Glossary
Pastoral Medicine in Anthroposophy
Pastoral Medicine is the field Rudolf Steiner opened for priests and physicians working together at the threshold of illness and spiritual life. Given as a lecture course in September 1924...
The Airy Organism in Anthroposophy
The airy organism is Rudolf Steiner's name for the gaseous configuration of the human being, the everywhere-present air-and-breath organization through which the astral body, the bearer of feeling, enters and...
Ego-Organization in Anthroposophy
The ego-organization is the I working as a bodily force rather than a spiritual idea. Steiner traced it through the metals, the sugar process, and the warmth of the blood,...
Childhood Illnesses in Anthroposophy
Childhood illnesses, in Steiner's medical teaching, are the visible signs of an enormous hidden labour. During the first seven years the head directs the rebuilding of the whole inherited body....
The Etheric Heart in Anthroposophy
The etheric heart is the heart's life-body member: the formative, fluid counterpart that organises the physical organ and outlives a single childhood form. Steiner taught that everyone first bears a...
The Nature of Illness and Self-Healing in Anthr...
The Nature of Illness and Self-Healing names Rudolf Steiner's understanding that sickness arises when the soul and spirit, the astral body and ego-organization, sink into the physical body more deeply...