The Foundations of Human Experience
(formerly Study of Man)

Foreword by Henry Barnes

Introduction by Nancy Whittaker (Parsons)

Translated by Robert F. Lathe and Nancy Whittaker (Parsons)

$20.00

This course on education contains some of the most remarkable and significant lectures ever given by Rudolf Steiner.

Because these lectures were given to teachers, however, they have suffered the misconception that they are useful only to teachers. Any teacher who wants to teach in a way that encompasses the whole child certainly needs a functional understanding of what Steiner presents here, but these lectures will also greatly benefit parents, psychologists, counselors, or anyone else involved with developing children.

Steiner gives his most concise and detailed account of human nature in these lectures, which are absolutely essential for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Steiner's spiritual science. Those who are willing to work through this work will discover here a new, powerful, convincing, and profoundly phenomenological “anthropology” of human spiritual psychology.

In these lectures, Steiner laid out for the first time the principles that form the basis for renewing the art of teaching. The Foundations of Human Experience is the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis for Waldorf education

Foundations is Rudolf Steiner's crowning articulation of the threefold human being, a portrait of spiritual/physical relationships and interworkings and is essential knowledge for anyone wishing to truly understand the heart of Anthroposphy. The self-knowledge that can result from an understanding of this book is also essential for anyone seeking to undertake spiritual development or to work in service of the development of others.

Although we can physically see children only after their birth, we need to be aware that birth is also a continuation. We do not want to look only at what the human being experiences after death, that is, at the spiritual continuation of the physical. We want to be aware that physical existence is a continuation of what higher beings have done without our assistance. Our form of educating can have the correct attitude only when we are aware that our work with young people is a continuation of what higher beings have done before birth.

—Rudolf Steiner

Note: As we translated these fourteen lectures, we strove to render each thought clearly and completely in language accessible to anyone wanting to learn. To understand Lecture 2, you will need a working understanding of the terms and definitions of the nine-fold human being as presented in Chapter 1 of Theosophy. Beyond that, we believe that no other technical information is necessary to fully comprehend this book.

Reading the Face
Understanding a Person's Character through Physiognomy

Norbert Glas, MD

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As a boy traveling to school by streetcar, Norbert Glas often passed the time by studying the faces of his fellow passengers, pondering the significance of the shapes and contours of their noses, eyes, and mouths. Later in life, after becoming a medical doctor and a student of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, Glas gained greater insight into the mysteries of human physiognomy.

In Reading the Face, the first translation into English of his seminal work, Glas begins by defining the three parts of the human face and explaining the importance of their relative proportions. A face that is more pronounced in any of these areas tends to indicate certain personality traits and specific physiological characteristics. People with a strong mouth and chin, for example, tend to have a strong will and an active, driven, and assertive nature. With the help of many photos and drawings, Glas presents the physiognomy of three basic types and analyses the specifics of the head, forehead, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose.

Reading the Face will be valuable to doctors, teachers, and anyone who wants to better understand, accept, and love others.

The Therapeutic Eye
How Rudolf Steiner Observed Children

Peter Selg

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Rudolf Steiner’s extraordinary ability to perceive the inner nature and development of children provided insights at many levels and areas of the creative learning process. He spoke of this ability as a precondition for all forms of healthy childhood education—including special education—and suggested that teachers should develop such a capacity within themselves.

This process involves the recreation of the child within oneself, based on what we are able to observe in the child’s physical appearance, temperament, ways of moving, and environment. In The Therapeutic Eye, Dr. Peter Selg discusses Steiner’s views on childhood development, how teachers can look at children, and ways that these approaches can be used to develop lessons and classroom activities to deal with behavioral extremes and learning challenges.

The Therapeutic Eye is a valuable resource for teachers and parents - well worth studying again and again.

Playing, Learning, Meeting the Other

Lectures from the 2005 International Waldorf Kindergarten Conference

Joan Almon, Michaela Glöckler, Christof Wiechert, Heinz Zimmermann

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This must have been a wonderful conference to attend, for each of the lectures given goes straight to the heart of the matter in the warmest, most interesting way possible. There isn't a one of them that comes off as too academic or too fuzzy - my experience in reading them is that there are nuggets of gold in every lecture that can easily and fruitfully be taken into the world as gifts for young children. This is a powerful little book.

