{"id":59118,"date":"2024-08-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=59118"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:55:45","slug":"the-blind-seer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-blind-seer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Seer"},"content":{"rendered":"Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance fighter in occupied Paris and a concentration camp prisoner in Buchenwald, he became a light for many during the darkest of times. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birthday, the Goetheanum stage held a reading from his work Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard Schnell (reading), Fritz Nagel (music), and Barbara Schnetzler (sculpture).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhilipp Tok: Why did you choose such a dark subject of war and torture?\n\n\n\nRichard Schnell: The brightest is revealed in the darkest. Lusseyran's story is not just dark\u2014it is, above all, enlightening. It is poignant proof that you can counter the darkness with something\u2014an inner light. And this light can be a sour<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>Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance fighter in occupied Paris and a concentration camp prisoner in Buchenwald, he became a light for many during the darkest of times. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birthday, the Goetheanum stage held a reading from his work Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard Schnell (reading), Fritz Nagel (music), and Barbara Schnetzler (sculpture). Philipp Tok: Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20605,"featured_media":58613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8797,8848],"tags":[11533,11523,8824],"class_list":["post-59118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversation-en","category-literature","tag-english-issue-31-32-2024","tag-ausgabe-24-2024-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59118","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\/20605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}