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Staying Connected: How to Continue Your Relationships with Those Who Have Died
“This is what it comes down that we learn to experience that those who have passed through the gate of death have only assumed another form. Having died, they stand before our feelings like those who, through life experiences, have traveled to distant lands, whither we can follow them only later. We have therefore nothing to fear but a time of separation. Spiritual science must help us learn to feel and experience this in the most living way we can.” ― Rudolf Steiner
“Living and working with the concepts and exercises in these talks and meditations has changed my life. This is a most practical book. Do what it recommends and you will experience the presence of the dead in your lives. You will know that the community of human beings on both sides of the threshold is not theory, but reality.” ― Christopher Bamford (from the introduction) The idea of “working with the dead”―maintaining, continuing, and enhancing one’s relationships with those who have died―was fundamental to Steiner’s work. This volume collects a rich harvest of his thoughts on the subject, gathered over many years. Steiner spoke directly from his own experience and formulated various meditation practices and verses that worked for him. We learn the usefulness of reading to the dead; the use of verbs (rather than nouns) when we speak with them; the importance of the sacred moments when falling asleep and awakening for asking questions and receiving answers; how our memories of the dead are like “art” to them; and of key moods we must cultivate―community with the world, gratitude, confidence in the current of life. We learn, too, of the many ways discarnate souls can help us in our earthly work, and of the many ways we can help them. Also included are many of the mantras Steiner gave to his students for connecting with those who have died. This important volume will help those who want to deepen their relationships to the living, to those who have died, or to the spiritual world itself.
“Living and working with the concepts and exercises in these talks and meditations has changed my life. This is a most practical book. Do what it recommends and you will experience the presence of the dead in your lives. You will know that the community of human beings on both sides of the threshold is not theory, but reality.” ― Christopher Bamford (from the introduction) The idea of “working with the dead”―maintaining, continuing, and enhancing one’s relationships with those who have died―was fundamental to Steiner’s work. This volume collects a rich harvest of his thoughts on the subject, gathered over many years. Steiner spoke directly from his own experience and formulated various meditation practices and verses that worked for him. We learn the usefulness of reading to the dead; the use of verbs (rather than nouns) when we speak with them; the importance of the sacred moments when falling asleep and awakening for asking questions and receiving answers; how our memories of the dead are like “art” to them; and of key moods we must cultivate―community with the world, gratitude, confidence in the current of life. We learn, too, of the many ways discarnate souls can help us in our earthly work, and of the many ways we can help them. Also included are many of the mantras Steiner gave to his students for connecting with those who have died. This important volume will help those who want to deepen their relationships to the living, to those who have died, or to the spiritual world itself.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1999
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Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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January 28, 2021
The title of this book is a bit misleading as it doesn't give any practical advice about how to connect with those who have crossed over.
It is a thorough discussion of Steiner's experiences with souls after they have died and his interesting opinions about the nature of existence apart from embodiment. These opinions unfortunately are influenced by the colonial, entitled perspective that anyone who is not embodied is unfortunate, has no agency, and is in need of "help" and "support" from those who are. Also, he fully embraces the Theosophical notion of planets as somehow presenting evolutionary epochs for humanity which was common for the time. This is nonsensical at worst since we now have evidence of many other planets just within our visual range let alone those we can infer from scientific findings and quite "earth-centric". He also is quite assured that Christianity is the highest form of truth, all other religions and spiritualities being corrupt forms of this truth, and so makes fact statements about Christ and Lucifer as parts of the grand plan for souls, which is off putting for those who don't find this in their own spiritual experience.
It is a thorough discussion of Steiner's experiences with souls after they have died and his interesting opinions about the nature of existence apart from embodiment. These opinions unfortunately are influenced by the colonial, entitled perspective that anyone who is not embodied is unfortunate, has no agency, and is in need of "help" and "support" from those who are. Also, he fully embraces the Theosophical notion of planets as somehow presenting evolutionary epochs for humanity which was common for the time. This is nonsensical at worst since we now have evidence of many other planets just within our visual range let alone those we can infer from scientific findings and quite "earth-centric". He also is quite assured that Christianity is the highest form of truth, all other religions and spiritualities being corrupt forms of this truth, and so makes fact statements about Christ and Lucifer as parts of the grand plan for souls, which is off putting for those who don't find this in their own spiritual experience.
December 18, 2017
Staying connected
It connect a lot of t's and dotted i' s in my life experiences and questions.
Great book to read and explore your soul in the spirit world
It connect a lot of t's and dotted i' s in my life experiences and questions.
Great book to read and explore your soul in the spirit world
August 5, 2011
I read this about 3/4 of the way through and then it started to get repetitive.
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