Contents:

• Note from the Editor of the English Edition
• Preface from the German Edition
• Meeting the Other: The Human Encounter - Dr. Heinz Zimmermann
• The Healing Power of Play - Joan Almon
• Acceleration, Retardation, and Healthy Development - Dr. Michaela Glöckler
• The Formative Foreces at the Threshold of the Second Seven-Year Period - Christof Wiechert
• Meeting the Other: The Encounter with Human an Spiritual Beings - Dr. Heinz Zimmermann
• Biographical Notes on the Lecturers

The First Seven Years
Physiology of Childhood

Edmond Schoorel

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$24.00

Bob and I have always believed that Steiner delivered the seminar, known in English as Foundations of Human Experience or Study of Man, as information and insights to be used. It is, therefore, deeply exciting to come upon a book such as Schoorel's The First Seven Years, written as it is from someone who has been doing precisely that: using and applying and developing a living understanding for the material Steiner shared with the teachers of the original Waldorf School.

Schoorel's approach is wonderful - he takes a particular topic, describes it thoroughly then moves on to relate it to physiology and environment. So, for instance, when he discusses "the birth of the etheric body", he not only offers a clear and meaningful picture of what that means for the developing human being, but then discusses what physiological changes mark this process as well as how environment affects it.

For anyone interested in or working with young children, this book is a treasure to be turned to again and again. It fosters understanding as it also gives much food for the sort of thought that deepens and enlightens. The First Seven Years is a gift to teachers, parents and most especially to our children.

Phases of Childhood

Bernard C J Lievegoed

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A new edition of Bernard Lievegoed's classic work of child development.

Every age has its philosophy and way of bringing up children. Today's educational approach depends largely on materialistic, nineteenth-century ideas derived from the notion of "knowledge as power." The education of children in beauty, wisdom, and culture forms only a very small part of the modern curriculum. When we consider a child's full humanity of body, soul, and spirit, however, we emerge with a very different balance in our approach to education.

The author of this book tells us that our children cannot become happy, wise, and skilled adults unless their education—from the very beginning—take into consideration the development of body, soul, and spirit. Drawing on the educational ideas and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, Goethe, and Schiller, the author describes the three main stages of child development and the genetic and biographical potential revealed at each stage. He goes on to explore the practical application of these insights as an educational method in harmony with the child's developing relationship with the surrounding world.

This is the essential, classic resource for all parents, teachers, and care givers.

Creating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit
A New Approach to Childcare

Bernadette Raichle

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$25.00

Creating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit answers with beauty and love the needs of children everywhere, and conveys a joyous hope to all adults how care for those children.

Because she took seriously the fact that many homes require the parent(s) to work away from their young children, and because she has such a great love for children and our world, she created one of the most beautiful and life-giving childcare centers anywhere.

In Creating a Home, she shares not only pictures of the life of Awhina (her center), but something more: she goes on to relate clear the developmental needs of the fourfold human being and in the most practical terms discusses how it is that caregivers can meet them within young children. Her's is a stirring, heartwarming account that is at the same time clear and deep.

Anyone who cares for children, particularly other people's children, will want to read this book and commit its wisdom to heart. I truly believe that the future will smile in return.

A Living Physiology

Karl König

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A Living Physiology is a phenomenological exploration of the human being that we believe can become as important a resource as Steiner's Foundations of Human Experience (aka Study of Man). As a physician with a specialty in homeopathy and long experience with developmental disabilities, König was wonderfully qualified to develop and unite biological physiology with Steiner's spiritually-based biological insights. In this book he brings the two together and places them before us in ways that enable us to also see and understand others and ourselves in ways that can open our hearts and inspire our will to help and to transform.

König discussions of 'The Circle of the Senses', 'The Four Lower' and 'The Three Higher' senses detail the inner experience and organ of each of the twelve senses, the effect on the self and the aberrations, developmental handicaps and fundamental soul experiences for each sense.

'The Seven Life Processes' are related to the senses, ethers, planetary spheres, endocrine glands and pathologies. 'The Temple of our Existence' builds on the second coming of Christ in the realm of the etheric and the four kings in Goethe's Fairy Tale. König describes the cosmic evolution, embryological development and psychological development of the four meteorological organs – the heart, bladder/kidney, liver and lungs.

There is a treasure chest of discover and insight between these covers - highly recommended!

Between Form and Freedom
Being a Teenager

Betty Staley

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In this excellent book, Betty Staley has given us a compassionate, intelligent and intuitive look into the minds of adolescents.... I can only hope it will be read by a significant number of significant people—namely, parents, teachers, and, indeed, adolescents themselves.

Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Magical Child and The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

Pass this book around the family - then stand back for some wonderful results! The strongest endorsement for Between Form and Freedom is that not only have thousands of parents found it helpful, but thousands of teenagers have, too! For parents, Betty Staley's insights shed a much welcomed light on the many perplexing aspects of raising teenagers. For teens, the light shines not only as an awakening self-awareness, but as an aid for understanding their parents!

