{"id":8476,"date":"2017-02-23T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:43:54","slug":"remembering-ed-steinbrecher-and-his-esoteric-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8476","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ed Steinbrecher and His Esoteric School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Steinbrecher (1980s?)<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking for something in the bedroom Craft\/astrology\/Tarot\/magick bookshelves this morning, I ran across a copy of Edwin Steinbrecher’s The Guide Meditation. <\/em> (It’s still available from Samuel Weiser and it’s good.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I checked with Dr. Google and discovered that Steinbrecher, an astrologer and occult teacher, had passed away in 2002 \u2014 here is an obituary from the Los Angeles Times.\u00a0<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

What the obituary does not say is that in between founding his DOME (Dei Omnes Munda Edunt) astrology and meditation center in Santa Fe in 1973 and moving to Los Angeles in 1984, he and co-founder\/partner David Benge lived in Colorado Springs for a time.<\/p>\n

Imagine a typical 1970s split-level house, with what would be the living room and dining room filled with bookcases \u2014 and all the books organized by zodiacal sign, so that gardening, for instance, would be in the Virgo section. So much more mystical than my habit of putting, say, all the books on Colorado and New Mexico history together! (What Sun sign would encompass them<\/em>?)<\/p>\n

M. and I attended various talks and workshops at the DOME house. Ed was passionate about astrology, <\/a>and this was the time in my life when I was deepest into it. Later, under pressure of graduate school, etc., I decided that something had to give, and that something was astrology, so I stopped doing people’s charts \u2014 these days, I might manage to check my transits once in a while. The last astrology lecture I heard was by Liz Greene (who is one of the best Jungian astrologers<\/a>) in 2004.<\/p>\n

But his Inner Guide Meditation system has a Tarot connection, and that is drawing me back to it. It will be intriguing to re-read the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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