Meditation with Robin Schmidt – by Paul Hodgkins and Susan Richard
On Saturday, August 19, 2017, approximately forty people attended a day-long workshop on the practice of anthroposophical meditation, led by Robin Schmidt. Robin co-authored, with Heinz Zimmerman, a book on this topic, and his teachings on the workshop day were mostly based on the content of his book, Meditation. If you were not able to attend the workshop, you may learn a great deal about the practice of anthroposophical meditation by reading the book, which is available through the Anthroposophical Society in Canada. You can order it on the website. Robin’s presentation was very organized, clear, and thorough. He began by placing anthroposophical meditation firmly in the stream of European modernity, into which three ideas, consisting of infinity, eternity, and autonomy, flow. These ideas became impulses which gave rise to modern science and thinking; they were taken up by the Rosicrucians in a more spiritual way. The Rosicrucians recognised...
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