Without forgiving there can be no true resolution to human conflict. In this essay Kuhlewind penetrates to the roots of the process of forgiving, dissolving and resolving the inner struggles involved in this process and uncovering the sources of blame, envy, and hostility.

Forgiving (Adonis Press)

Kühlewind, Georg

Religion & Spirituality

Adonis Press

Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner (Adonis Press)

Written by three Russian artists who worked with Rudolf Steiner on the First Goetheanum during World War One, these dramatic accounts give vivid impressions of Steiner.

Biographies & Memoirs

Bely, Andrei

Professionals & Academics

In these poems, language comes to life, lifts you into the deeper, more dynamic dimensions of human experience.

A Wound Awoke Me: Poems (Adonis Press)

Literature & Fiction

MacKaye Barnes, Christy

Poetry

In fresh and spirited prose, John Barnes offers a captivating introduction to the life of Goethe as an inspiration for our times. He traces a powerful 18.6 year rhythm in Goethe’s biography, showing how his creative genius unfolded through repeated periods of crises and renewal. The fact that this rhythm corresponds exactly with cyclical movements of the earth and moon suggests a strong connection between the life of Goethe and the pulsing life of nature. Goethe considered his participatory approach to nature to be his finest achievement in life, a contribution only now beginning to be appreciated as scientifically significant. Barnes focuses on Goethe’s development as a scientist, in the end applying Goethe’s own scientific method to his unfolding biography. In doing so, a remarkable archetypal lawfulness is revealed. Goethe’s life and work inspire us to deepen our own connection to nature and to the pulsing rhythms of our lives. In light of the crises we face today, Goethe appears more than ever as a forerunner of a possible healing culture of the twenty-first century.

Goethe and the Power of Rhythm: A Biographical Essay

Barnes, John Michael

Arts & Literature

Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates: Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology (Adonis Press)

Belgian scientist Jos Verhulst presents the most thorough research to date showing that dynamic principles inherent in the development of individual organisms are also at work in animal evolution as a whole. For example: A chimpanzee fetus is strikingly similar to its human counterpart: its cranium is rounded, its face flat, and its hair is restricted to its head. As it develops, however, the chimp diverges from its original, humanlike form, assuming specialized apelike features. In a detailed comparative study of numerous organs, Verhulst shows that, unlike the other primates, humans retain their original juvenile form. Standing Darwin on his head, he concludes that humans have not descended from apes, but rather that apes have evolved by diverging from a humanlike prototype.

Verhulst, Jos

Occult & Paranormal

Belgian scientist Jos Verhulst presents the most thorough research to date elaborating an evolutionary theory first set forth by Dutch anatomist Louis Bolk in the early twentieth century. This theory is based on the proposition that dynamic principles inherent in the development of individual organisms are also at work in animal evolution as a whole. A chimpanzee fetus, for example, is strikingly similar to its human counterpart: its cranium is rounded, its face flat, and its hair is restricted to its head. As it develops, however, the chimp diverges from its original, humanlike form, assuming specialized apelike features. In this detailed comparative study of numerous organs, Verhulst shows that, unlike the other primates, humans retain their original juvenile form. Standing Darwin on his head, he concludes that humans did not descend from apes; rather, apes evolved by diverging from a humanlike prototype. He also shows that our human tendency to retain our fetal form (fetalization, or retardation) is complemented by further development (hypermorphosis) of such organs as the legs, heels, forebrain, and larynx through which we attain our eminently human capacities of upright posture, thinking, and speech. In the last chapter, Verhulst sketches a broad view of how retardation and hypermorphosis have worked together in animal evolution. He speculates, for example, that vertebrates evolved from invertebrates when ancient sea squirts (a form of tunicate, a marine invertebrate) retained their larval characteristics and developed them further as they evolved into fish. Sea squirt larvae are free-swimming and resemble tadpoles. Their brain includes a light-sensitive eyespot, and they have a rudimentary spinal cord. In their adult stage, however, they are sessile filter-feeders with neither nerve cord nor eyes. Verhulst postulates that primitive tunicates like the sea squirt retained their larval characteristics (through retardation) and evolved (through hypermorphosis) into fish, the first vertebrates. Following in a tradition as old as Darwinism, he proposes that, from the very beginning of animal evolution, these dynamics have led progressively toward the emergence of the human form. In this view, the gradually emerging human prototype is seen as the driving force and central trunk of the evolutionary tree, as the wellspring from which the animal world has sprung.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

This beautifully illustrated children’s book was created out of Gertrude Teutsch’s love for the harethistle, a tall relative of the dandelion, which grew around her home. As a gifted mother, teacher, and artist, she found a way of presenting the development of this plant to children through a delightful story-book. Her pictures and narrative enter imaginatively into the various stages and formations of the plant and bring them vividly alive. This book will engender a love for and lively interest in nature — a wonderful resource for parents as well as kindergarten and lower grades teachers.

