{"id":53321,"date":"2024-02-08T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=53321"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:00:36","slug":"waking-dance-master-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/waking-dance-master-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Waking\u2014Dance Master of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"Wakefulness raises our being to uprightness like a small flame that ignites. It lives wrapped in the layers that unfold from the changing degrees of our wakefulness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI woke up this morning. Like every day of my life. Even if it wasn't exactly in the morning, I woke up at some point. How do I know that I woke up this morning? What does \"waking up\" mean? Am I actually awake? Waking up and being awake reveal different dimensions of our human existence. There is waking up [Aufwachen] but also awakening [Erwachen] and simply vigilance [Wachen].\n\n\n\nThe world, as it approaches me as perceptual content, calls me to \"wakefulness\" every morning. It awakens the light of consciousness in me. It greets me into wakefulness. Or kisses me awake, as it says in fairy tales. I wake up. But there is al<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>Wakefulness raises our being to uprightness like a small flame that ignites. It lives wrapped in the layers that unfold from the changing degrees of our wakefulness. I woke up this morning. Like every day of my life. Even if it wasn&#8217;t exactly in the morning, I woke up at some point. How do I know that I woke up this morning? What does &#8220;waking up&#8221; mean? Am I actually awake? Waking up and being awake reveal different dimensions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9155,"featured_media":52729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8793,11471],"tags":[8798,11486,11412],"class_list":["post-53321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-philosophy","category-sleeping-dreaming-waking","tag-deepening","tag-en2024-6","tag-2024-1-2-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53321","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=53321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}