PSE45 - BROOK'S BOOKS : Inner Freedom IV

All Things Brook

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Apophenia Gold is the title of Brook’s planned 7-book series [pen name Rose C. Lane] and also of the first book in the series. The books have as their basis an anthroposophical world view. In these conversations for “BROOK’S BOOKS”, we take a theme from the books and discuss it more fully.

The second book, Mercury’s Riddles, is hot off the presses! I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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Topics we touch upon in this convo include: her significant psycho-spiritual yet also temporary experience reading Steiner as a 20-something; the purpose of feelings & training high drive animals; visualizing interior landscapes; discerning of evil and of the many influences upon us — astrology, weather, other people, propaganda/news, society/culture etc; from ‘blame state’ to inner freedom; ethical individualism; ‘the shadow is part of the gift’; witnessing of evil; the Manichean idea; incarnational patterns, biography work, intuiting your own destiny & freely responding/processing; perceiving ‘story beings’ in their evolution.

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Past BROOK’S BOOKS episodes: The Doppelgänger; 12 People Can Change the World; Discernment

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Other mentions this episode:

• 1st three Practical Steiner conversations on this topic of inner freedom - PSE42 w/Diedra, PSE43 w/Cordelia, PSE44 w/Daniel

• Philosophy of Freedom

• GA2, GA3, GA 4

• How To Know Higher Worlds

• ‘conversation with Heather earlier this week’

• the exercises Steiner gave

• Piers

• Brook’s mom - see PS episodes 1, 7, 11, 15, 26, 30, 32, 35, 39, 43

• Gene Keys by Richard Rudd

• George O’Neil

• where did Steiner talked about ‘witnessing of evil’?

• Steiner on destiny

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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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