Georg Kühlewind - Bundle

Becoming Aware of the Logos
The Way of St. John the Evangelist

Back in print in English after many years, this meditative study by Georg Kühlewind further illuminates the penetrative insight of his The Logos Structure of the World.

The fruit of many years of study and meditation, Becoming Aware of the Logos places the reader in the world of living thinking and cognitive love. It teaches the way of grace and truth in a radical, original manner. For the logos, although it is the ground of any true logic, is beyond ordinary dialectic. 

Kühlewind does not approach his subject conventionally, but penetrates and communicates it through the unfolding of central themes such as: the logos as speech and relationship; the logos in the beginning; the light in the darkness; the speaker; life; spirit; grace and truth. 

The result is a text that can deepen one's experience of the realities of life faced each day.

The Life of the Soul
Between Subconsciousness and Supraconsciousness:
Elements of a Spiritual Psychology

In this formative study, Georg Kühlewind establishes a truly spiritual psychology. This psychology distinguishes between the subconscious regions explored by previous psychological schools and the supra-consciousness, which is identified as the light-filled, living source of our normal waking awareness and thought. As such, it is radically “present,” in contrast to our normal thoughts and emotions, which belong to a “past-consciousness,” composed of pre-formed elements. The principle of higher cognition guides Kühlewind’s presentation, as it guides the individual psyche, to a place in which human and world are no longer separate. 

Kühlewind shows, and the attentive reader can experience, that the non-dual realm is not to be found spatially or temporally, but exists within the processes of cognition. From this it becomes clear how the diseases of consciousness so familiar to us today arise from the decay of this higher cognitive potential. Special chapters on memory and on the subconsciousness offer specific results of Kühlewind’s own spiritual scientific researches. The book also includes new indications about the meditative path—the steps by which our current cognitive powers can be developed in the direction of their spiritual source.

The Logos-Structure of the World
Language as Model of Reality

Back in print again in English, this concentrated and profound early work of Georg Kühlewind approaches, with reverence and insight, the mystery pointed to in the opening words of the John Gospel: In the beginning was the Word. 

Kühlewind then shows how it is that the world, including human beings and their consciousness, is not originally a world of things but a world of words; that fundamentally the world has the structure of a text; and that it is therefore possible to read it like a text.

In demonstrating this, three different approaches or disciplines are continuously kept in mind: epistemology, psychology, and linguistics. What unites these is the phenomenology or “empiricism of consciousness” employed by the author who always speaks out of, and toward, experience. 

Thus, this is no ordinary philosophical text, but a guide to philosophical experience: to the experience of cognition itself.

Stages of Consciousness
Meditations on the Boundaries of the Soul

To overcome the world means to behold the world as it was before it became dead in us; to behold it in its aliveness, as heaven. To overcome the world means to behold the earth in the heavens and to bring the heavens to earth....

Here is Georg Kühlewind's groundbreaking debut work, first published fifty years ago in German, and now available again in the English language. 

This collection of essays, aphorisms, and meditative texts established Kühlewind as a pioneer of modern spirituality. Kühlewind here threads a delicate needle of composition, presenting a text that demonstrates how meditative practice and self-attained insight are more important than the reading of spiritual texts themselves, while writing one himself. 

Thus, Stages of Consciousness proposes that we school ourselves in that stage of consciousness we occasionally glimpse as intuition.