{"id":43587,"date":"2022-12-15T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43587"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:23:55","slug":"direct-touch-of-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/direct-touch-of-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Touch of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>He wrote that his reading was \u00abthe light of heaven,\u00bb \u00abthe deepest book there is.\u00bb Christian Bobin did not die. He just found his big book again, at the age of 71, on November 24, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abHe was that discreet being you meet and never forget. This benevolent and deeply human man, whose pen knew how to sublimate every word, every emotion,\u00bb said the mayor of the small town where Bobin lived in central France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bobin was a writer. His words sprang from direct experience: \u00abThe most humble things invite us to an infinite feast \u2013 fruits like stones, herbs like stars \u2013 and to enjoy them, we must learn this direct touch of the spirit whose privilege painters have.\u00bb (Le huiti\u00e8me jour de la semaine). In the few interviews he gave, it becomes clear that even his spontaneous words became poetry that spring from this \u2039direct touch of the spirit.\u203a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bobin was undoubtedly a heavenly pilgrim. He walked in Heaven by walking on Earth. One of his first books, \u2039Le tr\u00e8s-bas\u203a (The Very Lowly), was dedicated to St. Francis. In \u2039La plus que vive\u203a (The More than Alive), he tells of his spiritual relationship with a deceased girlfriend. He dedicated a small text to the earthly life of Christ, \u2039L&#8217;homme qui marche\u203a (The Walking Man). Later it was the presence of Christ, which he described through a collection of aphorisms: \u2039Le Christ aux coquelicots\u203a (Christ with the poppies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bobin knew that the path to the spirit is a path of self-knowledge, that \u00abthe closer you get to the light, the more shadows you get to know\u00bb (\u2039La plus que vive\u203a). He also knew that spirit and matter are not separate but that \u00abthe world of spirit is only the material world finally brought back into balance\u00bb (\u2039Le tr\u00e8s-bas\u203a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title image <\/strong>Christian Bobin as a guest on the TV programme &#8220;La Grande Librairie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kShOEYENg6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote that his reading was \u00abthe light of heaven,\u00bb \u00abthe deepest book there is.\u00bb Christian Bobin did not die. He just found his big book again, at the age of 71, on November 24, 2022. \u00abHe was that discreet being you meet and never forget. This benevolent and deeply human man, whose pen knew how to sublimate every word, every emotion,\u00bb said the mayor of the small town where Bobin lived in central France. Bobin was a writer. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17570,"featured_media":43229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10939,8848,2515],"tags":[11276,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-43587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary","category-literature","category-nachricht","tag-2022-48-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587","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\/17570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}