Psychosophy Conference USA

www.psychosophyseminar.org



Persephone College UK - Stroud

www.psychophonetics.co.uk




Pastel drawing by Hadas Sorenson



A Personal Experience

Rudolf Steiner’s pioneering lectures on Psychosophy, contain striking insights that when understood and applied, can lead to a psychology of freedom. Steiner describes vividly how undigested ‘visualisations’ or pictures can sink into the sentient soul and etheric body and clog them up like coagulated lumps. “Precisely those visualisations that our consciousness is unable to call up out of our unconscious soul life are in this way immeasurably destructive; they develop destructive forces that penetrate our body. It is a fact that something a person has experienced at the age of twelve, and totally forgotten…continues to act in his ether body and can impair his health”. The remedy, according to Steiner, is to bring such visualisations or clusters into consciousness. But how?

Yehuda Tagar showed just how when he gave experiential workshops at Hawkwood College in Stroud in August 2007 on Psychosophy, and then on Psychophonetics for personal development and counselling. What led me to participate was hearing from people who had experienced Psychophonetics, and reading some of Yehuda Tagar’s articles, including how he had worked successfully with a young Soweto man who had murdered five people-who could not sleep, who was violent and disturbed. Clearly, Yehuda Tagar’s approach was profoundly transformative, and even involved facilitating conversations between the young man and his dead victims. Clearly, Tagar goes there.

Psychosophy offers a holistic, multilevel approach to understanding the human soul-with deep insights into personal development and growth. You learn psychosophy from personal experience, from reflection, and from experiencing a dynamic, creative use of the languages of the soul or Psychophonetics-using gesture, movement, visualisation, sound, as well as conversation to shift insights. So instead of, say, only talking through a trauma, you experience this in your body, and raise it to awareness through gesture, movement, sound, conversation and visualisation, depending on what you freely want to happen when you make a clear wish.

For me, feeling that I was running on empty led me to do an introductory Psychosophy course and then a 10 day Psychophonetics workshop. These helped me begin to re-connect with myself, face my ‘demons’, see Anthroposophy afresh-and find sources of inspiration and energy beyond hope

(Martin Large, Stroud, August 2007)