Today, illness is almost universally regarded as either a nuisance
or a grave misfortune. In contrast to this conventional thinking,
Rudolf Steiner places the suffering caused by disease in a broad
vista that includes an understanding of karma and personal
metamorphosis. Illness comes to expression in the physical body,
but mostly does not originate in it, says Steiner, and thus a key
part of the physician's work involves gaining insight into the
whole nature of an individual - his essential core being. From this
perspective, illness offers us the opportunity for deeper healing.
Throughout this volume Rudolf Steiner draws our attention to the
greater scope of the smallest phenomena - even a seemingly
insignificant headache. He casts vivid light on things we normally
take for granted, such as the human capacity to laugh or cry, and
in the process broadens our vision of human existence. The
apparently mundane human experiences of forgetting and remembering
are intrinsic to our humanity, for example, and have unsuspected
moral and spiritual dimensions. Steiner's insights are never merely
'lofty' or nebulously 'spiritual' but time and again connect with
the minutest realities of everyday life. In these 18 lectures,
delivered on a weekly basis as part of an ongoing course covering
'the whole field of spiritual science', Steiner elaborates in
detail on the diverse interplay of the human being's constituting
aspects (physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego or 'I')
in relation to rhythmic processes, developing consciousness, the
history of human evolution, and our connection with the cosmos.
Within this broad canvas, some of his themes acquire a very
distinctive focus - such as vivid accounts of the 'intimate
history' of Christianity, 'creating out of nothing', the interior
of the earth, and health and illness. Other topics include: the
nature of pain, suffering, pleasure and bliss; the four human group
souls of lion, bull, eagle and man; the significance of the Ten
Commandments; the nature of original sin; the deed of Christ and
the adversary powers of Lucifer, Ahriman and the Asuras; evolution
and involution; the Atlantean period - and even Friedrich
Nietzsche's madness!
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