Product Description: The building of the Goetheanum – undertaken by a community of people from seventeen nations at war – forms a thematic backdrop to the lectures. In speaking of the walls in the new building, for example, Rudolf Steiner describes how their forms are not confining, but rather express an openness to the surrounding cosmos...read more

Product Description: Western society has faced many challenges in the last few years. Economies have come under extreme pressure, and so have governments and business, with obvious knock-on effects for wider society. The battle between regulation and the free market has never been fiercer...read more

Product Description: This volume begins with Thomas Meyer's assessment of Anthroposophy's evolution since Rudolf Steiner’s death and its future prospects. He offers an overview of the eighty-seven years of the development of the anthroposophic movement and the Anthroposophical Society, the worldwide organization headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland, since the death of its founder...read more

Product Description: 16 lectures, various cities, Nov.-Dec. 1920 (CW 202)“Our contemporaries―who wish to keep to a narrow-minded and superficial outlook, are annoyed to find that spiritual science continually seeks the whole picture―that it has to create a bridge between the body and the soul, and truly explores how the psyche becomes corporeal and the body becomes psychological...read more

Product Description: “Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.”Steiner once called the Lord's Prayer the "greatest initiation prayer" and spoke about it many times, also referring to it as the central prayer of Christian experience. For most of his life as an esoteric teacher, Rudolf Steiner prayed the Lord;s Prayer standing upright...read more

Product Description: There are more than 2,000 Waldorf early-years centers worldwide and the number keeps growing. What are the principles and characteristics of Waldorf kindergartens? What are the challenges facing them in the twenty-first century?This book of articles by Waldorf experts is a valuable overview of the current state of early-years education...read more

Product Description: Drawing on metamorphic principles, this book's profound yet practical research methods will help investigate the processes of how living forms develop.

Product Description: Lectures & discussions, Dornach, Stuttgart, 1920–1924 (CW 314)Following his first major lecture course for medical practitioners, Steiner elaborated and deepened his “extension” of conventional healing through a spiritual-scientific perspective...read more

Product Description: 18 lectures, Berlin, 1908–1909 (CW 107)According to Rudolf Steiner, illness comes to expression in the physical body, but mostly does not originate in it. Thus, a key to the physician’s work is gaining insight into the whole nature―the essential core being―of an individual...read more

Product Description: 9 lectures, Dornach, April 11–18, 1921 (CW 313)In a series of nine lectures to doctors, pharmacists and students, Steiner presents a wealth of medical ideas with numerous therapeutic and diagnostic insights. As with his first series of lectures on medicine a year earlier (Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine), the range, depth and scope of Steiner’s subject matter is breathtaking...read more

Product Description: "The butterfly flutters above and over the earth, borne on the air and shimmering with light... We ought really to see them as nothing other than beings of light, joyous in their colours and the play of colours. All the rest is garment and luggage...read more

Product Description: As Earth’s neighbor, the moon affects not only ocean tides but also the growth and development of plants. In this finely illustrated, full-color book―packed with practical tips for the novice as well as the advanced gardener―Peter Berg offers a clear summary of the basics of lunar and biodynamic gardening, together with these in-depth sections: activating and enlivening the soil biodynamic preparations making good compost crop rotation and green manuring cultivation work and care of the garden practical plant protection rich harvesting saving your own seeds Building on the intensive research of his mentor Maria Thun and the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Berg explains how the subtle influences from the cosmos work on the plant world, describing the differences among and the significance of “root,” “leaf,” “blossom,” and “fruit” days in the working calendar...read more

Product Description: “I believe a time will come when greater distance makes the conflicts in the Anthroposophical Society―which at first sight seem so ugly―appear as part of the struggle for Anthroposophy in the twentieth century. When this future dawns, it will be important to be able to reach back to an historical documentation of what happened...read more

Product Description: The week has a remarkable rhythm that does not fit exactly with either the month or the year. Yet most of humanity keeps faith with this sevenfold rhythm. Why did the seven-day week triumph over the many other ways that existed of subdividing the month in ancient times? The answer, as Wolfgang Held shows, is rooted in the human being...read more

Product Description: The so-called supplementary exercises―intended for practice along with the “review exercises” and meditation―are integral to the path of inner development presented by Rudolf Steiner. Together, they form a means of experiencing the spiritual realm in full consciousness...read more