Past Dialogues

CANCELED: The World Mineral/Plant

June 20, 2017

Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) CANCELED Update: Coros registrants may register for dormitory rooms and lunches by visiting rscsummer.com/summer and selecting “Coros Institute: The World Mineral/Plant”. Limited availablity, so act quickly. This imagination, given by Rudolf Steiner, describes the functional evolutionary parallels between geology and botany. It can be used to…

Concentration, Contemplation, Meditation, Prayer

April 9, 2017

A COROS RETREAT WITH DENNIS KLOCEK Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) These four states of consciousness are a path towards gradual transformation of the self. This workshop will address fundamental issues useful in developing an effective meditative practice. Each level of consciousness has strengths and challenges. Inner work…

Plant and Soil: Salt and Oil

January 6, 2017

FRIDAY JANUARY 6, 2017, 9 AM – 5 PM Yokayo Ranch, 800 Hensly Creek Rd, Ukiah This workshop will explore an alchemical method for understanding plant nutrition. The intimate relationships between soils and plant physiology when seen alchemically allow the grower to adjust the use of soil amendments to better advantage. The alchemical mandalas of…

Rhythm Replaces Power: The Foundation of Future Science

June 14, 2016

Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) This course will cover the fundamental principles behind working with rhythms to transform raw substances into essential substances. Alchemically this is known as spagyric processing. Such an alchemical process requires great attention to the rhythmic return cycles of sun, moon and stars when…

Exploring the Threshold between Worlds

March 20, 2016

A COROS RETREAT WITH DENNIS KLOCEK SOLD OUT Please call 916-7176007 for further information (Map) In the practice of meditation there are developmental challenges that present thresholds that must be crossed in order to progress. Rudolf Steiner places these challenges into the context of the consciousness required for entering into the physical, etheric and astral bodies…

Agricultural Festivals: Old and New

January 8, 2016

FRIDAY JANUARY 8, 2016, 9-5PM SOLD OUT Please call 916-7176007 for further information In times past culture was enhanced throughout the year with festivals that united the natural world, the spiritual world and social rites of passage. Ancient nature religions arising from agricultural practices eventually transformed into festivals celebrating socially rich living metaphors of birth, death,…

Alchemical Laboratory II: Making Alchemical Medicines

June 15, 2015

Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) The making of alchemical remedies involves levels of laboratory practices beyond teas and extracts. The spagyric approach uses simple processes as rational steps in a holistic protocol. An overview of the methods and equipment used in spagyrics will serve as an introduction to…

The Alchemy of Holy Week

March 29, 2015

A COROS RETREAT WITH DENNIS KLOCEK Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) In the yearly cycle the events of Holy Week can be the source of profound meditations on the relationship between pain and suffering on one hand and joy and gratitude on the other. Using indications from the…

Where is the Elemental World?

January 9, 2015

FRIDAY JANUARY 9, 2015, 9-5PM At beautiful Frey Vineyards14000 Tomki Rd, Redwood Valley, Ca 95470(Map) The fundamental question is how can those who work with nature establish a relationship that is personal to the forces and activities that lie behind natural phenomena? Starting in the crystal heavens of the alchemists, Dennis will present the layers of…

The Alchemical Library

June 17, 2014

Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA 95628 (Map) JUNE 13-17, 2014 A basic premise for alchemical work is that the physical world and its processes are images of the processes at work in soul transformation. For example, a retort is either a quick returned response in an argument or a laboratory device…