phenomenology – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

Sep 15, 2024

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…

[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…

May 28, 2020

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)…

[Old] Chapter 17: Conclusions – Rethinking the Nature of Substance [New Ch.21 V0.2]

Apr 18, 2020

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…

[Old] Chapter 13: Goethe’s World View [New Ch.15 V0.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an observer of nature and laid the foundations for a phenomenological science. His collected scientific works were edited by Rudolf Steiner. Goethe’s ideas and methodologies inspired Herzeele, Preuss and Holleman. Holleman recommended that the biological transmutation phenomenon might best be studied using a Goethean scientific methodology. Unfortunately he did not…

Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe

Feb 22, 2020

By way of further support for the importance of qualia in scientific endeavour, Nick Thomas refers us, in his fourteenth paragraph, to the authority of Werner Heisenberg. …

Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 4 – Understanding

Feb 20, 2020

Continuing on to Nick Thomas’ fifth paragraph, here he emphasises the importance of an understanding of qualia, a word used to identify each of our experiences of, or in response to the world. The most elementary of these arise from our basic senses. They include sights, sounds, tastes and smells….