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What Is Goethean Science?
A basic human response to any situation is either to feel “I like it” or “I don’t like it”. The name for the “I like it” response is sympathy, while the name for the “I don’t like” response is antipathy. These feelings color every response in normal everyday life. As such, they represent a fundamental…
Traditional Medicine – Video Series
In a three-part series Dennis Klocek presents alchemical methods that unite substance and symbol in the pursuit of healing.
Conflict and the Examined Life
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…
Creativity in Teaching
These three lectures are on the theme of how to avoid burnout when dealing with the demands of students, colleagues and parents. For the educational task of dealing with students the use of imagination in forming pictures of the destiny of the students will be addressed. For working with parents the use of imaginative perception in structuring productive conversations by asking questions will be the focus of a lecture. For working with colleagues the imaginative perception of placing issues into sleep will be addressed in the last lecture.
40th Anniversary – Biodynamic Book of Moons
The classic introduction to the alchemy of biodynamics With clarity and insight Dennis Klocek guides the reader through the essential tasks of the gardener’s year in harmony with the subtle rhythms of nature as they manifest in the garden. The Book of Moons is the Rosetta Stone for any gardener seeking to understand the mysteries…
The Great Passage: A Spiritual Journey Across the Threshold
This 7-lecture series covers the four subtle bodies, a survey of dream states, the eternal and temporal aspects of the self, the great paradox of physical existence, expectation and power in pursuit of spiritual experience, healing anxiety, understanding sickness, the role of moods in spiritual research, gesture and mood motif as an approach to conversation with the departed, the heart and the eternal feminine, and foresight and gratitude as healing forces for anxiety.
Macro and Micro – The Action of the Etheric Forces in Nature
These lectures trace the activities of warmth, light, and rhythm in the life forms of the natural world. The intent is to form a picture of “the etheric” which is both an important and difficult concept. Moving from an historical look at the idea of the ethers into some of the contributing streams in Rudolf Steiner’s thinking such as the fourth dimension, the nature of warmth and the infinitely distant, and then finally to the current scientific research that supports the idea of the etheric realm.
Memory, Fantasy and Imagination
Human neurological patterns represent a cascading hierarchy of organ responses to sensory stimuli that come from the environment. Sensory inputs through the sense organs impact the nervous system directly. The direct nerve pulses then cause secretions of hormones into the blood as secondary responses to light, sound, smell and movement. In the brain the pituitary…
Introduction and Palm Sunday – Alchemy of Holy Week
[ED: This series is a transcription of the Alchemy of Holy Week workshop that Dennis gave in 2018 at Rudolf Steiner College in California. We have included the images in the text from the handouts, and added additional references and handouts where it enhanced the experience. If you wish to listen to the lectures, they…
Experimental Process for Enhancing Drought Tolerance and Fungus Resistance in Plants
In the life of a plant alcohols play an important role in the maturation and fruiting process. They also form the basis for the protective wax cuticle that keeps the plant free from insect and fungus attack. Plant wax in the form of the cuticle surrounding the surfaces of leaves and stems of plants also…