Start Now!: A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises

It is part history and explanation, part samples of poetic hymns to meditate upon, and part activities to develop appropriate values that will lead to spiritual development. The book provides a beautiful vision and an alternative to mainstream religion. It provides a guide for our relationship to others, nature as a unified living entity, and help us find our worthy goals that will lead to our worthy purpose in live. I recommend the book. It provides thought, in this reader, that we must save the world environment as part of our mutual spiritual development. Good job

This is a wonderful introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s work, much less cumbersome than his original books and lectures. Thank you Chris Bamford!

This book provides the reader with many practical exercises as to how to meditate. For those who never have meditated, the first half of the book provides you with enough information as to what meditation is and how to make certain changes to your inner life. The second half of the book gives you a lot of meditation examples. Everyone is different and that is how this book approaches meditation.

If you embark on Anthroposophy and seriously want to study its practical aspects, this book is a must. Not only you get personal indications from Rudolf Steiner but the writer will lead you through the steps one could develop for his/her own esoteric path. A solid reference study and clear, direct indications that make meditations a viable and vital part of one's life. A must have by one's side and indispensable for those who want to move on in a practical way. Highly recommended! .~

Indespensible Steiner book for those who want to pursue his methods of attaining supersensible knowledge. I have purchased two copies. This book is full of meditations, mantras, prayers, and Steiner's own type of Zen koans. It is a truly remarkable book, very much worth having in your library!

If you like Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy than this book is a must buy for your collection. There are sections in the book that I read over and over again because they are quite relevant to my spiritual journey. I gave this book 4 stars because some of the material is dated with the marriage between spirituality and Quantum Physics.

This book makes available material from multiple schools of Western Spiritual traditions. Various sections of the book are specifically focused on specific aspects of spiritual development. Keep in mind this material is advanced and requires a proper conscious state as a point of entry. For me it will be a life long companion.

Love reading Rudolf Steiner, the person who started Biodynamic Gardening and the Waldorf schools. A very interesting man who was a seer and scientist from Austria. A guide to becoming a more evolved human being.

Um livro incrível com meditações e exercícios que nos ajudam a nos centrar e a ver a vida viva, sabendo-nos parte de um todo integrado

Well written and essy and enjoyable to read. Thanks!

As an author of a book on stress and life-management myself, I applaud this extraordinary collection of material from the work of Steiner, a polymath genius and spiritual adventurer. The text collects his meditations and exercise, many of which have been raided by other authors, including myself. The resulting treasure assembles the fullest kitbag of Steiner's unique and powerful advice on self-transforamtion available in the English language. The strength of the book lies not simply in volume (it is not even a 'fat book'). After all junk food often comes on large platters. Rather, this is probably the wisest collection of practice guidance for living available in print, from anyone, anywhere. Of course this might offend supporters of various holy books, such as the Bible or Q'ran, which certainly do contain wonderful advice. 'Love your neighbour' comes to mind. But, this collection is not in competition with these texts: it is not a holy book, but a practical spiritual one. It is a manual not a guidebook. A work that encourages and develops human freedom, not followership. And it is a proven fact that the outcome of a few years of serious working with its contents will be transformation: spiritual, practical, ethical. More diverse (and modern) than the Dhammapada, the Buddhist text that perhaps comes closest as a collected guide to life, more intelligent and penetrating than any stress book, more optimistically challenging than Einstein, this is an Aladdin's cave for the spiritual path of human freedom and self-development. Mind you, it wil demand your active commitment to turn the words into gold. Steiner is tough. But those who make the journey will feel enormously grateful and sublimely empowered.

Many good meditation pointers, some containing great wisdom which I'll need to meditate on continually in order to get maximum value from them.

It's great like all Steiner's work but I wanted the book not a screen transmission which is just not suitable for this subject matter.