The Special Energy of Pythagorean Pyramids - A Radiesthesia Perspective

https://www.sacred-geometry.es/?q=en/content/special-energy-pythagorean-pyramids

― Introduction to the special energy properties of pyramids, particularly focusing on the 62-degree pyramid.

― Observation of Negative Green in Electric mode shape waves emitted by pyramid miniatures like the Great Pyramid and its implications.

― Discovery of a Negative Green in Magnetic mode shape wave in the inner vertical of the pyramid, beneficial for health.

― Description of Gurudas' recommendation on using a 62-degree pyramid for enhancing flower essences' effects and life force.

― Guidelines on constructing a pyramid for purifying and amplifying flower essences using quartz crystals and lodestones.

― Investigation into pythagorean pyramids containing exact pythagorean triples in their right-angled triangles and their energetic properties.

― Measurement results showing the emission of Positive Green and Violet shape waves in pythagorean pyramids with vital and spiritual components.

#radiesthesia #biogeometry #shapepower #pendulum

Rudolf Steiner’s “Interdisciplinary Astronomy” meets Wilhelm Reich’s “Cosmic Superimposition"

https://open.substack.com/pub/urphanomen/p/pop-up-rudolf-steiners-interdisciplinary?r=2at642

"The key focal point of this exercise will be a comparison with Wilhelm Reich’s work “Cosmic Superimposition”. Although Steiner and Reich never met or communicated with one other, they hold a historical relationship in the form of an “interdisciplinary approach to Goethean science” -- where Steiner stood as the great spiritual scientist of the 20th century, and Reich as the great natural scientist. A fundamental concept shared by both is the double human being, and is our initial point of contact where the beginning of a dialogue can be imagined between these two scientists. As a historical pair, Steiner and Reich embody, respectively, the “cosmic human being” and the “earthly human being”.

Presentation: https://youtu.be/lzItENaM8v4
Dialogue: https://youtu.be/1l0SyfjBx9M

Note: Reich deplored any form of mysticism and what Steiner stood for. Despite being off his rocker with his claims against Steiner and his general disdain and lack of any ability to grasp spiritual science in preference for over-sexualized psychological theories, some similarities can be found archetypally through their cosmologies. In terms of orgone, it is most likely per its characteristics, Steiner's chemical ether. Robert Gilbert's course on the Universal Vibrational Spectrum covers this.

#orgone #steiner #cosmology #ethers #ether #ahriman

"Shufflebrain - The Quest For The Hologramic Mind" by Paul Pietsch

In this short clip, bio-field pioneer Michael Levin recommends the above mentioned book Shufflebrain as a foundational resource for understanding the holographic nature of memory of biological systems.

https://archive.org/details/shufflebrain00piet

"How does the brain store memory? Many theories located memory in a specific area of the brain - until the development of the hologram, a three-dimensional image produced by wave-front reconstruction. Holograms can be made to mimic many brain activities, suggesting that the brain encodes memory in a similar way. Memory thus may depend on wave-phase relationships rather than on specific parts of the brain."

#holographic #mind #biofield #ethericbody

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#biogeometry #radiesthesia #pendulum #shapepower #spiritualscience #steiner #ethers

The Illusions of Relativity: Space-Time vs Real-Time by Jason Verbelli

This presentation is a comprehensive expose on the differences between Relativity and Reality. Representing many years of intense research. This is a Part 2 to the Illusions of Light and Time video here.

We are NOT looking back in time when we see distant galaxies and stars! Relativity is opposite from Reality.

Relativity uses the framework of Lorentz transformations.
But we will be interpreting light, time and reality under the framework of Galilean transformations.

This visuals and context will help people understand the stark contrasts between the two models. I don't expect people to agree... but I do expect people to take the time to understand the differences between the models.

In this video I provide some data to challenge the strongly held belief that time dilates and that the rate of reality is experienced subjectively between distant locations.

And I propose some thought experiments with some eventual physical experiments that can determine an unreconcilable discrepancy between Relativity's Space-Time model versus how we actually view reality in Real-Time. Regardless of distance.

Some references:

In this extensive Twitter/X thread, I introduce the brilliant work of Dr. Edward Dowdye. Credible Challenges to General & Special Relativity, Doppler Shift Theory and more. Retired NASA Engineer, University Professor of Mathematics and internationally recognized expert in atomic physics, optics, LASERs and satellites.

