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Articles on Activism

Ongoing efforts regarding the FDA’s Draft Guidance on Homeopathic Products:

The organization, Americans for Homeopathy Choice (AHC) submitted a legally and clinically sound Citizen’s Petition to the FDA to have permanent regulation for homeopathic products, many of which are used by anthroposophic medical physicians. The regulation proposed in the Citizen’s…

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Save Homeopathy – Send Comments to the FDA by May 23rd

Dear PAAM Members and Interested Parties,To those who have sent comments to the FDA, thank you! We still need many more to send in their comments. The deadline of comments to the FDA has been extended to May 23, 2020. Right now we…

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For the right to screen-free day care institutions, kindergartens and primary schools

Teachers, educators and parents decide for themselves how long (to what age) an educational institution can remain screen-free. Those responsible for teaching must be able to determine the medium they use, whether they enlist digital media and to what purpose…

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Changing the Culture of Health

A talk by Dr. Steven Johnson on the Changing Culture of Health (part 1) https://youtu.be/CvzPNT1hSWA

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Articles on Agriculture

The Gift of Three Kings – Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh – Experiences and Perspectives from a Biodynamic Gardner and Two Anthroposophic Doctors

The three substances of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh are known around the Christian world through the traditional bible story of the three kings gifting them to at the birth of the Jesus child in the Saint Mathew’s gospel. Actually, these…

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Biodynamics, Social Justice and Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course

An article by Cory Eichman, Biodynamic Farm Manager at the Saugeen River CSA in Ontario One of the first thoughts Rudolf Steiner brings in the Agriculture Course, his 1924 series of lectures to farmers that form the basis of biodynamics, is…

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Youth and Nature

Dear Friends,We hope you enjoy this first episode of recorded conversation hosted by the Foundation for Health Creation (FHC). In this episode, titled “Youth and Nature” (see video below), we filmed an unscripted conversation between young people from different backgrounds…

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The Role of Nature in Health Creation

An Interview with Dr. Steven Johnson, DO and Dennis Klocek, PhD, author, teacher, gardener and herbalist Dr. Steven Johnson: Hi Dennis. Thank you for having this conversation on the role of “nature” in health creation. There is a great deal interest…

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Finding Faith in Field Work

an article by Darby Weaverfeatured in Summer 2019 issue of Biodynamics Read article on the Biodynamics website

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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

a recommended book by Wendell Berry Find on the Sierra Club website

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Articles on Childhood

Leading the Child to Love the World

by Ronni Sands Gardening teacher Ronni Sands asks: How do gardening teachers relate the practical work of the garden to the growing child? article originally published in Biodynamics, May/June 1996

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Individualizing Treatment in Children

A Talk by Alicia Landman-Reiner, MD, speaking about the importance of constitutional considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=78hRGUp06D8&feature=emb_logo

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Healing Applications:

Compresses, Inhalations, Poultices and Soaks from the Lilipoh Wellness Guide

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Tending the Flame: Childhood Fever

article by Philip Incao, MD Acute inflammations like colds, the flu and fevers seem to be an inescapable part of life: everyone experiences them. Why do we get them? Many of us have noticed (if not, then our spouses have…

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Articles on Community

In Memory of Gene Gollogly: A Champion of Hope

Some of our readers may have known Gene personally and, if you didn’t, I think you will find inspiration in our dedication to him. He was best known for his accomplishment as a savvy book publisher and later as the leader of Steiner books. He used this platform to inspire people all over the world…

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Social Breakdown and Initiation

A conversation between Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop Read article at Kosmos Journal

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Creating Healthy Communities One Person at a Time

by Dr. Steven Johnson Health Creation represents a new multi-cultural health paradigm for creating resilience in our time, both for ourselves and for our planet. “Resilience” refers to the capacity to unfold our fullest potential for physical, mental and creative well-being while simultaneously becoming more resistant to infection and disease. “Health Creation” represents a renewal…

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Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth

