The book's 256 informative pages and more than 200 beautiful color photographs taken in Avena's garden embody Deb Soule's deep love and respect for the spirit of the medicinal plants, with which she has worked for almost forty years. "This book is astounding! It is everything you want in a book about gardening: good solid practical advice, a spiritual connection to the earth, and visually beautiful. Deb has taken her twenty-five-plus years as a professional medicinal plant gardener and her life-time love of the earth and the plant people, and come up with something very special.This is a must-have book for anyone interested in gardening or the plant people. I promise you this book will be well read, well worn, and well loved. ―Karyn Sanders, Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine "Deb Soule is overflowing with the healing wisdom of the plant world distilled through many years of study, experience and observation. Her reverence and respect for nature and deep intuitive capacities are evident in every page of this book. What a gift! ―Robert Karp, Director of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Assocoation "Way beyond food, flowers, or medicine .... here is gardening as the mindful rhythm in harmony with all living souls." ―C.R. Lawn, FEDCO Seeds "Herbalist Deb Soule offers the reader a beautifully written, heart-centered gardening book that reads as much like a prayer as it does a practical guide for all gardeners, new and experienced; sure to awaken and inspire one to explore creative ways of tending the rich life held in a well-loved garden. The author shares wisdom gleaned through years of cultivating not only soil and plants, but also her research and work with the pollinators, biodynamic practices and favorite tools used in growing simple herbal remedies to nourish the gardener as they heal the Earth. Honoring traditions, ancestors and the sacredness of carrying on the work of the wise herbalists that came before us, Deb reminds us of the blessing of being called to this work!" ―Kate Gilday, Herbalist, Woodland Essence "The reader will find this book endowed with glorious offerings of rich nectar. It makes me want to go out and turn the compost pile." ―Richo Ceck, Horizon Herbs Contents: <ol>
<li>A gardener's Notebook</li> <li>Biodynamics: Agriculture i Service of the Earth and Humanity</li> <li>Living in Harmony with the Seasons</li> <li>Energetic and Elemental Associations of Plant Parts</li> <li>Growing, Harvesting, and Using Medicinal Herbs</li> </ol>

How to Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Soule, Deb

Alternative Medicine

Steiner Books

In 1794, Goethe and Schiller were engaged in a correspondence concerning the connection of the human soul with the world of the senses on one hand and with the suprasensory on the other. While Schiller approached the question in a philosophical way, Goethe embodied his thoughts in a fantasy entitled The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In his fantasy, Lily represents the ideal world of the suprasensory that is separated from the Green Snake, or the sensory, by a river. The goal is to build a bridge across the river that will connect the sensory and the suprasensory realms, and thereby establish a new, conscious spiritual awareness. The other characters in the fairy tale - the Ferryman, the Old Woman, the Youth, the Will-o'-Wisps, and the Old Man with the Lamp represent various aspects of the soul working together to accomplish this mighty task.

The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Spiritual Literature Library)

johann-wolfgang-von-goethe

Literature & Fiction

This book had a tremendous impact on readers in the late 1800s. Written by Ignatius Donnelly, a farmer-politician with no scientific training, it developed a strikingly original theme-that a comet passed close to or struck Earth in ancient times, causing catastrophic changes that later were vaguely recalled in mythologies and biblical tales. Throughout most of the book, Donnelly supports his ideas with convincing geological, archeological, and astronomical arguments. This reprint presents Donnelly's theory of the comet that impacted Earth tens of thousands of years ago, producing layers of gravel (which contemporary scientists attributed to glaciation) and the destruction of an advanced civilization (Atlantis), followed by a years-long cloud cover and extreme cold. A remarkable concept that has also been mentioned in ancient Arabic writings, this theory-and the book in which it is presented-will appeal to readers in many areas of interest: occult enthusiasts, fantasy buffs, and perhaps even some members of the scientific community.

Destruction of Atlantis: Ragnarok: Age of Fire and Gravel

Religion & Spirituality

Donnelly., Ignatius

Occult & Paranormal

This book originated in lectures Steiner gave to a small circle of theosophists and constitutes the earliest public exposition of his spiritual scientific research. In it Steiner deals with the impact of modern scientific thinking on our spiritual experiences and the conflict between reason and revelation. He looks at how eleven European mystics resolved the dichotomy between their inner spiritual perceptions and the age of invention and discovery then coming to birth.

Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age

Politics & Social Sciences

Rudolf, Steiner

Philosophy

The four Gospels, Steiner says, are meant to supplement one another to form a comprehensive picture of earthly and spiritual events. The Matthew Gospel describes Christ Jesus in his human aspects so that he is more near to us in a human sense. From an understanding of the Gospel of St. Matthew "can stream into us courage in life, strength and hope in our labors."

