(please answer the 3 questions at the bottom of this message - thank you!) Hello all, I learned a great deal from The 6 Exercises Adventure (challenge, journey etc) which finished today, and it has inspired me to start a weekly group here in the Spiritual Scientist Community. Thank you to all those who joined us or watched the replays. I'm still working on a name but for now I'm calling it "The Heart of Attention Circle". Here's how it will work: OPENING - We'll start with a spiritually inspired verse/poem/prayer THEME - I'll bring a spiritual theme and give a short talk to introduce a basic concept from Spiritual Science DISCUSSION - We'll open up a discussion on the theme and share how we understand it and how it might relate to our lives and experiences PRACTISE - Then we'll continue our work on a particular spiritual practice (eg. one of the 6 Exercises) and encourage one another CLOSING - We'll close with a spiritually inspired verse/poem/prayer Access to this group will be for Premium members - which $29 per month or $290 per year - but the 6 Exercises Challenge - (which I will run again soon!) will still be free for any member of this group. Please let me know in a comment below the following: 1. What time zone are you in? 2. What days/times suit you for the group sessions to take place? (I'm thinking Wednesday evenings UK time 7.30pm which is 2.30pm EST (USA) 3. I'm considering a 2nd group for those in NZ & Australia - how is 7pm Melbourne time? ...and when you're ready - here's the link to join: Please click here Warmest wishes Mick

The separation of thinking, feeling and willing and it's redemption “What the individual human being experiences consciously when he strives to attain clairvoyance in the spiritual world, namely, the crossing of the threshold, must be experienced unconsciously by the whole of mankind, during our fifth post-Atlantean epoch” Rudolf Steiner - GA 193 — The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism Lecture given 12th September 1919, in Dornach Switzerland One of the outcomes of this crossing of the threshold of the whole of humanity (or an individual) is the separation of the three soul faculties of thinking, feeling and willing. These three faculties were, in the past, held together not only by higher spiritual beings but by culture itself. The communities families, traditions, and the daily and yearly rhythms within which we lived, kept our soul life safely within certain bounds. We now live in the “wild west” of the soul. Traditions have disappeared, communities and family groups fractured. This is a necessary step in our evolution as the “I” finds it’s tumultuous way into the world. As much as we sometimes yearn for traditions to cling to, they all too easily become dogma and thwart human freedom. With this in mind Steiner’s 6 fundamental exercises (sometimes referred to as subsidiary exercises) are more important than ever. They are essentially a practice of the “I” gaining control or “having a say” over what happens in our soul life. This is vital when it comes to spiritual experiences so that we don’t lose the ground under our feet and become the “play thing” of other spiritual beings. The time of human responsibility has arrived. But it’s becoming increasingly clear in the therapy room, at the bbq, in the class room, the board meeting, the dinner party…and in our own minds (or am I alone here?) and every other social gathering of 2 or more, that this is becoming vital in every day life. The “I” is the one to bring the 3 brothers back together and Steiner’s 6 exercises are beautifully designed to this. This could be explored in a much more esoteric way, looking at all the deeper benefits of these exercises. But for now, I just wanted to focus on the everyday aspects.

Rudolf Steiner's 6 Exercises Challenge (adventure, journey, fun-time?) starts at 5pm UK time today. Here's the link: https://www.skool.com/live/pqrS4ws68dd