Iris Hennigfeld works on ‹Goethe’s Natural Science as Phenomenology› at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is also co-editor...
What is bright yellow, eats oats as its favourite food, does not like coffee, learns without a brain – even...
Following the theme of warmth in the lectures at the 2025 Natural Science Section conference at the Goetheanum. The Earth’s Warmth Sheath In his fairy tale “The Little Matchstick Girl,” Hans Christian Andersen describes a poor young girl who tries unsuccessfully to sell matches on a freezing New Year’s Eve....
Intellectual materialism denies intuition and its connection to spirit, but by asking questions of “why” rather than just “what” or...
Markus Sommer and Georg Soldner spoke, in alternating dialogue, about the human immune system. Forty years ago, when they were...
What’s next in the “fight” against carbon dioxide? A change of thought. We usually associate “CO₂” with the idea that a molecule of carbon dioxide consists of one atom of carbon (C) and two atoms of oxygen (O), whereupon the three little balls from the atom-and-molecule model of our schooldays...
The third of this four-part series further explores a resolution to the paradox of intellectual materialism. It leads to a...
In the summer of 2023, the journal Scientific American published an article on the astounding synchronization of electroencephalograms in human...
Children love to play the game of asking «Why?» without end. Perhaps this is the beginning of the scientific mind. Certain questions have ceased to be asked, though, because they no longer fit within the framework of contemporary science or philosophy. In the first part of this multi-part essay, Matthew...
How biodynamic preparations inoculate the soil. As a result of climate change, we’re finding that drought, cold, poor soil structure,...
For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his...











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