Lifeways is about children, about family life, and about being a parent. But most of all it is about freedom―and how the tension between personal fulfillment and family life may be resolved. Lifeways originated among groups of women (and some men) who were seeking a renewed spirit in family life. They wanted to create a new vision of the purpose of mothers and fathers―a new eye for the meaning of home as a place that supports everyone involved. This book is a valuable resource for parents and kindergarten teachers and playgroup leaders, as well as for women's support groups.

Lifeways: Working With Family Questions : A Parent's Anthology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Hawthorn Pr

Humanity is crossing a major threshold. The limits of conscious that existed centuries ago are no longer fixed, and reality is beginning to be defined by more than the phenomenal world. We face new frontiers, and this may be overpowering, as in the case of psychological disturbances and mental illnesses--or it may be enlightening and positive.
The theme of this book is inner development. Seeds for growth, hidden within each person, are described along with maps and guidelines for either those on an inner journey or people wishing to work therapeutically with others.
Ancient and alternative paths are described--Egyptian and Northern initiation mysteries, the Christian Rosicrucian path, Eastern ways, and the medieval Christian approach. The author also examines the manifold aspects of the human "double." Physiological and psychological factors in our relationship to earth, sun, moon, and planets are also described at length, along with medical and social implications.

Man on the Threshold: The Challenge of Inner Developments

Lievegbed, Bernard

The twenty-seven articles in this book reflect the author's work as scientist, journalist, and lecturer: articles on questions of evolution, language, education, science, caring for the planet, life after life, and contemporary thinkers like Schurmacher and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

Hope, Evolution, and Change

Politics & Social Sciences

Davy, John

Philosophy

The Children's Year: Crafts & Clothes for Children and Parents to Make

Children's Books

STEPHANIE COOPER

Christine Fynes-Clinton

Marye Rowling

Arts, Music & Photography

Recent research suggests that sleep is unnecessary for human beings. Our waking consciousness could, therefore, be extended so that we could do without sleep altogether. Audrey McAllen, however, believes that sleep is vital for physical, psychological and spiritual well-being. An essential element in her remedial work with children is to encourage the development of a healthy relationship to sleep. This work explores the experiences of the soul during sleep. Topics covered are: the relationship of sleeping and dreaming; the threefold experience of sleep; Rudolf Steiner's research into the nature of sleep; the human being's relationship to space; the moral colour exercises - as exercises for remedical work; and accounts of remedial work with children. Audrey McAllen is the author of "Teaching Children to Write" and "The Extra Lesson".

Sleep: An Unobserved Element in Education

Religion & Spirituality

McAllen, Audrey

Occult & Paranormal

Even in today's modern technological world, the miracle of birth stirs within many people a sense of wonder. This book is full of practical advice for one concerned with childcare. Joan Salter addresses physical and spiritual development, environment, immunization and health, and the acquisition of skills and thinking ability.

Incarnating Child

Literature & Fiction

Salter, Joan

Genre Fiction

This work presents an invitation to weave a design for the soul's journey bringing together the colours and textures of personality to reval pattern and meaning. It also offers an introduction to the concepts of "The Temperaments", "Archetypes", and "Soul Qualities" as defined by Rudolf Steiner. The author demonstrates how to: transform temperament; realize and integrate soul type; understand the influences of the "Archetypal" points of view; and make life changes such as choosing a spiritual path, living in balance, cultivating the power of love and more.

Soul Weaving: How to Shape Your Destiny and Inspire Your Dreams

Staley, Betty

The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

Inspired by Thomas Carlyle's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's fairy tale, this play is about a group of people who live in a world turned upside down. They realize that the efforts of one alone can do little to create a new society. But by waking up to each other, they bring about profound and spiritual renewal. Marjorie Spock's "Art of Goethean Conversation" shows how true conversation has tranformative power.

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON

Spock, Marjorie

Humor & Entertainment

Revised 2nd Edition Between Form and Freedom offers a wealth of insights about teenagers and a compassionate, intelligent, and intuitive look into the minds of children and adolescents. Betty Staley explores the nature of adolescence and considers teenagers' needs in relation to family, friends, schools, love, and the arts. She also deals with issues of stress, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and eating disorders. 
This is a valuable guide and inspiration for all parents of teenagers.

Between Form and Freedom: A Practical Guide to the Teenage Years

Social Sciences

This volume helps uncover the unique patterns people weave in life. At a time of wide interest in biography, this is a set of keys to understanding the patterns and rhythms of one's life. Readers are invited to consider the shuttle of threads one uses as the weft of one's life story. Some of these threads are temperament, gender, love, family, nationality, birth order and unfolding relationships. A vivid picture of adult growth is presented. Twelve very different people's stories are followed, through each life phase and passage, wondering what will happen next. Readers can consider how they may have responded to the choices faced by these individuals. Life's dilemmas are explored, for example, that of career versus parenting, and the choices for old age. This opens up options to consider, which roads to take in life and the encouragement to reflect. Betty Staley draws on her life experiences as a teach of history and literature at the Sacramento Waldorf School. Rudolf Steiner's work on biography is integrate with current psychological research and feminist writing. Poems and stories are also included. Contents include: time, growth and human relationships - the human being in the world of matter, soul and spirit; family relationships; the individual and the group; effects of birth order in the family; man and woman; masculine and feminine; love; life cycles and human rhythms; the phases of adult life and the stages of relationships.

Tapestries: Weaving Life's Journey

Parenting & Relationships

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