Book One -
Memory, Thinking,
Consciousness
OVERVIEW & UNIT ONE:
'Making
Connections' -
Memory.
Classifying science. Nature and nurture. The difference
between exploring as a spectator and as a 'player'. How do we
explore the reality of our inner world and outer
world?
UNIT TWO:
'Thinking
about Thinking' -
Rudolf
Steiner's concept of the mind. Thinking, thoughts and things.
Apparent and residual reality. 'Living' thinking as an
instrument to explore the world. The everyday gift of free,
loving remembrance.
UNIT THREE:
'All in the
MInd?' -
The four-fold human being.
'Mapping' the soul. The stream from the past. The stream from
the future. Consciousness. Our everyday self and our
enduring I. Karma. Threading memories
together.
Book Two -
From the
Cradle
UNIT FOUR:
'Earliest
Memory' -
Our earliest
years. The 'birth' of our enduring I. Early 'island
memories'. Development of 'storyline memories'. The 'kissing
gate' of thinking and sense perception. Soul activities of
thinking, feeling and willing.
UNIT FIVE: Part
One
Part Two
'What Makes
Sense?' -
The stream of physical
senses. Early formation of ideas through our senses. Twelve
senses - inner and outer - their transformation and
their relationship to willing, feeling and
thinking.
UNIT SIX:
'Going
Back Forward' -
Storing
memory? Aspects of memory and the significance of intuitive
remembrance. Interplay of our nerve-sense system with our
moving, metabolic system and rhythmic system of breathing and
circulation.
UNIT
SEVEN:
'a child of our times' -
Attentive
observation.
The
capacity to grasp ideas and the capacity to remember.
Conventional theories. Nurturing a child's senses and
imagination.
UNIT
EIGHT:
'SYLPHS AND SALAMANDERS -
Temperament - and karmic development. Observation of
temperament. Comparison with Jung's typology, ancient
spiritual paths of transformation and elemental forces. The
everyday gift of temperament.
UNIT NINE:
'MONDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE? -
'Soul qualities' - and the influence of planetary
spheres of consciousness. Illumination of the Spiritual
Sun. Interplay of soul qualities and temperament and
how we change.
Book Three -
To the
Grave
UNIT TEN:
Growing
Up -
Adulthood. Transformation and ripening of
our 'Sentient', Intellectual-Mind' and 'Spiritual' or
'Consciousness' Soul qualities. Evolution of human
consciousness. Preparing for the future - 'Spiritual Self',
'Life Spirit' and 'Spiritman'.
UNIT
ELEVEN:
'gETTING INVOLVED' -
Exploring the
world through thinking. Strengthening our willing within
thinking balanced by feeling. Observing and intuitively
investigating the essence of something. The everyday gift of
conversation.
UNIT TWELVE:
'A NEW CONVERSATION' -
Alliance between our physical and soul-spirit
development. Developing a new 'wisdom of the elders'.
Sense-bound to sense-free thinking. Concentration,
contemplation and meditation. Life as moral
activity.
Book Four -
Me and My
Shadow
UNIT
THIRTEEN:
'DOPPELGANGER NEWS - DOUBLE
ISSUE' -
The
shadow of personality. Initial exploration with trigger
questions through the 'Open Window', 'Hidden Window', 'Blind
Window', 'Land of Serendipity Window'.
UNIT
FOURTEEN:
'THE OPEN WINDOW' -
A Personal
Values Inventory. Values and ideals. A shared culture rooted
in our partyicipation with the world. The trail of trust
through the ages. The Trail of Thinking - who do I
trust?
UNIT FIFTEEN:
'THE HIDDEN WINDOW' -
Anxiety
and fear in the modern world. Holding attention and attention
'deficit'. Boredom and its connection to our life of memory,
desires and our enduring I. What is
fear?
UNIT SIXTEEn:
'The
Blind Window' - Habits.
Habits and experience. Conventional theories. Habit and
memory.Habit formation and re-formation. The Alexander
Technique. Habitual thinking and common
sense.
UNIT
SEVENTEEN:
THE LAND OF SERENDIPITY' -
Karma, fate, serendipity and synchronicity. The
'present ever moment' within the interplay of our four 'body
streams'. Tableaux memory', Deja vu and dreams. Becoming a
sagacious Serendiptian.
UNIT
EIGHTEEN:
'THROUGH THE WINDOW' -
Lifestyle
programmes, optimism and pessimism, positivity and negativity.
Forgetting and forgiving. Strengthened willing - some
pitfalls. What is conscience? The everyday gift of
conscience.
Book Five -
Poles
Apart?
UNIT
NINETEEN:
'THE EARTH AND ME' -
The
transformation of the Earth and humanity. 'Point centred'
thinking; duality, polarity, projective geometry,
'counter-space'. Metamorphosis and colour. The spiritual
permeating the physical. The cult of the
brain.
UNIT TWENTY:
'WHAT PLATO SAID TO ARISTOTLE' -
The biography of the Earth and human consciousness.
Streams of human consciousness, working towards a confluence -
polar forces disturbing this work.
Recognising and redeeming these forces.
UNIT TWENTY ONE:
'NOT ME' -
The lemniscate of
our karmic development. The illumination of our enduring
I by the Spiritual Sun Christ. Working with our Guardian
Angel. The Gift of Loving Remembrance and our challenge in the
future.
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