Tools and practical site info

This is an overview page to various 'student tools' and practical information about what you can find on this site.

For an introduction and some practical considerations, see:

Practical information

Rudolf Steiner's Gesamtausgabe bundels some historical and practical information including availability of media and in different languages
Navigating anthroposophical resources provides reference info about available indexes, glossaries, and secondary literature.
RSL main cycles overview is a matrix table for quick access to Rudolf Steiner's main cycles
RSL study tools is a practical jump-board page to various online search engines and databases
SoSoG: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants - a 'best of' of anthrosophical literature besides the GA.

Notes on the study process .. gives some quotes by Rudolf Steiner that are worthwhile for the student of spiritual science to take to heart
- Active soul participation
Study process and developing imaginations .. goes into the fact it is not about dry intellectual study but soul work
Communicating over spiritual science - not only about lecturing but also the importance of the work in groups.
On educating yourself in holistic spiritual science - is about the fact that everything is connected with everything, and spiritual science expects a vivid flexible mind for non-linear reading and learning. As you study, you are actually developing or re-building for yourself a worldview in its totality. You are building a new spiritual scientific worldview foundation which encompasses everything your logical mind can take in scope of consideration.
Problem statement regarding the study of spiritual science

This section groups choices made by the Free Man Creator and applied on this website.

RSL references provides background on naming conventions in this initiative, and editing choices on this site. Often used acronyms are:
- RSL stands for Rudolf Steiner Lecture(s), see also RSL references
- FMC stands for Free Man Creator, the name of this initiative. See also Meaning of Free Man Creator for more background.
- SWCC stands for 'shortened without contents change', for a full explanation see SWCC. In short: extracts are brought down to their essential contents by removing duplicates or spoken language. Not much is changed, nothing is re-written or re-formulated, but nevertheless this allows more densily written source or lecture extracts. The link to the full lecture or source is always given for further context or if one wants to check the literal wordings of the original source.
Terminology gives an introduction to the challenges with spiritual scientific terminology, and the choices made for this site.

More information about the schemas and illustrations on this site:

FMC schemas is the download area
FMC study schemas provides background on the schemas on this site, including meta-schemas
FMC enrichment