Hee Haw Replaced The Smothers Brothers, Waldorf Critics, and Celebrity Love Matches Via Biorhythms
From the Waldorf Critics Archive:
From: Herman de Tollenaere (hermantl@stad.dsl.nl)
Subject: Re: SF State hosting cult medical course
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 20:04:00 +0200
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At 12:21 AM 10/10/97 -0700, PLANS wrote:
)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/10/97
)
)SF STATE HOSTING CULT MEDICAL COURSE
)
)People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools (PLANS), is blowing the whistle
)on a San Francisco State University course called "Anthroposophical
)Medicine." "Not only is medical quackery being promoted by a public
)university," said PLANS President Debra Snell, "but this course violates
)separation of church and state. Anthroposophy is a cult-like religious
)sect. The University is being used to give legitimacy to lunatic fringe
)beliefs."
)"Anthroposophical Medicine" is a full-credit course in the Department of
)Holistic Health.
What else does this *Department of Holistic Health* teach, apart from
Steiner? Quimby? Mary Baker Eddy? Elizabeth Clare Prophet? L. Ron Hubbard?
Deepak Chopra? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi? Louise L. Hay? Therapeutic Touch? Jan
Smuts, the early twentieth century South African general and politician, who
first used the concept holism? This is *not* a rhetorical question. I would
really like to know.
I have re-posted the PLANS mail about this in The Netherlands.
Herman de Tollenaere
From a biography of Rudoloph Steiner:
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925) is an important occult philosopher. An Austrian, he was greatly influenced by Goethe's works, and worked for a time at the Goethe archives at Weimer. He later became involved in the Theosophical Society, and founded a new German branch. But although obviously influenced by the Theosophical World-view (the concept of seven planes, cosmic cycles and sub-cycles, etc) Steiner's approach and teachings differed markedly from those of the rest of Theosophists. Whereas the Theosophists, under the inspiration of Blavatsky's orientation, looked to the East - to India and Tibet, for inspiration - Steiner was preiminantly a European mystic. He was interested in European occultism, European mysticism, European Christianity. In 1907 he was initiated into the Rosicrucians. By 1910 he was lecturing heavily on the Gospels....
Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater's Star of the East project (in which they claimed the new Messiah had incarnated in the person of Jiddu Krishnamurti, then a young boy) was as much as Steiner and the Germans could bear. And the last thing the German aristrocracy wanted to be associated with was the British empire and all that Indian stuff. They craved instead the Nordic mysteries.
Sounds like Robert Plant.
Eventually, due to increasing tension with Annie Besant's brand of Theosophy, things came to a head, and he broke away in 1913 to found his own organisation, which he called Anthroposophy ("Wisdom of or about Man")....
Steiner made a few curious blunders. His account of the formation and history of the Earth for example is not supported by any astrophysical, geological, or paleontological evidence. He took the Gospels at face value, whereas any modern religious historian could tell you they were not eye-witness statements but theological accounts of how the early Church perceived Christ, only written some decades after the latter's death, and compiled from different sources.
Oh yeah, those modern religious historians. They probably are not employed at Rudolf Steiner College:
Rudolf Steiner College is one of America's leading Waldorf teacher education colleges. It is also a center for anthroposophical studies. Programs at the College arise out of the work of Austrian philosopher, scientist and educator Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) whose innovative ideas and discoveries have inspired a wide spectrum of practical activities worldwide—in the arts, banking, architecture, medicine, agriculture, and care of the handicapped, as well as education.
This is taken from a web page with the unfortunate name "waldorfed." (We don't need no education.)
Waldorf education balances artistic, academic and practical work educating the whole child, hand and heart as well as mind. Its innovative methodology and developmentally-oriented curriculum, permeated with the arts, address the child's changing consciousness as it unfolds, stage by stage. Imagination and creativity are cultivated as well as cognitive growth and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its inhabitants. Under the warm and active instruction of their teachers, children are provided with a creative and nurturing environment in which to develop, grow and learn.
Since its founding by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, the Waldorf school movement has grown to over 800 schools throughout the world, over 150 of them in the United States and Canada. Increasing recognition from parents and educators has led to rapid expansion and, with it, a shortage of trained Waldorf teachers.
Steiner's detailed psychology of child development, described early in the 20th century, has been supported by modern research in education and neuropsychology. Through Waldorf education, Steiner hoped that young people would develop the capacities of soul and intellect and the strength of will that would prepare them to meet the challenges of their own time and the future....
