Opening the Heart

Are Thoresen is a healer and spiritual researcher whose life’s work has

been devoted to one essential task: learning how consciously to enter

and relate to the spiritual world. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s challenge

that true knowledge arises not from belief but from living experience,

this book is Thoresen’s deeply personal response. Idiosyncratic,

experiential and uncompromising, it speaks not to the intellect alone,

but directly to the heart.

Based on decades of work with pulse diagnosis, acupuncture and

clairvoyant observation of humans and animals, Thoresen discovered

that true healing arose when he ‘faded’ into elemental and spiritual

realms. Having developed childhood abilities of seeing through physical

form, conversing with nature and moving beyond ordinary time and

space, in Opening the Heart he distils a lifetime of research into clear

concepts and practical guidance on the art of ‘fading and merging’.

Building on his work on the Northern Path of Initiation, Thoresen

introduces us to the four great Doors of the spiritual world: the Sun, the

Elements, Death and the newly revealed Door of Light (Love), along

with the four principal Paths that lead to them.

This is not a book for the hesitant or the excessively rational: it is at

once a challenge and an opportunity. For those willing to persevere, it

offers a rare initiatory path for learning to walk between worlds.

‘Full of eye-popping, mouth-dropping moments… Hold on tight and get

to the end. Welcome to the Future.’ – Malcolm Gluck