Levity and the Etheric

In our time, we should learn to ease up on the body a little — to tread more lightly. Eurythmy, for instance, is a gentle moving of the body from the outside.

Through such movements, contraction and stress can be lifted, allowing the etheric to stream in again.

With most people this happens naturally, though small contractions often remain — traces of fear where release was forgotten.

The voice, too, can press too hard upon the larynx and vocal cords. Yet speaking can also happen in the etheric — sounds formed and modeled in the subtle space before us.

The etheric can be involved in all we do; it is the simplest and most living of things. Only disbelief in our invisible beingness keeps us from it.

Everything can be done in the etheric — even communicating with animals.

Levity becomes almost possible, when we step in our etheric space.

In fact, much of today's emptiness comes from not inhabiting our etheric space.

The etheric is the anti-gravitational field.

• It's substance is life.
• The etheric space is within, but also outside.
• We can take hold of it.
• It's like water, or better, like air, or even better, it is just the space.

We imagine the space to be empty, while in fact it is full. It is a substance equal in subtility to our inner world.

Yet it has its lawfulness.

It's there where the interiority of beings meet.. Moving and being active within is an art, with its own lawfulness and techniques.