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syndrome, here are the texts of three messages from Dave Robison: **************** Subject: Steiner Books Free Forum LT At 12:01 PM 8/23/2002 -0400, Robin wrote: >Steiner also mentions that we should read spiritual books to the dead in >order to give them the food they require. Seems like the dead also feed >off our thoughts when we sleep (only if we had spiritual thoughts during >the day, which most don't, thence why the dead are starving...). Have >you any notion of this concept? Or, have you ever seen this phenomenon >at work? Has anyone? In Buddhist philosophy, we have the "hungry ghosts" and they deserve our compassion too. >Today, I found a book called "The Plant Between Sun and Earth: And the >Science of Physical and Ethereal Spaces" by G. Adams and O. Whicher, >London 1980. One of the mind-blowing classics. Adams goes a bit overboard, delves into counter-space geometry to a degree only another mathematician will appreciate. Ms. Whicher's contribution is the wonderful drawings of plant forms. Recent reprints reproduced these drawings in B&W, a real loss. Seek an earlier publication if you can, in order to get the full benefit. Some of the drawings are posted in their original color in the intro class on <http://www.oregonbd.org/>www.oregonbd.org. Of course, Nick Thomas has continued this work at http://www.anth.org.uk/NCT/ ==================== David Robison ********************************** From: Dave Robison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: War on Iraq? Can we please stay on subject? I fully understand the concern and the reasons to be involved, but that is not supposed to be the reason for this particular list. Jane -- please limit your global news posts to OFF subject. I thought you had agreed to do so. Allan -- The moderator should be ready to step in when a thread gets out of hand. ==================== David Robison ******************************* From: Dave Robison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Religion? Patti wrote > > I do not believe, however, that my plants grow because I connect with some > > sort of "inner self" or some universal power source. > > > > Is this a part of what biodynamics is? > > Patti- I sympathize with your questions. The value of this discussion group is the wealth of opinions expressed. The responses to this question have been thoughtful and beautifully articulated. (Thank you, Roger!) And all of us have a slightly different perspective. The religion thing is difficult to convey without much more interaction. Let me suggest that in the "intro to BD" class at www.oregonbd.com, we tried to side-step those issues. You can get an idea of the conceptual model behind BD in a scientific sense without needing to be a cult-like "true beliver". The idea being to not offend beginners by dumping too much ideology on them. Take a look and see if it helps you understand what BD is about. Nevertheless, avoiding the discussion of "religion" is a cop out. Eventually, every one does need to come to terms with life, death, and all those other things about why are we here and what are we doing. I think all of us find a connection in the natural world -- a connection we call "spiritual". And the point is that all things, most importantly us, grow within all sorts of connections, including those we call spiritual. ==================== David Robison
