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.

In Place of the Self
How Drugs Work

Ron Dunselman

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This is a fascinating, drug-by-drug account of the actions of various pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs told from the perspective of their actions not just on the physical body, but on the relationships of the members of the four-fold human body as described by Rudolf Steiner. By taking this approach, Dunselman is able to not only discuss without judgementalism the effects of these substances on human beings, he is also able to dispassionately address why it is that these substances, despite known health and legal hazards, remain attractive to so many people. I learned an enormous amount from this book - things that have helped me better understand the social world around me and to better understand myself. This is really a very important and potentially healing work - I recommend it highly.

Freud, Jung and Spiritual Psychology

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by Robert Sardello

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In this book, Steiner lays the foundation for a truly spiritual psychology. He begins by examing the principles of Freud and Jung. While Steiner agrees that the phenomena originating psychoanalysis are real, he claims that because Freud did not recognize spirit, the human soul experience was cut off from the larger whole and reduced to subjective, personal history. Beginning with a phenomenological description of the threefold structure of human consciousness - reflective or mirror consciousness, supraconsciousness, adn subconsciousness - he outlines an alternative psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden powers and the complex connections between psychological and organic, bodily processes.

These lectures on psychoanalysis and spiritual psychology, given at the very time when the 'talking cure' was in its beginnings, force us to confront the inadequate knowledge used in founding psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as a method of soul work. . . . A truly spiritual psychology leads to wisdom of the soul . . . [It] not only takes us out of the limited domain of psychology as concerned with subjective states and into the broader culture, it also takes us into an understanding of the body as the necessary organ through which spiritual perception must find its orientation.

From the Introduction by Robert Sardello

Previously published as Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology.

Man on the Threshold
The Challenge of Inner Development

Bernard Lievegoed

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We are happy to announce that Man on the Threshold is back in print after too long an absence. 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.

Archetypal Imagination
Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art

Noel Cobb

Introduction by Thomas Moore

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This unique book is about freeing psychology's poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of hte soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as something personal. In this book, however, we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural, universal-human phenomenon.

Noel Cobb teaches us to look at the world as the record of the soul's struggles to awaken, as the soul's poetry. From this point of view, the true basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty, love, and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Thus these essays praise the value and nobility of the imagination, and instead of the usual masters of psychology the exemplars here are the artists and mystics of the Western tradition: Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, Tarkovsky.

I like Noel Cobb's outcries on behalf of ferocity, loneliness, anxiety, "the hideous hag of life," beauty sitting in the lap of terror, Edvard Munch's paintings and Garcia Lorca's panther-like poems - let's have more.

- Robert Bly

Understand Your Temperament!
A Guide to the Four Temperaments

Dr. Gilbert Childs

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Childs give us a refreshing treatment of the ancient doctrine of the four temperaments: choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic. Dr. Childs shows us how to recognize the temperaments in ourselves and others, and how to understand their working in our behavior. he investigates in depth the origins and manifestations of the temperaments in both their psychological and physiological aspects.

Included are fascinating discussions of the relationships between adults of various temperaments and matters of compatibility in partnership, family, and workplace situations. There is also a section dealing with the temperaments of children, which includes helpful advice on how to help them in terms of attributes of behavior.

Crisis Points
Working through personal problems

Julian Sleigh

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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.

The Anthroposophical Understanding of the Soul

F. W. Zeylmans van Emmichoven

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The self-conscious human soul participates in two worlds: the external world and a still deeper interior world. As it mediates between these two worlds, an ever shifting stream of dynamic polarities continually moves through the soul in love-hate, joy-sorrow, pleasure-displeasure, desire-dissatisfaction, and laughing-weeping. The author examines these and other psychological processes.

This is a "classic" - one of the first books on the subject by an early student of Steiner. It was at Zeylmans' request that Steiner delivered the lectures published as Karmic Relationships, Vol. 3. And it was Zeylmans who later made it his life's work to reunite the Dutch Anthroposophic Society with the International Society in Dornach after the 1935 rupture - a task that took him until 1968 to complete.

From Normal to Healthy
Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness

Georg Kühlewind

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In this practical guide to consciousness work - it is both a spiritual psychology and a manual of spiritual practice - the author begins by laying out very clearly the unhealthy nature of contemporary consciousness, its blinders and automatisms. He then demonstrates ho, starting with the free attention available to all, a person my begin to expand the range of his or her possibilities of understanding and ability to act.

Fundamentals of Artistic Therapy
The Nature and Task of Painting Therapy

Dr. Margarethe Hauschka

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From her medical, artistic, therapeutic, and anthroposophical experience, the author gives a concentrated foundation for the development of artistic therapy and the training of the therapist. This important book, which is the fundamental work in its field, will be of interest to all those involved in medical and therapeutic work. Includes 50 full-color examples from the course of instruction at the School for Artistic Therapy at Boll, Germany.