{"id":48733,"date":"2023-07-06T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48733"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T19:22:09","slug":"the-mystery-of-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-mystery-of-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The similarity in sound and etymology of the words \u2018healing\u2019 and \u2018hallowing\u2019 point to much that medicine and religion have in common.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last year of his life, Rudolf Steiner addressed this connection between doctor and priest, therapist and pastor. To \u2018heal\u2019 means to intervene in consciousness, and thus, according to Steiner, one places oneself directly in the spiritual world order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the second weekend in June, the pastoral medicine working group at the Goetheanum worked with the frequently asked question about anthroposophical medicine: \u201cWhat is the significance of karma for illness?\u201d According to the organizing circle, Steiner had grasped a \u2018physiology of karma\u2019\u2014\u201cin that past karma works in humans through solar activity and future karma develops in connection with the lymphatic system.\u201d This relationship was illuminated at the meeting and made fruitful for practical work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Photo<\/strong> Xue Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The similarity in sound and etymology of the words \u2018healing\u2019 and \u2018hallowing\u2019 point to much that medicine and religion have in common. In the last year of his life, Rudolf Steiner addressed this connection between doctor and priest, therapist and pastor. To \u2018heal\u2019 means to intervene in consciousness, and thus, according to Steiner, one places oneself directly in the spiritual world order. During the second weekend in June, the pastoral medicine working group at the Goetheanum worked with the frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":48153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8762,9182,2515],"tags":[11342,8803,8800],"class_list":["post-48733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goetheanum","category-healing-arts","category-nachricht","tag-2023-23-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-on-site"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733","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=48733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}