” ‘Warmth’ is the most powerful personality trait in social judgment, and attachment theorists have stressed the importance of warm physical contact with caregivers during infancy for healthy relationships in adulthood…” Read full article on US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health website

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Articles on Education

Age-appropriate Screen Use in Schools

Petition launched by the Eliant network and the Alliance for Humane Education Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 20 November 2020 The European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy (Eliant) advocates cultural diversity and choice in Europe. Its petition for an age-appropriate use of digital technology ‘For a…

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Health and Learning Are Deeply Interconnected in the Body:

An Action Guide for Policymakers Read article on Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child website

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Against Fear: The Michaelmas Call

an article on parenting by Nancy Blanningfeatured in Lilipoh Magazine, Fall 2016 We live in a fear-filled world. This has always been true for humanity. Whether it has been threat from wild beasts, natural disasters, famine and starvation, war, plague…

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How Do Cell Phones Impact Our Relationships?

a talk given by Simon Sinek One of the most powerful gifts we can give is our attention. In this talk, Simon Sinek explores the real social dangers of cell phones and makes practical suggestions on how to improve the…

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Waldorf 100- Becoming

From Waldorf 100: “Becoming” is the third film in a series of short films produced on the occasion of the centenary of Waldorf Education under the direction of the award-winning Californian documentary filmmaker Paul Zehrer, and which provide an insight…

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What are Anthroposophic Medicines?

A talk Dr. Alicia Landman-Reiner, MD, offering insight into the unique qualities of the medicines and remedies used in Anthroposophic Medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRT4-69PK0&feature=emb_logo

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Articles on Environment

Letter from Steven Johnson, DO, regarding the safety of 5G wireless

Dear Friends, Some of you are concerned with the safety of the new 5G wireless network, which may soon expand rapidly, increasing exposure to wireless energy radiations. We will address this in future issues of the Foundation for Health Creation newsletter. There is a lot of evidence that raises questions about its safety for our…

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The Last Cricket

an article by Steve Edwards originally published in Orion Magazine, September 9, 2020 The Last Cricket

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An Anthroposophic Perspective on 5G and ElectroMagnetic Frequency

by Dr. Debra Gambrell There is much discussion about the current roll-out of 5G, or the 5th generation cellular network. Unlike 4G, which was a specific technology revolving around certain frequencies, 5G is the infrastructure that uses existing LTE (Long Term Evolution, the high speed wireless technology that many devices use for high speed mobile…

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Articles on Health

Waldorf Schools for Doctors and Nurses

Adam Blanning, MD As a Waldorf parent, you gather lots of good stories about your children. One that stands out for my family is when our new first grader—who had independently taught herself to read at 5-and-a-half years of age—marveled at how clever her new teacher was. She told us about this at the dinner…

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Reflections from the Creating Health Summit

In July, FHC put on our first ever Creating Health Summit! We were joined by Charles Eisenstein, Jaimen Macmillan, and Dan McKanan to look at health, as it relates to the individual and in relationship to the whole. Our founding board members also gave a panel presentation covering topics from education, to the healing garden,…

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Becoming a Cosmic Citizen

by Dr. Steven Johnson SPRING 2022 I have learned a hard life lesson during the Covid-19 pandemic, namely that what I thought I understood through knowledge and felt I believed through faith did not correspond to the sea of sympathies and antipathies that flooded my soul. I could not choose a side about the right…

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Cultivating Warmth as a Path Toward Service

by Carmen Hering, MD SPRING 2022 Our body temperature is closely regulated. For adults, normal body temperature can range from 97 to 99 F, with the average being 98.6 F. In children, temperatures are slightly higher, with a normal range being between 97.9 F and 100.4 F. Physicians consider body temperature a vital sign, but…

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How to Manage Viral Illnesses at Home

by Daciana Iancu, MD www.AnthroSonoma.com    WINTER 2021 How do we harness our innate ability to overcome illness, particularly viral infections?                While the current Covid epidemic continues to evolve and is anticipated to co-exist with us from here forward, other viruses also continue to exist and progress. Furthermore, the chances that novel, possibly…

