Glossary
Somnambulism in Anthroposophy
Somnambulism, in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, is the trance or sleepwalking condition that stands as the precise antithesis of the dream. The dreamer lives wholly within his I and astral...
Genghis Khan Impulse in Anthroposophy
The Genghis Khan Impulse is Rudolf Steiner's term for a luciferic counter-effort that, in his spiritual history, worked through the Mongol conqueror at the threshold of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch....
Mediumship in Anthroposophy
Mediumship, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, is an abnormal condition in which a person's Ego and astral body are pushed out of the physical and etheric bodies, leaving those bodies as...
Three Kinds of Clairvoyance in Anthroposophy
Three Kinds of Clairvoyance are the three forms of supersensible perception Rudolf Steiner distinguished in his 1915 Dornach lecture Meditation and Concentration. He named them by the bodily region from...
Exact Clairvoyance in Anthroposophy
Exact clairvoyance is the trained, fully conscious perception of supersensible worlds that Rudolf Steiner placed at the centre of his 1922 London lectures. Where older clairvoyance arrived dreamlike and uncontrolled,...
Vitzliputzli in Anthroposophy
Vitzliputzli is the name Rudolf Steiner gives to a virgin-born sun-being who lived in ancient Central America at the same time as Christ. In his 1916 Dornach lectures, Steiner describes...