PSE8 - What does "Spiritual" have to do with "Science"?

Questions/topics/ideas from this conversation:

• ‘science’ currently has a fallen meaning for some of us; the scientific method has been debased

• scientism - science as religion (“I believe!” Questioning not allowed)

• ‘spiritual science’ in the original German may be more accurately translated as ‘spiritual knowledge’

• fun with synonymous phrases

• how is spiritual science distinct from spiritism, witchcraft, magic, séance, psychic vision, palm reading, etc?

• the importance of developing discernment for yourself

• what’s Ronda got against the Law of Abundance?

• the middle path Steiner describes

• [CORRECTION - at just past 18 min, I should have said Steiner’s PREFACE, not Intro. I make the mistake several more times. Every time I mean Steiner’s preface]

• Is there an invisible behind the visible? If so, is it knowable via development of human capabilities?

• “How can you pass judgement on something while insisting you know nothing about it?”

• antipathy helps us feel our individuality

• “Supersensible truths speak to us in the same way as any truth that addresses our level-headed judgement”

• living concepts - what does that mean?

• “The soul-principle does not live in what we know about nature, it lives in the process of knowing”

• our material world is made up of the corpses of ideas; the living thought is the becoming…

• “Knowledge about nature can never lead to anything except experiences of what the human soul itself is not”

• “Facts presented in spiritual science enter into our perception only through soul activity”

• Steiner’s full and on-demand clairvoyance + continuity of consciousness; what it meant for him to do ‘spiritual research’

• Akasha Chronicle/Record

• Steiner meaning of ‘imagination’

• modern science also asks you to take things on faith

• all education and training forces us to think a certain way; the opportunity cost of what we’re not thinking about

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Steiner books mentioned in this episode: Outline of Esoteric Science [RS PREFACE I mistakenly refer to as the Intro]; How to Know Higher Worlds

Miscellaney from this episode: Clopper Almon; Goethean Science/Phenomenolism; Ahriman and Lucifer; Steiner describing researching the Akashic Chronicle (from GA 140, #19 “Links Between the Living and the Dead”, toward end)

PSE3 - Brook & Ronda discuss free will

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