Welcome Arjen
So many interesting things you are involved in, will check out the emerson
site. Hoping my BD lecturer doesn't ask the same question you did, at least
not in my first semester of BD.
Thanks for the book tip.
L&L
Liz
on 30/5/03 5:29 AM, Arjen Huese at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I joined the BDNow list recently and I would like to take the opportunity
> to introduce myself. My name is Arjen Huese and I work as biodynamic
> vegetable grower at Emerson College in the UK (www.emerson.org.uk). We have
> got a three year biodynamics training here, where I teach vegetable growing
> and some soil subjects.
>
> I used to have my own biodynamic market garden in Holland before I came to
> England, 2.5 ha on a lovely black sandy soil. I worked with the spray
> preparations, but also with other 'energetic' methods including meditation,
> dowsing, feeling of the earth/crop radiation, colours and Bach flower
> remedies.
>
> I did a course with a man called Hans Andeweg, who has quite stirred up the
> Dutch biodynamic movement, by teaching many farmers and growers how they
> can feel the radiation of the soil/crops as well as using a pendulum to
> determine certain parameters like Bovis value and Orgone. He uses these
> parameters to establish if a field/crop/farm organism is healthy or might
> need a certain input. If needed you can administer a certain energy (with
> an Orgone accumulator) or information (using flower remedies, etc).
>
> He got me quite excited about this, and I practised it for some years until
> I had to quit my farm. Now I am teaching at Emerson, and working my way
> through the Agriculture Course with a group of students and at a certain
> point I gave them the assignment to explain how the spray prepararions
> really work, what background is there behind them. Mistake! I realised I
> didn't have a clue myself... The usual explanation of horn-manure =
> calcium-force and horn-silica = silica-force seemed a bit too easy and
> seemed to be contradicted by Steiner in other chapters of the AgC (espec.
> ch.6). I studied further and encountered the four ethers, which were
> somehow mentioned during my training at Warmonderhof in Holland, but nobody
> ever explained them thoroughly or seemed/seems even to know a lot about it.
>
> A book by Guenther Wachsmuth (' The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos,
> Earth and Man', 1932) that I dug out from the Emerson Library proved very
> informative, I would really recommend it to anybody interested in basic
> understanding of the four ethers and the role they play in plant growth and
> the way they move during the seasons. The latter might give some reasoning
> behind the advice from Steiner to hang up or dig down preparations in
> certain times of year.
>
> This is where I am standing at the moment, still studying the ethers, still
> getting more practiced in feeling energies (particularly the quality,
> rather than the quantity, of energies) and after what I have been reading
> now in the BDNow list about peppering, perhaps do some experiments with
> slug peppers (the main problem in my 2ha garden here at Emerson). My
> students urge me to do some experiments with peppers almost every week, so
> let's give it a try, even without the right constellation perhaps ;)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Arjen Huese
>
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