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Anthroposophische Aufschlüsse der molekularen Biologie
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
Anthroposophische Medizin - eine Annäherung
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
Zur Interaktion von Rhythmus und Form
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
Die Evolution der Haut und des hautassoziierten Immunsystems
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
Evolutionsbiologie heute
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
Zeitmuster in der Evolution der Säugetiere und ihrer Vorläufer
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
Die Mistel und das Geheimnis ihrer Heilkraft
Mistletoe and the secret of its healing power
A practical method for finding the specific in a phenornenon is to look for antagonistic or polar manifestations of it. There are some immediately strik« ing antagonisms in the case of the two closely related families Viscaceae and Loranthaceae : 1. Loranthaceae tend to have lush and largcly… Read More
Lebendige Mineralwelt im Knochen
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
Zur anthroposophischen Menschenkunde der Krebskrankheit
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 und die Willensfreiheit
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
