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The secrets of Biodynamics

source: http://www.greentimes.com.au/technology/the-secrets-of-biodynamics.html

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Read this, it is brilliant.


"Biodynamics has been considered by some as the first modern ecological farming system. The approach is similar to organic but with the unicity of the use of fermented herbal and mineral preparations as compost and astronomical planting calendar based on the Rudolf Steiner philosophy.

Back in early 1924, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, who later became one of the early leaders in biodynamic agriculture, was anxious to find ways to build bridges between active participation and the carrying out of life purposes without being derailed by personal ambition, illusions and petty jealousies. These were the negative qualities his mentor, Rudolf Steiner, had named as the main inner hindrances."

This is the passage I love the most:

"On a train from Stuttgart, Germany to Dornach, Switzerland he asked Steiner, 'How can it happen that the spiritual impulse, and especially the inner schooling, for which you are constantly providing stimulus and guidance, bear so little fruit? Why do the people concerned give so little evidence of spiritual experience, in spite of all their efforts? Why, worst of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these impulses, so weak?'

Steiner’s rejoinder surprised him, 'This is a problem of nutrition. Nutrition as it is today does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this.' ”
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This philosophy encompasses farming and spiritual self actualization, both interconnected.
Mineral and herbal preparations create a change at a microscopic level but transforms the soil achieving outstanding results.
Here is the passage that says it all:
" ...a microscopic change at a point can effect large scale changes in the medium. But we are so used to the notion that a bigger shift requires a bigger hammer that it seems very strange to expect profound results from the minuscule application..."

Beautiful!

Steiner took inspiration from :
“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”
He believed there were no essential limits to human knowledge.



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