Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
Explores the ideas and influences behind a man who draws on ideas from anthroposophy and other spiritual traditions and applies them in challenging social contexts to remarkable effect.
A Study of the Transformation of the Human Soul, the Double, and the Spirit
Inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg, the author presents insights and strategies for understanding and transforming impure aspects of one's self to cultivate heart thinking.
How the sounds of spoken language arise is ultimately still a mystery to researchers. Acoustic phonetics has analyzed sound phenomena, whereas articulatory phonetics determines the physiological formation of spoken language. Little is known about the air, however, the central element of speech both within and immediately outside the body as it ......
By "mantric sayings," Rudolf Steiner means content given by the spiritual world to be absorbed and experienced in meditation. Thus the volume contains intuitive insights received "from the spiritual world" and, as such, the vehicle to return us to it. The meditations were often given personally to others for general use, as well as for specific ......
Manichaeism, Anthroposophy, and Their Meeting in the Future
"The profound thought that lies in this is that the kingdom of darkness has to be overcome by the kingdom of light, not by means of punishment, but through mildness; not by resisting evil, but by uniting with it in order to redeem evil as such. Because a part of the light enters into evil, the evil itself is overcome." - Rudolf Steiner (The ......
Goethe, the great German polymath poet, scientist, dramatist, and novelist, was a major influence throughout Steiner's life and teaching. While still a student, Steiner wrote introductions to Goethe' scientific writings (1884 - 1890), the collection of which became volume 1 in his Collected Works. He also wrote two volumes on Goethe's epistemology ......
"As microcosms we are actually part of, and subject to, the same laws that cosmic beings are, just as the breath we draw is subject to our own human nature...If our hearts are sensitive to the secrets of cosmic existence and not merely blocks of wood, the words we have been placed into the universe will no longer be an abstract statement. We will ......
This is the traditional story ... of how Juan Diego meets the beautiful Lady on a windswept hilltop in December and carries her message to the disbelieving bishop.