These 12 lectures, from the lecture series, The Gospel of Matthew, were published in German as, Das Matthaeus-evangelium. They are presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

THE GOSPEL OF ST.MATTHEW

STEINER, RUDOLF

New Age & Spirituality

This autobiography by Australian teacher presents a remarkable narration of inordinate suffering and tragedy. Maxene Hewitt was an asthmatic child whose father was killed in war. As an adult, she was blinded and scarred in an automobile accident. Later on, she developed cancer. This is the moving account of her psychological and spiritual struggles with losing her father, as well as her own illnesses, gradual blindness, and cancer. Through it all, she eventually reached acceptance and gained understanding and an intense awareness of the spiritual world, through which she began to sense the significance of a previous life. In recurring dreams, a lion represens her fear of disaster, while a giant stands as an image of her fear of death. Eventually, Maxene's approaching death leads her to perceive the archetypal pattern of Christ's life.

The Lion and the Giant of My Dreams: The Struggle of an Australian Teacher with Blindness and Cancer

Biographies & Memoirs

Hewitt, Maxene

Professionals & Academics

The Renewal of the Social Organism: (CW 24)

“History often provides insight into the present. Consider the American South one hundred and fifty years ago, for example. There, human rights and economic servitude were compressed onto a single domain for black Americans. They became a means of production that could be bought and sold as a commodity. In many parts of the South, it was forbidden to teach blacks to read. Control by law of education, part of culture, was found necessary to subordinate human rights to economics. The domain of rights and economics thus also engulfed culture.” ―Joseph Weizenbaum, from the forewordCulture, politics, economics―these are the three core activities of society; the health of any society depends on a harmonious interaction among these three activities. And, according to Rudolf Steiner, this is impossible unless they are autonomous to the degree that they can each find their own essential character. In his foreword, Joseph Weizenbaum observes that those who framed the United States Constitution understood this―at least partially―when they developed the doctrine of a separate church and state.   These essays cover a range of subjects―money, the division of labor, human motivation, and education. They offer refreshing insights into the nature of modern society as well as guidance for solving today's pressing social problems.  Contents:   Foreword by Joseph Weizenbaum  Four Articles from the Newspaper The Social Future:  “The Threefold Social Organism, Democracy, and Socialism”  “The International Economy and the Threefold Social Order”  “Culture, Law, and Economics”  The Threefold Social Order and Social Trust: Capital and Credit”  Twenty Articles from the Newspaper The Threefold Social Order  “The Threefold Division of the Social Organism, a Necessity of the Age”  “International Aspects of the Threefold Social Order”  “Marxism and the Threefold Social Order”  “The Threefold Social Order and Educational Freedom”  “What Is Needed?”  “Ability for Work, Will to Work, and the Threefold Social Order”  “What Socialists Do Not See”  “Socialist Stumbling Blocks”  “What the ‘New Spirit’ Demands”  “Economic Profit and the Spirit of the Age”  “Cultivation of the Spirit and Economic Life”  “Law and Economics”  “Social Spirit and Socialist Superstition”  “The Pedagogical Basis of the Waldorf School”  “Fundamental Fallacy in Social Thought”  “The Roots of Social Life”  “The Basis of the Threefold Social Order”  “Real Enlightenment as the Basis of Social Thought”  “Longing for New Thoughts”  “Wanted: Insight!”  Appendix:  “An Appeal to the German Nation and to the Civilized World”  “The Way to Save the German Nation”

The Renewal of the Social Organism: (cw 24) (English and German Edition)

Translated by Robin Alexander No one has written about the Sun like this! It is neither scientific in the usual sense, nor religious from an establishment view. Georg Blattmann integrates these disciplines in a form that may annoy, stimulate, anger, or cause wonder in the reader. Beginning with simple observations of the Sun and our own feelings for its life-giving power, the author examines its corona, temperature, and surface to arrive at startling conclusions about the inside of the Sun. He shows it as something "completely different." Using projective geometry, he provides a basis for a mathematical and physical understanding of the Sun. This enables us without too much difficulty to enter the spiritual realities connected with the Sun. And, using examples from the history of art, from astrophysics, and from the Gospels of the Bible, Blattmann shows the hidden connection between the Sun and the Christ.

The Sun : Ancient Mysteries and a New Physics

Schmidt, Gerhard

Christianity as Mystical Fact

Classics

Destinies of Individuals and of Nations

Steiner started each of these lectures, given during the war years, with a verse for those who had died. He begins this volume with a consideration of the destinies of nations from a spiritual point of view. He goes on to consider the Christ-Impulse and the Michaelic Spirits that serve him. Also included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric bodies, and the prophetic nature of dreams. The last lecture takes up the question of the cosmic meaning of our sense impressions and of our thinking, feeling, and willing.

The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations

Sociology

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