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Introduction and scope

What is meant with a study volume?

A study volume is a comprehensive reference work that the earnest student of spiritual student can use for many years and that will accompany and serve him or her even for a lifetime of study. This in contrast to the many short publications that are typical of our zeitgeist and have a smaller scope and are made for consumption with shorter attention spans. This includes even contemporary books that are often in booklet style of say 50-60 pages. Hence, a study volume has a broader scope and is more ambitious, complete in its coverage, including extensive references. Often it is the work of a lifetime of the person who publishes it, as the fruit of decades of study.

In the 19th and 20th century, it was allmost a tradition that some people published their lifetime contribition in a serious volume. Hence we also find these reference works as a product of the first generations of anthroposophists in the 20th century, especially after the second world war.

Examples

The following people published reference work in Study Volumes:

Ernst Hagemann (five study volumes) Ewald Grether (three volumes on Karma and reincarnation in 1986, for more than 1300 pages)
Maximilian Rebholz, Iwer Thor Lorenzen,
Norbert Glas (eight booklets on physiology) Oskar Kuerten
Fred Poeppig, Karl Heyer, Otto Hartmann
and many others

Most of the references on the list Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or 'SoSoG' are study reference books. Some though also have the broad scope ambition that results in a corresponding physical aspect of a Study Volume.

G00.015 - Wolfgang Schad: Threefoldness in Humans and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form
G00.020 - Dankmar Bosse: The mutual evolution of Earth and humanity

Positioning in the 21st century

In the 21st century, the explosive growth of the digital internet with free flow of information, has affected the culture and new generations in many ways. Shorter attention spans, less patience and/or quality time to commit to reading and studying a serious volume. Publishing has become much more granular, not only on the internet but also in small booklets.

As the average person spends more time with digital media via different types of computer screens (mobile phone, computer, television), content on demand and the 'pull' of information has become more important than 'push and make available'. People search and browse until they find something and this becomes a type of entertainment, an engrained habit in how people function today.

This site serves as an entry portal to the world of spiritual science: low threshold, searchable, pages with a simple template and a synthetic statement upfront, complemented with aspects, illustrations, source extracts and further reading references.

However the depth of coverage remains limited with relatively general sharing of (often always the same) information (many times all over), and at a certain point one needs to refer to established reference studies and the work of people who have gone in depth in their studies.

This is where SoSoG and the study volumes come in, they are complementary for the student who may pass not years but decades of his life in deepening his personal study and contemplation. An important additional element is that a physical book or study volume is a physical object and a companion along this path, very different from digital resources. One can hold it, annotate, put papers in the book, and carry it along for years.

In practice

The working hypothesis from experience is, that for spiritual science the 'consumer publications' do not serve the student in the best way, or do not suffice on their own, and that reference materials are useful and at least complementary, if not required.

In fact we believe that such reference materials have a unique place and value for the earnest student of spiritual science.

Therefore an important aspect of the Free Man Creator vision and intentions, has been from the beginning, to publish the output of the project in Advanced Study Volumes which are a bit less volatile and more practical for earnest students then a website.

This website is a first way to publish, it is a front end or communication vehicle for the Free Man Creator initiative. The site contains (a.o.) three pilot sub-site(s) to guide and support the study process on a specific topic (Christ and MoG, reincarnation, and the Golden Chain), as well as a section for essays.-

However, the Free Man Creator initiative also works on developing a Study Volume library from existing and new materials. To put these in the world so they can continu to exist and be shared and used for personal study offline, thereby representing a 'reference library'.

This includes:

new, to be published, Advanced Study Volumes - with existing content selected as reference materials from secondary literature and that provides a unique foundation for study. The Advanced Study Volumes could be scoped per topic (eg Christ, or Elementary Kingdoms, the etheric formative forecs ..) or per author (eg Maximilian Rebholz, Oskar Kürten, ..). See Status of planned publications.
An overview 'best of' anthroposophical or spiritual scientific secondary literature, complementing the GA Collected Works with the life work of great anthroposophists in one century of spiritual science. Hence the acronym Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or 'SoSoG'.
Last, the original materials and reference files from the Free Man Creator initiative. These are extensive and could be made available in digital format.

Illustrations

FMC00.405 illustrates the concept of a Study Volume. Ernst Hagemann published five such volumes between 1963 and 1976, after 30-40 years of anthrosophical study.

