EPISODE 322
Edmund Knighton: Steiner on Children, Parenting and Education
Nearly a century after his death, the work of Rudolf Steiner has influenced educational systems so deeply that Waldorf schools have become one of the largest independent school movements in the world.
Clinical psychologist and Anthroposophy scholar Edmund Knighton explores parenting challenges, growing smart kids the Waldorf way and how he was meant to teach kids this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Edmund’s work on his website, where you can request a free 15-minute consultation. Join Edmund and Jared Pickard at the Be Human program in February 2025.
For Spirit Gym members: Edmund will be holding a very special live Q&A session (to be announced) exclusively for Spirit Gym members. Sign up for a Spirit Gym podcast membership, so you can access members-only extended versions of the podcast along with exclusive Q&A opportunities with Paul and his guests.
SHOW NOTES
2:50 How Edmund became connected to our planet by teaching kids.
8:07 “The onus is on the teacher to have the kids be the curriculum.”
13:46 Love is the greatest protection and the solution for any situation.
31:40 In the Steiner philosophy of education, the later a child reads, the more capacity she/he has to become a genius.
42:02 The act of transformation can happen at any time.
49:34 “We have to enliven reading or we are killed by it.”
59:27 The god-like nature of issuing grades to students.
1:05:29 At the heart level, the lives of kids are solely their own.
1:10:44 Do humans have no conception of conception?
1:22:15 Elements of conscious conception and birth.
1:33:13 Why parents with special needs children leave marriages.
1:42:30 The birthing process.
1:58:52 Adult men dealing with the child archetype after their child is born.
2:08:09 Do you have the discipline and the willingness to be uncomfortable and build a connection with your partner?
2:19:02 Building vitality into food through consciousness.
2:26:05 Our purpose on planet Earth according to Steiner.
2:34:07 Are we regressing toward protectionism?
2:46:21 “The right response is love.”
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
The Ra Material: Law of One by Jim McCarty, Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert
Paul’s Living 4D episode on Lucifer, Christ and Ahriman
The work of Wilhelm Reich, Roberto Assagioli, Otto Rank, Ron Kurtz, Dr. David Chamberlain and Bernard Lievegoed
The Trauma of Birth by Otto Rank
Boundless Parenting: Tools, Tactics and Habits of Great Parents by Ben Greenfield
Castellino Prenatal and Birth Therapy Training
On Children by Sweet Honey in the Rock on YouTube
Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness by Jenny Wade
Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens The Veil by Jenny Wade
Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Dr. Nathan Riley, Dr. Ibrahim Karim and Jason Pickard
The World’s Religions by Huston Smith
The Way of The Superior Man by David Deida
The Weston A. Price Foundation
The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care by Sally Fallon Morell and Tom Cowan
Paul’s Living 4D episode on The Danger of Living in Two Realities
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