Roads go on
I love roads:
The goddesses that dwell
Far along invisible
Are my favorite gods.
Roads go on
While we forget, and are
Forgotten like a star
That shoots and is gone.
On this earth 'tis sure
We men have not made
Anything that doth fade
So soon, so long endure:
The hill road wet with rain
In the sun would not gleam
Like a winding stream
If we trod it not again. [. . .]
—Edward Thomas, from "Roads"
Featured Title
Childhood Illnesses and Immunizations
Anthroposophic Ideas to Ensure the Wellbeing
of Our Children in This Digital Age
Ross Rentea, MD, Mark Kamsler, MD and Andrea Rentea, MD
Based on the authors’ many years of medical experience in the “trenches,” this book offers new ways of looking at the complex topic of childhood illnesses and immunizations. Essential information is presented from an anthroposophic point of view:
• Childhood illnesses – their fundamental characteristics and meaning
• Immunization information – benefits and dangers
• Remedies (more than 100!) – related to immunizations and the general wellbeing of children
• Anthroposophic medicine – essential concepts
• Spiritualized medicine – Why is it so essential in relation to immunizations?
• Rudolf Steiner’s texts – a comprehensive selection on immunizations and childhood illnesses
• Basic Immunology – combining natural and spiritual scientific insights
This book is a must-have to guide parents in health-care decisions for their children.
Books by Adam Blanning
Raising Sound Sleepers
Helping Children Use their Senses to Rest and Self-soothe
This insightful book offers practical ways that parents and care givers can support children toward using their senses—from taste, smell, and touch to balance and movement—to self-soothe, sleep, and, ultimately, build resilience for life. Based on extensive research and using clear examples, Dr. Blanning explores a range of methods for children of all ages, from newborns to teenagers.
Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs
Holistic Approaches for Challenging Behaviors in Children
Enlivening our observation skills allows us to see consistent behavioral patterns and dynamics that show up in children’s movement, learning, sensing, and memory. Within those activities we can learn to see archetypal pathways of development. Watching the way a child moves, listens, eats, or sleeps offers us insights into a child’s experience of the world. Teachers, counselors, and medical doctors will find tools here for enriching their work with children.
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
The Connection between the Living and the Dead
8 lectures in various cities, Feb. 16 – Dec. 3, 1916 (CW 168)
Translated by Aria Jackson
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Some argue, and of course absolutely rightly so, that we can’t learn to judge everything that comes from authority today. Just think, they will say, what someone has to learn who wants to become a doctor! It is right that this person should learn it. We cannot learn that and learn what a lawyer learns and also learn what artists learn, and so on. We simply cannot do it! Of course we cannot do that, without question. But we do not need to be able to learn all of these things; we need only to be able to judge. We must become capable of leaving authority to its work, but also of judging authority. We will not learn to do so by really going into every single specialty, but rather by acquiring the ability to judge from a foundation that can develop our understanding, our power of judgment, comprehensively. This can never come from material understanding of each specialty, but rather, from comprehensive spiritual knowledge. . . .
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of October 10, 1916
("How Can Today’s Poverty of Soul be Overcome?") in
The Connection between the Living and the Dead (CW 168)