Bøger af Michael Hedley Burton

Poet Michael Hedley Burton has written a series of poems that attempt to grasp that illusive experience of selfhood. In the book's foreword he writes that there are two different kinds of self accessible to us, one built up from our earthly experience and the other overshadowing this as a kind of "higher self". The drama of who we are is founded very much on the kind of relationship existing within us between these two selves. The "Thirty-three Meditations" is a deeply Christian study - but not Christian in the sense of allegiance to any fixed form of religion. Here the emphasis is on one's own personal relationship to the divine within. In the final section we are taken into images that Burton received from a study of "The Fifth Gospel" - lectures given in 1913 by Rudolf Steiner. In looking for the essence of selfhood he found himself confronting the one known as Jesus of Nazareth whose destiny it was to sacrifice his earthly ego to become the bearer of the Christ. These are poems that will appeal to anyone who thinks deeply about life and who wants a book that can be kept by the bedside and studied over a period of time, always giving further thoughts. One reader, a psychologist, called it "33 forms of healing medicine for the human ego".

In 1995 the producer of Portal Productions, Marke Levene, had about an hour of inspiration in which he "saw" fourteen scenes that together made up a drama that would follow the four written by Rudolf Steiner. His outline had to wait sixteen years before the next step was taken and Michael Hedley Burton began working with what Marke had given him. Michael's task was to attempt to craft Steiner's play as a genuine Michaelic imagination that speaks to people from the twenty-first century. After seven drafts had been written over a period of four years, the play was "finished" as a literary work. This book is a preview of what the new play reveals.

SEASONS OF THE SOUL is a study of the rhythm of the year and its relationship to the human soul, based on "The Calendar of the Soul" by Rudolf Steiner. These 52 poems are expanded versions of Steiner's short verses, written in such a way as to release something of the incredible concentration of the original writing. This is writing that gets back to the primary importance of poetry as a means by which people are enabled to take hold of the power to transform and liberate themselves. Steiner's "Calendar of the Soul", if followed by a sensitive participant through the course of the year, has within it the capacity to cut through the illusion of humanity's separation from the world. As the book's foreword states, "We are living at a time when ... alienation from the natural world - and from ourselves and from our spiritual origins - is the single most pressing, underlying problem facing us today. We would not treat the natural world the way we do if we felt more closely connected to it." It is now 100 years since Steiner wrote "The Calendar of the Soul". Since that time, many of the predictions he made for cataclysmic events on earth have come true. These disasters were guaranteed to happen, Steiner stated, if human beings failed to find a new way of thinking that brought their ideas into harmony with the spiritual and natural forces that underlie all life. Steiner did not focus on the negative but gave us the means to change our effects upon the world and to bring about a huge revolution in the quality of life on earth. In these poems the way is shown as to how this revolution through self-transformation can take place. If done, it will affect for the good far more than human life alone.

THIS WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE is a play for two actors written by Michael Hedley Burton. It is about the birth of the idea of the Threefold Social Organism (also known as the Threefold Social Order) between 1917 and 1919.

The Great Awakening is a global movement by which a corrupt power structure is being systematically dismantled. This is C J Swan's third book on the subject. Originally the plan was to write three books but now a fourth is being worked on. The author is guided by the conviction that poetry is a unique art form that can play a special role in helping others to understand the significance of these world-shattering events taking place in our lifetime. The forward contains nineteen extracts from the "breadcrumbs" given by Q (also known as Q Anon) who has been an inspiration to the writing. For those new to the subject, this will serve as an introduction to something that is very misunderstood in the world today. The poems were mostly written between March and August of 2019. These poems are a call to take up "arms" in a peaceful revolution to save the world from tyranny. Swan shows that we do not have to be American to fight in this revolution - we just have to believe in the redeeming power of Truth.

The phrase "walk the path" is a metaphor for the life journey of those who aim toward spiritual illumination. We all have our own unique journey in life, and no one can walk that path for us or prescribe the way we should go. Nevertheless, we sometimes encounter a fellow traveler along the way with whom insights and experiences can be shared. There is much to discuss, because today we can no longer rely on the dogmas and orthodoxies of human history. Spiritual illumination today demands a path of knowledge without preconception and fixed worldviews. This book is written for those who have come to the point of deciding that the best thing they can do for the good of the earth and for their own fulfillment is to approach life as a quest for self-knowledge and true inner freedom. For them, this book will be an invaluable roadmap and guide for the many important milestones and crossroads we encounter in life. Michael Burton offers seven chapters that echo the seven stages of the alchemical process of illumination. It is written in such a way that it not only imparts information but also engages the reader's life of feeling and will. No one can read this book and not be challenged to walk the path toward inner transformation.

These verses, following the course of the year, were inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. The book is arranged so that parents, teachers, eurythmists, and children can follow the course of the year in both hemispheres.