In 1922, Rudolf Steiner was travelling with Dr Ehrenfried Pfeiffer  who said that much had been spoken about but that there was little to show for it:

 ‘He had been speaking of the need for a deepening of esoteric life, and in this connection mentioned certain faults typically found in spiritual movements. I then asked, “How can it happen that the spiritual impulse, and especially the inner schooling, for which you are constantly providing stimulus and guidance bear so little fruit? Why do the people concerned give so little evidence of spiritual experience, in spite of all their efforts? Why, worst of all, is the will for action, for the carrying out of these spiritual impulses, so weak?” 

I was particularly anxious to get an answer to the question as to how one could build a bridge to active participation and the carrying out of spiritual intentions without being pulled off the right path by personal ambition, illusions and petty jealousies; for these were the negative qualities Rudolf Steiner had named as the main inner hindrances. Then came the thought-provoking and surprising answer: “This is a problem of nutrition. Nutrition as it is to-day does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this.” 

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer

In the latest issue No. 106:

• Carbon the Great Plastician (Bernard Jarman)

• Monstery Study (Joachim Bauck)

• Are we what we eat? (Laurence Dungworth)

• Sustainable Nutrition     (Matthew Adams)        

• Dioscorea Batata - Potato of the Future? (Bernard Jarman)

• F1 Hybrids & the decline of Plant Genetic Resources (Peter Brinch)

• Understanding the Star Planting Calendar (Peter Proctor)

• Learning Biodynamics (Liz Ellis)

• Foot and Mouth Update (Chris Stockdale)

• So what makes you, yes you… (Mark Moodie)

• How can Permaculture help Biodynamic farmers? (Jan Martin Bang)

• Bee workshop (Anna Irwin)

• Bee book and Demeter Product reviews 

• Ecovillages – New Frontiers for Sustainability

• Obituaries : Richard Smith  and Cecil Reilly