Care for the Soul
Rudolf Steiner Press (Verlag)
978-1-85584-563-3 (ISBN)
`We must draw the slumbering soul away from the darkness of sleep so that it no longer vanishes from its own scrutiny but stands before itself as a being of pure spirit which, in volition, is creatively active through – yet also beyond – the body.’ – Rudolf Steiner.
According to Rudolf Steiner’s independent research, the soul or psyche has a relationship to both the body and the spirit. Psychologists and psychotherapists can only work in a truly healing way, he says, if they take this spiritual fact into account. This expertly-compiled anthology explores the nature of the soul as elaborated by Steiner in his writings and lectures. However, the book comprises more than an account of the psyche and life of the soul, but deals equally with the methodology for comprehending it – the scientific, and above all spiritual-scientific, means of doing so.
Steiner questions methods and thought structures that are fundamental to contemporary psychology. Rather than looking backwards to conditions that influence how we are today, he focuses on our further development as beings that think, feel and act with intentionality. Given the soul’s close affinity with pictorial images, he elaborates a therapeutically-innovative meditative schooling of the faculty of imagination. As Steiner states here, his methods, `…do not draw only on the rules of the ordinary mind but first prepare in the human soul another kind of consciousness, another state of awareness, with which we then enquire into the psyche… to approach and penetrate realities of the soul.’
RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) called his spiritual philosophy `anthroposophy’, meaning `wisdom of the human being’. As a highly developed seer, he based his work on direct knowledge and perception of spiritual dimensions. He initiated a modern and universal `science of spirit’, accessible to anyone willing to exercise clear and unprejudiced thinking. From his spiritual investigations Steiner provided suggestions for the renewal of many activities, including education (both general and special), agriculture, medicine, economics, architecture, science, philosophy, religion and the arts. Today there are thousands of schools, clinics, farms and other organizations involved in practical work based on his principles. His many published works feature his research into the spiritual nature of the human being, the evolution of the world and humanity, and methods of personal development. Steiner wrote some 30 books and delivered over 6000 lectures across Europe. In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world.
Introduction – Methods of Anthroposophic Study of the Soul and Spirit – Extracts from The Riddle of Man (1916) and
Theosophy (1904) – Thinking, Feeling, Will: The Human Being's Dependency on Physical and Spiritual Realities – Excerpt from Riddles of the Soul(1917) – Dimensions of a New Psychology: Looking Back into the Soul Realm, Immersion in the Spiritual Nature of the World – The lecture 'Vindication of Anthroposophic Psychology', Bern, 9 December 1918 –
Schooling of the Will and Thinking through Meditation and Concentration – Excerpt from the lecture 'Anthroposophic Spiritual Science, Its Findings and Scientific Validity', Basel, 2 December 1920 – From the Ordinary Mind to Spirit Vision – `The Life of the Soul' (1923) – Looking Forward – Extracts from a lecture in Dornach on 18 October 1919 – Notes – Sources
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2019 |
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Einführung | Harold Haas |
Übersetzer | Matthew Barton |
Verlagsort | East Sussex |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
Weitere Fachgebiete ► Anthroposophie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85584-563-6 / 1855845636 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85584-563-3 / 9781855845633 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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