

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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Feb 25, 2026 • 36min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 10: Goethe, the Greeks and the pre-Grecian Era (Dornach, 19 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores Goethe's inner transformation and his turn toward Greek aesthetics. Contrasts modern measuring intellect with ancient pictorial, living thought. Traces cultural stages from pre-Greek poetic language to Greek word-thought unity. Describes shifts from plant metamorphosis to animal feeling and calls for renewed imaginative perception.

Feb 25, 2026 • 48min
CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 11: Knowledge of living things; of sentience; of the truth nature of the human being [End of Book] (Dornach, 20 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A tour through shifting human soul-states across history and how ancient breathing and inner speech yielded living concepts. Connections between intellect and the mineral realm are explored alongside plant fertilization, animal continuity, and the emergence of the human I. The talk urges reviving imaginative perception from modern scientific seeds.

Jan 1, 2026 • 53min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 1 (Stuttgart, 16 June 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep look at humans as spirit, soul, and body, challenging materialistic cause-and-effect views. A breakdown of hallucination, imagination, and fantasy and how they map to body, soul, and spirit. Discussion of thinking as an echo of pre-birth life and the soul’s role across life phases. A defense of spiritual research methods and a call to renew artistic and cultural perception.

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Jan 1, 2026 • 53min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 2 (Bern, 28 June 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep clash between natural science and moral life frames the talk. Cosmic evolution and elemental forces are traced from nebulae to human consciousness. The living human is contrasted with the corpse to reveal limits of chemistry. Rhythms of breath, verse, and heartbeat link to moral intuition. Spiritual hierarchies, mystery traditions, and the danger of brain-bound abstraction are explored.

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Jan 1, 2026 • 38min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 3 (Dornach, 24 June 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A lively tour of humans as spirit, soul and body and how those layers relate to Earthly and cosmic laws. Discussion of gravity, brain buoyancy, and how physical bodies follow terrestrial physics. Exploration of cosmic influences on plants, weather and inner rhythms like breathing and heartbeat. A challenge to materialist science and a call to recover elemental, non-spatial ways of understanding living processes.

Jan 1, 2026 • 30min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 4 (Dornach, 26 June 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores how water, air, warmth and earth map to human body, soul and spirit. Discusses rhythms like breathing and pulse as pathways beyond space. Looks at ancient imaginative logic, alchemy and embryology as lost ways to perceive life. Argues for moral science and warmth as a force for spiritual knowing.

Jan 1, 2026 • 37min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 5 (Dornach, 1 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
A deep look at hallucinations and how they differ from imaginations and fantasies. A provocative reframe of mystical visions as bodily phenomena rather than pure spirit. Discussions on how thinking, intellect, and pre-birth life connect to the body. Metaphors about eggs and embryonic protein to illustrate cosmic shaping of form.

Jan 1, 2026 • 45min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 6 (Dornach, 2 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores the threefold human organization and how body, etheric, and soul relate across lives. Describes metamorphosis between incarnations and how organs and secretions shape future form. Critiques material science and urges training inner perception to sense spiritual substance. Links heart, metabolism, and karma to moral dispositions and suggests new clinical and cultural perspectives.

Jan 1, 2026 • 47min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 7 (Dornach, 3 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores why inner organs and outer reality remain hidden behind a sensory veil. Discusses memory as an organ-bound reflection and how suspending ordinary memory can open spiritual perception. Contrasts head-centered thinking with limb-based will and warns of a culture that could become all mind or all mechanism. Calls for imaginative concepts and spiritual education to preserve individuality.

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Jan 1, 2026 • 38min
CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 8 (Dornach, 8 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Explores the relationship between thinking, will and the sleeping soul. Contrasts waking thought, daydreams and dreams as overlapping inner streams. Describes how cosmic thought-life shapes bodily organs and moral intuitions. Argues judgment arises from whole-body activity and links mathematics and space to movement and will.


