HAROLD BURR'S BIOFIELDS MEASURING THE ELECTROMAGNETICS OF LIFE
https://www.innersource.net/em/images/downloads/Harold-Burr.pdf

A few quotes from Rudolf Steiner on the Nature of Stars:

"You can also see that sunlight, which has the ability to bring about chemical changes – and you said that the bee notices this – has a very different effect than electric light does. Electric light has much more of a hardening effect on all substances, it doesn’t dissolve or break apart substances as sunlight does. Because of this, a bee experiences a very slight rigidity, or paralysis, when exposed to electric light, a reaction it does not have in sunlight"

"The interior of the Sun is no mere ball of gas; it is in fact something less than space — a realm where space itself has been taken away. If you begin by imagining an extended space in which some pressure is prevailing, you must conceive the interior of the Sun rather as a realm of suction. It is a negative space — space that is emptier than empty. Few people have an adequate idea of what this means. Now when you go through there, again you have a definite spiritual experience which you are able to elaborate and work upon, and as you do so it becomes the form of the human heart. Not only is the form of the eye made of Sun and Moon; the heart form too is fashioned from the Sun. But this is only possible when the Sun contains forces which issue from it as from the constellation of Leo."

"now we grow increasingly aware of how this Universe, with all its erstwhile majesty and greatness, is shrinking and contracting. The planets which we bear within us — planets in their weaving movement — become what then pulsates and surges through the human ether-body. The fixed stars of the Zodiac become what forms our life of nerves and senses. All this is shrinking, to become a body — spiritual to begin with, and then ethereal. And not until it has grown quite tiny, is it received into the mother's womb, there to be clothed with earthly matter." - https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/MansLife/19220822a01.html

"Physically it appears as though the sun gives the planets light, but in reality it is the planets that radiate light to the sun and the sun is the reflector. As such it was recognized by the wise men of ancient Persia with their instinctive wisdom, and in this sense the sun was regarded as the earthly source of Light — not indeed as the source itself, but as the reflector of the Light. Then, among the Egyptians and Chaldeans, the sun became the reflector of Life and among the Greeks, the reflector of Love."

"It is true that in order to reach inner freedom, it was necessary for men to pass through the stage of believing that a globe of gas is moving through universal space — but the fact is that physicists would be very astonished if they could take a journey in space; they would discover that the sun is not a globe of gas giving out light — that is nonsense — but that it is a mere reflector which cannot itself radiate light but at most throw it back. The truth is that in the spiritual sense, light streams out from Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and the Moon."

"The Sun, of which we say, outwardly speaking, that it sends its light to the Earth, is not merely a radiant globe of gas but infinitely more than that. It sends its rays down to the Earth but whenever we look at the Sun it is the outer side of the rays that we see. The rays have, however, an inner side. If someone were able to look through the Sun’s light, to regard the light only as an outer husk and look through to the soul of it, he would behold the Soul-Power, the Soul-Being of the Sun. With ordinary human consciousness we see the Sun as we should see a man who was made of papier-maché."


"You will see that the Spirit / Ego organisation is connected with the Hydrogen in the same way that the Physical organisation is connected with Carbon, the Etheric organisation with Oxygen, and the Astral organisation with Nitrogen“

An excerpt from Trevor James Constable's Book - Cosmic Pulse of Life. This short reading will help give a good overview on some of the ethers. TJC was one of a few people that has engineered Steiner's principles. He mostly used for weather modification. I am in contact with an international group that practices these techniques today with great success.

The Cosmic Pulse of Life
http://rainengineering.com/cosmic-blueprint/
by Trevor James Constable, Borderlands 1990

