11. The correspondences between processes of
the outer world and of our inner world
have become increasingly apparent
to outward observation.
But if we only observe and reason out
these processes like a spectator,
the conclusions we draw and associations
we make can be misleading.
12. The Four-Fold Human Being
Seeking out
the „Residual Reality‟
permeating
the „Apparent Reality‟
of our being
Mapping the territory…
N.B. “The map is not the territory”
Alfred Korzibsky
13. enduring
“I”
intuition
soul
judging
memory
Formative body stream
past Inspirational body stream
deep future
yearning
senses
physical
body
Rudolf Steiner
14. The Physical Body
When we die, physical forces will cause
our physical body to decay down to its
most mineral parts.
The physical body, like the physical
body of a plant or my cat, is incapable
of keeping itself intact.
15. Let our physical body be
represented by this self-enclosed
circle, but extending ready with
sense organs to behold
impressions.
16. The Formative Body
What causes the physical body to grow
into a form and be „held together‟?
But we cannot ordinarily perceive what forms and
maintains these bits of matter nor what contributes
to non-hereditary attributes.
17. A body of diverse
formative forces –
our formative body –
moulds and permeates
Its forces living in its
our physical body.
own extending stream
from the moment its
activity commences.
18. The Inspirational Body
The suffusion of life does not of
itself produce a capacity for
sentience, awareness of what
we‟re capable of sensing.
Courtesy of Indiana University School
Our awareness
of Medicine, Department of
of what is sensed
Ophthalmology
differs for each of us.
The sensation that arises, for example, in the
recipient of a cornea transplant will be a different
experience to that once experienced by the donor.
19. Our inspirational body
brings an awareness of what
we sense as „happening‟ but is
also a stream of desires and aversions
that inspire different human feelings.
It is at once also that entity
that emerges and radiates
as soul.
20. The Enduring “I”
– of who I am
What distinguishes a
human being from
an animal is the
capacity and capability to
overcome sensations of the soul.
To develop and transform a yearning…
To „become‟ through experience someone beyond
the person they were…
with an awareness that there is a story
to those experiences…
21. To intuitively recall those experiences and connect
them into a story line…to realise the results of those
experiences don‟t just disappear but endure.
These capabilities flow into our soul,
enriching its capacity, from a stream that
originates in the fourth member of our being –
our own enduring “I”.
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32. „Mapping the Soul‟
memory
past Formative body stream
senses
Memories live with us in
the past like bacteria in
physical
body suspended animation.
They approach from the
past in the direction of
the future
33. soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
deep
yearning
When our formative body
stream interacts with the senses
awareness of our
inspirational body stream A flow of inspiration and
– consciousness arises, physical
body
desires/aversions
harnessing its instrument approaches from the
– the brain. future.
34. The capacity for judging
enters our soul as a force with
enduring our “I”.
“I” As it meets with our formative
stream, which carries our
memory, our self-image of
who we are is formed.
intuition
judging
soul
soul
memory
past Formative body stream
Inspirational body stream
future
deep
yearning
Our “I” must swim
senses ahead of this stream of
To give expression to who memories and be aware
we are is like holding up of what it sees. So my
a mirror in front of us – physical perception of who I am is
to see what‟s behind us in body usually a reflected image
the past. – my „self image‟.
