phyllotaxy—the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem
In classical empiricist approaches, we could say that our ways of talking depend upon the world; to the extent that our talk is rooted, or grounded in what the facts of the world will permit or allow us to say, our talk is about what we ‘find’ to be there.
On the other hand, in line with hermeneutical or interpretive views, it is equally true to say that what we take to be the nature of the world depends upon our ways of talking about it; thus, to the extent that it is they that ‘give’ or ‘lend’ it intelligible (and legitimate) structure and significance, it is as we ‘make’ it to be.
—John Shotter, Social Individuality Versus Possessive Individualism
The spiritual correlative of what we find externally in the world as the relations between the signs of the Zodiac and the seven planets familiar in Spiritual Science.
Rudolf Steiner, Human and Cosmic Thought: Lecture III
“Drawings based on subtle-knowledge and brief description of some types of angels“
How to Organize Your Holon “Congratulations! Yes, congratulations on your decision to form your Holodynamic Holon. A Holon is the first level of organization in the Holodynamics Society. It consists of 6 or more individuals who meet together weekly to study Holodynamic principles, apply the processes, and expand their holodynamic influence into the community and across the world.”
Dialectics: Being-Nothing-Becoming
When we think Being it immediately is Nothing, and Nothing is immediately Being. The very thinking of them is their vanishing, and thinking is what a thought truly is. It is no logical nonsense to say the truth we have experienced: Being is Being vanishing to Nothing, and vice versa.
The nested circles of the Great Chain of Being that represents the worldview of all pre-modern cultures