{"product_id":"spirit-as-sculptor-of-the-human-organism","title":"Spirit as Sculptor of the Human Organism","description":"\u003cp\u003e \t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Let  us be courageous and not draw back in fear when realities of the world  of spirit that play into human life are unveiled. You see, the future of  humanity depends on us learning to live with the world of spirit in the  same way that we live with the physical world here on earth.’\u003c\/i\u003e – Rudolf Steiner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn  a wide-ranging series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner demonstrates the  integral nature of spirit and matter and their manifold connections.  Speaking to audiences in London, Holland, Germany and Switzerland,  Steiner explains how, through a process of evolving consciousness,  humanity lost its knowledge and direct experience of the spiritual  sources of existence, but now needs to reconnect with them. Spirit is  the essence and power of life which, in Steiner’s vivid image, ‘strikes a  match in our whole being’ when we allow it to inform us fully.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur  world cannot be understood only in physical terms but is inseparable  from the divine realities continually creating and sustaining it.  Reconnecting with the spirit calls upon us to heal the fractures between  everyday consciousness and the metaphysical realms in which we are  already embedded. In Steiner’s descriptions, there is no end to the  numerous reconnections possible: between our past, present and future;  between the active, individualizing principle of the ‘I’ and the  physical human body it works upon and shapes; between our physical  actions and limb movements in one life and the forming or sculpting of  our head in a future one; and above all, between the moral actions and  insights we develop whilst alive on earth and our developing ‘eye’ for  spiritual reality in the life after death, with all that this can mean  for the future of human evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking  a truly holistic approach, Rudolf Steiner tackles an eclectic series of  subjects throughout these sixteen lectures – all united by the common  theme of rediscovering how spirit pervades life. Apart from a focus on  education in several lectures, he discusses: experiences during sleep;  the human spirit and soul between death and a new birth; how spirit  ‘sculpts’ the human organism; Christ from the perspective of  anthroposophy; the battle for human nature between luciferic and  ahrimanic beings; karma and the creation of conditions for our return to  a new life on earth; human experience of the etheric cosmos; and the  human being’s faculties of hearing, speaking, singing, walking, and  thinking. Together, these lectures offer a cornucopia of spiritual  insights and wisdom for the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Outliers Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52965432492343,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/3633\/0295\/files\/20910953482848.jpg?v=1788925811","url":"https:\/\/outliersbooks.shop\/products\/spirit-as-sculptor-of-the-human-organism","provider":"Outliers Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}