From Normal to Healthy, Paperback

How much practical time do we usually devote to the general art of being human? This practical guide to the self-healing of consciousness--it is both a spiritual psychology and a contemporary manual of the inner life--begins by laying out very clearly the unhealthy, unfree nature of today's consciousness.

Methodical self-observation leads to discovering the key to the liberating consciousness from its habitual blind spots and automatisms: the realization of the universal primacy of cognition and the universal availability of its ground, the free attention.

Through attention, a person who practices the author's exercises begins to expand the range of his or her possibilities of understanding and doing. The exercises--based on the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path and Rudolf Steiner's cognitive spiritual path--lead to a new life in which superconscious intuitions gradually take the place of superconscious formations.

This new life is a universal human life of improvisatory, living thinking: a life of presence, pure joy, which is health for human beings.

Contents: 1. Inventory
2. The Diseased Consciousness
3. A Little Psychology
4. A Little Psychology
5. The Health of the Soul
6. The Path of Knowledge
7. On Human Freedom