ACTUALIZE TRUE KNOWLEDGE AND YOUR TRUE SELF
True Knowledge
Chapter 0 Actualize the Courage to cultivate individuality. See examples.
Chapter 0 Actualize the Conviction of inner truth. See examples.
Chapter 1 Actualize the Self-Awareness to know why you act. See examples.
Chapter 2 Actualize Self-Inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge. See examples.
Chapter 3 Actualize Pure Reason guided solely by the content of thought. See examples.
Chapter 4 Actualize Continuous Correction of world perception.
Chapter 5 Actualize Intuitive Reason in your application of concepts to the world.
Chapter 6 Actualize Independent Ideas by forming individualized reality-based ideas.
Chapter 7 Actualize Cognitive Satisfaction without limits to knowledge.
True Self
Chapter 8 Actualize Self-Knowledge by cognizing feeling and willing.
Chapter 9 Actualize Ethical Individualism that expresses your ethical content in life.
Chapter 10 Actualize Moral Autonomy by obeying your ethical impulses.
Chapter 11 Actualize Purposeful Living in accord with the laws of nature.
Chapter 12 Actualize Moral Imagination to translate ethical principles into free deeds.
Chapter 13 Actualize a Transcendent Ego to achieve your highest idealistic goals.
Chapter 14 Actualize Free Individuality to overcome group identity.
Research And Study Groups
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1.12 Sensationalist action: Seeing The Good
“Many pass by these good qualities without noticing them. One, however, sees them, and just because he does, love awakens in his heart.”
2.12 Sensationalist pursuit of knowledge: Facts Without Interpretation
“So far my purpose has been solely to record the facts of how we experience everyday life. I am not concerned with how science has interpreted consciousness, but with how we experience it from moment to moment."
3.12 Sensationalist thinking: Rightly Applied Thought
“Thought is a fact and it is meaningless to speak of a fact as being right or wrong. At most I can have doubts about whether thought is rightly applied.”
4.12 Sensationalist perception: Real Senses
“For only my real eye and my real hand could have the ideas of sun and earth as their modifications—my ideas “eye” and “hand” could not.”
5.12 Sensationalist knowing: Objective Percept
“A percept always appears as a very specific, concrete content. This content is directly given and is completely contained in what is given. "...the objective percept occurs when the object is present in the field of one’s vision.”
6.12 Sensationalist individual representation of reality: Living Concept
“Feeling is the means by which concepts first gain concrete life.”
7.12 Sensationalist cognition: Objective Real World Continuum
“His deliberations concerning the process of cognition has convinced him of the existence of an objectively real world continuum. He believes he is able to determine the nature of this objective reality by drawing conclusions inductively from his percepts.”
8.12 Sensationalist personality: World Will
“it asserts the existence of will in realms where it is not possible to experience it directly in the same way as it is in one’s own subject. A hypothetical principle is assumed outside the subject, for which the sole criteria for its existence is subjective experience.”
9.12 Sensationalist idea to act: Social Order
“the individual would become stunted with prolonged isolation outside human society. This is why the social order is formed, so that it can react back favorably on the individual.”
10.12 Sensationalist moral authority: Freedom Is Morality
“Human morality, like human knowledge, is conditioned by human nature. ...morality is a specifically human quality, and freedom is the human way of being moral.”
11.12 Sensationalist purpose: World Being
“A Dualist can talk of world purposes and nature purposes. Where we see an example of a systematic linking of cause and effect according to law, a Dualist is free to assume that what we are seeing is only a faint copy of a relationship within which the absolute world being has realized his purpose.”
12.12 Sensationalist moral idea: Enslaved Spirit
“External powers may prevent me from doing what I want. Then they simply damn me to do nothing. Not until they enslave my spirit, drive my motives out of my head, and put their own motives in the place of mine, do they really intend to make me unfree.”
13.12 Sensationalist value of life: Joy Of Achievement
“he finds the true enjoyment of life in achieving what he wants. He determines the value of life by comparing what he has achieved with the goals striven for.”
