How are we connected to the world around us? This question, says
Rudolf Steiner, is one that lives subliminally, drawing us into the
depths of the psyche. There, our candle of consciousness tends to
flicker and go out. But spiritual schooling can relight it, so that
we learn to perceive realms of our being beyond the restricted
self. Whilst Steiner was undertaking major lecture tours of Germany
and England, he took time to address his followers at the world
centre of anthroposophy in Dornach, Switzerland. He speaks here on
three major topics: 'The Life of the Human Soul', 'Spiritual
Striving in Relation to Earth's Evolution' and 'The Contrast
Between East and West'. The common theme, however, is our mutual
responsibility for what the human being and the world will
eventually become - which, according to Steiner, is far from a
foregone conclusion. Even the way we think can change and affect
the future: the degree, for example, to which we concentrate our
picturing in meditation, infusing head thinking with warmth of
heart. Rudolf Steiner reveals a hugely complex picture of
interrelationships between humanity and the cosmos. Our head,
heart, lungs and limbs all reveal subtly different qualities of
connection with the invisible realities that continue to sustain
us. Our eyes, for instance, only gradually evolved into organs of
sight and were once vital organs, as our lungs are now. The lungs,
in turn, will similarly evolve to provide us with another form of
perception.As is usually the case, Steiner addresses a wide variety
of topics in addition to those above. Included in this volume are
thoughts on the significance of the cinema; the nature of the halo;
technology as the 'true foundation' of the modern worldview;
asceticism in the Middle Ages; the world of machines and the world
of rite and worship; yoga and modern meditation exercises; pain as
an awakener of knowledge; the emergence of the belief in ghosts;
and the connection between stomach acid and soul qualities
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