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A Short Look at Sleep Rhythms and Health

by Dr. Steven Johnson WINTER 2021 Has your sleep changed over the last few years? Does sleep refresh and inspire you? What happens to “you” during sleep? How important are these and similar questions? Hopefully after this short essay you’ll think and feel differently about sleep. Maybe you’ll even adopt a renewed reverence and attitude…

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Seeking Health through Touch

by Dr. Carmen Hering WINTER 2021 I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group of school teachers about how to approach the new challenges they are encountering in the classroom. After a year and a half of online learning, children have returned to school eager, but not just for learning. Students are eager…

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Reimagining Health and Wealth

by John Bloom As young children, my brother and I would visit our grandmother at the home for the aged. She would look at us and say, even into her nineties, “If you are healthy, you are wealthy.” That was a first mysterious inkling of how simple wisdom connects apparent disparity. Now that I am…

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Healing in the Peaceful Home during COVID

a blog post on The Parenting Passageway Healing in the Peaceful Home

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Staying Healthy at the End of 2020

 by Dr. Daciana Iancu  2020 will go down in history as a remarkable year. As our world is changing before our eyes, we might be wondering what the new normal will be like. While there are many challenges right now, there are also opportunities. We are at a crucial time in the history of humanity…

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What is Health Creation?

by Amanda Jacobs  This past March, as the world was waking up to the reality of Covid-19, I became ill with bilateral pneumonia. As the illness progressed, the days and nights became a fevered blur. Each moment felt more and more like a life-or-death contemplation. Thanks to the care and support of family, friends and…

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The Medicine of Love (Within the Pandemic of Fear)

by Ben Cherry originally published by socialinitiativeforum.org What is clear is that a hard road lies ahead. I imagine we can all agree on that. But inner change rarely takes place without pain, and our fear today can be seen as a symptom of awakening to realities that we had not had to face so consciously…

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Breathing in the Time of Covid-19

by Tonya Stoddard, LCSW When I first heard the term “social distancing” I thought it was a joke. I was getting ready to take my 11-year-old son, a ballet dancer, to his very first “real” ballet in the city. Though our seats would be jammed together in a very small space with little ventilation, our…

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Letter from Steven Johnson, DO, regarding the safety of 5G wireless

Dear Friends, Some of you are concerned with the safety of the new 5G wireless network, which may soon expand rapidly, increasing exposure to wireless energy radiations. We will address this in future issues of the Foundation for Health Creation newsletter. There is a lot of evidence that raises questions about its safety for our…

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What to Do When Your Child Has an Earache

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The Last Cricket

an article by Steve Edwards originally published in Orion Magazine, September 9, 2020 The Last Cricket

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Individualizing Treatment in Children

A Talk by Alicia Landman-Reiner, MD, speaking about the importance of constitutional considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=78hRGUp06D8&feature=emb_logo

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An Anthroposophic Perspective on 5G and ElectroMagnetic Frequency

by Dr. Debra Gambrell There is much discussion about the current roll-out of 5G, or the 5th generation cellular network. Unlike 4G, which was a specific technology revolving around certain frequencies, 5G is the infrastructure that uses existing LTE (Long Term Evolution, the high speed wireless technology that many devices use for high speed mobile…

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Spring Detox: An Introduction to an Anthroposophical Detox Program at the Rudolf Steiner Health Center

by Dr. Molly McMullen-Laird  Why Detox? Studies show that our bodies contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 toxic chemicals (those being the ones that we can identify). Some of these toxins are naturally occurring through the breakdown of foods and medicines we knowingly put in our bodies. Others are contaminants from packaging, water supply,…

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What are Epidemics?

by Dr. Philip Incao The strongest passion is fear.La Fontaine (1621-1695) “Passion is catching.”Shakespeare (1564-1616) (in Julius Caesar) Update March 2020: The current Corona virus epidemic is the latest iteration of what Rudolf Steiner predicted would be recurring crises in our global society until an adequate number of people acting as a kind of “critical…