Further illustrations see pages 4 and 5 in Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021

FMC study volumes - project status

This track of the FMC project initiative has been delayed and received less focus and priority due to the work on the current website.

More background on the Study Volumes and SoSoG in the Free Man Creator initiative in the PDF file downloadable here:

Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021

Translations

Over 1500 pages have been translated by two translators.

Editing

One editor is currently reviewing the translations before publication. The project is still looking for editors.

Publishing

Contacts with two publishers have been ongoing but no concrete collaboration has followed as yet.

Discussion

Related pages

References and further study

Anna Meuss Translating Rudolf Steiners lectures (downloadable PDF article)

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-[[Eurythmy therapy]] is an applied form of [[eurythmy]], and an integral therapeutic process concerned with psychological and physiological well-being of mind, soul and body, complementing conventional medicine. The exercises are like 'inner gymnastics' (working from the soul directly onto the etheric body)
-===Aspects===
+==Introduction and scope==
-*'Eurythmy therapy' was previously (and is sometimes still) called 'curative eurythmy'
-=== Inspirational quotes ===
+=== What is meant with a study volume? ===
-paraphrased: (lecture reference still to be added)<blockquote>.. in the method of eurythmy therapy .. we can directly experience how the creative and therapeutic power of the word is at work</blockquote>
+A study volume is a comprehensive reference work that the earnest student of spiritual student can use for many years and that will accompany and serve him or her even for a lifetime of study. This in contrast to the many short publications that are typical of our zeitgeist and have a smaller scope and are made for consumption with shorter attention spans. This includes even contemporary books that are often in booklet style of say 50-60 pages. Hence, a study volume has a broader scope and is more ambitious, complete in its coverage, including extensive references. Often it is the work of a lifetime of the person who publishes it, as the fruit of decades of study.
-==Illustrations==
-==Lecture coverage and references==
-=== Overview ===
+In the 19th and 20th century, it was allmost a tradition that some people published their lifetime contribition in a serious volume. Hence we also find these reference works as a product of the first generations of anthroposophists in the 20th century, especially after the second world war.
-For a general overview on Rudolf Steiner's lectures on eurythmy, see: [[Eurythmy#Overview]]
-The main cycle on eurythmy therapy is:
+==== Examples ====
-*[https://wn.rsarchive.org/Medicine/GA315/English/RSP1983/CurEur_index.html 1921-GA315]:  Eurythmy therapy (8 lectures)
+The following people published reference work in Study Volumes:
+*[[Ernst Hagemann]] (five study volumes) Ewald Grether (three volumes on Karma and reincarnation in 1986, for more than 1300 pages)
+*[[Maximilian Rebholz]], [[Iwer Thor Lorenzen]],
+*[[Norbert Glas]] (eight booklets on physiology) [[Oskar Kuerten]]
+*Fred Poeppig, Karl Heyer, Otto Hartmann
+*and many others
-====== 2022 - Beatrix Hachtel ======
-taken from an online posting on facebook (SWCC)<blockquote>In the time since that the Bibliographie [see Further reading section below] was published [in 2007], research of Euryhmy Therapy has made huge progress.
-In the English-speaking world much of the knowledge that has become known in the German-speaking world since 2007 through the publication of the 'Bibliographie Heileurythmie' has probably never been translated. At that time I had the task to go through all the existing anthroposophical medical literature from 1920 onwards, read all the texts relevant to eurythmy therapy, and summarize them in abstracts. The result was a book with over 600 pages which summarized more than 500 publications and had extensive registers, in which one could look up who had already written about the exercises and clinical pictures. The 2014 update concerned only the listing of the texts in bibliographic form without a summary.
+Most of the references on the list [[SoSoG|Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or 'SoSoG']] are study reference books. Some though also have the broad scope ambition that results in a corresponding physical aspect of a Study Volume.
-The content from 2006 summarized the state of knowledge at that time. While today most of it must be considered outdated in many respects, this still gives an impression of the efforts of our professionals during the last century.
+* G00.015 - Wolfgang Schad: Threefoldness in Humans and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form
+* G00.020 - Dankmar Bosse: The mutual evolution of Earth and humanity
-The publications on eurythmy therapy have multiplied over the last 25 years. When we last recorded them '''in 2014, we were able to record around 1500 relevant texts''', including master’s theses, doctoral theses and a whole series of research projects. This is remarkable insofar as '''up to 1990 only about 100 relevant texts on eurythmy therapy''' could be recorded.
+=== Positioning in the 21st century ===
