The Rudolf Steiner Library Newsletter

Spring 2009 HeadinVolume #46 (Final Issue) Founding Editor: Fred Paddock Editor: Frederick J. Dennehy Contents Managing Editor: Judith Soleil Production: Judith Kiely 2 What’s Happening in the Library By Judith Soleil The library newsletter, a publication of the Rudolf Steiner Library, national library of 3 A Word from the Editor the Anthroposophical Society in America, By Frederick J. Dennehy is designed to keep library users informed of the contents of the library. It also fea- gReviews tures translations of articles from Euro- pean anthroposophical journals that ex- 4 An Unknown Destiny: plore the relationship of anthroposophy to Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiation the world, thus encouraging dialogue and By Michael Gruber. the mutual exchange of ideas. Review by Frederick J. Dennehy

Letters to the editor are welcome. 6 Two New Contributions to Emerson Studies Rudolf Steiner Library Reviews by Gertrude Reif Hughes 65 Fern Hill Road Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ghent, NY 12075 The Infinitude of the Private Man [email protected] By Maurice York and Rick Spaulding.

Anthroposophical Society in America Natural History of the Intellect: 1923 Geddes Avenue P lace you r m essag e h ere. Fo r m axim um i mpact , use two or t hre e se ntenc es. The Last Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Edited by Maurice York and Rick Spaulding. 8 Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love By Arthur Zajonc. Review by Frederick J. Dennehy

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What’s Happening in the Library By Judith Soleil

• AUTOMATION! I say this with a big grin, and I can’t say it too strongly. Af- ter researching options for almost five years, this fall we selected an electronic circulation program, OPALS (Open-source Automated Library System). This Web-based, open source system is reasonably priced and quite user friendly. The vendors are personable and responsive. In December we started working with the program and by mid-February had already catalogued over 2000 hold- ings. Judith Kiely, assistant librarian and budding library scientist, initiated us into the arcane world of MARC (machine-readable cataloguing), enabling our little crew to create catalog records that will be intelligible all over the world. Patrons will be able to search the library catalog (which is not yet complete, but is growing daily); view a list of new books; reserve books; and access their own records at: http://rsl.scoolaid.net. Contact us to create a personal account (necessary for reserve and access to patron records; you need not log in to view the catalog). Choose a username and password, send them to the library, and we will set up an account for you (we prefer email; you may also use postal mail or phone us). • Volunteers. Our automation project is progressing quickly thanks to the help of some new volunteers: Hawthorne Valley School student Thaddeus Sipe and community member Thomas O’Keefe. Our long-time volunteers Louisa Sierau and Elsie Helmke are exhibiting great patience as we work with the new and old systems simultaneously. William Furse, photocopier extraordinaire, has also contributed to the project with zest. • Postage. Some patrons like to include a donation when they reimburse the library for postage (thank you!). When including extra, please note whether it’s a donation or “on account” for future postage charges. • Book search. The library needs another copy or two of “Thinking about Know- ing,” a pamphlet by Alan Howard published by St. George Book Service in 1985. We are also looking for the Rudolf Steiner Press (London) edition of Knowledge of the Higher Worlds: How Is It Achieved? translated by D.S. Os- mond and C. Davy. There have been several printings of that translation; we hope to obtain the blue and white paperback from 1969. • Transition. This will be the last issue of the Rudolf Steiner Library Newsletter under its own imprint. As most of our readers know, the Rudolf Steiner Library is the lending library of the Anthroposophical Society in America. For over a decade the library has published a well-regarded newsletter, founded by librarian emeritus Fred Paddock, to keep readers informed about the library’s collection. We are very happy to announce that in future our news, annotations, and reviews will appear in the Anthroposophical Society’s new publication: Evolv-

2 ing New for Members and Friends. We will have the opportunity to communi- cate with a much larger audience, and we hope to encourage more society members (and friends—who can join the library for an annual fee) to use the library. We are excited to participate in this new venture and look forward to hearing from many of you.

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A Word from the Editor By Frederick J. Dennehy

As many of you may know, the news, reviews, and annotations that have ap- peared in the Rudolf Steiner Library Newsletter since 1991 will now be appearing in the Anthroposophical Society’s new publication: Evolving News for Members & Friends. Although the format will change, we will continue the impetus established by emeritus librarian Fred Paddock. In addition, we hope to begin including reviews of contemporary publications of likely interest to members and friends that are not necessarily in the library’s collection. The new publication will appear quar- terly, and will reach a much wider audience than did the Rudolf Steiner Library Newsletter. This final issue under our traditional imprint features reviews by Gertrude Reif Hughes of two contributions to Emerson studies by anthroposophists Maurice York and Rick Spaulding. The first book is Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of the Private Man, a biography of the individual Rudolf Steiner regarded as the “Goethe of America.” The second is The Natural History of the Intellect: The Last Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a collection of Emerson’s final lectures, delivered at Har- vard University in 1871. These lectures present not merely Emerson’s understanding of the reality of the spirit, but his experience of it. I’ve had the privilege of reviewing two recent publications by Lindisfarne Books. The first, An Unknown Destiny: Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initia- tion—Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner, by Michael Gruber, is a challenging and intense rethinking of the meaning of initiation in a time of the “universalization of terror,” presented with reference to the works of Nietzsche and Heidegger, and particularly to the insights of Rudolf Steiner. The second publication is Medita- tion as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love by Arthur Zajonc. Mr. Zajonc’s book is a transparently clear and practical guide to the practice of cognitive meditation as developed by Rudolf Steiner and as informed by thirty years of the author’s own meditative experience. We look forward to continuing communication with all of you under a far- reaching new format born out of an exciting new impulse.

3 An Unknown Destiny: Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiation— Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner Lindisfarne Books, 2008, 165 pgs. By Michael Gruber Review by Frederick J. Dennehy

