Welcome to my Emporium. You will find books here on Anthroposophy, past and future; Christianity, past and future; and, politics, past and future. Themes include Living Thinking; what is a Natural Christian; why we need a 2nd Declaration of Independence and a new U.S. Constitution; and, The Redemption of Eros (just for starters). You can also visit my website Shapes in the Fire where most of what I write can be read for free. You can also contact me at hermit@tiac.net
If you want to know more about a particular book, just click on the active link for the name of the book and that will take you to a page where you can read the preview - the first ten pages of the book, which in most cases is self-explanatory and likely to include a table of contents.
Living Thinking: This metamorphosis of thinking is the rational and scientific ground on which Anthroposophy stands. There are differernt ways to approach it. I have created a compilation of two essays that can be found here, and as well made a small booklet if one wants to hold something in their hand (see middle panel). The two essays in this booklet are: The Meaning of Earth Existence in the Age of the Consciousness Soul; and, In Joyous Celebration of the Soul Art and Music of Discipleship. Both essays are included in the books: The Way of the Fool; American Anthroposophy; and, New Wine.
The art above was created, at my request, by the painter Victoria Hull Temple. I had asked her to create a figure on a motorcycle, going away from the viewer, with a Rose-Cross on the back of their motorbike jacket. It was her intuition to make the figure appear neither male or female. Note the bird in the upper left corner. This art was part of my original Outlaw Anthroposophy Journal.
The True Second Coming of Christ in the Ethereal: It is a matter of some importance such that those who have been a Witness to this must begin to speak openly today. As most everyone knows, some sects in orthodox Christianity speak of the End Times, and of a return of Christ in the physical body. Some even go so far as to try to promote this event by interferring in the political life of peoples in the Middle East. Only a few know (and we would have to call most of them modern heretical Christians) that in the 20th Century Christ has already returned in the Ethereal World, that aspect of the spiritual world nearest at hand, and which can be observed wherever life processes are active, as well as in our thinking. This is why we can speak of Living Thinking, for the activities by which a human being develops this new faculty of cognition, involve a conscious waking up to thinking which is fully engaged in the living ethereal forces of the whole cosmos (see the right panel and the discussion there of the Four Directions and the Hopi Prophecy). In my books the Way of the Fool; New Wine; and, American Anthroposophy, these facts are carefully discussed from several directions. For the reader of these words let me add that just as there was a Second Coming in the 20th Century, there was also an inauguration of a Second Eucharist, as well a Second Ethereal Calvary. My books noted above shine illumination on the details of this celebration of the Second Eucharist, which occurs even in ordinary mind, whenever someone genuinely asks, seeks and knocks, wanting to know what would be truly moral in some circumstance in their personal life. Free Morality (moral grace) has now become the possession of any individual who truly wants to know the Good. Just so matters are very clear. Human dependence on such books as the Bible for fixed moral truth is no longer viable. It often results in a kind spiritual death, for thinking obsessed with a non-living relationship to their own moral heart will often suffer inwardly far more than it otherwise ought. Note, by the way, that I do not put forward the idea that the Bible is truly defective. It is simply not well understood (see the works of Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg for illumination here). In any event, the reader should expect that this knowledge of the Good, available through the Second Eucharist in the Ethereal, frequently requires of us actions which are difficult (see the film Pay it Forward, or the television series Joan of Arcadia for wise intuitions of these facts). Another way to look at this is as: participated conscience. That is we consciously evoke our conscience in the face of a moral question. As this is not a simple matter in any case, the reader is advised especially to read the Way of the Fool, either for free on my website, or purchase a copy here. Concerning a most profound understanding of the Mystery of the Second Coming and the Second Calvary, the reader is encouraged to obtain and read Jesaiah Ben-Aharon's remarkable book: The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century. Here is one (of many) links to where that book can be purchased.
If you want music to go with the above, listen to the Moody Blues: One Step into the Light. They've been a great solace to me during this dawning of what the Hopi call: The Day of Purification, clearly a time of great trials in each individual biography (and, of course, for humanity as a whole). I wrote an essay on them (not finished yet): Hymms to the Consciousness Soul.
About Books: here is some Emerson that is fully relevant: from his lecture at Harvard in 1837: The American Scholar:
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they - let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair. [emphasis added]
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Print: $19.98 Download: $4.38 a celebration of the American Soul's unique ability to contribute to the future of Anthroposophy and to the future of world culture
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Print: $19.98 Download: $4.38 a collection of essays providing a critical analysis of the Anthroposophical Society and Movement, as well as introductory materials for a new (organic) social science. This analysis is directed at helping the Society and Movement develop further in the 21st Century
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Print: $49.99 Anthroposophy in the 21st Century,
and the legend of the current Bodhisattva
incarnation of the future Maitreya Buddha
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Print: $7.98 Download: $1.88 A fifty page booklet created as an introduction to one view of the primary inner activities underlying the new cognitive mystery. This was demonstrated by Rudolf Steiner during his life, and written about in his books: A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception; and, The Philosophy of Freedom (or Spiritual Activity). Both of these essays are included in the books: American Anthroposophy, the Way of the Fool and New Wine.
