Rudolf Steiner

[R]

Rudolf Steiner should be on the spiritual teacher list.

[lobo]

Are you familiar with his teaching?
Can you post a bit about it here?

I have only lightly scanned one of his books in a bookstore but nothing there really attracted me other than the title, somethign like "How to know higher worlds"

[inavalan]

• "The exercises leading to Intuition make it necessary for the pupil of the spirit to remove from his awareness not only the images to which he turned in order to attain Imagination but also what he practised in his life of soul for the attainment of Inspiration. He must have absolutely nothing in his soul of any previous external or internal experiences. However, if nothing were to remain in his consciousness after he has cast off his external and internal experiences, that is if his consciousness were to disappear altogether, this would show him that he is not yet sufficiently mature for the exercises necessary for the attainment of Intuition; so he would need to continue with the exercises for Imagination and Inspiration. The moment will eventually come when his consciousness is not empty after his soul has eliminated those internal and external experiences; then, after such elimination, something will continue working in his consciousness in which he will be able to immerse himself in the same way as he immersed himself in what he owes to external or internal impressions. This ‘something’, however, is of a very special kind. Over against all previous experiences it is something truly new. When this experience arises, one knows: This is something I previously did not know. This is a perception just as a genuine sound is a perception heard by the ears; but this something can only enter into my consciousness through Intuition, just as the sound can only enter into my consciousness through my ears. Through Intuition the final remnant of what is sense-perceptible and physical is removed from the human being’s impressions; the spiritual world begins to open up to one’s knowledge in a form that no longer has anything in common with the attributes of the physical, sense-perceptible world."
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  --- Rudolf Steiner, "Intuition: the focus of thinking"
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