A Grand Metamorphosis
Contributions to the Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology and Education of Adolescents

Peter Selg

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“A tumultuous situation arises in the relationship between the adolescent...and the world. This tumultuous situation is necessary, and as teachers, we need to have it in mind during the years leading up to it. Overly sensitive teachers might get the idea that it would be better to spare young people this upheaval. However, in so doing, they would make themselves the worst enemy of youth.” —Rudolf Steiner

Adolescence is the period during which we first sense, as human beings, our responsibility for earthly existence, and, inevitably, it is a time of turbulent transition and inner turmoil. During the first two seven-year periods of life, our soul, spiritual being gradually incarnates. With puberty, it takes hold of our whole being and turns outward to befriend the Earth and the forces of life and death.

Steiner calls this profound inner transformation “a grand metamorphosis.” As parents and teachers and as individuals who still bear its fruits and wounds, we all know the contours of the upheaval. However, educational and parenting practices too often ignore it, unaware that the great changes in our children call for equally great changes in us. To remedy this, Dr. Peter Selg proposes, “Use Rudolf Steiner’s work to highlight the fundamental structure of the crisis of adolescence and the pedagogical challenges that emerge as a result.”

As a psychiatrist who has worked intensively with adolescents in crisis, and who carries a deep existential and thorough scholarly knowledge of Steiner’s teachings, Dr. Selg highlights the radical nature of Steiner’s approach, which demands that teachers and parents change as their children change. Drawing on Steiner’s practical admonitions during lectures and teacher’s meetings, Selg reminds us that the ideal of Waldorf teachers is “to educate by behaving in such a manner that, through their behavior, children can educate themselves.” This is especially true once children reach sexual maturity, when teachers must not teach young people so much as welcome them as independent, equal individuals, able to transform the gift of sympathies and antipathies into a new moral orientation out of their own essential nature. Teachers must therefore be able to speak directly and authentically about the world. Abstractions and generalities have no place in the dialog; young people want to know the real causes of things and want to be addressed as equals. Selg also points out that teachers must be aware of the growing difference between the sexes and the way each carries a different secret life inwardly.

An Unchanged Mind
The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence

John A McKinnon, MD

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John McKinnon addresses what has to me been the most pressing question of the past two decades: why is it that our children seem to be "getting stuck," developmentally speaking, at ages well below what I remember of adolescent maturity? And then, of course, the real question: What on earth are we to do about it?

I'm very happy to say that his book is filled with insight and with hope. My hope is that every parent and teacher read it long before the children in their care become teenagers - his insights will help avert some of the problem because it is so much easier to prevent than to "fix" these things.

My larger hope is that the wisdom of this book will come to permeate our society as a whole, for it is ultimately a collective healing that is called for.

*****

An Unchanged Mind begins with a clinical riddle: Why are American teenagers failing to develop normally through adolescence? We are presented with case studies from a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenagers: All new students had been deemed treatment "failures" after conventional psychiatric care. All were bright teenagers, full of promise, not obviously "ill." Yet they found themselves unprepared for the challenges of modern adolescence and inevitably failed—at school, at home, and among their peers socially.

An Unchanged Mind is the discovery of the essence of this problem—disrupted maturation and resulting immaturity. The book explains the problem carefully, with a brief review of normal development and an examination of the delays today's teenagers are suffering: the causes of those delays and how they produce a flawed approach to living. There is a solution. With a sustained push to help troubled kids catch up, symptoms abate, academic and interpersonal functioning improve, and parents pronounce their teens miraculously recovered. This remedy is not a matter of pharmacology—and the cure is not in pills. The remedy is, instead, to grow up.

McKinnon's inspiring message is that no behavioral problem along these lines is hopeless. He shows how he has done it.

—Evander Lomke, Executive Director, American Mental Health Foundation

Reflections on the Mystery of Love

René M. Querido

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René Querido spent a lifetime teaching and mentoring students seeking to discover the meaning of their lives. In Reflections on the Mystery of Love, one of his students asks some of the intimate questions that many people wonder about or struggle with, so that the responses can be shared with a wider audience.

Reflections is a fascinating book, touching on just about ever question I've ever asked or heard asked about Love in its many forms. This is great reading which leaves the heart full.

Perhaps falling in love should be renamed "rising in love." That sexual attraction may play a powerful part is undeniable and wholesome, but the soul spiritual aspects are equally important and will shape the relationship as it develops over the weeks, the months, and the years. We can, then, begin to ask ourselves, Why have we met? Is it coincidence? Is the fact that the loved one enters our life a mere accident? Isn't something of a mystery involved in our being brought together? Poets during the past two hundred years have expressed the wonder of this mystery.

