Rupert Sheldrake on the Influence of A. N. Whitehead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok7n4baI6KA

CliffNotes2Plato interview biologist and psychical researcher Rupert Sheldrake about the influence of Alfred North Whitehead on his ideas and worldview.

"Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out" - FootNotes2Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8pUjNZ5ubY

A presentation summarizing the paper linked below at the 13th International Whitehead Conference hosted by the Munich School of Philosophy. Introduced by Godehard Brüntrup.

Link to paper: https://footnotes2plato.com/2023/06/21/whiteheads-philosophy-of-organism-turning-idealism-inside-out-draft-article/

Alfred North Whitehead: His Life and Work - FootNotes2Plato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDrlzo9_3c8

Thinking with Machines - FootNotes2Plato
A brief discourse on how humanity must rethink its relationship with technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz2wvy-GWQ

Goethe’s Polemics against Newton: A Morphological Approach to History of Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgFf9PcIKfw

"Newton’s and Goethe’s approach to colours are usually presented as diametrically opposed. Heisenberg, for example, contended that Newton and Goethe investigated separate domains, namely physical and psychological colours respectively. Wittgenstein is more extreme when he claims that “phenomenological analysis (as e.g. Goethe would have it) is analysis of concepts and can neither agree with or contradict physics”. The problem with such an interpretation, however, is that it renders Goethe’s polemics against Newton misguided and mistaken.

The paradox is that the more we make Goethe’s approach differ from Newton’s, the less effective and more mistaken his critique of Newton becomes. It seems we can’t have both. Yet if we take a morphological approach and place Newton in a sequence between Descartes and Goethe, we can indeed give an account that allows Goethe’s approach to radically differ from Newton’s whilst also preserving his critique. In this talk I will present such an account and therewith an example of what could be called a morphological approach to history of science.

This talk is part of our exciting series of free monthly talks on the subject of Holistic Science, organised by Schumacher College in collaboration with the Field Centre. You can view the full series, including recordings of previous talks, here: www.dartington.org/holisticsciencetalks "

Michelson Morley Experiment : A Shocking Revelation - FractalWoman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNkLk_vZ8k

"In this video, I attempt to explain to you a shocking revelation I had last night after watching some videos on the Michelson-Morley experiment. Turns out, the assumptions made about the Ether Wind are both logically and physically incorrect. At least, that is how it seems to me. Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested."

Link to video: Special Relativity 1: Michelson-Morley

Link to paper : Acoustic Michelson-Morley Experiment with an Ultrasonic Range Finder
https://journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/2522

Michelson Morley Experiment : Can there still be an Ether? - FractalWoman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHrZ30z6p1E

"In this video, I attempt to further explain what I was saying in my previous video regarding the Ether wind and the Michelson-Morley experiment by using retroductive reasoning to rule out different scenarios. This is the pre-relativity thought experiments so I am not yet incorporating relativity into the thought experiments. I am merely trying to see if there is anything we missed regarding the existence of the Ether."

George Adams Kauffman - Space and Light of Creation - p.11

“To speak in the Goethean spirit, the purpose of scientific thinking is not to spin out complicated theoretic systems farther and farther removed from experience reality, but to fertilise within the human soul - out of those spiritual sources which are accessible to thought - what the soul has experienced by contact with the world of Nature. The human soul evolves in this process - grows to a higher level - and as it does so the circle of direct experience increases. The sphere of knowledge grows inasmuch as the shackles of imperfection and the veils of blindness fall from the soul. The soul experiences increasingly and yet more tenderly and richly by contact with the world of Nature. Nature including, we need scarcely add, that which we ourselves bring forth in her by experiment and ordered observation. …. Steiner shewed by his whole life’s work that the same method can also be pursued in harmony with subsequent developments of Science. Nay more, he shewed how as we do so Science will grow into a conscious experience of the spiritual source and origin of things , - no shadowy or abstract ‘spiritual source’ remotely apprehended by philosophic speculation, but alive and present, and filled with abundant content.”

Rudolf Steiner on the Eternal Mystery of the Chicken and the Egg
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/RSP1966/19171125p02.html

If someone wants to investigate, for example, how the embryonic life-cell of animal or man develops, he studies it through a microscope and is concerned only with what lies there directly under his lens. But that is far from being the whole thing. It will be realised — and some groups are very near this already — that the forces at work are not contained in the cell but come from the cosmos and its constellations. When a seed of life arises, it does so because the living creature which harbours the seed is receiving forces, cosmic forces, from all sides of the cosmos. And when fertilisation occurs, the results depend on which cosmic forces enter actively into the process.

One thing, not yet seen, will be recognised. To-day the idea is that we have a living creature, a hen, let us say. When a new seed of life appears in the hen, the biologist investigates how the egg arises out of the hen; he looks within the hen itself for the forces which cause the seed to grow. That is nonsense. The egg does not grow out of the hen; the hen is merely the substratum for it. The growth-forces work from out of the cosmos on to the soil which has been prepared in the hen for engendering the egg. The biologist to-day believes that the relevant forces are all to be found within the field of his microscope. Actually, what he sees there depends on stellar forces which work together in a certain pattern at a given point. When we discover the cosmic at this point, then for the first time we shall have got at the reality and the truth: it is the cosmic whole which conjures up the egg in the hen.

Fun Quotes by Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe on Modern Scientific Thinking

“Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.”

“Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removed when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.”

“Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.”

“The scientific myth of the existence of an ‘objective reality’ is only paralleled by the myth that in so called ‘empirical science’ researchers proceed from the observations made during experiments to scientific theories. It is the preconceived, and culturally and historically influenced ideas of scientists that lead them to hypothesize and then to design experiments, which produce outcomes in support of their intended arguments. This may lead to valid results, but will always only allow for a limited, inter-subjective view of a particular aspect of the universe we live in.”

“One speaks secretively of an important experiment, which one will use to support the theory; I know it quite well and can present it too: the entire trick consists of adding more conditions to the ones above, an thereby to increase the hocus-pocus even further.”

“Considers the problems of Aristotle, one is amazed by his gift of realisation and by how many things the Greeks had eyes for. They only committed the mistake of drawing premature conclusions, since they moved from the phenomenon immediately to its explanation, which resulted in unrelated, theoretical expressions. This is on the other hand, the general mistake, which is still committed today.”

“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not”

“We are insufficiently aware that a language is, in fact, merely symbolic, merely figurative, never a direct expression of the objective world, but rather a reflection of it”

“There is a lot of certainty in the sciences, as long as you don’t let the exceptions confuse you and you know to honour the problems.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe On the Nature of Discovery

“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”

“Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.”

“Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.”

“Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.”

“Whenever I finally calm down at the primal phenomenon, it is really nothing more than resignation; yet a big difference remains, whether to resign at the restrictions of humanity or within the hypothetical restrictions of my daft individual.”

The Threefold Social Order Podcast

Listen at any of these links:
- https://threefoldsocialorder.castos.com/
- https://open.spotify.com/show/2slpTy5F3cHY8y4JWOCFcV
- https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/threefold-social-order/4562629


"The Threefold Social Order as laid out by Dr. Rudolf Steiner is a progressive Social, Political and Economic framework that further develops the nascent threefold structuring (Judicial, Legislative & Executive) seen in countries like the United States and France. We will not only explore this idea but its esoteric foundations and why such principles are the only possible basis for real and lasting solutions. We'll also have some fun in an attempt to balance out dark and hard truths, while appreciating the wonders of the universe we live in and answering oddball metaphysical questions for those new to the study."