{"id":52970,"date":"2024-01-19T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=52970"},"modified":"2024-01-19T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:12:37","slug":"the-desert-within-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-desert-within-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desert within You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cThe desert you have to overcome is within yourself.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1953, Albert Steffen published the drama <em>Alexanders Wandlung<\/em> [Alexander\u2019s Transformation]<span id='easy-footnote-1-52970' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-desert-within-you\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-52970' title='Albert Steffen, &lt;em&gt;Alexander\u2019s Transformation&lt;\/em&gt;, translated from the German by Arvia MacKaye (Dornach: Verlag f\u00fcr Sch\u00f6ne Wissenschaften [Belles-lettres publishing], 1956).'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> about Alexander the Great\u2019s after-death journey. Alexander\u2019s encounter with his deceased companions is followed by a meeting with Aristotle, with whom he experiences the destiny of his loved ones and the disintegration of his empire. Aristotle offers him guidance to let go of his bonds with the Earth and his personality. He shows Alexander the way to become an earthly human being who is personally responsible for his actions and their consequences. Aristotle says, \u201cEach person can only find it for themselves. It is within the experience of abandonment.\u201d In preparation for their future life on earth, both are allowed to experience, side by side, the encounter and mutual appreciation of Lazarus and the young man of Nain before they come before the archangel Michael in order to receive a blessing. Michael speaks the words, \u201cI arm you all with my power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our conference, which takes its name from the introductory quote, we are trying to trace the forces of destiny between Ita Wegman and Albert Steffen. In addition to the known documents that convey Ita Wegman\u2019s life and personality, we will draw on Steffen\u2019s diary entries and on <em>Alexander\u2019s Transformation<\/em>. Chr. Engelns, Chr. Haid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference dates<\/strong>: January 26 to 28, 2024<br><strong>More on the conference<\/strong> (in German): <a href=\"https:\/\/goetheanum.ch\/de\/veranstaltungen\/steffentagung_2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steffentagung 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Joshua Kelberman<br><strong>Image<\/strong> Painting by Albert Steffen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe desert you have to overcome is within yourself.\u201d In 1953, Albert Steffen published the drama Alexanders Wandlung [Alexander\u2019s Transformation] about Alexander the Great\u2019s after-death journey. Alexander\u2019s encounter with his deceased companions is followed by a meeting with Aristotle, with whom he experiences the destiny of his loved ones and the disintegration of his empire. Aristotle offers him guidance to let go of his bonds with the Earth and his personality. He shows Alexander the way to become an earthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17106,"featured_media":52971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8762],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goetheanum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970","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\/17106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}