"A faculty of Extra Sensory Perception described as 'hearing' by the medium." 73 p. 43[It is the auditory analog of clairvoyance: "hearing" what cannot be detected by ordinary sound receptors.]
"Psychic perception by sensing conditions pertaining to communicating entities and auric emanations...." 73 p. 43[More generally,it is psychic knowledge or perception acquired through the use of clairvoyance or similar supersensory means.]
"Extra Sensory Perception described as 'seeing' by the medium...." 73 p. 43 [More generally,clairvoyance is the purported ability to perceive things that are not accessible to ordinary senses,including the future. Steiner claimed to be clairvoyant,and essentially all of his teachings derive from his professed use of clairvoyance. His entire system — including the rationale for Waldorf education — collapses unless we accept his claim.]
In Waldorf education: notebooks created by students,largely by copying the work of their teachers displayed on chalkboards. Waldorf schools tend to shun mainstream textbooks,which present knowledge incompatible with the Waldorf vision. Students often create class books instead,which means relying wholly on Waldorf authorities. Class books are also sometimes called block books or lesson books.
At the School of Spiritual Science: members who read Rudolf Steiner's lessons aloud for the other members.
At Waldorf schools: a teacher who takes responsibility for a group of students and stays with the group for several years — often first through fifth grade,sometimes first through eighth. This teacher provides all of the main lessons for these children through all these years. See "looping".
These are the seven "planets" recognized in classical astrology: Sun,Moon,Mercury,Venus,Mars,Jupiter,and Saturn. Steiner generally affirmed these as the true members of the solar system,denying that Uranus and Neptune are true planets. (He was unaware of Pluto or any other Kuiper belt objects.)
"[D]ivination in which pebbles are thrown on a flat surface...." 80 p. 53
"[C]lown-magician with cosmic powers who acted as an intercessor between his people and the gods...." 80 p. 53
A collective association of the gods presiding over the seven "planets" of our solar system,according to Steiner.
