As I said, I am not interested in seeing yet another Steiner school that pretends to be purely child centred and not to be a Steiner school. Most Steiner schools pretend not to be Steiner schools. Seen one, seen them all.
Most also pretend not to have anything to do with Rudolph Steiner or Anthrosophy or to be concerned with incarnation as opposed to academic progress. Most do not use the actual terms for the practices students are exposed to, such as Eurythm, when speaking to the parents of prospective students.
'Karma is not used as a benchmark' is a nonsense statement that has as much relevance and meaning as 'karma is not used as a recipe for macaroni cheese'. Karma and the notion of incarnation inform every element of Steiner curriculum and every element of the physical environment in Steiner schools, and every element of Steiner pedagogical practice. You have to be Steiner-trained to teach or even be a TA in a Steiner school. This is because of the nature of the work Steiner schools attempt and its philosophical foundation, which cannot be contaminated or diluted by other approaches or assumptions on the part of staff.
INPP therapy (Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology) is indeed pretty 'alternative'. Here is a chunk of the Telegraph obit for the founder of this Institute, Peter Huxley-Blythe:
"A vehement anti-communist who admired strong leadership, after WW2 Huxley-Blythe became involved in various extreme-Right groups. He became an associate of the American political thinker Francis Parker Yockey, founder of the European Liberation Front (ELF, a small neo-fascist group that split from Mosley’s British Union Movement in 1948), and of Guy Chesham and Baroness von Pflugl who helped to finance the publication of Yockey’s Imperium (1948), in which he argued for the creation of a fascist united Europe to defend Western culture.
The ELF’s “12-point plan” demanded “the immediate expulsion of all Jews and other parasitic aliens from the Soil of Europe” and the “cleansing of the Soul of Europe from the ethical syphilis of Hollywood”. Huxley-Blythe became the editor of Frontfighter, the ELF’s journal, and later on, in the 1950s, published the newsletter of a British-German group Natinform (Nationalist Information Bureau)…
In addition, with Roger Pearson, he helped to organise the Northern League, a neo-Nazi organisation dedicated to saving the “Nordic race” from the “annihilation of our kind” and to fighting for survival “against forces which would mongrelise our race and civilisation” (leading members included the former Nazi eugenicist Hans Günther)…"
He apparently earned a PhD in 'psychosomatic medicine' from an unnamed American university.
Speakers at INPP conferences have included Dr Richard T. "I'm not opposed to jabs but.." Halvorsen, who speaks of 'the medical and political establishment' and 'the excessive influence of commercial interests' while asserting he has nothing against vaccination.
"For all the hysteria that the Government and big business generated in support of the vaccine programme for teenage girls, cervical cancer only comes in 19th place on the list of cancers that kill women in modern Britain.
In 2005, just 911 women died of the disease. Though every death was obviously a terrible blow to the victim's family and friends, this figure pales beside the 12,000 who died from lung cancer or the 11,000 who succumbed to breast cancer.
Indeed, cancers of the brain and the kidneys proved more deadly to women than those of the cervix, yet there is little publicity about these diseases."
Dr Halvorsen is quite a sly and even a disingenuous antivax campaigner. He fails to note that unlike lung cancer or kidney cancer, cervical cancer has an identifiable cause that can be vaccinated against.
Another speaker is Dr. Ursula Anderson.
"To go Beyond the Genome, therefore, is to examine not only the genes themselves, but the quality of the energy present within the memories embedded within them that control their expression. These energies are inherited not only at conception, but also derive from the environments we experience from conception through pregnancy, birth, childhood and adult life. These energies play a pivotal role in controlling how genes express themselves - for better or for worse.
Research into the role of ENERGY and it's (sic) multitude of frequencies has led to knowledge of the vital role it plays in the human mind, body and soul. When the energy frequencies that control human thought, feeling and behavior remain within functional ranges, the opportunities for the functional expression of genes is the greatest. When these energy frequencies are damaged, by whatever means, the expression of the genes is also damaged and dysfunction and/or disease ensues."
'The vital role of energy in life'
"Multiple research and observations of the past 100 years now shows that what happens at birth and in the first few years of life is built upon the foundations laid by the quality of energy conveyed at conception and experienced during intra-uterine development. It has a tremendous impact on the outcome of the developing individual. It determines many things with relevance to just about every aspect of human experience.
At this point it is well to point out that it is in fact altered energy and its altered messages that initiate and then maintain the electrochemical changes in the body and brain which, being measurable, have up until now been believed to be the cause of psychiatric disorder and human dysfunction."
The pivotal role of memory and consciousness'
"The physical immune system, in fact, works from MEMORY. To immunize from disease is to invite the immune system to create memories of defense against particular organisms so that, if attacked again by any of these same organisms, it will kick in its memories of how to cope with that specific organism to eradicate or minimize its effects.
Likewise, the manner in which we cope with and defend against threats in our life experience, real or perceived, are stamped into the memory banks of our souls, enhancing or casting a shadow over the primal memory of our beginnings. These memories are encoded into our genes, promoting trans-generational transference."