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Videos: Solar Length of Day and Soil Clock Tutorials

By Dennis Klocek | December 31, 2021

Dennis teaches us about the most important plant rhythm, solar length of day, and how that can be used in planning your planting calendar.

Nature Experience for Young People

By Dennis Klocek | April 8, 2022

Nature is a broad array of events. As a result, there are many kinds of nature experiences. It is useful to consider which “nature” we mean when we use the word.  Here are some thoughts about different experiences of nature and how they affect our relationship to it. Nature as wilderness This gives solace and…

The Alchemical Mandala

By Dennis Klocek | July 31, 2008

The charts for the alchemical journey of self transformation often take the form of a mandala or sacred wheel. This is because the sacred journey never ends. It also usually brings you back to where you started but the second time around you know where you have been. The mandala is a dynamic map of…

Weather and Cosmos

By Dennis Klocek | June 12, 2001

It is hoped that this small book will be a contribution towards the opening of a dialogue for the purpose of studying the ways in which nature and the cosmos interact. It is my firm belief that science must once more be wedded to the arts. So, it is not ultimately for meteorologists that this…

Core Principles of Biodynamics

By Dennis Klocek | July 16, 2011

This course is a survey of the esoteric principles that are the foundation of the Biodynamic practices. Starting with the geological features of pre-cambrian times the ascent of organisms is sketched as a depiction of what Rudolf Steiner has called the world / mineral / plant.

The Prayerful Warrior

By Dennis Klocek | January 22, 2021

The developmental signs of advancement in an alchemical soul practice usually involve some sort of healing crisis brought on by a discharge in the soul of accumulated assumptions and belief structures.  Most often these assumptions are not perceived by the student in a conscious way. They arise like dream fragments in the daily life and…

Metals as Cosmic Sense Organs

By Dennis Klocek | August 24, 2023

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…

Alchemy, Biodynamics, and the Unknown: Cultivating Perception in a Living World

By Dennis Klocek | November 18, 2025

What if farming could be a spiritual path? What if the way we stir a preparation or plant a seed was inseparable from the way we think, imagine, and perceive? In this lecture, Dennis Klocek explores the meeting place of biodynamic practice and inner development, where the rhythms of earth and cosmos converge with human…

The Inner Life of the Earth: Exploring the Mysteries of Nature, Subnature, and Supranature

By Dennis Klocek | August 12, 2008

Dennis was a contributor to this collection. Throughout human history, ancient wisdom and traditional myths have placed human beings between the heavens and the underworld, describing the heavens as the light-filled realm of the gods and the source of goodness, and characterizing the underworld as a demon-filled realm of darkness and the source of evil.…