René Querido
from Reflections on the Mystery of Love

Harmony of the Creative Word
The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms

Formerly titled: Man as Symphony of the Creative Word

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

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In this important series of lectures given near the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner brought together many aspects of his research into man and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship to the ancient and sacred animal representatives--eagle, lion, and bull--and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is deepened in the second group of lectures, approach the plant and animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits--the purely spiritual beings that complement plants and animals--and the cooperation that these beings offer to mankind. In the fourth series, man himself is placed with in this harmony of nature--in the symphony of the Creative Word.

The Human Soul

Karl König

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Much of modern psychology has laid open our drives, attitudes, and traits, but it has stripped the human being of all wonder and beauty, of all meaning in pain and joy. Stripped of his soul, the human being is pale and corpse-like. König helps us to understand this missing soul with a detailed study of the human psyche, of pain, emotions, moods, the senses, consciousness, and dreams. A fascinating exploration of the mysteries and complexities of human nature. Very beautiful, as well.

Embryology and World Evolution

Karl König

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In these remarkable seminars, König traces the preparatory steps that every human being has to tread in forging an earthly 'house' fitting for the spiritual to incarnate into the physical. Wonder builds on wonder as we begin to recognise the wisdom with which we human beings are fashioned; it turns into awe we we see how intimately we are interwoven with the evolution of our earth. Indeed, we recapitulate its earlier stages in our own unfolding from the moment of conception onwards.

König succeeds in bringing vividly alive a subject normally confined to the academic laboratory. What might be thought dry or difficult here becomes exciting and challenging, and we are left with a new and deeper understanding of our significance for the future of this beautiful, fragile planet.

The Higher Senses and the Seven Life Processes

Dr. Lotte Sahlmann, Anke Weihs, Rev. Baruch Urieli

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Perhaps at no other time in human history have our senses been so bombarded by the outside world, whether through visual or auditory stimulation (TV, video, computers) or more subtly in the areas of language, ideation and human encounter. The world is simply overflowing with ideas and issues that we have to deal with.

The first part of this book deals with the higher senses - those of word, thought and I - as described by Rudolf Steiner. The authors attempt to further reveal these unrecognised senses and the role played by them in social interaction.

They then go on to consider the workings of seven active forces which affect our everyday lives. These are the seven life processes, which function unconsciously within our organic system, but which can appear as disturbing forces affecting our physical and spiritual wellbeing.

Given our need to understand how we communicate with one another, and how our physical and mental states are affected by our unconscious life, this is a book with a great deal to offer all of us.

Sacred Faces
Physiognomy in the Light of Spiritual Science

A Study of Man for Teachers and Parents

Alan Whitehead

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A knowledge of physiognomy is essential for the understanding and education of the child.

- Rudolf Steiner

Thus opens Alan Whitehead's fascinating exploration of realms of the human soul that are revealed in our faces. His intent is to increase adult understanding of who the children before us are - and with that understanding, to enable us to teach and raise them in the best way possible.

The author takes the reader on a journey through traditional and anthroposophical interpretations of face structure - a journey that will linger in the mind long after the last page is read. There is much to ponder here and no small amound of insight to be gleaned.

The Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question
The Individual and Society

Four lectures by Rudolf Steiner

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Although recent years have seen major advances in science and technology, the social aspect of life still presents major problems for Western societies. The general increase in destructive and antisocial behavior during recent decades has highlighted the importance of social issues, yet society still lacks ideas that effectively address society’s ills.

Rudolf Steiner suggested new ways to organize society and engage with social questions. This book presents his esoteric perspective on such concerns. Steiner asserts that we must begin by giving real value to the human element in the world, finding a deeper understanding of our relationship to nature and to the cosmos. Accordingly, it is ineffective to organize society in an arbitrary way; society ought to reflect the human relationship to the spiritual world. Steiner goes on to discuss the threefold archetype of social life—the political state, the economy, and the spiritual and cultural aspects—and how these three areas can interact in a healthy way, leading to an evolving society that is vibrant.

These lectures — originally published as The Inner Aspect of the Social Question — are presented here in a new translation and with the addition of a previously unpublished lecture.

The Mysteries of Social Encounters
The Anthroposophical Social Impulse

Deiter Brüll

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The author begins from the point of view that at this particular time in human evolution we are called upon to pay particular attention to social interaction. Drawing from Rudolf Steiner’s insights on the renewal of social life, the author thoroughly explores the foundation, problems, and remedies that are so vitally needed today. Included are many gems that can be used in Waldorf school community settings or any place where individuals wish to serve a higher social purpose.

