English Issue 36/2025

Surely there is no devil who is responsible for everything that goes wrong, nor a dear God who will save us. The signs of the times tell us: for humanity to be meaningful, the key and the potential for the future lie within each and every individual. This spiritual leverage point is not the human being as they are but the human being as they become—the human being who actively changes from within and becomes an eternal learner. What if the heart of this spiritual development is what Schiller once called “aesthetic education?” What if beauty played the central role for the future? In this issue, we speak about just that with Bodo von Plato.