As anyone who has had a child knows, newborns enter the earthly world with their own individuality, being, and history. From the beginning, they manifest an essential dignity, a unique "I," which they have clearly brought with them from the spiritual world.The unborn life of our higher individuality guides the whole process of incarnation and frames our life. But we fail to recognize it because our single-minded focus on immortality, or life-after-death, makes us forget the reality of our "unbornness" -which extends not only from conception to birth, but includes the whole history of our "I" in its long journey from the spiritual world to earth. Unbornness, "the other side of enternity," allows us to experience that birth is as great a mystery as death and, in a new and striking way, poses the mystery of our human task on earth. It was one of Rudolf Steiner's great gifts that he brought the concept of "unbornness" back into human consciousness and language.In this brief, but stunning and moving, almost poetic work, Peter Selg brings together the key elements and images necessary to begin to understand-and wonder at-the vast scope of our unbornness. Drawing on the work of Rudolf Steiner, Raphael's Sistine Madonna and the poems of Nelly Sachs and Rainer Maria Rilke, Peter Selg unveil this deep mystery of human existence. After reading this book, one will never look at a child or another human being in the same way again.