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Überlegungen zur Gestaltbiologie des Bienenschwarms
Reflections on the formative biology of bee swarms
Throughout their entire life cycle, honey bees are closely connected to their environment and receive important shaping stimuli from their surroundings. Thus it is not a gene that determines whether an egg will turn into a worker or a queen, but rather the shaping stimulus arising from… Read More
Zur Metamorphose der Geweihgestalten
The metamorphosis of antler forms
Among the many forms of antlers there is a formative law that is common to them all, an 'archetype' in the Goethean sense. Firstly, this 'archetypal antler' is grasped as a common Bauplan, as a scheme of different parts and their spatial relations to one and other. Elements of this Bauplan, which by… Read More
Ossifikationsprozesse als treibende Kräfte für die Krebserkrankung
The relationships of cancer to mineralising and bone—forming processes can be demonstrated at various levels. For example, breast tumours frequently show microcalcification deposits whose morphology and chemical composition indicate the kind of illness involved. According to R. Steiner's indications regarding the activity of calcium carbonate… Read More
Beweisen oder Prüfen? Gedanken zur Bildekräfteforschung
Proving or testing? Reflections on research into formative forces. A progress report
The present state of discussion of the validation of research into formative forces is presented. Specific conditions regarding reproducibility, variation and psychological influences have to be taken into account. Based on these experiences and… Read More
ANDREAS SUCHANTKE 27. Juli 1933 - 9. November 2014
Blut und Nerv am Auge — spezifisch Menschliches findet sich in der Aderhaut
Die Blutwurz, Potentilla erecta (L.) Räuschel.
Tormentil, Potentilla erecta (L.) Räuschel. Its capacity for connecting its polarities with one another
Tormentil, Potentilla erecta, belongs to the Rosaceae, but in all its organs it is morphologically different from its relatives. The 'cosmic soul' element of the plant deeply affects tormentil early in its development, thereby… Read More
Das Gemüt als Pforte zur Menschenwürde
The mind as a door to human dignity
Modern philosophy regards the 'phenomenal' consciousness of the human being as the biggest obstacle to a naturalistic (Le. unified physical, or, put more simply, materialistic) explanation of human consciousness. But such an 'explanation' cannot be sustained without first making a phenomenological… Read More
Zur Evolution des menschlichen Kopfes
In the evolution of the human head a Shift in complexity takes place. Complexity is predorninately reduced in the jaw region (distally), in which the organism comes into direct contact with the environment through nutrition. Proxirnally, in the brain, besides the degradation processes present, complexity is predominately increased. The… Read More
Die Chinarinde und das atavistische Wesen des Malaria-Erregers
It appears that humanity has always suffered from malaria. The disease has already taken countless lives. The early reports of malaria infection come from the 'yellow' Emperor Huang Ti (2700 BC). Only later was the connection between malaria and the spleen discovered. Tutenkamun is said to have suffered from malaria. According to the most… Read More