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Edouard Schuré - The Great Initiates - Steinerbooks - 1977

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The Selamiut [Inuit mythology]

Aurora borealis, or the northern light, is a spectacular sight to behold. It comes as no surprise, then, that humans from different civilizations and eras have attributed these wondrous moving lights to gods or spirits or other supernatural powers. In the Labrador area of Canada, the indigenous Inuit people believed in the Selamiut, mythical and enigmatic spirits who inhabit the sky. Their name translates roughly to “those who dwell in the sky”.

Selamiut spirits were once mortal humans. After dying a particular violent death (or by self-sacrifice, since a voluntary death also counts) their souls were allowed to pass on to the realm in the sky. But getting there was no easy task, for they had to travel a long and difficult road.

First, the spirits found themselves on the abyss where the ocean meets the land. They had to travel along a very narrow path through the abyss. Then, the souls came to a gateway or opening in the dome that surrounds our world. After passing through this opening, they became the sky dwellers: the Selamiut. They now live in the afterlife in the sky, where they feast and play sports.

The current Selamiut know how dangerous the path is and how lonely or discouraging the journey can be, so they placed a series of magical torches along the path for newly diseased souls to follow. The bright, colourful light from these torches can sometimes be seen in the world of mortals, and these are the northern lights.

When whistling noises accompany the auroras, it is said that these are the spirits attempting to talk with us. Those who can hear them have to answer in whispers. However, the Igluik Inuit people from Greenland have a different version of this story. There, the sounds of the aurora are said to come from a ball game the spirits like to play in the afterlife. Instead of a ball, the skull of walrus is used. The noises come from the soles of the spirits who run after the ball.

It took all my willpower to not make a ‘steamed hams’ joke.

Sources: Karram, K., 2013, Death wins in the Arctic: the lost winter patrol of 1910, Dundurn, 232 pp. Falck-Ytter, H., 1999, Aurora: the northern lights in mythology, history and science, SteinerBooks, 143 pp. (image source: Jamie Strassenburg)

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April showers bring May flowers and bees! Bees make honey; we all know that. But what happens between the bee buzzing around our backyard, and the sticky knife in the jar, is a mystery to most of us. How many bee-hours does it take to make just one jar of honey? What do the honeybees' waggling dances really mean? Why do bees swarm? What is a 'house bee'? From exploring their life cycle and development, to revealing their societies and behavior, expert biodynamic beekeeper Michael Weiler answers these questions and many more. http://shop.steinerbooks.org/Title/9781782505808 #waldorfinspired #waldorf #steinerbooks #biodynamics #agriculture #ecology #michaelweiler #bees #spring https://www.instagram.com/p/B_n5911J1eJ/?igshid=19seo1rlk2dgz

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Letter to a Friend on Christmas Eve, 1513

Most Noble Contessina:

I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not already, but there is much, very much, which though I cannot give it, you can take.No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this precious little instant. Take peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and courage in the darkness could we but see; and to see, we have only to look. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their coverings, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, and wisdom, and power. Welcome it, greet it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing Presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then, to claim it, that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims wending through unknown country our way home. And so, at this Christmas time, I greet you, not quite as the world sends greeting, but with profound esteem now and forever. The day breaks and the shadows flee away. —  Fra Giovanni Giocondo, letter to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on Christmas Eve, 1513 in “To Look on Earth With More Than Mortal Eyes” By Marjorie Spock (SteinerBooks, 1985)

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What Is Anthroposophy? - Rudolf Steiner

