Awakening to Community

Recordings from the Lecture Series

In the months after the fire, Rudolf Steiner continued his work seemingly uninterrupted. From January through March of 1923, he gave a series of lectures in Dornach and Stuttgart that have been collected under the title of Awakening to Community. These lectures provide a solid foundation for understanding anthroposophical community building and offer the possibility of creating a bridge from the tragedy of New Year's Eve 1922 to the spiritual deed of the Holy Nights 1923-1924. As we welcome in our centenary year, we would like to share with you the recordings of Steiner's lecture series, Awakening in Community, exactly 100 years after Steiner gave those lectures. We offer this in hopes of re-enlivening the words and helping us each, in our own way, to Awaken to Community.

Awakening to Community Recordings

23 January 
Lecture I~Listen here
with Angela Foster, Christine Burke, and Ellen Cimino
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30 January 
Lecture II~ Listen here
with Christine Burke, Ellen Cimino, Angela Foster, Katrina Hoven, and Kathy Reardon
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6 February
Lecture III ~ Listen here
with Joan Caldarera, Angela Foster, and Jordan Walker
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13 February 
Lecture IV ~ Listen here
John Beck, Joan Caldarera, and Matt Richter
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22February 
Lecture V ~ Listen here
 Angela Foster, Tess Parker, Margaret Shipman
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Happy Birthday Ita Wegman!

27 February 
Lecture VI ~ Listen here
Gino Ver Eecke, Cathy Greene, Claudia Knudson, and Margaret Runyon
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Happy Birthday Rudolf Steiner!

28 February 
Lecture VII ~ Listen here
John Bloom, Christine Burke, Jolie Luba, Diane McGary, and Sandra Stoner
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2 March 
Lecture VIII ~ Listen here
John-Scott Legg, Margaret Shipman,  Mary Stewart Adams, and Katherine Thieverge
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3 March 
 Lecture IX ~ Listen here
Diane Caracciolo, Sandra LaGrega, Mary Mertz, and Laura Scappaticci
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4 March 
Lecture X ~ Listen here
Christine Burke, Angela Foster, Timothy Kennedy,  and Debbie Spitulnik
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"We must realize that we are going to have to work anthroposophically in the Anthroposophical Society, and that our chief common task is to forge a connection between man and that radiant spiritual light from heavenly worlds that seeks him out at the present moment of his evolution. This is the consciousness and this the task to which, while there is still time, we need to be steeled by the Dornach fire whose flames we feel in our very hearts."

-Rudolf Steiner "Awakening to Community" Lecture 1

The Readers

These readings are offered by general and regional council members, and event organizers. 
John Beck, John Bloom, Christine Burke , Joan Caldarera, Ellen Cimino, Diane Caracciolo, Gino ver Eecke, Angela Foster, Cathy Greene, Katrina Hoven, Timothy Kennedy. Claudia Knudson, Jolie Luba, Michele Mariscal, Diane McGary, Mary Mertz, Tess Parker, Kathy Reardon, Matt Richter, Laura Scappticci, John-Scott Legg, Debbie Spitulnik, Mary Stewart Adams, Margaret Shipman, Sandra Stoner, Katherine Thieverge, Jordan Walker, Francis Wolfe, and more!

artwork by David Newbatt