In this extensive Twitter/X thread, I introduce the brilliant work of Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille. His work is dedicated to new ideas about the nature of the sun, metallic hydrogen, thermodynamics, and the microwave background.

Pierre-Marie Robitaille, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Radiology from The Ohio State University. In 1998, he led the design and assembly of the world’s first Ultra High Field MRI System. This brought on the need to question fundamental aspects of thermal physics, including ideas related to Kirchhoff’s Law of thermal emission and more.

The collapse of Kirchhoff's so-called law brings astrophysics back to the drawing board. No black holes, no dark matter, no big bang, no gas giant stars.

I posted in this thread at least once a day without fail for 5 months.
The totality of Dr. Pierre's uploads and interviews to date.

Credible Challenges
Plasma Physics - Flaws & Corrections
Telegram
Facebook
Twitter/ X
Tiktok
Rumble
Instagram
Steemit

Other posts about Dowdye and Robitaille on the Aether Force channel:
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1752
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1753
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1761
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1762
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1763
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1764
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/2879
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1661
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1670
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1671
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3098
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3278
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/1765

Note: Despite Jason's anti-aether claims, he is only coming from Dowdye's work, attempting to debunk the modern materialistic concepts of the Aether as well as the standard model conjectures of relativity. Strangely, Jason openly promotes Goethean optics without entertaining the thinking from which Goethe's finding arose. He is still addressing science from the one eyed color blindness of onlooker consciousness. No matter what equations you throw onto some paper, you cannot disprove the experiential nature of the non-physical formative forces.

#aether #ether #debunkstandardmodel #verbelli

Rupert Sheldrake and Formscapes Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bPC2TcrTUU

Ken of Formscapes talks with Rupert Sheldrake on a wide range of deep ideas in this episode, including morphic resonance, science induction, the evolving nature of physical constants, and even the very methodology of science. They range from historical to modern thinking toward the fundamental principles of science, quoting from the figures of Hume, Goethe, and Bergson to modern scientific conceptions of physical laws and constants.

The discussion will also touch on the core philosophy that guides all scientific inquiry: the place of habits, as opposed to nature's immutable laws, in grappling with the world, and how constants might be both evolutionary and scale-variant. This reality challenges the notion of the fixedness of scientific laws and constants but says that the regularities in the consistent nature could best be described as "habits," which develop with time.

He describes what role consciousness and teleology may play in science, and how to consider habits and instincts that may seem to point to an underlying purposiveness in nature. Criticisms they bring forth will include the difficulty of explaining morphic resonance in the framework of existing science paradigms, the limitation that arises when explaining some phenomena with the existing scientific framework, and the alternative interpretation bridging the physical and mental duality.

#morphicresonance #biofield #philosophy #spiritualscience #sheldrake

A Bibliography of Writings related to a Goethean Phenomenological Approach to Science - PART 1

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This is a partially annotated bibliography of books, book chapters, and articles, with emphasis on the life sciences.

General/Foundations/History
👉 Goethe: Scientific Studies; the Collected Works, Vol. 12
- Edited and translated by Douglas Miller (Princeton University Press, 1995)
- This is probably the most comprehensive collection of Goethe's scientific writings in the English language at the present.

👉 Goethe on Science: An Anthology of Goethe's Scientific Writings
- Selected and introduced by Jeremy Nadler (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1996)
- A fine selection of Goethe's writings, often excerpts from essays, and also aphorisms, ordered by themes.

👉 Nature's Open Secret: Introduction to Goethe's Scientific Writings
- By Rudolf Steiner (Great Barrington, MA: Anthroposophic Press, reprinted 2000)
- These essays by Steiner, written between 1883 and 1897, still belong to the most penetrating elucidations of Goethe's scientific approach.

👉 Goethe's Way of Science
- Edited by David Seamon and Arthur Zajonc (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998)
- This excellent collection of essays by contemporary authors considers both the philosophy of a Goethean approach to science and examples of practical application in different fields.

👉 The Wholeness of Nature
- By Henri Bortoft (Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Press, 1996)
- A masterful philosophical introduction to a Goethean approach to science.

👉 Taking Appearance Seriously
- By Henri Bortoft (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2012)
- Bortoft describes the pathway to a dynamic way of seeing and places it within the context of the development of modern science and philosophy.

👉 “Doing Goethean Science” By Craig Holdrege (2005)
- This article focuses on the practice of a Goethean approach.

👉 “Goethe and the Evolution of Science”
- By Craig Holdrege (2014)
- This article describes some of Goethe’s work in botany and animal morphology, and shows the relevance of his approach today.

