightether Deva. A Deva of a Cosmic Power Point,
who stands at the level of consciousness of an Angel (though not equal
in being and task), has three points of impact upon earth, positioned
in a triangle. A Point of Impact, Point of Transformation and a Point
of Outflow. Within this triangle she transforms the cosmic patterns and
differentiates them for the specific landscape she maintains. In these
places elemental beings of a water and earth-quality come out of the earth
fulfilling these harmonies with rhythm and measure. The famous concentric
stone circles at Stonehenge, England, are of this nature, viz. the stone
circles themselves direct the rhythms (in which the loose outer standing
stones play an important role). In former days the people who were initiated
in this nature and its processes, kept contact with the Deva and her servants
by means of rituals (one of the servants being a ritual Deva of the site).
During the development of the consciousness soul and the propagation of
Christianity, these rituals were considered to be pagan, and due to the
witch-hunt many of the natural landscapes, used to be called landscape
temples, viz. Cosmic Power Points, were forgotten and have decayed
In this same consciousness soul-era (1417-3577 A.D.), we have to get in
contact with these nature beings again, because we share the same interest
in the maintenance of a landscape and Cosmic Power Point. Going back to
the Middle Ages and repeating the old rituals is not the way here, for
this does not allow the elemental world to develop with us, which means
in the end that the world will not be able to change.
Together with a group of interested and dedicated people Nicolaas has
developed a method to work with Cosmic Power Points and its beings and
it can function as a guideline and example. It consists of working with
the musical aspects at work at such a Point: the measures, rhythms, intervals
and musical lines. The focus is on empathizing into the state the Point
is in and trying to discover what it (might) need(s). Subsequently it
is tried to condense this into a ritual wherein something is offered by
means of music (incl. lyrics) and sculptures that reflect the appropriate
gestures, which contain warm-hearted wishes towards the spot. When this
is done according to the nature, characteristics and essence of the spot,
combined with that warmth of our heart, an attempt is made to open up
a dialogue with the elemental world present there and it generates quintessential
qualities for the spot (but also in ourselves) through which it (and we)
can reflect upon itself (ourselves) and have opportunities to develop.
In this course, which consists of four weekends during a year, divided
by the seasons, we will try to make contact with the elemental beings
each living and working in one of the four elements, and simultaneously
try to help to restore or cure the landscape temple. By making contact
with the different elemental beings -each participant in his own way-
we will get to know their tasks in the whole and may help to restore that
if necessary. It is important that each participant develops his own way(s)
of access to the different landscape beings.
Each group of elemental beings which maintain an element (fire, air-light,
water and earth) consists of three levels, connected to their different
levels of consciousness. This requires different methods of opening the
human senses. Therefore, there will be communal singing and clay modeling
as well as movement to empathize into the gestures of those beings. We
will e.g. get in contact with tree Fauns, Fairies, Nymphs, a Deva and
the landscape god Pan.
The overall purpose is that we gain cognition of how a temple in a landscape
and its connection to a Cosmic Power Point functions in its flows of Life,
and that we add something to it out of our own sacrificial forces, enabling
the elemental beings to work further with these forces.
IV. Investigating
the Subterranean Spheres and the Beings that Dwell There by Means of Rhythmical
Texts, Music and by Clay Modeling (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
The purpose of this work is to ‘see the Sun
at midnight’. This means to enter the subterranean spheres and to
"look through" the Earth and her darkened veils, and to also
see how we can perceive "the Spirit-light of the Sun at night".
Quite a big goal indeed, but each time impulses can be given to achieve
this, and each participant can do that in his own way, according to his
own possibilities, and the inner senses and faculties he has already developed.
Besides this, you will be able to meet all kinds of fallen creatures in
the different spheres, which you then need to encounter out of your own
morality and of which you also need to figure out how you can try to get
them along with you. That makes this work far from being free; it is to
be considered as work on the level of spiritual high school with deeper
going consequences.
