{"id":45904,"date":"2023-03-16T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=45904"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:42:49","slug":"the-magic-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-magic-of-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"Images from the James Webb telescope show mature galaxies in the earliest moments of the universe. Is everything already there at the beginning?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDevelopment has two surprises. The first you experience when you learn a foreign language, for example. Word for word, then phrase for phrase, one practices and then - often over night - the tongue loosens, the language flows. Development jumps. It is not linear. The second surprise is more mysterious, even contradictory. It is not uncommon to come across it in one's own personal development. Contemplation and meditative practice leads one to becoming more humble, to the growth of devotion in the soul. At the same time, humility is a prerequisite for getting into a meditative state at all. As if time were reversed, the result is at the same<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>Images from the James Webb telescope show mature galaxies in the earliest moments of the universe. Is everything already there at the beginning? Development has two surprises. The first you experience when you learn a foreign language, for example. Word for word, then phrase for phrase, one practices and then &#8211; often over night &#8211; the tongue loosens, the language flows. Development jumps. It is not linear. The second surprise is more mysterious, even contradictory. It is not uncommon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":45730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8844,9115],"tags":[11311,8824],"class_list":["post-45904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-astronomy","category-consciousness","tag-2023-10-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45904","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\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}