Medicine, Mythology, and Spirituality: Recollecting the Past and Willing the FutureRudolf Steiner Press, 2004 - 118 pages In his discussion of the art of healing, Ralph Twentyman places the problems of modern medicine in the context of the evolution of consciousness and the modern crisis of selfhood and community. He relates this to today's all-too-common experience of loneliness in relation to the experience of individuality. By contrast, Twentyman points to the dawning vision of humankind as a "true being" it itself--a living organism. The illnesses that characterize our time are looked at within the context of these birth pangs of a new era of evolution and consciousness. |
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Contents
Order and Disorder | 1 |
Crossing Frontiers | 8 |
Pathology Gets to the Point བ | 14 |
Seeing the Picture | 21 |
Upside Down Thinking | 31 |
Dogs Snakes and Mirrors | 42 |
Miasms and Moral Challenge | 49 |
The Human BeingAn Indefinite Article | 58 |
EvolutionFacts Theories and Myths | 72 |
The Single and the Whole | 85 |
Finding Our Way Through the Underworld | 91 |
A Way Forward | 96 |
Loss and Gain | 102 |
Conclusion | 107 |
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Materialism Grips Medicine | 65 |
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Aeschylus Ahriman ancient animal kingdom Anthroposophic Apollo archetypal Aristotle Asclepius aspect became become belongs birth blood body brain C.G. Jung cancer cavity cells centre clairvoyance conception consciousness corpse cosmos culture death disease disorder earth element embryo entities evolution experience feeling finite forces four humours frontiers functions future Georg Groddeck glands goddess gods Goethe grasp Greek Hahnemann head healing Hermes homoeopathic human organism idea illness imaginative incarnation individual intellectual Jaworski Karl König kidneys Lemuria liver look manifest mankind materialistic medicine metabolic metamorphosis mineral moral natural-scientific nervous system nineteenth century observations origin Owen Barfield Paracelsus patient perceive perception person phenomena philosophic physical physicians picture plant polarity Poppelbaum problems processes projective geometry reality realm remedy Rudolf Steiner Samuel Hahnemann scientific sense separate snake so-called social soul spiritual world Steiner called Sycosis symptoms Syphilis Theria thinking thoughts threshold tissues uncon unconscious underworld vision warmth whole