A key element of sustainable well-being as interpreted in the AHI is physiochemical sustainability.
Physiochemistry is significantly concerned with the structure as well as molecular and energetic functioning of higher organisms, particularly the human body. Since the central nervous system – and related to it the psyche as well as especially consciousness – is an integral and essential part of the physis, physiochemistry combines the analytical natural sciences with the phenomenological sciences of the mind.
Sustainability is a principle of action for the management of resources, in which a lasting satisfaction of needs is to be ensured by preserving the natural regenerative capacity of the systems involved.
The concept of physiochemical sustainability explicitly focuses on individual physiochemical resources. Thus, because of its holistic approach, the AHI challenges the widespread separation of theory and practice, objectivity and subjectivity, body and mind, science and spirituality, and does not see them as opposites.
Albert Hofmann Institute
for Physiochemical Sustainability
Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 22
D – 32602 Vlotho
Germany