The motion of the ether is beyond question to anyone who has extended his powers of cognition beyond the arbitrary boundaries set by conventional philosophy. Such persons, including myself, perceive basic etheric workings directly in the perception of physical force fields around living organisms and in such obvious external happenings as the flimmerings that are perpetually present in both the day and night sky. All such persons accept out of their own experience that what Dr. Steiner and Dr. Reich say of the ethers is true, namely, that they move a priori.
The ether moves, without doubt, and acceptance of this premise has opened to man the control of planetary weather, of which more later. Steiner and Wachsmuth present the ether as seven-fold, and four essential ethers reveal them-selves in physical space-time processes, according to these two brilliant men. The four ethers are:
1 .Warmth ether
2. Light ether
3. Chemical ether (AKA sound ether and number ether)
4. Life ether
These four ethers have evolved phylogenetically out of each other, so that we may consider that warmth ether has evolved into light ether, light ether into chemical ether, and chemical ether into life ether. Empirical findings arising out of Wilhelm Reich’s discoveries already partially confirm this. For example, orgone energy — which may be equated with the chemical ether — can be made to luminate in vacuo and in nature through weather control apparatus. Orgone accumulators literally create warmth “out of nothing”. Thus, light and warmth are contained in orgone energy, i.e., chemical ether. Etherian physics is thus already demonstrating empirically its own theoretical basis.
Thus it is seen that the characteristic of the mutual relationship between the ethers postulated by Wachsmuth and Steiner — that the more highly evolved ether always contains in itself the properties of the ether(s) from which it evolved — has already been externally demonstrated. Each “new” ether, however, is a new formative force with its own innate activities and properties. Understanding this relationship, and living with it, naturally requires a mobility of thought which contemporary higher education usually extinguishes.
Life ether contains in itself the other three, chemical ether contains in itself the preceding two, out of which evolution has taken place. On page 40 in his book, Dr. Wachsmuth states:
“Only when, through having penetrated into the substance-world, it has been modified, may a higher ether, for instance, be reduced as it were to the action of a lower. Warmth ether from which the other ether forces have evolved, has in turn come into being out of purely spiritual states outside of time and space.”
This at once gives us a theoretical link to earlier states of evolution, and to the gradual condensation of our world through countless millennia. The glowing gas ball of Kant- La Place, as it were, had an illustrious and long prior etheric history. Dr. Wachsmuth’s statements regarding evolution of the ethers themselves are open today to direct empirical proof in some areas, such as is provided by Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s orgone energy accumulator. By perpetually producing heat “out of nothing” it directly contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics.* From the point of view of etherian physics, the orgone accumulator squeezes the warmth ether out of concentrated chemical ether. Incomprehensible to the old knowledge, Reich’s invention yields to the basic theories of etherian physics.

* The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a statistical law, inasmuch as no exception has ever been found to it until Reich devised the orgone accumulator. The rooting of the Second Law is now no longer statistical, but neurotic, since the orgone accumulator proves its basic contentions false in certain arrangements of materials.
Ingenious and enterprising young men will carry all this forward. Unlike the Old Knowledge, the comprehensive structure of etherian physics provides them with a chart for their experimental work. There can be little doubt that the science of tomorrow will penetrate these principles and bring forth a new technology — indeed, it has already begun.
The four ethers as carriers as carriers of formative forces, have the following characteristics:
1. The warmth manifests in heat, which etherian physics regards as the fourth state of matter, and not a mere mode of motion affecting the other three states. My photographs of the atmospheric bioforms could not have been made without heat-sensitive film. We have recorded animate things extant and conscious in this fourth state of matter. These objects were photographed in situ, and are an adventurer’s contribution to a valid new conception of heat as the fourth state of matter. The warmth ether tends to produce objects of spherical form, i.e., it shapes matter into globes. I have more than my share of globular critters on both stills and movies.
2. The light ether reaches the direct physical perception of man as the normal light of the terrestrial environment. When light ether acts unimpeded in nature, it produces triangular forms. In field experiments with the cloudbuster, triangular forks of lightning have been produced on many occasions, in another break-in to the experimental side of etherian physics made possible by Reich’s discoveries.
3. The chemical ether or sound ether, also known as the number ether, is active in chemical processes of all kinds, and also transmits sound to the human ear -the tones of the audible world around us. Sound has tremendous formative power, well illustrated externally by the Chladni sound figures. In these experiments, dust laid upon a tightly stretched diaphragm adopts varying forms in accordance with varying tones.
Physically audible tones nevertheless are an infinitesimal part of the total tone activity vibrating everywhere in space, the waves produced by the forces of chemical ether . Sound or chemical ether gives form to the natural things of our world. In nature, the chemical ether, when working unimpeded, produces half-moon forms. Centripetal in action, it is interlocked with all the phenomena of cold and contraction.
4. The life ether is the most highly evolved of the four, and also the most complex and diverse in its essential qualities. Life ether is radiated to the earth by the sun. Like the chemical ether, it is a suctional, centripetal force -a force that draws inwards. The formative power of the life ether, when working unimpeded in substance, manifests in the square shape.
For a highly intelligent and comprehensive approach to heat as the fourth state of matter, see Man or Matter, and The Warmth Course by Rudolf Steiner, Mercury Press, 241 Hungary Hollow Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977.
Each of the four ethers manifests naturally in its own color. The colors are:
Warmth ether – Red
Light ether – Yellow
Chemical ether – Blue
Life ether – Purple-violet
Each of the four ethers has a natural spatial tendency. These spatial tendencies are:
Warmth Ether – Radial, expansive, centrifugal
Light Ether – Radial, expansive, centrifugal
Chemical Ether – Suctional, contractive, centripetal
Life Ether – Suctional, contractive, centripetal
Each of the four ethers manifests in its own natural state of matter. These states are:
Warmth Ether – Heat
Light Ether – Gaseous or aeriform
Chemical Ether – Liquid or fluid
Life Ether – Solid

