Ways out of automatism: Towards a free and responsible relationship with nature

Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak

Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak is a pharmacist and farmer and has been co-leader of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum since 2023. She mentors students in Goethean botany and conducts research on Goethean plant knowledge for pharmacy and medicine. In Slovenia she has run a company producing food supplements and cosmetics since 2013, founded the association «Sapientia» and a section for anthroposophic pharmacy and medicine, and since 2019 has managed a Demeter-certified family farm.

Matthias Rang

Matthias Rang, born in 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied physics and physics education in Freiburg and Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Wuppertal in 2015 on phenomenological approaches to complementary spectra. He has been a researcher at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum since 2007 and co-leader of the Natural Science Section since 2020. His research focuses on complementary phenomena in optics and the relationship between Goethe's theory of colour and Newton's optics.