{"id":68041,"date":"2025-10-10T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68041"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:15:40","slug":"getting-closer-in-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/getting-closer-in-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Closer in Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"When anthroposophists hear the name Rudolf Steiner, they probably think of his works and deeds. Non-anthroposophists (in the more amiable cases) think of an unusual man from the beginning of the 20th century who brought concepts of a not-wholly-understandable worldview into something real. In what other ways can we meet him? How might we develop a new closeness to him? A conversation with Martina Maria Sam, who is particularly familiar with the small and often little-known facts of Rudolf Steiner\u2019s life. Questions by Gilda Bartel.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ve done an extensive study of Rudolf Steiner as a person. It must have brought you into a special relationship with him. What is that like?\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve really grown closer to Rudolf Steiner as a person, as someone in a process of becoming\u2014someone w<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>When anthroposophists hear the name Rudolf Steiner, they probably think of his works and deeds. Non-anthroposophists (in the more amiable cases) think of an unusual man from the beginning of the 20th century who brought concepts of a not-wholly-understandable worldview into something real. In what other ways can we meet him? How might we develop a new closeness to him? A conversation with Martina Maria Sam, who is particularly familiar with the small and often little-known facts of Rudolf Steiner\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9190,"featured_media":67814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11473,8797],"tags":[11699,8798,11705],"class_list":["post-68041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-rudolf-steiner","category-conversation-en","tag-ausgabe-38-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-41-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68041","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\/9190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}