“Matter is energy. In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia,” Monty’s Python’s Meaning of Life.
Attention. Observation. These were the skills that kept you alive in the time before television, the Internet, and electric lights. The rhythm of the Solar System was the rhythm of life. Generational observation of those rhythms built a foundation to guide you as to the best time to plant and harvest and the work you had to do.
Then we lost it all.
Regaining this knowledge with all the noise surrounding us today is a struggle. Attention and observation must be connected to science and an open mind. It is connecting these dots that biodynamics struggles with today.
Having recently returned from the National Biodynamic Conference in Westminster, Colorado, these struggles were only highlighted. As Rudolf Steiner proposed in his Agricultural Course almost one hundred years ago, Biodynamics was spiritual science — an extension of the Anthroposophy, the movement he founded in the early 20th century.
Today’s split is whether biodynamics is spirituality with science or science with spirituality. There is a difference. In Anthroposophy, spirituality comes first. Today, many practitioners
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