Monday of Holy Week
This morning in the first session, we will focus on Monday of Holy Week, where there is the cursing of the fig tree. Gospel reading from Matthew 18: “Early in the morning as Jesus was on his way back to the city, He grew hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up…
Read MoreIntroduction and Palm Sunday – Alchemy of Holy Week
[ED: This series is a transcription of the Alchemy of Holy Week workshop that Dennis gave in 2018 at Rudolf Steiner College in California. We have included the images in the text from the handouts, and added additional references and handouts where it enhanced the experience. If you wish to listen to the lectures, they…
Read MoreDarwin vs. God
Does evolution necessarily exclude intelligent design? In the legal realm, a crime that is premeditated carries a more severe penalty than a crime that is committed in the heat of passion. From one perspective we could say that a crime is a crime. But the law recognizes that when acting in a moment of passion…
Read MoreHealing with Liquid Crystal Communication
An understanding of cellular communication based on light waves is used to develop a healing gem gel for counteracting the clouds of microwaves generated by our modern technology.
Read MoreMetals as Cosmic Sense Organs
Metals are cosmic activities that have come down to live in physical bodies. They are only barely incarnated. Sense organs themselves are very incarnated but the activities of the sense organs are still living in the world of the becomings of things. For this reason, a good linkage can be made between the sense activities…
Read MoreRhythmical Pruning and Spraying to Enhance Medicinal and Culinary Properties
In the growth of medicinal and culinary plants the balance between two fundamental hormonal influences is a valuable key to enhancing both medicinal properties as well as aromatics and flavour in culinary plants. Most plants are apically dominant. That means that the terminal buds on each branch determine the branching and shooting form of the…
Read MoreStudy Notes for Membrane Transport (For making your own liposomal sprays)
Liposomes can trap both hydrophobic and hydrophilic substances and unstable compounds (for example, antimicrobials, antioxidants, flavors and bioactive elements). Proteins creating transport channels across phospholipid membranes, mitochondrial and chloroplast inner membranes require more proteins for transport. (Egg yolks have proteins as well as lipids. Egg lecithin is useful for production of liposomes it produces more…
Read MoreThe Book of Trials: On the Path to Seeing the Nature of Spirit
All those who seek to understand the world through the workings of spirit will meet the Guardian of the Threshold, who shows us our own true inner nature, the noble and the ignoble. To cross the threshold from the physical world into the spiritual as a practice of initiation, we are presented with trials through…
Read MoreTurning Living Nature Imagination Inward
Thank you for your replies to this series on Goethe, phenomenology, and the etheric. I’m so pleased at the interest As I alluded to in my last email, it’s time to turn this way of seeing back on ourselves and peer at our own soul activity. While Goethe refined this way of seeing into nature, Rudolf…
Read MoreEtheric Vision
In the inner work of developing your consciousness, there is a stage of development called “etheric vision”. This concept is found in many forms in the work of Rudolf Steiner. To form an idea of this, it is useful to look at the work of Goethe known as phenomenology, or the perception of phenomena. This…
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