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To be free
Tuesday, 3 September 2024 at 22:19
Rudolf Steiner
To be free
Contrary to the Coleridgean third level state of existence, where the creative imagination creates something out of nothing, Steiner tapped into a cosmic thought pool that already exists. Steiner’s point was that the cosmic pool of thoughts needs the free individual I as its means of expression. Free in Steiner's sense does not mean that I can think what Ilike, or create what I like. To him such a view would be no more than a libertarian fantasy. To be free in Steiner’s sense means that my actions are not guided by necessity, i.e. by the limitations of the perceptible world, culture, the state, matter, instincts, nature etc. Instead, I call directly upon the spirit world, or the cosmic fulness of reality. The intuitive ability to draw upon the cosmic pool of thoughts is a capability of the free individual I, which means that a process of individuation must have occurred first, which brings his work fruitfully into a relationship with Jung’s.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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Drawing from the cosmic pool
Sunday, 1 September 2024 at 22:12
Rudolf Steiner
Drawing from the cosmic pool
Being the cosmic mediator means that our mental capacity is not to produce thoughts from nothing, creatively so to speak, but rather to channel the thought content of the cosmos. Being universal, the cosmic thought pool drawn upon by the mediating ‘I’ is single and eternal. Having established this critical point, the awe-inspiring step that Steiner takes, and invites us to follow, is to draw intuitively upon the cosmic pool of thoughts without first referring to an externally given percept.It is in this pure intuition, pure conceptual thinking, that freedom is to be found.
From Child of Encounter
© John Dunn.
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