{"id":65702,"date":"2025-05-08T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=65702"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:23:02","slug":"getting-fit-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/getting-fit-to-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Fit to Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What comes after life? Hundreds of years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in life after death; however, according to recent surveys, about a third of people in Central Europe believe that life will continue for them after death. <em>Return from Tomorrow<\/em>, the story by George Ritchie, was a breakthrough in the 1970s. At the age of twenty, George was declared dead twice in a military hospital but regained consciousness after nine minutes. As luck would have it, he found an open ear in Raymond Moody during his studies in psychiatry. Moody went on to collect 150 similar cases in his book <em>Life after Life, <\/em>much like the Dutch doctor Pim van Lommel did later. Many years ago, Lommel told the packed Goetheanum Hall about his conversations with people who had near-death experiences. \u201cDeath is nothing more than a door you walk through,\u201d says Ritchie. Whether it\u2019s Eben Alexander in his book <em>Proof of Heaven<\/em> or Anke Evertz in <em>Nine Days of Eternity,<\/em> all those who gain experience beyond the limits of life are united by the fact that they also reach their limits in language. Language, which is bound to the spatial and temporal, fails when it comes to describing this timeless, non-spatial world. This is precisely where the preparation lies: crossing borders linguistically, mentally, or emotionally gets us fit for the big step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Illustration <\/strong>Graphic team of the Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What comes after life? Hundreds of years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in life after death; however, according to recent surveys, about a third of people in Central Europe believe that life will continue for them after death. Return from Tomorrow, the story by George Ritchie, was a breakthrough in the 1970s. At the age of twenty, George was declared dead twice in a military hospital but regained consciousness after nine minutes. As luck would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":64951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8793],"tags":[11649,11650,8819],"class_list":["post-65702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-15-2025-en","tag-english-issue-19-2025","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65702","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\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}