A Science of the Spirit
Anthroposophy / Spirtual Science has transformed me. I would love nothing more than to live out the rest of this life connecting and working with others to futher this path of knowledge.
– Shane York Smith
Spiritualizing Our Pedagogy
Founding A Living Cosmosophy <Human Anatomy>, <Physiology>, <Psychology>
This work explores the need to transform contemporary pedagogy by spiritualizing largely materialistic modes of thought that dominate modern education. Rather than treating knowledge as external, abstract, and purely analytical, it proposes an approach that engages thinking, feeling, and willing as integrated faculties capable of inner development. In this view, scientific and religious knowledge are not rejected but deepened, becoming inwardly lived forces that shape perception, judgment, and moral awareness. Education thus shifts from the mere transmission of information to a formative process that cultivates the whole human being. Such a reorientation is presented as increasingly urgent in a cultural landscape marked by fragmented knowledge and an overabundance of superficial information. One finds that the most efficient appraoch not only involves diligent study and the pursuit of knowledge but one that is also coupled with inner work on the soul.
The Great Schism Within Human Consciousness
The Relationship Between our Inheritance of Sons of God & Sons of Man
An essay that by no means encapsulates all that there is in the evolution of man – in regard to his inner movements, his history of ideas – for there is not enough space in one lifetime, or even many, to touch upon the ways that the consciousness of peoples has rested in a duality of spirit and matter, and the consequences of this condition for how man comes to articulate himself and the world in the realms of philosophy, religion, art, and science. This is but one man’s thoughts, using other men’s thoughts, to better understand what it is to be a human being of spirit, yet one who must still trudge his way through the terrestrial toward a higher and happier destiny.
The Spiritual Aspect of Gerontology
This piece came about after years of writing what was thought to be a coherent departure into how the evolution of consciousness projects itself into the ways we measure and divide the content that surrounds us. It was more a lesson in what creativity is – a lesson in the actual inner experience of how the gods may work at a much grander scale, of course. If one has had a creative creation that has been torn down – something so precious, something one has worked so hard for then one understands the weight of this. I removed hundreds of pages because, after years of continued effort to strengthen my ability to learn new ideas, it became apparent that my ability to express what was taken in did not share the same growth. The creative spirit descends in rhythmic fashion, and one often has to wait longer than expected before what was taken in can be thoroughly assimilated as nourishment. So, in short, this was an attempt to share a personal spiritual experience of the educational variety, wanting to relive, in retrospect, the major turning points – often in 7 – year spans – that have made me think, feel, and act as I do today.