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Steiner's contribution, however, remains unique in its understanding of the human being as an evolving, developing being of body, soul, and spirit. On the basis of his researches--presented in numerous books and lectures--we begin to understand how the complex interaction of human lives between birth and death and between death and a new birth gives new meaning not only to individual lives lived on Earth in community with others, but also to human history and evolution and to earthly and cosmic events. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book collects many of Steiner's major statements on reincarnation and karma. The primary purpose of this volume is to help readers meet the challenge of spiritual research in the area of individual evolution of the soul and spirit in the context of cultural and universal evolution. 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Ren Querido's in-depth, sixty-page introduction, however, places these concepts within the context of Western spiritual development and esoteric tradition, showing us a panoramic view of how such ideas have developed over the centuries in the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Ren Querido: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1 Our Present Dilemma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2 Historical Survey of Reincarnation and Karma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3 Rudolf Steiner's Original Contributions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe lectures: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1 Natural and Chance Illnesses in the Human Being \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2 Elemental Events, Volcanic Eruptions, Earthquakes \u0026amp; Epidemics in Relation to Karma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3 Death and Rebirth in Relation to Karma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4 Knowledge of Reincarnation and Karma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5 Examples of Karma Working between Two Incarnations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6 Vital Questions in the Light of Reincarnation and Karma \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7 The Formation of Karmic Forces \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8 Reincarnation of the Spirit and Destiny \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513908142353,"sku":"GOR003478380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50167771988241,"sku":"CIN088010399XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50624653689105,"sku":"CIN088010399XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52457208611089,"sku":"GOR004509989","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/088010399X.jpg?v=1750704373"},{"product_id":"life-for-the-spirit-book-henry-barnes-9780880103954","title":"A Life for the Spirit","description":"\"Whether or not Steiner's insights are valid is for each of us to determine. 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No wonder, then, that Steiner has been called \"the best kept secret of the twentieth century.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1861 in Kraljvec, Austria, Steiner showed evidence early on of the most varied gifts--a precise and probing scientific mind combined with a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world, a determined need to think things through for himself, and a profound reverence for the divine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe first made his mark as a philosopher and the editor of Goethe's scientific writings. He also recognized the revolutionary spirit in Nietzsche. But Steiner's destiny led him in a different direction. Profound cognitive experiences determined that his task would lie in service to the spirit. While recognizing the integrity of modern science's phenomenological empiricism, he also knew that the time had come to extend the field of science to include investigation of the supersensible. Working at first within the Theosophical Society, but always speaking and writing out of his own experience, Steiner developed the foundations for a thoroughly modern spiritual-scientific discipline that would transform spiritual and cultural life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil his death in 1925, in countless lectures and books, Steiner created the body of knowledge and practice known as \"anthroposophy,\" which not only challenged and extended the underlying methods of modern knowledge, but stimulated many practical cultural initiatives such as: Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, the art of eurythmy, the movement for a threefold social order, and anthroposophical medicine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Barnes--the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInto the Heart's Land: A Century of Rudolf Steiner's Work in North America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e--recounts the dynamic life of this remarkable man. 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