Angel Thinking

STEFFEN HARTMANN, born in 1976 in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied piano in Hamburg and participated as accompanist in master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has worked closely with the soprano Marret Winger. In 2007, he founded the MenschMusik Institute in Hamburg together with Matthias Bölts, a leading innovator in the field of contemporary music education. He has followed an inner meditative path based on anthroposophy since 1997 and has worked as a teacher of meditation. Steffen Hartmann regularly writes essays on salient topics connected to anthroposophical spiritual science, meditation and music. Together with Torben Maiwald, he founded the publishing house Edition Widar. He has led the Rudolf Steiner Haus Hamburg branch of the Anthroposophical Society since 2012. He is also the author of many books including The Michael Prophecy and the Years 2012-2033 (2020), and holds lectures and conducts seminars and concerts worldwide.

‘Angels are messengers of light. In this book the angels themselves are shining their light… in the writings of Steffen Hartmann.’ – Johannes Greiner‘The strength of this text lies in its purposeful progression. It is like a guided tour up a mountain that – after a lot of effort – offers a wonderful panoramic view.’ – Matthias Bideau, Die Drei

• Foreword by Johannes Greiner – Introduction – 1. On the category of substance – 2. On substance and appearance – 3. On being and becoming – 4. On being and consciousness – 5. The I and I-consciousness – 6. On pure thinking – 7. On thinking and the I – 8. The concept of knowledge – 9. Platonism, Aristotelianism and the knowledge of spiritual beings – 10. Angelic encounters and spiritual-scientific investigation – 11. Our guardian angels – 12. Angels don’t lie – 13. On the destiny of thinking and the relation between angels and humans – 14. Meditative epilogue: In conversation with the angels – Reflections on the cover art (Johannes Greiner) – Note about the new edition – Notes