Clear the Clutter
Make Space for Your Life

Inge van der Ploeg

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This is the most unified course on clearing clutter that I have seen - and the only one that creates a setting for conscious self-development as you go. I strongly recommend reading it and working with it -- the outcomes are like a fresh spring breeze!

Inge van der Ploeg is a master at creating space in ways that enable human beings to really live. She has worked with clients both public and private for many years in Holland, and both her experience and her study have deepened her own awareness of the significance of how we arrange our surroundings.

There are several things that make her book a unique and powerful contribution to what I will loosely call the burgeoning field of clutter clearing.

• First, she has incorporated, considered and really understood many other authors on the subject, including Karen Kingston who I consider to be among the most valuable.
• She has also studied what Rudolf Steiner had to say about the nature of the human being and brings this to bear when discussing how we create our surroundings out of ourselves and how our surroundings can impact our physical, mental and emotional health.
• Finally, she has devised a unique set of exercises designed to awaken us and strengthen our capacity to take action in our own homes and offices.

Very highly recommended!

Man on the Threshold
The Challenge of Inner Development

Bernard Lievegoed

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Bernard Lievegoed's genius for going straight to the truly human questions surrounding any experience shines throughout this book. In it, he combines his knowledge of medicine and psychology (he was a physician and industrial psychologist) with his deep understanding of human nature and spiritual reality in order to offer a truly useful description of how human beings can undertake their own inner development. He describes how the seeds for growth that lie within each of us may be nurtured safely to fruition and how we can work therapeutically with others who may be experiencing severe psychological disturbances and mental illness. This is an unswervingly deep examination that is at the same time wonderfully accessible and practical. You'll want to nibble at the text a little at a time, not because they are so difficult to comprehend, but because you'll want to savor each thought fully.

A Psychology of Body, Soul and Spirit

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by Robert Sardello

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These twelve talks by Rudolf Steiner form the basis for an entirely new psychology. There are three individual lecture courses, each viewing the whole human being from a different perspective. The first four lectures give a precise understanding of the human soul in relation to the activity of the sense and to the subtle processes that form the human body. The next four lectures focus on what we can know of the human soul based on direct observation alone. The concluding lectures portray the relationship of soul life to spirit life, particularly showing how to awaken individual spirit life and how to distinguish between illusory and genuine spiritual experience.

The view of the soul presented here has a wider, fuller, deeper, and higher context than is present in any existing psychology. These lectures present a context for considering individual soul life that includes the forces actively forming the human body. . . . A true soul education is needed. This book can serve as an extremely valuable starting point for this much needed self-education.

Robert Sardello
Author, Love and the World, Freeing the Soul from Fear

Previously published as Anthroposophy, Psychosophy, Pneumatosophy and Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit.

Animals in Translation
Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Temple Grandin
and Catherine Johnson

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I've read and heard many reviews of this remarkable new book by Temple Grandin. Depending on the reviewer's focus, Animals in Translation has been seen as a groundbreaking revelation of animal behavior and awareness and/or an inspiring revelation of the world seen from within autism. It is both these things, but in my opinion it is also something else - I experienced it as one deep and brilliant insight after another into human nature itself, not just autistic human nature, but all human nature.

Grandin's insight into animals is so uncluttered and straightforward that she penetrates into the recesses of the human heart as well. The descriptions she gives of the sources of many animal behaviors apply unswervingly as well to the things hidden in the depths of the human soul that well up as surprising, irrational or inconsistent reactions.

If you work with children, this book has more to offer you than I can describe in the space of one review. I can, however, give you an example which I think goes to the heart of how this book can be used on behalf of other people, especially young people. On page 145, Temple begins a discussion of Fear-Driven Aggression. She has previously described Assertive Aggression and is now contrasting it with aggression resulting from fear:

Fear-driven aggression causes so much violence and destruction in the animal and human worlds that I've often asked myself, What is rage for?

Why do we have rage circuits at all?

When you look at animals living in the wild, the answer is simple. Rage is about survival, at the most basic brute level. Rage is the emotion that drives the lion being gored to death by the buffalo to fight back; rage drives a zebra being caught by a lion to make one last-ditch effort to escape. I once saw a videotape of a domestic beef cow kicking the living daylights out of an attacking lion. It was some of the hardest kicking I have ever seen. Rage is the ultimate defense all animals draw upon when their lives are in mortal danger.

When it comes to human safety in the presence of animals, fear cuts two ways. Fear can inhibit an animal or a person from attacking, and very often does. Among humans, the most vicious murderers are people who have abnormally low fear. Fear protects you when you're under attack, and keeps you from becoming an attacker yourself.

