Workshop offered: Rethinking Alchemy - The Bodynamic Connection

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Rethinking Alchemy --The Biodynamic Connection--Part 1
The first in a series of workshops offered jointly by the Institute of Post 
Industrial Agriculture and Natura Educational Programs.

Friday, February 25-Sunday-February 27 2000
College Station, Texas


Alchemy and Biodynamic Agriculture
This intensive 3 day workshop will explore the alchemical origins of 
biodynamic agriculture and how the alchemical principles may be used to 
extend the BD farming practices. We will look to the innovations of both the 
biodynamic and the spagyric preparations and investigate plant extracts, 
medicines, and the biodynamic preparations. The relationship between the 
biodynamic preparations and the alchemical spagyric preparations is an 
essential key for understanding and the advancement of biodynamic agriculture.
There will be presentations on reading the 'Book of Nature' and understanding 
the plantary signatures of plants.  Further investigations of this approach 
will be explored in the laboratory, and through various excercises. We will 
work 'hands-on' in the lab and familiarity with chemical laboratory work will 
be helpful, but not required. 
The study and the practice of alchemy is based on modesty, patience, 
seriousness and determination; in otherwords, an inner as well as an outer 
orientatiom.  All the workshops and presentations will flow around this 
emphasis with the focus that we must form a conscious relationship to the 
inner conditions of matter. 
Of special interest are the medicinal substances that can be applied 
externally to supplement the internal spargic preparations and biodynamic 
foods. This topic will lead us into making formulations using the oils of 
plants. Many other topics for further study will come up and future workshops 
will be announced to aid the participants in continuing their studies.
This program is for those with advanced interests in the medical and healing 
arts, biodynamic farming and gardening, herbalists, Waldorf science teachers 
and those with a special interest in nature and alchemy.

SCHEDULE
Friday   9:00   Introduction to the weekend workshop
            10:00  Short break with refreshments
            10:30  Lab work and demonstrations
            12:00   Lunch and discussion
            2:00 - 5:00 Lab work and demonstrations
            Friday evening -reflection and summation of the day

Saturday     9:00   Presentation on the work with plants
            10:00  Short break with refreshments
            10:30  Lab work with plants
            12:30  Lunch break
            2:00 to 5:00 Lab work with plant extracts
            Saturday evening- reflection and summation of the day

Sunday      9:00   Presentation on the work with plants
            10:30 Short break
            11:00 Lab work with plants
            1:00   Lunch and summation

FEE: $250.00 

For more information contact Lee Don Bienski
phone: 409 696 2003 Email:ipia at txcyber.com
            

PRESENTERS
Lee Don Bienski of The Institute of Post Industrial Agriculture will speak, 
demonstrate, and supervise working with plants utilizing standard laboratory 
equipment. Lee Don, PHD chemistry, is a chemist, a biodynamic farmer, a 
reseacher, a professor, and a Waldorf High School science teacher.  He has 
created new formulae for healing soaps and medicaments.

Jim Barausky of Natura Educational Programs is a biodynamic farmer and a 
teacher at The Naropa University and several Waldorf High Schools.  
Cheryl Mulholland of Natura Educational Programs is a Waldorf teacher, a 
social activist, an herbalist, and an artist. 

Natura Educational Programs is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization. Our 
mission is cutural renewal through cutivating our relationship to Nature as a 
living being.

 

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