In the ancient mysteries, initiation was a matter of strict secrecy. The mystery schools that surfaced in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond were rare and cloaked from the world, but the path to initiation was clearly marked. In the dense, exigent, admonitory prose of his An Unknown Destiny: Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiation—Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner, Michael Gruber tells us that in our time the nature of initiation has changed, changed utterly. There has been a “rupture in human destiny” that forces us to live outside of any transcendent framework and exposes us to the all-encompassing worldview of our time, the “universalization of terror.” As Mr. Gruber under- stands it, the universalization of terror is inevitable in a world where destiny unfolds in the absence of any common meaning or purpose. A materialism obsessed with control and security marginalizes ethics, ontology, intimacy, and connected- ness with the earth and the spirit. Under its dominance we have spiraled downward into an accelerating cycle of fear, violence, and revenge that constricts every min- ute of our lives. Mr. Gruber urges us to consider that the only way to emerge from this decline is to embark on a wholly new initiatory path. Modern initiation will be a path to an unknown destiny. Only when we cease to clutch at prizes, when we acknowledge that there is no identity we can be sure to “have” at the end of the process, will we be able to participate in an “unconditioned openness and detachment from preformatted determinations.” Then we may experience an interpersonal, heart-centered imaginative cognition that offers the best possibility of freeing ourselves from terror. This “heart thinking” is not a purely inward activity projecting outward into an indifferent universe. Initiation is not a form of self-betterment, but a commitment to discover the soul of the world, whatever it may be. Accordingly, Mr. Gruber’s pre- scription does not hold itself out as a “cure.” The list of possible “side effects” is not pro forma. Robert Sardello, in his exuberant foreword, refers to Mr. Gruber’s vision of a new psychotherapy as “nothing less than an excursion to the land of death without a map.” For the author, the venue for this experience is the therapeutic encounter. The most promising modern path is psychotherapy as an initiatory rite: a partnership between the tormented patient and the therapist, walking together on the same initiatic path of openness and surrender to an undefined future. The fully committed therapist has a capacity to respond, in the face of vulnerability, to the shrill voices of madness and the whispers of death. The leap of consciousness necessary for this new vision of psychotherapy offers witness to men and women torn apart by terror.

4 It is possible for the patient to realize the “untranslatable singularity” of Being un- encumbered by predicates—to activate what Rudolf Steiner called the higher self or spiritual “I.” In the service of his intention to transform psychotherapy, Mr. Gruber turns an insightful and scholarly eye to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heideg- ger, and Rudolf Steiner. Focusing primarily upon Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Mr. Gruber deftly frees Nietzsche from the nihilist straitjacket in which most writers, including spiritual writers, have held him. Nietzsche’s abhorrence of “gravity” and his teaching of amor fati (love of one’s destiny)—often articulated in similar form by Rudolf Steiner—anticipates Steiner’s “thinking of the heart.” Nietzsche planted and nurtured the seed of this kind of thinking, but it was finally frozen in his own heart by the intellectual milieu of his times and his losing struggle with madness. Heidegger had a proleptic understanding of the dark side of technology and its potential to distract, invade, and control us. He anticipated how modern speculation on the ontology of specific entities (“beings”) rather than on the mystery of Being itself, coupled with an orientation toward “things” (such as gadgets and commodi- ties), leads to a culture of exploitation and a “flight from thinking.” Only meditative thinking, an “openness to the mystery,” can free us from the blind, calculative thinking induced by bondage to technical device. This fundamental turn in thinking has the capacity to transform our relationship to the earth so that we no longer treat it as a commodity or storehouse, but rather as our true home. Heidegger’s esoteric philosophy of Being, particularly his call for “releasement”—a form of meditative surrender or “letting-be”—may open his readers to some of Rudolf Steiner’s similar but clearer intuitions. Heidegger’s legendary opacity persists in the discussion here; the open “clearing” of truth (aletheia) Heidegger so often invokes remains disappointingly small. Finally, by putting Rudolf Steiner in the context of two thinkers revered by most postmodernists, Mr. Gruber shows him in an unaccustomed light. Without compromising Steiner’s spiritual integrity in any sense, he presents him in a way that should be intriguing not only to the modern therapist but to modern readers generally. For instance, Mr. Gruber shows how Steiner’s detailed understanding of the phenomenon of the “double” illuminates contemporary psychotherapy’s scat- tered and undeveloped references to it. One hopes that contextual approaches like Mr. Gruber’s may begin to shift Steiner from the margins to nearer the center of contemporary thinking. While this is a book about new directions in the psychotherapeutic encounter, it should not be viewed as limited to what Mr. Gruber terms the “queen of sciences.” If a modern path of initiation has the potential to counter the universalization of terror, that path is unlikely to be restricted to the profession of psychotherapy. It will be a challenge to Mr. Gruber’s readers to imagine how his insights can be applied outside the strictly therapeutic context to “ordinary” interpersonal relationships, to the building of community generally, and further, to any open sharing

5 of what transpires on this earth. Spiritual work is not done in a cocoon. As Georg Kühlewind observed, there are no monologues in this world, only transposed dia- logues. Mr. Gruber’s penetrating vision of opportunities for the future of psychotherapy may excite our imagination to envision other encounters and other silences. Nothing done in wonder, reverence, and surrender is done alone.

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Two New Contributions to Emerson Studies Reviews by Gertrude Reif Hughes

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of the Private Man Wrightwood Press, 2008, 276 pgs. By Maurice York and Rick Spaulding

This new biography emphasizes Emerson’s devotion to developing his own soul life. The authors have keen interest and insight concerning Emerson’s inner life. Emerson tended to scold himself—for being aloof, for being unable to grieve enough for the death of his little son, for falling short of being able to say in words what he knew in his heart. In addition to that kind of attractive insecurity, Emerson also had a lifelong love, even worship, of the “iron string” of individuality in each human being. This individual self that all of us have needs strengthening so that it believes in its own grand potential, and it needs development so that its potential can mature from mere existence to social participation and psycho-spiritual insight. In this biography of Emerson’s long, wise life the deep reverence and capacity for mystery in his writing, thinking, and daily living glow with an inspiring light. You come away from it filled with admiration for Emerson’s “infinitude”—his tal- ent for recognizing the divinity in all humans, including himself. York and Spaulding show us an Emerson who met the challenges of a self-reliant and so- cially engaged life and at the same time developed deep understanding of the mysteries of individuality with honesty, courage, and a highly active consciousness. Especially in his awareness that the spiritual dimensions of life need to be culti- vated, Emerson was as much a man of our current times as he was of the nineteenth century in which he lived. This appreciative, engaging book celebrates that, and helps readers see its importance and relevance for our own lives.

Natural History of the Intellect: The Last Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Wrightwood Press, 2008, 164 pgs. By Maurice York and Rick Spaulding, eds.

