Synopses & Reviews
This book consists of lectures and extracts compiled and translated by Barbara Saunders-Davies and Katherine Castellitz. From a spiritual perspective, Steiner discusses: coffee, tea, alcohol, nicotine, milk, honey, roots, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, meat, vegetarianism, etc.
Rudolf Steiner's spiritual insights are given in a nondogmatic way that can help us to understand our own nutrition. A good understanding of anthroposophy would be necessary to fully comprehend these lectures, as they were presented to an audience already familiar with these ideas.
Synopsis
Drawing on excerpts from his books and lecturers, the effects of substances on the human body, temperaments, thinking, and reproduction are addressed through Rudolf Steiner's spiritual insights - including coffee, tea, alcohol, nicotine, milk, honey, roots, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, meat, vegetarianism, and more. Steiner's spiritual insights into these practical realms are given in a non-dogmatic way that can help us understand our own nutrition. This text is best for those with an understanding of anthroposophy, as these pieces were presented to an audience already familiar with these ideas. Most of the selections in this book appear here for the first time in English.