Season one: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy
In Episode 2, we discuss Chapter 3 of Fundamentals of Therapy. This chapter asks us to expand our perspective on medicine and healing, particularly into the realm of vitality. We reflect on the static pictures that are often offered to us through medical tests and chemical analysis, in contrast to the dynamic functions within the body’s healing processes. Adam discusses the capacity to self-heal as a mystery unique to living organisms, and what this means to our understanding of health and illness.

The book Fundamentals of Therapy by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman is our guide throughout the next five episodes as we discuss Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14. We hope you will read along with us! In this episode, Adam and Laura explore Chapter 1, discussing the challenges of standardized, protocol-based medicine in contrast to the gifts that arise through the relationship between the doctor, the patient, and the illness. We delve into the significance of the etheric life force for healing, as well as the anthroposophical concepts of imagination, inspiration, and intuition.