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An Imagined Letter from Covid 19 to Humans

 by Kristin Flyntz Stop. Just stop. It is no longer a request. It is a mandate. We will help you. We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt. We will stop the planes the trains the schools the malls the meetings the frenetic, furied rush of illusions and “obligations” that keep you…

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The Corona Virus

an article by Dr. Georg Soldner What is a virus, how does it attack the human organism, and how can we respond? https://goetheanum.co/en/news/the-corona-virus

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Corona Virus Implications

by Dr. Alicia Landman-Reiner In Face of the Coronavirus Epidemic As Anthroposophic doctors, we strive for the courage of our convictions about what is real healing, and offer this to our patients, amidst a culture of fear of pain and illness, rejection of the organism’s wisdom, and doubt in face of a more holistic viewpoint.…

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Breathing in the Time of a Pandemic

https://denvertherapies.com/breathing-in-the-time-of-a-pandemic/

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The Brain Architects Podcast: Covid-19 Special Edition: A Different World

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/the-brain-architects-podcast-covid-19-special-edition-a-different-world/?utm_source=announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=covid_podcast The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World

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Viewpoints on the Corona Virus

A talk on the Coronavirus by Chen Atid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_2yNqpkgc&feature=youtu.be

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The Significance of Primary Tumors in the NTP Study of Chronic Rat Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation [Health Matters]

Published in IEEE Microwave Magazine Read article on the IEEE Explore website

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How Do Cell Phones Impact Our Relationships?

a talk given by Simon Sinek One of the most powerful gifts we can give is our attention. In this talk, Simon Sinek explores the real social dangers of cell phones and makes practical suggestions on how to improve the situation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xYCy2eft8&feature=youtu.be

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The Balance of Winter

by Dr. Daciana Iancu Winter is the time for slowing down. The shorter days and increased cloud cover cause our senses to withdraw. We want to sleep more, ponder more and become more internal. As nature peels away its life forces, our natural tendency is to want to hibernate. There is less drive to be…

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The Winter Blues

by Dr. Steven Johnson If we don’t address negative emotional thoughts during this time of year, it can lead to the winter blues and even depression. When the quiet inner joy and gentle light of Winter’s journey is overwhelmed by feelings of despair, anger, sadness, isolation or fear; then we are blinded to our own…

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The caring profession of Anthroposophic Nursing

by Elizabeth Sustick, RN, Anthroposophic Nurse Specialist and vice president of the North American Anthroposophic Nurses Association. From the Lilipoh Wellness Guide The question for human-centered care that addresses the dignity and wholeness of the ill person is an urgent need of our time. Nursing and caring currently exist in a healthcare context dominated by…

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Tending the Flame: Childhood Fever

article by Philip Incao, MD Acute inflammations like colds, the flu and fevers seem to be an inescapable part of life: everyone experiences them. Why do we get them? Many of us have noticed (if not, then our spouses have noticed!) that we often come down with a cold or flu when we are overly…

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What are Anthroposophic Medicines?

A talk Dr. Alicia Landman-Reiner, MD, offering insight into the unique qualities of the medicines and remedies used in Anthroposophic Medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeRT4-69PK0&feature=emb_logo

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Changing the Culture of Health

A talk by Dr. Steven Johnson on the Changing Culture of Health (part 1) https://youtu.be/CvzPNT1hSWA

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What is an Anthroposophic Medicine and How is it Chosen?

by Adam Blanning, MD December 2012 Three Paragraph Newsletter The medicines that are used in anthroposophic medicine (also often referred to as “remedies”) come from the natural world. Most are prepared from plants and minerals, a select few from the animal world, with very special attention given to the purity and quality of the substances.…

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Articles on Vaccines

Immunization–How Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy Can Guide Us to A More Complete Understanding and Practical Actions

by Mark Kamsler, MD Mary is an 18-year-old girl in my Wisconsin medical practice who has not been immunized by her family’s choice. She will be starting college in Florida at a school where immunizations are required without the personal conviction exemption that is allowed in Wisconsin. Jimmy, 14 years old who has only received…

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