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To Every Season Turn, Turn
The rising tide of life forces in Spring is linked in a unique way to lunar rhythms around the time of the equinox. This workshop addresses the critical patterns of early spring, highlighting optimum times for working with plants. It completes the work with the planting calendar through studying the elemental patterns of the moon during harvest season.
The Dynamics of Healing
In this lecture, Dennis explores human physiology and the process of healing from an anthroposophical perspective.
Sacred Earth
These four lectures were given at a Biodynamically inspired agricultural festival in the fall of 2019 in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. The intent was to link the mineral, plant, animal and medicinal properties found in the high desert area of San Miguel.
Living earth : Living climate
In this lecture Dennis uses the two polar principles of form and function to illustrate ways to imagine the Earth as a living being in contrast to seeing Earth as simply a resource. The elements (earth, water, air, fire) and their dynamics give birth to the four life forces (cold, wet, hot, dry). Reciprocations between…
Climate: Soul of the Earth
This exciting book—presented in full color—considers “climate,” ultimately, to be an expression of the fundamental task of Gaia, the being of Earth. It expresses the relationship between the more inanimate and mechanized forces of the planet as a physical being and the more inward, biographically evolutionary journey of Earth as an ensouled being, embedded within…
Grandpa’s Gruel
This gruel is filling to the belly, a good complete source of nutrition during healing, and well tolerated by sensitive digestions. 2 1/2 qts hot, lemon balm, chamomile tea2 1/2 cups oatmeal1 can (13 oz.) light coconut milk1/3 cup slippery elm bark powder1 Tbsp butter1/2 tsp saltyour favorite sweetenerfive sticks of astragalus In a slow…
The Phantom and the Electric Double: Imagination, Alchemy, and the Seed of Christ
In this talk, Dennis explores how the patterns in nature, art, and imagination can help us reconnect with a deeper part of ourselves, what he describes as a spiritual potential placed in the Earth by Christ, and how modern technology challenges our ability to stay grounded in what’s real and life-giving.
The Human in Nature: child, spouse or steward
The subject of this lecture was the changing relationship between human beings and the natural world from Neolithic times until the present age of global environmental awareness. Topics include, something has changed in humans, Zen, Shinto, the oracle and the agent, Paleolithic, Neolithic, bronze age evidence of polarities between technology and religion, is an arrowhead…
Healing Meditations Workshop
This is a partial transcription of the workshop’s first lecture. To listen to the entire workshop, visit the lecture page. — For students of Dennis who have an interest in prayer, this partial transcription of his Healing Meditations workshop describes a form of hygienic prayer that Dennis taught as a ritual of healing. Unlike some…
Balancing Sensation and Digestion – Video Series
This three-part series by Dennis Klocek explores the relationship between good digestion and the blood’s ability to interact with cellular metabolism from the point of view of temperamental patterns in the life organs, the digestive organs and the qualitative influence of the daily sense activity on overall health.