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With his scientific and philosophical training, he brought a new systematic discipline to the field, allowing for conscious methods and comprehensive results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Edmunds' introduction - here revised and updated - covers the fundamental areas of Steiner's philosophy, beginning with a brief outline of his life. Edmunds describes anthroposophy as a 'way to higher knowledge', and outlines the threefold nature of the human being. He delves into the secrets of human evolution and history, the basic elements of child development, and many further aspects of Steiner's vast teaching. This is a warm and clear introduction to anthroposophy which will prove of value to anybody wishing to understand Steiner's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFRANCIS EDMUNDS began his studies as a medical student, but the driving force in his life was a quest for insight into the nature of the human being. This journey led him to anthroposophy and his vocation as a teacher. In 1962 he founded Emerson College, an adult educational establishment based on Rudolf Steiner's work. He travelled and lectured extensively around the world, and authored the perennially popular An Introduction to Steiner Education. Francis Edmunds died in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bookSpec\"\u003eOctober 2005; RSP; 200pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm; pb;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398592020802,"sku":"9781855841635","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/ANINTRODUCTIONTOANTHROPOSOPHY.jpg?v=1700666259"},{"product_id":"introduction-to-steiner-education","title":"Introduction to Steiner Education","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' 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The author explains in a clear, lively style many aspects of Steiner's educational theory, in particular the three stages of childhood development and how the Waldorf curriculum allows for a healthy understanding, nurturing and support of these phases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe role of the class teacher, the 'main lesson', temperaments, attitudes to discipline, competition and examinations are all discussed, and answers given based on the author's many years of rich and varied experience as an educator of both children and adults. 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Molecular biology has become the foundation of modern medicine with the result that today's medical industry chases after technology to solve all its problems. In the process it is losing its own essence as it moves into fields increasingly alien to human nature as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNevertheless, many doctors are beginning to reexamine this exclusive worldview in favor of a more wholistic approach to healing. To this end, anthroposophical medicine encompasses a wide range of healing modalities, including orthodox, allopathic medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine explores the body's relationship to soul and spirit on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's insights into the activities of the spiritual world. Edited by doctors Friedrich Husemann and Otto Wolff, this book invites us to an in-depth view of a true alternative to materialistically oriented medicine. Chapters include essays on childhood development and diseases; the disorders of old age; neuroses and psychological imbalances; pharmacology; healing plants; biochemistry and pathology; blood-work; and special diagnostic techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis first of a multi-volume series is an invaluable tool to all who want to extend the practice of medicine to include the whole human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher: SteinerBooks (1983)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN 9780880100311\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePages 414 pp.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 6\" x 9\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47532415091010,"sku":"9780880100311","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/9780880100311_L.jpg?v=1703675149"},{"product_id":"anthroposophic-approach-to-medicine-vol-ii","title":"Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine Vol.II","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume 2: An Outline of a Spiritual Scientifically Oriented Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriedrich Husemann\u003c\/strong\u003e, MD (author) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine (vol. 2) is directed primarily toward healthcare professionals. The text addresses anamnesis and diagnosis, aspects of therapy and healing, drug therapy, physical therapy, remedies, the fourfold organ system, the liver gall system and its diseases, the renal system and its diseases, the cardiovascular system and its diseases, the lungs and their diseases in addition to including extensive notes and references.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a classic reference for practitioners and anyone interested in a better understanding of anthroposophic medicine and it’s methods and therapies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and revised by Otto Wolff, this volume is a translation of Das Bildes Menschen als Grundlache Geistesleben (Stuttgart).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher: Mercury Press (2014)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback (460 pages)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN 9781935136125\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47532415385922,"sku":"9781935136125","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/9781935136125_M.jpg?v=1703675311"},{"product_id":"anthroposophic-approach-to-medicine-vol-iii","title":"Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine Vol.III","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume 3: An Outline of a Spiritual Scientifically Oriented Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriedrich Husemann\u003c\/strong\u003e, MD (author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Anthroposophic Approach to Medicine (Vol. III) presents the contributions of anthroposophic medicine to various medical specialties including: infectious diseases, cancer, pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and psychiatry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe content presupposes and builds upon a basic knowledge of the relative physiologies and pathologies to suggest new ways of treating familiar diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher: Mercury Press (2007)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardback\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN 9780929979847\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePages: 469\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47532418335042,"sku":"9780929979847","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/9780929979847_L.jpg?v=1703675492"},{"product_id":"the-burning-bush","title":"The Burning Bush","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore significant for Christianity than the twentieth-century Dead Sea and Nag Hammadi discoveries is the growing North American awareness of Rudolf Steiner's works. No Bible commentary has yet reflected the remarkable spiritual insights of Anthroposophy. In The