How We Will Forum

“WELCOME to

the city of Angels!” was Orland Bishop’s warm greeting to us all. “We ARE will,” he stated, “All the other stuff will be left behind. We will WILL a new world. Time is asking us to do so.” Thus our amazing gathering began with over one hundred participants from all over the world, rang

It was heartwarming to look back at the How I Will conference held here at White Feather Ranch over New Year’s (also initiated by the Elderberries group) had helped to seed this event on How We Will. It was great to have the conference end with the 450 foot silk banner grandly carried by all the partipants that we created here at White Feather Ranch for the 1997 International Youth Conference in Michigan. And it was moving to experience everyone spiralling on the large ﬁeld of grass with the colorful silk singing together the song of the conference “To the hills I will lift my eyes and I am not afraid, In Sun by day and the moon by night- my courage will not fade.” For me the event was living the dream of a dream. Having taught The Spiritual Mission of America for nearly forty years at Rudolf Steiner College, an institution originally inspired by Reverend Carl Stegmann and his work on The Other America, it was like walking into the most famous dream of the 20th century— Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a time when all representatives of humanity will join together, striving in brother and sisterhood and honor freedom and human rights for every single one. And there we were over a hundred representatives, a microcosm of the world, and so many striving earnest young individuals that can give us such hope for the world and the future. We tackled the hard stuff, global warming, artiﬁcial intelligence, crippling unsustainable wealth disparity, and looked

Knighthood of our Times: “There is a knighthood of our time whose members do not ride through the darkness of physical forests as of old, but through the forests of darkened minds; They are armed with a spiritual armor and an inner sun makes them radiant;

Out of them shines healing, healing that ﬂows from the knowledge of mankind as a spiritual being They must create inner order, inner justice, peace and conviciton, in the darkenss of our time.” Karl Koenig. We who attended the How We Will Forum were inspired, changed, and charged with new shared energy for the work ahead in our challenging times!.