Underneath the surface of the Earth there are nine layers of counter-spheres,
wherein adversary-angelic beings dwell, together with fallen elemental
beings (e.g. kobolds and ufo's). Together they form the veils of darkness
which prevent us from seeing the Sun at midnight. The rhythmical words
for each sphere are written in such a way that they establish the direct
connection of the processes of our life bodies and lotus flowers with
that what lives in these spheres.
Each layer shall at first be described in words, followed by movement
on the rhythms belonging to the specific sphere. Then the rhythmical sayings
will be sang, followed by improvisational singing of the participants,
by which we may observe into the sphere. Afterwards our observations are
discussed, and after three spheres there is the possibility to clay model.
This will be continued until the last sphere, and in a final ritual the
models can be placed on the central spot of a Cosmic Power Point.
This workshop lasts one full day and evening, but needs to be repeated
three or four times a year.
V. Knowing Thyself
Through the Senses - By Means of Clay-modeling (Astrognomics)
Through the twelve sense-organs, of which only six
are directly accessible, we experience ourselves and the surrounding world
and are capable of finding our way. Normally we are hardly aware of the
deeper outer and inner influences.
By observing thoroughly what effect a certain sense-impression has and
by expressing this impression and what it calls forth in us through clay-modeling,
one can get a steadier relation towards the muddle of every day impressions.
Besides this one can get clear on the intentions of one’s own will
and the specific ideals (also causing a more conscious dealing with hindrances),
by which one can become more clear what one wants to realize within one’s
lifetime. Fascinating above all is that through this way of working, creative
abilities are being stimulated; therefore the workshops may be interesting
to those who want to do more with organic sculpturing and modeling.
The twelve senses can be divided within three groups. The senses of the
first group, consisting of the taste, the smell, sight and warmth-sense-organ,
have a more or less direct relation to the outside world. The senses of
the second group make it possible to observe what is going on between
the outward and the inner skin (the bones), consisting of the touch sense,
the life sense and the senses of movement and balance. The third group
consists of more spiritual orientated senses: the sense of hearing, thinking,
the speech - or Word sense and the I-sense.
The workshop takes four hours for each sense.
VI. Course of the
Planet Influences as Organ Processes within Man and Organization -Through
Rhythm and Clay-modeling (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
Each of the planets move in a specific rhythm and
gesture along the sky and can thus be differentiated and recognized. Within
us they bring forth the organ-processes, that guide the life processes.
Therefore we experience specific soul moods, we think in certain ways
and we are addressed by them within our way of acting. Normally we are
hardly aware of this.
It is possible to live oneself in into the effects of a specific organ-process
through directed instructions. Through clay modeling one can experience
within artistic acting such a process, by making it objective and placing
it within the consciousness. Comparing each others work further reinforces
this consciousness-process.
By experiencing the kinds of measures and rhythms of each process one
can learn to experience and recognize their effects upon life. Through
the comparison of rhythms with those of the other planets one can get
a feeling for the organizing and conducting forces they provoke.
In a more objectively perceptible way the planet-processes work within
the sections of economic organizations. I.e. the sales-department has
to do with Mercury, which has to do with the lung-process - that is input
/ output; literally breathing - what comes in, must go out (e.g. by the
Romans Mercury was seen as the God of Trade).
Learning the observation of planet workings within organizations gives
a good possibility to get to know the mutual interactions.
This course thus offers different ways of losing oneself in the planet
and organ effects and can also stimulate one in developing the empathetic
abilities for the consciousness of inspiration.
The course lasts half a day, but needs to be repeated for each organ process
(7 in total).
VII. Clay modeling
the Virtues that Lead to the Development of the Lotus Flowers (Astrognomics)
Lotus Flowers are higher sense-organs that can help
us in the observation of the realms of life, soul and spirit. We can develop
them by striving for the good. This means that out of understanding and
discernment (freedom) we can conduct our actions (thus becoming conscious
warmth), as to develop the good in ourselves, the other and the circumstances
in which we live.
