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Articles and Essays
Sacred Agriculture Update: Japanese!
It is with great pleasure that I share with you a development in Dennis’ work on sacred agriculture. Kensuke Shimizu has translated the book into Japanese and it is now available for those who want to deepen their understanding of biodynamics and the inner work that underlies it. In Sacred Agriculture, Dennis shares his insights…
Growing your own compost (green manure)
In this video, Dennis shows us how to create high-quality compost using fava beans and clover as green manure. The process involves macerating and shredding these plants to produce nutrient-rich soil without the need for traditional fertilizers. Discover how to tiller fava beans for better nitrogen sequestration and see simple methods used to shred and…
Esoteric steps toward self-renewal
[Ed: This was the first lecture of a series given by Dennis in 2002, but we only have this one transcription. It has been edited to be a stand alone. For a complete series like this, please see The Heart, Warmth and Karma: Integrating Steiner’s Spiritual Practices into Modern Healing, The Healing Power of Symbols,…
The Alchemy of Making Incense
Join us in this video where Dennis shares his alchemical process of making incense. Learn how to combine charcoal, pine resin, essential oils, and other ingredients to create fragrant incense cones. This detailed guide walks you through the steps of grinding, mixing, and molding your ingredients, while also explaining the alchemical principles behind the process.…
Christ in the Clouds: A meditation on form, balance, and the etheric Christ
The formation of clouds is an interesting meditation on what an alchemist would call the lawfulness of the becoming of form, or what Goethe called the Archetype. In the ancient world, it was understood that forms in nature were images of the activity of world-creating beings: Gods and Goddesses and members of celestial hierarchies. The…
Christ in the Etheric
What does the phrase “Christ in the etheric” mean? “Behold, he cometh with clouds.” (Rev.1:7) Several enigmatic references to Christ returning again to the earth in the clouds are the centerpiece of much theological debate. Some think that the “clouds of heaven” point to the Rapture by which the faithful will be transported away from…
Audio and Video Lectures
Lung, Liver, and Dew
Learn about the alchemical concept of “dew” and how that may be understood as the becoming of our organs of perception.
Biodynamic Alchemy and Spagyrics
This workshop will focus on the alchemical principle of spagyric substance that is at the core of Biodynamic preparation methods. The term spagyric was coined by the great alchemist Paracelsus to describe procedures for taking apart a substance at one level of existence and reinvesting it into itself it at a higher, more energetic, level of existence.
The resulting spagyric substance transcends its natural order energetically. Seen in this way, putting cow manure in a cow horn is alchemically spagyric.
Sacred Agriculture Keynote Speech at 2012 Biodynamics Conference
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…