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In the Lab: Creating a Simple Still for Home Distillation/Extraction of Essential Oils

By Dennis Klocek | July 11, 2024

In this detailed tutorial, Dennis demonstrates how to convert a standard four-gallon pressure cooker into an effective essential oil distilling apparatus. (For more on its use, see our video In the Lab: Using a Simple Still for Home Extraction of Essential Oils.)The video covers the conversion process, including creating a custom adapter for the pressure…

Trust in Life

By Dennis Klocek | May 15, 2024

A great force in the human soul is the capacity to trust. This capacity is abundant in children. It arises out of the tremendous forces of life that pour into the embryo and then into the growing child. At the age of 21 the growth forces that form the life organs have completed their task…

Heart-Gemuet – Arms of the Heart

By Dennis Klocek | May 14, 2024

If we want to work with the idea of transforming the soul forces, one of the most potent areas for inner work is the region of the heart chakra. It is good to state right away that the heart chakra is not the actual physical heart. The chakra is a little more in the center…

Conflict and the Examined Life

By Dennis Klocek | May 14, 2024

In ancient times philosophers never considered their own soul life as existing separately from the world. It was widely believed that the personal will of a soul had a weak but perceptible effect on the way that the world unfolded. The weak effect became perceptible only if a soul took up the spiritual practice of…

Why use oils on the body

By Dennis Klocek | May 2, 2024

Since the most ancient times, the application of fragrant oils to the body has provided a special and harmonizing experience. From the language of anointing in the ancient texts to the current research in essential oils the recognition that a unique dimension is offered to humans in the application of fragrant oils to different areas…

Gem Spray Lettuce Trial

By Dennis Klocek | April 16, 2024

Dennis presents an experiment involving a spray made of crushed gems and fulvic acid applied to lettuce plants to encourage the formation of heads. The experiment compares the sprayed lettuces to the control group and evaluates the effectiveness of the gem spray in creating balanced and substantial lettuce heads. The results indicate that the gem…

Sacred Agriculture Keynote Speech at 2012 Biodynamics Conference

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This keynote address given in Madison Wisconsin at the National Biodynamic Conference began with an explanation of how numinous experience of the transcendent dimension of nature is transformed into an experience of the sacredness of nature through understanding. The idea was enlarged into a description of the difference between the ancient hunter religion and the…

Parenting as Initiation

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This lecture was given to parents and faculty of the Sacramento Waldorf School in 2012. The topic addresses the original state of consciousness of human beings where the divine consciousness and the personality are mixed in the young child. Then it is necessary for these two outlooks to separate in order for freedom of the…

Mystery Wisdom Introduction

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These presentations form a short course on the fundamental language that composes what Rudolf Steiner called mystery wisdom. Mystery wisdom is the teachings of the perennial philosophy presented in a context that addresses the soul issue present for human beings who are searching in vain for eternal teachings in the present technical world view. The…