Jesaiah Ben-Aharon recalls the founding vision of the United States and reminds the reader of the obligations inherent in the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. After summarizing current world socioeconomic conditions, the author discusses the dire consequences of ignoring the country’s obligations. He explains how we can stop the harmful effects of globalization while introducing progressive social structures. Using a concept developed by Rudolf Steiner, Ben-Aharon begins with the human being and an individual’s full actualization―a process that the United States is historically and karmically destined to foster. He explains not only how we arrived at our current situation, but how an understanding of America’s role in the development of global civil society can help us achieve cultural and spiritual freedom, political equality, and economic cooperation in America and the world. The ideas expressed here have never been more relevant or needed in the world.

America's Global Responsibility

Business & Money

Ben-Aharon, Yeshayahu (Jesaiah)

Economics

Lindisfarne Books

According to Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, the greatest spiritual event of our time is the renewal and reawakening of our human suprasensory relationship to the higher spiritual worlds. The force that leads to this development―called by various names in different cultural and religious traditions―is called the “Christ impulse” by Anthroposophy, in accordance with Christian terminology. Because of new, naturally endowed suprasensory faculties, human beings are increasingly able to experience and perceive, through an act of grace, the great spiritual force of the Christ impulse. This experience is said to be a naturally given initiation, and today we increasingly hear of such suprasensory experiences. Today, however, a healthy approach to these “natural” phenomena requires us to comprehend suprasensory experiences with full awareness and clear thinking. This book builds an all-important bridge between the naturally given suprasensory experience and its conscious cognition. As a result, empirical suprasensory research “can investigate the different aspects of Christ’s etheric becoming and appearance in a way that, both methodically and experientially, fulfils the justified cognitive and scientific requirements of our age.” This new paperback edition adds a new introductory chapter.

The New Experience of the Supersensible: The Anthroposophical Knowledge Drama of Our Time

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Temple Lodge Publishing

Utilizing spiritual-scientific research methods, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon gives an astonishing first-hand testimony of Rudolf Steiner's declarations regarding the new Christ Revelation, and offers his own findings on the Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century. Based on occult Imaginative consciousness, he gives a unique account of events which took place in the spiritual world during the war and turmoil on earth in the period 1933-45. His words have a particular significance for an understanding of the work of the grouping of souls which the seer and spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner called the "Michael School."  Through coming to a fully conscious comprehension of the spiritual event of the twentieth century, the author asserts, we may gain the courage needed to renew and enliven the spiritual science of Anthroposophy as "the universal human language of our age."  This second edition features an extensive introductory essay.

The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century: An Imagination: The Occult Significance of the 12 Years 1933-45 in the Light of Spiritual Science

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

In the last century, Rudolf Steiner issued a challenge for practitioners of western spiritual science. Would it be possible to develop a new form of cognitive, or Michaelic, yoga? In contrast to the eastern yogis of old – who practiced the spiritualization of inhalation and exhalation – such contemporary yogic practice would involve a spiritualization of thinking as well as a transformation of perceptions and sensations.     In Cognitive Yoga, Dr Ben-Aharon responds to that call, developing the entire modern yogic process and describing it in remarkable detail. Through the methods presented, committed practitioners of anthroposophy can create a living framework for spiritual research through a fully spiritualized thinking accompanied by a complete renewal of the experiences of perception and sensation as well as of the human body itself.   Included in the contents of this extraordinary book is a comprehensive guide to the spiritualization of the senses and how this leads to a transmutation of the deepest and most unconscious bodily processes and functions. Cognitive Yoga culminates in a pioneering description of a completely individualized meeting with the etheric Christ in the etheric world – the most important spiritual and human experience that people can have in our time and over the millennia to come.    This seminal work, built on decades of first-hand research, provides tangible evidence that western spiritual schooling is not only alive and well, but also full of potential for future development. Ben-Aharon offers a fully formulated and practical guide to a knowledge of the present revelations of the spiritual world.  

