The goal of this study is to cultivate the experience of living, intuitive thinking, such as we experience with every new understanding. As Kühlewind puts it, this unique contribution to practice of anthroposophy has a twofold purpose: “to stimulate working with spiritual science through exercises, and to stimulate independent new formulations of its content on the basis of experience.” Working with Anthroposophy will help guide beginning students and inspire longtime students of the path opened up by Rudolf Steiner. As with all of Kühlewind’s works, this book opens new insights with each reading.

Working with Anthroposophy: The Practice of Thinking

Politics & Social Sciences

Kühlewind, Georg

Philosophy

SteinerBooks

Becoming Aware of the Logos: The Way of St. John the Evangelist

Religion & Spirituality

Lindisfarne Pr

How much practical time do we usually devote to the general art of being human? This practical guide to the self-healing of consciousness―it is both a spiritual psychology and a contemporary manual of the inner life―begins by laying out very clearly the unhealthy, unfree nature of today's consciousness.  Methodical self-observation leads to discovering the key to the liberating consciousness from its habitual blind spots and automatisms: the realization of the universal primacy of cognition and the universal availability of its ground, the free attention.  Through attention, a person who practices the author's exercises begins to expand the range of his or her possibilities of understanding and doing. The exercises―based on the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path and Rudolf Steiner's cognitive spiritual path―lead to a new life in which superconscious intuitions gradually take the place of superconscious formations.  This new life is a universal human life of improvisatory, living thinking: a life of presence, pure joy, which is health for human beings.  Contents:  1. Inventory 2. The Diseased Consciousness 3. A Little Psychology 4. A Little Psychology 5. The Health of the Soul 6. The Path of Knowledge 7. On Human Freedom

From Normal to Healthy: Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness

Self-Help

Happiness

Without forgiving there can be no true resolution to human conflict. In this essay Kuhlewind penetrates to the roots of the process of forgiving, dissolving and resolving the inner struggles involved in this process and uncovering the sources of blame, envy, and hostility.

Forgiving (Adonis Press)

Personal Transformation

Adonis Press

Ordinarily we live under the tyranny of the past. All that we call thinking is the habitual association of finished, dead thoughts. But these thoughts were alive once and every new moment of understanding is a breath from the level of the living present. Stages of Consciousness proposes that we train ourselves in the stage of consciousness that we occasionally glimpse as intuition. Beginning with the intuition of the true self in the living thinking―“the fundamental experience of the spirit”―the author goes on to describe practical exercise in concentration and contemplation. Georg Kühlewind describes his purpose in his foreword: “Modern humanity’s most difficult task is to become aware of, to see and to overcome the threshold of mirrored consciousness. The first essay attempts to show how Rudolf Steiner proposes reaching this goal in his Philosophy of Freedom. Consideration of the threshold lying between thinking and what has been thought leads the one making this experiment to ‘the fundamental experience of the spirit.’ The third essay attempts to develop a methodology for the first steps in the realm of concentration and contemplation. The last essays set forth the outcome: how, in the observation of the soul’s boundaries, these boundaries become transparent and permeable. The form of the communication is such that the reader, tracing the lines of the movements of thinking, steps into its fabric.” Contents: 
<ul>
<li> Introduction by Christopher Bamford </li>
<li> Author’s Foreword </li>
<li> The Two Stages of Consciousness </li>
<li> The Fundamental Experience of the Spirit </li>
<li> Concentration and Contemplation </li>
<li> The Boundaries of the Soul </li>
<li> The Secret of Perceiving </li>
<li> The Spiritual Communion of Modern Humanity </li>
<li> The Sense of Being </li>
<li> The Light of the Earth </li>
</ul>

Stages of Consciousness: Meditations on the Boundaries of the Soul

How much practical time do we usually devote to the general art of being human? This practical guide to the self-healing of consciousness―it is both a spiritual psychology and a contemporary manual of the inner life―begins by laying out very clearly the unhealthy, unfree nature of today's consciousness. Methodical self-observation leads to discovering the key to the liberating consciousness from its habitual blind spots and automatisms: the realization of the universal primacy of cognition and the universal availability of its ground, the free attention. Through attention, a person who practices the author's exercises begins to expand the range of his or her possibilities of understanding and doing. The exercises―based on the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path and Rudolf Steiner's cognitive spiritual path―lead to a new life in which superconscious intuitions gradually take the place of superconscious formations. This new life is a universal human life of improvisatory, living thinking: a life of presence, pure joy, which is health for human beings. Contents: 1. Inventory 2. The Diseased Consciousness 3. A Little Psychology 4. A Little Psychology 5. The Health of the Soul 6. The Path of Knowledge 7. On Human Freedom

Lindisfarne Books

The aim of this book is to show that the world, including human beings and their consciousness, is not originally a world of thing but a world of words; that fundamentally the world has the structure of a text; and that it is therefore possible to read it like a test (Georg Kühlewind). To realize this goal one must keep in mind three different approaches, or disciplines: epistemology, psychology, and linguistics. These are united by the phenomenology - "empiricism of consciousness" - used by the author, who always speaks from and toward experience. This is no ordinary text. It is a guide to philosophical experience - to the experience of cognition itself.

