Dennis Klocek is engaged in active research in a number of areas. He annually produces a climate newsletter with predictions for the six months of the winter storm season. The newsletter, called Weather Week, is the result of 20 years of research on the influence which planetary motion has upon the weather. Many articles on this subject have been written by Dennis, and many more are in the works. Check out his website at DocWeather.com. Besides this research Dennis is an active gardener who has written articles on stone towers in the garden and the effects of mineral preparations on plants.
Current projects for books include a book on the uses and effects of color in art therapy, and a collection of lectures on the liver, lung, kidney, and heart seen from the perspective of embryology. These organs serve as the basis of temperament and as such are important for the development of a healthful approach to teaching.
Dennis has three grown sons all involved in graphics and design and his wife Barbara is a kindergarten teacher and art therapist. Dennis devotes most of his year to the work of the Consciousness Studies program, but the summer months are given over to lecture tours and research on various topics.
MFA Master of Fine Arts - Temple University Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA - Teaching Fellow - Thesis: Goethe's Color Theory
B.A. Art Education - Glassboro State College Glassboro NJ
Waldorf Teaching Certificate - Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks CA
1992-Present:
Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, CA
Director, Consciousness Studies Program
1982-1991:
Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, CA
Instructor in the Arts and Sciences
Sacramento Waldorf School, Fair Oaks, CA
Art and Science teacher, high school and lower school
1975-1982:
Brookdale Community College
Tenured art instructor of Drawing and Painting
Australia, England, Japan, Mexico. Annually travels extensively in the US giving many lectures and workshops on diverse topics such as meditation, transformation of the senses, weather, creativity, alchemy, sacred geometry and natural science.
The Seer's Handbook: A Guide to Higher Perception (inner work, meditation)
Knowledge, Teaching, and the Death of the Mysterious (child development)
Seeking Spirit Vision (essays on the alchemy of soul transformation)
Drawing from the Book of Nature (drawing lessons for teachers)
Weather and Cosmos (meteorology and planetary motion)
Bio-Dynamic Book of Moons (gardening and planetary influences)
2000:
Cloud Alchemy, Biodynamics, Projective Fields in Astroclimatology - The Cosmic Harbinger
In preparation: Drought in the West
1999:
Cosmic Harbinger, a weather newsletter.
Key to Cosmic Harbinger essays in astroclimatology, the study of planetary motion in the context of historical weather events.
El Nino outlook for 1999 Biodynamics.
1997:
Storm Geometries - Newsletter / The Society for the Evolution of Science.
1995
The Heart of Clay - Applied Bio-Dynamics.
1993
The Black Madonna and the Mysteries of Dionysos - Journal for Anthroposophy
Scientific Hypothesis -Truth or Error? - PAAM Journal
The Great Tree, The Alchemy of Consciousness - PAAM Journal
The Science of the Royal Art - PAAM Journal
1992:
The Colors of the Sunrise - Journal for Anthroposophical Medicine
Dowsing - Bio-Dynamic Quarterly
Geomagnetic Influences on the Atmosphere - Journal of Borderland Sciences
Grant recipient from the future values fund for research in Bio-Dynamic stirring vessels
1990:
Silica, Substance and Process - Bio Dynamic Quarterly
1988:
Imagination, Creativity, and Artistic Freedom - Journal for Anthroposophy
Goethe's Scientific Consciousness - Towards Magazine
1986:
The Astronomical Biography of a Storm - Bio-Dynamics Magazine
Celestial Meteorology - Bio-Dynamics Magazine
1985:
Goethe's Living Nature-Imagination - Bio-Dynamics Magazine
1978:
Illustrations for Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants - Bio-Dynamic publications
The formation of the Coros Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to an ongoing dialogue between meditants in the arts, science and business. Coros will host a public dialogue this year on the subject of serving marginalized people such as the homeless, and the elderly. Ongoing weather research is also carried out under Coros sponsorship.
Continuing reasearch into weather, and the presentation of weather research on the website www.docweather.com. From the site: "DocWeather.com is a unique website that is based on a climatic technique that interfaces daily weather data from the National Weather Service into a geometrical system that is the result of twenty-four years of experimental work. In Doc Weather, precise weather observation and advanced planetary geometry, are linked to historic climatic patterns across the U.S."