Aether/Ether
editDr Rudolf Steiner (1861 -1925), graduate in science and mathematics, philosopher and inspirational educator, was the first in modern times to emphasize the vital, living quality of the aether. He also designated a system of graded levels of the aether, thereafter known as the Four (A)ethers. These broadly correspond to the four classical elements, four temperaments and four humours, and the different states of matter: solid, liquid, gaseous and plasma.
In this perspective, the quality of aliveness, the difference between an organism and a corpse, is understood as the essential nature of the aetheric or life energy body, the vehicle within which the physical-material body exists and functions.
A compilation, Aether, [1], published in 2006 in both audio CD-ROM and book formats, includes various scientists and other authorities speaking on various aspects of the subject. They include:
Professor Brian Goodwin (biology, Open University, Schumacher College, UK)
Professor Arthur Zajonc (physics, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA)
Professor Ian J Thompson (nuclear physics, University of Surrey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Dr Margaret Colquhoun (biologist, Life Science Trust, UK)
Dr Edi Bilimoria (consultant civil engineer)
N C Thomas MIEE (scientist, electrical engineer, mathematician)
Michael Watson MIEE (scientist, electrical/avionics engineer)
Books etc
Aether: Knowledge is Power ISBN 1900034115 (audio CD-ROM)
Aether: The Transcript ISBN 1900034107 (paperback book)
Dr Ernst Marti (physician), The Four Ethers ISBN 0935690026, Das Aetherisch/The Aetheric
Ernst Lehrs (scientist), Man or Matter ISBN 0854404309
George Adams (mathematician), Physical and Ethereal Spaces
N C Thomas Science Between Space and Counterspace ISBN 19026360203
Arthur Zajonc (physicist) Catching the Light ISBN 0-19-509575-8