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Around a hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner has pointed out the need to balance life in a more and more technical world by getting deeper involved in artistic activities. It will be shown how this impulse has been interpreted by different artists during the 20th century. The... Read More

The leaf nodes of many plant species are distributed spirally around the stems. According to remarks by Rudolf Steiner in ‘The Spiritual Beings in Celestial Bodies and the Realms of Nature’ (Vol. 136) this distribution is related to the orbit of planets. Here, this concept is... Read More

In recognising an infinite potential of plasticity in the successively specialised organic forms Goethe felt urged to use paradoxical statements when describing the formative forces of nature. In this article, based on the work of Linné and his school it is shown that flower... Read More

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Die Denkweise der projektiven Geometrie ermöglicht, von der Betrachtung eines Ausschnittes zum... Read More

In the first part of this article some key elements of projective geometry are introduced. This geometry is based on a way of thinking that is able to take the infinitely distant into consideration. Through this, the fundamental elements of point, line and plane can be... Read More

Natural and spiritual sciences share a number of aspects. The most prominent di- stinction has to do with the focus of attention. The former is oriented towards the outside world, the latter scrutinises the inner soul life. Four fundamental aspects will be outlined and... Read More

Vor einigen Monaten kam mir durch David Auerbach ein Artikel zur Kenntnis, der meine Aufmerksamkeit weckte: «The Birth of the illegitimate Linear No-Threshold Model – an Invalid Paradigm for Estimating Risk Following Low-dose Radiation Exposure» von Jeffry Siegel et al. (2016... Read More

[...] Der Pforte Verlag hat mit der Veröffentlichung des ins Deutsche übersetzten Tagebuchs der Opal Whiteley das seltene Zeugnis eines kindlichen Zugangs zur Natur aufgezeigt, welches wir hier vorstellen. Dank der früh entwickelten Gewohnheit, ihre Erlebnisse in Wald und... Read More

Nature can be encountered as a forceful presence, as being-at-work within sense experience. This kind of encounter is not a given, but is both a foundation and a goal of Goethean science. I will describe 20th Century scientist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold’s journey to... Read More

Powerful critiques such as Thomas Nagel’s Mind & Cosmos have revealed the fundamental inadequacy of reductionism. In response, a new paradigm of “emergence” has begun to emerge. However, this nascent paradigm lacks both a clear sense of its own genealogy and an adequate... Read More

Does empathic observation mean anything for nature itself? The answer of anthroposophical spiritual science to this question is a clear “yes”! (e.g. Steiner 1923). But can we perceive this ourselves? If so, then via observation of our inner experiences while we observe the... Read More

Der Schritt der Wirbeltiere vom Wasser aufs Land ist mit einigen fossilen Übergangsformen dokumentiert, die sich von ihren Vorfahren durch eine ganze Reihe von Merkmalen unterscheiden. Wie sich diese Veränderungen vollzogen haben, ist eine offene Frage. Hartnäckig hält... Read More