Michael Lipson Livres

This book will open your life to the surprising depth of the simple and ordinary. For most of us, life is often a humdrum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about running away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won't let us out of its clutches. Stairway of Surprise has become a new classic of anthroposophic spiritual practice. Dr. Michael Lipson re-visions Rudolf Steiner's six basic exercises to make them relevant to our lives today. With examples drawn from world literature and from his psychotherapy practice, Lipson shows how these exercises stretch from common events in daily life to the depths of spiritual experience. The path of meditation offered here is experiential from start to finish: not something to think only, but something to live. By practicing these exercises for a few minutes each day, we can discover the surprise in the universe, which is usually hidden from us by our stale, habitual attitudes. CONTENTS: Introduction I. Thinking II. Doing III. Feeling IV. Loving V. Opening VI. Thanking

The book combines therapeutic insights with poetic expression to explore the profound joy of existence. Each letter of the alphabet serves as a gateway to self-discovery and empowerment, offering readers deep revelations. More than just a reading experience, it acts as a lifelong companion, providing wisdom that inspires and encourages a fuller embrace of being.

This book comes from joy. With these words, Michael Lipson begins his offering, the fruit of many years of study and practice. Group Meditation is both a practical introduction to the power of meditation in groups and a challenging review of the meaning of meditation itself. Continuing themes he introduced in his earlier book, Stairway of Surprise, in Group Meditation Lipson shows how ordinary capacities such as thinking and feeling can be intensified without limit in a group setting, so that these capacities transmit the most intimate truths of nature and being. There are aspects of the world that are too vast to be borne by one person alone; to approach them, a group is needed. Theme-based meditation, as Lipson demonstrates, links those practitioners together in a special kind of community that can endure greater light. With repeated exercise, either in isolation or in community, attention oriented toward a high meaning grows more concentrated, more intense. It frees us to drop our self-concern and, instead, take in the full shock of our shared existence on Earth. It helps us, finally, "to be, ourselves, the news from heaven."

Dieses Buch wendet sich an jeden, der ein bewusstes Leben führen will, und im Besonderen an alle, die mit sich und anderen Probleme haben und vielleicht schon ahnen, dass sie zuallererst bei sich selbst einen neuen Anfang setzen müssen. Wenn wir gewohnheitsmäßig durchs Leben stolpern, kann es uns passieren, dass wir den größten Schatz vor unseren Füßen nicht bemerken. Denn unsere alltäglichen Seelenfähigkeiten sind nur grobe, herabgesunkene Formen unserer höchsten geistigen Fähigkeiten. Es wird gezeigt, wie sechs der Seelenkräfte – Denken, Fühlen, Tun, Lieben, Sich-Öffnen und Danken – unendlich intensiviert werden können. Die Übungen sind nicht kompliziert, aber anspruchsvoll. Sie stärken die Fähigkeit, aufmerksam zu sein und dadurch im gegebenen Augenblick das Richtige zu sagen und auf neue Gedanken zu kommen. Stufe für Stufe führen sie aus der Zerstreuung und Verwirrung heraus, sodass wir erüben können, was wir am meisten brauchen: andauernde Geistesgegenwart.