http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Michael Wilt, Class Seven teacher, recently looked back at a photograph of his students from two years ago, when they were Class 5 children. His teaching life at Sunrise, daily observing these same children, did not prepare him for the photo's evidence o... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/waldorf-education-stretching-the--self--in-seventh-grade-923860.html 10th June 2009 Question: What is one of the pivotal factors to "The Development of Thinking in Adolescence?" Answer: Development of the will forces, particularly between birth and age seven, but ongoing through age fourteen and beyond. I recently attended the lectu... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/waldorf-high-school-and-the-development-of-thinking-922937.html 08th June 2009 Subtitle: Waldorf Language Immersion in a Culturally Rich Environment For students wishing an English language immersion experience, Island Oak Waldorf School on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, offers a unique opportunity. Is... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/waldorf-education-on-beautiful-vancouver-island-922935.html 08th June 2009 Co-operation and sustainability are two philosophies which complement each other, allowing decisions to be made by a diverse group with many ideas, while caring for social, economic, and environmental livelihoods. O.U.R. Ecovillage is a prosperous intent... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/our-ecovillage--a-new-model-of-cooperation-922933.html 08th June 2009 Imagine our community in the eyes of a three and a half year old child: the Land of Sunrise. Its great halls where the giant grade-school children walk, even its kindergartens are over a fence and beyond a safely closed door - mysteries, for the most part... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/in-the-kingdom-of-kindercottage-early-waldorf-education-922931.html 08th June 2009 Three dimensions. Three archetypes of Norse Myth. A salmon's life seen in three parts. The turning-ten year olds in Class Four are more deeply experiencing themselves as individuals through a lens of three in their curriculum. Mr. Richards says his... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/in-a-waldorf-school-class-four-threes-a-charm-922929.html 08th June 2009 SUNRISE WALDORF SCHOOL, COWICHAN VALLEY, BC "Demographically, you shouldn't exist!" We were told this by a visiting Head of Teacher Training from New York, and it is quite true. With a small valley population in a rather economically depressed area ... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/have-you-been-looking-for-us-922927.html 08th June 2009 Maintaining their altitude up there in the blue, Class Five children are exploring the heavenly realms of historical myths this fall with Mr. Stopeck. Their study of a handful of ancient civilizations took flight a mere three weeks ago, with an introduct... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/class-five-and-six-in-waldorf-education-hovering-near-the-light-922925.html 08th June 2009 In our search for ecovillage living we traveled north and west through Vancouver Island's forested mountains towards Shawnigan Lake, and stopped at O.U.R. Ecovillage (O.U.R. = One United Resource) in a rural suburban region. Co-founder Brandy Gallagher Ma... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/ecovillage-life-living-into-the-future-922920.html 08th June 2009 In my experience questing for understanding of spiritual aspects of the human community, I have had occasion to encounter some unusual synchronicities. One such event emerged while perusing a lecture by noted Initiate and spiritual scientist, Rudolf Stei... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/mysticism-meets-an-impasse---eckhart-tolle-and-anthroposophy-793555.html 20th February 2009 When presented with the notion that biodynamic gardening and farming is an exceptional forum with advanced methods, one scientist scoffed, saying "You're not espousing a system that plants by the phases of the moon, and such, are you?!" This "scientist... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/gardening-and-farming-the-biodynamic-way-793554.html 20th February 2009 If those who consume mass meat products could witness either a) the conditions 95% of the animals in the factory farm industry have to endure, or b) the loss that is accruing in humanity's inner life due to this animal abuse - the industry would grind to... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/factory-farming---on-its-last-legs-793553.html 20th February 2009 The sense of taste, in its higher, more refined state, is capable of discerning what the body most needs at any given time. However, when blunted or debased, it discerns not what is wholesome in a given moment, but what is tasty, or even what will feed a... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/eating-for-optimal-health-793551.html 20th February 2009 From the perspective of spiritual ecology, some of the suspected causes merely stand in the foreground of the disappearing honeybees - EMF radiation; GM crops; and diseases and pests - while artificial incursions of modern bee-keeping on overall hive e... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/dying-bees-the-real-cause--and-how-to-bring-them-back-793550.html 20th February 2009 In a fully functional society, which we have no such models on the planet at this time (although some groups within nations appear to be at least experimenting with the ideal) - how would a nation that has undergone social renewal of the Three-folding pr... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/a-new-relationship-with-the-land-793548.html 20th February 2009 short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry First Prize $500 Two Second Prizes of $100 each Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned.... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/a-nature-writing-contest-793546.html 20th February 2009 Anthroposophical medicine, one of the many initiatives launched by Rudolf Steiner, is a holistic approach to healing that entails an in-depth assessment of the fourfold human constitution - wherein the inter-weave of physical, etheric, astral and egoic b... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/anthroposophical--healing-793543.html 20th February 2009 Earth Vision has launched a new project entitled Insight21 - answers for the 21st Century. The website presents various topics that entail front-runners in the need for answers for social and environmental issues. Some of these treatments include Waldo... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/insight21--an-alternative-news-project-793537.html 20th February 2009 (alternate title: The Spiritual Ecology of the Sun) Love is pay-forward and pay-back, at once. . . . It's hard to turn away from spirit, and not become egotistic. Although, the corollary is also true - that is, without love imbuing one's spiritu... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/on-the-trail-of-love-793534.html 20th February 2009 Recent financial market discord in the realty sector is a symptom that profiteering and speculation leads to a disturbing malaise in the relationship between the human community and land. Land is actually priceless. It cannot be owned any more that can... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/real-estate-is-finished---what-will-take-its-place-793530.html 20th February 2009 It has been thought, by a few great individuals, that if you can garner twelve perspectives on a particular subject, then you can attain a significant understanding of the subject. This article strives in that direction by presenting the dynamics of rein... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/reincarnation-and-karma---12-ways-to-explore-793529.html 20th February 2009 It is the premise of Earth Vision that in order for humanity to cherish nature, humanity must first recognize nature for what it is: a reflection of the very soul of its own being. Earth Vision has been active with its mandate to reach bey... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/taking-nature-beyond-environmentalism-793528.html 20th February 2009 Alternate title: Passages of Relationship To explore relationship models that are counter-productive, one need go no further than what is presented by the media, film, and literature of modern society, as it descends now through the last phase of its m... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/the-spiritual-basis-of-romance-793527.html 20th February 2009 Silence stillness immensity forest stretching endlessly snow covered, quietly breathing its tremendous, wide, conifer expanse And the sough of wind rising and falling Most beings here - plant or animal - are melded into this spacious and soul-pur... http://josgraf.articlealley.com/the-twelve-senses-in-the-world-of-nature-793526.html 20th February 2009