Philosophical Speculations

I also bought two nice books at RS House. They are basically books containing verses for prayer or meditation, written by Rudolf Steiner. For example they have a meditation for a particular season of the year, or a morning and evening verse, and so on. The books I bought are available online. I'm no...

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I last visited this forum. But I just wanted to mention, there is an Anthroposophy center in London called Rudolf Steiner House, which I got the chance to visit earlier this year (although sadly only briefly). I mentioned it to Ashvin on discord previously, and I...

Hi everyone, I would like to ask about meditation. I noticed that I tend to have difficulties staying awake during meditation; I have tendencies to fall asleep during it, and it feels like a waste of a meditation. I think part of the problem is that I sometimes do it in bed (e.g. the evening), so t...

Well, Rudolf Steiner had criticism to say about this type of thing. I think he was criticizing things like seances and mediumship where people lose consciousness to channel a spirit, but it seems like it has relevance to modern channeling. Now, people become at once suspicious when an activity confi...

Federica wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:50 pm
Yes! Scott is working on a concise summary of PoF. It's linked in this post.

I actually found a summary of PoF on YouTube the other day. It's excellent! It's just under 2 hours long.

Hi Luke, I'm glad that you found something of value. Asking the question like this could be misleading. It makes it seem as if the stages of consciousness are like separate floors. Once we master Imagination we climb to Inspiration and so on. But in reality there's always something of all stages at...

I believe the Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition stages (as defined by Rudolf Steiner) is describing that process. If I understand so far, the Imagination stage is where one can start seeing spiritual imagery (which might be symbolic images for example?), or maybe seeing the forms that underli...

Hi Luke, Take the following as simply the impressions of another one on the path of spiritual development. By the way, when I was reading How to Know the Higher Worlds, I jotted down a sort of colorful summary , for orientation among the many steps and exercises. You are currently at the orange ste...

I suppose it would help to make sure I develop those feelings towards my own inner self first? Like how I've noticed when I develop compassion towards my self for a fault or a personal issue, the compassion flows easily towards my fellow-man who have the same issue in themselves. So that same 'law'...

Hi everyone, is anyone able to give suggestions or advice with regards to this section from Steiner's "Knowledge of Higher Worlds" titled Control of Thoughts and Feelings? Here is the relevant passage below. If you don't want to read all of it, just skip to the part I have highlighted in b...