By Rudolf Steiner

Translation by Walter Stuber and Mark Gardner
Bn 350.2; GA 350; CW 350

Four lectures to the workers at the Goetheanum, translated by Walter Stuber and Mark Gardner. What is the relationship between seeing the secrets of the universe and one's understanding of life? How far must one go on the path of natural science before one finds higher worlds? Do the forces of the cosmos influence the whole of humanity? What connection do plants have with the human being and the human body? To answer these questions Steiner covers a wide range of topics including the development of independent thinking and the ability to think backwards; the uses of what seems boring; the reversal of thinking between the physical and spiritual worlds; the “physiology” of dreams as well as living into nature and the spiritual aspect of different foods. As always in his lectures to the workers, Steiner's style is simple, direct, and clear. This series of lectures has also been called: How Do We See Into the Spiritual World?

Lectures eight through eleven of sixteen lectures in the series entitled, Rhythms in Cosmos & Man, Viewing the Spiritual World, published in German as, Rhythmen im Kosmos und im Menschenwesen. Wie Kommt Man zum Schauen der Geistigen Welt? Vom Wirken des Aetherischen und Astralischen im Menschen und in der Erde. Ursprung und Bedeutung der Kulte. Ernaehrungsfragen. Vortraege fuer die Arbeiter am Goetheanumbau (vol. 350 in the Bibliographic Survey).

This volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.