Goethe Stories

Sterben is a physician at a little town at the countryside. Following a strange sexual disease from a patient, he begins to unveil the terrible secrets of the city of Schadel, a place surrounded by violence and surreal events.

Sonnets with one invocation

This is new Science, as if iNtuitive Feeling and Cultural Creatives Mattered (that's you and me). If we reach back 250 years, to the German playwright, poet and scientist, Johann Goethe (GER-tah) (1749-1832), Three Sciences are discernable: First Order Science ~ What is beneficial at the personal level of each person, all the way down to the cells, DNA and genes. "Is this true and beneficial for me now?, or NOT true nor beneficial for me now?" Second Order Science ~ 2 + 2 = 4 must be true for everyone, in all times and all places. "What is beneficial, worth knowing, for practical survival, technology, commerce and profit?" Linear, sequential logic is the main problem solving tool on the physical-material plane; also, the basis for symbolic thinking, thinking outside the five-sensory box: math. Third Order Science ~ "Have we considered the needs of all stakeholders for the next seven generations? What is safe, possible, permitted and allowed now for the good of the greatest number?" An expanded science paradigm solves more current problems and makes more of our own psyche coherent, than the old one Order alone. Three Sciences make a safe place for both "hard science" skeptics and holistic-humanistic activity. This is the end of "war" between Soft and Hard sciences. When we expand our thinking to Three Sciences, "hard science" falls naturally into place as one third of a holistic science paradigm. To avoid Second Order Science to dominate excessively, let's teach: we use all three logical levels daily. The biggest Goethean Science experiments have been invisible, hidden in plain sight, since 1920. Goethe's concepts make Waldorf K-12 education and holistic healthcare activity more coherent and credible. They were already Goethean--we simply did not recognize this. Goethe was first in modern times to balance the experimenter with the experiment. Goethe was very likely our first modern holistic thinker.

Nicht ganz sinnlos.

die Ballade der Erkönig von johan Wolfgang von Goethe