👉 Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal
- Edited by Frederick Amrine et al. (D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1987).
- This volume contains many excellent discussions of Goethe's approach to science.

👉 Goethe's Delicate Empiricism
- A special issue of the journal Janus Head that contains many articles on Goethe's approach from a variety of perspectives. Published in 2005.

👉 The Marriage of Sense and Thought By Stephen Edelglass, Georg Maier, Hans Gerbert, John Davy (Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Press, 1997)
- A clear and concise discussion of a phenomena-based approach to science.

👉 Wonders of Development: In Plants, People, and Projects
- By Jan Diek van Mansvelt (Hillsdale, NY: Adonis Press, 2022)

👉 Goethe's Science of Living Form: The Artistic Stages
- By Nigel Hoffmann (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2007)

👉 The Organism By Kurt Goldstein (New York: Zone Books, 1995)
- Goldstein's main work, describing his holistic approach to science; most of the examples are drawn from neurobiology. A classic.

👉 Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World
- Edited by Jochen Bockemühl (Great Barrington, MA: Anthroposophic Press, 1985)
- The contributions in this volume explore different applications of the Goethean approach in biology and physics. They were written for an audience familiar with Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy.

👉 The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe - By Robert J. Richards (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)

👉 The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature
- By Astrida Orle Tantillo (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)

👉 The Vortex of Life - Nature's Patterns in Space and Time
- By Lawrence Edwards (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1993)

#steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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BOTANY

👉 The Metamorphosis of Plants
- By J.W. von Goethe (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2009)
- This new edition contains beautiful color photographs and an introduction by Gordon Miller.

👉 Goethe's Botanical Writings
- By J.W. von Goethe, translated by Bertha Mueller (Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1989)

👉 Thinking Like a Plant: A Living Science for Life
- By Craig Holdrege (Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2013)
- This book shows how we can learn from plants to think in more dynamic and context-sensitive ways — the plant as a teacher of living thinking.

👉 Awakening to Landscape
- By Jochen Bockemühl (Dornach, Switzerland: Natural Science Section, Goetheanum)

👉 In Partnership with Nature
- By Jochen Bockemühl (Wyoming, RI: Biodynamic Literature, 1981)

👉 Metamorphosis of Plants
- By Jochen Bockemühl and Andreas Suchanke (Cape Town: Novalis Press, 1995)

👉 A New Eye for Plants
By M. Colquhoun and A. Ewald (Stroud, UK: Hawthorn Press, 1996)

👉 The Plant, Vol. I and II
- By G. Grohman (Kimberton, PA: Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Assoc., 1989)

👉 The Living World of Plants: A Book for Children and Students of Nature
- By G. Grohman (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 1999)

👉 Planetary Influences upon Plants
- By E. M. Kranich (Wyoming, RI: Biodynamic Literature, 1984)

👉 About Formative Forces in Plants
- By Dick von Romunde (Jannebeth Roell, 2003)

👉 “The Concept of Morphological Polarity and Its Implication on the Concept of the Essential Organs and on the Concept of the Organisation Type of the Dicotyledonous Plant”
- By P. Schilperoord-Jarke in Acta Biotheoretica vol. 45 (1997), pp. 51-63

👉 “Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants and Modern Plant Genetics”
- By Peer Schilperoord-Jarke in Goethes Beitrag zur Erneuerung der Naturwissenschaften, edited by Peter Heusser and translated by P. Schilperoord-Jarke (Bern: Verlag Paulhaupt, 2000)

#steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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ZOOLOGY

👉 Seeing the Animal Whole — And Why it Matters
- By Craig Holdrege (Lindisfarne Books; 2021)

👉 Threefoldness in Humans and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form (2 Volumes)
- By Wolfgang Schad (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2020)

👉 Do Frogs Come from Tadpoles? Rethinking Origins in Development and Evolution
- By Craig Holdrege (Great Barrington, MA: Evolving Science Association, 2017)

👉 The Giraffe’s Long Neck: From Evolutionary Fable to Whole Organism
- By Craig Holdrege (Ghent, NY: The Nature Institute, 2005)

👉 The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole
- By Craig Holdrege (Ghent, NY: The Nature Institute, 2003)

👉 “Horns, Hooves, Spots, and Stripes: Form and Pattern in Mammals”
- By Mark Riegner in Orion vol. 4, pp. 22-35 (1985)

