SteinerBooks - 2008 HOLIDAY CATALOG & 15% Holiday Discount

2008 HOLIDAY CATALOG & 15% Holiday Discount

November 20, 2008

Dear Friend,
As we enter the season of celebration for the Light of the World, we present many new books that offer fresh ideas, inspiration, and inner confidence in life. In this issue, we introduce dozens of new titles released through the year. SteinerBooks Holiday catalog is in the mail to those on our mailing list. If you are not on our list or wish to request copies for friends, please send email to friends@steinerbooks.org with a name and address.

Again this season, we are happy to offer readers our annual 15 % Holiday Discount on every book ordered from any catalog by phone, fax, or online From November 1 until January 15, 2009. As always, you will find all of our books here online.

You can download a PDF version of the complete 2008 Holiday Catalog here and now (6MB) CLICK HERE TO BEGIN DOWNLOAD.

All best wishes for a joyous holiday season and a wonder-filled 2009,
Gene Gol logly
President & CEO, SteinerBooks

ARTICLES AND EXCERPTS FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:

"Freedom of Thought and Societal Forces: Introduction by Christopher Bamford

“I do not believe that I would have come to a true understanding of the idea of the threefold nature of the social organism or body if I had not previously undertaken research into the human organism itself—research on which I reported, at least in outline, in my book Riddles of the Soul. In it, I showed that the ordinary, natural human organism is of a threefold nature—namely, that this natural human organism is threefold in its differentiation into a sensory and nerve organism, a rhythmic (circulatory) organism, and a metabolic organism. To recognize these three members of the natural human organism is vitally important for contemporary human thinking. For it is by means of the kind of thinking and insight that we can exercise in connection with this view that we come to true insight into the social organism itself in its threefold nature.” —Rudolf Steiner
Here is yet another insightful introduction by our Editor in Chief at SteinerBooks. Christopher places these fascinating lectures in the context of the time (1919) and shows their meaning for us today.

“Indications Given by Rudolf Steiner to a Painter” by Maria Strakosch-Giesler
“On the occasion of the Theosophical Congress in Budapest in 1909, I was able to show Rudolf Steiner my paintings for the first time. Before that, I had been a pupil of Kandinsky and had already searched, to the best of my ability, for a means of expression, a language arising out of color—but in vain.
In April 1908, we first met Rudolf Steiner in Berlin after a lecture he gave in the Architektenhaus. A few days later, I received meditations from him concerning colors, which gave me the possibility of experiencing a completely different aspect of painting than I had known hitherto. Previously I had not progressed beyond studying nature. At that time, Impressionism was prevalent, and Kandinsky himself struggled for a way to surpass it. I still remember quite well how impossible it seemed to me to get beyond what the senses perceive. However, at the time I diligently practiced the meditations given to me, without having any notion as to what would come of it.”
This long-awaited collection of writings is an important contribution to the literature on Rudolf Steiner's views and practice of the visual arts.

“Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: Introduction” by Arthur Zajonc
“Yes, to be awake is to be truly alive. Yet how, in the face of fear, doubt, and deadening routine, can we awaken ourselves to a “poetic and divine life”? If not by “factory bells” or other external means, then by what? Thoreau pointed to our genius, that high principle in each of us, as the force that can awaken. Our genius lives in expectation of the unknown as we expect the new day. It prompts us to be awake to the subtle dimensions of experience, to meet the sufferings and joys of life with equanimity, and to sense the unknown that continually invites us after her. How can we come into more regular and sustained contact with our genius?”
We are very fortunate to be able to publish Arthur’s newest book. In it, he offers descriptions and practical advice for meditation practice.

“Seth Jordan & Think OutWord” by Winslow Eliot
“I think of Nicanor Perlas as ‘the little Buddha of Anthroposophy,’” says Seth. “I read his book, and he opened my mind to Civil Society, and the developments of the last twenty years. Activism is not really what it’s about. It’s more about working with social forms that strive to integrate economic, political, and cultural elements in a healthy way.”
Author and teacher Winslow Eliot describes this practical application of spiritual science in a social context through her conversation with Seth Jordan.

Karin Jarman reviews The Inner Nature of Color: Studies on the Philosophy of the Four Elements by J. Leonard Benson
“Rather than simply equating each element with each of these four colors, he groups them together in many different variations, depending on the point of view taken at any particular moment. The whole concept has to be moved and adjusted in much the same way that Steiner demands of his teaching anyway, but is rarely put into practice. I found myself truly exercising my “brain windings,” so I could almost feel them juggling different juxtapositions. While honoring Goethe in his achievement of challenging the basic starting point of Newton as regards the origins of color, Benson also gives a new context to Newton’s scientific contributions in the light of contemporary color research. What particularly excited me as I continued reading was that I could see a new vista opening up from which to formulate a study of the human being in terms of color.”
Ms. Jarman, author of the new book, Touching the Horizon: A Woman’s Pilgrimage across Europe to the Castle by the Golden City, was inspired to write a review of this important book on the spiritual nature of color, now in its second printing.

Don't miss this issue. You should receive it in the mail, but if not please request a copy by sending email to friends@steinerbooks.org

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Keep the good books coming ...

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