{"id":47698,"date":"2023-05-19T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=47698"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T11:05:46","slug":"the-courage-to-confront-materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-courage-to-confront-materialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courage to Confront Materialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nathaniel Williams, head of the Youth Section, has created a new and forthcoming podcast and video series called \u00abQuestions of Courage\u00bb, in collaboration with the Weekly Journal and Goetheanum TV. We will publish excerpts of his podcasted conversations here. In the first episode, he will introduce us to the concept of Courageous Questioning that inspired the series\u2019 title.<\/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\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie-867x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47669\" width=\"434\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie-867x1024.jpg 867w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie-770x909.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie-1301x1536.jpg 1301w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WW_Malerei_Svi_Zir-Das_Goetheanum_Wochenschrift_anthroposophie.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Painting by Zvi Szir<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a paradox that today, perhaps, people in the United States and in Europe are more open and interested in spirituality, and in entertaining spiritual ideas, than they have been for hundreds of years. And at the same time, if someone wants to seriously and sincerely explore a spiritual question in relationship to a field like chemistry, human development, developmental psychology, biology or morphology, it is taboo. You can&#8217;t speak about it. We are in a situation today where there&#8217;s an unbelievable nearness in the hearts and the will of people to enter into a spiritual conversation or discussion, and yet at the same time the majestic culmination of 500 years of reductionist materialistic science stubbornly and insistently refuses to accommodate such a conversation. And thereby this materialism (which we have to recognize is practically at work in almost all areas of our society) can\u2019t become aware of its own limitations. It takes courage today to insist on asking questions about spirituality that are not only about personal well-being, that go beyond lifestyle and contentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photo <\/strong>Screenshot of Nathaniel Williams during the podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Williams, head of the Youth Section, has created a new and forthcoming podcast and video series called \u00abQuestions of Courage\u00bb, in collaboration with the Weekly Journal and Goetheanum TV. We will publish excerpts of his podcasted conversations here. In the first episode, he will introduce us to the concept of Courageous Questioning that inspired the series\u2019 title. It&#8217;s a paradox that today, perhaps, people in the United States and in Europe are more open and interested in spirituality, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9161,"featured_media":47672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2515,8790,8795],"tags":[11333,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-47698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nachricht","category-society-en","category-switzerland","tag-2023-20-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47698","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\/9161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}