Name: Kundalini: Spiritual Perception and the Higher Element of Life
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Meyer, Andreas ; Meyer, Andreas
ISBN: 9781855845589

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Kundalini: Spiritual Perception and the Higher Element of Life

Type

Physical Book

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Introduction by

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Publisher

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

172

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781855845589

Synopsis "Kundalini: Spiritual Perception and the Higher Element of Life"

Selections from various volumes in The Collected Works of Rudolf SteinerIn Hindu tradition, the concept of kundalini refers to a form of primal energy located at the base of the spine. Traditional Eastern methods are practiced to "awake" one's kundalini and achieve transformed consciousness. Rudolf Steiner offers an entirely different perspective that integrates the idea of kundalini into his spiritual philosophy. This anthology contains relevant comments and notes by Steiner on this theme, highlighting the evolution of his thinking. In addition, it accentuates the differences and similarities between Western and Eastern spiritual paths and, in the process, reveals what is new and original in Steiner's esoteric teachings. In contrast to most yoga traditions, which cultivate the energy rising from the lower life center, the Western path of esoteric development begins in our upper center of consciousness--in thinking and in one's "I." From there, the center of experience is shifted downward, from the head to the heart. After developing a "new heart center," as Rudolf Steiner describes it, one can guide forces consciously and, through specific exercises, the "kundalini snake" can be awakened fully. In his detailed introduction, editor Andreas Meyer distils the perspectives and instructions from Steiner's complete works, offering a valuable synopsis for our understanding and practice of meditation.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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