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""The way a plant is formed is what we see when we vividly grasp its form, colors, smell or composition and enter into its spatial and transformational totality without using abstractions.""Jochen Bockemühl's Guide to Understanding Healing Plants II presents an elementary botanical experience of fundamental chemical activities to help the reader gain a deeper understanding of pharmaceutical processes within plants and their connection to the human organism from a spiritual perspective. In this volume, we meet a scientist who practices what he preaches--an approach to an imaginative way of viewing phenomena, in which outer sensory perception and soul participation unite in a loving understanding of nature. This links Bockemühl's approach to those of scientists such as Paracelsus and Goethe, for both of whom love became the highest power of knowledge and without which life and healing processes would remain forever incomprehensible. The foundation for this approach is the Goethean method of observing nature, and the study of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science offers the working hypotheses for our own path of research. Originally published in German as Ein Leitfaden zur Heilpflanzenerkenntnis, Band II (Science Section of the School of Spiritual Science, Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2000).

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Jochen Bockemühl (1928-2020) was born in Dresden. He studied zoology, botany, chemistry, and geology and, in 1956, became a coworker at the Research Institut at the Goetheanum. From 1970 to 1996, he was director of the Natural Science Section, and beginning in 1980 led seminars on landscape in Europe and elsewhere. His publications in English include: In Partnership With Nature, Dying Forests, Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World, and Awakening to Landscape. Dr. Michaela Glöckler has been Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland since 1988. She attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, then studied German language, literature, and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. She studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg and trained as a pediatrician at the community hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Pediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children's outpatient clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten, Germany. Michaela has many publications in German, many of which have been published in English. David Heaf is a beekeeper, biodynamic expert, author, and translator. His books include Natural Beekeeping with the Warre Hive: A Manual (2013) and The Bee-friendly Beekeeper: A Sustainable Approach (2015). David lives in Wales, UK.

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