Muck and Mind - by Jonathan Code (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>There is a profound, qualitative difference between the approach of biodynamic agriculture and mainstream factory farming or genetic modification. However, Jonathan Code argues that the most significant difference is not between the practical methods employed, but in the consciousness behind those methods. This insightful book examines how the biodynamic approach to land stewardship, and a deeper understanding of how to work with the land, plants and animals, can become a catalyst not only for the transformation of compost and soil, but also for the transformation of consciousness. This is a book for anyone interested in not only healthy agriculture, but how it feeds a healthy culture - Publisher's description.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"...the interests of agriculture are bound up with the broadest spheres of human life...there is practically no field of human endeavor that does not relate to agriculture in some way. Seen from whatever perspective you choose, agriculture touches on every single aspect of human life." <br />--<strong>Rudolf Steiner</strong>, <em>Agriculture</em></p> <p><i><strong>A healthy culture implies a healthy agriculture.<br /></strong></i><i><strong>A healthy agriculture feeds a healthy culture</strong>.</i></p> <p>Beyond the technology and use of machines, today rapidly developing technology (i.e., "genetic engineering") extends into the realm of <i>life, </i> which we can, and therefore do, manipulate for the ostensibly noble purpose of feeding the people of the world.</p> <p><i>Life, </i> however, is not mechanical. To begin to comprehend life, something is desperately needed--a fundamental shift in our approach, one that seeks to comprehend the qualities of the living organism as a whole, and in relation to its whole environment, which extends, ultimately, to the outer limits of the cosmos.</p> <p>This fundamental shift in approach is at the heart of biodynamic agriculture, the qualitative opposite of the genetically manipulative approach to agriculture, or "factory farming." However, whereas the practical differences between these two approaches are profound, the real issue is not the details of methods, but the modes of consciousness behind those methods.</p> <p>This book arose from the author's engagement with core aspects of the biodynamic approach to land stewardship and from a deepened understanding for how working with the land, plants, and animals may become a catalyst not only for the transformation of compost and soil, but also for a transformation of consciousness.</p> <p>"Nature's life and flow are so fine and subtle that in the end they slip right through the coarse mesh of our rational concepts. That's the mistake science has made in recent times--it tries to use coarse conceptual nets to catch things that are actually much too fine for them." <br />--<b>Rudolf Steiner</b>, <i>Agriculture</i></p> <p>∞ ∞ ∞</p> <p><b>C O N T E N T S</b> </p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>1. Beginnings: The Way It Is<br />2. Digging In<br />3. The Dance of Dandelions<br />4. Encountering Alchemy<br />5. Separate, Purify, and Recombine<br />6. Dragons and Hens<br />7. Three-in-One<br />8. The Turning Point<br />9. A Distillation of Words<br /> 10. Poeïsis</p> <p>Post Script<br />"The Way It Is," by William Stafford<br />"An Offer of Praise," by Wendell Berry & William Stafford<br />Cited Works and Suggested Reading<br />About the Author and Illustrator</p>
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