1993 widened from my life suddenly. The reason was the publication of the last book by Bernard Lievegoed, first in the Netherlands - with the title "Over de redding van de goal" - then, in the same year, in Germany, "Over the life of the soul". I was involved in the writing of the text because Lievegoed sick on his death bed and was only able to speak. He told me the content I started with a tape recorder and processed into a manuscript. He also asked me to write an introduction to explain how the book came about was. When the book appeared in 1993, Bernard Lievegoed had died, he died on 12 December 1992.
In my books, "middle" and "heart work" I have described, where the publication of the book led me. About the content I need to say anything at this point: who is interested can read the books. It's enough for now to write that Lievegoed was of the opinion that anthroposophy is advised, as they evolve in the twentieth century in a spiritual isolation that he tried with his esoteric comments in "On the salvation of the soul" to break through. He put the anthroposophy is as a movement with a specific task that only under understanding of a higher spiritual impulse is, namely, the Manichean. A guide to this spiritual movement is needed to understand the "child" tasks of anthroposophy better and to take.
Only ten days before he died, said Bernard Lievegoed me that he is much promise of the book. And he was right: Right after the book was published I received requests for lectures and seminars all over Europe. In the years that followed, I traveled almost every other weekend to go somewhere to talk about the contents of the book in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, France, Greece, Finland ... Most inquiries, however, came from Germany. Decisive, however, the first seminar, there were seven in total, one each week, which took place in Greece.
On the Greek island of Santorini, I met people, including the since and to this day to my contemporaries. The seminars were organized in Greece by Elias Community initiative, an initiative of Cornelia Härtelt and Brigitte Rauth from Stuttgart. As part of this community a few years later founded a club that had as objective to pursue the substantive and social consequences of the book "On the salvation of the soul" to continue to deepen and make more. Friends, acquaintances and connections emerged, which spread like a wattle many countries.
Work in the Community initiative aimed Elias heavily on the personal-biographical needs of participants. It was to heal the wounds in his own biography, without having to go to a therapeutic level need. The starting point was the brokered by Bernard Lievegoed Manichaean view that the evil and the consequences of evil "can be transformed by kindness." In the meeting dialogs and had artistic activities that allow a closeness between the participants, is very important. In a book in 2005 by Elias Joint Initiative published, is from one of these meetings (July 2002, at Neukirchen near Flensburg) a dynamic protocol under the programmatic title: Without my wound, where were my strength? given.
After a few years ago was within the Elias Community initiative, a second initiative, which was directed less to the personal needs of the people and the more public social issues was contemplating. Not all participants in the Joint Initiative made it actively, because for some the feeling prevailed that a social approach is not consistent with the atmosphere of personal trust.
The second initiative was "Adventura" called which means: "What is to come." Beginning in 1997 took place over the years major events where people from all over Europe from its social-political work reported. The beginning was in Gander bath home in an area where people work a thousand years ago by Roswitha Gander home and worked and was operated in the Third Reich by the Nazis, a branch of Buchenwald. A small group of people prepared for the meeting intensively. The major meetings were "reverse conferences', and that is, the themes and content came from the side of the participants.
went to three events in Bad Gandersheim, a fourth and a fifth in Bruges in Aachen us the power off. The number of participants decreased: it was the first time in Bad Gandersheim about 180 in Aachen were still about 40 left. With the decline of the participants were, however, tensions in the core group. The differences include the proposal finances, in the open and uncommitted structure of Adventura, we were unable to make the money flows transparent.
broke after about seven years to gradually Adventura. Adventura was an initiative that provided a biography: she was born, lived passionately and died. The landscape of my relations, acquaintances and friendships were manageable again. On top of that I now tired had become, from traveling in endless discussions of organizational constraints ... I had spent many years. I came up in the need to reflect on my experience to assess the Elias Community initiative and Adventura as an event for me. I asked myself the question: Adventura has failed?
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