+In the 21st century, the explosive growth of the digital internet with free flow of information, has affected the culture and new generations in many ways. Shorter attention spans, less patience and/or quality time to commit to reading and studying a serious volume. Publishing has become much more granular, not only on the internet but also in small booklets.
-There are various reasons for this. On the one hand, the need was experienced to publish skillfull presented courses of illness and eurythmy therapy interventions. Then, in recent years, intensive efforts have been made to search for methodological approaches and to develop study designs that can document the effect of artistic therapies as an individual measure or as part of an overall concept. The research surveys occasionally published by the Medical Section after the turn of the millennium reflected this effort.
+As the average person spends more time with digital media via different types of computer screens (mobile phone, computer, television), content on demand and the 'pull' of information has become more important than 'push and make available'. People search and browse until they find something and this becomes a type of entertainment, an engrained habit in how people function today.
-In addition, it also shows that eurythmy therapy has become a means of knowledge for many doctors over the decades, leading to a deeper understanding of the disease process and the effects of the remedy.
+This site serves as an entry portal to the world of spiritual science: low threshold, searchable, pages with a simple template and a synthetic statement upfront, complemented with aspects, illustrations, source extracts and further reading references.
-This academization process was supported by the master’s study course at the [https://www.alanus.edu/ Alanus University] at Alfter, Germany, which eurythmy therapists who had been working for many years could also complete. Their participation resulted in numerous, sometimes very impressive master thesis of treatment documentation and small studies.
+However the depth of coverage remains limited with relatively general sharing of (often always the same) information (many times all over), and at a certain point one needs to refer to established reference studies and the work of people who have gone in depth in their studies.
-''A Demarcation of 'artistic eurythmy' and 'hygienic eurythmy' from eurythmy therapy''
+This is where SoSoG and the study volumes come in, they are complementary for the student who may pass not years but decades of his life in deepening his personal study and contemplation. An important additional element is that a physical book or study volume is a physical object and a companion along this path, very different from digital resources. One can hold it, annotate, put papers in the book, and carry it along for years.
-Publications were included in the bibliography which document the therapeutic effect of eurythmy and eurythmy therapy. The elements of artistic eurythmy, such as those used in “eurythmy in the workplace” or in pedagogical eurythmy, have a hygienic, harmonizing and generally balancing effect, as impressively documented for example by the Baufit study (M. Moser, AUVA Graz)from the begin of the new millenium. Eurythmy therapy works partly with the same movements. The difference to artistic eurythmy, however, lies in the fact that through modifications a reversal of the effects from the movements is achieved: instead of giving intensity and expression of the movement to the surrounding space and the watching public, the intention of the movement is directed inwards and therefore strengthened. This direction of action is made mentally conscious and thus the therapeutic effectiveness is strengthened right down to the physical.
+=== In practice ===
+The working hypothesis from experience is, that for spiritual science the 'consumer publications' do not serve the student in the best way, or do not suffice on their own, and that reference materials are useful and at least complementary, if not required.
-''The artistic process in eurythmy therapy''
+In fact we believe that such reference materials have a unique place and value for the earnest student of spiritual science.
-Every artistic activity corresponds to a creative process that develops step by step. Whether painting a picture, creating a sculpture or moving in space - there is always an encounter between an idea of how it could be and the observation of how it turned out due to one's own skill level in dealing with brushes, clay or even movement control.
+Therefore an important aspect of the Free Man Creator vision and intentions, has been from the beginning, to publish the output of the project in Advanced Study Volumes which are a bit less volatile and more practical for earnest students then a website.
-Experience has shown that certain illnesses correlate with certain inner structures, which appear in the picture, in the sculpture, in the musical improvisation or in the movement. The therapist must therefore be able through his training to recognize the structure changed by the illness and to develop skills in the creative process. Research in the artistic field can therefore aim beyond purely statistical surveys of the symptomatic treatment effects to record these disease-typical structures, to show their relevance to the severity of the disease symptoms and to describe their transformation and development possibilities. Several publications center around that subject and lead to several approaches to document illness related movements structures.
