Steiner and theosophical methodology

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Rudolf Steiner was the great thinker, in many ways, and when we are talking about the relationship with the Steiner's pedagogy and another world, we might see that there are some harmful parts of his theories. One is his relationship with medication, and I think that this man was wrong if he meant that some real sickness is medicates with some therapy. In this case, this thinker is wrong, if he meant that ordinary medicals can be replaced with some natural thing. His idea that cancer is some kind of parasite, was probably given the ideas of the surgeries, that the tumor can be killed by closing it blood vessels by some wire is awesome, but Steiner was not the doctor of medicine. And don't take this text or some text from Wikipedia as the scientific truth. His methodology will be emphasized as the studies, not in some medical care. Those persons like Rudolf Steiner are very complicated, and we probably ever understand their ideas, but as we might see the methodology, what this man used was not very scientific.


He looked at the things from horoscopes and something like that. When we are talking about the religion and theosophical way of thinking, we always think that this thin is some kind of religion, and this is how somebody handles it in the writings. Steiner himself was mentioned, that Theosophy is not religion. And in sometimes I thought that this Theosophy is meant for the equipment, what this man used when he handled the things like religion. This man was the doctor of philosophy, and those persons are quite difficult.


Their way to speak and think is very abstract, and when we are talking about the religion, we are facing the thing, that religion is also one of the forms of the philosophy. And when we are talking what kind of attitude some people have with the religion, we are facing the phenomenon, that religion is one way to force the people in the same mode, and the religion is also the good way to say "Shut up" for another people.


The idea of the Steiner-pedagogy is that when the person will get the esoteric information enough, will this information get the implosion like happened in the fusion test, wherein the same point will pump very much energy, and then the energy will work like that piece will start to generate the independent energy. And the same thing is in the key role of Steiner-pedagogy. In this pedagogy, the person will predispose the knowledge, until this person starts to produce own ideas and information. When lots of information will put in the person's head, will it work like in some fusion test: start to make and publish own ideas.


The road to the individualism goes thru the groups, and until the person has been in some collective, can this person realize what means the freedom to be alone. And only the person, who has been in the authoritarian and totalitarian country can respect the freedom to be different than the other people around this person are. The question of to be different is the question of the right to be individual. And only the individualists dared to make new ideas and other things.


They want to be different, and also they always want to be over the top. There are limits for the individualist, and real individualist dares to use their own imaginations for making products and bringing their thinking public. They are the professionals in one thing, what is called as the thinking. Thinking is not the very easy way to earn the brad to the table, and some people don't dare to bring up their own ideas. In this chapter, I must say, that everybody can copy another people writings, but only real thinker dares to write own thoughts and ideas as other people can read them.


The idea of day books is sometimes that they are used as the blackmailing material. But now my dear readers I must ask, why those people keep their day books secret? Why don't they publish their writings to another person, and keep that day book public, because then everybody can see how maniac that person is. When some person will keep their day books open, there will be no change to censor it, and then other people will get all texts what this writer have done.


They can't select only one sentence from some day book, and this is the way to show to other people what is full image of that writer. And in here we must say that the persons who will attack against other people are normally used the one or two sentences of the texts that are in the 100 pages day book. Then they will show that the person, who owns the day book, would be some kind of different than they are, by using two sentences as the argument.


When we are talking about Rudolf Steiner and his way to look the world, we must say, that the person is never an expert in everything in the world. There is no so-called common genius and in 19th. century, there was very little hope if the person gets cancer. In the studies method, Steiner might be the genius, but in the medical things, this PhD. was only the ordinary person, even if he hunted ghosts in them and talked the astral creatures. When Steiner talked about those creatures, I think that this person meant the memories or something like that.

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Thinking about totalitaristic governments

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Totalitaristic way to rule nation is not actually wrong. We might say that every state what have governments and justice systems are someway totalitaristic. That means if law of state says something people must follow it in everyday life. When there is a text in lawbook that obliges every person who is in landscape or jurisdiction of that state. Law is always total, if anybody in that state will break it, that person should be punished. Laws are necessary things to protect citizens and other people from anarchy. They are upfront given orders how things should do in some area. Even dictatorship is not wrong itself. If dictator is good person he or she might rule with wisdom, but that kind of thing allows rise of despotic governments.


When dictators rule wisely we might forget that their sons might not be so wise than their parents were.  Good example of situation where good willing dictatorship was followed by despotic government was Gustav vasa the king of Sweden. He was good ruler but his sons were something else. So when swedish law changed that the eldest son of the king will automatically become ruler of the nation they forgot that king Gustav the Vasa had three sons, and that almost destroyed Sweden. Those sons were not like him, and their crossfire made impossible to make anything in that state.


And laws are made to protect weak persons against strong. But as we know that Plato was somehow right when he wrote about laws. Honest people doesn't need laws, and criminals always knows how to go round those texts, but that was his opinion. When we are talking about Plato we always forget that he lived in time, where normal people didn't have any kind of way to get real justice. If Plato won't support leaders he would go to executioner was policy of those days.


That's why Plato writes so many text what support leaders and kings. Plato was philosopher who we know about his way to support inherited way to rule nations, and in his model power will transfer from father to son. If he had been written something else, would leaders of state cut of his head. Fear of revenge of those leaders like Solon forced Plato supports strong leadership and strong authority for government. And that makes this man one of the most liked writer of history.


But when we return to think philosophers we must realize that those men were all individualists. Their way to life was far away from normal people life. And people might think that they were weird. And those men were very good speakers and texts what are made by them are very rhetorical. If those men wrote something, they always must realize that those texts might be dangerous for them. So they indicated in their text to some else philosopher who died couple of years ago. That sometimes saved their life, when original writer of text was dying couple of years ago.


They could say that somebody said that first. But philosophers had other kind of cover roles, and one was of course playwrights role. They could say that they are making some theatrical dramas, and that sometimes made leaders to relax with them. Philosophy is strange and dangerous thing, because it teaches people to think themselves. And when they learn to think, they will find new ways to handle some other things like moralistic and ethical methodology.