Glossary

The Subsensible in Anthroposophy

The subsensible is where Steiner puts everything that works on a person from below the sense-threshold: the forces of the earth's interior, of the air circle, and of the Moon....

Esoteric Exercises Before Puberty in Anthroposophy

Esoteric exercises before puberty mark the one place in Steiner's pedagogy where he says stop rather than proceed. He recommended the backward review, concentration, and meditation to adults for twenty...

Concepts That Reach the Account Book in Anthrop...

Concepts that reach the account book name the standard Steiner set for spiritual thinking in 1919: a concept proves its spirituality by penetrating to the deepest essence of matter, not...

The Earth Refreshed by Human Bodies in Anthropo...

The earth refreshed by human bodies is the most literal exchange in Steiner's cosmology: the ground lends us substance for a lifetime, and we hand the ground back a shape...

Play as the Seed of Practical Life Skill in Ant...

Play as the seed of practical life skill names the long arc Steiner traced between the nursery and the working adult. He asked teachers to watch how a child plays,...

The Limits of Object-Lesson Teaching in Anthrop...

The limits of object-lesson teaching mark the boundary Steiner drew around a method he never rejected outright. Demonstration serves arithmetic, geometry and the natural kingdoms well. It cannot carry beauty,...