Name: Six Steps in Self-Development: The "Supplementary Exercises"
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Baydur, Ates
ISBN: 9781855842373

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Six Steps in Self-Development: The "Supplementary Exercises"

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Edited by

Ates Baydur

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x13.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781855842373

Synopsis "Six Steps in Self-Development: The "Supplementary Exercises""

The so-called supplementary exercises--intended for practice along with the "review exercises" and meditation--are integral to the path of inner development presented by Rudolf Steiner. Together, they form a means of experiencing the spiritual realm in full consciousness. Meditation enlivens thinking; the review exercises cultivate the will; and the supplementary exercises educate and balance the feeling life. Practiced conscientiously, this path of self-knowledge and development has the effect of opening a source of inner strength and psychological health that soon manifest in daily life. In six stages, these exercises enable the practice of qualities we may summarize as: control of thoughts initiative of will equanimity positivity open-mindedness equilibrium of soul When practiced regularly, they balance the possible harmful effects of meditative practice, bringing inner certainty and security to the soul. They are also of inestimable value in their own right, owing to their beneficial and wholesome effects on one's daily life. In this invaluable little book, the editor has gathered virtually all Steiner's statements on the "supplementary exercises," supporting them with commentary and notes. With a chapter devoted to each exercise, the book describes each in detail and from various perspectives.

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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