The Dandelion's Cousin (Adonis Press)

Children's Books

Teutsch, Gertrude

Science, Nature & How It Works

In this accessible and groundbreaking work, Friedrich Kipp shows that childhood and youth―an extended period of nurture and protection from the struggle for existence―have been, and will continue to be, a necessary condition for human evolution. His observations confirm our intuitive feeling that this prolonged phase of human life holds the promise of our future. Kipp's comparative study of the juvenile stage in animals and humans also sheds surprising new light on the process of human evolution and our relation to the animal primates. In their earliest developmental stage, animals―and the animal primates in particular―display characteristics reminiscent of human children. However these more universal, humanlike characteristics are quickly lost as the animals adapt to specific ecological conditions. The animals' early closeness to the human form and their developmental trajectory away from the human suggests that the main trunk of the evolutionary tree is intimately associated with human evolution.CONTENTS:I. INTRODUCTIONII. POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT IN MAMMALS1. Chronology2. What Makes Early Independence Possible?3. Behavioral Plasticity in Young AnimalsIII. HUMAN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1. Characteristic Features of Postnatal Development Standing and learning to walk The use of the hand The ossification of the skull and the growth of the brain Dentition processes Sexual maturity and the adolescent growth spurt2. The Meaning and Significance of Prolonged Youth3. Human PlasticityIV. MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE HEAD 1. Distinguishing Human and Mammalian Structural Types The structural type of the mammalian skull The structural type of the human head2. The Morphology of the Simian Head and its Ontogeny The form of the simian head in early childhood3. Conditions for the Development of the Human Head and Human BrainV. CARE OF THE YOUNG ANDTHE EVOLUTION OF THE CEREBRUM VI. PROTECTION FROM THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION VII. LOVE AND CARING VIII. HUMAN EVOLUTION RECONSIDERED 1. The Form of the Head2. Cerebralization3. The Position of the Foramen Magnum4. Changes in the Structure of the Hand5. The Larynx and its Appendages6. Psychological FindingsIX. THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE - A SURVEY 1. Homo Sapiens Fossils2. Homo Neandertalensis3. Steinheim Man4. Homo Erectus5. Australopithicus and Paranthropus6. Other Fossils from the Tertiary7. The Form of the Head in Fossil Hominid ChildrenX. PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF UPRIGHT POSTURE XI. VOICE AND SPEECH 1. Mammal Vocalization2. The Free Use of the Voice in the Human Being3. The Organs of the Mouth in the Service of LanguageXII. HUMAN BEINGS TEACH THEIR ORGANS CONCLUSION Bibliography ... 120About the Author ... 123A Related Book ... 124

Childhood and Human Evolution (Adonis Press)

Kipp, Friedrich

In its search for causal explanations, modern science has increasingly come to focus on particles, genes, and other hypothetical elements that lie beyond direct human experience. This reductionist approach has led to powerful new technologies, but it has failed to give us an understanding of nature as we can actually experience it in its richness and depthA Goethean, phenomenological approach to physics reconnects human experience with scientific inquiry.

The Physics of Human Experience (Adonis Press)

Science & Math

Edelglass, Stephen

Physics

In this groundbreaking book, Nigel Hoffmann shows that understanding the dynamic, living qualities of nature requires artistic capacities. He distinguishes four stages of scientific inquiry that correspond to the four classical elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Modern analytical science with its causal thinking can be characterized as an Earth mode of cognition. A dynamic approach that follows transformation over time requires a sculptural sense of form and corresponds to the element of Water. The stages of Air and Fire engage yet more vital aspects of nature through musical and poetic capacities. Combining scholarly-scientific acuity with artistic insight, Hoffmann first characterizes these four different ways of knowing. He then applies them, leading us ever more deeply into the dynamic qualities of specific plants, animals, and the landscape they live in. In doing so, he demonstrates how this four-step methodology provides a comprehensive framework for the life sciences. This beautifully illustrated book will appeal to all who are interested in gaining deeper insights into nature. “I put my hopes for the future in such practice because it plants seeds of a life-attuned thinking into the world that can help us to act in more life-engendering ways.” ―Craig Holdrege (in his foreword) Contents: Art and the Emergence of an Authentic Organic Science Goethe and the Phenomenological Method Toward an Authentic Method in the Life Sciences A Goethean Methodology through the Elemental Modes Earth Cognition―Physical Thinking―the Mechanical Water Cognition ― Imagination ― the Sculptural Air Cognition ― Inspiration ― the Musical Fire Cognition ― Intuition ― the Poetical Evolution as Creative Process The Landscape and its Organs The Human Being and the Evolution of Landscape The Yabby Ponds: A Goethean Study of Place

Goethe's Science of Living Form: The Artistic Stages (Adonis Press)

Hoffmann, Nigel

History & Criticism

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Forgiving (Adonis Press)

Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner (Adonis Press)

A Wound Awoke Me: Poems (Adonis Press)

Goethe and the Power of Rhythm: A Biographical Essay

Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates: Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology (Adonis Press)

Developmental Dynamics in Humans and Other Primates: Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology (Adonis Press)

The Dandelion's Cousin (Adonis Press)

Childhood and Human Evolution (Adonis Press)

The Physics of Human Experience (Adonis Press)

Goethe's Science of Living Form: The Artistic Stages (Adonis Press)