r/Anthroposophy

That man comes from fishes seems to be a darwinian idea but were there ideas like these before Darwin?

Maybe unconsciously humans have always known that life emerged from the ocean and fishes, because the first Avatar of Vishnu was also a Fish, and then a Turtle, and then a Boar and so on...

From Faust part II, Thales tells the Homunculus how he can take form as a man as follows:

>Thales: Yield to your praiseworthy wish,
Start at the beginning, with the fish!
Be ready for the swiftest working!
Be ruled by the eternal norms,
Move through a thousand, thousand forms, [8325]
And you’ll ascend in time to Man.

I have noticed recently that certain themes and events such as astrological changes, the solar eclipse and also world event have had less effect on my being. In the sense that I am aware of these things and how they can effect humans, yet I have through daily spiritual exercises over the last 2 years about reached a point where I am more self influenced internally than that of zodiacal changes, eclipses and full moons. A main exercise that has brought this to my attention is the „It thinks in me“, where one comes to understand that Lucifer and other spirits think though me, while my „I“ is the deciding factor in where I focus my awareness. This has lead me to be aware of thoughts of my own and those not. Many of the thoughts that are Luciferic tend to be dividing, judging and honestly quite obscene and violent towards others in „imaginary situations“ I once thought was how things would play out, only to understand the illusions they are and the effect that have on my well being, such as getting angry at someone for something that hasn’t even taken place.

Now on the other hand I have noticed how thoughts act on others, and there was a time where I would try to tell them certain spiritual understandings that they weren’t ready for, literally everyone I know in real life. And Ofcourse it does fell lonely and also troubling to see people suffer from a lack of strength of self as I still do at times. However the daily meditations I do at waking and before sleeping have developed my spiritual organs to perhaps a budding flower, I would not dare say I am a full blooming lotus flower.

With that said I feel the urge to share my path of development or rather the exact meditations I do taken from Steiners Esoteric Lessons GA 266 1-3 plus other foundational teachings require for the soul to grasp the conscious self and spirit. Having use anthroposophy to develop my own psychosophy, I understand many of the modern worlds problems come forma lack of spiritual understanding and connection, however I am aware of the Ahrimanic influence and phase we are going through before his incarnation takes place, specifically starting with the current „Gen Z“ generation and how they will fare in a decade or so and events one can see/feel coming due to our current situation.

I share this in hopes of sparking discussion with those who may have also reached this point, moving pass the loneliness towards serving those around them in the subtle ways we can as Esotericist to form an actual connected community of people in the real world. To this I ask be their any here who live in Germany? And also how are we faring as we develop ourselves to pioneer the future human being?

All our traumas and bad luck are a result of our past karma and repressed feelings. The same way that the lesser guardian is described.

To dissolve the traumas and bad luck? We face it and feel the terror. Just like the lesser guardian.

I know that this subreddit is dedicated to affirming literal Steiner and what i did is translate his words into something he didn't say. If any of you were of the same mindset as I then there'd be fewer reasons to be here so, what i am looking for is not to be agreed with, but this is something i needed to know in the past when i struggled to understand what the lesser guardian is.

And only after this did i understand what equanimity means. It means to stop avoiding feeling terror. And i realized that every successful prayer, for me personally, was accompanied with pain of what would happen if i fail. I think that this pain is the payment of karma that otherwise would have met me in the outer reality.

I'm 24, I'm relatively new to Anthroposophy, but been practicing some of the exercises.

I'm a "late bloomer", lots of family trauma that I was numbing myself from. So i'm a very shy, people pleasing, introverted kid, I only really started trying last year to do something with my life (aka a sales-career).

Everyday I dread working - making sales calls, getting rejected, swore at. etc... In my everyday life I avoid confrontation and apologize first. I try my best to remain conscious and enjoy the work, observe, but it's always something inside of me "waiting" to be done with the day.

My father was wealthy growing up - all of that wealth disappeared in my late teens.

I don't really care about making money, it doesn't motivate me. I've bought and sold so many different sport cars because I got bored of them after a few months. I don't want a mansion, I don't want designer clothes, a rolex doesn't interest me, not even a ferrari -I can't be asked to take care of all of that ... I don't know what I want anymore, though I know money will bring me freedom & security.

I've tried finding sources of "fire" like my family, my evolution, my vision, but ultimately enjoyment doesn't come from making money though that initial "dopamine" hit of closing a contract is nice.

I chose this work because I knew it would evolve me in social aspects and balance my will + thinking to be on par with feeling. It will also help me in what I want try to do because of the field I'm in.

But something in me doesn't like this life I'm living. This path feels really boring and traditional, there's nothing exciting going on and no adventure. I'm bored, something tells me I'm wasting my life, but the money I'm making is decent if I manage to drag myself through each day. It will set me up long term that's for sure.

I do know I have a desire shift my identity: In 7th grade I remember begging my parents to take me to a military style school, I desired to do something difficult and to train in an "untraditional sense."

Wondering if people who are more educated in Anthroposophy can give me some insight as I'm still learning, but not at a high enough level.