Martin
Large (August 2007)
Rudolf
Steiner’s pioneering lectures on Psychosophy contain striking insights, that
when understood and applied, can lead to a psychology of freedom. Steiner
describes vividly how undigested ‘visualisations’ or pictures can sink into
the sentient soul and etheric body and clog them up like coagulated lumps.
‘Precisely those visualisations that our consciousness is unable to call up
out of our unconscious soul life are in this way immeasurably destructive; they
develop destructive forces that penetrates our body. It is a fact that something
a person has experienced at the age of twelve, and totally forgotten…continues
to act in his ether body and can impair his health.’ The remedy, according to
Steiner, is to bring such visualisations or clusters into consciousness. But
how?
Yehuda
Tagar showed just how when he gave experiential workshops at Hawkwood College in
Stroud in August 2007 on Psychosophy, and then on Psychophonetics for personal
development and counselling. What led me to participate was hearing from people
who had experienced Psychophonetics, and reading some of Yehuda Tagar’s
articles, including how he had worked successfully with a young Soweto man who
had murdered five people-who could not sleep, who was violent and disturbed.
Clearly, Yehuda Tagar’s approach was profoundly transformative, and even
involved facilitating conversations between the young man and his dead victims.
Clearly, Tagar goes there.
Psychosophy
offers a holistic, multilevel approach to understanding the human soul-with deep
insights into personal development and growth. You learn psychosophy from
personal experience, from reflection, and from experiencing a dynamic, creative
use of the languages of the soul or Psychophonetics- using gesture, movement,
sound, visualisation as well as conversation to shift insights. So instead of,
say, only talking through a trauma, you
experience this in your body, and raise it to awareness through gesture,
movement, sound, conversation and visualisation, depending on what you freely
want to happen when you make a clear wish. For me, feeling that I was running on
empty led me to do an introductory Psychosophy course and then a 10 day
Psychophonetics workshop. These helped
me begin to re-connect with myself, face my ‘demons’ see Anthroposophy afresh-and find sources of inspiration and energy beyond hope.
For
Psychosophy Course starting 20/21st October 2007 see www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
(01453) 759034
Also see www.psychophonetics.com
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