THE HIGHDEN EXPERIMENT
In the year 2000 after a visit to the Wesak Valley a small group came together at Highden Manor, NZ to attempt to establish an occult meditation school along the lines laid out by DK.
We were impulsed by the energies of the Shamballa Impact and had in mind the following quote
"those pupils and advanced egos whose work it is to make the necessary beginning must find out for themselves the method, place and manner. All must be wrought out in the furnace of endeavour and experiment, and the price paid will be high, but only that which is thus wrought out provides the residue or nucleus upon which the further work may be based. Mistakes matter not; nought but the fleeting personalities suffer. What does matter is lack of aspiration, inability to attempt, and incapacity to learn the lesson that failure teaches." LOM 311
Some of the background and details of the experiment can be found in the links below. The first phase of the experiment is over and many of the lessons both positive and negative have been 'wrought out'. Wrought is actually a good word that contains the idea of being 'shaped by' the energetic archetype.
Much was achieved in the first phase.
The Curriculum was trialled and integrated in to the demands of day to day residential life. The archetype was grounded on the property by way of a stone mandala and the energetic cycles of the year were foundational in the development of the group process as the 'living curriculum' related to the seventh purpose of SK. The practice of occult meditation as well as the applied use of the fourteen rules for group initiation was found not surprisingly to be the most essential to the coherent functioning of the core group and the school as a whole.
Current Unfoldments at Highden October 2003 - Suchitra Davenport
Highden - Orientation & Principles