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Print: $16.99 Download: $4.38 this book describes in detail how the individual human being can bring about the true future of Christianity, through the personal development of their human character, via moral grace, freedom and love, leading to the natural union of Faith and Gnosis
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Print: $14.98 Download: $4.38 foundational essays out of a Science of the Spirit,
in support of the coming living metamorphosis of Christianity
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Print: $31,254.63 Download: FREE Contrary to modern so-called Christian end times eschatology, the True Second Coming happened in the 20th Century, in the Ethereal World ("clouds of glory"), the nearest realm of spiritual reality. This is a complicated subject, but here I want to set out the outline of the themes, hoping that over time Providence will enable me to finish this major work. Like Healing Materialism below, this is also a book proposal for any serious publisher who drops by.
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Print: $9.99 a young, sad, girl is visited on Christmas Eve by an Angel
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Print: $7.91 Download: $1.88 Many people today are Christian in their hearts, and declare that while they are not religious, they are spiritual. Instiutional religion has no meaning for them. This essay is included in the book New Wine.
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Print: $7.99 Download: $1.88 A 29 page booklet that concerns what happens if we substitute in the solution of the problem of parallax, the more modern Projective Geometry for the older Euclidean Geometry. This essay is included in the book New Wine.
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Print: $9.98 Download: $3.51 A brief history of American Politics in the late 20th Century, showing the failures of both parties, and the need for Citizen Governance and a 2nd American Constitution
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Print: $7.99 Download: $1.88 This 37 page booklet concerns the Lords of Finance. [see Uncommon Sense] Hidden elites of wealth control a great deal in the West, often in secret. The booklet profiles their reality and motives, and offers suggestions to members of Civil Society, and other modern progessive movements world wide, for how to unmask this power, and find a more healthy relationshp to its efforts to rule us all. It is now included in the appendicies of Uncommon Sense, and like all my work it can be read for free on my website.
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Print: $16.99 Download: $4.38 a collection of essays, some old, some new,
on politics and related social issues
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Print: $14.98 Download: $4.38 a collection of blog entries, mostly concerning politics and social life, written from the summer 2002 to the summer 2008. This written blog has now become a video blog on YouTube.
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Print: $24.95 a new look at erotica and the deeper aspects of human sexuality in the light of the Redemption of Eros (the return of the Feminine Mysteries).
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Print: $8.03 Download: FREE This collection of some of the prose-poems of Harvey Bornfield is offered here at cost. The editor has taken no fee.
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Print: $421.30 Download: $278.75 sometimes we do find the one, but life itself is fickle...and what was found can still be lost...telling such a story often requires mostly verse...
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Print: $9.98 Download: $1.88 This is a political, end times, science fiction novel in process. I don't know if I will be able to finish it, but I wanted my readers to be able to preview this work, should they wish ... the full text (as is finished so far) can be found on my website Shapes in the Fire.
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Print: $31,254.61 Download: FREE This is basically a book proposal, should any serious publisher drop by. The outline can be read in the preview by clicking on the book name link. My ability to write this ought to be demonstrated in the other works already self-published here.
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The name for the above bead-work is: THE FOUR DIRECTIONS. These powers of nature (called the Mehe Symbol in the Hopi Prophecy) were evoked regularly in the Pipe Ceremony of the Lakota Sioux, as well as other First Nations Peoples. Rudolf Steiner, the scientific discoveror of Anthroposophy, evoked these same powers during an open air ceremony when he laid the foundation stone for the original Goetheanum in Switzerland in the second decade of the 20th Century. Steiner also evoked these same powers in his Foundation Stone Meditation, given during the Christmas Conference in 1922-23 in Dornach. The Hopi Prophecy says, among much else, this: "This third event will depend upon the Red Symbol, which will take command, setting the four forces of nature (Meha) in motion for the benefit of the Sun". The Anthroposophical Movement is (in part, the matter is complicated) the True White Brother of the Hopi Prophecy. My orginal (now 11 years out of date) exploration of this can be found at: The Mystery of the True White Brother. I would make small revisions were I to revisit that matertial today. The Red Symbol of the Prophecy is the Rose-Cross (see biker figure opposite column), while the Sun refers to the Christ Being, for in the ancient past, when the Hopi Prophecy was laid into their oral traditions, Christ's Abode was in the Spiritual Sun. When you combine Steiner's research, especially that work on the ethereal realm, with the Hopi Prophecy, this is how this statement should read for the modern world: " This third event will depend upon the people of the Rose-Cross, who will reveal to humanity a new knowledge of the Etheral realm in Nature and in the Thinking activity of the individual I. This will be done for the benefit of the Christ Impulse, both in individual human beings and on a Cosmic and Earthly Scale, revealing Christ as the Spirit of the Earth, and as a potential (by individual choice) develoment of the I - in accord with the saying of St. Paul in his letter to the Galatians: "Not I, but Christ in Me"". Readers should not confuse this with the outer (exoteric) Christian religions, which have a place in the evolution of consciousness, but need very much now to open themselves to the influence of the heretical (or esoteric) stream of Christiany (see the book: the Way of the Fool, and its discussion of the ongoing natural integration of Faith and Gnosis in individual human beings, birthing a new, non-doctrinal, Christian Impulse among humanity).
