ASIS WHITSUN FESTIVAL
Sunday 24th May 2026, 7.30 pm, Red Studio Emerson College, Forest Row
Address by Vija Docherty
“The Art of Catching Fire”
Music by Julian Rolton
Sonata in FK 17 by Dominico Scalatti
Jesus’s Joy of Man’s Desiring by JSBach
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ASIS ST JOHN’S FESTIVAL
Sunday 21st June 2026, 7.30 pm Education Room, Emerson College, Forest Row
Address by Jeremy Smith
THE MYSTERY OF JOHN
At the summer solstice, we celebrate the Festival of John the Baptist. But beyond
this immediate celebration, is there a wider phenomenon – an evolving John
impulse, which has been with us since the dawn of humankind, and continues to
develop with changing human needs? In this talk, Jeremy Smith will not only discuss
the contrasts and similarities between the stories of John the Baptist and Jesus
Christ but also examine Rudolf Steiner’s references to the mystery lineage of John –
from the Baptist to Lazarus, to John the Evangelist and beyond to Raphael and
Novalis. We will also take a look at how this John impulse may be manifesting in our
own times and into the future.
Lighting of the the St John’s Fire and Circle Dancing led by Alex Wright
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ASiS MICHAELMAS FESTIVAL
Sunday 27th September 2026, 7.30pm, Ruskin Hall, Emerson College
Programme to announced
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EMBRYO AND COSMOS – A confluence
A weekend workshop at Emerson College to explore our spiritual embodiment
Saturday 10th October & Sunday 11th October 2026
with Elissa Dell and Sophia Smith
“Where do we come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere, into here”
Our early embryo metamorphoses are the inner primal landscape of each one of us. Observing our early embryology is one way to rediscover a lifelong knowing about our inherent and dynamic wholeness. It encourages the path to health.
In this two-day workshop, we will explore feeling the unfolding biological landscape with key questions emerging: when does a human being begin? When does an incoming soul commit to incarnation?
For full details of the course follow link