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Foundation Year Booklist for Basic Courses
2004-2005

The following books will be read and discussed during the year. Students are expected to have personal copies of the books marked with an*. The rest, and other books the faculty will suggest, may be purchased from the Bookstore at Rudolf Steiner College or borrowed from the College Library.

Ed 100 Introduction to Waldorf Education
- Rudolf Steiner Kingdom of Childhood
Hist 103 World Evolution and Spiritual Development
- Rudolf Steiner Outline of Esoteric Science *
- Rudolf Steiner The Spiritual Hierarchies *
Hist 103 Evolution of Consciousness Through Art, Architecture and Literature
- Van James Spirit and Art
- Richard Tarnas Passion of the Western Mind. *
Hist 110 Destiny and Thresholds of the United States
- Carl Stegmann The Other America
- An anthology of other readings is provided for the class.
Lit 100 Parzival
- W. von Eschenbach Parzival * (Mustard and Passage translation, Vintage Book edition)
Lit 110 Spiritual Streams in American Literature
Found in R. W. Emerson Selected Essays, Lectures, Poems
- R.W. Emerson The American Scholar *, Nature*
- Herman Melville Moby Dick *
- H.D. Thoreau Civil Disobedience *
Phil 100 Philosophy of Freedom
- Rudolf Steiner Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path * (Also titled Philosophy of Freedom or Philosophy of Spiritual Activity)
Psych 100 Knowledge of Higher Worlds
- Rudolf Steiner How to Know Higher Worlds *
Psych 101 The Nature of the Human Being: Microcosm/Macrocosm
- Rudolf Steiner Theosophy *
- Rudolf Steiner Calendar of the Soul
Psych 102 Karma and Reincarnation
- Rudolf Steiner Manifestations of Karma * or Reincarnation and Karma *
- Rudolf Steiner Karmic Relationships, Vol. 1-8
- Rene Querido Questions and Answers on Reincarnation and Karma
Soc 100 Threefold Social Order
- Rudolf Steiner Towards Social Renewal (Also known as Threefold Social Order)
- Michael Spence Freeing the Human Spirit

The following books will be helpful references for many subjects touched on in the courses:
  - Stewart Easton Rudolf Steiner, Herald of a Modern Consciousness
  - Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts
  - Robert McDermott, ed. The Essential Steiner
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