Name: Self-Doubt: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Panic and Fear - Threshold Experiences, Crises of the Soul and Healing on the Anthroposophical Path
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Author: Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781855845503

portada Self-Doubt: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Panic and Fear - Threshold Experiences, Crises of the Soul and Healing on the Anthroposophical Path

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Physical Book

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Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781855845503

Synopsis "Self-Doubt: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Panic and Fear - Threshold Experiences, Crises of the Soul and Healing on the Anthroposophical Path"

Selections from various lectures Mental and emotional disorders have reached epidemic levels in Western societies. Self-doubt, panic attacks, anxiety disorders, and personal fears of all kinds present major challenges to contemporary medical science. Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research offers a startlingly original and complementary contribution to this problem. True insight into psychological issues requires knowledge of the influences of spiritual beings, he suggests. In everyday life we are all confronted with metaphysical entities that can hinder or aid our development. Many forms of anxiety and self-doubt derive from such meetings on the border--or threshold--of consciousness. Furthermore, these "threshold experiences" are exacerbated today by a general loosening of the subtle bodies and components of the human soul. As these constitutional changes persist, according to Rudolf Steiner a condition of "dissociation" becomes increasingly common. A healthy emotional life will never be possible unless individuals engage in a conscious practice of personal self-development, strengthening their constitution through the action of one's "I." The expertly selected and collated texts in Self-Doubt offer numerous cognitive and practical ideas for the improvement of everyday mental and emotional health. C O N T E N T S Introduction: Seminal Ideas and Historic Moments, by Stephen E. Usher 1. The origin of error, fear, and nervousness2. Crossing the threshold in the development of humanity and the individual3. The polarity of shame and fear4. The polarity of doubt and terrifying disorientation5. The polarity of skepticism and claustrophobia, astraphobia, and agoraphobia6. The origin of panic7. Worry and anxiety8. The multilayered nature of terrifying disorientation/confustion- Memory and memories- Compulsive thoughts and depression resulting from trauma- Nightmares and elemental beings- Association and dissociation- Loosening of the subtle bodies- Demons, spectres, phantoms and their effects on the subtle bodies9. Healing aspects of the anthroposophic path of training- Development of organs of supersensory perception- The soul process of light- Wonder, compassion, conscience10. The spiritual-scientific qualities of fear AppendixNotesSources

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Imperio austrohúngaro, hoy Croacia, 25 o 27 de febrero de 18611-Dornach, Suiza, 30 de marzo de 1925) fue un filósofo austriaco, erudito literario, educador, artista, autor teatral, pensador social y ocultista. Fue el fundador de la antroposofía, la educación Waldorf, la agricultura biodinámica, la medicina antroposófica5 y de la nueva forma artística de la euritmia.

Describió la antroposofía como sigue: La antroposofía es un sendero de conocimiento que quisiera conducir lo espiritual en el hombre a lo espiritual en el universo. Pueden ser antropósofos quienes sienten determinadas cuestiones sobre la esencia del hombre y del mundo como una necesidad tan vital como la que se siente cuando tenemos hambre y sed.

Steiner propuso una forma de individualismo ético, al que luego añadió un componente más explícitamente espiritual. Derivó su epistemología de la visión del mundo de Johann Wolfgang Goethe, según la cual el pensamiento es un órgano de percepción al igual que el ojo o el oído. Del mismo modo que el ojo percibe colores y el oído sonidos, así el pensamiento percibe ideas.

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