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Turning Point 1983 Newsletter http://www.jamesrobertson.com/tpnews/tu ... ch1983.pdfBorn as Sabine Kurjo in Silesia, I survived the bombing of Dresden as a 4-months-old baby thanks to my then 22-year-old mum. I grew up in the North of Germany (near Bremerhaven), finished school in the South (Munich), studied mathematics and computing in the middle (Darmstadt) and started work as a systems analyst at CERN the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva, where the web was born.
In 1973 I was sent to Lawrence Radiation Lab in Berkeley, but a physicist friend of mine fell asleep while driving and we fell for 25 feet. Even though the doctor of the insurance company said I will not suffer in later life, I have not been without pain ever since. But I am realigning my skeleton most successfully with Bikram Yoga.
In 1981 I came to London with the vision of a ‘peace network’ of people and computers protecting our planet. I created “Turning Points @ St. James’s” and ran it until 1988. It still continues today as Alternatives.
I organised many other events, conferences and seminars and co-founded ‘NetReach’ – Networking Computers and Reaching out to People by Computer.
In 1988 I married Ian R McNeill who as a young man had been the Assistant Director of the Greater London Council. I learned from him how to write in English and together we wrote the book “Only Connect – The Art and Technology of Networking for Personal Change and Global Transformation”.
Since 1996 I wrote and withdrew five patent applications, produced four pieces of prototype software and participated in many scientific seminars and conferences. I constantly need to compare why, although my thinking is ‘outside the box’, it makes sense: if and only if, it is expressed via software.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... 0.11086840SOME DATES TO NOTE
14th March, 6.30pm, House of ConurLons, PARLIGAES meeting on THE FAST
BREEDER REACTOR: THE FUTURE FOR NUCLEAR POWER. Speakers: Dr.T.N.Marsham,
Walter Patterson. Details of this and full Parligaes programme from
David Gordon. 14 Carroun Road, London 5W8 lU.
17th July, Hampstead Heath, London. PEACE GATHERING, organised by
Sabine Kurjo, St. James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London Wl.
25th-27th March, winchester, MYSTICS AND SCIENTISTS 6: REALITY,
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ORDER. Speakers include Prof. David Bohm, Dr. Rupert
Sheldrake, Prof. Arnold Keyserling, Monica Furlong. Details from
Malcolm Lazarus, Wrekin Trust, Dove House, Little Birch, Herefordshire.
28th March, 6.30pm, WILLIAM BLAKE: PROPHET FOR THE 'SOs with Peter
Cadogan. One of the 'Turning Points at St.James's"evenings organised
by Sabine Kurjo, St. James ' s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London wl.
Today, the Association for the Prevention of Torture is at that address https://www.apt.ch/enEuropean Association for Humanistic Psychology
President: Arnold Keyserling; Secretary General : Sabine Kurjo;
Address: 10 route de Ferney, Geneva
Arnold Keyserling and the School of Wisdom https://schoolofwisdom.com/about/
The School of Wisdom was founded in 1920 in Darmstadt, Germany by Count Hermann Keyserling (1880–1946). The Count had just become one of the most popular authors of the day from is first book, Travel Diary of a Philosopher. At the same time as his best seller luck he had very bad luck at home. The Russian communists confiscated his family estate in Estonia and he had to flee for his life. His families position there went back centuries. One of his ancestors is the Count Keyserling who commissioned Bach to create the Brandenberg Concertos. Herman Keyserling fled Estonia in late 1918 and roamed for a short time as a homeless refugee. Still, he was a famous author from a titled family and was given shelter at the Bismarck family estate just outside of Berlin. A year later Keylserling married Otto Bismark’s granddaughter, Countess Maria Goedela Bismarck (1896–1981).
Shortly after his honeymoon Hermann and Maria moved to Darmstadt, Germany, to start the School of Wisdom. Darmstadt was then attempting to become a small town haven for artists and intellectuals. Hermann invited many of his friends to participate in this new venture, including psychologist, Dr. Carl Jung; sinologist and translator of the I Ching, Richard Wilhelm; theologian, Paul Tillich; German novelist and Noble prize winner, Hermann Hesse; and, Noble prize winning Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore. It was a very auspicious beginning...
Count Keyserling was one of the first Western philosophers to conceive and promote a universal planetary culture, beyond nationalism, but preserving cultural diversity. He promoted a new world order based on recognition of the equal value of non-western cultures and philosophies...
..he promoted a type of aristocratic rule inspired by Plato’s Republic. Count Keysering was the first to coin the term Führerprinzip, for leadership principle. He thought that certain “gifted individuals” were “born to rule” on the basis of Social Darwinism. ..
The Nazis responded with what Keyserling called a campaign of vilification against him and the School of Wisdom. The Count kept on writing and speaking out. When Hitler came to power the Nazi government revoked Herman’s citizenship because he was an immigrant from Estonia. The Nazis also revoked the citizenship of his two sons, even though they were born in Darmstadt and even though they were the great grandsons of Bismarck. The Count kept writing and speaking out. ...
