Good News:
Recently some of George O'Neil's study materials have been found: His
translation and study guide to Calendar of the Soul, Occult Science
study notes, Threshold study notes, and Letters to the Members! These
will be posted as soon as possible. Great stuff.
This website is dedicated to furthering organic-living thinking and writing.
The models of organic thinking come from Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, and George O'Neil.
Organic-living thinking is a way of ordering ideas so that their order is itself a living thought process.
Steiner called this process "heart-thinking" because he believed organic-living thought-structures engage our heart-chakra.
Organic-living thought-structures exist in many texts in all languages and cultures.
Steiner said that they are forms which are a vehicle for godly inspired thoughts.
Organic-living thinking is not a set of rules, but a way of thinking that is dynamic.
Practicing organic thinking strengthens our conceptualization powers by expanding our whole-to-the-parts vision.
As we learn to see our thoughts from the whole to the parts, we slowly learn to overcome the limitations of the fragmented Western mind.
This website should serve those attempting to enhance their own writing and thinking by way of organic thinking.
George O'Neil discovered that many great texts - such as the Gettysburg Address and the Scarlet Letter - are organized according to organic forms.
A Rabbi once showed me the organic-living structure of the 10 commandments after I taught him some heart-thinking structures.
Much of the music and poetry Steiner chose for Eurythmy is organic-living.
Just because a poem or essay is organic that does not make it necessarily aesthetic.
These structures are not Beauty itself, but are included in the composition of the beautiful.
Rudolf Steiner wrote his works as models for organic-thinking.
His first seven books contain nearly identical topics, but the forms are different.
Unfortunately, the publishers of Steiner translations have not attended to his original paragraph and sentence structure; thus making organic studying nearly impossible with the texts available.
I have posted a corrected Philosophy of Freedom text and the O'Neil Work-Book to the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
(It should be noted that Chapter III in the O'Neil Work-book now has a different form.)
Enough for a curious reader to get started.
I am very interested in collecting any corrected texts that individuals have worked on. I published
"Education of the Child", now called "A Primer for Spiritually Thinking
Educators",
which comes with an organic thinking study guide.
Right now these are the only clear descriptions, in English, of organic-living thinking.
The website contains various articles and links to key books.
In the future I will increase the amount of information, especially didactic material.
I believe that the educational uses of organic thinking will become ever more self-evident as educators see the utility in this approach.
Rudolf Steiner used this thinking in his Waldorf school curriculum and in other projects.
Because his contribution was never consciously grasped outside of a few individuals, dogma has replaced an organic-living practice.
I will soon put together a booklet of writing exercises.