+This website is a first way to publish, it is a front end or communication vehicle for the Free Man Creator initiative. The site contains (a.o.) three pilot sub-site(s) to guide and support the study process on a specific topic (Christ and MoG, reincarnation, and the Golden Chain), as well as a section for essays.-
-''Consequences for research projects''
+However, the Free Man Creator initiative also works on developing a Study Volume library from existing and new materials. To put these in the world so they can continu to exist and be shared and used for personal study offline, thereby representing a 'reference library'.
-Some publications already from the last millenium have taken this fact into account, with reference to the numerous works by Bräuner-Gülow, Ohlschwang and others (see Basic Research section). The scientific method of showing the evidence of effectiveness in the treatment of individual cases has been developed in recent years by H. Kiene, G.S. Kienle and others from the [http://www.ifaemm.de/ Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology] (Bad Krozingen, Germany - see more in the book chapter about see Research Methodology).
+This includes:
-A whole series of – also older – impressive healing processes under eurythmy therapy would have to be expanded and modified according to these criteria. Dr. Gunver Kienle was able to bring the idea of individual treatment cases as part of scientific research (instead of the usual gold standart of randomized study groups) back into scientific debate and consideration and Eurythmy Therapy benefited greatly from that effort, with numerous publications in scientific journals in the recent years. </blockquote>
+#new, to be published, '''Advanced Study Volumes''' - with existing content selected as reference materials from secondary literature and that provides a unique foundation for study. The Advanced Study Volumes could be scoped per topic (eg Christ, or Elementary Kingdoms, the etheric formative forecs ..) or per author (eg Maximilian Rebholz, Oskar Kürten, ..). See [[Status of planned publications]].
+#An '''overview 'best of' anthroposophical or spiritual scientific secondary literature''', complementing the GA Collected Works with the life work of great anthroposophists in one century of spiritual science. Hence the acronym [[SoSoG|Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or 'SoSoG']].
+#Last, the original materials and reference files from the Free Man Creator initiative. These are extensive and could be made available in digital format.
-=== Reference extracts ===
+== Illustrations ==
+'''FMC00.405''' illustrates the concept of a Study Volume. [[Ernst Hagemann]] published five such volumes between 1963 and 1976, after 30-40 years of anthrosophical study.
+[[File:FMC00.405.jpg|link=https://anthroposophy.eu/File:FMC00.405.jpg|center|frameless|700x700px]]
+Further illustrations see pages 4 and 5 in [[Media:Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021.pdf|Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021]]
+==FMC study volumes - project status==
+This track of the FMC project initiative has been delayed and received less focus and priority due to the work on the current website.
+More background on the Study Volumes and SoSoG in the Free Man Creator initiative in the PDF file downloadable here:
+*[[Media:Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021.pdf|Project FMC - SoSoG and Study Volumes - 2016-2021]]
+====Translations====
+Over 1500 pages have been translated by two translators.
+====Editing====
+One editor is currently reviewing the translations before publication. The project is still looking for editors.
+====Publishing====
+Contacts with two publishers have been ongoing but no concrete collaboration has followed as yet.
+== Discussion ==
-==Discussion==
 ==Related pages==
-*[[Eurythmy]]
-*[[Medicine]]
+*[[Status of planned publications]]
-==References and further reading==
+*[[SoSoG]]
-*for an overview of publications in different languages, see the website by Batrix Hachtel [https://www.liebe-zur-erde.eu/lang1/publications.html here]
+*[[Tools and practical site info]]
-*Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt: Fundamental Principles of Curative Eurythmy (1978, original in DE in 1962)
+*
-*Truus Geraets: 'The Healing Art of Eurythmy' (2003)
-*Beatrix Hachtel, Angelika Gäch: 'Bibliographie Heileurythmie' (2005)
+==References and further study==
-*Wilhelm Uhlenhoff: The Children of the Curative Education Course (2008)
-*Hans-Broder and Elke von Laue: 'The Physiology of Eurythmy Therapy' (2010, also in DE)
+*[[Media:Translating Rudolf Steiner's lectures - Anna Meuss.pdf|Anna Meuss Translating Rudolf Steiners lectures]] (downloadable PDF article)
-*Rudolf Steiners Angaben zur Eurythmie - Krankengeschichten aus Arlesheim und Stuttgart (Norman Kingeter, Rob Schapink)
+<br />
-*Hans-Broder Von Laue: 'Zur Physiologie der Heileurythmie'
-*Peter Selg: 'Der Kampf um die Heileurythmie im Spannungsfeld von therapeutischer Gemeinschaft'
-*Wilburg Keller Roth: 'System und Methode der Heil-Eurythmie' (2021)