See also the essay booklet: the Natural Christian, which essay has also been included in the book New Wine.
The above symbol [Land and Life Shield Symbol] is Hopi, and means "Together with all nations we protect both land and life and hold the world in balance."
Another way to view the material in these books then, is to see them as a small part of The Teachings of True White Brother of the Hopi Prophecy. The reason for this is complicated but understandable, if the reader approaches the situation carefully: Details can be found here.
Most of my work on The Teachings of the True White Brother of the Hopi Prophecy will be found in video form, at Google Videos, with shorter introductory pieces also on YouTube. It is my view that this material is best given in an oral form, although some of my books do discuss this in certain chapters.
A New Theory of Everything:
One of the difficulties with the approach of physics to a TOE (or theory of everything) is that it arises first through a process of reductionism. This was called by Sir Arthur Eddington in the early part of the 20th Century: "knowing more and more about less and less" (an excess of analytic detail in an absence of any wise synthesis).
Right now physics constructs its theory of everything using only the language of mathematics, and then only the most obscure versions of that language. Whether they get a true TOE or not, one thing is certain: only a few will understand it. The existence of this reductionist construct (a purely mathematical TOE) is understandable, because the development of physics has taken the same general course as most of natural science - a process of only taking account of those aspects of sensible reality that could be measured or counted - that is only of quantities, but never of qualities.
The TOE, which is the holy grail of physics, can't really be called a theory of "everything", because it limits itself to quantities to the exclusion of qualities. The Theory of Everything behind what is on these pages, begins with qualities first, and especially what might be called naive experience. We look at consciousness from the point of view of the subject, and discover in thinking itself the transcendent potential (living thinking) lost sight of by physics when they forgot the observer. One rational basis for this is found in physics itself, which after a few hundred years of investigation has had, in the mode of quantum theory and mechanics, to reinsert consciousness into the center of matters where it has been all along. The subject/object relationship of the human observer to his experience is the foundation on which all else has to be built, and that experience is filled with all those qualities left by the wayside as physics advanced forgetting the presence of the interpreting thinker, until split beam experiments proved conclusively that indeterminant probabilities only become defined (real) when the interpreting thinker acts. Still a significant mystery to be sure, one which has to be approached from many directions. Hopefully what can be found here will contribute to these future developments in human knowledge, and the resolution of the illusive nature of consciousness and self-consciousness (something troubling for not only physics, but for the biology of the brain as well).
Most of the art work here, such as the bead-work and the painted stone, are the work of the author. The one immediately above is called: the Rainbow Warrior, and full sized images can be found here. Other pictures are constructed arrangements created by the author.
POLITICS: Both terribly mundane and a mystery. A paradox, and yet the heart of public life. See Counter-Moves for some interesting details, and Uncommon Sense (which includes Counter-Moves in the appendies) for why we need to think about politics at the deepest level possible: Do we create a new Constitution and issue a 2nd Declaration? At the least, we each most get locally involved. Its everybody's business. Since politics and money are completely confused these days, the following page gives the best account of the nature of money (free of political confusion) that I know of: a New View on Money, by Richard Kotlarz
For a beautiful, and spiritually deep, discussion of Economia, see Barbara Gardiner's Aesthetics of Economics. Also by her, a wonderful examination of political life, placed in the context of English and Scottish politics, but which is at the same time quite universal in its outlook: The Constitutional Question: Conscience Politics. If in this essay, which focuses a bit on the Monarchy in England, we Americans substitute for the term "Monarchy" the term "the Presidency", we will be able to follow clearly the underlying principles, especially as regards whether "the Presidency" as currently enacted is factually a "community building" social force. For details, see the essay.
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