This lecture, given at a Greenwood Waldorf School Teacher Conference, looks at escaping the abstract, linear, protocol-driven approach to problem solving that constitutes proof for the sciences. This approach to science, which has permeated all aspects of life from economics, to politics, social interactions and cultural development, has implications for human consciousness that go beyond technology and nature and reach into the moral aspects of human existence. The historical and philosophical basis for the phenomenological approach to science is shared through the work of Goethe, Franz Brentano and Rudolf Steiner.

This lecture offers inner practices that can serve as the foundation for a beneficial worldview that can provide unique insights into today’s challenges.