But fear can also cause a terrified animal to attack, where a less-fearful animal wouldn't. A cornered animal can be extremely aggressive; that's where we get the saying about not getting someone's "back up against the wall." An animal with his back up against a wall is in fear for its life and will feel he has no choice but to attack.

On average, prey species animals like horses and cattle show more fear-based aggression than predatory animals such as dogs. That shouldn't be a surprise, since prey animals spend a lot more time being scared.

I categorize maternal aggression differently from some researchers; I put it in the fear department. I think maternal aggression is fear-driven at heart because over the years I've observed that the high-strung nervous animals will always fight more vigorously to protect her young than will a laid-back, calm animal like a Holstein dairy cow. Many a rancher has told me that the most hotheaded, nervous cow in the herd is the one who is most protective of her calf.

Any mother, nervous or calm, will fight to protect her baby. That's why on farms the human parents always warn their children to stay away from mama animals. But the fact that it's always the most nervous, fearful mother who shows the most maternal aggression makes me think that maternal aggression is driven by fear, even when the animal is calm by nature. When mother animals think their babies are in danger, they feel fear, and their fear leads them to attack. That's my conclusion.

This brings me to the fundamental question you have to ask yourself any time you're trying to solve a problem with aggression: is the aggression coming from fear or dominance? That's important, because punishment will make a fearful animal worse, whereas punishment may be necessary to curb assertive aggression.

At Home in the Universe
Exploring Our Suprasensory Nature

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

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Modern science tells us that we are an insignificant accident in a vast, indifferent universe. Rudolf Steiner maintains instead that we are intimately enmeshed with the whole cosmos, right down to the physical structure of our bodies. In these talks, he explores our relationship as individuals to the spiritual cosmos, in which we will all come to live. The key to being at home in the universe is to understand thesignificance of our individual, physical lives on earth and what happens when we leave our physical bodies behind.

Steiner encapsulates his view of our journey after death and our return to earth and a new life. He describes the "planetary" spheres through which we each pass and their effects on our future. He shows us how our character and actions on earth affect us after we die and how those experiences shape our next physical life.

This is not merely information to be added to our already overabundant store of abstract concepts; Steiner gives us imaginative exercises that help us explore our suprasensory, or spiritual, human nature. We can begin now to act more consciously by recognizing the concrete nature of morality and the real consequences of our present lives.

The introduction and comprehensive afterword by Paul Margulies explain and contextualize Steiner's text, revealing a message that is more vital and relevant than ever in our frenzied, materialistic times. This book can help us experience more meaning in life and become more at home as spiritual citizens of the universe.

Education for Special Needs
(formerly: Curative Education)

Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

In 1924, Rudolf Steiner gave a course for teachers and doctors on working therapeutically with children and adults with special needs. The diagnostic insights are based upon a quality of clear observation and biographical understanding that allows the practitioner to see the patient as whole, not as a collection of symptoms. The recommended therapies range from medical remedies to therapeutic exercises and serve to underscore the often overlooked relationships between body, soul and spirit. Though highly accessible, this volume also promises a lifetime's exploration to those who are interested.

Phases
The Spiritual Rhythms in Adult Life

Bernard Lievegoed

$22.00

Bernard Lievegoed poured half a century of clinical practice and deep insight into this portrayal of the course of human biography. Phases describes each period of life - adolescence, twenties, thirties, forties, and so on - in terms of the inner qualities of the experiences and challenges of each age. Through this exploration, the unique aspects of any person's life path take on new meaning, making fruitful resolution of the challenges involved more possible. Phases is fascinating, often riveting reading for individuals exploring their own life history or for professional seeking to assist others' personal growth.

Working with Anxious, Nervous and Depressed Children
A Spiritual Perspective to Guide Parents

Henning Köhler

Introduction by Philip Incao, MD

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$18.00

Henning Köhler courageously presents parents and teachers with a practical path of schooling the thinking, heart, and will in selfless devotion to the individual destiny of each child. This is a book every teacher, parent and friend of children will want to read and consider - it offers a way of receiving troubled children into our hearts, into the stream of our love such that healing and forward movement become possible.

Rudolf Steiner's Observations on Adolescence
The Third Phase of Human Development

Edited by David Mitchell and Christopher Clouder

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$16.00

This book is a collection of comments and writings that Rudolf Steiner made about adolescence. Here in one volume is practically every significant comment or observation of Rudolf Steiner about adolescence ever recorded. Especially valuable now that Education for Adolescence seems to be destined to remain out of print indefinitely.

