{"product_id":"artistic-feeling-and-meditation-michael-howard-9781957569062","title":"Artistic Feeling and Meditation","description":"\"The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.... There remains only one question--how to set to work to develop such faculties.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Know Higher Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(p. 13)\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It should be noted that artistic feeling or sensitivity, coupled with a quiet, inward nature, is the most promising precondition for developing spiritual faculties. Such artistic sensitivity penetrates through the surface of things and thus reaches their secrets.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Know Higher Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(p. 43)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeditation can be described in general terms as a way to transform and develop our self. More specifically, meditation can have the purpose, as indicated above by Rudolf Steiner, of developing the inner faculties to perceive and know spiritual realities directly rather than according to belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner represents the view that the facts and laws of the spirit can be known as a spiritual science in the way that the facts and laws of the natural world are known by natural science. Both natural science and spiritual science depend on the human being developing the prerequisite faculties and capacities to be a natural scientist and spiritual scientist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1957569069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957569062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mercury Press (Canada)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs","brand":"Michael Howard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096635678975,"sku":"9781957569062","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artistic-feeling-and-meditation-michael-howard-9781957569062","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}