{"id":48551,"date":"2023-06-23T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48551"},"modified":"2023-06-23T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:20:53","slug":"the-longing-for-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-longing-for-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longing for Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"Our longing for revelation of the universe culminates on St John's Day, the only Christian festival of the year named after a person.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor a long time we have longed for summer, for warmth and light, for distance that can become nearness at any moment.\u00a0It is a longing that shows itself at all levels of our existence\u2014a longing for life in a radiant world, illuminated by sunlight, where we abandon ourselves freely to jubilation.\u00a0We want to celebrate the world becoming visible.\u00a0For too long, we waited until the seeds, hidden deep in the earth's darkness, wanted to give themselves up to visibility. In a summery world, everything\u2014every scent, every gentle breeze, the coolness of a fountain, the light\u2014is like music, a melody that travels across the valleys. Everything becomes a si<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>Our longing for revelation of the universe culminates on St John&#8217;s Day, the only Christian festival of the year named after a person. For a long time we have longed for summer, for warmth and light, for distance that can become nearness at any moment.\u00a0It is a longing that shows itself at all levels of our existence\u2014a longing for life in a radiant world, illuminated by sunlight, where we abandon ourselves freely to jubilation.\u00a0We want to celebrate the world becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9155,"featured_media":48491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8823,9201],"tags":[11350,8798],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","category-religion-en","tag-2023-25-26-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","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\/9155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}