{"product_id":"unbornness-human-pre-existence-and-the-journey-toward-birth-paperback","title":"Unbornness: Human Pre-Existence and the Journey Toward Birth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Selg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMargot Saar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings, we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need the term \u003ci\u003eunbornness, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the term \u003ci\u003eimmortality, \u003c\/i\u003e to encompass the whole human being\" (Rudolf Steiner).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs anyone who has had a child knows, newborns enter the earthly world as beings different from their parents. They arrive with their own individuality, being, and history. From the beginning, they manifest an essential dignity and a unique \"I,\" which they clearly brought with them from the spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unborn life of a person's higher individuality guides the whole process of incarnation. It frames our lives, but we fail to recognize this because of a single-minded focus on immortality, or life-after-death, which makes us forget the reality of our \"unbornness.\" This unbornness extends not only from conception to birth, but also includes the whole existence and history of one's \"I\" in its long journey from the spiritual world to Earth. Unbornness--the other side of eternity--allows us to experience the fact that birth is just as great a mystery as is death. In a new and striking way, unbornness poses the mystery of our human task on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was one of Rudolf Steiner's great gifts that he returned the concept of unbornness to human consciousness and language. In this brief, stunning, and moving, almost poetic work, Peter Selg gathers the key elements and images needed to begin an understanding of--and wonder at--the vast scope of our unbornness. Drawing on and expanding on Steiner's work, as well as Raphael's \u003ci\u003eSistine Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e and the poems of Nelly Sachs and Rainer Maria Rilke, Selg unveils this deepest mystery of human existence. After reading it, one will never look at a child or another human being in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife after death \u003cbr\u003elife before birth; \u003cbr\u003eonly by knowing both\u003cbr\u003edo we know eternity. \u003cbr\u003e(Rudolf Steiner)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnbornness\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of \u003ci\u003eUngeborenheit: Die Präexistenz des Menschen und der Weg zur Geburt\u003c\/i\u003e (Verlag Ita Wegman Institut, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44996312432742,"sku":"9780880107181","price":24.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UEc3WDZzUG5NT1hzQ0lMSnNXMCtKZz09.webp?v=1773139721","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/unbornness-human-pre-existence-and-the-journey-toward-birth-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}