Goethe’s Metamorphosis of Plants with Rolf Sattler

Rolf Sattler is emeritus professor of biology at McGill University in Montrael, Canada. He is author of Organogenesis of Flowers, Biophilosophy: Analytic and Holistic Perspectives, and Science and Beyond: Toward Greater Sanity Through Science, Philosophy, Art, and Spirituality. Here he describes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as the equivalent to German literature as Shakespeare is to English literature or Dante is to Italian literature – a towering figure. However, Goethe considered his scientific writings to be as important as his literary contributions. Sattler sees Goethe as one of the founders of the discipline of plant morphology. His book, The Metamorphosis of Plants was published in 1790. Sattler points out that Goethe incorporated many different worldviews into his analysis – including perspectivism, animism, mechanism, essentialism, holism, and mysticism. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology“ ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). (Recorded on October 2, 2021) For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see For opportunities to engage with and support the New Thinking Allowed video channel -- please visit the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at . To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at You can help support our video channel while enjoying a good book. To order Science and Beyond by Rolf Sattler, click here: (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) Our Facebook page: Our Twitter page: Our Instagram page: Our LinkedIn discussion group: