The Stairway of Surprise

Six Steps to a Creative Life

Michael Lipson

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SteinerBooks, Inc
21 November 2002

Religion: general; Mysticism, magic & ritual

This book will open your life to the surprising depth of the simple and ordinary. For most of us, life is often a humdrum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about running away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won't let us out of its clutches.

Stairway of Surprise has become a new classic of anthroposophic spiritual practice. Dr. Michael Lipson re-visions Rudolf Steiner's six basic exercises to make them relevant to our lives today. With examples drawn from world literature and from his psychotherapy practice, Lipson shows how these exercises stretch from common events in daily life to the depths of spiritual experience. The path of meditation offered here is experiential from start to finish: not something to think only, but something to live.

By practicing these exercises for a few minutes each day, we can discover the surprise in the universe, which is usually hidden from us by our stale, habitual attitudes.

CONTENTS:
* Introduction
* I. Thinking
* II. Doing
* III. Feeling
* IV. Loving
* V. Opening
* VI. Thanking

By: Michael Lipson
Imprint: SteinerBooks, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780880105071
ISBN 10: 0880105070
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 November 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Lipson, PhD, worked with children with HIV/AIDS for nine years in New York City's Harlem Hospital before moving with his wife and two children to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Dr. Lipson conducts a practice in Clinical Psychology and teaches meditation internationally. He has been a frequent host of the radio call-in show VOX POP on WAMC, an NPR affiliate station in Upstate New York. He is the author of several books and the translator of Rudolf Steiner's Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and several books by Georg K�hlewind.

Reviews for The Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life

Wise words from a warm soul. Michael Lipson understands that paradise is in the here-and-now. What greater surprise could there be? --Mark Epstein, MD, author of Thoughts without a Thinker A beautiful text with much originality. --Georg Kuhlewind, author of From Normal to Healthy A profound and loving book, filled with practical wisdom, beautiful writing, and true inspiration...timely in the gifts of insight it offers. I highly recommend it for all seekers of a deeper, more creative life. --David Spangler, author of Blessing: The Art and the Practice and Apprenticed to Spirit