A Modern Quest for the Spirit

Translator’s Preface
Introduction by Thomas Meyer 
Editorial Preliminary Remarks
 
PART I:
THE MEMOIRS OF EHRENFRIED PFEIFFER
Fragments of a Biography 
A Soliloquy (1948) 
The Heart as a Spiritual Organ of Perception (1950)
“This is a Problem of Nutrition” 
The True Basis of Nutrition (1958) 
On Experiencing the Christ (1959) 
The Johannine Brotherhood (1959) 

PART II:
FROM PFEIFFER’S LETTERS
“Do We Pose the Right (…) Questions?” (To Ita Wegman, 1924) 
Christian Rosenkreutz and the Spiritual Function of the Heart (To Gwenda Ormiston, 1950)
The Rosicrucian Background of Edith Maryon (to Lexie Ahrens, 1950) 
R. Swinburne Clymer (to Lexie Ahrens, 1960)
In the Temple of Hatshepsut (to Lexie Ahrens, 1960)
Music — The Unfulfilled Aspiration (to Lisa von Herwarth, 1959)

PART III:
PERSONAL MEMORIES OF PFEIFFER
Personal Memories of Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (by Lexie Ahrens)
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer and the Future (by Paul W. Scharff, M.D.)
Pfeiffer’s Crystallization Work and its Role in the Origin of the Book Fundamentals of Therapy: An Extension of the Art of Healing through Spiritual Knowledge (by Paul W. Scharff, M.D)
A Conversation with Pfeiffer about the Night of the Fire (by Paul W. Scharff, M.D.)
The Background to the Plot for Poisoning Rudolf Steiner

APPENDIX

Sir Albert Howard’s Deed for Science 
References
Bibliography
Name Index

Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer

Dr. Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer (1899–1961) was born in Munich. He worked closely with Rudolf Steiner to test and document many of the effects of biodynamic practices. Pfeiffer visited the U.S. several times during the 1930s, and was awarded a doctorate for his groundbreaking theory of Sensitive Crystallization Processes as a blood test for detecting cancer. In 1940, he immigrated to the U.S., where he pioneered biodynamic agriculture and helped establish the Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association. He died in Spring Valley, New York.