14.12 Sensationalist individuality: Moral Contribution
“Monism looks upon the history of the moral life, not as the education of the human race by a transcendent God, but as the gradual living out in practice of all concepts and ideas that spring from the moral imagination.”
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Skills taught in Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy Of Freedom
Fall 2022 Aug. 29 - Dec. 19
Spring 2023 Jan. 2 - April 24
Summer 2023 May 1 - Aug. 21
Study Group Schedule
TRUE KNOWLEDGE
Week 1 HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOURSELF?
Week 2 HOW TO DEVELOP COURAGE (0. part 1 The Goal Of Knowledge)
Week 3 HOW TO STRIVE FOR INNER TRUTH (0. part 2 The Goal Of Knowledge)
Week 4 HOW TO QUESTION FREEDOM (1. Conscious Human Action)
Week 5 HOW TO QUESTION KNOWLEDGE (2. The Fundamental Desire For Knowledge)
Week 6 HOW TO OBSERVE THOUGHT (3. Thinking As The Instrument Of Knowledge)
Week 7 HOW TO REFUTE YOUR REACTIVE PROJECTIONS (4. The World As Percept)
Week 8 HOW TO HAVE TRUE JUDGMENT BY CORRECTLY APPLYING CONCEPTS (5. Our Knowledge Of The World)
Week 9 HOW TO FORM INDIVIDUAL REALITY-BASED IDEAS (6. Human Individuality)
Week 10 HOW TO SEE THE TRUE NATURE OF REALITY (7. Are There Any Limits To Knowledge?)
TRUE SELF
Week 11 HOW TO KNOW YOUR SELF (8. The Factors Of Life)
Week 12 HOW TO BE AN ETHICAL INDIVIDUALIST (9. The Idea Of Freedom)
Week 13 HOW TO OBEY ONLY YOUR SELF (10. Freedom Philosophy And Monism)
Week 14 HOW TO HAVE PURPOSE (11. World Purpose And Life Purpose - Human Destiny)
Week 15 HOW TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD WITH IMAGINATIVE GOALS (12. Moral Imagination - Darwinism And Ethics)
Week 16 HOW TO ATTAIN THE TRUE JOY OF LIFE (13. The Value Of Life - Optimism And Pessimism)
Week 17 HOW TO DIGNIFY FREE INDIVIDUALITY (14. Individuality And Type)
RESEARCH
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
Impulse Of Freedom Goal
"I wrote The Philosophy of Freedom in order to give mankind a clear picture of the idea of freedom, of the impulse of freedom which must be the fundamental impulse of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. To this end it was necessary first of all to establish the impulse of freedom on a firm scientific basis."
From Symptom To Reality in Modern History Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
IDEA OF FREEDOM (impulse of freedom): 1. intuitively create moral content (Moral Idea) 2. express that content in life (Ethical Individualism)
OBJECTIVE: Intuitive thinking as a spiritial path.
Integrate all 3 into a thinking reflection process leading to intuitive insight.
1. Pure Thinking
2. Cosmic Logic
3. All the knowledge in TPOF on cards
Impulse Of Freedom Experience
The psycho-physical organization has no affect on the essential nature of thinking (intuition). The essential activity at work in thinking has a twofold function: 1) it represses the activity of the human organization; 2) it steps into its place. Yes, even the repression of the bodily organization is an effect of thinking activity; the part of thinking activity that prepares for the appearance of thinking. TPOF 9.1 -revised edition
The Eureka Factor by John Kounios and Mark Beeman
Location in brain where intuition takes place.
Preparation For Intuitive Insight
Experience Of Intuitive Insight
Gamma waves are linked to activities such as learning, problem-solving, and information processing.
Alpha waves usually occur when you are engaged in activities such as daydreaming, meditating, or practicing mindfulness, occur when people feel relaxed and when the brain is in an idle state without concentrating on anything. A state that is relaxed and restful, experienced when people are doing stress-relieving activities such as meditating. Positive effects of boosting alpha waves include lowering stress, reducing anxiety, decreasing depression, and improving creative thinking.
Increase alpha wave activity by:
Meditating
Deep breathing
Practicing mindfulness
Yoga
Aerobics