{"id":64288,"date":"2025-03-19T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=64288"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:44:32","slug":"its-always-me-who-is-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/its-always-me-who-is-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Always Me Who Is Meant"},"content":{"rendered":"When I came into contact with anthroposophy 25 years ago, I was particularly alienated by the cult of personality surrounding Rudolf Steiner.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI heard anecdotes of ladies in purple gowns who came to the \u201cinitiate\u201d for advice on their inner development. I visited the Memorial Grove in Dornach with a reverent friend and didn\u2019t really know how to take it all in. Open-mindedness seemed to be paired with a prohibition on contradiction, with the tenet that you just didn\u2019t understand yet. During this time, I also dreamt that I had an audience with the \u201cDoctor.\u201d I opened the door to a room, waiting curiously to see what I would encounter. Rudolf Steiner was sitting behind a heavy desk. He looked at me objectively, soberly, without appearing cold, but also without any intention to<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came into contact with anthroposophy 25 years ago, I was particularly alienated by the cult of personality surrounding Rudolf Steiner. I heard anecdotes of ladies in purple gowns who came to the \u201cinitiate\u201d for advice on their inner development. I visited the Memorial Grove in Dornach with a reverent friend and didn\u2019t really know how to take it all in. Open-mindedness seemed to be paired with a prohibition on contradiction, with the tenet that you just didn\u2019t understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":64327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9183,11614],"tags":[11630,11631,8814],"class_list":["post-64288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-anthroposophy","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-10-2025-en","tag-english-issue-12-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288","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\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}