6 Here for the first time in print are the last lectures of Emerson’s career, a cycle of seventeen that he delivered at Harvard University in 1871. Natural History of the Intellect is the result of seven years of painstaking work in archives. The editors (both members of the Anthroposophical Society) vividly describe their meticulous process in the preface. These important and precious lectures reveal how Emerson experiences his own intuitive capacity. He knows it to be the very quick of his being, the divine spark that makes him human because it makes him part of the divine creativity of the universe. To write a “natural history” of such a “thing” is to create a carefully considered record of the cultural and social importance of humanity’s core capacity for intuition as one might make a geological or zoological record of scientifically observed flora or fauna in a particular region. Emerson’s “natural history” is of spirit, the reality and character of spirit—how it lives in us as it does around us. Here is an epigrammatic statement that shows what high aims he has for his kind of “science” writing: “Arithmetic is a science of surfaces; probity [i.e. moral integrity], of essences.” Emerson’s science of essences is a spiritual science, a science of spirit. Readers of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy will recognize the de- sire to develop such a science. In fact, Emerson’s book and the editors’ interest in its perceptions can be read as elaborations or supports of Steiner’s work, especially his work on “intuitive thinking as a spiritual path.” Both of these wisdom writers devoted their lives to articulating their subtle and extensive experiences of “intellect” or spirituality, or spirit knowing, or just plain “knowledge” (Wissenschaft) as Steiner often called it. The point for both is the living reality of spirit, its essentially source-like nature, and its intelligibility through experience. That last is worth repeating: only experience, not deduction or induction, permits one to “know” the living reality of spirit, the essences that Emerson’s and Steiner’s work speak of. In Emerson’s many volumes of lectures and in these culminating ones, there lives a vital, vigorous treasury of reports on his own lifelong cultivation of his awareness that a living kind of thinking pulsed in him as it does through the universe, and that this phenomenon of inner and outer life can be approached through a prepared consciousness. In this sense, Emerson’s natural history of capacities for spiritual intuition, or “intellect,” belongs as much to our emerging twenty-first century culture as it does to its nineteenth century origins or to Steiner’s early twentieth-century writings. For in recent decades people have been interesting themselves more and more in meditation, discovering spirituality as a way to think religious facts without having to create or subscribe to religious doctrine. People seek ways of worshiping that have their foundation not in obedience but in reverence, awe, and deep interest. Such preferences and desires characterize the emerging consciousness of the present moment. I expect universities will soon be inaugurating programs and departments of “consciousness studies.” If so, Emerson’s entire life work will be pertinent to them,

7 and certainly this most welcome and needed collection of his final lectures will be required reading—the kind you want to do whether you’re getting credit for it or not. When you read these lectures you find that they can help refine, confirm, and extend your own natural science of spirit or intellect, your own consciousness, as you become ever more fully acquainted with how consciousness lives and works in the suprasensory and sensory worlds. That’s what “intellect” means in Emerson’s work. Not smarts, not brains, not even mental life in the usual sense of synthesizing or analyzing. Here we’re talking about the essence, the very being, of the spark that humanity shares with divinity: the ability to make meaning.

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Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love Lindisfarne Books, 2009, 211 pgs. By Arthur Zajonc Review by Frederick J. Dennehy

Biographers, critics, and aficionados almost invariably call attention to the universality of Shakespeare’s appeal as a dramatist. To be successful, his plays had to captivate everyone, from the groundlings to the merchants, to the university- educated and the courtiers. If you lose even one part of your audience, your play will be a disaster. The fact that Shakespeare reached his entire audience is a testa- ment to the breadth of his skill. Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love, unfolds a similar kind of breadth. This is a book that will reward anyone who chooses to ex- amine it, from the curious browser who wants to get a sense of “what it’s all about” to the practitioner who has been meditating twice a day for most of her life. Arthur Zajonc has been a teacher of physics and interdisciplinary studies at Amherst College for decades. It shows—not only in the practical, experiential quality of his approach and the lucidity of his prose, but even in the rhythm of his presentation. It seems that precisely when the reader is formulating the author’s insights into a new question, that very question is raised—and answered—by the author himself. There is no sidestepping; there are no loose ends. Any reader who senses something missing after completing this book will have his own lack of participation to thank. This is not a treatise—it is a workbook. Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry is an eclectic, embracing, welcoming book, continually highlighting the resonances among different meditative tradi- tions. The focal point, however, is unmistakably anthroposophical. You will find Rudolf Steiner’s guiding presence here in the emphasis upon humility, reverence,

and wonder in approaching meditation; the value of practicing the six subsidiary exercises; and the presentation of a graded meditative sequence through the elements and the ethers. Perhaps the seminal characteristic of the author’s approach is a breathing in and out between focused and open attention, and in that breathing a progression from object to inner image, to spiritual activity, to agency or being. Other names for these stages are Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. There are any number of features to highlight in this book: its comprehensive- ness, its clarity, its questioning—and its store of concrete, practical responses to that questioning. For this reader the most striking quality of the book is its friendli- ness. Arthur Zajonc is a professional scientist but, exceptions notwithstanding, his colleagues are on the whole unlikely to be receptive to the assumptions and views that underlie his book’s every chapter. Similarly, many of his fellow anthroposophists are likely to be unsympathetic to his ecumenical approach to a wide array of honest but different spiritual practices. Yet there is not a hint of defensiveness here. Zajonc is a rare specimen: a writer who follows his own advice to be humble. There is an unmistakable sense that the author not only likes and respects those who disagree with him, but that he is even energized by his encounter with both materialist and spiritual literalists. In meditation, of course, one always returns to the theme. In this book, where the theme is meditation itself, it is hard to resist the conclusion that the ultimate purpose of meditation—compassion in the world —has been well served by the author. This is a book with an unmistakable point of view. While many lifelong medi- tants, Christian, Eastern, and secular, reject meditative “experiences”—the cognitive, contemplative aspects of the practice—this book not only recognizes those aspects but also explores them and helps its readers to develop them. But the knowledge that comes to us through meditation is nothing we can possess or feast upon. It is emphatically a knowledge of the world, but it begins with knowledge (and transformation) of the self. True contemplation is achieved through gentleness, intimacy, vulnerability, and participation with the other through an epistemology of love. As Rudolf Steiner said so clearly, “Nothing can reveal itself to us that we do not love.” The meditative and contemplative path of learning involves freeing ourselves from the lethargy of our customary mechanistic and materialistic thinking. More, it means discovering and practicing not some new “thing,” but the experience first of relationship and becoming, and then an intimacy with “agency” that is beyond subject and object but gives rise to them both. The path to contemplative cognition is not easy; it demands that we “unfetter” ourselves from a lifetime of conventional thinking. Among the vast array of exercises Mr. Zajonc suggests are conventional geometry, projective geometry, periph- eral thinking, and holistic and polar thinking derived from the author’s own domain of quantum mechanics. The goal is daunting but the exercises are not, because Mr. Zajonc is always there at our shoulder, nudging us, offering analogies, and making suggestions—staying near at hand until we make the discoveries for ourselves.

The meditative and contemplative path described by Mr. Zajonc looks to an in- tensity of cognition and personal transformation that most readers will not have experienced. All of this is exciting, enticing. But it cannot be the reason we meditate. Inner experience can be bright beyond anticipation, but the author makes it clear that it is a mere maneuvering of the ego unless it unfolds in a humility that devotes its insights freely to service in the world, and to love.

