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An anthroposophical elucidation of molecular biology — the common time structure of consciousness and genetics

A qualitative study of the types of molecules involved in protein synthesis (DNA, RNA and protein), guided by the anthroposophical view of man as a three membered being, led to correlating DNA with head/thinking, proteins with… Read More

In the European medical tradition there are basically two therapeutic procedures: 1) the substitution procedure; 2) the stimulus procedure.

The substitution procedure gives the diseased organism what is missing: for example hormone replacement for hormone deficiency (hormone replacement therapy in diabetes or the menopause), replacement… Read More

The interaction between rhythrn and form

The process of metamorphosis is based on an interplay of space and time, form and movement. This also applies to the cognitive process. In the following presentation, I attempt to show, by means of observations of plants, how space and time, form and movement are permeated by mathematical-… Read More

The evolution of the skin and the skin-associated immune system

This paper considers the formation of the skin and its associated structures from the most primitive metazoa to the human being: 

- In Porifera the delirnitation from the outer world is incomplete. A proper epidermal sheath does not exist, merely a thin coating in… Read More

The mineral realm in living bone

The mineralisation of the skeleton is based on the dissolved calcium, phosphate and carbonate of body fluids and even on the water and carbon dioxide of the earth‘s hydrosphere and atmosphere. But it is also related to the mineral realm‘s crystalline calcium phosphate and carbonate, especially to apatite… Read More

An anthroposophical perspective on human cancer

In the eighties of the last century it was realised that cancer is more than just a formless mass of proliferating cells. Ian Folkman discovered that blood vessels from the apparently healthy surroundings of the tumour grow into it, without which an increase in the diameter of the tumour… Read More

Benjamin Libet and free will - How platonic is our modern picture of the human being?

In 1982 and 1983, Libet et al. published experiments on a group of healthy subjects who were required, without external cause, to make simple hand movements while simultaneous measurements were made of electrophysical activity of the brain with the… Read More

Aspects of a natural classification of plant substances according to their formative processes

The question of the classification of plant primary and secondary substances is repeatedly raised and sometimes controversial. In the work presented here this question is investigated in relation to two ways. On the one hand the physical… Read More

A contribution to the methodology of Goethean physics using the example of the water cycle

Wonder at natural phenomena raises questions in us as to their inner circumstances. Rudolf Steiner provided the methodological foundation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s practical science of inorganic nature, but in doing so, presented only very… Read More

Evolutionary Biology today

Following the initial discovery of photosynthesis and respiration of organic substance, General Biology has discovered the principle of symbiosis at all levels of the living world: in the biosphere as a whole, in the eco-organism of the landscape and in the so-called single organisms of plants and animals,… Read More