{"id":62905,"date":"2025-01-30T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=62905"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:15:25","slug":"jacques-lusseyran-and-the-economy-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/jacques-lusseyran-and-the-economy-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Lusseyran and the Economy of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"Despite his blindness, the experience of light reported by Jacques Lusseyran opens up new perspectives on the nature of light. Lusseyran draws attention to the inner dimension of light and shows how much there is behind what he called the \u201ceconomy of light.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cThe moment I lost my sight, I found the light within me unchanged. I didn\u2019t need to remember what it was for my eyes&nbsp;anymore\u2026 it was there, in my mind and in my body. It was inscribed there in its entirety. The light was there, together with all visible forms, colors, and lines, with the same force that it has in the world of eyes, namely, to grow and to fade, to move\u2026 I emphasize that everything I encountered was immediately seen, not touched or heard; it emerged, taking on form and color on an inner screen. A<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>Despite his blindness, the experience of light reported by Jacques Lusseyran opens up new perspectives on the nature of light. Lusseyran draws attention to the inner dimension of light and shows how much there is behind what he called the \u201ceconomy of light.\u201d \u201cThe moment I lost my sight, I found the light within me unchanged. I didn\u2019t need to remember what it was for my eyes&nbsp;anymore\u2026 it was there, in my mind and in my body. It was inscribed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21275,"featured_media":62804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8839,8793],"tags":[11603,8798,11607],"class_list":["post-62905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-1-2-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-5-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62905","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\/21275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}