Man or Matter

Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature

on the Basis of Goethe’s Method

of Training Observation and Thought

by Ernst Lehrs, Ph.D.

Part I – Science at the Threshold

I. Introductory

II. Where Do We Stand Today?

III. The Onlooker’s Philosophic Malady

IV. The Country That Is Not Ours

Part II – Goetheanism Whence and Whither

V. The Adventure Of Reason

VI. Except We Become …

VII. Always Stand By Form

VIII. Dynamics Verses Kinetics

IX. Pro Levitate

X. The Fourth State of Matter

XI. Physical Substances As Part Of Nature’s Alphabet

XII. Space and Counter-Space

XIII. Radiant Matter

XIV. Colours As ‘Deeds And Sufferings Of Light’

XV. Seeing As Deed – I

XVI. Seeing As Deed – II

XVII. Optics Of The Doer

XVIII. The Spectrum As A Script Of The Spirit

PART III Towards A New Cosmology

XIX. The Country In Which Man Is Not A Stranger

XXI. Know Thyself