Content of the First Digital Newsletter of the Bolk’s Companions
Interview with Guus van der Bie MD: How the Bolk’s Companions emerged two decades ago, what the challenges were at the time and about the new challenges today. The aim and starting point was to create accounts based on the double-entry methodology for what medical students have to learn: to present the findings of medical science on the one side, and next to that the perspective using phenomenology.
Interview with Arie Bos MD: Arie already had questions about the meaning of life during his medical studies that, however, were not answered in his studies. The ideas he found in spiritual science turned out to bring him the first answers. Consciousness became a special area of interest, which evolved to a point where he could say: we are not our brain. In the new Companion: Consciousness, The Brain, and Free Will, all his themes come together. In Frans Kusse’s interview first published in the Dutch Journal for Integrative Medicine (TIG), Arie Bos talks extensively about his discoveries, including the role of inhibition in the nervous system.
A Look Behind the Scenes: While working on a Companion about the intestines and the microbiome, Kore Luske draws attention to an article about bitter agents to stimulate digestion. In this article bitter receptors are described that appear in many unexpected places in the body. Also of importance for people with diabetes and overweight or with asthma.
An article by Martin Niemeijer: ‘Die Bilder der kindlichen Konstitution' is published in the autumn 5/2024 issue of the German journal Der Merkurstab. Attached is an English version of the article: ‘Constitution Typology in Curative Education’
Bolk’s Companion Progress: The annual progress report with the latest developments at Bolk’s Companions. Including: work on new topics (attachment, microbiome, English translation of Arie Bos’s new book), visiting a research conference, publication in a professional work about to be published, website development, and feedback on our publications.
The Companion Group is a group of practicing or recently still practicing physicians that writes publications as part of the Kingfisher Foundation, a Foundation for Phenomenology and Goethean Science.