Subject: Lelan Harris: Guidance In Esoteric Training (GET)

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                Freeing the Spirit - Archetypal Time & Evolutionary Time by Rudolf Steiner
Guidance in Esoteric Training:
The Spiritual-Scientific Quest for Human Spiritual Evolution

Hosted by Lelan Harris
Humanity is at a cusp point.  On the one side we are being offered unprecedented opportunities for a spiritual evolutionary leap forward.  On the other side are increasingly intense temptations that could tip us over the brink into the abyss.

Fortunately, there is nothing to fear!  Each of us was born for this moment in human history.  It is our individual and collective destiny to be incarnated on Earth at this very moment in time for the express purpose of choosing humanity’s future history.  This isn’t our first cusp point – we have been here before:
“See, I bring to you the opportunity for life and prosperity, or the option of death and destruction.
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses that I have given you the choice between life or death, blessings or curses.  Choose life, that all may be well with you – for you and your children.  Love God, walk on the true paths of Spirit, follow the wisdom of pure spiritual laws.  If you do these things you will live and increase, and God will bless you in the new territory you are entering that was prepared for you in ages past.”
(Paraphrase of Deuteronomy 30:15, 16, 19).
Yet questions arise.  What does it mean to love God, walk on the true paths of Spirit, and follow the wisdom of pure spiritual laws?  Where may we find guidance and training for this kind of spiritual life?

People have been coming to me on an increasingly frequent basis with these kinds of very real questions and true concerns:


     >  I know I am on the correct spiritual path, but I feel 
        so alone because no one truly understands who I 
        am becoming.  Where can I find relationships and a
        community that will accept my spiritual experiences 
        as true?

     >  Spirits come to me a lot, but I don’t know what to 
        do.  Is there any good advice for me?

     >  I have been doing spiritual exercises for a long time,
        yet I still don’t have more than fleeting glimpses of 
        what other people describe as experiencing God or 
        Oneness or Enlightenment or supersensible 
        perception.  What am I doing wrong?

     >  I am young, just starting out, still seeking a spiritual
        path that will be a good fit for me.  How do I find 
        the right one?

     >  Everyone tells me that the most important 
        questions I am asking have no answer, or that it’s a 
        mystery of God beyond human comprehension.  Yet 
        something inside me just knows there are answers.
        Where are they to be found?

     >  I feel destined for great things, but I can’t seem to 
        get any traction.  I start out filled with inspiration 
        and energy, but everything I try eventually grinds 
        down to a halt.

     >  I am coming to a place of trusting my clairvoyant 
        abilities.  However, I am still concerned about how 
        to recognize and protect myself from the dangers of 
        dark spirits.

     >  I have made good spiritual progress in the past, but 
        I now seem to have hit some kind of wall that I
        can't find a way through, around, or over.  Now 
        what do I do?

     >  I have been having experiences of truly terrifying
        demonic possession.  Can you help me?

     >  After a lifetime on the road of rock ‘n’ roll, drugs, 
        and sex, I finally found Rudolf Steiner, and through 
        him found Christ.  I am grateful for Steiner and love
        Christ, but I can’t seem to find any Christians or 
        anthroposophists – or frankly anyone spiritual – who
        really understands and accepts me.  How do I find 
        “my people”?

     >  Is it true that the antichrist and other adversarial
        beings talked about in the Book of Revelation and 
        other sources have already incarnated?

This course offers information and counsel for challenging questions such as these, plus offers insight and help for all the apparent obstacles and impediments that seem to hinder our spiritual progress.  

Each free two-hour session includes:

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Experiences of grounding & connecting, alignment, 
        and opening sacred space, as well as developing 
        relationships with Christ and Sophia, angelic beings, 
        and the so-called dead;

     •  D
evelopmental spiritual formation teaching and 
        group discussion based upon or related to Rudolf 
        Steiner’s book, Guidance in Esoteric Training plus
        related materials;

     •  A time for all of us to be both co-learners and 
        co-teachers as we share our stories and discoveries, 
        our questions and answers;

     •  
A short closing exercise.

Our weekly gatherings welcomed everyone seeking and striving to become a “fully upright” human being characterized by freedom and love (anthropos).  Our goal is to “endeavor to unite the spiritual element within the human being to the spiritual in the universe” (sophia).
 
Individualized healing and mentoring is available.  Developmental and co-creative positions as interns, apprentices, partners, and staff are also available for qualified applicants.

Guidance in Esoteric Training: 
From the Esoteric School

Selected from material given by Rudolf Steiner to members of his Esoteric School (1904–1914), this volume features exercises, meditations, and practices for spiritual self-development.  In contrast to Eastern methods of inner development, these arise from the Western stream, adapted fully to modern consciousness.

Various exercises are given – for morning and evening, for the days of the week, and for the months of the year.  Also included are numerous explanations that can deepen and enhance meditative work, including several articles on inner development and the obstacles one faces on the way to true self-awareness.

This compilation contains clarification of the exercises, descriptions of future world and human evolution, and advice that Steiner gave later in his life on the nature of breathing exercises, as well as ancient and modern methods of initiation.

This is an invaluable resource for all those who are serious about inner development, regardless of one’s chosen path.


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The Alchemy of Spiritual Evolution

The alchemy of taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary cannot be fully explained, yet the processes can be discovered, discussed, learned, and experienced. The weaving paths, stages, and levels of transformational development and spiritual evolution go by many names, including these:

Ascension
Awakening
Becoming Like Christ
Enlightenment
Eternal Life
Experiencing God
I AM Consciousness
Illumination
Initiation
Moksha
Mystical Union
Nirvana
Oneness
Salvation
Samadhi
Sophia Wisdom
Supersensible Perception
Transcendence
Unconditional Love
Universal Awareness

Whatever your current spiritual path or goal, our Guidance in Esoteric Training series can help and support your progress.
She Who Parts The Veils 
by Iris Sullivan
Video Recording Details

This weekly gathering began on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 (Martinmas) and continued for just over a year.  Most video recordings are about 2 hours in length and each session builds upon the previous ones.

**Currently, the weekly live GET sessions are paused.  However, the majority of the 48 recorded sessions are available for your edification.

Registration is free and provides permanent access to video replays of the sessions, plus all handouts and other "going deeper" materials.  Donations are welcomed as expressions of gratitude to help defray costs.

For questions related to the course or registration, please email us at Registration@wisecosmos.org.
Host/Teacher

Lelan Harris is a founding member and the Executive Director of Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative. Building upon a BS in secondary education, an M.Div. in spiritual formation, and certifications in business leadership and psychosocial development, he has served as a teacher, leader, consultant, and healer in settings ranging from public schools and corporations to graduate institutions and independent Waldorf schools. His passions include marriage to Julie for nearly 35 years, plus mountain parkour, wilderness backpacking and canoeing, downhill skiing, and many other outdoor sports.
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Art credits: 

Freeing the Spirit - Archetypal Time & Evolutionary Time by Rudolf Steiner 
Copyright © 2003 Estate of Rudolf Steiner.  For more information, go to https://www.anthroposophie.ch/en/anthroposophy/topics/articles/rudolf-steiner-life-work/blackboard-drawings.html

She Who Parts The Veils by Iris Sullivan
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