{"product_id":"autobiography-chapters-in-the-course-of-my-life-1861-1907-cw-28-9780880106009","title":"Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907 (Cw 28)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten 1924-1925 (CW 28)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Because I entered this world with defined soul predispositions, and because the course of my life, as expressed in my biogra-phy, is determined by those predispositions, as a spiritual human being I must have existed before my birth. As a being of spirit, I must be the repetition of someone through whose biography mine can be explained. In each life the human spirit appears as a repetition of itself with the fruits of experi-ences during previous lives. --\u003cstrong\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner seldom spoke of himself in a personal way, but in his \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e we are offered a rare glimpse into some of the most intimate aspects of his inner life, his personal relationships, and significant events that helped to shape the philosopher, seer, and teacher he became.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition restores the original format of seventy chapters, just as they were written for the Goetheanum weekly newsletter. This autobiography is not merely a narrative of Rudolf Steiner's successes and failures, but the story of a soul possessed of a precise, probing scientific mind and a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world. Although naturally clairvoyant, Steiner always recognized the integrity and importance of modern scientific methods, and thus he developed a modern discipline he named \u003ci\u003eAnthroposophy, \u003c\/i\u003e or spiritual science. During the century that followed the events recorded in this autobiography, Rudolf Steiner's insights have touched and enriched numerous areas of life in ways that continue to transform people's lives in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis illustrated, revised, updated, and expanded edition was the first volume to be released in \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e This series will eventually collect all of the English translations of Rudolf Steiner's works--including many never before in English--into an attractive and uniform set of his written and spoken words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003e Mein Lebensgang\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 28).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteiner, Rudolf:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/strong\u003e (1861-1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner's multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBamford, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eChristopher Bamford\u003c\/b\u003e is Editor in Chief Emeritus for SteinerBooks (Anthroposophic Press) and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (1990) and \u003ci\u003eAn Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). He has also translated and edited numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eCeltic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness (1982);\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHomage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. 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