Burning Bush, Edward Reaugh Smith combines his own extensive traditional biblical knowledge with his years of concentrated study and reflection on hundreds of assembled works by Steiner. The result is the first Bible commentary in the light of anthroposophic insight.This volume is based on the anthroposophic understanding given to humanity by Rudolf Steiner during the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century. The dramatic newness of anthroposophic thought means that the usual method of Bible commentary is not appropriate here. Much of The Burning Bush is devoted to laying an anthroposophic, or spiritual-scientific, groundwork. A major assumption indulged in most Bible commentaries—that one can go directly to portions dealing with given passages of scripture and understand what is being said about them—does not fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoses’ vision of the bush burning on the mountain (Exodus 3:1–3) was profoundly seminal for each of us on our long, parabolic journey from the spiritual world into the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4), in which we have bodies of matter that die, until we can perfect them in our return journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this 3rd edition of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Burning Bush\u003c\/i\u003e, each of the numerous citations to Steiner’s works is updated according to the new Collected Works (CW) volume numbers. Steiner’s works, in German, comprise 367 volumes, archived in Dornach (near Basle), Switzerland. The volume numbers are provided for all Steiner references, whether or not yet published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Burning Bush\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the foundation of the Edward Smith's five-volume series on the biblical message in the light of Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritual Science. The other volumes are\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid’s Question: “What Is Man?” (Psalm 8)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2001);\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Soul’s Long Journey: How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2003);\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Temple Sleep of the Rich Young Ruler: How Lazarus Became Evangelist John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2011); and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevelation: A Cosmic Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe numerous citations to Steiner’s works have been updated in this edition according to Collected Works (CW) volume numbers, as well as cities and dates for lectures. Steiner’s works, in German, comprise approximately 367 volumes, archived in Dornach (near Basle), Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdward Reaugh Smith (1932–2020) was an Illinoisan transplanted to Texas at mid-century. He was a husband, father, and grandfather with broad interests in life. A successful lawyer and businessman, amateur musician, and athlete, his lifelong search for the deeper meaning of the Bible—which he taught for over twenty-five years before discovering the writings of Steiner—expressed itself in his many works. Ed passed away in August at his home in Lubbock, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bookSpec\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e31 August 2023; SteinerBooks; 762 pp; 229mm x 152mm; Paperback;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47532505366850,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/9781621482482.jpg?v=1703676837"},{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-spiritual-language","title":"The Challenge of Spiritual Language","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Development in the science of the spirit will always … involve what we may call developing the inner meaning and inner configuration of our language.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Rudolf Steiner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur present-day language cannot easily convey spiritual concepts. Rudolf Steiner’s search for the words and style to bring to expression a contemporary spiritual worldview epitomises this. In seven organically developing chapters, this little book presents Martina Maria Sam’s long-standing research into this subject. As a writer, editor and lecturer she observed the increasing difficulty that many people – particularly those with an academic training – have with Steiner’s style. However, this style was something that Rudolf Steiner developed very deliberately. As she states: ‘What was most important for me in this was to point out Rudolf Steiner’s intentions in his specific and often original linguistic forms and, consequently, to create the introductory basis for a deeper understanding.’ Gaining such understanding, she says, can in turn enable us to develop insight into the spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSam begins by quoting some of Steiner’s contemporaries, who criticized his ‘grating’ style. She describes why he had to create new forms of expression and examines the specific character of his lectures. She considers two comprehensive stylistic principles that permeate Steiner’s entire body of work, and his special handling of the pictorial element in language. Close attention is paid to Rudolf Steiner’s construction of meditative verses and mantras, and the development of an artistic, linguistically-creative element that will only be possible in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMARTINA MARIA SAM was born in 1960 in Hornbach\/Odenwald, Germany. From 1979-81, she studied sociology and political science at the University of Heidelberg. Between 1981 and 1986, she attended the Institute for Waldorf Pedagogy, Witten-Annen where she studied eurythmy and pedagogy. From 1987 to 1992, she was active as a eurythmist on the Goetheanum stage while, at the same time, working for various publishers. From 1989-2000, she assisted in the publication of the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe [Rudolf Steiner’s collected works]. During the same period, she studied art history, German, and history at the University of Basel where she wrote her Master’s thesis on Rudolf Steiner’s blackboard drawings (Bildspuren der Imagination [Image traces of imagination], Dornach, 2000). From 1996-98 she served as editor of the weekly newspaper, Das Goetheanum. In January, 2000, she assumed the leadership of the Sektion für Schöne Wissenschaften (Literary Arts and Humanities Section) of the School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bookSpec\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e26 May 2020; Trans. by Marguerite A. Miller and Douglas E. 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He also imagines the Grail nature of the Christ's involvement in earthly history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll of Valentin Tomberg's profound studies are finally available in a single volume! Drawn from four difficult-to-find and out-of-print editions, this completely revised and updated text includes Tomberg's anthroposophic meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocalypse, while the appendix contains his final, unfinished work, \"The Four Sacrifices of Christ.