Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality, and the Spiritual Teacher

Download or read book Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality, and the Spiritual Teacher written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of lectures contains Steiner's strongest statements on the issues of human relationships within a spiritual community. Occasioned by a scandal involving people influenced by psychoanalysis, these lectures are Steiner's comprehensive assessment of Freud's work and psychoanalysis as a whole. Steiner shows, our physical life, including human sexuality, has spiritual roots; and that looking to sexuality for the explanation of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction. He also makes clear that becoming part of a spiritual community, such as the Anthroposophical Society, entails special responsibilities and a new way of being.