What can art do for us? The Arts are well known as a activity for supporting our health and wellbeing by nourishing us with creativity, music, plays, inspiring films and beautiful pictures. But practised in a structured, disciplined yet imaginative way, art, any of the Arts, can act as meditation does – as a schooling path of spiritual development.

This webinar discusses how essential it is for Anthroposophists to have some form of artistic practice to strengthen and order the soul life, to ‘school it’, so that we have the forces to meet the challenges coming to meet us out of the future – and how to go about this.

The webinar also acts as an introduction to the new v online training, starting in March. 

In the act of creating, spirituality and art meet

Rudolf Steiner intended the artistic to be central to the pursuit of spiritual investigation he named ‘Anthroposophy’, just as he believed creativity to be central to what it means to be human. Yet access to the spiritual is not simply a given today. In our materialistic age, the soul needs awakening to its inmost needs, perhaps far more than we realise. The path to the spiritual needs to be actively cultivated with our whole being, not just our head. The arts play a role here beyond the aesthetic.

Becoming artistic is an inner need of Anthroposophy. Without it, Anthroposophy cannot go into the future. If not imbued with the artistic impulse, then Anthroposophy will go short of breath, according to Steiner: 

In an inartistic atmosphere it goes short of breath; only in an artistic element can it breathe freely. Rightly understood, it will lead over to the genuinely artistic without losing any of its cognitional character.

This webinar also introduces the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.

When

7pm AEDT 15 February, 2024

Cost

Entry by $20 donation

How to book

Book Here!

For more information

Contact Fiona Campbell for more information. 

The spiritual world lives in the artistic, as a “living, colourful, form-bearing weaving and being’ reality”
Therefore, working with the arts, out of the arts, must become central to our way of engaging with Anthroposophy.

^{Feature image: OIA, courtesy of Fiona Campbell}