Are you fascinated by the beauty of forms in the natural world? Do you sense something amazing at work out there, like an intelligence that lies just beneath the surfaces of things? Then I invite you to read a new essay that explores the building of a new aesthetic consciousness that seeks to connect us with natural processes in a way that is truly transformative. I follow threads from alchemy into the genius of Goethe, and end with intimations brought forth by Rudolf Steiner, and even include some home-made animations as a part of a practical exercise for you to work with. You are invited to come and participate in opening a new set of eyes…
All the qualities of the physical world exist through the interrelations of things to each other. What Moleschott says is correct for physical existence: “All existence is an existence through qualities. But there is no quality that does not exist through a relation.” Just as everything of a soul nature contains something in itself by which it points to something outside itself, so conversely, a physical thing is so constituted that it is what it is through the relation to it of something outer.