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Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting she is present, and can welcome all things. —Tao Te Ching

Is my soul asleep?… No, my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, Its eyes wide open to far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. —Antonio Machado

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. —T.S. Eliot

(From Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry, by Arthur Zajonc)

Annotations (Collected Works volume common ground.” no. 333). (pgs. 56-57) Anthroposophy—Rudolf This volume, translated For a complete list of Steiner by Catherine Creeger and the book’s contents, see introduced by Christopher the library’s online catalog Educating Children To- Bamford, includes six lec- at http://rsl.scoolaid.net. day, 81 pgs., (essay, 1907, tures held in Berlin, Ulm, —jk GA 34). and Stuttgart, May 26- The Four Tempera- December 30, 1919, in the Goethe’s Theory of ments, 33 pgs., (lecture, months following the dev- Knowledge: An Outline Berlin, 4 March 1909, astation of World War I. of the Epistemology of GA 57). Writes Bamford in his in- His Worldview, Steiner- How to Cure Nervous- troduction, “[W]hat ails Books, 2008, 151 pgs., ness, 34 pgs., (lecture, our individual ordinary with references and index, Munich, 11 January 1912, thinking is the same as (Collected Works volume GA 143). what ails our culture in no. 2). The Second Coming of general.” Developing what The volumes in the Christ, 50 pgs., (lecture, Steiner terms “freedom of Collected Works series Karlsruhe, 25 January thought” is crucial to published by SteinerBooks 1910, GA 118). overcoming both the ma- are thorough reference These handy little edi- terialism and abstraction works. Every volume is tions, approximately of modern social life. augmented with an intro- 5”x4” in size, all pub- A quote from the Sep- duction by Christopher lished by Rudolf Steiner tember 15 lecture: “Regu- Bamford that provides Press in 2008, each con- lating labor does not be- biographical, historical, tain a single lecture or es- long in the economy, and philosophical context say by Steiner. Previous where wealthier individu- for the work; and includes editions were titled Over- als and groups have the both reference notes and coming Nervousness; and power to impose terms of index, a biographical time- The True Nature of the work on the economically line of Steiner’s life, and a Second Coming. Educat- disadvantaged. Regulating complete listing of the col- ing Children Today is also what one person does for lected works. included in the book The another belongs in the Freshly translated by Education of the Child, sphere of rights…. We Peter Clemm, this second published by the Anthro- must learn completely volume was first pub- posophic Press in 1996. new ways of thinking in- lished in 1886 when —jk stead of talking about Steiner was just 31 years old, and was previously Freedom of Thought and small, incremental im- published as A Theory of Societal Forces: Imple- provements. Economic Knowledge Implicit in menting the Demands of unrest will fade away only Goethe’s World Concep- Modern Society, Steiner- when labor is seen as the tion. Books, 2008, 154 pgs., legitimate purview of an —jk with references and index, independent, democratic

Die Nebenübungen: Anthroposophy— Freies Geistesleben, 2008, Sechs Schritte zur Steiner—Biography 128 pgs. Selbsterziehung [The This book takes a look Subsidiary Exercises: Six Bock, Emil, The Life and at both criticisms of Ru- Steps toward Self- Times of Rudolf Steiner, dolf Steiner’s work as well Knowledge], 2nd ed., vol. 1: People and Places, as comments from propo- compiled and ed. by Ateş translated by Lynda Hep- nents of anthroposophy; Baydur, Rudolf Steiner burn, Floris Books, 2008, with numerous photo- Verlag, 2008, 147 pgs., 221 pgs., with index. graphs and quotations. GA various. A collection of lectures —jk This handsome little by one of the founding volume includes a com- priests of the Christian plete selection from Community, this book Anthroposophical Soci- Steiner’s works on the six presents detailed research ety—Biography exercises—control of about Rudolf Steiner’s life thought, initiative of will, until the end of the nine- Eğe-Akter, Güneş N., equanimity, positivity, teenth century, including Memories: A Life, a freedom from prejudice, his relationships with Tribute, Nexus Print, and forgiveness (see How Felix the herb gatherer; his 2008, 140 pgs. to Know Higher Worlds). colleagues in Vienna and This memoir of the life Let’s hope it is soon trans- Weimar; and various fig- of Seyhan Eğe (1931- lated to English! ures of the theosophical 2007), anthroposophist, —jk movement in Germany; as distinguished professor of well as his study of Frie- chemistry at the Univer- Das Ätherhaerz und die drich Nietzsche. sity of Michigan, and au- sechs “Nebenübungen Volume 2, scheduled to thor of Organic Chemis- [The Etheric Heart and the be published later this try: Structure and Reactiv- Six Subsidiary Exercises], year, will present Steiner’s ity, was written by her sis- Triskel, 2005, 163 pgs. life and work in the twen- ter and chronicles Sey- Another collection on tieth century through han’s life from her birth in the six exercises, this themes from his collected Turkey through her aca- work was originally pub- works, including the na- demic career and in- lished in French, and in- ture of destiny. volvement with anthropo- cludes two chapters by —jk sophy. “Having deter- Athys Floride and six by mined the purpose of her Maurice le Guerrannic. Anthroposophy— life at an early age, Sey- The pocket-size book fea- Steiner—Commentary han paddled her canoe to- tures forty pages of charts wards that objective with (that library patrons can Kugler, Walter, Rudolf energy and conviction.” photocopy!) for recording Steiner: Wie manche ihn After Prof. Eğe’s re- their experiences of prac- sehen und andere tirement, she taught chem- ticing the exercises. wahrnehmen [How Some istry classes at the Rudolf —jk See Him and Others Ex- Steiner High School in perience Him], Verlag Ann Arbor. Writes her sis-

