Imagination: Enhancing the Powers of Thinking

Rudolf Steiner differentiated clearly between the spiritual concept of Imagination and our everyday understanding of the word.As living, pictorial thinking, Imagination is a primary aspect of the contemporary path of inner schooling - the first of three levels of initiate knowledge and cognition.Imagination leads us into a world of flowing, living pictures: a realm of soul and spirit in which everything is in continual movement. This anthology offers a survey of the diverse aspects of Imagination and imaginative cognition.As the thematically re-ordered texts reveal, Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual philosophy - anthroposophy - is itself often pictorial and imaginative in nature.Many of its fundamental concepts, such as the evolution of the world and the human being, were formulated by Steiner in vivid, living pictures.However, whilst imaginative perception leads us to the threshold of the spiritual world, we can also fall prey there to illusions, visions and hallucinations. This volume, expe