The spiritual-scientific method
Steiner's claim, stated plainly in many of his lectures, was that the spiritual world is investigable by methods as rigorous as those natural science uses on the physical. The methods are different — disciplined meditation, observation of the etheric-formative-forces that organise physical matter, training of the higher cognitive organs he called Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition — but the demand for honesty, repeatability of result, and falsifiability is the same. He called this practice Geisteswissenschaft, spiritual-science.
The Coherence Network reads Steiner alongside Michael Levin not because Levin has confirmed Steiner's specific claims but because both are working the same seam: that pattern is load-bearing and substrate is contingent. Steiner reaches that claim from inside an esoteric phenomenology; Levin reaches it from outside through bioelectric experiments on planaria and frog embryos. Different methods, converging conclusion. The body trusts that convergence without needing to flatten either side into the other.