History
The Higher Synthesis Foundation was founded in 2011 by Martha R. Herbert, PhD, MD as the Delaware-based Aufhebung Foundation, DBA (doing business as) the Higher Synthesis Foundation.
Aufhebung is a German word that affirms the interrelationships and unity of things and phenomena. It relates to preserving elements of phenomena in a higher synthesis, and it is a way of describing transcendence – rising above and beyond. A poetic definition of Aufhebung is “turning problems into art.”
In early 2020 the Aufhebung Foundation transitioned to a Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) public charity, whose legal name is Higher Synthesis Foundation, Inc. In 2023 the Higher Synthesis Foundation shifted its center of operations to rural central Tennessee where it registered as a foundation.
In late 2022 Dr. Herbert joined forces with Randall Reiserer, Ph.D., an integrative biologist who is also broadly skilled in practical design and implementation of land-food-ecological projects. Drs. Herbert and Reiserer work together in planning and implementing the foundation’s Rockhouse Land Eco-Farm-Health Project. They work with and learn from local experienced Mennonite and Amish farmers.
Location and Contact Information
Higher Synthesis Foundation, Inc.
3480 Rockhouse Road
Linden, TN 37096-6629 USA
Phone: 1-857-999-0410
email: info@highersynthesis.org
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