Heart Thinking : Inspired Knowledge

Steiner, Rudolf; Sam, Martina Maria (EDT); Barton, Matthew (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1855845350 / ISBN 13: 9781855845350

Published by Rudolf Steiner Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heart Thinking : Inspired Knowledge
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855845350
• ISBN 13: 9781855845350
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

The concepts of “thinking with the heart,” or EQ (“emotional intelligence”), are often used today, usually in contrast to intellectual thought. When Rudolf Steiner used the phrase “heart thinking,” however, he meant it in a very specific sense. 

Drawn primarily from his lectures, the compiled texts in this anthology illuminate his perspective―that heart thinking is intimately related to the spiritual faculty of Inspiration. The heart, he says, can become a new organ of thinking through the practice of exercises that work toward the transformation of feeling, shedding its personal and subjective character.

The exercise sequences presented here call for two fundamental gestures. First, renunciation, extending from extinguishing images engendered in meditation through inner silence to conscious suppression of sensory perception. 

The second gesture involves the development of new feelings toward natural phenomena, as well as toward the reports of spiritual-scientific research. By practicing these methods we can attain thinking that is in harmony with the true nature and reality of what we seek to know.

Rudolf Steiner’s texts are collected together by Martina Maria Sam, who contributes a lucid introduction and notes.

This volume is a translation from German of the book Herzdenken: Über inspiratives Erkennen (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2014).

About the Author

Matthew Barton is a translator, editor, teacher, and poet, and taught kindergarten for many years at the Bristol Waldorf School. His first collection of poems was Learning To Row (1999). He has won numerous prizes for his work, including an Arts Council Writer's Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship.