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Concept and Working Modus
The IPMT is based on three basic training elements
- Schooling of the senses and thinking, as a basis for new diagnostic possibilities (Diagnosis of the higher members of the human being).
- A practical introduction in diagnostics and therapeutics using case histories and demonstrations from the areas of medicine production and knowledge of the substances. (Anthroposophical Pharmaceutics.)
- Questions to do with professional ethics and meditative schooling, as needed and necessary for an understanding of ones own profession, for the relationship to the patients and also for the formation of therapeutic communities.
Schooling of thinking and observation as a basis for diagnosing the higher members of the human being.
The morning is divided into three working elements;
- Firstly, practising the new art of movement – eurythmy. This was developed before World War I by Rudolf Steiner, in conjunction with the movement and speech formation artist, Marie Steiner. All processes in nature and the human being, in art two, can be made visible with the help of movement. Therefore, the eurythmic movements do not have a symbolic character, but rather correspond to the inner formative movements and shaping gestures, just as these too correspond to the formative language of the realms of nature and human speech – the archetypal alphabet of vowels and consonants which may be found in all languages. When we perform and practise these movements (Eurythmy as visible speech) we may develop a more subtle appreciation of formative and shaping processes in nature and in the human being and hence for the processes of illness and healing. In the course of the first seminar week, the basic vowels and consonants are taught, their movements practiced and Rudolf Steiner’s sketches for these given forms studied. In the further seminar weeks, the gestures corresponding to the tones and intervals in music will be added, as well as the cosmic signature of the planets and zodiac.
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- After a short introduction in a plenum session to the phenomenological method of working according to J.W.V. Goethe (1749-1832), the work is continued in small groups with practical observation exercises. Goethe gave us the aphorism:
Were not the eye born of the sun,
It could never see the sun.
If God’s own power lay not in us,
How could the Divine enrapture us?
The processes, which we recognize as the aggregate states in the area of natural phenomena (or as the four elements in the sense of the Aristotelian meteorology) solid state of matter (mechanics), liquid state of matter (hydraulics), aeriform state of matter (aerodynamics) and the pure state of matter, no longer accessible to physical description, warmth (thermodynamics), - stand, according to Goethe, in direct connection to the inner experiences and possibilities of soul and spirit activity. Goethe described this fact throughout his life’s work. We can reduce it to a short saying: “Like recognises like.” Just as the eye forms itself from the light to perceive light, the bones of the foot can only develop fully through walking and every organ develops its skillful activity through its own doing, so too the human being can only perceive and understand that which they themselves have experienced, felt and thought in some form or other. In addition Goethe also formulated his ethical-religious way of life: “One only learns to understand that which one loves”. Developing love as a force of cognition and thus creating a spiritual empathy is the goal of our work. As Goethe said: Make the way of observing dependent upon the kind of object to be observed. |
