This volume supplements Rudolf Steiner's First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps (2017). It contains the so-called recapitulation lessons given in various places, including Dornach, from April 3 to September 20, 1924. While the book does not introduce any new mantras, it offers new forms of presenting ......
Speech is more than a means of communication. Each sound of the spoken language has a life of its own, with qualities and properties of remarkable potential.Through his years of research and treatment of commuication disorders in both children and adults, coupled with in-depth studies of philology and Anthroposophy, Dr. Alfred Baur has gained a ......
The problem of lefthandedness confronts parents, kindergarten teachers, class teachers, therapeutic eurythmists, and doctors. If the changeover to righthandedness, especially for writing, is to be attempted, one needs to find an individual solution for each child. Rudolf Steiner gave fundamental indications for "changing over" at conferences for ......
The Leitmotif of this book is inspired by lecture 5 of Rudolf Steiner's Education as a Force for Social Change (Aug. 16, 1919), given shortly before the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart. In that lecture, Steiner stated: "Children are different today than they were some decades ago. This is clear even from superficial ......
A touching glimpse into the world of autism, with supplementary articles by the author and Georg Kuhlewind. Juliana thought often about the child with the sun's rays playing in her blonde hair and whose eyes told stories of heaven. She thought about her delicate frame and inexhaustible energy. The young woman was grateful to have met this little ......
The author explores and comments the fairy tales Little Red Cap (aka Little Red Riding Hood), Mary's Child, Briar Rose and The Handless Maiden. The worldwide popularity of Walt Disney's film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs compelled the author to write about the true meaning of fairy tales. That film destroys for both children and adults the ......
Thoughts on keeping learning alive. These lectures address learning in the periods of life from birth to adulthood, with illustrations from physiology and psychology, to form pictures of the teaching/learning tasks and concerns appropriate for each age group. Contemporary education often attempts to 'solve' the mysterious aspects of nature through ......
in 1947, shortly after the author met Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, his friends in Brussels invited him to a performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera. The music drama made an indelible impression on him and stirred disturbing questions. Thus his search began and soon he read all he could find by Steiner on the Holy Grail. ......
The Other America distils a lifetime of interest, research, and experience of an action-oriented part of the world--the United States of America. The book begins with the insights of Rudolf Steiner related to spiritual influences on this land, its people, and the important challenges they face. The author moves from the American dream and the ......
