Meyer guides the reader to the most modern form of Taoism inherent in Rudolf Steiner's work -- particularly his Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. Meyer traces the evolution of human consciousness from the dreamy clairvoyance of Atlantis to the modern ability for dear abstract thought -- through to humanity's newly unfolding clairvoyant faculties.

Clairvoyance and Consciousness: The Tao Impulse in Evolution

Religion & Spirituality

Meyer, T.H.

Occult & Paranormal

Temple Lodge Publishing

"Transparent stories of both life's sober and glorious seasons!"  ~Kim Hyland, author of An Imperfect Woman and Founder of The Winsome Retreat"An incredible poignant book!"  ~Jennifer Hand, Coming Alive Ministries, author of Coming Alive at The CrossHow does one's faith survive in the face of cancer or abandonment of community?How does your soul recover after living on the prodigal path to finally see what God sees and allow grace to find you? How does one's faith continue past the hard surrenders and the letting go's that just might kill you, to find God's strength inside?Through poignant storytelling, Tammy and Amy share their personal struggles in a journey that will lift your eyes toward God's ever-abiding presence. They remember parts of their stories while pulling out your own. Each chapter will guide you in remembrance to believe the God who not only created each season, but also walks you through them.

A God of All Seasons: Walking towards Mercy, Grace, and Hope

Breitmann, Amy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Laurence Oliphant is one of the great unknown personalities of the nineteenth century, and indeed of recent cultural history at large. He was born at Cape Town in 1829 and died near London in 1888. He left behind some twenty books, including novels, travel accounts, and mystical spiritual writings. He was diplomat, traveler, adventurer, writer, and mystic. 
 At the beginning of the 1860s, the period of Oliphant’s great spiritual transition began when he met the Swedenborgian Thomas Lake Harris. It was Oliphant's last works, Sympneumata and Scientific Religion, that prompted Rudolf Steiner to pursue karmic research on Oliphant. As a result, Steiner revealed the karmic relationship between the lives of Oliphant and the Roman poet Ovid. In an August 24, 1924, lecture in London, Steiner commented that Oliphant’s individuality is significant not only because of the previous Ovid incarnation, but also because of its activity in the interval between the two incarnations. Looked at in the light of spiritual research on the subject, Oliphant’s life assumes dimensions of world-historical interest. 
 When a Stone Begins to Roll contains extensive selections from Oliphants autobiographical book, Episodes in a Life of Adventure; or, Moss from a Rolling Stone (1887). In addition to the insightful commentary of T.H. Meyer, the book also offers a generous sampling of Oliphant’s complex and compelling work, as well as hitherto unpublished material and the satire “The Sisters of Tibet.” 
 CONTENTS: 
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<li> Preface</li> <li> Introduction by Thomas Meyer</li> <li> A Stone Is Beginning to Roll</li> <li> The Ascent of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka</li> <li> Educational Trips to Italy and Greece in the Year 1848</li> <li> Surprises at the Tomb of Socrates</li> <li> Twenty-three Murder Cases and the Mania for Authorship</li> <li> Facing the Himalayas</li> <li> Seven Paintings and Sketches by Laurence Oliphant</li> <li> Covert Operations with Garibaldi</li> <li> The Attack on the British Legation in Japan in 1861</li> <li> Festive Reception at Ovid’s Birthplace</li> <li> Politics and Spirituality: The Spiritual Transition in the Life of Laurence Oliphant</li> <li> “He that Does the Will...”</li> <li> A Celestial Utopia: An Interview with Oliphant (1869)</li> <li> The Sisters of Tibet―A Spiritual Satire</li> <li> Attacking the Earth Malady at Its Root</li> <li> Bibliography</li> </ul>

When a Stone Begins to Roll: Notes of an Adventurer, Diplomat & Mystic

Biographies & Memoirs

Oliphant, Laurence

Arts & Literature

Lindisfarne Books

Each individual portrayed in this book may, beyond his unique nature, be considered representative of one or several aspects of human nature and human striving, and for the obstacles such striving must encounter. Goethe displays the struggle for universal moral, scientific, and artistic values throughout lifetimes, bridging and linking whole ages. Nietzsche is perhaps the representative of the new faculty of inspiration and the challenge to complement it by intuition. Oscar Wilde represents the stage of soul development at which insight into the worthlessness of vanity and ambition dawns with the power of a purifying tempest.Kafka represents those millions of people who are drawn toward the threshold of the spiritual world but lack the courage to cross it.Eckstein, the great friend of Steiner’s youth, is representative of the tendency to withhold esoteric knowledge from the majority of human beings and to keep it as a possession of ”the privileged few,” an attitude that still prevails in certain occult streams. Rudolf Steiner worked to make esoteric truths public and showed ways toward a radically new knowledge of the spirit and a new mobility of thought.