Mantle Passes to Arnold Keyserling (1922-2005)
..Although Arnold was greatly influenced by his father, he pursued his own spiritual path. At the time of his father’s death this primarily meant the ideas and exercises of Gurdjieff. Arnold and his wife to be were very close to George and always spoke of Gurdjieff with high praise and even wonder. Although Arnold was pursuing his own path, he did so in a similar manner to his father. He travelled extensively around Europe both during and after WWII. He even travelled to the Far East and ended up living in Calcutta, India from 1959 to 1962.
After his return to Austria in 1963, and appointment as a Professor at the Academy of Art in Vienna, Arnold became known in the late 1960s as the first “New Age” philosopher in Europe. Arnold Keyserling developed a systematic planetary philosophy which incorporated all of the world’s great traditions, East and West. He taught students to think for themselves to find personal meaning and fulfillment. His teachings always included and emphasized Greek philosophy, especially Pre-Socratics and Socrates himself. Arnold as a Professor taught the history of philosophy, both Western and Asia. His own work was a kind of combination of Socrates and Pythagoras and always included numbers and basic math charges with symbolism. Arnold’s ultimate work as a philosopher a new type of reconnection to the Universe that included both science and the ultimate values of all religions. His work also included traditional studies of time patterns that followed archetypes and consciousness in a complicated symbol he called “The Wheel.” The symbol included the Nine Step Enneagram that he learned from Gurdjieff...
They were not only one of the first to introduce the practice of Yoga in Europe in the 1960s, but also the first to introduce the Human Potential movement and Native American shamans in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In the 1980’s Arnold was elected President of the European Association of Humanistic Psychology. He seldom used the name School of Wisdom to teach in those days, but would talk about the School itself and some of its ideas...
..By the 1990s he was teaching all over the world in Human Potential and New Age workshops. Like his father Arnold disliked and avoided academic events. Like his father Arnold had an innate talent for speech. ...
Arnold was heavily influenced as a young man not only by George Gurdjieff, who was his first outside teacher, but then by Ramana Maharishi, and Josef Matthias Hauer (mystical 20th Century composer who started 12-tone music)...
In the 1990s the focus of the School of Wisdom changed again. In the early 1990s there was a flurry of in-person lectures, seminars and public events by Arnold Keyserling in the U.S., Europe and Asia. One of Arnold’s main messages at that time was that the future would be dominated by technology, especially computers. Unlike most everyone else at the time, he called the Age of Aquarius the Age of Technology. He was especially impressed by the potential of the then new Internet to promote a new world culture.
Some of Arnold’s students were advanced technologists, programmers and early online adopters. By the mid-1990s Arnold wanted to turn control of the School of Wisdom over to his American students, at least the ones who understood his ideas (by this time one was co-writing books in English with Arnold). He thought they had the kind of special computer expertise needed to keep the School of Wisdom relevant... The Americans agreed to Arnold’s request. They thought that the Internet could be a personal, living instrument of transmission. And that is could help others to improve their understanding of spirit on their role in the world. Arnold, then in his mid-seventies, happily became a figurehead, inspiration and dear friend of the School of Wisdom. At that transition time greater emphasis was already being placed on Music, Meditation, Healing, New Science, Chaos Theories, Law, Technology and Cyberspace. The Americans continued this direction.
In the mid-90s the Internet was just starting to become a global presence. Arnold loved the idea of the Internet. They gradually switched all of the School’s activities to the Internet. The School has at all times since 1996 provided free online information 24/7 concerning the ideas of the Keyserlings and still evolving ideas of the School itself. That included information from wisdom teachings around the world, both ancient and modern, including science and psychology. The purpose of the information provided by the School of Wisdom was not to provide anyone with answers. The purpose was to provide people with tools by which they could find their own answers, their own understanding. Each person was free to find the teachings and traditions that spoke to them. The School wanted to help everyone to find their unique work for Humanity and the Earth. It was a goal of meaningful work and personal, spiritual realization...
Providing information on self discovery tools apparently helped some students around the world. But only those with strong self-initiative and other training. Since the online community element did not materialize, the usefulness of the Online Era slowly faded. After Google was perfected the need for a reference tool like the School of Wisdom also decreased. Anyone could find any information they might need via Internet. The School of Wisdom’s prior information service activities eventually became obsolete. Over time so too did much of the information they shared. Thus the need for the School to reinvent itself again in 2017.
School of Wisdom Today – 2017 Forward
The School of Wisdom awakens and reinvents itself again. A new iteration begins. We are still focused on wisdom, on practices, meditations and personal understanding, and not on ideologies. But the times have changed and entered a dangerous era. Political conditions are similar, at least in a fractal recursive manner, to that endured by Hermann Keyserling under the National Socialists. We realize that we must speak out now before free-thinkers like ourselves are outlawed and persecuted. We must add a political dimension to the School of Wisdom. We cannot be a living instrument of transmission without it. Political action is now part of our essential mission statement.
We will be political, but, at the same time will retain our outsider status. We will not be a part of any political party. We do so for the same reasons the School of Wisdom has always been independent, it allows for better leverage to change the world, both inside and out.
The School of Wisdom will continue to oppose ideologies in all forms and by any parties, but our political focus will be on opposing Big Brother type governments.The Keyserling family paid a heavy price for Herman Keyserling’s opposition of Hitler, so did the School itself, so did the whole world. This sacrifice must never be forgotten. This terror must never be allowed again. The open angel will prevail over the swastica.