Every action/deed is a form in the life-world and creates gestures in
it. Yet we do not ‘see’ this gesture. By conducting our actions
consciously, we envelop its gesture with a layer of insight, viz. soul-substance.
At the same time the possibilities are created to observe it. We can deepen
this observing activity by clay modeling the gestures of our actions or
virtues and by verifying them if they fit or not. Discussion with fellow-students
helps to intensify this consciousness-process.
In this course various virtues are clay modeled, which all cohere with
specific lotus flowers and one of its petals. The work is individual and
one’s life-experience is the material to work with. Working group-wise
creates a basis of concentration and confidence, which helps to clarify
and if necessary correct things during the review.
The seven major lotus flowers and the total of petals they have adds up
to 64. Half of them still need to be developed by us. It is possible to
go through two petals in 5 hours.
VIII.
Dancing and Moving to the Virtues to can be Developed by the Petals of
the Lotus
Flowers out of written Text and Music (Astrophonics & Astrognomics)
By dancing to the purposeful gestures which help
to develop the petals of our lotus flowers, we can become more aware of
them, and help our life body to act in this way. Thus, we create entries
for ourselves to the realms of life and of the soul. The gestures are
only given in a rudimental form, and can thus be improvised on by the
participants. The music and words are written in the scales, rhythms and
measure types that cohere with and help our souls and life bodies to move
easier into those. The words describe the processes. Each participant
chooses a specific petal which he will model out in clay as a gesture.
Afterwards he will learn that to the other participants.
The course lasts five hours.
IX. Working with
Elementals in Technique - By Means of Clay-modeling (Astrognomics)
There are more and more technical inventions and
machines in our culture which are applied in our daily life. We can not
neglect these or put them aside. It is more important to struggle for
a more conscious connection with them, which can create possibilities
for further development for them and for us. In this workshop we will
work with the methodology of clay modeling in a sequence of 7 steps, by
which the participants can experience what lives within us and what our
connection is to the elemental being that dwells in the machine. The focus
is to try to achieve a better relationship with it, by which we can trace
within ourselves what the ideal is we inwardly strive for which the machine
provokes in us. Then our attempt is to figure out which virtues can and
may be developed to come to a common development with that elemental being.
Those virtues which are to be developed help us to unfold and shape the
petals of our lotus flowers. The clay modeling helps in the process of
achieving this. Like this technique can become a moral technique.
By observing through one or more of the twelve sense-organs, we experience
ourselves and the surrounding world and are capable of finding our way.
By observing thoroughly what effect a certain sense-impression has and
by expressing this impression and what it calls forth in us through clay-modeling,
one can get a steadier relation towards the impressions. Besides this
one can get clear on the intentions of one’s own will and the specific
ideals (also causing a more conscious dealing with hindrances), by which
one can become more clear what one wants to realize within one’s
lifetime. Fascinating above all is that through this way of working, creative
abilities are being stimulated, also in relation to the elemental being
in the machine.
The course will take four hours. You can bring in your own machine (like
computer, cell phone, coffee machine etc.).
X.
Dances to the Planets Mercury and the Moon to get in Touch with their
Influences upon the Earth and within the Human Being (Astrophonics &
Astrognomics)
Through their rhythmical dances and different phases
the planets work upon us and the Earth in specific ways, activating the
various elemental beings of the Earth. By singing rhythmical songs, dancing
and clay modeling we can try to get in touch with these forces and the
beings which are active therein. The movements of the dances are to be
developed by the participants themselves as they occupy themselves with
a specific part. By modeling the gestures of some of these parts in clay,
one can deepen these experiences. By learning these gestures to the others
one by one, we can develop the inner faculties to come closer to the beings
in the planet spheres and their connection to our inner being.
The course for each planet lasts one day, but can be repeated several
times.
