The Light in the Depths –
A Gathering in Ballycastle, Ireland
16 – 20 April 2025

Final Call – last few places for younger people remaining!!!

A five day gathering of workshops, lectures, theatre, art, and conversation

Open to anyone with questions about the spiritual world and inner soul life, as well as anyone wanting to explore anthroposophy as a modern path of initiation

Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research portrays the ancient initiation rites of Ireland, in which people were led through the experience of polarity, from science to art, from other to self, winter to summer, and past to future. Through this path of Self-Knowledge, the candidate became initiated in the Light which can be found in the Depths.
The hidden archetypes of initiation-trials through polarity are an ongoing reality today – as we can see in the polarized world within and all around us. An understanding of these realities can serve as our guide toward a human future – empathy.
Our gathering is that human future, an act, a beginning, toward a reclamation of our task.
All are welcome who feel the call.

Contributors

Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional ways of knowledge. ShadeTree serves as an intentional community of mentors, elders, teachers, artists, healers, and advocates for the healthy development of children and youth. Orland’s work in healing and human development is framed by an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology, and Indigenous cosmologies, primarily those of South and West Africa.

Martin Henry spent many years living in a Camphill community in Ireland swhere he found his way into teaching and adult education. He has also been long involved with Kilkenny Steiner School as teacher and mentor. He has three children of his own, who are now adults and has recently became a grandfather. He is passionate about how Anthroposophy can fructify our understanding of the world we live in; and how it has the capacity to unlock our potential to become more creative, resilient and empathetic human beings.

Lisa Romero is an author of inner development books and courses, a complementary health practitioner and an adult educator who has been offering healthcare and education enriched with anthroposophy since 1993. From 2006 the primary focus of her work has been on teaching inner development and anthroposophical meditation.