Stages of Consciousness

To overcome the world means to behold the world as it was before it became dead in us; to behold it in its aliveness, as heaven. To overcome the world means to behold the earth in the heavens and to bring the heavens to earth....Here is Georg Kühlewind's groundbreaking debut work, first published fifty years ago in German, and now available again in the English language. This collection of essays, aphorisms, and meditative texts established Kühlewind as a pioneer of modern spirituality. Kühlewind here threads a delicate needle of composition, presenting a text that demonstrates how meditative practice and self-attained insight are more important than the reading of spiritual texts themselves, while writing one himself. Thus, Stages of Consciousness proposes that we school ourselves in that stage of consciousness we occasionally glimpse as intuition.