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Course of study for the Alchemical Marriage 

The alchemical initiation of humility that is the very core of the Rosicrucian path of enlightenment. 

This course represents the fruits of a life long study of the healing forces present in color by Dennis Klocek. The intent is to build a bridge between the laws of color represented in the sciences and the potentials for color therapy in psychology. The bridge consists of the range of archetypal feelings generated by the array of colors found in a twelve tone spectrum. The sequence of the lectures is designed to illustrate how color as a physical phenomenon can be understood as a symbol of the deeper soul constitutions that serve as the dynamic keys to the process of individuation.

These three lectures are on the theme of how to avoid burnout when dealing with the demands of students, colleagues and parents. For the educational task of dealing with students the use of imagination in forming pictures of the destiny of the students will be addressed. For working with parents the use of imaginative perception in structuring productive conversations by asking questions will be the focus of a lecture. For working with colleagues the imaginative perception of placing issues into sleep will be addressed in the last lecture.

Health through Consciousness

At times it is necessary for those on a path of self development to engage in protecting themselves from the negative intents coming from other persons. This process is delicate but if handled consciously it can be healing for both the person who we are struggling with and for ourselves. It is necessary to structure the inner work to both respect the other and at the same time restrict negative thoughts coming from others from entering our own soul and causing problems.

The human phantom is a concept given by Rudolf Steiner to describe the body of life forces that was the original plan for the sense activities of the human being before the fall created the complications of illness and death. Esoteric students in the Rosicrucian tradition strive to recreate the phantom again in their soul life by working with exercises to transform the daily life in the sense world.

Finding the root of personality. This series focuses on the use of myth as a tool for exploring the myth of "me".

This lecture was given to parents and faculty of the Sacramento Waldorf School in 2012. The topic addresses the original state of consciousness of human beings where the divine  consciousness and the personality are mixed in the young child. Then it is necessary for these two outlooks to separate in order for freedom of the individuality to result. This creates the divine - persona axis that reaches a peak in adolescence. The task is to then unite these two separate states of consciousness again in the search for initiation.

This keynote address given in 2012 at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, CA begins with a survey of the hierarchy of human consciousness as seen in Plato and Aristotle.

The theme is then advanced to the  Gnostic imagination of the fall of the Pistis Sophia as an archetype of contemporary consciousness. The role of meditation and spiritual technique is then illustrated as a healing of this fall of the Sophia.

This keynote address given in Madison Wisconsin at the National Biodynamic Conference began with an explanation of how numinous experience of the transcendent dimension of nature is transformed into an experience of the sacredness of nature through understanding. The idea was enlarged into a description of the difference between the ancient hunter religion and the planter religion recognized by anthropologists.

A series developed to help a person to experience that the great passage is as much a birth into a new level of being as it is a termination of an old stage of consciousness.