Understanding the spiritual nature of substance

In relation to nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and sulphur

28 February - 2 March 2008

Oaklands Park, Newnham, Gloucestershire, UK

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updated: 02/12/07

We are delighted to announce the IBIG (International Biodynamic Initiative Group) Conference for the end of February 2008.

The choice for the theme “Understanding the spiritual nature of substance” by working  through the elements of Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Sulphur came up in a conversation between a few participants during the 2005 IBIG Conference on the 4 Ethers.

We observed that whereas reading lecture 3 of the Agricultural Course is a wonderful experience, at the same time it must be said that trying to understand the role of those 5 substances within the “life of the world” is a different cup of tea.

Steiner states that today’s chemistry does not come much further than taking snapshots of people you meet in the street: “What we understand about these substances through today’s chemistry is actually no greater than the knowledge we have of people who we have passed in the street, people we have photographed perhaps, and whose external appearance we recall with the help of the photographs".

Keynote Introductory Lecture

We are very pleased that Nikolai Fuchs, Leader of the Agriculture Section in Dornach will open the conference with a lecture on the history of the five elements in agriculture.

The conference

The aim is to come to a better understanding of the inner nature of the five elements as indicated in Lecture 3 of the Agriculture Course. This will be done through lectures, experiments, movement and observational work.