Re: RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture'
Dear list members, For many years I have been an advocate for the recognition of the work of the Kolisko's. This research has laid the groundwork for modern agricultural homoeopathy. I believe that one of the major problems faced by the Kolisko's within the Anthroposophical movement lay in the fact that this research was competing with secular interests who were promoting the legacy of Rudolph Steiner. There was no recognition by their peers of the value of this research. To get the theory of homoeopathic dose accepted in agriculture, particularly in high potency, there had to be a development of an appropriate technology to potentise large quantities of material. This was not available at that time. What was the value of minimal dose when the basis of RS's Agriculture course was cow manure which was in plentiful supply. Steiner's indications were being interpreted by materialists who were trying to come to grips with a spiritual aspect promoted by a man who was so far ahead of his time. The time was not right for a discussion of spiritual aspects of agriculture. The people of Europe were trying to come to grips with the effects of a devastating war, the people of Germany were burdened with reparation payments, and physical wealth had to be rebuilt. In a way modern America is in the same position that Europe was in the 1920's and 1930's, you are trying to come to grips with such great uncertainty that it is only natural that there will be resistance from some of those who need to defend the status quo. This discussion to advance, will need to come to some concensus opinion of allowing the many divergent views on radionics to be expressed. Let us debate the issues vigorously, as even in Europe there is a need to solve the problems which have surfaced about some form of testing to ensure the freedom of disease which could be transferred from farm to farm by the use of BD500 made from raw manure. Radionically potentised BD preps have so much to offer agriculture, that their widespread use is only a matter of time. To discuss pot trials from 70 years ago is a purely academic pastime unless we also discuss how do we use this information and in what circumstances are the results applicable. Have a great day. James Hedley - Original Message - From: bdnow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture' The following is from Agriculture of Tomorrow by Eugen and Lily Kolisko. This title is out of print and is reproduced here for purposes of education. Today, people in general are little inclined to detach themselves from the claims of the material world and to seek the spiritual directly in the physical world around them . . . It is, however, precisely from observing directly the sense-perceptible that a right path will open out for those who wish now to work entirely within the fild of present-day science, if they really seek to discover the spritual there. It can be done . . Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION It may seem strange to speak about smallest entities in agriculture, but it is absolutely necessary that farmers and gardeners learn to understand this important phenomenon. The problem of minutest quantities, or better smallest entities, was studied from 1920 in the Biological Institute at the Goetheanum (Stuttgart) and later on in the Biological Institute at Bray, Berks. The attempt to find a remedy for Footand-Mouth Disease led us to the question of smallest entities. What is the right concentration of the specific remedy to be injected? Rudolf Steiner suggested that the effect of different dilutions on germinating plants should be studied. From 1920 until today we have been studying this interesting subject. One might think that this is a medical problem rather than an agricultural one. Of course it is a medical problem in that we are looking for a certain remedy, but it becomes an agricultural problem as well if we study how the growth of plants is affected by substances which are diluted, or rather potentised. What does potentise mean? Exactly what the word itself expresses. In potentising a substance, we increase its effectiveness. We make the substance more potent. The strange thing about potentising is, that we have to reduce the amount of the substance which we want to make more potent. In everyday life we are accustomed to think: if we want to make something more effective, we have to take a bigger quantity. For instance, if we want to make coffee sweeter, we take a second teaspoonful of sugar. In homeopathy we are told just the opposite thing. If we want a stronger action from a certain remedy, we have to potentise it, that means dilute it with water or alcohol, again and again, in a rhythmical way. This is the first and most important thing we have to learn: to discriminate between matter and force. Matter can act in two different ways: as matter
Re: RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture'
the Kolisko's. This research has laid the groundwork for modern agricultural homoeopathy. I believe that one of the major problems faced by the Kolisko's within the Anthroposophical movement lay in the fact that this research was competing with secular interests who were promoting the legacy of Rudolph Steiner. There was no recognition by their peers of the value of this research. To get the theory of homoeopathic dose accepted in agriculture, particularly in high potency, there had to be a development of an appropriate technology to potentise large quantities of material. This was not available at that time. What was the value of minimal dose when the basis of RS's Agriculture course was cow manure which was in plentiful supply. Steiner's indications were being interpreted by materialists who were trying to come to grips with a spiritual aspect promoted by a man who was so far ahead of his time. The time was not right for a discussion of spiritual aspects of agriculture. The time may have now arrived for European biodynamic practioners to revisit the art of homoeopathy in agriculture in response to the extreme difficulty or even imposibility of makeing most of the preparations or remedies. this may have to tide them through until the regulations can be changed again. Peter.
RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture'
The following is from Agriculture of Tomorrow by Eugen and Lily Kolisko. This title is out of print and is reproduced here for purposes of education. Today, people in general are little inclined to detach themselves from the claims of the material world and to seek the spiritual directly in the physical world around them . . . It is, however, precisely from observing directly the sense-perceptible that a right path will open out for those who wish now to work entirely within the fild of present-day science, if they really seek to discover the spritual there. It can be done . . Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION It may seem strange to speak about smallest entities in agriculture, but it is absolutely necessary that farmers and gardeners learn to understand this important phenomenon. The problem of minutest quantities, or better smallest entities, was studied from 1920 in the Biological Institute at the Goetheanum (Stuttgart) and later on in the Biological Institute at Bray, Berks. The attempt to find a remedy for Footand-Mouth Disease led us to the question of smallest entities. What is the right concentration of the specific remedy to be injected? Rudolf Steiner suggested that the effect of different dilutions on germinating plants should be studied. From 1920 until today we have been studying this interesting subject. One might think that this is a medical problem rather than an agricultural one. Of course it is a medical problem in that we are looking for a certain remedy, but it becomes an agricultural problem as well if we study how the growth of plants is affected by substances which are diluted, or rather potentised. What does potentise mean? Exactly what the word itself expresses. In potentising a substance, we increase its effectiveness. We make the substance more potent. The strange thing about potentising is, that we have to reduce the amount of the substance which we want to make more potent. In everyday life we are accustomed to think: if we want to make something more effective, we have to take a bigger quantity. For instance, if we want to make coffee sweeter, we take a second teaspoonful of sugar. In homeopathy we are told just the opposite thing. If we want a stronger action from a certain remedy, we have to potentise it, that means dilute it with water or alcohol, again and again, in a rhythmical way. This is the first and most important thing we have to learn: to discriminate between matter and force. Matter can act in two different ways: as matter, or as the specific force behind the matter. In everyday life we ask only for matter, for quantity, and we do not even stop to think, that there is something like a force which is active in every kind of matter. Sugar for instance is not only sweet that is one quality we discover with our sense of taste. Besides being sweet, sugar has many other qualities which we are unable to taste but none-the-less have definite reactions within our organism. Now we must raise another important question: What do we want in reality? The substance itself, or the inner quality of the substance? For instance, a farmer may be convinced that his soil needs lime. How does he solve the problem? Usually he digs a large amount of lime into the soil. Again and again he will dig in lime. Let us now study the influence of smallest entities of lime on the germination of wheat. We put a certain number of seeds in a control dish with water. Then we dissolve one gram of calcium hydroxide in ten parts of water and shake the mixture for some minutes; then we have the first potency or a dilution of 1: 10. We take I part of the first potency; mix it with 9 parts of water; shake for the same time, and we have the second potency, or a dilution of 1:100. We may continue this process of diluting as long as we like. Usually we make our experiments up to the 60th potency. Having finished all the potencies, we insert the carefully selected seeds, and, a few days later we compare the results. The seeds inserted in he first potency of lime scarcely start to germinate. The effect of lime in such a high concentration is thus proven unfavorable. The seeds in the 2nd potency start to sprout, while while those in the water control are much more advanced in growth. The 3rd potency is more advanced than the 2nd, the 4th is of about the same value as the water control, the 5th already surpasses the water control and has definitely better developed roots. The 6th potency is more advanced than the 5th, and the 7th and 8th potencies show still more increase in growth. That means, if we observe these few potencies, that a dilution of 1: 100,000,000 of lime produces a much better growth than a lower potency. The lime works much more powerfully 9 we use a minute quantity. Whenever we have to introduce lime into the soil we need not dig in a ,'large quantity of the solid matter, but spray a certain potency carefully on the
