The School of Spiritual Psychology
Presents
Steps on the Grail Path
Spiritual Practices with Crystals and Minerals
With Robert Sardello, PH.D.
And Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, PH.D.
First Session: March 31-April 4, 2011
Second Session: June 16-20
Third Session: September 29-October 3, 2011
Fourth Session: March 1-5, 2012
Held at the Center for Spiritual Psychology
Benson, North Carolina
Each Session begins on Thursday evening at 6:00 and ends Monday at noon.
Acceptance of applications closes two weeks before the beginning of the course.
Enter an astounding way of working with crystals and minerals to develop spiritual capacities. Based on an understanding of crystals, gems, and minerals as more than tools of personal evolution but rather as the visible bodies of spiritual beings, you will learn to be in relation with these beings.
By coming into inner relation with the spiritual beings of the stone world, our perspective is forever shifted. We begin to inwardly realize how narrow our normal range of experience is and how we live in a world of anti-silence that keeps us in inner ignorance. The Stone Path opens the infinite world of Silence, develops the capacity of being able to be with and care for others through the loving mediation of crystal beings, orients us to a radiant light of serving, helps us into devotional honoring of the fecund darkness from which all emerges, and shows us the incredible holiness of the human body in its intimacy with the earth-body. This is essentially a mystery path of working with the stone world meant to prepare us to meet the time stream from the future as it manifests every moment in our becoming.
We unfold the wisdom spoken by Nichola Tesla…. “In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”,,,,,,,,,
And we develop the body’s capacity of reverence for the stone world as indicated by the clairvoyant, Rudolf Steiner…… “Our sense organs are therefore perceiving with, but do not perceive themselves. The same applies to the angels and the mineral world. Their sense organs are to be found in the mineral physical world. Our precious stones are the secret instrument with which angels perceive”.
Curriculum includes:
Stilling the mind to find the way through the narrowness of mental organization and opening to the breadth and depth of body awareness.
Learning to develop bodily capability of sensing inner dimensions of crystals and minerals
Developing capacities of perceiving in reverence – giving spiritual attention to the physical mineral world
Developing the capacity of feeling-knowing of a stone as it resonates within the individual soul; the particular soul resonances of different minerals and crystals and what they reveal
Developing the capacity of entering the spirit-world of crystals and minerals; the particular spirit resonances of different minerals and crystals and what they reveal
The cosmology of a spiritual physics. Physics in its Greek origin means “a-rising”. Meeting the presence of the arising of the world into wholeness of being. Learning to navigate through the help of crystals, the intricate worlds of wholeness.
Working with the most powerful of crystal beings – the beings of moldavite and azeztulite, those beings concerned with the transformation of the human body into a vessel of world-transformation.
Working with the stories, myths, and mystery schools concerned with transformation through the beings of stones.
Working with zodiac signs, gemstones, and the regions of the body
New approaches to healing with gemstones, including working with the use of gemstones by the medieval mystic Hildegaard of Bingen in ways suitable to the present.
The Grail Myth and modern gemstone practices.
The Coursework
The first session develops an understanding of the relation of the creative worlds of the cosmos to the depth of the spiritual will forces which originate from the spiritual earth. It also develops an understanding of various stone meditations and the kinds of stones that can be used, and in what forms.
The practices develop Stone-Awareness. In the present way stones are employed in new age work, little attention is given to the stones themselves; there is a quick jump to feel what the stones bring. This inherent egotism has to be diverted in order to rightly meet the angelic presences. We work with a number of different stones – quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, garnet, rose quartz and others, to develop the experience of stone qualities such as form, transparency, and color as modes of deep spiritual consciousness requiring the befriending of the elemental beings of stones, opening then to the angelic presences.
The second session develops a sensory Yoga of Stones, the connection between the Self and the divine Self. Each stone is a spiritual gesture. We work to relinquish the usual sense of ourselves and to find the regions within us that can meet the crystal beings on their own terms. We develop the practices to come to the mineral realm as described by Rudolf Steiner:
….then we see the mineral realm, which by its nature contains crystals. Crystals, mineral crystals, become wonderful objects of research and observation precisely for the person seeking entry into the spiritual worlds. Once again, one feels compelled to lift ones gaze from the crystallized minerals one encounters on earth to the world-all, to the cosmos…Once again one experiences the essence of things out there in the cosmos, and once more one says to oneself: what we experience down here as crystallized minerals is caused by the living spirit found in the expanse of the cosmos.
