ABSTRACT
It is possible to make sense of some unconventional ways of working with water used in agricultural practices, in particular the rhythmic stirring or ‘dynamisation’ used in biodynamic farming but also other methods used to support animal, plant and soil life. This chapter examines the basis for understanding the healthy development or ‘forming’ in living organisms and then looks closely at the way water forms itself in flow. It explores from the conceptual perspective of projective geometry and from a perceptual perspective of Goethean observation, both paths arriving at the same principles at work in the physical, perceptible world. Dynamisation is examined in terms of water as a sensitive medium and its changing relationships to its spatial environment. The movement of water induced in Flowform vessels is also examined and their potential uses within agriculture discussed. Questions are raised regarding research into life processes and the reproducibility of results. Can the study of water help us, as researchers, to adapt our thinking to better comprehend living organisms and move beyond mechanistic and reductionist approaches?
