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“It is quite natural that in meditation we should, to begin with, use the kind of thinking to which we have always been accustomed; it is only gradually that we can accustom ourselves to give up thinking about external things.”
~ Rudolf Steiner, “Occult Science and Occult Development” (2013)
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In this Spiritual Science in the Present Age lecture, Thomas H. Meyer turns his attention to what Rudolf Steiner had to say about the important topics of inner development and meditation, describing how meditation in the Christian and spiritual science senses of the word “can become the anchor of the soul life on its journey through unending development.”
As an anchor for discussion of these topics, Thomas reminds us of the sevenfold nature of human beings, with four lower parts (the physical, etheric, and astral bodies and the ego) and three higher parts (spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man). He notes that for the purposes of self-development, intellect can only take us so far, helping us understand what is already there. In contrast, meditation is a tool to help us understand what is becoming.
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My husband and I are watching this together, slowly as it is rich and has much depth. This is such important information for the present age where we are assailed by spiritual forces in the unseen world and where the collective and persona unconscious, slumbering under the trance of technology is floundering to present itself. I find this teaching inspiring and so helpful. Thank you.
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Just came across this quote from Steiner:
“”The enticement to evil to which man is exposed during sleep is, in truth, exceedingly great, and it can easily happen that in the morning he brings over with him from sleep terrible demonic forces of temptation. Only when he has come down again into his physical and etheric body, will a man who is not very good and upright begin to feel pricks of conscience, — not before. There is thus abundant possibility for, man to fall a victim to Ahriman during the time of sleep.
The danger has by no means always been so great as it is today. In the course of the centuries it has gradually come about that men are so gravely exposed during sleep to the seductions of demonic powers, which make evil appear good. In earlier times of the evolution of mankind things were different. Man had then, as I have often explained to you, nothing like so strong an ego-consciousness as he has now. In the daytime, when he was awake, his ego-consciousness was weaker; and that meant also that during sleep he did not sail so smoothly into evil as he does today. He was protected. The fact is, we are living today in a time that is bringing us to a certain crisis in evolution. It behoves men to arm themselves against the powers of evil that approach them when they fall asleep.”
~Rudolf Steiner, PLANETARY SPHERES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON MANS LIFE ON EARTH AND IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS, IV. Life in the Spiritual Spheres and the Return to Earth, 12 November 1922, London”
Now if this is true for man, as he falls asleep, might this not be at least as true, if he falls into a trance – either by the TV, the phone or the labtop? And certainly with the new apple goggles on.