All the above mentioned courses can be given upon request. Their costs
depend on duration, attendance and own expenses. Instruments of the Zodiac
can also be built upon request. Books can be ordered (shipping costs will
be added).
For further information call:
Nicolaas de Jong: 00-31-(0)6–40228769 E-mail
runewerkplaats@hotmail.com
or
Patrick Steensma :
Tel: 00-31-(0)6-29010787
E-mail: patrick.steensma@hotmail.com
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Information and registration:
N.M. de Jong
Molenstraat 26
7941 AW – Meppel, The Netherlands
tel 0031-(0)6–40 22 8769
email runewerkplaats@hotmail.com
Payment:
Postbank Nederland BV
IBAN: NL 12 PSTB 0009 2765 05
BIC: PSTBNL21
Naming ‘Education Working with the Life World’
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Training
Music Therapy on
the Basis of Astrosophy
- analysis of a birth horoscope to temperament, constitution,
soul type, world vision, soul constellations and the karma, from astrosophical
insights
- working in music from the four human bodies of spirit, soul, life body
and the physical, from astrophonical insights. This means working to tonality,
rhythm foot and measure type.
- tackling concrete of life areas and body processes
- curing by means of healing sounds and rhythms
- handles to self insight and schooling
by Nicolaas M. de Jong, astrosopher, writer, sculptural
and musical artist, instrument builder.
In this music therapy training there is a specific
treatment to the four human bodies. Briefly said can the spirit, or an
idea, be recognised as a musical motive, that is carried by a tonality,
on a rhythm and in a measure type. What concerns musical elaborations,
this includes targeted work with rhythm feet and measure types. Rhythm
feet bring us in contact with the different life areas, and measure types
with the organ processes. These are inner reflections in time of the planet
movements towards the Earth, which bring forth our organ processes. These
inspirative path through the heart has become accessible since the crucifixion
of Christ in the life world in 1942.
The starting point for the music therapy is the vast system of interpretation
of a birth horoscope about problems and possibilities of the individual
development, developed in the astrosophy. Each component is being approached
in an artistic way.
With music the soul contents and willing gestures can be brought up in
the consciousness, and it is possible to can be worked at parts that are
out of balance. Clay modelling helps to condense the observations. This
gives an insight in processes in its own inner world, view on onesidednesses
and weaknesses and new possibilities for development. There is being worked
with the voice and the lyre. There will be moved in an experiencing way
on intervals and tonalities. Rhythms and measure types are being walked
upon or danced. All working methods are phenomenological of nature.
This training gives handles to be able work with patients to specific
problems in a directed way. Initially there is being worked with ones
own horoscope, which gives oneself insights through experience. This can
be applied at others later.
With music one works on the soul level, with the rhythms on life processes,
and with the measure types targeted to the body organs. Thus a pallet
of possibilities arises to be able to work with patients in a directed
way.
The first part of the training offers a basis
concept framework of astrosophy from the imaginative
experience, through which a birth horoscope can be read as an analysis
of the bodies, the temperament, the constitution, soul type, world vision,
strong and weak body processes, soul qualities and conflicts, and the
direction of the karma.
In the second part of training
these elements are approached musically in tonality (major and church
scales), rhythm and measure types. These are being experienced by means
of communal singing, movement and dancing. These elements are being integrated
and there will be worked aimed on planet positions (soul regions) and
configurations.
In the third part there
will be practised with the musical components in a directed way, and inner
perceptions of the planet positions can be modelled out in clay.
Moreover an introduction is being given of the lyres as developed in the
Rune workshop which each has the form gesture of one the zodiacal star
images as sound producing principle in it. These can tighten up the therapy
still further.
It is worked with voice, lyre and the body. Moreover
inner experiences are being modelled out in clay. Some knowledge of the
musical notation is necessary. Take along easily sitting clothing and
shoes.
