The Seat of the Soul
Temple Lodge Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-912230-23-5 (ISBN)
How are the internal and external forms of the human organism shaped? How does human consciousness emerge? These are questions to which conventional science has no answers. In The Seat of the Soul, Yvan Rioux invites us to consider new concepts that can explain these phenomena. His exposition is based on the existence of external `formative forces’ – or morphic fields – which, he argues, create the human body or organism in conjunction with forces that resonate within us from the living solar system. The psyche – or soul – emerges progressively as an inner world of faculties that in time learns to apprehend and understand the outer world.
In his previous book The Mystery of Emerging Form, Rioux explored the formative forces of the twelve zodiacal constellations. In this absorbing sequel, he investigates how such activity from the planetary spheres works within us, as `life stages’ or metabolic processes. Through seven chapters, he explores the impact of each of these planetary spheres on our complex organic make-up and psychic activity. The link between organs and tissues, he says, produces five specific `inner landscapes’ in relation to the external rhythmic environment. Rioux also gives a description of Rudolf Steiner’s seven `planetary seals’ from a biological perspective. According to Steiner, these seals are: `…occult scripts, meaning that, as hidden signatures, they show their ongoing etheric impacts on the seven stages of our metabolism’.
Between Steiner’s indications concerning human physiology and the ancient Chinese view on the subject, there is a convergence of ideas – as synthesized here – that breaks through the boundaries of modern reductionist science, offering exciting perspectives for understanding the human being.
`The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.’ – Novalis
YVAN RIOUX was already a keen naturalist as a boy, taught by Christian Brothers and Franciscans. He studied biology at Montreal University, but it left him cold as it didn’t touch anything that was alive. Working for ten years as a biodynamic farmer in Quebec, however, he encountered living ecosystems. Later, in Montreal, he taught on the relationship between human physiology and nature. In 1992 he moved to England with his two boys and joined a family of two girls and their mother, Gabriel Millar, who became his muse. Retiring ten years ago, he decided to write about his knowledge gained from 25 years’ of teaching experience, culminating in his previous publication, The Mystery of Emerging Form.
Introduction – Chapter 1: Saturn process: Opening the door of perception, Towards the integration of subtle influences – Chapter 2: Jupiter process: Preservation of outer perceptions, Establishment and defence of the territory (immunity) – Chapter 3 – Mars process: The essence of pulsations, The beginning of the psychic world – Chapter 4: Sun process: The circulation of perceptions, Access to inner perception (insight) Chapter 5: Mercury process: From pictorial images (psyche) to material organs (soma) – Chapter 6: Venus process: Energized movements for growth, A constant search for the right fulcrum point – Chapter 7: Moon process: Replication (mitosis vs meiosis) Self-renewing life – Conclusion: A planetary alignment giving birth to our physical and psychic world
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.03.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | B/w illustrations throughout |
| Verlagsort | East Sussex |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Anthroposophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-912230-23-2 / 1912230232 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-912230-23-5 / 9781912230235 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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