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How to Know Higher Worlds A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)

Rudolf Steiner

Published in 1904 (CW 10) This is the classic account of the modern Western esoteric path of initiation made public by Steiner in 1904. He begins with the premise that “the capacities by which we can gain insights into the higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.” Steiner carefully and prec...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

It was described as a practice manual for meditation, used by the interviewee since his youth, offering a path of inquiry valuable to his scientific pursuits. It provided a framework for contemplative practices that went beyond stress reduction, and was described as a 'homecoming'.

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And then when he turned 40 he became an active lecturer and writer on spiritual themes and also on the contemplative and meditative life. So the first book I read of his was his book on meditation cal...

— Episode: [Unedited] Arthur Zajonc with Krista Tip...

Episode: [Unedited] Arthur Zajonc with Krista Tippett

It was described as a practice manual for meditation, used by the interviewee since his youth, offering a path of inquiry valuable to his scientific pursuits. It provided a framework for contemplative practices that went beyond stress reduction, and was described as a 'homecoming'.

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And then when he turned 40 he became an active lecturer and writer on spiritual themes and also on the contemplative and meditative life. So the first book I read of his was his book on meditation called How to Know Higher Worlds and that meditation book became from me a kind of practice manual that I've worked with ever since.

Episode: [Unedited] Arthur Zajonc with Krista Tippett

It was a practice manual for contemplative practices, which the interviewee used as an introduction to contemplative practices and has used ever since. The interviewee felt it was a path of knowledge valuable to someone committed to the scientific way of knowing.

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I feel my fate, my fate finds me, I feel my star, my star finds me, I feel my aims, my aims find me, my soul and the world are one.

life will be clearer around me, life will be more burdensome for me, life will be richer for me.

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