👉 “Essays in Philosophical Zoology: The Living Form and the Seeing Eye”
- By Adolf Portmann in Problems in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 20 (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991)

👉 Animal Forms and Patterns
- By Adolf Portmann (New York: Schocken Books, 1967)

#steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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HUMAN BIOLOGY

👉 Functional Morphology: The Dynamic Wholeness of the Human Organism
- By Johannes Rohen (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2007)

👉 From Mechanism to Organism: Enlivening the Study of Human Biology
- By Michael Holdrege (Hudson, NY: Waldorf Publications, 2022)

👉 The Heart and Circulation: An Integrative Model
- By Branko Furst (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, Second Edition, 2020)

👉 The Dynamic Heart and Circulation
- Edited by Craig Holdrege (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 2002)

👉 Living With Your Body
- By Walther Buehler (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1996)

👉 Bolk Companions to the Practice of Medicine
- Published by The Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands, on topics such as anatomy, physiology, embryology, and biochemistry. They address the multitude of facts in medical textbooks in the context of a phenomenological approach.

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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ECOLOGY

👉 The Earth's Face
- By E. Pfeiffer (East Grinstead, UK: The Langthorn Press, 1988)

👉 Eco-Geography
- By Andreas Suchantke (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 2001)

👉 Moon Rhythms in Nature
- By Klaus-Peter Endres and Wolfgang Schad (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1997)

👉 “Toward a Holistic Understanding of Place: Reading a Landscape Through its Flora and Fauna”
- By Mark Riegner in Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing, D. Seamon, ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1993)

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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GENETICS & GENETIC ENGINEERING

👉 Genetics and the Manipulation of Life
- By Craig Holdrege (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1996)

👉 Beyond Biotechnology
- By Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008)

👉 “Genetic Engineering and the Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Animals and Plants”
- Edited by David Heaf & Johannes Wirz (Ifgene, 2002)
- Proceedings of a Workshop at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK 18-21 September 2002.

👉 The Future of DNA
- Edited by Johannes Wirz and Edith Lammerts von Bueren (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)

👉 “Progress Toward Complementarity in Genetics”
- By Johannes Wirz (1998)

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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EVOLUTION

👉 Do Frogs Come from Tadpoles? Rethinking Origins in Development and Evolution
- By Craig Holdrege (Great Barrington, MA: Evolving Science Association, 2017)

👉 On the Origin of Autonomy
- By Bernd Rosslenbroich (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014)

👉 Metamorphosis: Evolution in Action
- By Andreas Suchantke (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2009)

👉 Thinking Beyond Darwin
- By E.M. Kranich (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1999)

👉 Developmental Dynamics
- By J. Verhulst (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2003)

👉 “The Theory of Increasing Autonomy in Evolution: A Proposal for Understanding Macroevolutionary Innovations”
- By Bernd Rosslenbroich in Biology and Philosophy vol. 24, pp. 623-44. (2009)

👉 The Spirit in Human Evolution
- By Martyn Rawson (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 2003)

👉 Hope, Evolution, and Change
- By John Davy (Stroud, UK: Hawthorn Press, 1986)

👉 Childhood and Human Evolution
- By Friedrich Kipp (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2005)

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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COLOUR & LIGHT

👉 Theory of Colours
- By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970; reprint of original English translation from 1840)

👉 Seeing Colour: A Journey Through Goethe’s World of Colour
- By Nora Löbe, Matthias Rang, Troy Vine (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2022)

👉 What is Colour?
- By Michael Wilson (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2018)

👉 Rainbows, Halos, Dawn and Dusk: The Appearance of Color in the Atmosphere and Goethe's Theory of Colors
- By Johannes Kühl (Ghent, NY: Adonis Press, 2016)

👉 Catching the Light
- By Arthur Zajonc (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

👉 Goethe Contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color
- By Dennis L. Sepper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

👉 “Exploratory Experimentation: Goethe, Land, and Color Theory”
- By Neil Ribe and Friedrich Steinle in Physics Today (July 2002)

👉 “Goethe’s Theory of Color and Scientific Intuition”
- By Arthur Zajonc in American Journal of Physics vol. 44, p. 327ff (1976)


#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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ASTRONOMY

👉 Sky Phenomena: A Guide to Naked Eye Observation of the Stars
- By Norman Davidson (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1993)

👉 Astronomy: An Introduction
- By Hermann von Baravalle (Fair Oaks, CA: Rudolf Steiner College Press, 2000)