Anyone who has wondered why or how different colored flowers of the same type come into being should inspect not just the color of the flowers, but the shape of the leaves. The formative signature of the appropriate ether will be found in the differing shapes of the leaves, i.e., the yellow flower’s leaf will have a more triangular form than the red flower of the same kind. Try it and see.
Etherian physics sees the earth as a gigantic living organism. Like all living things, the earth “breathes.” The planetary breathing cycle is diurnal. Chemical ether is inhaled and exhaled by the earth, with marked and measurable effects upon the atmosphere. Many of the central mysteries of meteorology are bound up in this breathing process.
The earth and its atmosphere consist of four spherical, concentric and interpenetrating spheres. In each of these spheres, one of the four kinds of ether is predominant. Light ether and warmth ether function mainly in the atmosphere and heat mantle of the earth. The chemical ether and life ether predominate in the liquid and solid matter of the earth respectively. These distributions of forces and their influences are the normal, primary terrestrial state.
Let alone, the earth would quickly stratify these ether-spheres and tend toward fixity. The sun is the chief force in chaoticizing these ethers. By constantly roiling these ethers and the formative forces of which they are the carriers, the sun produces their dynamic intermingling and interpenetration, out of which comes life with all its rhythms and diverse forms.
During the night, the earth re-establishes something akin to the normal primary distribution of the ethers. Contraction, stillness and chill characterize nocturnal conditions. Human life sinks to its lowest ebb during the night, especially between midnight and dawn. The human being thereby reflects, in his inert and unconscious organism, the quiescent condition of that portion of the planet upon which he is living. Then comes the morning, the sun’s influence, and the remanifestation of the life forces.
The old cosmologies saw everywhere in creation the deeds of all manner of divinities, the spirits of the ethers. The immortal Kepler, kinsman and antecedent of the modern etherian physicist, saw the universe as the body of a gigantic spiritual being, so that to Kepler it was a living cosmos.
Nineteenth-century science expunged from its rubric all such concepts. The physical-material was considered sufficient, so immense was its impact on the human mind with the rise of measurement. Goethe’s conception of the earth- breathing process, physically verified in the morning and evening “double wave” of pressure at the barometer, was among the brilliant insights into natural workings ignored at this time. The stampede for mechanical interpretations of nature trampled under all pioneer efforts at functional enlightenment.
The major etheric force involved in the breathing processes of the earth as a living organism is the chemical ether. We shall find ourselves intimately concerned with this ether in understanding UFOs, not only at this break-in stage, but also for many decades to come. Apparatus has been designed by certain earthmen to concentrate and manipulate this particular ether, and we had best therefore understand its basic action in the daily life of the earth.
Many mysteries of the earth, atmosphere and weather become accessible through this knowledge and the apparatus based on its application. Beginning at dawn, the planet earth exhales the chemical ether into the atmosphere, the latter being, as we have seen in our preliminary tabulation, the normal sphere of activity of the light ether. All the sensory testimony of the dawn, sunrise and immediately post-sunrise period confirm the exhalation process. A cardinal one: water vapor arising from the surface of lakes and rivers.

