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Meditation
On meditation
Building up the content of a meditation begins with a contemplative work on the ideas contained in a short sentence or verse, for example one of the verses of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul. In this context it is helpful to do this together with other people in a group as something above the personal level. This… Read More
Goethe und Aristoteles
Goethe and Aristotle
Modern science presupposes a particular view of time. This is biased by the form time has in the present. If truth is supposed to be conceived in relation to what appears in time, it therefore becomes a phenomenon of the unity of time that is understood as a perpetual present. This is why this concept of truth must… Read More
Über das Verhalten des Blattgrundes an blütennahen Laubblättern der Gattungen Ranzmculus und Adonis Ranunculus bulbosus, Knolliger Hahnenfuß
On the behaviour of the leaf base of leaves in the vicinity to the blossoms of the genera Ranzmculus and Adonis
In the family Ranunculaceae we sometimes find transitional forms between the usually distinct leaf organs. The last leaves before the inflorescences in the leaf successions of Ranunculus acris (meadow buttercup), Ranzmculus… Read More
Krkonoäe - das Kernland des Riesengebirges
Krkonoäe - the central region of the Giant Mountains in the Czech Republic: impressions after the political change
In addition to short excursions from 1994 to 2003, motives, experiences and results of a one-week excursion at Whitsun 2004 to the Krkonoée mountains (»Giant Mountains«) in the Czech Republic are presented. Its landscape-… Read More
Der goldene Schnitt und das Mysterium der Schönheit
The golden section and the mystery of beauty
What is beauty? It is not difficult for us to name things which we perceive as beautiful, harmonic or pleasant. But at the same time this property seems to evade all objective and scientific descriptions. A general law has not yet been found behind the mystery of beauty.
On the path… Read More
Laut - Sprache - Rhythmus und Reim
Sound - language - rhythm and rhyme
The basis of all language is sound comprising vowels and consonants. Vowels are expressions of the human mind: A - amazement at the wonders of the world and one’s own soul; E - a sobering encounter with one’s own self; I - an expression of one’s own human being in relation to the world; 0 - loving… Read More
Spuren des Chronos im Wurzelbereich
Traces of Chronos in the root region
Close investigation of rhythmic geniculation in root systems reveals cyclic processes of generation. Distinct roots repeatedly cease and are succeedecl by lateral ones. At a longer or shorter time before such a growth interruption takes place, the direction of growth changes more or less suddenly… Read More
Holismus und Evolution
Holisrn and Evolution
The frequently controversial issue of whether bolism and evolution are different paradigms in the life-sciences is examined through a broad discussion of all ways of thinking. The conclusion is that they are different approaches to the reality of organisms. In addition, mathematical procedures and picture-forming… Read More
Die Dreigliederung der Haut
The threefoldness of the skin
If the three layers of the human skin are analysed according to a functional view, a picture of the effective formative forces in the skin is produced.
The primary formative force of the outermost layer (epidermis) produces the horny substance which isolates the physical organism from its… Read More
Die Eurythmie will durch Bewegung das Geistige in das Materielle überführen
Eurythmy aims to lead spirit into matter through movement
Eurythmy aims to manifest the threefold process of human speech in the world of matter. The dynamics (willing) of speech becomes visible as eurythmic»movement«, sonation as»feeling«, and artieulation as»character«. The three types of sound formation - vowels by sonation, nasal… Read More