Bücher von Traumear

"From unity through duality to the oneness of two: this is the shape of the element." "Elementary substance goes into production with the advent of love." What is eventually worked out then in this essay, in the interest of live science as knowledge for the sake of understanding and in particular as the eightfold pattern of love viewed as the product of elementary substance - is love as a power, love which reproduces, love which draws us towards a common good, love which teaches and enlightens; then love that overcomes (the strength of which lies in its overabundance), love that limits and inhibits for a purpose and so as to bring something about, love that leads and demonstrates authority and finally love that rests in itself and seeks no end outside of itself. All the live sciences written by this author are early books.

- For those who know how to behave in the presence of the poetic spirit. - * As human beings we develop and evolve. Poets have the gift to make this intelligible, especially if we understand development as 'development against'. By means of verse a poet can give us a running commentary of his own growth and to the extent that he lives among us his work, in this genre, can ease our own passage through the contemporary doldrums. Verse can be a handy technique for explaining personal reality in terms of experience. Those who accept the poetic gift will find the present work helpful in that direction and to that end.

These little essays document my thought during a time when I participated in the daily work of a school and had diverse opportunities for acquainting myself with the concerns and aims of parents, teachers and pupils. I took an especial interest in the education of our own three children, who became acquainted with both State Education and some home schooling. The youngest, for a few years, attended at a Waldorf School, where I myself participated as a parent. I was able to compare what went on there with State Education and my thinking about education grew to some extent out of that variety of experience. Some of the topics: Teacher authority, Creative education, How to admit guilt, Instruction for Religion, the Good child, Teacher training.

The son-father relation is capable of a variety of dimensions. In relation to home-land and mother country changes are at times imposed upon us, whereupon we rethink a few values and examine a few loyalties. In the present case, as the title indicates, a death coincided with a change of citizenship, whereupon the poet chose to share his experience of the resulting upheaval of emotion and thought with his community.

- For those who know how to behave in the presence of the poetic spirit. - * As human beings we develop and evolve. Poets have the gift to make this intelligible, especially if we understand development as 'development against'. By means of verse a poet can give us a running commentary of his own growth and to the extent that he lives among us his work, in this genre, can ease our own passage through the contemporary doldrums. Verse can be a handy technique for explaining personal reality in terms of experience. Those who accept the poetic gift will find the present work helpful in that direction and to that end.

We may be familiar with the concept 'eternal life' and we may wonder how such life compares with our daily existence from time to time. We may also be familiar with the Christian notion of eternal life and with the various supernatural and other-worldly ideas in connection with it. In this little essay I make a comparison with human development and evolution to show how eternal life here and now, in time, is what we enjoy once we have developed to the point of evolution; in other words once we are sufficiently mature to cooperate in the process of our resurrection.

Some of the notions touched on in this book:1 Intelligence and the dynamic of organic affection in the interest of quickness, well-being and ease.2 The Messiah and modern man.3 Intelligent consumption of affective nature.4 Indulgence in Jesus instead of antipathetic self-indulgence.5 Self-analysis and the conscious, rational minds versus organic human life.6 Humanity as the essence of being.7 The ethic sensation.8 Mercy instead of principle and self-sacrifice.9 Good and bad spirits.10 Modernity and health vs. messianic physicality.11 From modern to messianic.12 The messianic body and mind, flesh and spirit.13 The global panic.14 The imperative drive and the religious mood in comparison to the vision and dream of love. 15 Forgiveness vs. self-seeking.16 Church as community, communality and communication.17 Community as the heart of the church.18 The spirit of might and principle.19 Our communion with one another and with god.