{"id":65304,"date":"2025-04-17T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=65304"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:35:09","slug":"the-invisible-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-invisible-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Man"},"content":{"rendered":"Many people wish they\u2019d met Rudolf Steiner during his life on Earth. What\u2019s behind this longing?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerhaps there\u2019s a somewhat secret motive: an instinctive feeling that we could know what he was \u201creally\u201d like, that we\u2019d be able to have direct experiences of what we only know from traditions and stories\u2014how he walked, how he spoke, how it felt to greet him in person. We can\u2019t help but make the distinction between someone we\u2019ve only heard about and someone we\u2019ve actually seen, someone who appears before our physical senses. It feels like this person who doesn\u2019t appear before our senses is not actually someone we can interact with directly; that they\u2019re not a \u201cyou,\u201d but a \u201che.\u201d\n\n\n\nMany of us can confirm this hidden longing in our souls, but we\u2019d have 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>Many people wish they\u2019d met Rudolf Steiner during his life on Earth. What\u2019s behind this longing? Perhaps there\u2019s a somewhat secret motive: an instinctive feeling that we could know what he was \u201creally\u201d like, that we\u2019d be able to have direct experiences of what we only know from traditions and stories\u2014how he walked, how he spoke, how it felt to greet him in person. We can\u2019t help but make the distinction between someone we\u2019ve only heard about and someone we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9267,"featured_media":64236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,9183,11614],"tags":[11640,11644,8814],"class_list":["post-65304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-general-anthroposophy","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-12-2025-en","tag-english-issue-16-17-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65304","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\/9267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}