Adolescence
The Sacred Passage
Inspired by the Legend of Parzival

Betty Staley

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$24.95

This is a beautiful book. Betty Staley pierces through the discord and tumult of adolescence to see what is truly there: the birth pangs of the human spirit. I love it that she uses the legend of Parzival as a guiding light with which we may all see the beauty, even the terrible beauty, of the adolescents struggle to fight through the crashing world of desire until their own goodness emerges full in the world.

That this struggle is as real as those fought on any battlefield, and as filled with peril as it is with hope is never sidestepped. How we as adults respond to these teenagers (whose struggles are often very off-putting from the outside) is nothing less than a sacred task.

The community of adults in a high school environment is a community of trust in which we need to foster hope, belief in positive change, and commitment to serve the highest good. This is our charge and we must never forget it. We have the responsibility to believe in the capacity for change, for maturing, for transformation in every young person we serve. When these qualities live in the souls of the adults in a high school community, adolescents can thrive, can meet their own dark night of the soul and come through it into the light.

- Betty Staley

Life Patterns
Responding to life's questions, crises and challenges

Jerry Schöttelndreier

Softbound

$10.95

Life is not a dress rehersal - it's the real thing! Nurses of dying people have observed sometimes that patients are very angry because of the things they did not do, at their postponed lives. However, responding with awareness to life's questions and turning points is not easy. The more freedom you have, the more choices there are.

This book is a practical guide for those who want to start looking for the patterns in their lives and the meaning of their existence. Originally presented as lectures, the essays clearly define the difference in working with the past, the present, and the future, and in the dynamic balance in working between these three dimensions in a person's life. This book will be of great assistance to individuals who wish to get an overview of how to work with their own life story and how to seek out the patterns from the past which inevitably affect their activities and decisions in the present.

The author runs biography workshops and offers individual biographical counselling. He works for the N.P.I. Institute for Organisational Development founded in Holland by Bernard Lievegoed.

Children and Their Temperaments

Marieke Anschütz

$15.95

One of the best and most accessible resources on the subject of the four temperaments and children. Anschütz gives us a guide to children's different temperaments and their role in child character, health and personality development. She illustrates her ideas with examples from home and school, using the context of the Waldorf/Steiner school classroom, and discusses how to use these insights in managing and relating to groups and individuals. This is an fascinating journey that will be enlightening and invigorating to both parents and teachers.

Eternal Childhood

Karl König

Softbound

$24.95

In the essays and lectures gathered in this little book, Karl König presents a viable basis for understanding childhood, and traces its expression in detailed pictures of the phases for both mother and child: conception, birth at 9 months, ability to name objects at 18 months, ability to reason comparatively at 27 months and the ability to say 'I' at 36 months. Practical advice is interwoven with history, science, religion and anthroposophy.

Taking Charge
Your Life Patterns and Their Meaning

Gudrun Burkhard

Softbound

$20.00

While the modern world is rapidly making us into "global citizens," we experience increasing isolation as individuals in our own society. There is a pressing need for us to develop new forms of relationship with family and society. Through working consciously on our own life-story, we can build bridges to other people and develop a new understanding for the lives of others.

The ideas and methods presented here are the result of the author's many years of therapeutic work with groups and individuals, dealing with personal and professional crises. The life stories described are the authentic stories of participants in the courses and workshops. The first part of the book outlines the principles of development underlying a person's life. The second part discusses the methodology of the author's programs and presents a number of ways in which individuals can work on their own life-stories.

Soul Weaving
How to shape your destiny and inspire your dreams

Betty Staley

Softbound

$26.00

Soul Weaving is an invitation to weave a design for the soul’s journey, bringing together all the colors and textures of our personality to reveal pattern and meaning. The author shows us ways to transform our temperament, realize and integrate our soul type, understand the influences of the archetypal points of view, and make life changes such as choosing a spiritual path, living in balance, cultivating the power of love, and much more.

Crisis Points
Working through personal problems

Julian Sleigh

Softbound

$7.95

When you are going through a major crisis in your life, you may attempt to help yourself. Other times, the crisis may not be yours, but a friend's and you may want to help. As a counselor, Julian Sleigh has helped many people get through various crises in their lives and offers some of his best insights in Crisis Points.

In this book, he has distilled his years of experience into a process of twelve steps that help to resolve all sorts of difficult situations. These steps are designed to help us face the facts of our lives and to per­ceive the feelings and emotions that arise from our destiny.

Julian Sleigh is a Christian Community priest and counselor who works in South Africa. He is the author of Friends and Lovers, a sensitive look at the issues surrounding friendship. intimacy and loyalty, and Thirteen to Nineteen, a book for parents with teenagers.

