As a farmer there is always work to be done and the last thing you want to do is wasting your evenings listening to someone who isn't even a farmer himself. But maybe that's just it. Sometimes someone else's experience from a completely different field can shed a surprising new light on our own familiar patch of turf.
I started out as a teacher and Steiner School founder who ended up giving courses in Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA). So what does that have to do with BD? The common link lies in the fact that both, Transformative Art & Architecture, just like healthy food, can only be transformative and healthy through their connection with spirit. Two completely different fields, same connections.
As a spiritual master Rudolf Steiner was able to see and follow directly with spiritual eyes the links that exist between spirit and matter. If it wasn't for his clairvoyant abilities he could never have developed the BD method, nor any other method such as he did in education, medicine and the arts and sciences.
Surprisingly, it turns out that our human creative process we use in art and architecture follows the same universal structure we see in the archetypal plant cycle through the course of the year. The territory and processes that connect spirit and matter are always the same. This should not come as a surprise, since we are all part of the same spiritual universe.
Below are more details about the topics we cover in the forthcoming lectures.
Johannes Schuster was the founding Class Teacher of the Little Yarra Steiner Schoolin outer Melbourne in 1987. As subsequent administrator and building designer, he was instrumental in the school’s growth from K- Year 12 and the creation of an inspiring environment of purpose designed buildings, on a beautiful 60 acre property in the Yarra Valley.
With over 45 years background in Anthroposophy, it was Johannes’ interest in the Four Ethers which led to his involvement with architecture, resulting in the creation of an Anthroposophically based theory and methodology of Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA), which he and his wife Sue have been teaching in Australia, Switzerland (Goetheanum 2015 and 2016), Argentina, Malaysia and China, for the last 14 years.
Because of TAA’s wide ranging spiritual scope and Anthroposophical foundations, which include nature’s manifestation process and the spiritual structures behind our physical reality and experience, the TAA course has attracted the interest not only of architects, designers and artists, but also that of Waldorf teachers, therapists, business owners, entrepreneurs and farmers.
This lecture series has been especially created for those interested in the spiritual dimensions behind farming and growing healthy food.