ter, “As a happy chemistry Each book includes This Ph.D. thesis stud- professor, she saw the ful- bibliographical references ies whether the “rising fillment of her dream of and an index. picture method” of analy- bringing chemistry to life —jk sis (die Steigbildmethode, for the students she loved also called capillary dy- and in the process she had namolysis), developed in changed how chemistry Anthroposophy— the 1920s in the fields of was taught.” General—Journals biodynamic agriculture —jk and the production of an- The Golden Blade 2009: throposophical medicines König, Karl, Karl Time and Eternity, ed. to test the quality of food König—My Task: Auto- by William Forward, and medicinal plants, can biography and Biogra- Simon Blaxland-de Lange, become a “scientifically phies, Floris, 2008, and Paul Breslaw, accepted method for 173 pgs. 171 pgs. evaluation of food qual- Selg, Peter, Karl König’s Focusing on the con- ity.” Path into Anthroposo- cept of time, this newest In the rising picture phy: Reflections from issue of The Golden Blade method, a liquid from a His Diaries, Floris, 2008, includes a lecture by Ru- plant is allowed to rise up 102 pgs. dolf Steiner, “The Polarity into a filter paper and a These two books are between Eternity and Evo- silver nitrate solution is part of the Karl König Ar- lution in Human Life,” then applied. Different chive series. The first in- translated for the first time forms and colors appear cludes an autobiographical to English. Included are on the filter paper that, ac- essay by König, the foun- other articles on physics, cording to Rudolf Steiner, der of the Camphill com- music, money, and con- reflect the etheric forma- munities, as well as a bio- sciousness. tive forces of the sub- graphical sketch of König For a complete list of stance being examined. by Peter Selg and personal articles and authors, see Tingstad conducted in- reminiscences by Anke the library’s online catalog terviews with nine rising- Weihs and Hans-Heinrich at http://rsl.scoolaid.net. picture researchers in Engel. —jk Europe, assessed the qual- The second book by ity of carrots grown under Anthroposophy— Selg includes excerpts various conditions using Agriculture from König’s diaries that the method, and investi- provide first-hand ac- Tingstad, Annette, Qual- gated the use of digital counts of his inner devel- ity and Method: Rising image analysis with the opment and spiritual Pictures in Evaluation of rising picture images. Her struggles as he founded Food Quality, translated results were encouraging, the work of the Camphill by Patricia Anne the author concludes, but communities in 1939. Christianson, Gads Forlag, she stresses the need for 2002, 240 pgs. validation of the method for further applicability.

This is not your typical published by Barfield Presented in chrono- thesis: Tingstad writes in Press, 2008. logical format and with the first-person through- Written in 1975 (Night complete bibliographical out, and includes a section Operation) and in the mid- references to the lectures titled “The Author’s Con- 1980s (Eager Spring), cited, this book includes fessions” at the end of the these brief works of fic- excerpts from the works of work in which she chroni- tion by Owen Barfield Rudolf Steiner on the ef- cles the metamorphosis of have just been published fects of electro-technical her scientific understand- as books. Night Operation reproduction of sound and ing. depicts a dystopian future visual media (radio, film, —jk in which humanity has etc.) on the human being. been driven underground —jk von Jeetze, Hartmut, by fears of terrorist attack. Creative Steps in the De- Eager Spring centers on a velopment of the Social young academic who is Anthroposophy— Dimensions of Agricul- drawn toward environ- Medicine ture, Biodynamic Farm- mental activism when she ing and Gardening Asso- is increasingly troubled by Jaerschky, Paul, Life Pic- ciation, 2008, 118 pgs. the growing threat of bio- tures: Self-Realization These essays by von cides. Both books reflect through Illness and Jeetze demonstrate how Barfield’s passionate life- Healing—Essays and the “impulse of a renewed long interests: the evolu- Case Histories in An- agriculture unites with the tion of human conscious- throposophic Medicine, renewal of human exis- ness, the history of lan- Mercury Press, 2007, tence” (quoted from an guage, the origins of po- 300 pgs. address given by Karl etic effect, and cross- Author Paul Jaerschky, König in 1964, also disciplinary thought. MD, was one of the par- printed here). —js ticipants in the first course Essay titles include of medical lectures given “Parallels in the Dynamics by Rudolf Steiner in 1920. of Plant Growth and the Anthroposophy—Media This book, originally Laws of Social Growth,” printed in German in “Land Community and Schäfer, Werner, Rudolf 1940, was compiled from Human Community,” as Steiner über die tech- letters Jaerschky sent to well as “What You Can nischen Bild- und Ton- his patients and includes Learn from Your Horse.” medien: eine Dokumen- fascinating case histories —jk tation.[Rudolf Steiner on of illnesses and their Technical Visual and treatment. Unfortunately Sound Media: A Docu- the book does not have an Anthroposophy—Fiction mentation], Verein für index for looking up cases Medienforschung und by disease name. Barfield, Owen, Eager Kulturförderung, 2002, —jk Spring, 143 pgs.; Night 128 pgs. Operation, 64 pgs., both

Anthroposophy— “I have come to the con- festivals. It was originally Nutrition clusion that teaching created for young children grammar is the least con- at the Rudolf Steiner Spindler, Hermann, The scious subject in Waldorf School in New York, Demeter Cookbook: pedagogy. My own teach- where the author’s chil- Recipes Based on Biody- ing experience and obser- dren are students. namic Ingredients from vations based on visits to —js the Kitchen of the Lukas other Waldorf classrooms Clinic, Temple Lodge, have convinced me that in Kovacs, Charles, The 2008, 272 pgs. teaching English grammar Human Being and the This is a beautiful, up- we generally resort to Animal World, Floris, dated edition of the vener- dead concepts and to un- 2008, 141 pgs. able Cookery Book pub- explored, outmoded pre- A resource book for lished by the Swiss an- scriptive ‘rules.’ We teaching about animals in throposophical Lukas should know better.” The relation to human beings, Clinic many years ago (we thirteen Waldorf teachers a recommended main les- have several copies of the who participated in this son topic for Waldorf original edition in the li- study together embraced fourth graders. The au- brary). It features a mix of the challenge of self- thor’s lesson notes on older and new recipes, all criticism and shared crea- many subjects have been based on a lacto- tive suggestions for enli- published within the last vegetarian diet. The author vening lessons. This is an several years, and all give stresses that most of the important resource for all wonderful examples of food used at the clinic is Waldorf teachers. how a teacher can crea- biodynamic, and that the —js tively shape material. The range of produce varies introduction succinctly seasonally. Hamed, Maissa, The Last presents the aim of teach- —js Night of Ramadan, Bell ing this particular content Pond Books, 2007, un- at this developmental paginated. stage: to bring children “to Anthroposophy— This tale, illustrated an objective, rational un- Waldorf Education— with lovely watercolors by derstanding of nature, but Curriculum Mohamed El Wakil, the at the same time author’s husband, portrays strengthen the social and Greer, Anne, The Power one family’s observance moral element….” of Grammar: A Phe- of Ramadan, the Muslim —js nomenological Approach festival commemorating (Research Project #10), the transmission of the Perrow, Susan, Healing AWSNA, 2008, 141 pgs. Quran to the Prophet Mu- Stories for Challenging Master teacher Anne hammad. Eid El Fitr, a Behavior, Hawthorn, Greer states in this chal- three-day celebration, fol- 2008, 300 pgs. lenging survey and ap- lows a month of fasting, Pedagogical stories are praisal of grammar study and the story depicts both an important element in in Waldorf high schools: Waldorf education, yet