Representative Men: In the Light of Anthroposophy with a Chapter on the Twelve Worldviews

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The mantras of the Michael School are, in the truest sense of the word, a path for modern human beings―and indeed not just for our time between birth and death, but even more so for the time after death in the spiritual world. In that world, every soul that has crossed the threshold will experience beings and events that it can comprehend only if it has learned something on Earth about the beings there and processes that take place between them. In his eighteenth lesson Rudolf Steiner said: "People who have heard this in esoteric schools on Earth will go through the gate of death and will hear these words again sounding in harmony together―in the esoteric schools here and during the life between death and a new birth there. They will understand what rings forth. Or, people will be dull and unwilling to respond to what the esoteric schools, prepared by general Anthroposophy, have to say. They’ll fail to perceive what can be heard through initiation science from the realms of the heights. They pass through the gate of death. There they hear what they should have already heard while here on Earth . . . but they do not understand it. These words of power―when the gods speak to one another―sound to them like an unintelligible clanging, mere cosmic noise." These words alone, heard in real earnestness, should be enough to dispel any reservations about spreading the teaching of the Michael School. This content does not belong only to those who are closely connected with Anthroposophy and its movement; every seeking human being should be able to find them as a path through life on Earth and after death.

The First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps (CW 270) (Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric Legacy of 1924, 1)

STEINER, RUDOLF

SteinerBooks

Using the events of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, Meyer studies the issues of reality, truth, and evil. Offering important new perspectives, he shows that U.S. political practice―under the influence of secret societies such as Skull and Bones―is based on an ideology of polarity and conflict. Meyer offers instances of this tendency, encouraging what Huntington famously referred to as a “clash of civilizations.” For example, a week before George Bush, Sr., spoke in Congress about the need for a “new world order,” a humorous cartoon map in the Economist divided the world’s continents into religious and philosophical blocks, creating a new region called “Islamistan.” In 1997, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote openly of U.S. geo-strategic plans, stating that it would be hard to achieve such goals “except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.” It seems that this was granted with the events of September 11, 2001, and the consequent launch of the “war on terror.” The immediate comparisons, led by George W. Bush, with Pearl Harbor demand a reassessment of the events of 1941. Meyer points to conclusive evidence suggesting that Roosevelt deliberately provoked the attacks and failed to pass on intelligence to US Navy chiefs. Could it be possible that certain members of the U.S. elite likewise deliberately remained passive before 9/11? Why, only two weeks after the attacks, were celebrations held at CIA headquarters in which Bush profusely thanked the secret services “on behalf of the American people?” In contrast to the divisive thinking and “conflict management” of leading representatives of the Anglo-American elite―inspired by a contorted reading of some basic insights of the philosopher Hegel―the author shows how the holistic approach of Rudolf Steiner and Mabel Collins offers a radical alternative for dealing with polarities and overcoming conflict.

Reality, Truth, and Evil: Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11, 2001

Rudolf Steiner’s core mission―repeatedly delayed owing to the a lack of capacity in his colleagues―was to pursue contemporary spiritual-scientific research into the phenomena of reincarnation and karma. This stimulating book describes the winding biographical path of that mission. It focuses in particular on the mystery of Steiner’s connection with the influential medieval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Using numerous archival sources and publications, Thomas Meyer reveals many facts related to the core of Steiner's mission, showing the critical roles played by Wilhelm Anton Neumann and Karl Julius Schröer in its genesis and development. Meyer examines how Rudolf Steiner’s students responded to his understanding of karma, placing this “most intrinsic mission” in the context of current divisions in the anthroposophic movement. He highlights especially the place of spiritual science in culture and history and shows how Steiner further developed the great scientific ideas of evolution propounded by Darwin by raising them to the plane of individual soul and spiritual development. As Steiner stated in 1903, “Scientific researchers explain the skull forms of higher animals as a transformation of a lower type of skull. In the same way one should explain a soul's biography through the soul biography which the former evolved from.”