The Logos-Structure of the World: Language as Model of Reality (Anomalies)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

What is the power that Jesus calls to awaken in us? What does it mean to be healthy and whole? How can we open ourselves so that the healing power can heal what is sick? How can we awaken this power in ourselves?  “Wilt thou be made whole?” is the question Jesus addressed to the paralyzed man who had waited in vain for years at the Pool of Bethesda. Not really answering, he replies that he has no one to carry him down when the angel stirs the waters. “Take up your bed and walk,” Jesus tells him, and the man was made whole and walked.  What passed between them? What communion or communication took place in the interval between the paralyzed man’s “excuse” and Jesus’ injunction? What did the man receive through Jesus’ words? Georg Kühlewind shows how meditation can bring us closer to that event.  Beginning with a meditation-based account of the embodied psycho-spiritual human being, Kühlewind describes the preconditions and possibilities of healing in the Gospels. He goes on to discuss in depth and detail, through meditations, Christ’s various psychological and physical healings.  The unique quality of this book is that Kühlewind utilizes the healings in the Gospels as themes for meditation―spiritual exercises that can bring us to a more intimate understanding of Christ’s healing power. In this way, Kühlewind shows us how to approach a deeper understanding of the healing process itself and begin to heal ourselves. In the process, we come to understand the Gospels and ourselves in a new way.

Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?: Healing in the Gospels

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

This remarkable short guide to meditation is the fruit of many years of meditative experience as well as thirty years of teaching meditation. Through exercises and meditation sentences it delineates an accessible, systematic process of inner work by which a person can come to experience both the “I,” or Self, and the miraculous nature of that Light that, as inner Light, we call attention. Beginning with simple meditation sentences that illuminate the role of attention in perception, the person wishing to take this path is led gradually to the reality and experience of form-free attention. Kühlewind offers-step-by step guidance in concentration exercises, sentence meditations, visualizations (image or symbol meditations), and perceptual meditations for guidance on the path. He also offers advice and help with the difficulties and problems that can arise. Each stage of the path―in itself and in relation to the whole sequence―is presented in a way to be understood through meditative thinking. Deepened in this way, it becomes, as well, a work of philosophy―but philosophy understood as a transformative way of life, an inner path

The Light of the "I": Guidelines for Meditation

Every spiritual practice, every exercise of consciousness, all meditation―indeed, every moment of true awareness―we do with the “gentle will,” even if we are unaware of it initially and cannot fully activate it yet. In the course of practice, however, the gentle will begins to shine, and we gradually gain the ability to access it in our ordinary, daily activities, allowing our lives to become infinitely richer, meaningful, and creative.  The gentle will is relaxed, receptive, expressive, creative, soft, light, and playful. It is not rigid or cramped. We use the gentle will in artistic activities such as playing a musical instrument, writing a poem, or painting a picture. It is the original will of the human being, the will of the “I.” The gentle will is not the determined, useful, goal-oriented, egoistic, working will of Sisyphus, who will never be able to roll his boulder up the mountain. The gentle will is free of me-feeling and egoism. In this way, it differs from the “hard will,” which works through egoism.  Today, however, all life is governed by the principle of usefulness, utility, comfort, and efficiency―the hard will of egoism. This approach has brought the world to the brink of catastrophe, regardless of what technocrats say or think about it.  Georg Kühlewind writes in this book that the only hope he sees of avoiding destruction is a change in human consciousness; the “hard will” must become the “gentle will.” To this end, he provides exercises through which we may transform the hard will into the gentle will.

The Gentle Will: Meditative Guidelines for Creative Consciousness

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Working with Anthroposophy: The Practice of Thinking

Becoming Aware of the Logos: The Way of St. John the Evangelist

From Normal to Healthy: Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness

Forgiving (Adonis Press)

Stages of Consciousness: Meditations on the Boundaries of the Soul

From Normal to Healthy: Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness

The Logos-Structure of the World: Language as Model of Reality (Anomalies)

Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?: Healing in the Gospels

The Light of the "I": Guidelines for Meditation

The Gentle Will: Meditative Guidelines for Creative Consciousness