Spiritual Science and Medicine

Spiritual Science and Medicine

On May 25, 2023 By RidzerdIn 

More and more people will not only have to gain theoretical insights into spiritual science, they will also have to find the strong inner strength to introduce spiritual science into the individual branches of life. This can be demonstrated in many different areas of life. And again one can say that the real facts are masked here. Because apparently one can object to everything that is said here about spiritual science. 
Let’s take an area of life that is most likely, one might say, appreciated by mankind for the simple reason that it is very close to external salvation. You see, spiritual science could be tremendously beneficial if people allowed themselves to see that the medical schools, medicine, pharmacology could be influenced a little by this spiritual science. 
For more and more modern scientific developments have led to medicine itself assuming a materialistic character. Certainly, through this materialistic character, it has also achieved very beneficial things, and one only needs to point out the extraordinarily great advances that have been made in the field of surgery in order to find some justification when it is said again and again, what I also say: that one must admire the more recent advances in natural science. 
But there are other aspects of medical knowledge and medical art that are no less important, which suffer enormously from the materialistic trend, and which can only face a blessed future if spiritual-scientific knowledge is introduced into the relevant investigations.
Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 168 – Die Verbindung zwischen Lebenden und Toten / Die Lebenslüge der heutigen Kulturmenschheit – St. Gallen, 26 October 1916 (page 163-164)
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