By Dr. Martin Schuepbach Summer 2000 - Issue #20 Next time you meet the glorious colors, curves and scent of an iris flower, look carefully. This is a plant recognized for millennia to have special meaning and benefits for humans. Its name is the key: Iris, the Greek goddess who was the messenger of the gods. Her symbol, the many-colored ... Read More ►
By Gerald Karnow, M.D., MD Fall 2000: Chronic Illness - Issue #21 Click Here to Buy the Issue! Everywhere in the media we read about the increasing incidence of diabetes. In the last decade, diabetes rose by 3.3% nationwide to 6.5% of the population. The immense increase of a chronic illness, with its personal, social and economic consequences, poses many questions. ... Read More ►
By Laurieann Quiry Winter 2000, The Soul's Health - Issue #22 The Soul arises from Spirit yet expresses itself through the physical body. The health of our Soul takes attention and cultivation. Giving attention to our Soul can be difficult in the fast-paced world of work, family and responsibilities, yet taking time to pause and let the day's impressions be ... Read More ►
By Michael Lipson, PhD Spring 2001: Death and Rebirth - Issue #23 Though it sounds a bit snappier in German, Goethe's great slogan of transformation, "Die and Become!"(Stirb und werde!) can still serve as our own. It contains the secret of spiritual development, which is a succession of deaths to what has been and a series of openings to the ... Read More ►
By Philip Incao, MD Summer 2001, The Child - Issue #24 All of the common illnesses of childhood are inflammations. "Infection" is the wrong word for them because it suggests that we get sick because germs invade us. This is misleading. We are always exposed to, and often harbor, germs and yet we only occasionally get sick. Why do we ... Read More ►
By Bernhard Steiner Winter 2001: Tension and Relaxation - Issue #26 “Now the twenty-first century has truly begun” was a statement voiced after the brutal terrorist attacks in September. As the events have sunk into our consciousness our feeling of life has changed. How are we to react appropriately? How can we prepare for what is yet to come? Anthroposophy ... Read More ►
By Andrea Schaeffer-Pautz, MD Issue: Spring 2002, A Rich Offering of Therapies - Issue #27 A physician or osteopathic physician who has completed a conventional training with all its external qualifications, who fully acknowledges the benefits and accomplishments of modern medicine, but does not stop there. The anthroposophical physician extends traditionally taught medicine, based on a study of the human ... Read More ►
By Bertram von Zabern, M.D. Issue: Fall 2002, Rhythm and Water - Issue #29 In Search of the Water of Life By Bertram von Zabern, M.D. In the wonderful Grimm's fairy tale of the same name, we learn how the search for "The Water of Life" becomes a life's journey. To find this water, such virtues as modesty, courage and ... Read More ►
LILIPOH Editor Walter Alexander Interviews Paul H. Ray, PhD Issue: Winter 2002: Community and the Art of Social Health - Issue #30 We are good people & we care deeply about all human beings, all animals, all sentient beings. We are profoundly troubled by the growing human-generated threats to farmland and forest, to the air, rivers and vast oceans & ... Read More ►
By Andrea Pautz, M.D. Issue: Spring 2003, Stress - Issue #31 Most of us stress every day at home or work. Stress can also appear in our inner life as discontentment with the world and with ourselves. Life overloads and we are too busy to nurture the inner child. Though we can change certain life circumstances to some degree, our ... Read More ►
