{"id":64997,"date":"2025-04-10T22:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=64997"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:41:29","slug":"thinking-for-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/thinking-for-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking for the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"Ueli Hurter and Matthias Rang discuss how to think about the Earth as a living being and how this living understanding creates a new substance. The second of three dialogues that were inspired by working together with the Michael Letter \u201cThe Task of Michael in the Sphere of Ahriman\u201d and held during the Agriculture Conference in Dornach, 2025.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthias Rang:&nbsp;Thinking creates distance. For instance, we can look at the Earth from the outside. We see it as a blue planet, a wonderful sphere. From the outside, the Earth appears wonderfully bounded and finite. But our atmosphere extends out into space, beyond the sphere of the moon\u2019s orbit. The air envelops the Earth. So, we have two extremes: the solid in this strongly boundaried \u201cEarth body\u201d with the Earth\u2019s crust, and t<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>Ueli Hurter and Matthias Rang discuss how to think about the Earth as a living being and how this living understanding creates a new substance. The second of three dialogues that were inspired by working together with the Michael Letter \u201cThe Task of Michael in the Sphere of Ahriman\u201d and held during the Agriculture Conference in Dornach, 2025. Matthias Rang:&nbsp;Thinking creates distance. For instance, we can look at the Earth from the outside. We see it as a blue planet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":64230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8810,8797,8793],"tags":[11640,11641,8814],"class_list":["post-64997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-conversation-en","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-12-2025-en","tag-english-issue-15-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997","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\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}