Deep Thoughts About Life

What if o ur li ves were a kind of mini-evolution, which begins at the moment of birth and ends at the moment we die. Whether our evolution picks up where it left off, in another life, is a hot topic for another post. In a sense it's the purpose of life, to evolve, to improve, to grow in every way, to change in a positive way. As I learned for myself, in the most dramatic way (bankruptcy), making a few tweaks to your life can also tweak your luck, self confidence, career, success, prosperity, happiness, finding a soulmate, the dreaded Mid-Life Crisis, also in a dramatic way!  This is the broader picture where finding the real purpose of your life - just any old purpose won't do - is the very foundation of the mix of life we need to get right if we are to succeed at anything! "There is nothing wrong with change," said Sir Winston Churchill, the British wartime Prime Minister, "if it is in the right direction." And that's the crucial question,...

Considering Rudolf Steiner's rather unconventional ideas, maybe Charles Darwin had only half the truth about evolution. This was a very small part of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), a very complex Austrian social philosopher and mystic. I want to talk about Rudolf Steiner's ideas about reincarnation and the evolution of souls.  Such an evolution is not the same as the evolution of physical bodies or of physical people (and other living creatures).  It's in effect, a second evolution. And,for that matter, philosophy itself. If he was right then to place his ideas side-by-side with Darwin's Theory of Evolution - whether you agree with Darwin or not - offers us an extraordinary new dimension to our ideas on the whole question of evolution. And if you ever had reason to doubt, or disagree with, Darwin's ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest, then here is more material to question, at least, whether he had "the whole truth and nothing bu...