{"product_id":"unbornness-human-pre-existence-and-the-journey-toward-birth-9780880107181","title":"Unbornness: Human Pre-Existence and the Journey Toward Birth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings, we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need the term \u003ci\u003eunbornness, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the term \u003ci\u003eimmortality, \u003c\/i\u003e to encompass the whole human being\" (Rudolf Steiner).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs anyone who has had a child knows, newborns enter the earthly world as beings different from their parents. They arrive with their own individuality, being, and history. From the beginning, they manifest an essential dignity and a unique \"I,\" which they clearly brought with them from the spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unborn life of a person's higher individuality guides the whole process of incarnation. It frames our lives, but we fail to recognize this because of a single-minded focus on immortality, or life-after-death, which makes us forget the reality of our \"unbornness.\" This unbornness extends not only from conception to birth, but also includes the whole existence and history of one's \"I\" in its long journey from the spiritual world to Earth. Unbornness--the other side of eternity--allows us to experience the fact that birth is just as great a mystery as is death. In a new and striking way, unbornness poses the mystery of our human task on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was one of Rudolf Steiner's great gifts that he returned the concept of unbornness to human consciousness and language. In this brief, stunning, and moving, almost poetic work, Peter Selg gathers the key elements and images needed to begin an understanding of--and wonder at--the vast scope of our unbornness. Drawing on and expanding on Steiner's work, as well as Raphael's \u003ci\u003eSistine Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e and the poems of Nelly Sachs and Rainer Maria Rilke, Selg unveils this deepest mystery of human existence. After reading it, one will never look at a child or another human being in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife after death \u003cbr\u003elife before birth; \u003cbr\u003eonly by knowing both\u003cbr\u003edo we know eternity. \u003cbr\u003e(Rudolf Steiner)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnbornness\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of \u003ci\u003eUngeborenheit: Die Präexistenz des Menschen und der Weg zur Geburt\u003c\/i\u003e (Verlag Ita Wegman Institut, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelg, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBorn 1963\u003c\/b\u003e, Stuttgart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1986-1993\u003c\/b\u003e Study of human medicine at the University of Witten\/Herdecke, in Berlin and Zurich. Doctoral thesis: Attempt to systematize Rudolf Steiner's human physiological ideas. An analysis of the entire lecture and written work (Witten\/Herdecke 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1993-2000\u003c\/b\u003e Further training as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Senior physician in the psychiatric department for adolescents and young adults at the Herdecke Community Hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2000-2002\u003c\/b\u003e Research associate at the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (Freiburg).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2002-2006\u003c\/b\u003e Head physician at the Ita Wegman Clinic Arlesheim (adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy); since 2006 establishment and management of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2007\u003c\/b\u003e professorship for medical anthropology and ethics at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alfter near Bonn); teaching in the Studium fundamentale and in the accompanying studies in anthroposophic medicine at the University\/Witten-Herdecke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2020, \u003c\/b\u003eco-leader of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science (Goetheanum)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaar, Margot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMargot M. Saar\u003c\/strong\u003e has a university degree in Applied Linguistics and Translating. She also studied Waldorf Education in Germany and Philosophy of Mind in the UK. She taught in Steiner Schools in Britain for 20 years and is an experienced translator and interpreter in specialty fields (education, medicine, philosophy, anthroposophy, homeopathy, anthroposophic medicine, general science). Margot has translated numerous books for SteinerBooks, including Peter Selg's 7-volume biography of Rudolf Steiner.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Steiner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503999291666,"sku":"9780880107181","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66a6be8a-553d-4172-8f81-77e43843cee6.jpg?v=1730807916","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unbornness-human-pre-existence-and-the-journey-toward-birth-9780880107181","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}