{"id":63733,"date":"2025-02-26T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=63733"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:32:19","slug":"model-for-balancing-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/model-for-balancing-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Model for Balancing Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"Fiction writers sometimes use a rhetorical device called \u201cfree indirect speech.\u201d Andreas Laudert makes use of this technique to get closer to Rudolf Steiner.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe use the term \u201cfree indirect speech\u201d when an author narrates past events in the third person but retains characteristics of the first person to express the character\u2019s own thoughts and inner experiences; it\u2019s somewhere between a report and a soliloquy. The past is experienced anew in the present. But, there\u2019s a deeper meaning in this for us. When Rudolf Steiner spoke, he wasn\u2019t speaking about something but rather from something. If we don\u2019t bring to life what we hear from him within ourselves, we won\u2019t fully understand it. We all have the potential to put ourselves into the experience of someone else, as i<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>Fiction writers sometimes use a rhetorical device called \u201cfree indirect speech.\u201d Andreas Laudert makes use of this technique to get closer to Rudolf Steiner. We use the term \u201cfree indirect speech\u201d when an author narrates past events in the third person but retains characteristics of the first person to express the character\u2019s own thoughts and inner experiences; it\u2019s somewhere between a report and a soliloquy. The past is experienced anew in the present. But, there\u2019s a deeper meaning in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9164,"featured_media":63036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11614],"tags":[11618,11622,8814],"class_list":["post-63733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-6-2025-en","tag-english-issue-9-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63733","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\/9164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}