{"id":44890,"date":"2023-02-16T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=44890"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:46:07","slug":"the-small-and-the-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-small-and-the-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small and the Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about \u2039Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture\u203a.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1365x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44512\" width=\"341\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1365x1024.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WW_Vandana_Shiva_-_Global_Citizen_Festival_Hamburg_04_Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_Anthroposophie.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption>Vandana Shiva at the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, 2017. Photo: Frank Schwichtenberg, CC 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Shiva can speak authoritatively about the \u2039sacred\u203a in part due to her experience of the \u2039profane\u203a. She has seen the \u2039Green Revolution\u203a\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically modified crops\u00a0\u2013\u00a0destroy her country&#8217;s ancient agricultural traditions and the foundations of its prosperity. What was touted as the wonderful future of agriculture has had a destructive effect, and this has motivated Shiva\u00a0\u2013\u00a0without pause\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to seek a solution and expose the injustice of the neo-colonial agribusiness. One way she has manifested her resistance is by establishing a seed bank to protect indigenous seeds from the grip of genetic engineering and intellectual property rights. As if taking a cue from David and Goliath, this is a smart understanding of the strength of the less powerful against mechanisms that seem overwhelming. But it is not just a matter of seeing worldly power in seeds. Like Rudolf Steiner, Shiva&#8217;s mission and message draws our attention to the wondrous nature of the seed\u00a0\u2013\u00a0that tiny storehouse of life \u2039in potentia,\u203a a way station in an eternal cycle. Shiva, who has a PhD. in quantum physics, talks about how, at the subatomic level\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the level below the Newtonian, mechanistic worldview\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a \u2039law of inseparability\u203a operates. Everything in the universe is interwoven with everything else. In the same way, seeds, plants, and food weave the underlying web of life upon which we depend\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the sacred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about \u2039Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture\u203a. Shiva can speak authoritatively about the \u2039sacred\u203a in part due to her experience of the \u2039profane\u203a. She has seen the \u2039Green Revolution\u203a\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically modified crops\u00a0\u2013\u00a0destroy her country&#8217;s ancient agricultural traditions and the foundations of its prosperity. What was touted as the wonderful future of agriculture has had a destructive effect, and this has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17162,"featured_media":44512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8810,2515],"tags":[11295,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-44890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-agriculture","category-nachricht","tag-2023-5-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44890","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\/17162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}