PSE43 - INNER FREEDOM II

Today I sit with Cordelia, frequent PS contributor and a favorite conversing partner, for another take on What does it mean that we human beings have inner freedom?

Mentions this episode:

• last episode w/Diedra

• mentions of the phrase “inner freedom” in RSarchives

• getting control! Steiner’s six exercises

• Steiner on despair

• Volume 4 of Peter Selg’s series of Steiner biographies, covering the period of the 1st Goetheanum burning down

• Seven bright rose stars/On black cross wood… (from GA 267 Soul Exercises 1, about half-way down)

• Steiner’s additions to the 12 astrological virtues list of Helena Blavatsky

• “…we rise rapidly when we fill our consciousness in such moments with thoughts evoking in us admiration, respect and veneration for the world and for life."

• some of Steiner’s verses & meditations

• one place to find the whole Quiet I bear within me… verse

• ending verse (I haven’t yet been able to find where originally Steiner gave this verse - if you can help with that info please leave me a comment!):

  May wisdom shine through me

  May love glow within me

  May strength penetrate me

  That in me may arise

  A helper of humankind

  A servant of sacred things

  Selfless and true

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Practical Steiner is a 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 going-on-four years that finally, after decades 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, in one measure or another, 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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