Rudolf Steiner

The Seba library treats Rudolf Steiner in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including McNiff, Shaun, Richard Tarnas, Jung, C.G.).

In the library 6 passages

his ‘spiritual science,’ known as anthroposophy, explored how spirits, rather than molecular structures, are what really exist ‘behind the sense world.’ Like psychoanalysis, anthroposophy focuses on what is behind the physical realm

McNiff grants Steiner’s anthroposophy genuine proximity to creative arts therapy while critiquing its tendency to devalue sensory expression in favor of a hidden spiritual realm, and its moralistic polarization of auras into good and bad states.

McNiff, Shaun, Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, 2004thesis

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Rudolf Steiner began to publicly present his esoteric work… anthroposophy—‘a path of knowledge leading the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe’—which emphasized the evolution of consciousness, the cosmic significance of the human being

Tarnas situates Steiner’s founding of anthroposophy within the great early-twentieth-century awakening of esoteric and mystical spirituality, framing it as a systematic ‘spiritual science’ bridging Christian esotericism, Eastern mysticism, and modern evolutionary consciousness.

Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006thesis

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‘the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe’: Rudolf Steiner, letter to Anthroposophical Society (February 17, 1924)

Tarnas supplies the primary bibliographic citation for Steiner’s foundational definition of anthroposophy, anchoring the theoretical claim to a specific documentary source.

Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, 2006supporting

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