The Imaginative Life Tableau: The Spiritually Perceived Story of Our Life Between Birth and Death: Meditative Knowledge Out of Childhood Forces - Rudolf Steiner

\n \nMany will be familiar with the notion that people, at the point of death, see their life flash before them. Rudolf Steiner describes how--when the spiritual bodies separate from the physical body--the etheric body one who is dying is revealed, giving a panoramic overview of one's earthly life. This etheric body contains everything we have experienced in our consciousness and held in memory. The etheric not only generates and sustains all life, but also encompasses the life forces from which we shape our existence.\n \nAlthough the revelation of the life tableau is part of the early period following death, it can also emerge as a result of meditation. Steiner speaks of this--which occurs through imagination, the first level of spiritual experience--as conscious self-perception of the soul in the realm of images. Here we are confronted with the harrowing knowledge of our doppelg nger, though we also experience the cosmic forces of childhood that are present in all of our life processes. Those forces are described in psychology as the inner child. \n \nThrough this unique anthology of Steiner's work, we are led to a therapeutic, meditative approach that--by working with the imaginative life tableau--can strengthen and heal body, soul, and spirit. \n \nCHAPTERS INCLUDE \n \nExperiencing the Inner Child as the Starting Point for a New Philosophy \nExperiencing Life before Birth \nPain and Sadness when Reliving the Life Tableau \nIntensive Backward Thinking \nFeelings of Happiness when Experiencing the Life Tableau \nReexperiencing the Inner Child \nThrough the Forces of Childhood to the Higher Self and the Christ Experience\n