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Reflections on the formative biology of bee swarms

Throughout their entire life cycle, honey bees are closely connected to their environment and receive important shaping stimuli from their surroundings. Thus it is not a gene that determines whether an egg will turn into a worker or a queen, but rather the shaping stimulus arising from… Read More

The metamorphosis of antler forms

Among the many forms of antlers there is a formative law that is common to them all, an 'archetype' in the Goethean sense. Firstly, this 'archetypal antler' is grasped as a common Bauplan, as a scheme of different parts and their spatial relations to one and other. Elements of this Bauplan, which by… Read More

The relationships of cancer to mineralising and bone—forming processes can be demonstrated at various levels. For example, breast tumours frequently show microcalcification deposits whose morphology and chemical composition indicate the kind of illness involved. According to R. Steiner's indications regarding the activity of calcium carbonate… Read More

Proving or testing? Reflections on research into formative forces. A progress report

The present state of discussion of the validation of research into formative forces is presented. Specific conditions regarding reproducibility, variation and psychological influences have to be taken into account. Based on these experiences and… Read More

This paper deals with the forming of judgements in the context of science and pedagogical practice (of Waldorf schools). The subject area of physics (light and colour) is taken as an example. Firstly, a brief overview of fundamental problems in the philosophy of science in the 20th century is given. Then, with the help of. two frescoes, we… Read More

Tormentil, Potentilla erecta (L.) Räuschel. Its capacity for connecting its polarities with one another

Tormentil, Potentilla erecta, belongs to the Rosaceae, but in all its organs it is morphologically different from its relatives. The 'cosmic soul' element of the plant deeply affects tormentil early in its development, thereby… Read More

The mind as a door to human dignity

Modern philosophy regards the 'phenomenal' consciousness of the human being as the biggest obstacle to a naturalistic (Le. unified physical, or, put more simply, materialistic) explanation of human consciousness. But such an 'explanation' cannot be sustained without first making a phenomenological… Read More

In the evolution of the human head a Shift in complexity takes place. Complexity is predorninately reduced in the jaw region (distally), in which the organism comes into direct contact with the environment through nutrition. Proxirnally, in the brain, besides the degradation processes present, complexity is predominately increased. The… Read More