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Sketch of an organismic systems biology

Biology has been dominated for a long time by two contrasting explanations and research approaches: reductionism and holism. This article shows that both views are one-sided and that a new synthesis can be developed. We develop a fundamental concept of the organism starting from the earlier… Read More

Metamorphosis in the biography of an artist Philippe Lambercy, ceramist (1919-2006)

Philippe Lambercy was one of the pioneers of modern ceramics. He left behind a wide range of works including pottery, ceramic sculptures, installations and architectonic works, especially reliefs on public und private buildings. He also left drawings,… Read More

What is expressed in a person’s sleeping phases?

Whereas contemporary psychologists and philosophers puzzle over whether there is any such thing as 'consciousness', sleep researchers are in surprising agreement that the human being daily passes through three different forms of consciousness: waking, sleeping, dreaming. But just as… Read More

Formative motifs in the genus Ranunculus

According to ‘Flora Europaea’ (2nd ed. 1993) almost every available habitat is colonised by the 135 species of the genus (not family!) Ranunculus. In parallel with this, manifests an enormous plasticity in the formation of the vegetative parts, the leaves, which have an almost inexhaustible… Read More

Goethe and evolution

During the 17th and 18th centuries ‘evolution’ literally meant unwrapping what was already there. Goethe and Darwin therefore avoided this term, preferring to use ‘metamorphosis’ or ‘desccnt’. It was Herbert Spencer who first used the term in its modern sense. There upon, however, Goethe was a complete evolutionist… Read More

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

Temporal pattern in the evolution of mammals and their ancestors

The fundamental threefold shape of the vertebrates, namely head, trunk and limbs, had formed by the Upper Carboniferous period, primarily in water. After this, in the Permian and Mesozoic periods, the development of the threefolding of organs and parts of the body came… Read More