This twelve-month course offers an exploration of art and creativity as a psychological-spiritual journey, drawing its inspiration from what has been called the ‘Grail path’ of inner Self-development. The programme adopts a ‘spiritual scientific’ approach, based largely on the ‘Grail science’ of Rudolf Steiner, but also establishing respectful dialogue with the complementary ‘Grail psychology’ of Carl Jung. Robert Sardello has written: ‘’Steiner belongs more to the Aristotelian line, Jung to the Platonic’’: there is great value in juxtaposing the views of these two masters and allowing them to become mutually illuminating.
Monthly lecture presentations offer a variety of perspectives on the theme, followed in each instance by complementary meditative and artistic exercises arising from each topic, always in consolidation of the key idea that inner schooling is necessarily always artistic just as much as artistic work entails crisis, self-confrontation and individual growth.
Lecture Series
01
The Human River: Art making, cognition and the stream of consciousness.
02
The ‘Science of the Grail’, the Sophia principle and the artistic path of ‘inner schooling’.
03
‘I, Thou, Earth and Cosmos’. Twelve archetypal world views and the phenomenology of self-transformation.
04
The legacy of Goethean science in Modernism: what artists can learn from ‘Romantic science’ and ‘innocent’ observation.
05
The creative matrix of the world: Artistic journeys into and out of ‘The Realm of the Mothers’.
06
Dance of the Muses: The Seven Philosophical Moods and the Seven Liberal Arts.
07
Art as Alchemy, Colour, the Rainbow Bridge and the Green Snake.
08
Apollo and Dionysus: the ‘two sources of art’ and the ‘two original sins of art’.
09
The ‘Three worlds’, the ‘Threefold human being’ and the stages of ‘higher knowledge’. The significance of waking, dreaming, and sleeping in self-development and in the creative process.
10
The Four Elements and the Four Ethers: The ‘Fourfold human being’ and the ‘Fourth dimension’ in art.
11
The Seven Planes of reality and the Seven Archetypal Arts: synaesthesia and the ‘Total artwork’.
12
The Shadow of the Sphinx: Meeting the Lower Guardian on the creative journey to the True Self.
Programme Content
Monthly recorded lecture
Monthly live workshops via Zoom
Reading material
Monthly art and ‘spiritual science’ exercises
Membership of dedicated student forum, hosted on Facebook
Additional videos, art, articles and reading and film recommendations throughout the programme
Programme Details
This is a 12-month programme.
The monthly lectures are recorded and made available at the beginning of each month.
Workshops are live on Zoom and scheduled for the third Sunday of each month with the exception of December when it is scheduled for the second Sunday. Workshops are 90 minutes in length and start at 3.00 PM London/ 10.00 AM New York. All workshops are recorded for later viewing for anyone unable to attend to live, or for the purposes of those wishing to rewatch them.
Reading material is included and will be disseminated each month, with each new module.
Particpation in the programme includes membership of a private and dedicated student forum, hosted on Facebook, for the sharing of artwork, exchange of ideas and discussion with other students from around the globe throughout the programme.
Students will have access to all lectures and learning material for an additional 12-months after the completion of the programme.
Certificate of Completion.
Registration
PROGRAMME STARTS:
Saturday the 16th of November 2024
Registration now closed. Email anja@appliedjung.com for more information.
To register for Art as a Path to Inner Schooling, select one of the two options below:
Option 1: Once off payment of U$ 600 (save U$ 120!)
Option 2: Payment plan of U$ 60 pm for 12 months.
The Maestro
Your guide and teacher for this programme is Cyril Coetzee. Since leaving academic life in 1990, Cyril Coetzee has been a full-time artist and has exhibited his paintings both locally and internationally. His works are included in various public and private collections worldwide, including the Royal Ontario Museum, Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Standard Bank in London and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
In 1996 he was commissioned by the University of the Witwatersrand to paint a 28 square meter canvas for the William Cullen Library, an internationally renowned archive, for the 75th celebrations of the University, which was unveiled by Judge Goldstone in 1999. A large format art book elaborating on the themes, the commissioning and related works was published (T’Kama- Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting, edited by Ivan Vladislavic, University of the Witwatersrand, 2000).