(from: True and False Paths of Spiritual Investigation)
We work with a variety of minerals and crystals such as fluorite, rosophia, snowflake obsidian, ruby, and others to show how we move from the sensory presence of the stones we befriend to a soul sense of the beings of the stones.
The third session develops an understanding of the circulation that can occur from the inner presence of the beings of crystals and minerals back to the spiritual worlds and the return of new human capacities, through the Sophia.
The practices involve developing the capacity to not only enter into the imaginative world of crystals and minerals, but to go beyond that and to unite our soul with the soul of specific stones to fully experience the soul dimension of specific crystals and minerals. We learn to enter the descriptions of stones given by typical new age compendia of stones and to hear these descriptions as the voice of the stones rather than simply descriptions of the qualities that we derive from stones. We move from the notion of stones as being for our use to stones as central to the making of a New Heaven and a New Earth. We work extensively with tourmaline as the “Christ Stone”, the stone that has been called the ‘authority’ stone, showing, though practices, how it changes sensory perception of ALL stone, revealing them in their spirit-qualities.
The fourth session concerns understanding the difference between meeting the soul worlds of minerals and crystals and going through the soul world to encounter the spiritual worlds of specific stones, such as azezulite, aquamarine, and stones of the planets.
Practices involve coming to develop the inner capacities of holding the spirit worlds of stones within inner, clear, consciousness, and being present to the awaking of the light body through the inner presence of the beings of stones. We develop the capacity to track the inner transfiguration of the body. We return again to the way crystals and minerals are described In new age compendia, this time to re-hear the descriptions as the spiritual activity of the stones. We work with specific stones that correspond to the constellations to begin to feel the presence of the creative presence coming from these regions.
We provide an imagination of how to work with minerals and crystals on an ongoing basis and how to notices the inner changes and bodily transformations brought about and how those changes bring healing to others and to the world.
Suggested readings for the course include:
Robert Sardello, Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Minerals and Crystals as a Spiritual Practice (This book is now being published and will be available in advanced publication for course participants)
Rudolf Steiner, True and False Paths of Spiritual Investigation
The Faculty
Robert Sardello, Ph.D. and Cheryl Sanders, Ph.D., co-directors of the School of Spiritual Psychology are the lead faculty. Other faculty are sometimes brought in for individual sessions. (For fuller descriptions of the credentials of the faculty, see our website: www.spiritualschool.org)
Tuition
Tuition for the program is $2,800.00. An additional $50.00 non-refundable application fee must be sent in with the application by all who wish to register. This course carries an additional $150 crystal/mineral fee for the stones utilized in the practices. A non-refundable deposit of $500.00 is due upon acceptance into the program. The remaining tuition of $2,300.00 is due before the opening of the first week of the course, or a payment contract can be signed upon approval to split payment in 2 or 4 segments. The School of Spiritual Psychology makes a commitment to the people who enter into the program, part of which involves relying on the tuition for the program in exchange for the preparation and teaching time of the faculty. If refunds are requested or non-payment occurs, the entire program is put in jeopardy. If accepted, please consider this a commitment for the entire year of your class. No refunds are given if a student withdraws from a course. This course also requires a $100 mineral and crystal fee for the stones that will be worked with in the course, which the students then keep.
Payment of full tuition and full room and board in advance comes with a $300 discount. Payment of full tuition in advance comes with a $150 discount. There is no discount on the $150 crystal fee. Many additional stones will be available for purchase.
Room and Board
Tuition does not include room and board fees, which are paid separately and for each session. Room and board for each session is $395.00. Room and board can be paid at the time of each class. All rooms are double. The very comfortable Center for Spiritual Psychology is located on fourteen acres with a pond and a swimming pool, two labyrinths, a healing circle, a large garden, two dogs and a cat.
Location
The Sacred Service Program is held at the Spiritual Psychology Center located in Benson, North Carolina. Benson is an easy forty-minute drive from Raleigh where there is a major international airport. Benson is also located at the intersection of Interstate Hi-way 95 and Interstate Hi-way 40, and thus easy driving distance from north-south and east-west.
Application Process
Please include the following information in your application letter:
Date Name Address City, State, Zip - Phone, Fax, Email, Birth date, marital status, and children, grandchildren
1. What do you hope to learn and achieve? Describe one or more highlights of you inner development during the past ten years.
2. What kind of growth/challenges do you think this experience might hold for you?
3. What are you currently doing for a living?
4. Please list all degrees, from where, including majors.
5. If you have a vita or resume, please include.
Send Application to with $50.00 application fee to:
The School of Spiritual Psychology
P.O. Box 7
Benson, North Carolina 27504
If you have questions, please contact: soulschool@embarqmail.com
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