Because my professional life focuses largely on preparing people for teacher education programs, I am particularly aware of how our work compares with that of Waldorf teacher training programs. I have been fascinated to observe how many of the educational theories and goals espoused by my colleagues in teacher education directly correlate with long-established tenets of Waldorf teacher training . . . For the past ten years my teaching responsibilities have compelled me to inform myself not just about what would-be teachers need to learn, but also about how and what children themselves need to learn. All of my instructionally-related research into childhood has pointed toward the superiority of Waldorf education over all other current educational methods.
- Jane W. Hipolito, Ph.D.,
Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies,
California State University, Fullerton
With over 800 schools worldwide, and there are hundreds of job openings available for qualified teachers. Waldorf schools have doubled in number during each of the last three decades. There are over 100 Waldorf schools affiliated with AWSNA. You could be their teacher!
Presumably these schools don't teach about the Smothers Brothers replacement show, and they probably don't cover the career of Misty Rowe. Oh, you haven't heard of Misty Rowe?
Some of her great memories include the year she spent on Happy Days as Wendy, the car hop, when Ron Howard made his directing debut; auditioning for Mel Brooks and winning the role of Maid Marion, on the series, When Things Were Rotten, where she would play opposite Sid Caesar one week, and Dudley Moore the next. Another of her favorite memories was starring opposite Joe Namath in L'il Abner on a nationwide tour. The shorts she wore as Daisy Mae in that production, she also wore on a poster that would sell over one million copies....
The hit of the Cannes Film Festival for three different years, and on the cover of numerous European magazines, she would meet Robin Leach, who guest starred twelve years later on Hee Haw, and sent her to Quebec to stay in a castle on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Oh yes, by the way, she was a regular on Hee Haw for nineteen years....
And no, I don't know Ms. Rowe's preferred educational philosophies. But I can find out if I am compatible with Misty Rowe (based on biorhythms). This doesn't look too bad:
physical 99%
emotional 84%
intellectual 95%
total 93%
However, what does it mean to know that I am intellectually compatible with a woman most famous for playing dumb?
According to biorhythms, my best matches are as follows:
Mariska Hargitay 99%
Paula Devicq 99%
Tatjana Simic 98%
Lorraine Kelly 98%
Patty Loveless 98%
More on one of my top biorhythm matches:
Mariska Hargitay headlines the NBC crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," now in its sixth season, as the unit's veteran detective Olivia Benson. Her portrayal of Detective Benson won her the 2005 Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, as well as Emmy and SAG nominations for Lead Actress in 2004. Mariska's many other honors include nominations in the show's freshman season (1999-2000) for Best Actress by the Viewers of Quality Television, for Favorite Actress in a New Series by the TV Guide Awards, and for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series by the International Press Academy. She is also the recipient of the 2004 Gracie Allen Award for Individual Achievement for Best Female Lead Actress in a Drama Series on behalf of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
"As a woman," says Mariska, "it's gratifying to play a part that's a multi-layered challenge. Olivia is not only a competent, street-smart cop, she's an empathetic woman who can respond compassionately to victims of terrible crimes without compromising her professionalism."
Mariska's work on SVU has prompted her to help real-life survivors of sexual assault. In 2002, she founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which is dedicated to introducing dolphin-human therapy to survivors of sexual assault. Working hand in hand with rape-crisis centers and counselors, the Joyful Heart Foundation synthesizes all of the components of the healing process (mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental) into one therapeutic experience.
Mariska sits on the board of the Mount Sinai SAVI (Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention) program and has done public service announcements for NBC's "The More You Know" campaign, as well as for Safe Horizons, a national advocacy program for victims of crime and abuse. She has also lent her time and resources to many other worthy organizations, such as the Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center; Project ALS; the Girl Scouts of America, for whom she gave talks for young women; and the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness (JRI), for which she hosted the 2003 event "An Evening of Music, Laughter, Inspiration and Awareness" in Los Angeles.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mariska is the youngest daughter of screen legend Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. Mariska is married to actor Peter Hermann and lives in New York City.
And more on the other one:
Paula Devicq was born on 7 July 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Paula Devicq has recently starred in The Breakup Artist (2004) playing the role of Teresa, and The Grid (2004) as Jane McCann. Paula Devicq has also featured in many movies such as 100 Centre Street (2001), Kill the Man (1999), and Dinner and Driving (1997). Some of Paula Devicq's early break throughs were in Party of Five (1994) playing the role of Kirsten Bennett Thomas Salinger, Wounded Heart (1995) as Tracy Lance, and Dinner and Driving (1997) as Laura.
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