{"id":37721,"date":"2022-05-13T00:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=37721"},"modified":"2022-05-13T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T22:39:39","slug":"novalis-and-the-healing-art-of-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/novalis-and-the-healing-art-of-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Novalis and&nbsp;the Healing Art of Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"Novalis greatly appreciated fairy tales, seeing them as the highest form of literary expression. Some people are surprised by this. When I tell acquaintances that I make videos of Novalis stories and other fairy tales, they often smile and say, \u00abThat's nice. I will give them to my grandchildren.\u00bb\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut for Novalis, the fairy tale was for everyone, especially adults. Rudolf Steiner, echoing Novalis, also emphasized that fairy tales are healing. During the long months of isolation, we were able to learn in the Section why Novalis valued the fairy tale so highly. Of course, through Waldorf education and parenthood, I had understood the value of the fairy tale for children. Until the pandemic, however, I had not clearly recognized how much healing power fairy tales have for adults.\n\n\n\nE<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novalis greatly appreciated fairy tales, seeing them as the highest form of literary expression. Some people are surprised by this. When I tell acquaintances that I make videos of Novalis stories and other fairy tales, they often smile and say, \u00abThat&#8217;s nice. I will give them to my grandchildren.\u00bb But for Novalis, the fairy tale was for everyone, especially adults. Rudolf Steiner, echoing Novalis, also emphasized that fairy tales are healing. During the long months of isolation, we were able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17189,"featured_media":37589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8848,8793],"tags":[9234,8798],"class_list":["post-37721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-philosophy","tag-2022-17-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}