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrist and Sophia contains all of Valentin Tomberg's essential anthroposophic works on the scriptures, providing an invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual scientific approach to esoteric Christianity, as revealed by a close, meditative reading of the Bible - from Genesis to John's Revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVALENTIN TOMBERG (1900-1973) was born into a Lutheran family in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an adolescent, he was drawn to the hermetic Martinism of G.O.Mebes, as well as to Theosophy and the mysticism of Eastern Orthodoxy. Tomberg's mother was killed by looters during the Russian Revolution, after which Valentin and his father fled to Tallinn, Estonia, where Tomberg studied languages and comparative religion at the University of Tartu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs a young man, he was strongly influenced by Vladimir Soloviev and had a personal experience of the Sophia at a cathedral in Holland. In 1925, he joined the Anthroposophical Society, under whose auspices he lectured in Holland and England and wrote on his understanding of the Bible, Anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring World War II, he left the Anthroposophical Society and its internal struggles and converted to Catholicism. In 1948, he moved to England, where he became a translator for the BBC and monitored Soviet broadcasts during the Cold War, while continuing his devotion to meditation practice and further writing on his esoteric insights. In 1960, he retired to Reading near the River Thames. He died while vacationing in Majorca. The best-known work of his later life is Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism, written anonymously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bookSpec\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJune 2011; Trans R. H. 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This is revealed in the emotions of sadness and joy and the many shades in between, as expressed in human language – for example: ‘seeing red’, ‘rose-coloured spectacles’ and ‘jaundiced view’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMayer discusses the basis of colour theory and its methodology, and the importance of colour for everyday life and health. It is as fundamental to the soul as air is to the body. By increasing our awareness of the spiritual laws of colour, we can acquire a balanced and enriched life of soul. Thus, colour can become a healing force in life, enabling us to tackle the deadening, grey aspects of our mechanised civilisation. Based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, which she studied intensively for many years, Mayer offers an approach to colour that is of value to painters and artists, as well as to those interested in psychology, health and healing, spirituality and personal development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGLADYS MAYER (1888–1980) attended Rudolf Steiner’s series of lectures on education at Stratford-on-Avon in 1922. The following year she visited Steiner in Switzerland and decided to become a painter and art teacher at the Goetheanum, Dornach. 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In this classic text, based on the anthroposophical science founded by Rudolf Steiner, Poppelbaum, trained in Biology, compares the outer forms of man and animal, revealing their essential differences and contrasting inner experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing a bold and clear delineation between the fundamental nature of man and that of the animal, Poppelbaum argues that human beings are not the accidental outcome of animal development, but the hidden source of evolution itself. He goes on to discuss the true relationship of both man and animal to their environment, and develops a critique of contemporary theories regarding human and animal evolution. He argues that, rather than a simple reflex of the nervous system, the human spirit is a microcosmic reflection of the spiritual macrocosm, and our individual consciousness is a crucial seed for future evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHERMANN POPPELBAUM, Dr Phil. 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Because a part of the light enters into evil, the evil itself is overcome.” —Rudolf Steiner (The Temple Legend, Nov. 11, 1904)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor many centuries, the teaching of Mani was hidden behind the distorted picture that had been created by the adversaries of Manichaeism in East and West. In the course of the twentieth century, new light was shed on Manichaeism by the discovery of several Manichaean scriptures. These have shown that Manichaeism was a true, distinct world religion that, in the question of good and evil, for instance, offers insights that complement and deepen Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso in the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner brought Anthro­posophy, Spiritual Science, which is a continuation of a stream of esoteric Christianity that has run through human history ever since the resurrection of Christ. Anthroposophy is centered on a new, deepened idea of Christianity that, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, is so great and all-encompassing that it can be understood in its full depth only gradually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this book, Christine Gruwez explores the essence of Mani’s revelation and then shows what Rudolf Steiner has communicated regarding Mani and his teaching. This generates an image of two spiritual streams that, each from its own beginning, are moving toward a future when a Christianity of the deed shall become reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bookSpec\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 2014; Trans. 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I give it my highest recommendation.\" - Lynne Twist, veteran fund-raiser, global activist, author, The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The inspiring story of how the Rudolf Steiner Foundation came to be such an extraordinary pioneer in conscious finance, locally and globally. You will never see money in the same way after reading this ground-breaking book.\" - Hazel Henderson, author, Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"This book makes clear that initiatives like RSF need people like Siegfried Finser and his colleagues, not only with a long term perspective but also with a clear understanding what contemporary spiritual knowledge in the field of money means today. 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In this well-researched, illustrated book, Richard Seddon reveals the inner spiritual meaning of Tintagel as a centre for the pre-Christian Mysteries. For many centuries its enigmatic site was integral to the evolution of human consciousness as a centre for esoteric wisdom – for the linking of the physical and spiritual worlds, art and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRichard Seddon offers new insights into the roles of Arthur, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, and looks in detail at how they are linked to the metaphysical truths to be found in the works of Taliesin, the Mabinogion and the legends of Parsifal and the Holy Grail. He brings to light the unifying spiritual tradition that stretches beyond Arthur and Tintagel to the mysteries of modern times, as elucidated by the Austrian-born initiate Rudolf Steiner. 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