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The Cost of the Poet's Light: Coleridge and Star Wisdom lecture by David Tresemer, Ph.D.

  • 10 Nov 2016
  • 7:30 PM
  • Rudolf Steiner College, Stegmann Hall, 9200 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, CA 95628

The  Cost  of  the  Poet's  Light:  Coleridge  and  Star Wisdom

A  free  lecture  by  David  Tresemer,  Ph.D.     

Thursday,  November  10,  2016

7:30  pm   Stegmann  Hall

The  poet  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge  received  "Kubla  Khan"  in  a  waking  vision.   What  can  we  learn  through  star  wisdom  and  modern  psychology  about  the  angel   who  revealed  itself  to  him?  What  is  the  cost  of  the  poet's  light?     

Weaving  together  insights  from  both  astrosophy and  psychosophy,  David  will   share  with  us  the results  of  his  research.    

In  1797  the  poet  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge,  with Wordsworth  a  leader  of  the   romantic  Lake  Poets of  central  England,  awakened  from  a  drug-­induced sleep  to  receive  a  waking  vision  of  the  vast  grand palace  of  the  legendary  Kubla  Khan.  He   swiftly wrote  line  after  line  of  rhyming  poetry.

In  Xanadu  did  Kubla  Kahn

A  stately  pleasure-­dome  decree

Where  Alph,  the  sacred  river,  ran

Through  caverns  measureless  to  man

Down  to  a  sunless  sea.         

But  he  was  interrupted  by  a  knock  at  the  door, "the  man  from  Porlock."  When  he   came  back  to his  writing,  the  rest  of  the  grand  poem  had slipped  away.  The  lines   that  he  wrote  were  left untouched  for  19  years,  then  published  in  1816  as  a  "fragment."       

What  comes  through  this  poem  is  one  of  the clearest  pictures  of  what  in   anthroposophy  is called  the  Luciferic  double.   

In  this  talk,  Tresemer shall  apply  techniques  of astrosophy  (intelligent star wisdom)  to  Coleridge's birth,  especially  in  relation to  this  moment  when the  veils   to  spiritual  worlds  thinned  and  this  force  -­  usually  invisible  -­  was  made  visible.     

Marcia Burchard  will  also  play  piano  music  related to  the  star-­positions  of  the  life   of  Coleridge.    

No  registration  required.     Donations  appreciated.  

David  Tresemer is  president  of  the  Association  for Anthroposophic  Psychology  (AAP)  which  runs  nine-seminar  trainings  in  anthroposophic  psychology  at RSC;  this  talk  takes  place  during   AAP's  8th seminar.     

Rudolf  Steiner  College, 9200  Fair  Oaks  Boulevard, Fair  Oaks,  CA  95628     

Stegmann  Hall  is  near  the  RSC  Bookstore,  and across  from  our  cafe    


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