...faming practice devised a century ago by the Austrian esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who was convinced that he could fertilize fields with cosmic energies drawn by manure-covered cow’s horns (see photo) and deer bladders full of yarrow flowers, buried and dug up according to astrological alignments.
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I suppose this stuff is popular with those people who call us “science deniers”.
Biodynamics! I hadn’t thought of that for decades; it was a big deal in some hippie communes in the 70s, and even they had to admit it was nonsense.
Rudolf Steiner was a Catholic priest who went off the rails and got into all sorts of nonsense, basically developing his own religion, which included reincarnation and everything else trendy in 19th/early 20th century “spiritualist” circles. He had some decent educational theories (that is, don’t beat the children, considered pretty revolutionary in his day!) and the schools still do well (and are super expensive). The anthroposophists also ran homes or communities for the developmentally disabled, since they believed that the retarded were the souls of geniuses resting for their next life. While that was nonsense, the residents were well treated.
Very strange, but not surprising, to see that this foolishness is being supported by the Vatican. I wish the whole Vatican state, including its head, would collapse into the Tiber.