Stages of Consciousness: Meditations on the Boundaries of the Soul - Softcover

Kuhlewind, Georg

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9780940262089: Stages of Consciousness: Meditations on the Boundaries of the Soul

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ISBN 10: 0940262088 ISBN 13: 9780940262089

Publisher: Lindisfarne Pr, 1985

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Ordinarily we live under the tyranny of the past. All that we call thinking is the habitual association of finished, dead thoughts. But these thoughts were alive once and every new moment of understanding is a breath from the level of the living present.

Stages of Consciousness proposes that we train ourselves in the stage of consciousness that we occasionally glimpse as intuition. Beginning with the intuition of the true self in the living thinking―“the fundamental experience of the spirit”―the author goes on to describe practical exercise in concentration and contemplation. Georg K�hlewind describes his purpose in his foreword:

“Modern humanity’s most difficult task is to become aware of, to see and to overcome the threshold of mirrored consciousness. The first essay attempts to show how Rudolf Steiner proposes reaching this goal in his Philosophy of Freedom. Consideration of the threshold lying between thinking and what has been thought leads the one making this experiment to ‘the fundamental experience of the spirit.’ The third essay attempts to develop a methodology for the first steps in the realm of concentration and contemplation. The last essays set forth the outcome: how, in the observation of the soul’s boundaries, these boundaries become transparent and permeable. The form of the communication is such that the reader, tracing the lines of the movements of thinking, steps into its fabric.”

Contents:

Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Author’s Foreword
The Two Stages of Consciousness
The Fundamental Experience of the Spirit
Concentration and Contemplation
The Boundaries of the Soul
The Secret of Perceiving
The Spiritual Communion of Modern Humanity
The Sense of Being
The Light of the Earth

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About the Author:

Georg K�hlewind (1924–2006) was a Hungarian philosopher, writer, lecturer, and meditation teacher who worked from the tradition of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. Setting aside his early interest in music and psychology, he pursued a successful professional career as a physical chemist. Meanwhile, he continued to deepen his spiritual practice and insights. A prolific author (most of whose works are still only in German), Georg K�hlewind spent much time traveling the world, lecturing and leading workshops and seminars in meditation, psychology, epistemology, child development, anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity. He was the author of numerous books. K�hlewind died January 15, 2006 at the age of 83.

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“To overcome the world means to behold the world as it was before it became dead in us; to behold it in its aliveness, as heaven. To overcome the world means to behold the earth in the heavens and to bring the heavens to earth” ―Georg K�hlewind

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