Old Age: Journey into Simplicity Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) —T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding In this classic text on aging wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, as well as devoting attention to suffering.
Dreamlife: How Dreams Happen Where do dreams come from? By what light do we see them? What lights a dream? Dream theorists have been more interested in the content and meaning of dreams or (if more scientifically inclined) their physiology. They have rarely thought about the light, fearing perhaps where the answer might lead. Where
Eighteen Days till Home: A Novel Unable to reconcile herself to the deaths of her husband and her eldest daughter, poet Elizabeth Layton is teetering on the edge of an emotional abyss. To keep her from excessive mourning, her sister and brother pressure Elizabeth into going on a museum sponsored trip to the Aegean. The scenes
The Fall of Sophia: A Gnostic Text on the Redemption of Universal Consciousness “I came forth from the mouth of the Most High and covered the earth like a mist. I encamped in the heights, and my throne was in a pillar of cloud. Alone I compassed the vault of heaven and traversed the depths of
Traveling Light: Walking the Cancer Path “My life changed dramatically, drastically, and irrevocably on November 17, 2005. That was my death day and re-birthday. The external event was surgical removal of a glioblastoma multiforme tumor phase iv from the left occipital–parietal lobe of my cranium. Though I was unconscious during surgery, what I experienced was transcendent,
Turned Upside Down: A Workbook on Earth Changes and Personal Transformation “Since February 1998, the Earth has accelerated her cycles of change. We are also urged to accelerate our own processes of change. I try to provide useful insights into the cycles of change and create possibilities for fellow human beings to become creative interactors
Our Dead: Memorial, funeral, and cremation addresses, 1906–1924 2 lectures, Kassel, Germany May 9 and 10, 1914 (CW 261) Our Dead collects Steiner’s memorial, funeral, and cremation addresses, as well as a sampling of prayers and meditations for the dead. The context, intimate and sober with grief, means that his intent is quite other than if he
Vladimir Soloviev: Russian Mystic Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, was the founder of a tradition of Russian spirituality that brought together philosophy, mysticism, and theology with a powerful social message. A Platonist and a gnostic visionary, as well as a close friend of Dostoevsky, Solovyov was also a prophet
The Russian Idea In this powerful, moving book, first published in 1946, Berdyaev is not so interested in the empirical details of Russian history as he is in “the thought of the Creator about Russia.” The “Russian idea” is thus a mystical notion. Religion and philosophy—not economics or politics—determine history and society. Berdyaev begins his
A Secret History of Consciousness For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided
Sky Phenomena: A Guide to Naked-Eye Observation of the Stars “In the last hundred years or so, most of the firmament has been taken from us. We are Less for our loss of the sky, but Norman Davidson has given us the boot straps we need to pull ourselves back up to heaven…or at least