Confronting Conflict
A First-Aid Kit for Handling Conflict

Friedrich Glasl

$27.00

Friedrich Glasl has worked with conflict resolution in companies, schools and communities for over 30 years. Confronting Conflict is authoritative and modern, containing new examples, exercises, theory and techniques. The tools Glasl offers are techniques for analyzing the symptoms of the conflict, ways of understanding how temperaments affect conflicts and what can be done about it, how to acknowledge that a conflict exists and then how to lessen it, and practice in developing considerate confrontation and empathy. This is a powerful tool chest which if worked with will lead to greater harmony within groups and families. Recommended.

Thirteen to Nineteen
Discovering the Light

Julian Sleigh

$11.95

Julian Sleigh does not see adolescence as a temporary struggle for freedom, but as a passage into life where freedom becomes a possibility even as the options of adulthood narrow one's choices. Preserving this awareness while helping guide the teenager through the rocky shoals and narrow channels leading to vigorous adult is the task of parents, teachers, and adult friends. Thirteen to Nineteen can help all of us become more effective and more at home in this work.

Our Twelve Senses
Wellsprings of the Soul

Albert Soesman
Translated by Jakob Cornelis

$22.00

This is a fascinating book. Albert Soesman is an anthroposophical doctor in Holland who offers workshops on the senses. His lively approach leaves the reader little choice but to become fired with enthusiasm for learning to understand the work of the twelve sense. A note here: Most of us are much more familiar with the concept of the "five senses," but few of us know that it is only very recently that it was more or less codified that five was the "correct" number of human senses. In the earlier parts of this century, scientists concerned with such things wrote wonderful discourses about the existence of five, seven, nine, and eleven senses, depending upon their viewpoint. Steiner's own initial viewpoint was that there were ten physical senses plus three supersensible ones. Because this discussion was not yet frozen in codified convention, he was able to further refine his observations and ultimately arrived at twelve senses as most accurately descriptive of human perceptive capacity. We hope you enjoy learning about them as much as we have.

Friends and Lovers
Working through Relationships

Julian Sleigh

$12.95

Julian Sleigh has produced a beautiful book on one of the most delicate aspects of human life - our personal relationships, particularly those that are sexual and committed. His insights are deep and his conclusions offered as guideposts, not directives. Friendship, love, marriage and divorce (from rapture to rupture) are all explored against the background of modern life. Julian Sleigh is a priest and counselor in South Africa and author of Crisis Points and Thirteen to Nineteen.

Sexuality, Partnership
and Marriage
from a Spiritual Perspective

Wolfgang Gädeke

Out of Print

I, for one, braced myself for a rather staid book by a priest (Gädeke is a priest in North Germany). It is not that at all! Sexuality, Partnership and Marriage takes an incredibly candid, straightforward look at some of the most highly-charged issues facing modern men and women. What is healthy sexuality? Are marriage and monogamy still relevant? For everyone? What is the significance of partnership? How does it differ from marriage, or does it? There are wonderful, real-life, love-filled insights and advice between these covers that, because they are so real will be very helpful to many people.

The Human Soul and the Opposing Powers
Images linking feminine and masculine tendencies with influences of Lucifer and Ahriman

John Canning

Softbound

$34.95

Many years ago John Canning experienced a fourth soul-force in addition to thinking, feeling and willing. Although he has not found this explicitly described by Steiner, there are numerous lectures that support its truth and significance. He calls this fourth soul-force 'the depths of the soul' and uses its unique point of view to shed new light on several aspects of the soul, in particular the polarities of Lucifer/Ahriman and feminine/masculine.

Steiner's fundamental conviction was that good is to be found as the balance between various polar opposite forms of evil. Canning points out that this balance is by no means always at a static point midway between two extremes. For example, self-respect and modesty are good opposites while pride and self-deprecation are bad opposites. A reliable basis for individual moral judgment is not to be found in our thinking or feeling or willing or earthly Ego, but in the hidden depths of our spirit, including our higher Ego and our conscience.

At the Edge of History/Passages about Earth
A Double Book

William Irwin Thompson

Softbound

$15.95

Two seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

"A thrilling, mind-expanding speculation that one follows like a metaphysical whodunit.... Let me confess at once, for the last few days, I have continued to be haunted by William Irwin Thompson's At the Edge of History, an extraordinary speculation on contemporary American culture. Read Thompson, a silver thrush among pterodactyls."

-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

William Irwin Thompson was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972 for his essays on contemporary culture in At the Edge of History. For his novels, Islands Out of Time and Blue Jade from the Morning Star, he received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He lives in Switzerland and enjoys a seasonal round of lectures and readings in the United States.