Leaps of Consciousness

Plants and trees are cosmic beings.

One of the fundamental concepts of biodynamic agriculture is how the sun, moon, and planets affect plant growth through calcium and silica.

Planetary Influences upon Plants describes how they affect the growth patterns, leaf placements, and flower forms of different plant families and which planets affect which plants through diagrams and examples. It inspired Rudolf Steiner's Biodynamic farming.

In Thinking Beyond Darwin, Ernst-Michael Kranich focuses on a central problem of evolutionary science. Based on Goethe’s botanical and zoological investigations, he shows how to see the coherence and inner dynamics of organisms.

Using Goethe's concept of type as a key to vertebrate evolution, Kranich methodically lays the foundation for a science of evolution. He focuses on the central problem of evolutionary science: Are there underlying principles that connect the many disparate facts? By consistently applying Goethe’s method to evolutionary thinking, Kranich shows that the inner lawfulness of living organisms encompasses the laws and driving forces of evolution and that we must participate through formative thinking in the evolutionary processes

Thinking Beyond Darwin, makes an important contribution to developing more adequate concepts of evolution and arrives at clear insights about earlier animal forms and evolutionary laws that could have immense consequences for future evolutionary thinking.