In this story you will hear references to Moses, as the servant-leader of God for the Hebrew people. You will hear references to God, the higher power, the spirit-creator. And there are of course the references to the Hebrew people. As is so common to the Old Testament stories, we have a triad of beings that all represent aspects of the self. There is the highly anthropomorphized God, which represents the higher self, or as the voice of God says to Moses: "I am that I am". (What a mysterious expression!--and some, myself included, would proclaim it to be one of the most significant identifications of "Spirit" in human history.) Moses is that elevated human being, the medium between God and the people, sometimes communing with that higher being, and sometimes feeling cut off or separated from it. Lastly, the most separated of all, the people, represent that part of us that feels isolated and alone in these physical incarnations. Sometimes, we do feel atoned (at one) with God, sometimes we stray from that holy path of being. These are the deeper aspects of such stories. At the end of this story, we are told the people trust that God will always care for them and they have complete joy, gratitude, and trust. Yet, as we see over and over and over again in the Old Testament, all too soon the people lose this faith and certainty. Is this not the human experience which the sincerest seekers of any religious path attempt to transcend? The word "religion" itself is invested with this picture. RE-LIGARE. Ligare in Latin means to connect, hence the word ligament, for instance. So religion is the human being's attempt to reconnect with the source of being, of creation, of absolute love, etc. At times, the human feels this connection. At other times, we despair. The seeker in any religious path that is truly aimed at goodness, love, truth, etc, strives to transcend this inner sense of doubt and isolation, contends with the inner demons of fear and other negative thoughts and emotions, evolving toward being more and more at one with higher being. The third grader is experiencing something called the nine-year-change, a time of shifting consciousness, one in which the experience of the self and the world is that things are bigger, darker, and sometimes scarier than they once seemed. They begin to lose the innate sense of one-ness that they had as young children. In other words, with a new knowledge, (such as Adam and Eve attained by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), the child loses that innate sense of "perfection", they lose the innate sense of living in a "utopia", (just as Adam and Eve were no longer able to stay in the Garden of Eden). Thus ensues the many experiences of life on the Earth, where we have such myriad experiences of life and consciousness. The telling and hearing of these stories carries this value. The stories reflect these experiences of human life and give us pictures of the possibilities of finding happiness, meaning, gratitude, and awe when we realize our own one-ness with our higher selves. This kind of wisdom is not unique to the streams of Judeo-Christian practices. So many religious paths impart similar wisdoms for the earnest seeker. These stories are particularly suited to the third grader because of this "nine year change", through which we all must pass. It is part of our becoming. And, as it turns out, the Norse Myths are uniquely well-suited to the fourth grader. And so on...
Would be wonderful if I could get some sort of reply to all the emails and messages I have sent over the summer. We have purchased some of your products already and have questions about other products I am interested in buying but it seems you have fallen off the face of the earth and have abandoned your Simply Waldorf website and social media. Very sad because what you have is wonderful and I can easily see it becoming a big hit in the Waldorf homeschooling world.
I apologize for the delayed response. Yes, there was a glitch in the system, which I have now addressed. You should be able to find it on our website. Thanks for the feedback!
In this story you will hear references to Moses, as the servant-leader of God for the Hebrew people. You will hear references to God, the higher power, the spirit-creator. And there are of course the references to the Hebrew people. As is so common to the Old Testament stories, we have a triad of beings that all represent aspects of the self. There is the highly anthropomorphized God, which represents the higher self, or as the voice of God says to Moses: "I am that I am". (What a mysterious expression!--and some, myself included, would proclaim it to be one of the most significant identifications of "Spirit" in human history.) Moses is that elevated human being, the medium between God and the people, sometimes communing with that higher being, and sometimes feeling cut off or separated from it. Lastly, the most separated of all, the people, represent that part of us that feels isolated and alone in these physical incarnations. Sometimes, we do feel atoned (at one) with God, sometimes we stray from that holy path of being. These are the deeper aspects of such stories.
At the end of this story, we are told the people trust that God will always care for them and they have complete joy, gratitude, and trust. Yet, as we see over and over and over again in the Old Testament, all too soon the people lose this faith and certainty. Is this not the human experience which the sincerest seekers of any religious path attempt to transcend? The word "religion" itself is invested with this picture. RE-LIGARE. Ligare in Latin means to connect, hence the word ligament, for instance. So religion is the human being's attempt to reconnect with the source of being, of creation, of absolute love, etc. At times, the human feels this connection. At other times, we despair. The seeker in any religious path that is truly aimed at goodness, love, truth, etc, strives to transcend this inner sense of doubt and isolation, contends with the inner demons of fear and other negative thoughts and emotions, evolving toward being more and more at one with higher being.
The third grader is experiencing something called the nine-year-change, a time of shifting consciousness, one in which the experience of the self and the world is that things are bigger, darker, and sometimes scarier than they once seemed. They begin to lose the innate sense of one-ness that they had as young children. In other words, with a new knowledge, (such as Adam and Eve attained by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), the child loses that innate sense of "perfection", they lose the innate sense of living in a "utopia", (just as Adam and Eve were no longer able to stay in the Garden of Eden). Thus ensues the many experiences of life on the Earth, where we have such myriad experiences of life and consciousness.
The telling and hearing of these stories carries this value. The stories reflect these experiences of human life and give us pictures of the possibilities of finding happiness, meaning, gratitude, and awe when we realize our own one-ness with our higher selves.
This kind of wisdom is not unique to the streams of Judeo-Christian practices. So many religious paths impart similar wisdoms for the earnest seeker. These stories are particularly suited to the third grader because of this "nine year change", through which we all must pass. It is part of our becoming.
And, as it turns out, the Norse Myths are uniquely well-suited to the fourth grader. And so on...
Would be wonderful if I could get some sort of reply to all the emails and messages I have sent over the summer. We have purchased some of your products already and have questions about other products I am interested in buying but it seems you have fallen off the face of the earth and have abandoned your Simply Waldorf website and social media. Very sad because what you have is wonderful and I can easily see it becoming a big hit in the Waldorf homeschooling world.
So you sell your 3rd grade stories? I can’t find them on your website
I apologize for the delayed response. Yes, there was a glitch in the system, which I have now addressed. You should be able to find it on our website. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi none of the emails get answered and I really think your course is amazing but can anyone please respond