The Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society
is pleased to present:
Robert McDermott
Karma and Biography
Five Cases of Karma
Tuesday, February 24, 7:00 PM
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz
THE TALK WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE LIVE ON ZOOM
This lecture, to be followed by discussion, explores the concept and working of karma by tracing it in the lives of four world-class spiritual-esoteric teachers. Such tracing is difficult: every biographical event can be perfectly ordinary or profoundly karmic or something in beteen. Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner share a continuous karmic destiny on behalf of esotericism in the West; Sri Aurobindo and the Mother lived together and collaborated spiritually on the task of bringing into earth consciousness a transformative influence comparable to the Incarnation of Christ.
Each of these four lives were led to their karmic complement by influences that appeared ordinary to an ordinary level of observation but within the context of a full-life spiritual destiny take on profound significance. In conclusion, at the suggestion of Susan Cook, I will share some of the influences that have led me to relationships with these four spiritual-esoteric teachers.
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Robert McDermott is president emeritus, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and professor emeritus, Baruch College, CUNY, and CIIS. He is editor of The Essential Aurobindo (1984) and The New Essential Steiner (2009), author of Steiner and Kindred Spirits (2015), and with Debashish Banerji, co-editor of Philo-Sophia: Wisdom Goddess Traditions (2021). He was chair of the board of Rudolf Steiner College and Sunbridge College. He was the recipient of several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. For fourteen years he was chair of the board of the Sophia Project for Mothers and Children at Risk of Homelessness. He is currently writing A Karmic Memoir. |
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