{"id":69172,"date":"2025-11-26T21:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=69172"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:57:29","slug":"old-light-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/old-light-new-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Light, New Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the silence during a taxi ride from Herdecke Community Hospital, the taxi driver softly says, \u201cIf I were sick, I would go to this hospital too.\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhy? Have you had good experiences here?\u201d \u2014 \u201cNo, but the people I pick up from here smile.\u201d Another example: in the 1960s, a friend&#8217;s mother sent him to the Waldorf School in Hanover because she was touched by the school&#8217;s architecture. Yes, it is not uncommon for people to be attracted to anthroposophy because they are drawn in by the beauty of a building or a friendly face. \u201cThere&#8217;s Atmo here!\u201d<span id='easy-footnote-1-69172' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/old-light-new-light\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-69172' title='From Greek &lt;em&gt;atmos&lt;\/em&gt; &amp;#8220;vapor, steam;&amp;#8221; from Hindu philosophy, the self or soul; from Sanskrit &lt;em&gt;atma&lt;\/em&gt; &amp;#8220;essence, breath, soul;&amp;#8221; from PIE &lt;em&gt;etmen&lt;\/em&gt; &amp;#8220;breath&amp;#8221;.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> said a cameraman as I guided the filmmaker through the Goetheanum. Light-filled air. This light can also cast shadows when guests feel excluded from the \u201cwe\u201d during conference lectures or when advice is given from a collection of quotations. What the image in the left panel of the Red Window in the Goetheanum calls for\u2014learning to look at one&#8217;s own shadow\u2014is now part of the basics of spiritual teaching. Here, the strengths are the old light, and the knowledge of the shadows is the new.<\/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>Image <\/strong>Workshop at the international annual conference of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, 2025. Photo: Xue Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the silence during a taxi ride from Herdecke Community Hospital, the taxi driver softly says, \u201cIf I were sick, I would go to this hospital too.\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhy? Have you had good experiences here?\u201d \u2014 \u201cNo, but the people I pick up from here smile.\u201d Another example: in the 1960s, a friend&#8217;s mother sent him to the Waldorf School in Hanover because she was touched by the school&#8217;s architecture. Yes, it is not uncommon for people to be attracted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":68804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796],"tags":[11728,11730,8819],"class_list":["post-69172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-ausgabe-46-2025-en","tag-english-issue-48-2025","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172","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=69172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}