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1. What Makes Blood Move? A Mind-Body Physiology of the Heart

2. Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children

3. Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation: Vidar and Baldur, the Three Elemental Realms and the Inner and Outer Etheric Worlds

4. Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology

5. Educating for Balance and Resilience: Developmental Movement, Drawing, and Painting in Waldorf Education

6. The Gospel of John (CW 103)

7. Recognizing Reality: Youth Education in a Time of Global Crisis

8. The Genius of Home: Teaching Your Children at Home Using the Waldorf Curriculum

9. Anthroposophy and the Accusation of Racism: Society and Medicine in a Totalitarian Age

10. Creative Form Drawing with Children Aged 6–10 Years: Workbook 1

11. Pancakes for Findus

12. Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (CW 9)

13. How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (CW 10)

14. Ancient Mythologies: India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt

15. Genesis in the Light of Human Embryonic Development

16. Soul-Size: The Eternal Psychosomatic Dilemma: An Exploration of Anthroposophic Physiology and Psychology

17. The Extra Lesson: Movement, Drawing, and Painting Exercises to Help Children with Difficulties in Writing, Reading, and Arithmetic

18. Demons and Healing: The Reality of the Demonic Threat and the Doppelgänger in the Light of Anthroposophy: Demonology, Christology and Medicine

19. Spiritual Translocation: The Behaviour of Pathological Entities in Illness and Healing and the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals: From Polarity to Triunity

20. Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom (CW 4)

Marsha Post crossed the threshold of death early in the morning of July 8, 2022. She was hired by the late Gene Gollogly in 2005 as an in-house translator and editor, but her tasks and responsibilities soon proved to be far broader—answering phones, writing letters, organizing our archive of published books, serving as our liaison to US Waldorf Schools, and much more besides. In those early days at SteinerBooks, she also served on the General Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America.

Marsha ceased working full time in 2017 but continued up until very recently to translate. As her health continued to deteriorate these past years, she met each new challenge with calm and seemingly increasing equanimity, which served to make even more apparent the profound spiritual strength and fearlessness she had always carried within her. She was a deep and devoted student of anthroposophy, a loyal friend, and utterly inimitable in her style and bearing, which is as it should be. We will continue to hold her in our thoughts. —John-Scott

Educating Traumatized Children: Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention

Reviewed by David Kennedy, Waldorf Today

Our book reviews are arranged many weeks in advance. I had no way of knowing that current events in Europe would make the review of Educating Traumatized Children all the more relevant. 

Teachers and parents will both sense the relevance of this book in the modern educational landscape. Trauma, much as we might hope to relegate it to the purview of special educators and therapists, has become a daily facet of life.

Gone are the days when only one or two children in a class were in need of "special help".

Bernd Ruf found his calling at the time of the 2006 Lebanon War. Since then he has facilitated the development of "Emergency Education". He and teams of teachers, doctors, psychologists, and therapists have taken part in crisis interventions around the world. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas. 

Bernd Ruf presents an anthroposophical understanding of trauma itself. There is a an extensive examination of psychological trauma and healing the frozenness of trauma. The book contains many vignettes of their trauma work and concludes with emergency education as threshold education. 

Although the book is written primarily out of the experience of emergency educators in trauma situations, I would imagine that many classroom teachers and parents would find much they recognize in their "normal" world. 

Five stars. Great book.

READ AN EXCERPT: "EMERGENCY EDUCATION"

Mercury Press, an initiative of the Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, New York, has been publishing interesting, unique, and useful books and pamphlets for more than fifty years. They include resources for teachers, children’s books, books on anthroposophic medicine, original translations of Rudolf Steiner's works, biographies, and much more.

As of December 15, 2021, Mercury ceased its mail-order operations and no longer publishes books. However, the fruits of this publishing initiative are not lost. Many of the titles published by Mercury are now or will soon be available through SteinerBooks as of 2022.

Our 2021 catalog is available for download. 

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