Coetzee has curated or part-curated several exhibitions for the Standard Bank Gallery including: “Water: The Delicate Thread of Life”, 2011, “Exact Imagination: 300 Years of Botanically Inspired Art in South Africa”, 2014 and “Air: Inspiration-Expiration”, 2016.
Awards won include the: Helgaard Steyn Award (2003) and the Vita Art Award (1993).
From 2018 to 2020 Coetzee was the “artist in residence” at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, offering portraits and art sessions to visitors staying at the Hotel. Coetzee has also written a much-lauded monograph on the work of Harold Voigt, “The Poetry of Sight”, published in 2006.
Cyril Coetzee has a Master’s degree in Fine Art, and a BA Honour’s degree in English. To further his research into colour theory he has also studied at the Tobias School of Art in Sussex, and has done further courses at the Goetheanum Painting school in Dornach, Switzerland.
Coetzee has exhibited internationally and was invited to hold solo retrospective exhibitions at the University of South Africa Gallery, Pretoria, and the Getrude Posel Gallery at the University of the Witwatersrand. His portrait of Nelson Mandela was for the international stamp commemorating Mandela’s 90th birthday.
He has a lifelong interest in the study and teaching of Anthroposophy. In this programme Art as path of inner Schooling, the maestro brings his twin passions of aesthetics and spiritual science to bear in the individuating and initiatory school and practice of art.
Testimonials
I have truly gotten so much more than I ever anticipated from this course… Cyril’s lectures and all of your sharing and all of the knowledge and courage this course has gifted me – I cannot thank you all enough.
Anna-Leiza
This beautifully textured course has been rich beyond measure. I seem to have travelled on a parallel path, as my journey has taken me to uncharted inner territory, layer upon layer. Many thanks to the folks at CAJS and to Cyril for his generous teachings.
Elaine
I want to thank Cyril for a rich and life changing, delightful journey through art from so many perspectives historically that incorporated some of the masters and the current interpretations of these themes shared from each who have been present on this page. Thanks to all who have offered your work and/or your comments here generously contributing to a transglobal community of collective depth and inner schooling. This experiences will linger long with me.
Gwen
How do I write about what this Path I have taken means to me. The words, What did you go out to the desert to see have been on my mind. I had a dream the other night. I was panicking about writing a dissertation. I have never written one but I knew this was about putting into words what this course has taught me. It truly has been inner schooling. I have new eyes now and see so much more beauty than I have ever seen before. Something has shifted within me. My thinking about Art. Art is all around me and within me. My attitude toward art has expanded to be inclusive. So many words from the posts and the images of people’s work has moved me into the Mystery, the unknown. What did I go into the desert to see? This course has been like a desert for me. My eyes have opened in the darkness and the desolation of my soul. My Art Spirit has been awakened and my heart is full of love beyond measure. This image of the snake drinking water touched me. It speaks a thousand words of what I am trying to express about this course. It has been beyond my expectations. My dreams have shown me there is so much more. Like this snake 🐍 I feel rain falling on me and within me. My dry inner world has been watered by the people in our group, all the works of Art that were presented . With Cyril Coetzee as the amazing spiritual and artist as our guide my world is so much bigger now. It has been my pleasure to be with you all.
Patricia
Taking this course enriched me both as an artist and a person. It felt as though I expanded in all directions, deepening a knowledge of alchemy in art, while unlocking amazing images from my unconscious. Dreaming became a journey filled with both shadows and light. Thanks to CAJS and Cyril Coetzee, and all the artist companions on this path. Until we meet again…
Mary
Here is a jewel of a course devised by tirelessly imaginative minds, out of South Africa! Check it out, creators and explorers of the fibre of being. CAJS is a treasured planet in my orbit, an epitome of quality and depth, I recommend their programmes highly. ☆
Malgorzata
This twelve-month course offers an exploration of art and creativity as a psychological-spiritual journey, drawing its inspiration from what has been called the ‘Grail path’ of inner Self-development. The programme adopts a ‘spiritual scientific’ approach, based largely on the ‘Grail science’ of Rudolf Steiner, but also establishing respectful dialogue with the complementary ‘Grail psychology’ of Carl Jung. Robert Sardello has written: ‘’Steiner belongs more to the Aristotelian line, Jung to the Platonic’’: there is great value in juxtaposing the views of these two masters and allowing them to become mutually illuminating.
