Can we give scientific basis to our sense that human beings have unique human features?

 

The Bolk’s Companion Group aspires to broaden the perspective of science by elucidating the context behind health and disease. To this aim, the Group strives to pioneer investigative methods to complement and innovate conventional scientific views and research techniques. It examines the exploration of conscious intuitive study in the research and practice of medicine such as the 4-step approach employed in the Bolk’s Companion series.

We of the Bolk’s Companions Group are a group of curious Dutch MDs, who just love medical science. We are interested in life, consciousness, healing processes, and anything else that can be helpful in treating our patients. We read, write, discuss, teach, and practice in this field. And we do research. However, as medical practitioners we encountered a contradiction between what modern science reveals… and what we experience in our daily practices where we treat each patient as an individual!
 

Our questions have been:

* Can we maintain awareness of the coherence of the changing organism--the human being who is our patient--as we study the details? And if so, how can we do that with a scientific approach?

And:
* Can we give scientific basis to our sense that human beings have unique human features?

Finally:
* How can we fully comprehend the relation between the human spirit and psyche, and somatic functions?

 

In other words, how can we unite reductionism with:
•    our sense of wholeness
•    pattern recognition
•    and our clinical intuition… In a scientific way?
 

We found inspiring people who had researched these questions before, in Goethe-- particularly in his scientific writings--and  in Professor Louis Bolk. We developed their approach further to what we now call the 4-step approach, for use in practice, and to answer these questions for ourselves and the students we are teaching worldwide.

Since 2001 we have published over twenty Bolk’s Companions with the purpose to share our findings with our medical colleagues and students, and make them available on this website.

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