Cosmic Intelligence and the Learning Heart
Therapeutic meditations are part of a future medicine with greater emphasis on the spirit and soul aspects of health and illness. There is much to suggest they will become important for the body’s central organ, the heart.
In the context of anthroposophical anthropology and medicine, meditative practices aim to establish—through willful effort—a renewed connection to the principles of becoming, of form, and of function inherent in one’s own spiritual-bodily constitution. If one understands illness as the process of an incipient or already well-advanced destabilization of these “principles,” then therapeutic meditations can offer a potential contribution to their restoration—to winning back that “picture of the human being” that is permanently endangered amid the civilizational and biographical conditions of life. Healing mantras have an ordering and orienting character in regard to physical, soul, and spiritual aspects. They serve the purpose of saluto- or autogenesis, that is—the summoning of one’s own healing forces from the spiritual core of the human being, from one’s efficacious ‘I’. In this way, healing mantras are an integral element of an anthroposophical medicine of the future. They rely not only on the spirituality of the physician and their therapy but on the patient’s as well.
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