Monthly lecture presentations offer a variety of perspectives on the theme, followed in each instance by complementary meditative and artistic exercises arising from each topic, always in consolidation of the key idea that inner schooling is necessarily always artistic just as much as artistic work entails crisis, self-confrontation and individual growth.
Lecture Series
01
The Human River: Art making, cognition and the stream of consciousness.
02
The ‘Science of the Grail’, the Sophia principle and the artistic path of ‘inner schooling’.
03
‘I, Thou, Earth and Cosmos’. Twelve archetypal world views and the phenomenology of self-transformation.
04
The legacy of Goethean science in Modernism: what artists can learn from ‘Romantic science’ and ‘innocent’ observation.
05
The creative matrix of the world: Artistic journeys into and out of ‘The Realm of the Mothers’.
06
Dance of the Muses: The Seven Philosophical Moods and the Seven Liberal Arts.
07
Art as Alchemy, Colour, the Rainbow Bridge and the Green Snake.
08
Apollo and Dionysus: the ‘two sources of art’ and the ‘two original sins of art’.
09
The ‘Three worlds’, the ‘Threefold human being’ and the stages of ‘higher knowledge’. The significance of waking, dreaming, and sleeping in self-development and in the creative process.
10
The Four Elements and the Four Ethers: The ‘Fourfold human being’ and the ‘Fourth dimension’ in art.
11
The Seven Planes of reality and the Seven Archetypal Arts: synaesthesia and the ‘Total artwork’.
12
The Shadow of the Sphinx: Meeting the Lower Guardian on the creative journey to the True Self.
Programme Content
Monthly Lecture Recording
Monthly Live Workshops via Zoom
Reading material
Monthly art and ‘spiritual science’ exercises
Membership of dedicated student forum, hosted on Facebook
Additional videos, art, articles and reading and film recommendations throughout the programme
Programme Details
This is a 12-month programme.
The monthly lectures are recorded and made available at the beginning of each month.
Workshops are live on Zoom and scheduled for the third Sunday of each month with the exception of December when it is scheduled for the second Sunday. Workshops are 90 minutes in length and start at 3.00 PM London/ 10.00 AM New York. All workshops are recorded for later viewing for anyone unable to attend to live, or for the purposes of those wishing to rewatch them.
Reading material is included and will be disseminated each month, with each new module.
Particpation in the programme includes membership of a private and dedicated student forum, hosted on Facebook, for the sharing of artwork, exchange of ideas and discussion with other students from around the globe throughout the programme.
Students will have access to all lectures and learning material for an additional 12-months after the completion of the programme.
Certificate of Completion.
Registration
PROGRAMME STARTS:
Saturday the 16th of November 2024
Registration now closed. Email anja@appliedjung.com for more information.
To register for Art as a Path to Inner Schooling, select one of the two options below:
Option 1: Once off payment of U$ 600 (save U$ 120!)
Option 2: Payment plan of U$ 60 pm for 12 months.
The Maestro
Your guide and teacher for this programme is Cyril Coetzee. Since leaving academic life in 1990, Cyril Coetzee has been a full-time artist and has exhibited his paintings both locally and internationally. His works are included in various public and private collections worldwide, including the Royal Ontario Museum, Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Standard Bank in London and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
In 1996 he was commissioned by the University of the Witwatersrand to paint a 28 square meter canvas for the William Cullen Library, an internationally renowned archive, for the 75th celebrations of the University, which was unveiled by Judge Goldstone in 1999. A large format art book elaborating on the themes, the commissioning and related works was published (T’Kama- Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting, edited by Ivan Vladislavic, University of the Witwatersrand, 2000).
