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
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
'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
Steiner, Rudolf, 625n; Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der hoheren Welten?, 485, 485n
Jung's Dream Analysis seminar cites Steiner's Knowledge of the Higher Worlds as a reference point in a footnote context, indicating Jung's awareness of Steiner's esoteric epistemology without extended commentary.
Jung, C.G., Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting
A bare index entry in Jung's Collected Works Volume 18 confirms Steiner's presence within Jung's intellectual horizon, though without substantive engagement.
Jung, C.G., Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976aside
Steiner appears as a named index entry in Mysterium Coniunctionis, placing him within Jung's alchemical and psychological reference field without elaboration.
Jung, Carl Gustav, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955aside