Spiritual Knowledge – What is it? with Thomas H. Meyer

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1. Thank You so much for this, Herr Meyer. I’ve listened twice now, between late last night and very early this morning. I am going to listen again tomorrow. I appreciate the significance of what you are saying here, and am so parched for this I must hear it again to help me integrate it more fully in the grasp and processing of it. In speaking of habits, I am sensing that noticing what one is doing and examining it as a part of critical thought to develop an objective self-awareness is key in order to arrest the habit and consciously practice dissolving that which is unwanted (the habit). The thought of awakening to ourselves more fully through noticing such things and making an alternate conscious decision and remaining present is profound. Thank you. I hope I am interpreting properly. You shared so much more than this, I don’t want to make this the emphasis. You explained everything so beautifully and so well. The next time I listen, I’m going to pause and make notes. I love this topic – thank you for doing this work and helping to explain it to us.

2. I found the teaching about the relationship of habits and the etheric very interesting. Do I understand correctly that the result and benefit of stopping habits increases our capacity in the etheric to resolve karmic patterns?

   1. I got this sense, too, Sharon.

3. Dear Catherine
   Robert Meyer seems to have the same picture hanging above his sofa as you do. If I recall correctly, it is a picture of Gideon. Can you please tell me the name and artist of the painting?

4. Thank you Herr Meyer, A practical resource and exercise book ‘Concentration’ by Mouni Sadhu is still available through ABE books and other used sources. It has warnings about the darker inspirations Nietzsche may have benefited from. Pull quote: “The mind is a good servant but a cruel master”. In some exercises you pit your will against your mind which is a formidable opponent.
   Ditto to Emilia Pragacz.

   1. Mr. Meyer’s book, Milestones, has a good chapter on Nietzsche as Rudolf Steiner was able to see him.

5. If Nietzsche had known that he was in danger of falling into illusion, how could he have avoided falling into insanity? And was it inevitable that he did so? Was there something in his nature that he gravitated to Ahriman’s influence? He seems to me ( again, what do I base it one except this untermensch/ubermensche dichotomy that he seemed to profess?). to have a streak of cruelty in his persona that he indulged?

   1. I am curious about this, too, Harriet. I do not know enough about Nietzche to know whether it applies to him personally as well, but in observing and listening to people who have been in difficult situations early in life, it seems that as a part of survival, the will from within is either directed to people-please to help one feel safe/in control of a situation/person, or to become a false-self for the same reasons and not having to feel that vulnerability ever again; sometimes a combination of this but usually one of the two is more predominant. I am not an expert, it’s just something I’ve noticed over time. I don’t know at what critical moment a person makes that decision as to be so binding from within that thought by thought, it is combined with feelings to justify/draw more of the same and seems to concretize that as a part of the struggle of their own experience, until at some point they (hopefully) overcome it whether a flash of insight or over time or a combination of them. I am very interested to hear what Herr Meyer says in response to your questions, as I wondered, too.

6. Thank You for that wonderful lecture Herr Meyer 🙂
   Is there a way to obtain that English translation of the Stein’s thesis that You mention? Also, where can one purchase the German version? Is any of the two available also in digital format?
   Thank You again!

7. Oh my this is wonderful!
   Spiritual strategies to navigate these times at the foot of a warm-hearted Sage.

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