Practical Steiner is a new podcast addressing the question “What might Steiner say?” about this or that topic that is of interest to me, the host. I am a fairly new Steiner student and have felt in these past two + years that finally, after years and years of wondering about the “why” of many things, I have finally come across someone with comprehensive knowledge enough to answer many of those questions.
My podcast is conversations - the more candid and honest the better - with various people who have been studying at least as long as I have and who have taken up Anthroposophy as a way of living. My over-arching interest is not in presenting “expert” opinion/interpretation of Steiner’s body of work but rather lies at the interface of the guidance from Steiner’s books and lectures with how someone lives their everyday life.
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Today’s conversation is an introduction to Piers. We start with the question, “How is it that Rudolf Steiner has anything to do with the field of Recovery?”
Further questions through-out the interview elaborate on this theme. Along the way we touch upon:
You use Anthroposophy in the work that you do?
What is ‘The Big Book’?
Attention, the great mystery of Neuroscience
Steiner on Powerlessness, Conscience, Consciousness Soul
Metanoia as contrasted with ‘Redemption’
“Lying is a murder/suicide”
Ahriman, Father of Lies
The field of Recovery is dominated by medicine - particularly Big Pharma, which often precludes a spiritual approach
Insurance/Is addiction a ‘disease’?
Abstinence ≠ Recovery
‘Powerlesness’ vs. Taking control of yourself as fully as possible
Surrender as an act of will
Karma & Reincarnation; the Manichean path as transformation for the sake of humanity
Is there a difference in the male/female as far as recovery treatment?
Steiner books mentioned in this episode:
Knowledge of Higher Worlds; Theosophy; The 5th Gospel; Philosophy of Freedom
Steiner lecture mentioned: How Do I Find the Christ?
Other books/authors/places/ideas mentioned in this episode:
Charles Peguy; Steiner on soul/astral body; Karl Konig and F. Hegel on Conscience; Prokofiev, The Occult Significance of Forgiveness; the St. Francis prayer; Bruce Alexander on Dislocation Theory; St. Augustine on Prevenient Grace; Simone Weil, seek truth first; Bernard Lievegood; The Alcyon Center
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