Rudolf Steiner – Page 2 – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

[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 14: Rudolf Steiner – A Spiritual Scientific World View [New Ch.16 V0.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Rudolf Steiner took the philosophical ideas which were implicit in the works of Goethe and took them further. Significantly further. It has taken me many years to even begin to understand just some of his philosophical and scientific ideas…

[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…

[Old] Chapter 6: Hauschka, Herzeele and Baumgartner [New Ch.9 V0.4]

Apr 13, 2020

For this chapter I have a lot of homework to do… I need to (re-)read Rudolf Hauschka’s The Nature of Substance (Substanzlehre). Meanwhile an outline of what I recall…

[Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!

Mar 29, 2020

The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…

Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas

Feb 27, 2020

This was Nick Thomas’s second book to explore his challenging work to develop a mathematical science based on the spiritual indications of Rudolf Steiner. This book was written as more of an introductory work. It is therefore a little easier to follow. I feel that my task is – somehow – to break it down…