{"id":54599,"date":"2024-03-21T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=54599"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:17:04","slug":"the-reality-of-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-reality-of-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality of an Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"A comment by Franz Lohri on Jens Heisterkamp\u2019s article \u201cReincarnation and Karma as a Developmental Idea\u201d in Das Goetheanum and the response by Wolfgang Held.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy Just an Idea?\n\n\n\nJens Heisterkamp\u2019s essay focuses on a fact that is one of the most central and far-reaching insights of anthroposophy. Unfortunately, this fact is reduced from a reality to an idea in the title and then repeatedly in the text. In the editorial [for this issue], editor-in-chief Wolfgang Held raises the question, \u201cWhy is there so little talk of karma and reincarnation in anthroposophical life?\u201d and here too, he explicitly reduces their reality and effectivene<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>A comment by Franz Lohri on Jens Heisterkamp\u2019s article \u201cReincarnation and Karma as a Developmental Idea\u201d in Das Goetheanum and the response by Wolfgang Held. Why Just an Idea? Jens Heisterkamp\u2019s essay focuses on a fact that is one of the most central and far-reaching insights of anthroposophy. Unfortunately, this fact is reduced from a reality to an idea in the title and then repeatedly in the text. In the editorial [for this issue], editor-in-chief Wolfgang Held raises the question, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9181,"featured_media":53667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11413],"tags":[11445,11442,8814],"class_list":["post-54599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letter","tag-en2024-12-2","tag-2024-8-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599","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\/9181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}