The Music of the Spheres

The Music of the Spheres: A Listener’s Guide

For UK orders: Click here to order the book from Wynstones Press. The book is also available to order from many retailers, online and otherwise, including your local book store.

FOR ORDERS OUTSIDE OF THE UK: The book is published as Print on Demand, printed and distributed within various continents, including Australia and North America. In these continents, check local ordering possibilities from retailers (online and otherwise) in your country. Amazon is often quick to show availability, e.g. in India and South Africa.
In Australia, the book will be available from the Rudolf Steiner Book Centre in Sydney, is currently available as well from a number of Australian retailers (Fishpond, Booktopia, Amazon), and will eventually be able to be ordered from your local book store.

Paul Lawrence has worked in Waldorf music education for over 25 years, sharing his deep understanding of music and anthroposophy with children and adults alike. He has taught in Australia, India, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, and continues to support Waldorf communities from his home in Bali. His work reflects a lifelong commitment to music as a bridge between the human soul and spiritual reality.

Acclaim for The Music of the Spheres

In the age of Pop, Entertainment and AI this book serves as a gate to the passage from hearing to listening. When in the soul interest arises for the deeper meaning and mission of music, the work of Paul Lawrence offers the spark of inspiration to enlighten the vast cosmic background.
Miha Pogacnik Naval, Maestro of Violin, inventor of the Method: Masterpiece&Leadership

Reading this book will take you on a rich soul journey from the origins of the universe to a possible distant human future, all through an inner experience of musical tone. By combining a sharp intelligence with a trained musical sensitivity, Paul Lawrence has made an accessible guide both to the essential nature of music, and to inner development through music.
Andrew Hill, CEO, Steiner Education Australia

The Music of the Spheres is a beautiful and subtle guide to listen in with growing awareness to ones own music Gracefully, resonating Eternally. Laced with personal anecdotes, Paul gently takes us on a rigorous, clear and harmonious journey through Time into the realm of Eternity … A sublime insight into the art of the science of the spirit … evoking a further expansion of gratitude for our wonderful existence!
Brian Keats, Antipodean Astro Calendar

The Music of the Spheres: A Listener’s Guide by Paul Lawrence makes the convincing case through myth, legend, historic descriptions, the evolution of consciousness and mathematical-musical examples how the finished works of this our world are generative forms brought into being through the energetic, living vibrations of a sounding cosmos. This book is a subjective-objective exploration, in the Goethean sense, of how we can grow into an art of deep listening and hearing the world creation we are all a part of. At times challenging for the non-musician this is a manual and field guide to reconnecting with our inner being’s relationship to the Music of the Spheres.
Van James, Pacifica Journal

Contents and Introduction

In the window below are the Contents and the Introduction to The Music of the Spheres, to give you an idea of the incredible breadth and depth of the book! You are welcome to download these.

Note to the cover painting

The cover painting, entitled The Music of the Spheres, is by Van James.To the painting he had this to say:
“While working on an unrelated painting problem at the same time as reading a proof of Paul Lawrence’s book, by the time I had responded to the colour situations and come to a conclusion of the picture, I saw that the painting was truly in harmony with The Music of the Spheres: A Listener’s Guide. This was a pleasing conjunction.”

Van James, editor, Pacifica Journal.