I Am for Going Ahead: Ita Wegman's Work for the Social Ideals of Anthroposophy
Paperback
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ISBN13: 9781621480020
Publisher: Steiner Books
Published: May 15 2012
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With great empathy, delicacy, and directness, Peter Selg recounts, in three lectures, the moving story of Ita Wegman and her relationship with Rudolf Steiner in the context of the development of anthroposophic medicine and the formation of the Medical Section of the School for Spiritual Science. Steiner had suffered patiently until the right person--Ita Wegman--arrived to guide spiritual science's healing mission into the medical field. In the fall of 1920, Ita Wegman founded a medical clinic in Arlesheim. From then on, she and Steiner worked together, both medically and spiritually, gradually unveiling a karmic working relationship unique in Steiner's life. Thus the stage is set.
The second lecture focuses on anthroposophic curative, or therapeutic, education: the social center, the heart even, of Ita Wegman's 'Medical Section'; To make a commitment to children with severe obstacles in their incarnation, out of spiritual insight into the human being and the wider karmic context, and to make this commitment as a group of people working out of a Christian-religious impulse this was for Ita Wegman the true anthroposophic medicine.
Dr. Selg then describes Dr. Wegman's heroic efforts to create a true community of physicians working anthroposophically out of Steiner's indications and in the spirit of Christ; how she looked after her colleagues, always seeking to wake them up to the destiny of their own being. She also tried to resist all that was happening in Nazi Germany, never forgetting Steiner's warning: In the future, the Anthroposophical Society will be faced with the crucial decision of whether responsibilities will be met or not. This is the heart of this wonderful book--the inner struggle to make love responsible.
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