Exhibition - Flipbook - Seite 39
The Future Now!
May the «Spirit of Camphill» be helpful and inspiring, in many
places and in times to come for the new challenges that life
in the 21st century brings to the battle for «becoming human»!
This battle is being waged, these challenges are being met, both
within the established communities and in the new initiatives,
for instance in South Eastern Asia, Rwanda and Lithuania, as well
as by individuals who carry in their hearts this impulse to try to
do the Good somewhere in the world! The diaspora Anke Weihs
experienced is still a reality of our times. And building common
substance and linking to each other in a brotherly and sisterly
way, in recognition of individual abilities and disabilities without
central administration or directives but faithful to the abiding
quest for true humanity and for spiritual reality – this is a critical,
ongoing challenge that requires of us daily practice to meet the
ongoing needs of today’s humanity and society.
So what is phase four of the Camphill impulse? Possibly it
means looking back to look forward: How do we understand the
relevance for Karl König’s work for today? He certainly was very
strongly committed to the future and saw the first expression
of Camphill as «an experiment» and as a «seed». How can we
uphold and safeguard that such seeds are sown and nurtured
today wherever they are needed?
Camphill Ghent, New York: Elders in Community
«Peaceful Bamboo
Family», Camphill
in Vietnam
Thus in a community can three great ideals of modern mankind be
realized — Liberty, Equality and Fraternity — ideals that were trampled
into dust and blood in the French Revolution, and which are waiting to
be raised anew.
These three great ideals, when brought forward into vital social living,
will counteract and heal the effects of the three great errors of today‘s
society. The Camphill Village is an active endeavour to contribute to this
task. The outcasts of today are the forerunners of the future!
Karl König in his address for the opening of Botton Village, 1956