Nature Spirits -- How Can We Work With Them?

Sat, Jan 21 2012 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: Pasadena, CA
Category: - Western Region, Nature Spirits - Elemental Beings

Lisa Del Alba at the Los Angeles Branch of the Anthroposophical Society

What is the nature of the nature spirits
and how can we work with them?
with Lisa Del Alba
January 21, Saturday, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Rudolf Steiner connects the etheric body of man with, among other things, 'his temperament, the deeper peculiarities of his character.' (GA 13, Occult Science) The earth, as a spiritual being, also has an etheric body, and according to Rudolf Steiner, 'the living cooperation of...nature spirits is the etheric or life body of the earth.' (lecture of April 4, 1912, in GA 136, The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature)

During this pair of lectures, Lisa Del Alba will explore the significance of these statements for our everyday human striving. The first lecture will elaborate the concepts surrounding nature spirits, or elemental beings themselves. What are the different kinds of elemental beings, and where do they come from? What are their tasks? How do they work within our own being, and what does that mean for us in our everyday lives and in our spiritual striving? In the second lecture, through an 'Alaskan example', Lisa Del Alba will begin to touch on the topic of how human beings can strive to become the co-workers of higher spiritual beings working towards the redemption of our own relationship with the earth.

Admission: $20

Lisa Del Alba currently lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she practices naturopathic medicine anthroposophically. She is married and the Waldorf-homeschooling mother of seven children.

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