Table of Contents

Chapter One: Bridge-building between Science and Spirit The Path of the Scientist versus the Path of the Mystic The Emergence of a New Ether Physics and the Scientists of a Post Materialistic Age The Modern Path of Seership An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy Chapter Two: Accepting a View Into the Supersensible World: Tones, Torsion And The Cosmic Creative Word. The Galactic Phenomenon of the Superwave and the Programmable Nature of DNA. The Links Between Galactic Phenomena, Modern Geological Records and the Symbolism of Ancient Mythology. A View of Torsion Field Physics and the Cymatics of Tone. An Overview of the Transformative Forces behind the Accelerated Changes taking place on Earth. Chapter Three: A View Into the Ether and its Inhabitants An Introduction to the Nature and Structure of the Ether, and the Elementals who Inhabit it. A view into the Astral Realm (Devachan) The Work of the Hierarchies in Creation The Moulding of the Physical World and the Forces of the Ether Chapter Four: The Descent And Ascent Of Consciousness The Language, Imagery and Vocabulary of the Ether A Survey of Past Civilizations and the Development of Human Consciousness The Bonds of Kinship with the Elemental Kingdom The Human Birthright of Seership Chapter Five: The Spirits of Earth, Water, Air and Fire (Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs and Salamanders) Elementals and Nature Spirits: a Definition The Living Field of Imagination in the Supersenible World The Spirits of Earth and the Life Ether (Gnomes) Human Morality and the Elementals Gnomes, Gravity and the Graviton The Spirits of Water and the Chemical Ether (Undines) Feeling, Emotion and the Watery Element An Interior View of Water The Spirits of Air and the Light Ether (Sylphs) The Ideal Plant Form Wisdom in Light The Spirits of Fire and the Warmth Ether (Salamanders) Fire as a Gateway to the Spirit World Fire Spirits and Germination Fire Spirits and Human Thought The Relationship Between Universal Thought and Human Thinking The 'Living Idea and Essence' in Nature and the Translation Movement of the 8th and 9th Century Elementals in the Human Being Chapter Six: What Can We Do and How Can We Help? Thought Forms and Their Effects Uniting with the Rhythms of the Cosmos and the Cycles in Nature Preparing For Seership Creating a Sheath of Soul-Quiet Honesty With Self and Others Managing and Transforming Negative Thought Forms Chapter Seven: Making Contact Entering the World of the Elementals Appreciation, Gratitude and the Heart Thinking with your Feelings and Feeling with your Thoughts Supersensible Colour Closing an Audience with the Elemental World Authentic Experiences and Intense States of Awareness Chapter Eight: Helping the Elementals at Home and at Work Clearing and Enhancing the Supersensible Atmosphere of our Communal Spaces Healing the Land with Biodynamics The Downside to Over-Sensitivity Chapter Nine: A New Human and a New Earth The Battle for the Human Soul The Healing Power of Forgiveness Notes and References

About the Author

SUSAN RAVEN, a singer-songwriter who performs regularly on the British music festival scene, is a life-long student of spirituality. Specialising in the Western esoteric tradition and the work of Rudolf Steiner, she regularly gives talks on the ether and the elemental beings that inhabit it. Her musical CDs, and her moving and inspiring live performances, have attracted a large fan base around the world. Susan has spent the last 14 years living in the remote hills of mid-Wales, deepening her understanding of the elemental kingdom and gradually developing the faculty for perceiving this formative world and its inhabitants. In her work she speaks openly of her transformative experiences, and has introduced spiritual-scientific concepts of the etheric world to many people over the years.

Reviews

"[This book] is a very important piece of research work which should become recommended reading material for all students of spiritual science, however advanced they may be and not just newcomers.... It is written sensitively and inclusively in a language that can appeal to every free thinker regardless of their religious persuasion or philosophical outlook."
--Star and Furrow "A splendid book...people who are concerned for the state of the earth and what is being done to it will find it extremely valuable."
--New View "A profound and instructive book.... What marks it out is the way in which a higher science is integrated into the thesis as the prospect of scientific seers comes closer."
--Network Review