What Is Anthroposophy? Three Spiritual Perspectives On Self-Knowledge Rudolf Steiner Genre: Education Price: $4.99 Publish Date: June 1, 2002 Publisher: SteinerBooks Seller: Anthroposophic Press, Inc. This is one of those books that can change your life. Radical, thought-provoking, and indeed mind-boggling, it leads to a completely new way of looking at what it means to be human - a spiritual being in a universe that itself is not just physical, but psychic and spiritual as well. These three previously untranslated lectures are a masterly introduction to what Rudolf Steiner means by “anthroposophy.” They explain why Steiner describes this path-which means literally “the wisdom of the human being”- as one that “unites what is spiritual in the human being with what is spiritual in the universe.” Steiner begins by describing what happens when we die. He shows the relationship between our physical life on earth and the etheric, astral, and spiritual life of the cosmos. He also explains how physical lives are completely interwoven with cosmic existence, and how the “miss­ing links” in evolution are spiritual in nature. Steiner then demonstrates what he calls the “dilettantism” and “soullessness” of mainstream psychology. He points out that since the second half of the nineteenth century the idea of the soul has been lost, and that, consequently, understanding of our inner lives is without a sure foundation. A quite different view, however, emerges from a truly spiritual perspective. In the third lec­ture, Steiner takes as his guide our three states of being - waking, dreaming, and sleeping. He describes in detail what happens in these three states, and how each is bound up with our lives as physical, psychic, and spiritual beings. With the profound insights in this book, the world becomes a much larger, richer, and more exciting place to live. http://dlvr.it/R3Q8Cb

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HOPE. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I 've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. - Emily Dickinson Visit us at steinerbooks.org for our Sunday Letter. #steinerbooks #waldorfinspired #grounded #hope #waldorf #rudolfsteiner https://www.instagram.com/p/B-U6_b_p_kx/?igshid=jd00npgnf8fx

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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. https://bookshop.org/books/the-light-of-the-i-guidelines-for-meditation/9781584200598 #steinerbooks #meditations #meditation #rudolfsteiner #steinercommunity #esoteric #anthroposophic #anthroposophy #spiritual https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4waXdJvKV/?igshid=1s5avd1qukw6h

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COMING SOON: New book (title to be determined) for author Steve Sagarin! "Education prepares us for an unknown, uncertain future. Conformity, convention, and a lack of creative thinking and action will not serve us fully to face this future. We cannot know, we can only guess, what the future will bring, and we educate truly when we educate for inspiration ~ insight and creativity ~ in the face of the unknown." - Steve Sagarin #steinerbooks #education #homeschool #waldorfeducation #waldorfhomeschool #waldorf #inspiration #insight #creativity #school #future #waldorfinspired #steinercommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CD33iV0JvT4/?igshid=xorbvb40z633

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"The Language of Plants" It is only in the age of technology that human beings have lost a sense of nature being alive. Throughout history, people spoke to nature, and nature communicated with them. During the Middle Ages, reading the "book of nature" was called the doctrine of signatures, which had always been an important part of interacting with nature for traditional healers and herbalists. "As a child, I just knew which plant to pick up and hold to my head for a headache to go away. Once I heard about the concept of a 'doctrine of signatures, ' I would just stand silently, in awe of nature talking to me, talking and talking in her silent, direct speech. The book of nature seemed so obviously spelled out, and in oddest contrast to what I learned in medical school. My professors seemed never to have heard of nature being vibrant and alive and brimming with patterns of energy that are right there for us to understand and use.... This direct and primordial experience of being part of nature's omnipresent, cyclic course taught me more in the realm of no-words than any university ever could have." --Julia Graves @juliagraves https://bookshop.org/books/the-language-of-plants-a-guide-to-the-doctrine-of-signatures/9781584200987 #steinerbooks #anthroposophic #herbalmedication #herbal #lindisfarnebooks #holistic #nature #connection #healing #body #plants https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1bDRcpVUt/?igshid=1291xhcgbk1t5

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When we turn to meditation, we are turning toward renewal, peace, and insight. Initially, we may take up contemplative practice as a means of tapping into the abundant resources of the mind and heart that bring serenity, but the meditative journey leads further—to the place where wisdom and love unite. Copy/paste the link below: https://bookshop.org/books/meditation-as-contemplative-inquiry-when-knowing-becomes-love/9781584200628 #steinerbooks #waldorfinspired #mind #body #spirit #love #lindisfarnebooks #arthurzajonc #anthroposophic #anthroposophy #meditation #meditations #rudolfsteiner #renewal #peace https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxEj9DAg7V/?igshid=1fl223ysv7toc

