May in books
There is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May's in Milton, May's in Prior,
May's in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;
May's in all the Italian books:—
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves,
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May's at home, and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together.
—Leigh Hunt, “May and the Poets”
May Greetings!
This week we feature a bit of a surprise—a heretofore unannounced German/English collaborative publication with the Ita Wegman Institute and the Verlag am Goetheanum: Ita Wegman and the Clinical-therapeutic Institute: A Photographic Documentation.
It’s a truly richly illustrated book, exquisitely graphically composed, that is, as Peter Selg writes in the Foreword, “an attempt—in conjunction with the centenary celebration of the Clinic in Arlesheim—to provide a kind of introduction in pictures to what Ita Wegman accomplished during her life.” This is a limited edition book that will not be reprinted.
With kind wishes to you and for the further unfolding of Spring,
—John-Scott
New - Available Now
Ita Wegman and the Clinical-therapeutic Institute
A Photographic Documentation
Mirela Faldey and Peter Selg
Ita Wegman, MD, founded and directed the first anthroposophical medical clinic in the world—the Clinical-Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland. This photographic documentation was compiled to mark the centenary of the clinic, which began its work in June of 1921. The book offers a pictorial introduction to Wegman’s life and work.
Photographs from her youth in Indonesia, her student days, her international travels, and her professional and educational activities in Switzerland, and other places, provide the reader with detailed and vivid insight into the various phases of her career. Timetables place the individual photographs, letter correspondences, and historical documents within the context of Ita Wegman’s biography and work.
“Ita Wegman is not only an inspiring genius of anthroposophy but a healing genius for the anthroposophical art of healing. Her very being harbors within it breath, courage, greatness.”
— E. Zeylmans van Emmichoven
Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven
An Inspiration for Anthroposophy
Emanuel Zeylmans
Zeylmans van Emmichoven was one of the original pioneers of anthroposophy. His son, Emanuel, traces Zeylmans’s remarkable life and examines the spiritual conflicts Zeylmans became embroiled in, his life during World War II and his innovative work in many fields. The author brings to life an exciting and difficult time in the development of new spiritual ideas. READ MORE
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
20 lectures in Dornach, Switzerland, Mar 21– Apr 9, 1920 (CW 312)
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The Healing Process
Spirit, Nature & Our Bodies
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
11 lectures, Aug. 28, 1923–Aug. 29, 1924 (CW 319)
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We are suffering tremendously today from the fact that the materialistic way of thinking is the extension of a Catholic asceticism that attempted to achieve the spirit by despising nature. Our modern worldview has chosen to take up certain aspects of this ascetic trend. Consequently, it assumes that the processes taking place in the lower body are crudely material and need not be taken into account. In actuality, this is not true. The spirit is at work in all these things, and we need to know how it is working. If I link the spirit at work in the human organism to the spirit at work in some external substance or activity, spirit works with spirit. We must get away from despising nature. We must once again reach the point of being able to imagine all of nature as spiritualized. . . Healthy views on the spiritual properties of matter must once again assume their rightful place.
—Rudolf Steiner, lecture of April 6, 1920, in Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine (CW 312)