What Can Medicine Gain from Spiritual Science Rudolf Steiner Translated by Masaaki Nakamura, Suiseisha First Edition, First Printing, November 20, 2006 Used book. The main body is clean without any writing, but the cover has age-related discoloration at the top and bottom. There is also some minor soiling. Please check the images. If you have any questions, please comment before purchasing. For those who understand that this is a used book stored on a bookshelf. I do not have pets or smoke. "Becoming a thinking being is absolutely necessary for getting sick or for the body to weaken. If a person could not get sick, they could not become a spiritual being. Thanks to being able to get sick, a person can become a being with thought, emotion, and will. Illness is the shadow aspect of spiritual development, and in order to correctly understand the shadow, one must also look at the light. That is, one must look at the essence of the spiritual process. Where there is light, there must be shadow. And where there is spiritual development, there must be illness as a shadow. Only when one can look at the light in the right way will one be able to control illness as a shadow." As the greatest mystic of the 20th century, and also known as the proponent of "Steiner Education," the author's final series of lectures in 1924, under the shadow of impending death, spoke about the deep connection between spiritual science and medicine. A must-read for those who seek to go beyond today's overly materialistic medicine.