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The Alchemical Mandala
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
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
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 Inner Life of the Earth: Exploring the Mysteries of Nature, Subnature, and Supranature
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.…
The Alchemical Wedding
This series explore the story of the alchemical wedding by Chrisitan Rosencreutz, a symbolic union of opposites that represents spiritual transformation and inner harmony. It explores how this mystical marriage between masculine and feminine energies can lead to profound personal and spiritual growth.
Drawing From the Book of Nature
Within the science of education of today, there is a need to balance the pragmatic study of nature with an imaginative, yet exact consideration of the natural world wherein questions of beauty and morality can be seriously entertained. Neither memorizing data nor copying a beautiful drawing engages thw whole imagination of the student in the…
Biodynamics: Between abstraction and mysticism
[Don’t miss our Evolution of Biodynamics Symposium on Jan 24-26, 2025 for more like this.] In his late twenties Rudolf Steiner was engaged in editing the science writings of Goethe. Steiner discovered a fundamental thought of Goethe that would later inform his work in natural science on one hand and spiritual science on the other.…
Human Beings as Cosmic Co-Creators
The focus of this article is to explore the changing relationships between human beings and the natural world. …transcendent beinghood was relegated to religion and knowledge of physical forces became the domain of science, opening a void in the soul between mysticism and empiricism. In earlier times human beings experienced the forces of nature as…