teachers and parents may children and their families training other teachers to be hesitant to create them. and would become even do the same) for decades. This generous book offers more so in the future.” Steeped in Russian history both encouragement and The author, responding and literature and enriched inspiration to undertake to this situation, continues: by memories of several the creation and telling of “I felt strongly that there visits to Russia, she re- healing tales. The author existed a need to provide a mains humble about how offers guidelines for different type of care— challenging it is to under- evaluating challenging be- one that acknowledged the stand another culture: haviors and identifying qualities inherent in each “With all my experiences their desired resolution; a of us and that supported and studies…I am just as story-making model to the threefold elements of puzzled by the enigma of help readers create stories the body, soul, and Russia today as I was 40 directly relevant to their spirit…. I believe home in years ago. However, one circumstances; tips on the true sense of the word thing I am sure of. Russia adapting stories for differ- is indeed the best place for holds a question that is ent age groups; and a col- children. However, the calling to us. It is some- lection of wonderful sto- home of today is not the thing out of the future.” ries. home of yesteryear—the Teachers will find expert —js world is a vastly different guidance here for planning place to that of the 1980s a main lesson: a quick Raichle, Bernadette, Cre- and before. Parents of to- course in Russian history, ating a Home for Body, day need much greater biographical material on Soul, and Spirit: A New support in their parenting many Russian authors, and Approach to Childcare, and in the creating of their generous samplings of WECAN, 2008, 193 pgs. family culture. The an- their work. For many years, “anthroposophical day nurs- —js throposophical childcare” ery…carries the potential was an oxymoron. Young to do just this.” Wolk-Gerche, Angelika, children below kindergar- —js Papercraft, Floris, 2008, ten age were “meant to be 89 pgs. at home.” In the 1990s, Staley, Betty, Splinters of Readers familiar with Waldorf early-childhood the Sun: Teaching Rus- the author’s More Magic educators began to re- sian Literature to High Wool and Creative Felt spond to the changing re- School Students, will not be surprised to alities of modern eco- AWSNA, 2008, 240 pgs. find that this new work is nomic and social life: “It Author Staley, director also remarkable for its in- was fast becoming appar- of Waldorf high school genuity. Some of the pro- ent that the need for day- teacher education at Ru- jects are rather complex, care for the very young dolf Steiner College in including a paper chair, child was not going to go Fair Oaks, CA, has been paper bowls, and making away. Childcare was be- teaching Russian literature one’s own paper. Teachers coming a way of life for to high school seniors (and may enjoy undertaking

some of these projects Survey of Waldorf Bennett, John G. et al., with students; parents may Graduates in North The Spiritual Hunger of want to set aside a week- America, Phase 1, Re- the Modern Child, end or two to explore this search Institute for Wal- Claymont Communica- intriguing craft at home. dorf Education, 2008, tions, 1984, 220 pgs. —js 46 pgs. This book contains This survey presents transcripts of 10 lectures Wulsin, John, The Spirit data regarding colleges given in London in 1961 of the English Language. and universities that Wal- sponsored by the Institute A Practical Guide for dorf graduates attended for the Comparative Study Poets, Teachers & Stu- during the period 1995– of History, Philosophy, dents, Lindisfarne Books, 2004. Phase one of this and the Sciences. Lectur- 2008, 371 pgs. three-part survey (the li- ers included representa- John Wulsin has been brary also has vols. 2 and tives of several different teaching English and 3) addresses the following cultural and/or religious drama to Waldorf high- questions: How many streams, and include school students for almost Waldorf graduates go to Adam Bittleston, the well- thirty years. “To show college? Which colleges known Christian Commu- ‘how sound works in Eng- accept Waldorf graduates, nity priest. The goal of the lish and American poetry,’ and which colleges do conference was to engage the author traces the many graduates choose to at- the question: “How can changes, both subtle and tend? How many do not we help our children to radical, in how English go directly to college, and develop their innate reli- has sounded over the past what do they do instead? gious sense, how can we thirteen centuries while Phase 2 of the study feed their spiritual hunger also showing how those presents both statistical and needs, so that they can changes are related to the and anecdotal material re- live by faith in a world evolution of human con- garding Waldorf gradu- from which faith has al- sciousness in Western, ates: their life choices, most vanished?” English-speaking peo- values, and professions. —js ples.” He presents poets’ Phase 3 summarizes re- biographies to contextual- search on Waldorf educa- Blythe, Sally Goddard, ize their works and also tion conducted in both What Babies and Chil- discusses their use of lan- Europe and North Amer- dren Really Need, Haw- guage in selected poems. ica, and includes reflec- thorn, 2008, 353 pgs. —js tions on Waldorf gradu- “This comprehensive ates by their college pro- book provides parents fessors as well as con- with the information they Anthroposophy— structive criticism of their need to raise healthy, bal- Waldorf Education— Waldorf education by anced, resilient children. It Pedagogy graduates. guides the reader through —js all the factors affecting a Baldwin, Faith, David child’s development from Mitchell, Douglas Gerwin,

conception to the teenage A Step By Step Guide to Spirit in the Head: Search- years, with particular em- Enhancing Your Baby’s ing for New Ways.” These phasis on two critical ele- Development through quite technical studies ments within the first His or Her Own Natural bring neuropsychological year—movement and Movement, Baby Moves research findings to bear communication—upon Publications (New Zea- on topics such as sleep which children’s social, land), 2006 (2002), and music in relation to emotional, and educa- 80 pgs. learning. The final three tional development de- The author has special- essays discuss various pend. Above all, it demon- ized in neuropediatric characteristics of Waldorf strates that what babies physiotherapy since com- graduates. really need is the time, pleting her training in the —js love, and attention of the Netherlands in 1974. This loving adults in their book outlines what she Oberman, Ida, The Wal- lives.” (from the fore- considers to be the ideal dorf Movement in Edu- word) The author’s Well- sequence of motor devel- cation: From European Balanced Child is also opment in a baby’s first Cradle to American available from the library. year of life. It suggests Crucible, 1919–2008, —js some simple steps to take Edwin Mellen Press, and others to avoid to “en- 2008, 377 pgs. Heckmann, Helle, Child- sure that [a] baby has the The author’s Stanford hood’s Garden: Shaping best chance of developing Ph.D. thesis (1999), “Fi- Everyday Life around excellent movement delity and Flexibility in the Needs of Young around the four body axes, Waldorf Education, 1919- Children, WECAN, 2008, correct muscle balance, 1998,” has been updated 43 pgs. and good integration of and published as an illus- This book and DVD reflexes.” trated hardcover book. present the daily life ac- —js This important work pro- tivities of young children vides a detailed history of in a Danish Waldorf day- Mitchell, David, ed., Re- the birth and development care home serving thirty search into Childhood of the Waldorf movement. children between the ages (Waldorf Journal Pro- The original study ex- of one year to school age. ject #12), AWSNA, 2009, plored three aspects: in- The author has written 114 pgs. ception; the challenges several books about her The first four essays in Waldorf education faced very inspiring work; see- this collection are from under National Socialism ing and hearing what she presentations given at the in Nazi Germany; and the has described provides an sixth world teachers’ con- history of Waldorf educa- enhanced opportunity for ference of the pedagogical tion in the United States. learning. section at the Goetheanum This volume includes an —js during Easter 2008 with epilogue that recounts an- the theme “Educating the other ten years of history Hermsen-van Wanrooy, Will—Awakening the to 2007. Marianne, Baby Moves:

Douglas Sloan states in well-written, and impor- Selg, Peter, A Grand his foreword that Ober- tant book. Metamorphosis: Contri- man’s work provides “a —js butions to the Spiritual- penetrating analysis of one Scientific Anthropology of the most remarkable Ross, Rachel C., Adven- and Education of Ado- educational phenomena of tures in Parenting: A lescents, SteinerBooks, the last hundred years,” Support Guide for Par- 2008, 126 pgs. one that asks an intriguing ents, AWSNA, 2008, Rudolf Steiner died be- question of importance to 112 pgs. fore he was able to give all persons concerned with The author, a therapeu- developmental courses for the nature of educational tic eurythmist, remedial the teachers of the first change and reform: “How movement therapist, and Waldorf school addressing is it that Waldorf educa- certified teacher, has some of the severe diffi- tion has been able to worked with parents for culties that had compro- maintain its coherence and many years. Here she pre- mised the type of educa- essential identity over the sents a guide for self- tion for adolescents he had course of nearly a century education that is frank, yet intended. The reasons for and in a variety of con- filled with understanding Steiner’s concerns “still trastingly different social and encouragement. She exist today, albeit in a and cultural settings?” knows that there are no modified, even aggravated —js “perfect parents,” and also way, and they are waiting knows that many modern to be addressed. It is evi- Olfman, Sharna, All parents are seeking self- dent that working with Work and No Play: How knowledge in the hope of children in the phase of Educational Reforms becoming “good enough” adolescence makes special Are Harming Our Pre- parents, in the words of demands on teachers. schoolers, Praeger, 2003, Bruno Bettelheim. These demands cannot be 215 pgs. She describes parenting met by appealing to an- The editor, a partner in styles and parental tem- throposophy or to any the Alliance for Child- peraments, and the general other theories.” hood, has collected potent effects these have on chil- Students respond to essays here on the impor- dren. Her many sugges- their teachers’ “genuine tance of childhood play tions for balancing our knowledge of the world, that show how play is en- temperaments are based in their maturity and authen- dangered in an educational experience. A fine con- ticity; [and] also their world dominated by stan- temporary companion to pedagogical willingness to dardized tests, early aca- Erich Gabert’s classic engage in a meeting that is demic pressures, and tech- Punishment and Self- based on real interest, and nological fads. Contribu- Education in the Educa- that will ultimately lead tors include Joan Almon, tion of the Child (available them to acknowledge and Christopher Clouder, and from the library). bear the inner abyss which Jane Healy. This is a me- —js separates them, with their ticulously researched, life experience, from the

situation of the adoles- Scotland.” In addition to ality series to date but will cents that they see in front painting, Gross was also a continue to receive only of them.” sculptor, silversmith, and another volume or two, as The author is a youth stained-glass maker. The our prepaid standing order psychiatrist and thorough book examines various pe- is due to run out soon.) scholar of Rudolf riods of Gross’s life, in- —jk Steiner’s work. This chal- cluding the years during lenging book is an impor- World War II when Gross tant goad to self- served as a war artist in Economics & Politics examination for both one of the Nazi propa- teachers and parents. ganda companies in Paris. Tasch, Woody. Inquir- —js —jk ies into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing Waldorf Education: The as if Food, Farms, and Best Kept Secret in Christianity—Mysticism Fertility Mattered, Chel- America, Wycoff Family sea Green Publishing, Trust, 2005, DVD, Nieuwenhove, Rock van, 2008, 200 pgs. approx. 20 min. Robert Faesen, and Helen This book by the Interviews with teach- Rolfson, eds., Late Me- chairman of the Investors’ ers, parents, and students dieval Mysticism of the Circle, an organization and scenes from Waldorf Low Countries, Paulist dedicated to funding com- school classrooms and ac- Press, 2008, 399 pgs. panies focused on sustain- tivities. This latest installment ability, emphasizes a fidu- —jk in the Classics of Western ciary responsibility that is Spirituality series includes “not stuck in the industrial works—all translated into concepts of the nineteenth Art—Hermann Gross English here for the first and twentieth centuries, time—from lesser-known but which reflects the eco- Jackson, Robin, Hermann medieval spiritual writers nomic, social, and envi- Gross: Art and Soul, Flo- from the Netherlands, ronmental realities of the ris, 2008, 120 pgs., illus. Belgium, and Luxem- twenty-first century.” (mostly color). bourg. Included are works (from the bookjacket) Hermann Gross (1904- by Franciscans; authors As Carlo Petrini, the 1988), according to the associated with Jan van founder of the Slow Food back cover of this book, Ruusbroec’s monastery movement that began in “would probably be one of outside Brussels; and sev- Italy, writes in the fore- the most recognized Ger- eral women writers, many word, the goal of “slow man Expressionist painters of whom wrote anony- money” is to “begin to re- today if…he [had not] left mously. For a full list of orient capital away from the artistic hubs of Paris contents, see the library’s endless cycles of con- and Berlin and [become] online catalog at sumption and a relentless an artist-in-residence at a http://rsl.scoolaid.net. focus on markets, towards Camphill community in (The library owns the a new economy that is fo- Aberdeen, in the north of complete Western Spiritu- cused on quality and hu-

