{"id":68424,"date":"2025-10-22T20:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68424"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:39:28","slug":"menhir-and-the-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/menhir-and-the-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Menhir and the Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"Between the expansiveness of summer and the tranquility of winter, autumn is a threshold for practicing inwardness. Menhirs, standing stones, are particularly inviting for such a practice and lead the self to uprightness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAutumnal Light\n\n\n\nThere is a threshold between summer\u2019s expansiveness and winter\u2019s rest. In many areas, including here in Germany and Switzerland, there are upright stones, standing inconspicuously and silent. They allow us to practice an autumnal seriousness\u2014a sincerity and steadfastness\u2014as a transition from our external life in the light to inner contemplation. At the beginning and at the end, a Michaelic tone resonates quietly: not as a watchword but as a question for the \u2018I\u2019.\n\n\n\nA quiet knowledge dwells in the body: the gaze that reaches far into th<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>Between the expansiveness of summer and the tranquility of winter, autumn is a threshold for practicing inwardness. Menhirs, standing stones, are particularly inviting for such a practice and lead the self to uprightness. Autumnal Light There is a threshold between summer\u2019s expansiveness and winter\u2019s rest. In many areas, including here in Germany and Switzerland, there are upright stones, standing inconspicuously and silent. They allow us to practice an autumnal seriousness\u2014a sincerity and steadfastness\u2014as a transition from our external life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9257,"featured_media":68293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8792,8839],"tags":[11711,11712,8814],"class_list":["post-68424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditation-en","category-nature-experience","tag-ausgabe-42-2025-en","tag-english-issue-43-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68424","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\/9257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}