A Way of Self-Knowledge

Part one, A Way of Self-Knowledge: Eight meditations that take the reader on a journey through human experience. Beginning with ordinary experience, Steiner offers ways to imagine and understand the physical body, the elemental (or etheric) body, the elemental world, the Guardian of the Threshold, the astral body, the I-body (or thought body), the nature of experience in suprasensory worlds, and ways of perceiving previous earthly lives. Part two, The Threshold of the Spiritual World: Sixteen short chapters in which Steiner provides aphoristic thoughts on trusting ones thinking, cognition of the spiritual world, karma and reincarnation, the astral body and luciferic beings, how to recognize suprasensory consciousness, the true nature of love, and more. These two complete books together represent Steiners most personal statements about his own spiritual path. He speaks directly from experiences of cognitive research and explorations. Each of the meditations and aphorisms arises from his spiritual research and demonstrates how such spiritual research is to be undertaken. The content is Steiners own, but readers can discover their own content. Steiners method of awarenesshis path of attention to ones own experienceis universal and truly human.