SPIRITUAL SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Transforming Evil, Meeting the Other, and Awakening to the Global Initiation of Humanity

• Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

With love, humour and brilliant insight, Ben-Aharon addresses some of the most critical questions of our age, ranging from artificial intelligence and global politics to education and postmodern philosophy. Although tackling diverse subject-matter, this accessible anthology – delivered initially as lectures in locations as contrasting as New York, Oslo and Munich – features a coherent inner rhythm. With his lively and intense presentation, the speaker invites us to share and participate in the creative process and the dynamic activity of incarnating new ideas – indeed, to awaken to the very Spirit of our Time.

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Intellectuality Versus Anthroposophy

• Pietro Archiati

Can there be such a thing as spiritual science today? Should faith and spirit remain as purely private concerns – or, as traditionally, preserves of the Church? When Rudolf Steiner founded anthroposophy in the early twentieth century, his intention was to create a fundamentally scientific approach to the spirit. His basic works detail methods for developing spiritual consciousness, allowing the individual to replicate the results of his research. This key aspect distinguishes anthroposophy from the wealth of spiritual teachings, sects, cults and religions within the modern cultural milieu. But did Steiner fail in his endeavour to build a scientific path to spiritual knowledge? Is anthroposophy just another ‘theory’ based on intellectual thought, to be analysed and dismissed?

SPIRITUAL TRANSLOCATION
The Behaviour of Pathological Entities in Illness and Healing and the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals
From Polarity to Triunity

• Are Thoresen

‘I wrote this book out of the needs I see at the present time. I see diseases being translocated to others – humans or animals – despite the good intentions of many therapists or doctors. The diseases are translocated because they do not exist in energetic patterns, but as expressions of spiritual beings. Energy and energy-patterns only exist in the physical world, but in the spiritual world there are only spiritual beings.’

STIGMATA, THE
Destiny as a Question of Knowledge

• Peter Tradowsky

Stigmata - the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ - have long been a controversial phenomenon. Former well-known stigmatics, such as Saint Francis of Assisi, Anne Catherine Emmerich and Therese Neumann, have mostly been associated with the Catholic Church. Judith von Halle however, who received the stigmata at Passiontide in 2004, is a member of the Anthroposophical Society, and has to date published a dozen notable volumes of spiritual-scientific research.

STORY OF EMERSON COLLEGE, THE
Its Founding Impulse, Work and Form

• Michael Spence

"Emerson was really a working together - a sum total of all the life's paths, the working of karma and the fulfilling of pre-birth impulses and intentions of so many people, both staff and students. Every person who came to Emerson in some way touched it and changed it. Each year had its own biography. It was never an institution to which people came and passed through without leaving any mark on it." - Michael Spence

STRUGGLE FOR A HUMAN FUTURE, THE
5G, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things

• Jeremy Naydler

With its wireless networks encompassing the globe, the Digital Revolution is altering the very fabric of our lives with alarming rapidity. New technologies are bringing about an ever closer union between human beings and machines, whilst at the same time transforming our planet into an increasingly hybrid ‘cyber-physical’ world.

SYMPHONIES OF CREATION
The Primal Elementary Kingdoms in the Work of Rudolf Steiner

• Oskar Kürten

‘No true understanding of the world is possible without an understanding of the elementary kingdoms.’ – Oskar Kürten

TEMPLAR SPIRIT, THE
The Esoteric Inspiration, Rituals and Beliefs of the Knights Templar

• Margaret Jonas

What spiritual or esoteric practices took place within the mysterious and often controversial Knights Templar? Whilst little is known about this aspect of the Order's history, speculation and wild rumours continue to persist.

TEMPLE AND THE GRAIL, THE
The Mysteries of the Order of the Templars and the Grail and their Significance for Our Time

• W. F. Veltman

In the popular imagination, the Holy Grail – part of the legendary romance of King Arthur – belongs to the realm of myth. The Knights Templar also have a legendary, enigmatic aspect. Despite the immense volume of historical research available, plausible explanations to the ‘mystery’ at the core of their practices have yet to be revealed.

THINKERS, SAINTS, HERETICS
Spiritual Paths of the Middle Ages

• Virginia Sease • Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

Whether souls have returned in physical incarnations as Platonists, as Aristotelians, as pupils of Chartres, as members of the Dominican Order, as Templars, as Cathars, or whether these souls accompany us as spiritual beings, a stream of spiritual continuity that begins in the Middle Ages flows through human history.

THREE MEETINGS, THE
Christ, Michael and Anthroposophia

• Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon

‘How can our souls unite with the etheric Christ, experienced in the etheric world since the end of the last century? What steps should we take, in the second century of the age of Michael, to unite with Him?’

THREEFOLD NATURE OF DESTINY LEARNING

• Coenraad van Houten

'Destiny Learning', a path of adult education conceived and developed by Coenraad van Houten (based on the work of Rudolf Steiner), is here expanded to show a threefold way of working with karma: understanding, transforming and ordering. This threefold approach opens new vistas for healing relationships and conflicts, for developing creative faculties for community building, and for taking initiatives based on freedom. The author widens and deepens his previous work on the theme, showing that learning from destiny, as well as awakening the forces of will, are ongoing processes. He offers practical advice that is directly applicable to everyday life.

TIME IS AT HAND!, THE
Ahrimanic and Michaelic Immortality and the Apocalypse of the Age of Michael

• Jesaiah Ben-Aharon

‘The twenty-first century is the second, middle century of the three centuries of the present age of Michael, and it is the most decisive one. If humanity again misses Michael’s goal, it will hardly be possible to recuperate from it, and human evolution will be derailed for a long time. The present age of Michael can therefore rightly be called ‘the Apocalypse of the age of Michael’. – Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

TONGUES OF FLAME
A Meta-Historical Approach to Drama
The Actor of the Future, Vol. 1

• Dawn Langman

Building on her fundamental texts The Art of Acting and The Art of Speech, Dawn Langman shows how the great dramas of Western heritage illuminate the evolution of human consciousness – from the past and into the future – thus providing a context in which actors can consciously evolve their art. Having laid her foundation by exploring the Eleusis Mysteries – the seed point of Western drama – she moves to the end of the nineteenth century, when drama and performance practice prepared for its next great evolutionary leap. She explores the connection of this leap to the evolutionary threshold facing human beings at the end of what occult history calls Kali Yuga.

TOUCHING THE HORIZON
A Woman's Pilgrimage Across Europe to the Castle by the Golden City

• Karin Jarman

"There is gold at the end of the rainbow..."