Coetzee has curated or part-curated several exhibitions for the Standard Bank Gallery including: “Water: The Delicate Thread of Life”, 2011, “Exact Imagination: 300 Years of Botanically Inspired Art in South Africa”, 2014 and “Air: Inspiration-Expiration”, 2016.
Awards won include the: Helgaard Steyn Award (2003) and the Vita Art Award (1993).
From 2018 to 2020 Coetzee was the “artist in residence” at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, offering portraits and art sessions to visitors staying at the Hotel. Coetzee has also written a much-lauded monograph on the work of Harold Voigt, “The Poetry of Sight”, published in 2006.
Cyril Coetzee has a Master’s degree in Fine Art, and a BA Honour’s degree in English. To further his research into colour theory he has also studied at the Tobias School of Art in Sussex, and has done further courses at the Goetheanum Painting school in Dornach, Switzerland.
Coetzee has exhibited internationally and was invited to hold solo retrospective exhibitions at the University of South Africa Gallery, Pretoria, and the Getrude Posel Gallery at the University of the Witwatersrand. His portrait of Nelson Mandela was for the international stamp commemorating Mandela’s 90th birthday.
He has a lifelong interest in the study and teaching of Anthroposophy. In this programme Art as path of inner Schooling, the maestro brings his twin passions of aesthetics and spiritual science to bear in the individuating and initiatory school and practice of art.
Testimonials
I have truly gotten so much more than I ever anticipated from this course… Cyril’s lectures and all of your sharing and all of the knowledge and courage this course has gifted me – I cannot thank you all enough.
Anna-Leiza
This beautifully textured course has been rich beyond measure. I seem to have travelled on a parallel path, as my journey has taken me to uncharted inner territory, layer upon layer. Many thanks to the folks at CAJS and to Cyril for his generous teachings.
Elaine
I want to thank Cyril for a rich and life changing, delightful journey through art from so many perspectives historically that incorporated some of the masters and the current interpretations of these themes shared from each who have been present on this page. Thanks to all who have offered your work and/or your comments here generously contributing to a transglobal community of collective depth and inner schooling. This experiences will linger long with me.
Gwen
How do I write about what this Path I have taken means to me. The words, What did you go out to the desert to see have been on my mind. I had a dream the other night. I was panicking about writing a dissertation. I have never written one but I knew this was about putting into words what this course has taught me. It truly has been inner schooling. I have new eyes now and see so much more beauty than I have ever seen before. Something has shifted within me. My thinking about Art. Art is all around me and within me. My attitude toward art has expanded to be inclusive. So many words from the posts and the images of people’s work has moved me into the Mystery, the unknown. What did I go into the desert to see? This course has been like a desert for me. My eyes have opened in the darkness and the desolation of my soul. My Art Spirit has been awakened and my heart is full of love beyond measure. This image of the snake drinking water touched me. It speaks a thousand words of what I am trying to express about this course. It has been beyond my expectations. My dreams have shown me there is so much more. Like this snake 🐍 I feel rain falling on me and within me. My dry inner world has been watered by the people in our group, all the works of Art that were presented . With Cyril Coetzee as the amazing spiritual and artist as our guide my world is so much bigger now. It has been my pleasure to be with you all.
Patricia
Taking this course enriched me both as an artist and a person. It felt as though I expanded in all directions, deepening a knowledge of alchemy in art, while unlocking amazing images from my unconscious. Dreaming became a journey filled with both shadows and light. Thanks to CAJS and Cyril Coetzee, and all the artist companions on this path. Until we meet again…
Mary
Here is a jewel of a course devised by tirelessly imaginative minds, out of South Africa! Check it out, creators and explorers of the fibre of being. CAJS is a treasured planet in my orbit, an epitome of quality and depth, I recommend their programmes highly. ☆
Malgorzata
