

Rudolf Steiner Audio
Dale B. Brunsvold
Audio recordings by myself of the works of Rudolf Steiner. To search use volume number and 'Steiner'
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Mar 23, 2026 • 45min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 6 (Dornach, 2 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A journey through how body, etheric and astral elements separate after death and shape future lives. Exploration of the threefold human organization and how organs map to thinking, feeling and will. Discussion of karma recorded in the heart, metabolic moral qualities, and how organ surfaces and secretions preserve impressions. Reflections on conception, karmic hunger in relationships, and spiritual diagnosis versus modern medicine.

Feb 25, 2026 • 39min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 1: The Twelve Human Senses (Dornach, 22 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A sweeping redefinition of what counts as a sense, expanding beyond mere physiology. An exploration of twelve distinct senses grouped into outward, middle, and inner realms. A provocative claim that some senses register objective world-processes within us. Connections drawn between balance, movement and the roots of mathematical intuition.

Feb 25, 2026 • 39min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 2: Moral world order and Natural necessity... (Dornach, 23 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep dive into the split between moral order and natural necessity. A look at how Western thought shifted from higher spiritual senses to lower empirical ones. Traces historical roots of modern intellectualism and the decline of direct spiritual perception. Discusses karma, reincarnation, and why aligning knowledge with moral life matters.

Feb 25, 2026 • 43min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 3: Memory and Love. The Threefold Human Being... (Dornach, 24 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep look at how memory and love relate to body and soul. A discussion of childhood development, brain formation, and why memory may arise from whole-body processes. An exploration of concepts as traces of prior lives and how love unfolds across lives. An examination of freedom, moral responsibility, and the tension with natural causality.

Feb 25, 2026 • 39min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 4: How modern science developed out of Scholasticism (Dornach, 5 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A tour through the birth of modern science from medieval scholastic thought to 19th century materialism. Traces how intellectual habits shifted from supersensible wisdom to strict sensory investigation. Highlights turning points like the Renaissance and 1859 that reshaped methods across disciplines. Questions how sensory study relates to spiritual reality.

Feb 25, 2026 • 42min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 5: Haeckels 60th birthday. Worldview as medicine... (Dornach, 6 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A reflection on 19th-century materialism and its cultural triumphs. A look at Haeckel's symbolic role in shaping an empirical worldview. Discussion of how overdeveloped intellect can unbalance feeling and will. An argument that worldviews must act like medicine to heal social and spiritual illness.

Feb 25, 2026 • 52min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 6: Child development up to puberty (Dornach, 7 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A tour of child development from the second teeth around age six to puberty. A vivid picture of inner battles between growth forces and rising soul life. Connections between breathing, circulation, and changing perception. Critiques of materialist education and a call to bring spiritual science into medicine, schooling, and society.

Feb 25, 2026 • 42min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 7: The Human Organization of Physical, Etheric, Astral and I bodies (Dornach, 12 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A tour of a fourfold human map: physical, etheric, astral and the I. Exploration of how waking I‑consciousness, sleep and senses interrelate. Discussion of where thought, memory and bodily images live. Consideration of inner forces behind growth, movement and instincts. A reminder to ground schemas in observation rather than abstract dogma.

Feb 25, 2026 • 37min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 8: Thoughts and memories and the world of the Hierarchies (Dornach, 13 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores how self-awareness appears through sense perception and mirror-like illusions. Discusses memory arising from etheric and physical layers and its inward, willful nature. Describes imaginative pictorial cognition as a path to spiritual realities and the higher hierarchies shaping childhood, culture, and freedom.

Feb 25, 2026 • 44min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 9: The Connection between the human soul and spirit and physical corporeality. Evil (Dornach, 14 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep look at how soul, spirit and the physical body are interwoven. Contrasts modern materialism with a view that thinking and will have bodily roots. Explores imagination, sleep and visions as windows into inner life. Discusses memory, morality and how spiritual processes relate to natural growth and decay.