This exhalation process continues until the noon period, by which time the exhaled chemical ether extends up into the heights of the light ether sphere. Barometric pressure reaches an obvious minimum. The earth organism, like anything living, then inhales the chemical ether back into itself, completing the inhalation process just before sunrise.
The moisture-producing, fluid-influencing chemical ether is responsible for such seemingly disparate phenomena as morning and evening fogs and mist, fluctuations in soil humidity, barometric pressure changes, increases and diminutions of potential gradient, and the rising and falling of plant sap.
All these happenings, and many others, are not isolated, discrete phenomena. Man has made them so. In truth, these phenomena are functionally unified by virtue of being produced by the macro telluric breathing process. Those who think today in terms of “antigravity” — a term that exemplifies man’s brain-bound, point-based consciousness — may see plant sap rise and fall daily in billions of plants. Relating this enormous lift to a force capable of lifting a spaceship should not be beyond the capacity of even a modest mentality.
Most of the riddles of atmospheric physics can be understood through the earth-breathing process, and the role played in this process by the chemical ether. Dr. Wachsmuth summarizes these electrostatic, fluidic, barometric, thermic and biological factors on pages 45-56 of his book, written in 1932. In the interim, virtually all of this has been made empirically accessible through the discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Wachsmuth’s book should be studied today with this revolutionary fact in mind.
Dr. Reich discovered the chemical ether as a physical force in 1939-40. He called this force orgone energy, but etherian physicists will find in Reich’s empirically-established properties of orgone energy the traditional properties of chemical ether. The blue color, the affinity for the fluid state of matter and the ability to produce thermic, barometric, electrostatic and biological effects are all there. What Dr. Wachsmuth has written has therefore long since come down to the empirical level, and the scientist who does not today understand at least some of these functions is simply out of date. A new generation of young physicists, strong enough to break with the Old Knowledge, will explore these things fully in the next few decades.
The mechanistic notion that the earth is a dead ball of matter has paralyzed creative thought in official science for generations. The earth is a living organism. Breathing processes are carried out diurnally, as a terrestrial, organic function, only partly dependent upon cosmic intervention. The endless cycle of fixity and chaoticization is what gives rise to, and also sustains, the life processes of the planet.
The side of the earth remote from the sun naturally contracts, and the four etheric spheres tend to stratify. Striving toward the sun, living organisms from the plant kingdom upward to man contribute to a mighty etheric torque that literally turns the dark side of the earth back toward the sun. Under the sun’s influence, the etheric spheres that became stratified during the night are once again brought to chaos. This is a crude sketch of the etheric formative forces and their diverse roles in living organisms, including the planet Earth itself, and the basic source of the earth’s rotation.

Glen Atkinsons Glenopathic Biodynamic Chemistry : http://garudabd.org/

He discovered a 3D gyroscopic table that incorporates Spirit, Astral, Etheric, and Physical Forces .... Wachsmuth only spoke of the etheric and merged that with the formative forces. Formative forces operate within each of these levels but are not the levels themselves. Then Ernst Marti distinguished the etheric from the formative forces and pairing them with a sub natural physical force. Glen Atkinson takes it to a broader perspective incorporating the spiritual and astral as well.

His periodic table is inspired by his disgust of the ignorance he found in the biodynamic community. It has hints of Walter Russell's work in it as well.

I do disagree with one aspect of his work in trying to secularize Steiner work directly going against how steiner described the formative and ethetic forces as inverting into physical forces. Atkinson is a weird kind of materialist that confuses the effect of thebelectronic nature of physicality as the cause of the formatuve and etheric forces. His work is still worth going through if able to discern his misunderstanding on this front.

Here are a few quotes from Atkinson :

"The star related spirit activity, are the primary formative forces, that use the moving activities of the astral planets, to mould the growth forces found within the atmosphere of the Earth, in their picking up of the Earthly substances."

"The Physical and Spirit work from the Head / Soil, to provide a field of play / body, for the Etheric and Astral to work together within the metabolism, to 'fill the sack' / body"

"Formative forces are ANYTHING that brings form to matter. Hence we have Spirit FF, which comes from the Stars and carry the archetypal forms of the species; Astral FF coming from the Planets, which provide sub species variety; Etheric FF coming from the Atmospheric sphere that provides the phenotype variation; and Physical FF, coming from the physical activities and chemistry of the environment, that provides the site specific variants in plant form.....Each of these primary divisions can be defined further...eg PFF include Chemistry, and electro magnetism as well as the 'Physical Organisations', created in the Physical body by the higher members, and then The Cosmic and Earthly Substances and Forces, while the physical elements of Earth, Water, Light and Warmth could be added as well ........In the literature the word 'Form' and 'Formative Forces' most often should be read as Spirit FF, however it is also often used to mean Physical FF, unless specifically called Etheric FF........ Given BD folk are generally confused about their terminology, ( in this case because they do not appreciate the difference between 'Cosmic Ether and the World and Internalised Etheric) and hence want to see everything within the context of the Etheric FF, 'Formative Forces' is one of the most misused and misunderstood terms in the lexicon. Which is why we need to continually refer back to our Astronomical reality, of the Galaxy, Solar System, Atmosphere and Earth as the primary source activities, for the context of any 'idea' we wish to express."