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JPI Book Announcement!

JPI Book Announcement!

  We are releasing a new title with SteinerBooks, Biodynamics for Beginners: Principles and Practice, in which the “best of” Applied Biodynamics have been collected and edited. Much of Applied Biodynamics has reached an intimate audience, but it is time for...

JPI Book Announcement!

  We are releasing a new title with SteinerBooks, Biodynamics for Beginners: Principles and Practice, in which the “best of” Applied Biodynamics have been collected and edited. Much of Applied Biodynamics has reached an intimate audience, but it is time for...

Devoted to Healing Our Earth - The Josephine Porter Institute

Devoted to Healing Our Earth

I know this doesn’t do justice to the enjoyment we all shared. The closest I can describe it is like the feeling of summer camp — but for grownups dedicated to healing the earth. What a...

Devoted to Healing Our Earth

I know this doesn’t do justice to the enjoyment we all shared. The closest I can describe it is like the feeling of summer camp — but for grownups dedicated to healing the earth. What a...

Mice: A Farmer's Best Friend - The Josephine Porter Institute

Mice: A Farmer's Best Friend

When we consider Steiner's indications on "pest peppers" (remedies made to combat pests and weeds), you take the weed seed and destroy them either by fire or by rotting. Consider the rodent: the rodent lives primarily...

Mice: A Farmer's Best Friend

When we consider Steiner's indications on "pest peppers" (remedies made to combat pests and weeds), you take the weed seed and destroy them either by fire or by rotting. Consider the rodent: the rodent lives primarily...

Secondary Objectivity - The Josephine Porter Institute

Secondary Objectivity

If biodynamics is used as a "magic potion" to fix all of a farmer's problems, the farmer is likely to judge biodynamics as "not working" even though biodynamic preparations never claimed to be such a panacea....

Secondary Objectivity

If biodynamics is used as a "magic potion" to fix all of a farmer's problems, the farmer is likely to judge biodynamics as "not working" even though biodynamic preparations never claimed to be such a panacea....

The Return-Gift of Gratitude - The Josephine Porter Institute

The Return-Gift of Gratitude

We must remember we owe more than we can give and embrace gratefully the bounty the Earth gladly surrenders to us.

The Return-Gift of Gratitude

We must remember we owe more than we can give and embrace gratefully the bounty the Earth gladly surrenders to us.

Fungus & Threefolding - The Josephine Porter Institute

Fungus & Threefolding

When Jesus drives the moneylenders and animals out of the temple, this is analogous to using Equisetum arvense to bring a healthy asceticism to plants, to starve out (so to speak) excessive inner planetary forces or lower animal impulses.

Fungus & Threefolding

When Jesus drives the moneylenders and animals out of the temple, this is analogous to using Equisetum arvense to bring a healthy asceticism to plants, to starve out (so to speak) excessive inner planetary forces or lower animal impulses.

Cows Create Meadows - The Josephine Porter Institute

Cows Create Meadows

In Karl König's fascinating work Earth and Man he proposes that specific animals create landscapes like themselves. In particular, one that stands out for biodynamic practitioners is the cow, which, König suggests, creates meadows.

Cows Create Meadows

In Karl König's fascinating work Earth and Man he proposes that specific animals create landscapes like themselves. In particular, one that stands out for biodynamic practitioners is the cow, which, König suggests, creates meadows.

First Rule of Intitiation - The Josephine Porter Institute

First Rule of Intitiation

If we don't first accept there's a problem we also can't fix it. So the first step is not hiding in denial but accepting the exact conditions as they are and looking within those for hidden possibilities....

First Rule of Intitiation

If we don't first accept there's a problem we also can't fix it. So the first step is not hiding in denial but accepting the exact conditions as they are and looking within those for hidden possibilities....

Buddhist Biodynamics - The Josephine Porter Institute

Buddhist Biodynamics

Steiner suggests that Jesus symbolically curses the fig tree because it was under the bodhi tree (ficus religiosa) that the Buddha attained his enlightenment. Incidentally, the bodhi tree is a a fig tree. What is suggested here...

Buddhist Biodynamics

Steiner suggests that Jesus symbolically curses the fig tree because it was under the bodhi tree (ficus religiosa) that the Buddha attained his enlightenment. Incidentally, the bodhi tree is a a fig tree. What is suggested here...