man relationships, on our Poetry and Painting, Flo- Medieval—Joan of Arc relationships to one an- ris, 2008, 156 pgs., with other and to the land.” black-and-white illus., ref- Edmunds, Joan M., The —jk erences, and index. Mission of Joan of Arc, Gordon Strachan, au- Temple Lodge, 2008, thor of Chartres: Sacred 169 pgs. Fairy Tales Geometry, Sacred Space Our patrons frequently and other works available request books about Joan Kornberger, Horst, The from the Rudolf Steiner of Arc. In this volume au- Power of Stories: Nur- Library, has been a minis- thor Edmunds tells the his- turing Children’s Imagi- ter in the Church of Scot- tory of Joan of Arc, show- nation and Conscious- land and taught architec- ing that “whilst under the ness, Floris, 2008 (2006), ture at the University of guidance and direction of 256 pgs. Edinburgh. In this work, the Archangel Michael, “What started out as a Strachan examines how and through her ultimate book about stories and the Romantic poets and martyrdom, Joan of Arc story-making became a painters rediscovered the was instrumental in bring- book about soul- spiritual aspect of the ing to birth the forces nec- ecology—a manual for in- natural world. Included essary for the next vital ner resource management; are Wordsworth and Col- step in humanity’s spiri- action plans to preserve eridge, William Turner tual development: the the endangered wildlife of and Caspar David Frie- emergence of the con- childhood and the biodi- drich, and others. sciousness soul.” (from versity of the soul in adult Writes Strachan in his the back cover) life.” The author, a writer, introduction, “[This book] —jk artist, and Waldorf is first and foremost about teacher, first explores the the actual experience of power of classic stories nature…the essentially Medicine—Alternative— such as the Odyssey, Par- mystical experience of the Homeopathy sifal, and fairy tales. He spirit of nature, of the spir- Schmukler, Alan V., Ho- then explains how to apply its in nature and of the meopathy: An A to Z that power to help children Creator Spirit…. [I]t was Home Handbook, Lle- develop. The book’s last one of the greatest wellyn Publications, 2006, section guides us to create achievements of the Ro- 351 pgs. our own stories. mantics to rediscover, ex- Over two hundred —js perience, and record the pages of this home refer- world of nature as God’s Literature— ence book on homeopathy first Bible.” Romanticism— cover specific ailments —jk Commentary and their corresponding homeopathic remedies. In Strachan, Gordon, Proph- addition, the book in- ets of Nature: Green cludes a special section on Spirituality in Romantic pregnancy and birth, as

well as a unique chapter this work is not only to Morelli studied the Iro- on remedies for specific provide instructive mate- quois mysteries further in occupations and activities. rial for clinical practitio- his earlier book Hidden Schmukler suggests that ners, but meaningful con- America. readers “carry a handful of text for people on the path —jk remedies that might save of healing and wholeness. your life or prevent seri- In addition, says Madden, ous injury.” depth psychology “can Renaissance— This book was donated make a valuable contribu- Rosicrucianism by a generous library pa- tion to the contemporary tron who enthusiastically conversation on diversity Teichmann, Frank, recommends it. and otherness.” Goethe und die Rosen- —jk —jk kreuzer: Sechs Vorträge [Goethe and the Rosicru- cians: Six Lectures], Ver- Psychology Religion and Mythol- lag Freies Geistesleben, ogy—Pre-Columbian 2007, 152 pgs. Madden, Kathryn Wood, This book examines the Dark Light of the Soul, Morelli, Luigi, Spiritual history of Rosicrucianism Lindisfarne Books, 2008, Turning Points of North and its relation to the work 261 pgs. American History, Traf- of Goethe and of Rudolf The seventeenth- ford, 2008, 349 pgs. Steiner. century mystic Jacob The author, society Highly recommended Boehme and twentieth- member and library patron by a library patron. century depth psychologist Luigi Morelli, examines in —jk C.G. Jung provide the fo- this work two major turn- cus of this book, as ing points of North Jungian analyst Madden American history: the ad- Science—Ecology examines the religious and vent of the Mayan civili- psychological experiences zation 2000 years ago in Bunyard, Peter, Extreme of “unitary reality” as evi- Central America and the Weather, Floris, 2006, denced in the lives of deeds of the initiate 240 pgs. Boehme and Jung, who Vitzliputzli; and the spiri- Founding editor of the “have experienced the tual influences at work periodical The Ecologist, abyss and returned to tell around the time that Co- author Bunyard in this of it.” lumbus arrived in America book examines recent ex- This “ground of being in the Aztec civilization amples of severe weather that contains all opposites and the Iroquois League. events, such as Hurricane in potentiality” involves Writes Morelli in his Katrina, as signals of dra- an encounter with the ar- introduction, “The Mexi- matic changes in the chetypal collective uncon- can Mysteries are as much world’s climatic condi- scious, which contains all a legacy of the past as an tions. Illustrated through- forms of “radical other- important source of out with color photos. ness.” Madden’s goal in knowledge of the future.” —jk

Science—Evolution Science—Goethean Social—General Studies Richards, Robert J., The Senge, Peter, C. Otto Tragic Sense of Life: Jahrbuch für Goethean- Scharmer, Joseph Jawor- Ernst Haeckel and the ismus 2008/2009, Tycho ski, and Betty Sue Flow- Struggle over Evolution- Brache Verlag, 2008, ers, Presence: Exploring ary Thought, University 352 pgs., illus., with bib- Profound Change in of Chicago Press, 2008, liographical references. People, Organizations, 551 pgs., with biblio- Unfortunately, this an- and Society, Society for graphical references and nual is only available in Organizational Learning index. German, but it does fea- [SoL], 2004, 289 pgs., This book is an account ture English summaries of with bibliographical refer- of the work and life of the eight articles it con- ences and index. German biologist Ernst tains. The volume includes This book is an “inti- Haeckel. Initially a doctor an anthroposophical per- mate look at a new theory of medicine, Haeckel be- spective on cancer by of change and how it can came a prominent figure Heinrich Brettschneider; be used to improve our in evolutionary biology an article on Benjamin world…. By encouraging and was founder of the Libet’s experiments and deeper levels of learning, controversial recapitula- the question of free will, and by making ourselves tion theory (“ontogeny re- also by Brettschneider; present in the world, we capitulates phylogeny”). Roselies Gehlig on the can create an awareness of The author gives a mineral element in the ourselves as part of a lar- chronological account of skeleton; Susanna Küm- ger whole.” (From the how the young doctor be- mel on the evolution pat- back cover) came a naturalist during a terns in mammals; Gero Senge is the author of time of great scientific Leneweit on the method- The Fifth Discipline: The discovery. Most notable ology of Goetheanistic Art and Practice of the for supporting Darwin’s physics as seen through Learning Organization, theory of natural selection, the study of water; Wolf- while Scharmer is the au- Haeckel also contributed gang Schad on evolution- thor of Theory U (re- to science with his crea- ary biology and symbiosis viewed by Eugene tion of biological termi- in the natural world; An- Scwartz in issue no. 45 of nology, identification and dreas Suchantke on the this newsletter). naming of new species, healing properties of mis- —jk mapping of genealogical tletoe; and lastly, Ulrich trees, and his artistic and Wunderlin on the classifi- controversial sketches of cation of plant substances radiolarians and embryos. by means of their forma- —ep tive processes. —jk