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Many will be familiar with the notion that a person at the point of
death sees their life flash before them. Rudolf Steiner describes
that when the spiritual bodies separate from the physical body, the
etheric body of the dying person is revealed, giving a panoramic
overview of their earthly life. This etheric body contains
everything we have experienced in our consciousness and kept in
memory. The etheric not only generates and sustains all life, but
encompasses the life forces out of which we shape our existence.
Although the revelation of the life tableau belongs to the early
period after death, it can also emerge as a result of meditation.
Rudolf Steiner speaks of this – through the first level of
spiritual experience known as ‘imagination’ – as a conscious
self-perception of the soul, taking place in the world of images.
Here we are confronted with the harrowing knowledge of our
doppelgänger – but we also experience the cosmic forces of
childhood that are present in all our life processes. These same
forces are described in psychology as the ‘inner child’. In
this highly-original anthology of Steiner’s work we are led to a
therapeutic, meditative approach that – through working with the
imaginative life tableau – can strengthen and heal body, soul and
spirit. Chapters include: ‘Experiencing the Inner Child as the
Starting Point for a New Philosophy’; ‘Experiencing Life before
Birth’; ‘Pain and Sadness When Reliving the Life Tableau’;
‘Intensive Backward Thinking’; ‘Feelings of Happiness When
Experiencing the Life Tableau’; ‘Re-experiencing the Inner
Child’; ‘Through the Forces of Childhood to the Higher Self and
the Christ Experience’.
Contemporary interest in the meditative schooling of mindfulness is
usually associated with Eastern traditions. Rudolf Steiner spoke of
the same phenomenon, although he used the terms 'attentiveness' and
'dedication' - or, combining these two, 'pure perception'. This way
of mindfulness and reverence is not in conflict with spiritual
paths founded on thinking or pure thought. However, as the texts in
this anthology indicate, methods based exclusively on thinking
cannot be successful if they are not supported by perception,
feeling and will. In counterbalance to today's increasing
intellectualization, the meditative exercises featured here connect
with the perceptive activity of the human being's sensory organs.
They could also be understood as exercises for developing empathy,
helping to make our relationship with the world around us more
conscious and intense. Rudolf Steiner's texts are sensitively
edited and arranged by Andreas Neider, whose introduction and notes
add further clarity to the theme.
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