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May the activity of thought unite us, Since we must be separated in space. - May what we have already achieved together Now be put into action by the community of teachers. May its range increase through your own counsel, Since that counselor, who would so gladly come, Does not have his wings free to do so. Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum, March 15, 1925 Subscribe to our Sunday Letter at steinerbooks.org/newsletter or read fully on our blog at steinerbooks.org/blog. #steinerbooks #waldorfinspired #waldorfeducation #anthroposophic #waldorflearning #waldorfclassroom #rudolfsteiner #rudolfsteinerquotes #education #homeschool #waldorfhomeschool #waldorfhomeschooling #self #teacher https://www.instagram.com/p/CDq8e16Jvnv/?igshid=149ud7fg8wnkp

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"...the souls lifeblood will set its imprint on all the methods and practice of the teaching effort and saving them from becoming abstract principles. Something will thus live in the educator, which I would like to characterize...as a kind of education for life itself: To spend oneself in matter is to grind down souls. To find oneself in the spirit is to unite human beings. to see oneself in all humanity is to construct worlds." ~ Rudolf Steiner, Bern 1924 https://steinerbooks.org/where-to-buy-steiner-books #steinerbooks #waldorfinspired #waldorfeducation #rudolfsteinerquotes #anthroposophic #waldorflearning #waldorfclassroom #rudolfsteiner #waldorfhomeschool #education https://www.instagram.com/p/CDod9MtpM6T/?igshid=1h09ui87pb56u

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“ I don’t want to be revered! I want to be understood.” —Rudolf Steiner, 1915 Whoever follows Rudolf Steiner’s life will gain the impression that, from a certain point on, his constant attempt was to awake, in numerous ways, an active, working understanding for Anthroposophy. He used creative imagination to treat particular themes and tasks, ever anew, and in many forms. If we observe the variations of those presentations, we see in them the intentions that guided his whole life. A biography that shows Steiner’s intentions and efforts in the context of the times and his life circumstances will not only relate what happened, but also why. His work does not, as in many modern biographies, disappear behind the life story. https://steinerbooks.org/where-to-buy-steiner-books #steinerbooks #waldorfinspired #waldorfeducation #rudolfsteinerquotes #anthroposophic #anthroposophy #biography #understandingsteiner #philosophy #rudolfsteiner #steinercommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjXEdfJz70/?igshid=twdlr7t9iqt8

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The Chadwick Library Edition is an endeavor to republish—mostly in new or thoroughly revised English translations—several written works of Rudolf Steiner. The edition is named for the late horticulturist Alan Chadwick, whose life and work has served as inspiration to the small group from which the idea originated. Our extensive experience with special bindings led to the selection—for this “trade edition” of 750 books—of a leather spine binding, cloth sides, and a light slipcase. For the hand-numbered edition (100 books), the binding is full leather with a hand-gilt top of the pages in a fine, stiff, cloth-covered slipcase. The leather is blue calfskin, and the title stamping on the spines is in genuine gold leaf. All of this will be carried out by hand at one of the finest binders, Ruggero Rigoldi. Learn more about The Chadwick Library Press: https://steinerbooks.org/chadwick #steinerbooks #freewill #determination #anthroposophy #epistemology #mind #body #chadwicklibrarypress https://www.instagram.com/p/CDcqbnbJzmb/?igshid=3rcfkrvuipnu

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What life from its depths Has decided to set before my spirit From sources of world destiny- The brave soul finds The right path when it Trusts the bright warm I. ~ Rudolf Steiner, 1924 Subscribe to our Sunday Letter today at steinerbooks.org/newsletter or read our blog each week at steinerbooks.org/blog. #steinerbooks #rudolfsteiner #rudolfsteinerquotes #waldorfinspired #mind #body #spirit #sundayletter https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZ6En0JxgX/?igshid=1y137l8ne6eyg