There will be worked with the book ` Karmic Astrosophy - a practically
experiencable method in images, music and plastic. Costs € 32. -.
CURRICULUM:
Period 1. (4
days): Introduction in astrosophy:
Subjects:
1. Components of the horoscope from macrocosmical-earthly phenomena. Observation
aznd lively thinking. Star images - symbols as gestures of star images;
Planets - movements and spheres, connections as flowers; Houses - earthly-etherical
reflections of celestial 12foldedness; pointed instead of peripheral.
will character; from ego targeted the world.
2. Connection with human bodies and the soul: light and darkness, the
four elements.
Coming to the image of the different components of the horoscope. Groping
of the qualities and the
Possibility of experiencing these; recognition of the life tableau before
birth.
3. The four earthly elements; experiencing of this on the growth of a
plant.
Elements and human bodies. Feedback to the own horoscope; Temperament
and constitution.
4. Arc of the planet environments and angel hierarchies up to in the human
bodies and the link with the horoscope. Life destiny in the horoscope.
Planet typing from their phenomena; link to the inner organs. Planet connections
(aspects) as flower gestures.
5. Houses, life areas: sharply, from ego to the periphery, the world.
World directions experienced as rhythms. nature picture from houses and
link with the elements.
6. The northern and Southern constellations as archetypes and ideal workings.
7. The making of a rhythmical poem of planet cogs. Retrospection, summary
and questions.
Period 2. (5
days) Astrophonical elements:
Components:
1. Introduction `The four human bodies in measure, rhythm, tonality and
musical motive’.
Perception of the musical intervalls: separately and in singing and percepted
movement.
2. Zodiacal star images and their experience with the major scales.
Listening, experiencing. Some examples from a horoscope.
3. Planets and their perception in the church tone ladders; experiencing
these by singing and moving.
Modelling out of feeling and inner movement of the tonalities.
4. Planets experienced als organ processes from there movement, transformed
in measure type.
Walking of the measure types, as well as rhythm differentiations in these,
and modelling out of one or more as inner experienced spaces.
5. Houses as reflections of the life body, experienced in rhythm feet.
6. The making of musical motives within tonality, rhythm and measure type
of a planet position in ones own horoscope.
7. Experiencing aspects as musical tensions and harmonies; working on
the own horoscope and singing of aspecting planets to each other from
an example horoscope.
8. Experiencing of sound spaces in zodiacal lyres.
Period 3. (5
days) Elaboration to astrognomy:
In this period is being practised with several planet constellations in
music, singing to each other and with the lyre. Components of this are
being moulded.
Modelling out of a certain planet constellation in measure, rhythm, melody:
- the feeling,
- the soul space in which that feeling lives
- the willing gesture of its rhythm;
- the willing gesture which the musical motive calls forth in measure,
rhythm and tonality
- ideal in which this has been founded in a willing gesture
- the virtue to be developed to be able to realise the ideal.
Or: what can be done against the influence for the good.
The same for constellation; aspected planet constellations
to one another.
The element qualities and organ processes can be recognised and indicated
from this.
Place : Molenstraat 26, Meppel (centre main street).
Expensive: 14 Fridays from 10 - 17 p.m., spread over
a trimester;
one day in the week, starting on the 9th of September 2005.
Costs: € 750. –
Possibly participation per day € 60. - (For course participants which
have formerly missed pieces of the schooling path)
Reduction in consultation.
Information and entry:
N. M. de Jong tel. 0031 (0)6 - 40.22.87.69
e-mail runewerkplaats@gmail.com
Payments: ING Bank Nederland,
IBAN: NL60 INGB 0009 2765 05
BIC: INGBNL2A
Rune-werkplaats, Meppel
Writing `Training music therapy on the basis of astrosophy’.
This training falls under Jasper
schooling courses
and is a javelin point of the Fjodor
foundation
Info. tel. 0031 (0)629010787
for information, see www.fjodor.org
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