PSE42 - INNER FREEDOM, a beginning exploration

In this first conversation with longtime anthroposophist and Camp Hill community member Diedra, I begin an exploration of this question What does it mean that we human beings have inner freedom? It’s been a kind of ‘burning question’ for me in the past four months or so and I plan to have it as theme for several upcoming podcasts.

We start by talking about the Camp Hill Academy of which she is Director and member of the teaching faculty. From there my guest graciously allows me to steer the conversation towards these questions of mine — what’s ‘inner freedom’? what does ‘maya’ have to do with me here on earth? wherein may I discover the wisdom of my own western culture? why do so relatively few people know about Steiner and all the wonderful ideas and knowledge he gave us? — so I hope to have Diedra back again soon to talk more about herself and the work she is doing in these “gratuity” years she and husband Michael B. are now in at the Kimberton Hills, Pennsylvania Camp Hill community.

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Mentions this episode:

• intro to Camp Hill communities: PSE4 w/Barb; PSE13 w/Michael B; PSE41 w/Martha

• Camp Hill Academy

• basic books of Steiner

• [a survey/guide for the basic books by R.Spaulding…this looks interesting! i have not read it]

• Program Director; ‘the collegium’; faculty

• “biography” in the Steinersphere

• GA2

• mentions of the phrase “inner freedom” in the RS archives

• “Wisdom is born when I recognize the spiritual purpose in world phenomenon.”

• [regarding that quote, good ol’ AI says: This specific quote is from Rudolf Steiner's lecture series titled Reincarnation and Karma: Their Significance in the Culture of Modern Times. The exact lecture material traces to GA54 (specifically Lecture 7, given in Munich on February 15, 1906)]

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Practical Steiner is a podcast addressing the question “What might Steiner say?” about this or that topic that is of interest to me, the host. I am a fairly new Steiner student and have felt in these past going-on-four years that finally, after decades of wondering about the “why” of many things, I have finally come across someone with comprehensive knowledge enough to answer many of those questions.

My podcast is conversations - the more candid and honest the better - with various people who have been studying at least as long as I have and who have taken up Anthroposophy, in one measure or another, as a way of living. My over-arching interest is not in presenting “expert” opinion/interpretation of Steiner’s body of work but rather lies at the interface of the guidance from Steiner’s books and lectures with how someone lives their everyday life.

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