Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life

Life is often a humdrum course. You may dream about escaping to exotic lands, but the whirligig of life won’t let you go. Michael Lipson offers a fresh way of looking at this old predicament. Using exercises pioneered by the spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner, he gives ancient yet very timely keys to opening your life to the surprising profoundness of the ordinary and near-at-hand. The six steps - thinking, doing, feeling, loving, opening, and thanking - practiced as they are described here, for just a few minutes a day, can show you how to infuse mindfulness into overlooked parts of life and reveal the surprises usually hidden by stale, habitual attitudes.

Author Biography: Michael Lipson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist practicing in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is the translator of Rudolf Steiner’s Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path and Georg Kühlewind’s From Normal to Healthy. Dr. Lipson’s work combines the insights of Rudolf Steiner with those of Zen Buddhism. He teaches meditation widely and writes on issues of consciousness, human development, and meditative practice.