Category: Outline
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Outline of Book
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 a new Goethean scientific worldview.
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[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…
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[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy
Early draft of a deprecated chapter. …from the time of Homer, and the advent of written Greek, humankind began to feel separate from the world of Gods and elemental beings. As Steiner said: “Their thought pictures developed as a tool of truth”….
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[Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
Early draft of deprecated chapter. The mysteries to be explored in this book largely fall under the subject matter of chemistry. Though I was not particularly talented at school or university in the practical art of chemistry, I have always been fascinated by its apparent magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it. I…
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[Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)
An early draft of deprecated chapter about alchemy, copied from Wikipedia to help me develop my own ideas…
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[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)
This deprecated draft chapter started as a historical review of chemistry in the West. This update interweaves its content with Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of Philosophy. Also used is E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanization of the World Picture….
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[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance
This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…
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[Old] Chapter 17: Conclusions – Rethinking the Nature of Substance [New Ch.21 V0.2]
In this book I hope to have introduced the minimum of knowledge necessary to attain at least the beginnings of an understanding of one of the greatest scientific challenges that I am aware. The existence of the phenomenon of biological transmutation of chemical (isotopic) elements would not be denied by pretty much every scientist on…
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[Old] Chapter 16: Chemistry, the Atom & the Harmony of the Spheres [New Ch.21 V0.1]
In which a synthesis of the previous chapters is attempted, linking them all with biodynamics and the harmony of the spheres.
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 