Angelika's  Family Constellation Newsletter   February 2012  

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Risking that I might lose some of you, I still feel I have to obey my heart... Following on from the January newsletter, I looked up some of my notes of Rudolf Steiner’s work. Bert holds Steiner in highest regard. Right from the beginning, I sensed a close connection between these two great men. 
It seemed to me that Bert - apart from other threads of education for humanity,- had taken the staff from Steiner, now providing ways in which people can gain deeper understanding through personal experiences.

The following is what Steiner said, more than 100 years ago, condensed and paraphrased; and it seems to me, only now can this be grasped anywhere on this sweet earth.

So this is Rudolf Steiner speaking:
"At the beginning of humanity’s development there are laws; towards its maturity there will be peaceful and harmonious cooperation, from inside out. This is grace. Nothing else but feeling most deeply with another human being, in full peace, is the deepest concept of spirituality.

Individuals need to learn to see themselves as a part of larger all-encompassing processes. What they come to understand as right, needs to also permeate their feelings and their will. Only then does it become fertile for the world. This applies in particular to the communities of people.

Clearly understood ideas become spiritually powerful, when we warm to them together, and finally our will is also coming to life through this. Human beings can use their freedom to form free associations, where they let their feelings flow towards a shared centre. Through this they offer spiritual beings an opportunity to work in their midst. Then the insights that the individuals arrive at flow together into a new type of community creation, a new way of working together of spirit and man.

But if emancipated man closes off to this development into which his freedom can flow and have a good place, then what he sees as his freedom, may turn into his bondage, into a prison, and any connection to further development may be thwarted. All of our further fate depends on whether high beings can come down to us, attracted by communities that we formed out of our free will.

The sense of freedom is first experienced in our thinking, in a separation from the world. A conscious step is needed to let what we perceive inside stream forth consciously, to a centre that we share with others.

Only in this free social gesture towards others, joined around a common core, is community with the hierarchies re-established. These only wish to support humanity’s freedom, especially with a view to the formation of new future human communities.

…patience to wait not until we grasp the truths through ourselves, but for the truths to come to us…

Humanity is only free where it loves."

Bert on

The creative perception   
When we speak of perception, 
we usually think and say, we have perceived something. This means, we have perceived something that exists.

What we perceive with our good perception is not yet in existence. 
It is a creative perception. 
It comes from a movement of the spirit. What does it mean, insight of the spirit? What does spirit cognise?  
It cognises something that is still to come, that does not exist as yet. 
When I perceive another person or thing or event well, I perceive what will become of this person/thing. 
This is a creative perception. 
It brings something about 
that is not yet in existence.  
This perception always comes from a movement of love, of love for something that it still in the process of becoming.   

Try it out!  It's love in action. 
Let us allow ourselves and others and things and conditions to transform. 
Let us be part of transformation.

 Courtesy of Heartmath

We enjoyed our last group at Gayatri. This time we did true group work. This takes a lot of discipline, sensitivity, composure, and focus. We felt we did well. It was a bit like theatre or shooting a movie. When we had to meta-communicate, we went into the "off-mode" s we were always clear whether someone was speaking from their role as representative or from their own personal perception. With high quality contribution we could work very thoroughly. There were many layers to peel off to find the underlying trauma and the people involved. The people who had requested the constellation gained deep understanding and felt great relief.

And here is a  text by Bert also relating to large scale changes:  Risen

Those who rise get ready to go. Those who rise, stand up to their full size. Only in this way do they meet others equal to equal, one person of equal standing before another.

Only risen, do we reach our hand out for a greeting, for an agreement, for shared action.

As we rise physically, we also rise spiritually. We think spiritually risen, we choose spiritually risen, we make decisions spiritually risen, and we  resist objections that block us from standing tall to our risen size. As well,  we honour the spiritual size of those who rose before us, who rose to think, say, and assert  daring thoughts. 

We rise up against those who want to patronize us, as if they had risen higher, as if we should bend down before them, or even be on the ground. We stand in front of them, eye to eye, and we wait if they can bear the gaze of risen people, or if they suddenly rise differently, even above themselves.

We speak of an uprising when suppressed people rise up against those wanting to keep them down. In this sense, the Occident also has a spiritual uprising, the enlightenment. It is still in full swing, nowhere near completion.

For there are new forces that have taken the place of the old ones, of those who deemed themselves risen higher, so that others had to look up to them and to submit to their point of view. They created a shield of fear and confusion with promises they were neither willing nor able to honour.

Before these  we rise up, without being against them. When many rise, independently, as individuals, the shedding of light in many fields expands and gains further ground. Any kind of enlightening education takes courage. Only when we really rise, when we stand as those who have risen, willing to defy others, can enlightenment assert itself, asserting itself in a way that is serving life in the full sense of the word.

How does this uprising succeed? It must be in unison with a   creative power that transcends both us and others, a power before which smaller forces, those who believe they can put themselves above this creative power, fail.

When does this uprising succeed? At the height of the strength of those smaller forces, and when we have also risen courageously, trusting in the all-embracing creative power.

This uprising is the rising of  love, with love, with a brave love, risen and at one with these other powers.

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