Rudolf Steiner's Core Mission: The Birth and Development of Spiritual-Scientific Karma Research

New Age & Spirituality

“Enthusiastic readers are sometimes heard to say of a book: ‘I couldn't put it down.’ This is obviously either a metaphor or else a gross hyperbole. But I can't recall any book as to which in my case it came nearer to the literal truth than The Bodhisattva Question.” ―Owen BarfieldAccording to Eastern tradition, the twelve sublime beings known as bodhisattvas are the great teachers of humanity. One after another, they descend into earthly incarnation until they fulfil their earthly missions. At that point, they rise to buddahood and are no longer obliged to return in a physical form. However, before bodhisattvas becomes a buddhas, they announce the name of their successors. According to Rudolf Steiner, the future Maitreya Buddha―or the “Bringer of Good,” as his predecessor named him―incarnated in a human body in the twentieth century. Presuming this to be so, then who was this person? Theosophists believed they had discovered the bodhisattva in an Indian boy named Krishnamurti, who did indeed grow up to become a teacher of some magnitude. Adolf Arenson and Elisabeth Vreede, both students of Steiner, made independent examinations of this question in relation to Steiner's personal mission. They reached contrasting conclusions. More recently, a claim has been made that Valentin Tomberg―a student of Anthroposophy but later an influential Roman Catholic―was the bodhisattva. In this book, Meyer analyzes these conflicting theories and demonstrates how the question can be useful as an exercise in developing sound judgment in spiritual matters. Elisabeth Vreede's two lectures on the subject, included here in full, are a valuable contribution to our understanding of the true nature and being of Rudolf Steiner.

The Bodhisattva Question: Krishnamurti, Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth-Century Master

Vreede, Elisabeth

"The Tao...is something that was considered a distant goal of the world and humanity, the highest element that human beings carried as a seed within them, and that would one day develop into a fully opened blossom from the innermost depths of human nature." ―Rudolf Steiner The recent explosion of spiritual teachings has offered countless paths to clairvoyant and metaphysical states of consciousness. This spiritual renaissance, including a renewed interest in Taoism, can be seen as a reflection of the modern individual's need to become aware of spiritual modes of perception and knowing. However, Meyer insists that many of these teachings lead to an ancient form of hazy, indistinct clairvoyance, in direct opposition to clear, rational but spiritualized thinking. Between Goethe’s Taoism and Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics, Meyer guides the reader to the most modern form of Taoism, which is inherent in Rudolf Steiner’s work, particularly his Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path). Meyer traces the evolution of human consciousness, from the dreamy clairvoyance of ancient Atlantis to the modern ability for clear abstract thinking, and to humanity’s newly unfolding clairvoyant faculties.

Thomas Meyer’s major biography of Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (1869-1945) offers a panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of Rudolf Steiner’s most valued and independent-minded colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz was born in Prague (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire) to an aristocratic family with royal connections. Leaving behind his background traditions, he would become a key player in Steiner’s regenerative threefold social impulses, working tirelessly for a genuinely unified, free Europe. He also fought to protect Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric legacy and the integrity of the Anthroposophical Society. Meyer’s book is a pioneering work in biographical literature, structured in four main sections that reflect the stages of an individual’s personal development. In the concluding section he studies world events up to the present day, practicing a method referred to as a "symptomatological observation of history," which Polzer-Hoditz himself sought to develop. Much more than a standard biography, Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz presents a vibrantly living picture of how a spiritual individuality can work in human culture and history―past, present, and future.

Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz: A European

Leaders & Notable People

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Clairvoyance and Consciousness: The Tao Impulse in Evolution

A God of All Seasons: Walking towards Mercy, Grace, and Hope

When a Stone Begins to Roll: Notes of an Adventurer, Diplomat & Mystic

Representative Men: In the Light of Anthroposophy with a Chapter on the Twelve Worldviews

The First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps (CW 270) (Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric Legacy of 1924, 1)

Reality, Truth, and Evil: Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11, 2001

Rudolf Steiner's Core Mission: The Birth and Development of Spiritual-Scientific Karma Research

The Bodhisattva Question: Krishnamurti, Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth-Century Master

Clairvoyance and Consciousness: The Tao Impulse in Evolution

Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz: A European