Markus Sommer and Georg Soldner spoke, in alternating dialogue, about the human immune system. Forty years ago, when they were...
Because of our consciousness, human beings are not a will-less “part” of nature, but its responsible, guiding partner. The future...
For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his profound knowledge of modern biology, he was able to show that Goethe’s outline of a theory of organic nature was not a critique but an extension of basic biological research....
Intellectual materialism denies intuition and its connection to spirit, but by asking questions of “why” rather than just “what” or...
Goethe uses the expression “seeing with spiritual eyes” to characterize his imaginative view of the living organism. On the basis...
In cyclic causality, the effects themselves become the cause of the causes. The view from the center—a summation of all genes, that is, the genome—belongs together with the view from the periphery—the living proteins of the cell, the tissues, the organs, the interrelationships within the organism, and the organism’s embeddedness...
The fact that all living beings, from humans to single-celled organisms, share not only the earth but also its life...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied,...
Separate entities can either compete or develop strategies to cooperate. In either case, the starting point is separation. This is a foundational assumption of modern biology. But what if relatedness is more fundamental? How would we behold living beings and what we call their environment? When you go out into...
In the summer of 2023, the journal Scientific American published an article on the astounding synchronization of electroencephalograms in human...
In nature and throughout the Earth organism, we find balancing processes expressed in the image and substance of warmth. The...
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