#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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GENERAL PHYSICS

👉 Forming Concepts in Physics
- By Georg Unger (Spring Valley, NY: Parker Courtney Press, 1995)

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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FLUID DYNAMICS
👉 Sensitive Chaos
- By Theodore Schwenk (New York: Schocken Books, 1978)

👉 Water: The Element of Life
- By Theodore Schwenk and Wolfram Schwenk (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1989)

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

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TEACHING PHENOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS

👉 To the Infinite and Back Again: A Workbook in Projective Geometry
- By Henrike Holdrege (Great Barrington, MA: Evolving Science Association, 2019)

👉 Teaching Physics Phenomenologically: Electricity and the Practice of Embodied Learning
- By Wilfried Sommer (Kassel, Germany: Pädagogische Forschungsstelle, 2019)

👉 From Mechanism to Organism: Enlivening the Study of Human Biology
- By Michael Holdrege (Hudson, NY: Waldorf Publications, 2022)

👉 A Phenomena-Based Physics
- By Manfred von Mackensen (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 1994); Vol. 1: grade 6; Vol. 1: grade 7; Vol. 3: grade 8

👉 Phenomenological Organic Chemistry
- By Manfred von Mackensen (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 2009); grade 9 Chemistry

👉 Sensible Physics Teaching
- By Michael D'Aleo and Stephan Edelglass (Spring Valley, NY: Parker Courtney Press, 1999); for grades 6-8

👉 Fundamentals for Phenomenological Study of Chemistry
- By Frits Julius (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 2000); for grades 10-12

👉 The Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry
- By David Mitchell (Fair Oaks, CA: AWSNA, 2001); for grades 7-9

#aether #steiner #goethe #goethean #spiritualscience

Dialogical Knowing Excerpts from Goethe's Writings
https://www.natureinstitute.org/s/Dialogical-Knowing.pdf

👉 From The Undertaking Justified

" When we human beings confront nature, we may at first experience a tremendous urge to bring the objects of observation under our control. Before long, however, these objects will thrust themselves upon us with such force that, in turn, we will feel the need to acknowledge their power and revere their effects. When we are convinced of this mutual interaction, we can perceive a two-fold limitlessness: among the objects, manifold ways of being and becoming in all their living interactions; in ourselves, the potential for infinite growth of our sensibilities and judgments by cultivating ever new forms of receptivity and counteraction.

These conditions provide much enjoyment and would bring the last touch of happiness in life if not for certain inner and outer obstacles on this beautiful pathway to perfection. The years, providers at first, now begin to take. To a degree we are satisfied with what we have gained and enjoy it all the more quietly, since it seldom meets with any genuine, open and vital expression of interest from without.

How few are those who feel themselves inspired by what is visible to the spirit alone! Our senses, our feelings, our disposition exercise far greater power over us, and rightly so, since we are dependent on life and not on reflection.

Unfortunately, even among individuals devoted to cognition and knowledge do we seldom find the desired degree of interest. For people of practical mind — who note details, observe precisely, and draw distinctions — what arises from an idea and leads back to it is viewed as an encumbrance. They feel in their own way at home in this labyrinth and have no interest in a thread that might more quickly lead through it. A metal that has not become a coin and remains uncounted is a burdensome possession. In contrast, someone with a higher vantage point easily disdains the particular and makes a lethal generality out of a concrete life."


👉 From The Intent Introduced

"When we observe objects of nature, especially those that are alive, and desire to gain insight into the relation between their inner nature and their doings, we may believe that the best way to gain knowledge is to divide things into their constituent parts. Such an approach may, in fact, lead us far. A few words suffice to acknowledge the contributions of chemistry and anatomy toward an understanding and overview of nature.

But these attempts to analyze, carried to an extreme, also produce many adverse effects. To be sure, what is alive can be dissected into its parts, but from these parts it is impossible to restore it and bring it back to life. This is true even of many inorganic substances, not to mention organic bodies.

Scientific minds of every epoch have, therefore, also exhibited an urge to understand living formations as such, to grasp their outer, visible, and tangible parts in context, to see these parts as an indication of what lies within and thereby to take hold of and behold the whole. It is no doubt unnecessary to describe in detail the close relationship between this scientific desire and our need for art and imitation.

The history of art, knowledge, and science has produced many attempts to establish and develop a discipline that we will call “morphology.” The historical part of our discourse will deal with the different forms in which these attempts have appeared.