Cognitive Yoga: Making Yourself a New Etheric Body and Individuality

With love, humor, and brilliant insight, Ben-Aharon addresses some of the most critical questions of our age, ranging from artificial intelligence and global politics to education and postmodern philosophy. Although tackling diverse subjects, this accessible anthology―delivered initially as lectures in locations as contrasting as New York, Oslo, and Munich―features a coherent inner rhythm. With his lively and intense presentation, the speaker invites us to share and participate in the creative process and the dynamic activity of incarnating new ideas―indeed, to awaken to the very Spirit of our Time. Ben-Aharon discusses his investigations into the spiritual event of the twenty-first century; the activities of spiritual beings in America, Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Israel; the renewal of education; the creative transformation of antisocial forces; Israel’s diverse culture in the midst of a clash of civilizations; the new Christ event and how it can break through our habitual patterns and our hardened thinking, feeling, and will; and the mission of the anthroposophic movement today. Informed throughout by decades of spiritual research and intimate experience, this volume contains mature and illuminating explorations into contemporary culture, history, and Spiritual Science.

Spiritual Science in the 21st Century: Transforming Evil, Meeting the Other, and Awakening to the Global Initiation of Humanity

“This little book relates some experiences I had during the spiritual research which was eventually published in my book Cognitive Yoga. Usually I am concerned with communicating the objective results of my research and not what I experienced whilst doing it. But an objective description of what the individual soul undergoes during spiritual research can be valuable to the study of anthroposophy and to those who pursue the spiritual path themselves.” Through faithful inner work, says the author, the path of spiritual science can become a living spiritual being―an intimate friend in the realms of soul and spirit. This being can blossom into an extended spiritual community or school. One can converse and co-create with this spiritual school, including the being of one’s teacher, by learning its inner language. In 2012, Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon was confronted with a major obstacle in his research work. After struggling alone, he felt he could not progress without consulting his colleagues in the spiritual world. The intimate soul experiences described in this book took place during such a gathering―a special, festive occasion with an active and engaged community of spiritual beings. “I want to share some aspects of what I experienced during this event, in the more personal and imaginative language of storytelling. It is a kind of new, individual, Christmas nativity tale, about the earthly ripening of a research problem, its heavenly conception, embryonic life, and finally the birth on earth of what becomes a physical book, printed black on white.”  Chapters include: Four Stages of Development – The Mystery of Conception – An Insurmountable Problem – Some Soul Experiences on the Threshold – A Co-creative Journey – The Author Is Pregnant – A Book Is Born.

Cognitive Yoga - How a Book is Born: Heavenly Jerusalem and the Mysteries of the Human Body

The Event: In Science, History, Philosophy, and Art

“The better I understand the roots of the Hebrew people and its universal-human mission, the better I shall understand the nature of humanity and itsmission; and the more human I become, in the most universal sense, anchored in a new spiritual knowledge and practice, the more fulfilled, active and creative Ican be at the roots of my existence as a Jew and an Israeli.” ―Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon Based on a remarkable series of lectures delivered in his native Israel, Dr. Ben-Aharon presents his illuminating research on the meaning of Judaism and the spiritual mission of the Jewish people in the past, present and future. The Hebrew people have been a central root in the development not only of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but also of the universal human spirit itself. Thus, a new understanding of their development and contribution to the spiritual biography of humanity is essential to understanding ourselves as human beings. The Jews were chosen to reveal the deepest secret of ancient times: the existence of one God above all gods, being the Creator of allhuman beings―beyond race, nation and gender―in his divine image. The great historical and spiritual figures of the Hebrew people―Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joseph, as well as the judges, kings, and prophets―prepared humanity for individuation, the true “I AM,” through devotion to the divine foundation of the world. “The Lord our God is one,” who is to be loved with all one’s heart, soul and being. Each person could now fulfill the Word, which could be actualized on Earth―in the human being. Dr. Ben-Aharon describes the evolution of the Hebrew people and its role in the development of the human race. The journey continues to the present day, where the universal human Self has the potential to become a free participator in the ongoing creation of the universe. “Anyone who comprehends the profundity and complexity of the spiritual problems we are faced with in the world today is well aware that any sustainable attempt at a ‘political solution’ to the problem of Jerusalem and Israel must be based on a fundamental and profound renewal of the understanding of the meaning of humanity. What must change fundamentally is our actual knowledge regarding our common spiritual origin; the common path and the common future mission of all people and humanity....The demand for such a fundamental change in ourselves presents itself to us again and again in Israel, Palestine and Jerusalem as their center and as a global center of humanity, not symbolically but in the most tangible sense. It is the bleeding, dividing mirror, reflecting with painful steadfastness the intensity of forgetfulness of our origin, our path and the future goals of our evolution, and of our common spiritual mission.”

