Arnold Keyserling

Arnold Keyserling ( Alexander Arnold Constantine Herbert Otto Heinrich Graf Keyserling, born February 9, 1922 in Friedrichsruh, † September 7, 2005 in Matrei am Brenner ) was a German - Austrian philosopher and scholar of religion.

Life

Arnold Keyserling was the son of the philosopher and writer Hermann Graf Keyserling and a great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck. In his father, the " School of Wisdom " in Darmstadt Institute, reversed in the 1920s, well-known writers and thinkers such as Carl Jung, Richard Wilhelm, Hermann Hesse, Oscar AH Schmitz and Rabindranath Tagore. So the young Keyserling came early to enjoy a full humanistic education. When the Nazis came to power, the family was ostracized as subversive and the " School of Wisdom " forced closed. 1939, after the Anschluss was Arnold Keyserling, the then law at the University of Vienna studied, expelled from the university.

After the war, Arnold Keyserling learned in Alpbach Wilhelmine von Auersperg ( born June 18, 1921), whom he married after five -year engagement. Together they took, partly by motorcycle, extensive travel.

Arnold Keyserling personal Georges I. Gurdjieff teachers were, in which he spent a year, the Zwölftonmusiker Josef Matthias Hauer and the Indian yogi Ramana Maharshi. 1964 Keyserling received a teaching position at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and in 1974 professor of philosophy of religion. He founded the "School of the wheel ," the study circle " Criterion " and published the magazine " Pleroma ". His books he published, self-published, which he called " Publishing House of the Palm" called.

From Keyserling, a music form was worked out, which he called " Chakrale music." This is a created by him coinage, composed of the term chakra from the physiological model of the Indian Hatha Yoga and an ending of Latin adjectives like sacr - al -is, from which the German loanword sacral takes its origin. He put this music on the one hand with the construction of his " Chakraphon " to, an electronic organ with a pentatonic tuning and limiting the harmonics on octaves. On the other hand he wrote with Ralph Losey, an American lawyer, several books on the subject; the latter also produced two CDs with " Chakra Music".

After Arnold Keyserling's death in 2005, his wife Wilhelmina took over the management of the study group, further was working as a yoga teacher and art therapist; She died on 4 October 2010.

Works

Many of the listed fonts ( and other essays ) can be found online in the Digital Library of the "School of the wheel ".

• Urstimmung the mind. Publisher of the palm, Innsbruck 1951.
• The Rose Cross ( along with Wilhelmine Keyserling ). Palm, Innsbruck 1956.
• Combinatorics. The Sciences of Reality (along with Wilhelmine Keyserling ). Birla Education Trust, Pilani in 1958.
• A synopsys of German Grammar (along with Wilhelmine Keyserling ), 1959.
• The German Intellectual Revolution, 1962.
• The Viennese style of thinking. Mach, Carnap, Wittgenstein. Stiasny ( Stiasny - Library, Volume 1006), Graz / Vienna 1965.
• The metaphysics of, watchmaker ' by Gustav Meyrink. Palm, Vienna 1966. New edition published by Bruno Martin, Südergellersen 1988.

• The new edition as a body is not the grave of the soul, but the adventure of consciousness. In Waldgut, Forest 1982.

• Reprint as Ars Magna. Criteria of revelation. In Waldgut, Forest 1986.