The Resistance to Love
with Michael Lipson
Sunday, February 8
2-4pm Eastern
It is part of healthy development, in our sometimes dangerous world, to learn a measure of caution. The lesson tends to get overlearned, however, especially in the contest of personal or social trauma. The whole world, according to Rudolf Steiner, is misunderstood in its actual glory because we kick or push against it with our mental habits. For full human experience, we could learn to relax our defenses and become undefended toward the good.
This workshop will begin with some characterization of this problem and this possibility, but most of our time will be experiential: meditations and other practices that can open us to both human and other-than-human exchanges of love.
Materials: Please have on hand a notebook and also a small, uninteresting, opaque stone (gravel or pebble.
Meet the Facilitator…
Michael Lipson, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Great Barrington, MA; also, along with other roles, a husband and father.
In college, he majored in German Literature to be able to read R. M. Rilke and R. Steiner.
He was fruitfully disturbed by spending time with MotherTheresa in Calcutta, India in his early 20’s. He served for 9 years as Chief Psychologist in Pediatric AIDS at Harlem Hospital, NYC.
He is the translator of many books by Georg Kühlewind and of Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom. He leads meditation workshops, weekly online and in-person meditation groups, and sends out a free weekly newsletter on related themes (sign up through michaellipson.org or lipson.michael@gmail.com). His latest book is BE: An Alphabet of Astonishment. An earlier book, The Stairway of Surprise, focused on Steiner’s 6 Basic Exercises.
Registration
Workshop fees are at a sliding scale between $30-$100
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