Jerusalem: The Role of the Hebrew People in the Spiritual Biography of Humanity

History

Middle East

This unique work―the fruit of many decades of research and experience―sheds new light on the suprasensory history and karma of the Michaelic movement since Rudolf Steiner’s death. It describes that movement’s evolution and transformation in the etheric world during the twentieth century, from the world-changing apocalypse of the 1930s and ’40s through to the beginning of its incarnation on Earth at the end of the twentieth century. The book also focuses on developments in the work of building the community of the School of Spiritual Science, which embodies the new Michaelic movement today. 
As Ben-Aharon indicates, the Michaelic movement is searching for creative, courageous, and enthusiastic souls to foster a strong community that develops―from decade to decade―as a living organism. Based on the continuous resurrection of Anthroposophy, this community strives to create a fully conscious meeting and communication with the school of Michael and Christ in the etheric world, in a form that is appropriate and required by the time. The transcripts of these lectures collect the author’s experiences with Anthroposophy during the past four decades in the light of present communications from the spiritual world. It is based on contemporary spiritual investigation and individual, lived experience. 
C O N T E N T S: 
PrefaceForeword 
1. The Amfortas–Parsifal Duality and Its HealingPersonal–Impersonal Observations of BiographyLecture, Feb. 12, 2019 
2. The Twilight of Humanity and Its ResurrectionLecture, Feb. 13, 2019 
3. The Universal Language of Michael and the Being of Rudolf SteinerLecture, Feb. 14, 2019 
4. The Anthroposophical Movement in the PresentLecture, Feb. 15, 2019 
5. The Etheric Form is AliveLecture, Feb. 17, 2019 
Afterword: The Resurrection of the Etheric Christ in the 21st CenturyNotes

The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity: The History of the Michaelic Movement since the Death of Rudolf Steiner: An Esoteric Study

About the Author\nDr. Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon, spiritual scientist, philosopher and social activist, is founder of the anthroposophic community in Harduf, Israel, cofounder of the Global Network for Social Threefolding, director of Global Event College, and contributor to the School of Spiritual Science. He is the author of Cognitive Yoga, Spiritual Science in the 21st Century, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century, The New Experience of the Supersensible, America’s Global Responsibility, and The Event in Science, History, Philosophy, and Art\n“How can our souls unite with the etheric Christ, experienced in the etheric world since the end of the last century? What steps should we take, in the second century of the age of Michael, to unite with Him?” 
At the center of human evolution stands the Mystery of Golgotha, through which the Christ impulse entered the earth. Anthroposophy, said Rudolf Steiner, was given at the beginning of the last century to prepare for the second major Christ event―the etheric Second Coming―beginning in 1933. This event is the portal that leads to the mighty and transformative current events in the etheric world, enabling us to meet the etheric Christ, Michael, and Anthroposophia. 
At the heart of this book is an existential question. Early in his anthroposophic work, Ben-Aharon realized that meeting the etheric Christ without the light of spiritual science remains only a personal experience. Likewise, Anthroposophy is merely a body of erudition frozen in time if no new life forces flow from the etheric Christ. But they are interdependent. How can such a mutually enlivening bridge to be built? 
Speaking candidly of his personal spiritual path and inner struggles of consciousness, Ben-Aharon tackles this fundamental dilemma as a prelude to the forthcoming, second edition of his book The New Experience of the Supersensible.

The Three Meetings: Christ, Michael and Anthroposophia

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