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Was spricht sich in den Schlafphasen des Menschen aus?
What is expressed in a person’s sleeping phases?
Whereas contemporary psychologists and philosophers puzzle over whether there is any such thing as 'consciousness', sleep researchers are in surprising agreement that the human being daily passes through three different forms of consciousness: waking, sleeping, dreaming. But just as… Read More
Knoten und Internodium
Nodes and internodes — on Goethe’s concept of the spiral tendency
Starting from the interesting phenomenon of biastrepsis (‘Zwangsdrehung’), the helical twisting of shoots, in which the rhythm of node and internode formation in the plant shoot deviates from a kind of continuum of both elements, we discuss the question of the eonditions… Read More
Die Melodiewahrnehmung der Singvögel
It has long been regarded as unscientific to consider the musical aspects of territorial behaviour among songbirds. The musical abilities of song birds, for example their perception of melody and their capacity to transpose, have been questioned many times. Furthermore, avian intelligence — With the exception of ravens and parrots — was… Read More
Die Evolution der Haut und des hautassoziierten Immunsystems
The evolution of the skin and the skin-associated immune system
This paper considers the formation of the skin and its associated structures from the most primitive metazoa to the human being:
- In Porifera the delirnitation from the outer world is incomplete. A proper epidermal sheath does not exist, merely a thin coating in… Read More
Gestaltmotive in der Gattung Ranunculus
Formative motifs in the genus Ranunculus
According to ‘Flora Europaea’ (2nd ed. 1993) almost every available habitat is colonised by the 135 species of the genus (not family!) Ranunculus. In parallel with this, manifests an enormous plasticity in the formation of the vegetative parts, the leaves, which have an almost inexhaustible… Read More
Goethe und die Evolution
Goethe and evolution
During the 17th and 18th centuries ‘evolution’ literally meant unwrapping what was already there. Goethe and Darwin therefore avoided this term, preferring to use ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘desccnt’. It was Herbert Spencer who first used the term in its modern sense. There upon, however, Goethe was a complete evolutionist… Read More
Anthroposophische Aufschlüsse der molekularen Biologie
An anthroposophical elucidation of molecular biology — the common time structure of consciousness and genetics
A qualitative study of the types of molecules involved in protein synthesis (DNA, RNA and protein), guided by the anthroposophical view of man as a three membered being, led to correlating DNA with head/thinking, proteins with… Read More
Anthroposophische Medizin - eine Annäherung
In the European medical tradition there are basically two therapeutic procedures: 1) the substitution procedure; 2) the stimulus procedure.
The substitution procedure gives the diseased organism what is missing: for example hormone replacement for hormone deficiency (hormone replacement therapy in diabetes or the menopause), replacement… Read More
Zur Interaktion von Rhythmus und Form
The interaction between rhythrn and form
The process of metamorphosis is based on an interplay of space and time, form and movement. This also applies to the cognitive process. In the following presentation, I attempt to show, by means of observations of plants, how space and time, form and movement are permeated by mathematical-… Read More
Evolutionsbiologie heute
Evolutionary Biology today
Following the initial discovery of photosynthesis and respiration of organic substance, General Biology has discovered the principle of symbiosis at all levels of the living world: in the biosphere as a whole, in the eco-organism of the landscape and in the so-called single organisms of plants and animals,… Read More