{"product_id":"more-radiant-than-the-sun-a-handbook-for-working-with-steiners-meditations-and-exercises-9781621480358","title":"More Radiant Than the Sun: A Handbook for Working with Steiner's Meditations and Exercises","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner (1861-1924) spoke many times about the need for more than an intellectual understanding of what he taught as the spiritual path of Anthroposophy, or Spiritual Science, and to this end provided numerous meditations and exercises for his esoteric students during the first three decades of the twentieth century. He always emphasized the need for self-development through the regular practice of meditations and exercises to strengthen and clarify one's thinking, feeling, and will. Steiner saw such efforts as means not only to develop spiritual sight, but also to protect oneself inwardly from the various dangers inherent to inner development, including egoism and mistaking fantasy for spiritual realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis handbook offers verses, exercises, and original instructions from Steiner, along with commentary, suggestions, and context from Gertrude Reif Hughes, a student of Anthroposophy for much of her life. Having meditated Steiner's verses and their meanings for decades, she describes how the content of these inspiring meditations can create far-reaching effects for one's life on Earth as well as for one's eventual life in the spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMore Radiant than the Sun\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e will be a valuable companion for anyone who is serious about deepening the practice of Anthroposophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReif Hughes, Gertrude:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGertrude Reif Hughes, \u003c\/b\u003e PhD, is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University, where she served as Chair of her Department and of the Women's Studies Program. The author of \u003ci\u003eEmerson's Demanding Optimism\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), she has published essays on American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., and Adrienne Rich, as well as essays on Rudolf Steiner and feminist thought and on Steiner's \u003ci\u003eCalendar of the Soul.\u003c\/i\u003e A lifelong student of Anthroposophy, she is a former chair of the Board of Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks) and former President of the Rudolf Steiner (Summer) Institute, where she taught meditation for many years and served on its board. She is a member of the board of Sunbridge College and one of the core faculty of The Barfield School Masters Program at Sunbridge. Her degrees are from Yale University and Mount Holyoke College. As a child, she attended the New York City Rudolf Steiner School.","brand":"Steiner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50421873606930,"sku":"9781621480358","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59046526-c1bc-4abc-9194-88d89d3ca004.jpg?v=1729515830","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/more-radiant-than-the-sun-a-handbook-for-working-with-steiners-meditations-and-exercises-9781621480358","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}