Georg Kühlewind

Georg Kühlewind ( born March 6, 1924 in Budapest, † January 15, 2006 in Budapest) was a Hungarian chemists, anthroposophical author and meditation teacher.

Biography

Kühlewind grew up as György Székely in Budapest in a secular Jewish family on. An early interest in music and psychology (especially psychoanalysis ). In the anthroposophical scene he made himself especially by his own developed attention training ( see below) - to which he had joined as a 17 year old - a name.

From 1944 on he spent for a compulsory work service more than a year in several German concentration camps, including Buchenwald. In KZ Long -Zwieberge he was released in April 1945 by the Americans.

After the war Kühlewind became professor of physical chemistry at the Technical University in Budapest. Touched by the anthroposophic views of Rudolf Steiner, he discovered the living thought as the focal point of this belief. "The process is crucial and not the Imaginary finished! " Later he stated the fundamental insight that time. During this period he published books on issues of epistemology and meditation. At the age of about 40 years, he decided to " start over again " and re-establish his spiritual training.

From his early retirement in 1979, he worked as a lecturer at the Budapest seminar for Waldorf Education. He gave countless lectures and courses in almost all countries in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. In particular, he constantly made ​​an effort to convey his own path of knowledge other. Throughout his life, has remained at the " crossroads " of linguistics, psychology and epistemology.

Attention training

First, through an analysis of the problems of psychoanalysis of the individual as well as society turned out for Kühlewind primarily as awareness issues. His encounter with the cultural theorist Karl Kerényi - for " the mythology of the Greeks the weather as a reality for us," has been in Cool Winds words - led him to further exploration of consciousness and other mental phenomena. Above all, the autonomy and dignity of the human individual had it for him priority.

Later, Reflections on the child's development and above all about the phenomenon of so-called ADHD children focus of his life. He faced the popular notion of evidence-based medicine for ADHD as an illness his thesis, many of these children come after a special psycho-spiritual system to the world, would then not understood by their environment and developed their symptoms only because of the resulting adjustment difficulties. Therapeutically he sat consequently an understanding effort and mindful loving recognition of the particular, which embody these children. For what he called "star children ", he felt hopeful the missing alertness and readiness to implement free and undivided attention.

Works (in chronological order)

With one exception, all of the listed books published by Free Spirit Life, Stuttgart, appeared.

  • Levels of consciousness. Meditations on the limits of the soul. In 1976.
  • Doing the truth. Experiences and consequences of intuitive thinking. In 1978.
  • Becoming aware of the logo. The science of John the Evangelist. In 1979.
  • The servants of the logo. Man as a word and conversation. In 1981.
  • The life of the soul between being conscious and subconscious mind. Elements of a spiritual psychology. (Studies and experiments 20 ), 1982.
  • From normal to healthy subjects. Way for the liberation of the diseased consciousness. In 1983.
  • The light of the word. World, language, meditation. In 1984.
  • The Logo structure of the world. Language as a model of reality. In 1986.
  • Christmas. The three births of man. In 1989.
  • The education of the senses. Ways of sentient perception. (Studies and experiments 29 ), 1990.
  • Dealing with anthroposophy. (Studies and experiments 30 ), 1991.
  • The speaking person. An image of man because of the language phenomenon. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • The renewal of the Holy Spirit. Grace, participation and mental activity in 1992.
  • The Kingdom of God. The Future Vision of the New Testament. In 1994.
  • Attention and devotion. The science of the self. In 1998.
  • Meditations on Zen Buddhism, Thomas Aquinas and anthroposophy. In 1999.
  • The esotericism of cognition and action. In 1999.
  • The gentle will. From what is thought to thought, from what is felt to feel, from willed to will. , 2000.
  • Star children. Children who provide us with specific tasks. , 2001.
  • Light and freedom. A guide to meditation., 2004.
  • Healthy in the light. The healings in the Gospels., 2004.
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