Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Biodynamics and the Taming of the Materialistic Lion

How Plato & Aristotle, Goethe & Steiner,
Herzeele, Holleman & Vysotskii, Adams & Thomas
may have changed our understanding of
life, chemical substance and nuclear transmutation.

  • In which I introduce the main themes of the book: Biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner’s indications for a hidden alchemy in living processes; The taming of the atom – a sub-natural phenomenon; Biological transmutation of chemical elements and the requirement for…

  • Sometimes it suits me better to invent A tale from my own heart, more near akin To my own passions and habitual thoughts;Some variegated story, in the main Lofty, but the unsubstantial structure meltsBefore the very sun that brightens it,Mist…

  • This website is under reconstruction! Please be patient. The book is in the process of being researched, reviewed and written.– The Table of Contents contains ^is due to contain links to the latest versions of the chapters of this book.–…

  • I believe Rudolf Steiner has said (I forget where) that we should work things out for ourselves and not take his word as Gospel. So, without the benefit of being able to read directly from the Akasha chronicle, how might…

  • For whatever reasons, few realists have described themselves as such and most philosophical writing on realism has been against the beliefs of others. Whatever we believe is real, is something that we normally take for granted as true; it lies…

  • My favourite – the one that resonated with me the most – a quote from Annie Dillard’s essay: What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a…

  • Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…

  • I am sad to say that I have chosen to completely rewrite my early drafts of prehistoric and Ancient Greek history almost in their entirety. They are to be replaced by two new and hopefully more relevant chapters. Their replacements…

  • Several years ago a friend shared this wonderful artistic overview of Ernst Marti’s etheric research. I wish I knew who drew it – if it is copyright please can someone inform me – I can either remove it or at…

  • Table of Contents ^ This website is under reconstruction! Please be patient. The book is in the process of being researched, reviewed and written.– The Table of Contents contains ^is due to contain links to the latest versions of the…

  • In which I search for one word summaries for each of the parts and chapters of the book and find a 7 stage alchemical journey…