Concerning the Essay: Waking the Sleeping Giant: the Mission of Anthroposophy in America
That essay (from 1995) can’t be separated from the being
of its author. Above I suggested that I am one of two needed
guides for the further incarnation of Anthroposophy, - in my case
particularly in America. Such an assertion requires explication
and justification.
Around 1970 (about 42 years ago) I was born into a body
prepared for me by another - this preparer individual was 30 or so, and
had no idea (in his day-consciousness) on going to sleep that night
that such a exchange of egos (spirits) would happen. When I came
in I had already so identified with the original inhabitant, of the
relevant physical, astral and ethereal bodies for which I now am
responsible, that I had no idea there was any difference between myself
and the prior individual. I only knew on the next morning on
awakening that my “prior personality” (in the sense of a self-picture)
was dissolving (leading to greater creative inner freedom), and that my
interior life was light-filled in a way that had not been true the day
before. Details can be found in my book, Biographical
Necessity, which is also available in
free ebook form at my bookstore.
It was seven years before I meet Rudolf Steiner through
his books, at which time I was to discover a more or less adequate
spiritual explanation for the radical change in my “self” that had been
so painfully obvious (to me and certain members of my family) for many
years. Having already asked myself this question in the first
half-year of my (walk-in style) incarnation: what is the relationship
between my experience and my thoughts, and how does that arise in the
light of my conscience, my own thinking about
thinking was then well prepared to enter immediately into Steiner’s
works on the problem of knowledge (GA 2, GA 3, and GA 4).
My meeting with Steiner was also directly preceded in
time by my asking (actually written in a diary) this question, a few
weeks before that meeting took place: given that my personal
experience reveals that the world is actually spiritual in its
fundamental nature, what is the meaning of this fact for our mutual
understanding of the social and political life of humanity? This somewhat complicated riddle was a gift to me from the preparer personality - again
see Biographical Necessity.
My integration with the Anthroposophical Society was
problematic from the very beginning. I did not understand what I
was experiencing, in California - i.e. San Francisco, Berkeley and Fair
Oaks, when I attended Society sponsored events. Many of my essays
trying to work out that problem are in my books Dangerous
Anthroposophy, American
Anthroposophy, and Manure for
the Garden of Anthroposophy (again all
available for free on my website or in ebook form at my bookstore.
My main anthroposophical work (besides ongoing work on
the problem of knowledge) was to try to develop a Goetheanistic Social
Science, because it was clear from reading Steiner that the answer to
the riddle above was to be found on that path. This took
about 28 years (from 1982 until 2010). My initial offerings to
the Society, marking out stations on the path I was following, were
rejected or just ignored, beginning with Threshold
Problems in Thinking the Threefold Social Order (submitted to the Threefold Review around 1991) and then
Waking
the Sleeping Giant, submitted to the
Newsletter in 1995. Neither were published.
As to Waking the
Sleeping Giant, I was in that long essay
reporting the results of about 14 years of research seeking to develop
a Goetheanistic Social Science. I divided the essay into five
parts, so that the Newsletter would only have to publish it in pieces.
The first part discussed Christ’s statement about rendering unto
Caesar and unto God what is theirs. From that principle it is
possible to see the relationship between the Life of Rights (Caesar)
and our individual moral activity, which relationship has powerful
causal influences on humanity’s social-political existence. In the
second part I discuss the threefold social order, not in its idealistic
sense, but rather by describing how it has emerged into its present day
form over time - eventually giving birth to an inner threefolding in
the Life of Rights, of State, Media and People. In the third part
I discussed how it is that civilization in general, under the influence
of the evolution of consciousness is undergoing a metamorphosis - a
dying and becoming. In the fourth part I bring in details on the
Mystery nature of America, principally as regards the yet unknown
relationship of the aboriginal peoples here to our modern life of soul.
In the final and fifth part I bring all these pictures together,
to lay out and establish specific kinds of actions the Anthroposophical
Society can take in order to help America become what is latent within
its soul forces to become.
As noted above it was not published and in a certain
sense nothing has yet come of that effort.
Eventually I was able to work out that it was the
Ahrimanic hierarchies, working through the doubles of the members, that
sought to disable Anthroposophy in America, by encouraging the specific
rejection of my work, and as well making all research on the Spiritual
America be strenuously opposed. Again, this is mostly about
karma and our own development. Details of when and how are in my
books above, as well as near the end of this essay. All of this
was connected to the need for these ahrimanic hierarchies to be able to
hide from the Anthroposophical Society the fact of Ahriman’s
Incarnation, which in the form of a mockery took place on Christmas Day 1950, having been preceded
by his Star, which first appeared over the Trinity Site, New
Mexico, near Alamogordo, and then brought fully into the Sphere of the
Earth in the horrors in Japan at Nagasaki and Hiroshima [this is from
the original spiritual research of Elizabeth Mackenzie]. We are
presently living in a Nation and World strongly Influenced by this
Incarnation, which has centered its activity in the Life of Rights in
America. Because of these facts, what we do at this Conference is
not to be taken lightly.