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This course is designed to introduce a meditative exercise which has great benefit for the emotional well being of modern adults. The focus is the establishment of a deep mood of peace in the soul accomplished through the practice known as soul breathing. This course of study is amplified by cognitive exercises in the drawing and visualizing of complex geometric sequences taken from the modern geometric discipline of synthetic or projective geometry. The main exercise and the images from projective geometry are perfectly compatible cognitively and can establish a great mood of confidence and peace in the soul when practiced regularly. To accompany this work in geometric visualization the artistic work modeling and constructing the metamorphosis of form in the platonic series of regular polyhedra is a rigorous and stabilizing set of exercises.
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The work in this block is to meditatively establish a mood of peace in the soul by focussing silent attention on the heart space and excluding all sense activity. This, in the realm of the soul, is the equivalent to holding the breath. By imagining in a geometrically precise way that the soul breathes out love to the infinitely distant periphery, the students can experience the equivalent to an outbreath. Establishing a regular rhythm of the inbreath and the outbreath in the soul develops the inner work practice and centers the mind. With this mood established the contents of the main exercise from Rudolf Steiner can be explored by the students. This work will be amplified by lectures on the further implications of the relationship between the senses and the life organs in the task of transforming habits. Students will be required to keep journals of their inner work.
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Since projective geometry is the most fundamental geometric discipline, the study of the laws of projection will once again bring in front of the students the space limitations of perspective and the need to understand the nature of projection as the source of most pathologies in the emotional biography of the soul. A series of sixty drawings leading from simple projectivities to complex geometric analogs for the development of biological and embryological form is the focus of this block. The concept of the infinitely distant plane is the most basic yet radical concept in geometry. In projection techniques this concept is dealt with in a rigorous and systematic way through the thought sequences developed by entering into these archetypal geometric drawing processes.
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The focus of this block is to work with a two dimensional and three dimensional set of geometric forms known as the platonic forms. The platonic forms are transformations in which a tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron are each transformed into each other in precise yet mystical ways. The block is designed to develop inner flexibility coupled with rigorous visualization capacities in the students. The forms are highly transformative and require the ability to hold on to an exact inner image while simultaneously watching its geometry transform into a completely different geometrical relationship. The concept of the infinitely distant which forms the background for the main exercise and projective geometry is visited once again in this block as a hands on experience.
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