Surely a traveler’s story is his or her most precious possession—a pilgrimage long prepared and painfully executed, though normal waking awareness has no conscious idea of the patterns and the human connections prepared before birth. This book was written for several affiliated reasons. It is for those seeking to unravel the skein of life events by uncovering the connections between them and the meaning and lawfulness in the complex design of destiny and its karmic underpinnings. It is also offered as a contribution to the field of biographical counseling. Embedded in the heart of this book, among other themes, is the author’s lifelong quest to fathom the immense significance of suffering.

Contents
Time, Destiny, Suffering
1. Elements of the Anthroposophical View of Humanness. Physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego; Karma and reincarnation

2. The Rhythms of Affinity. The eye of the heart; Polarities; Polarity, rhythm, and breathing

3. The Orchestration of Rhythm. Restoration of rhythm; Four-to-one ratio of heart and lungs; Measures—As in the heavens, so in the heart and lungs; Numbers of the solar community of the New Jerusalem; The Christ Jesus rhythm—33 and 333; C. S. Lewis; 333 and 666; The Intervention—Harmony restored

4. The Rhythms of Separation and Reconciliation. Life, form, and consciousness; Biographical thresholds; Thresholds of William Shakespeare; Karma as separation and reconciliation; Karmic compensation as reconciliation; Byron’s skull; Stephen Hawking;

5. Further Separation and Reconciliations. Vladimir Soloviev; Charts—Cosmic ages, Nine development stages; Recapitulations; 0-7 and 56-63—Hope; 7-14 and 49-56—Courage and love; 7-14—the awakening soul; 49-56—Life Spirit, the autumnal fruiting; 14-21 and 42-49—Faith and interest; 14-21—poised between dream and reality; 42-49—through the dark wood; Leo Tolstoy and Nelson Manela; 21-28 and 35-42—Faith and interest; 21-28—Sentient Soul; 35-42—Consciousness Soul (Spiritual Soul); A glance at Consciousness Soul phenomena; Franklin Delano Roosevelt

6. Moon Nodes and Other Planetary Connections Relative to Separations and Reconciliations. Moon nodes and Christa McAuliffe; Moon nodes and separations of Adolf Hitler; Shadow and Sun—Hitler and Steiner; Signs and numbers; Moon nodes of Winston Churchill; Planetary nodes of Heinrich Schliemann

7. The Significance of the Mid-point. Catherine the Great; Thomas Merton; Leo Tolstoy; Michelangelo; Emperor Franz Joseph

8. Sacrifice as Separation and Reconciliation. Lenin; Sacrifice and the Waldorf teacher; Pralaya—Cosmic separation and reconciliation

9. Callings and Reconciliations. Florence Nightingale; Albert Schweitzer
10. The Role of Biographical Counseling. Value of a life chart; Biographical counseling as an art form

Appendix: Heart, Lung, Sacred Numbers, and Connections