5 lectures at The Hague, November 13-18, 1923 (CW 231)What is our relationship to the planets we see in the night sky? Does the cosmos have any affect on our individual lives? Modern science tells us that we are an insignificant accident in a vast, indifferent universe. Rudolf Steiner maintains that we are intimately enmeshed with the whole ......
13 lectures, Dornach and Basel, December 4-31, 1916 (CW 173) Although these lectures were given in 1916, they have much to teach us about today's political spin, media distortions, propaganda and downright lies--all delivered by the media on a daily basis. Rudolf Steiner's calm, methodological approach penetrates the smokescreen of accusations ......
The Active Connection Between the Living and the Dead
In these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul's journey within the vast realms of soul and spirit between death and rebirth. Steiner describes the states of consciousness ......
The primary contention of this book is that, as a spiritual being, each of us lives beyond death, and eventually returns to earth in a new human body. With this knowledge in mind, the authors give much sound practical advice as to how parents, and others who spend time with children, can welcome a soul to the world and help it grow into a healthy ......
The soul's immortality and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in some branches of esoteric Judaism and Cabbala. But it was not until the early years of this century that the West was given a detailed, modern, evolutionary philosophy of human ......
Shows the insuperable difficulties in elucidating post-mortem survival on a rational basis. This book analyses the three ways that philosophers have attempted to get around these difficulties: the 'reconstitutionist way'; the 'way of the astral body'; and, the 'Platonic-Cartesian way'. It reviews classic arguments and findings of parapsychology.
Ormond McGill is known and loved throughout the USA as the 'Dean of American Hypnosis'. His stage shows have spellbound audiences the length and breadth of the continent, and his hypnotic powers continue to amaze people wherever he goes. Seeing The Unseen is his latest masterpiece, the intriguing story of 'Sarah Channing', a famous figure who ......
Discusses the stages of dying, examines the accounts of near-death experiences, and argues that brain chemistry, rather than afterlife, best explains the sensations felt near death.
