{"id":63877,"date":"2025-03-06T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=63877"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:31:11","slug":"empower-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/empower-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Empower Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"Now that Rudolf Steiner has been dead for 100 years, we can say: Rudolf Steiner was the last guru! Not that there weren\u2019t others after him, but he was the last that could have been one.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes a guru the last guru? The knowledge of self-awareness. It empowers self-empowerment and leads to self-leadership. The last guru makes himself superfluous as a guru and names you as the one who is to name themselves. Self-naming. He says, \u201cYou are the \u2018I am.\u2019 The \u2018I am,\u2019 however, is God.\u201d\n\n\n\nAre you saying that Steiner compares the individual with God? Yes, but, with one caveat: no one can create this knowledge for anyone else. No god and no guru can do it for you.\n\n\n\nAs early as 1892 in Weimar, Steiner was asked about his life motto. His answer was incredible: \u201cIn place of <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>Now that Rudolf Steiner has been dead for 100 years, we can say: Rudolf Steiner was the last guru! Not that there weren\u2019t others after him, but he was the last that could have been one. What makes a guru the last guru? The knowledge of self-awareness. It empowers self-empowerment and leads to self-leadership. The last guru makes himself superfluous as a guru and names you as the one who is to name themselves. Self-naming. He says, \u201cYou are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15461,"featured_media":63480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11614],"tags":[11624,11625,8814],"class_list":["post-63877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-8-2025-en","tag-english-issue-10-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63877","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\/15461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}