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The sensoriality of man. The body as an instrument of the self‘s free orientation to the world

In search of a clear distinction between 'sensoriality' and 'desire' in man, our course leads past the traditional rejection of 'sensoriality' by the main religions of the world, and past the unclarity of popular concepts. From there it… Read More

Nicolaus E. Dahlberg: Die Metamorphosen der Pflanzen (Stockholm 1755)

In 1755, under the direction of Carl von Linné, the Swedish botanist Nicolaus (= Nils) E. Dahlberg (1735-1820) published his botanical dissertation Metamorphoses Plantarum. It deals with seven types of plant metamorphosis. Its focus is on the formation of the organs… Read More

Among vertebrates including humans. the skeleton of marine true bony fish (teleosts), with its 2-4%. carbonate content by weight, contains the least amount of carbonate and no ‘labile carbonate' (bicarbonate HCO3-), the most actively living mineral phase of bone. Because of this deficiency the teleost skeleton is unable to buffer acid-base… Read More

The first part of this paper deals with the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora [L.] J. PRESL), a member of the Lauraceae family, and a source of the therapeutically significant etheric oil, camphor. This study addresses the question as to whether a thorough treatment of the therapeutic and toxic effects of camphor, as well as of the… Read More

Gout and rheumatism from a psychosomatic-anthroposophical perspective

The introduction of imaging procedures in radiology has provoked not only questions by the general public about the human 'I', and about the self-knowledge and freedom of will of the human being, but has also shaken internal medicine, and rheumatology in particular.… Read More

From symbiosis to brood parasitism Part I: From the life of the cuckoo

Using the cuckoo family as an example, this article shows that likening the cuckoo to a brood parasite is not generally justified, as there are many cuckoo species that care for brood. Some of them - possibly the oldest - form social groups and brood communities… Read More

Do we understand life in development?

This contribution discusses the obstacles to understanding the evolution of living nature and the human being. What are these obstacles? Life can show us what true time really is, for which our concept of Newtonian time is inadequate. The way we ordinarily understand our soul and spirit is… Read More

The anthroposophical study of man is characterised among other things by the fact that it attempts to overcome the duality of the phenomena of body and soul, and understand the human being as a unity of body, soul and spirit. As an example, Rudolf Steiner repeatedly referred to the human and vertebrate eye in order to illustrate the… Read More

Vataireopsis amroba. A plant for treating skin diseases

The wood of the tropical tree Vataireopsis araroba produces an exudate containing anthranoids (Goa powder, chrysarobin) which was used for topical treatment of psoriasis and other skin diseases. However, today it is larger obsolete and has been replaced by the synthetically… Read More

Being placed in the world between above, centre and below. A plea for trust in the phenomena

The directions of gaze 'above', 'centre' and 'below' are investigated for their phenomenological content. Photographic documents serve to illustrate. A tabular compilation with a commentary helps to classify and evaluate the phenomena. The… Read More