{"id":69174,"date":"2025-11-26T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=69174"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:44:08","slug":"close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/close\/","title":{"rendered":"Close"},"content":{"rendered":"For our dead.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn a cemetery, life becomes vast. So vast that it starts becoming sky at its edges. Absence here is the framework in which life arises. Its invisible traces lead into the world of listening. A silent glimmer in a wide expanse. There are no colors beyond. In the light of my having been, my substance refracts into brilliance. When I no longer have a body, you become my body, as huge or as small as however many of you there are. My sensuality has changed sides. I am now a shooting star in your dreams, the soft light in which you sleep. We have the temperature of your memories. We are the great space for all that is precious to you, all that is not and is no more in the outer world. Our weight even magnifies the glow of the birch in the November light. As long as we live i<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>For our dead. In a cemetery, life becomes vast. So vast that it starts becoming sky at its edges. Absence here is the framework in which life arises. Its invisible traces lead into the world of listening. A silent glimmer in a wide expanse. There are no colors beyond. In the light of my having been, my substance refracts into brilliance. When I no longer have a body, you become my body, as huge or as small as however many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":69106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8793,8823],"tags":[11729,11730,8814],"class_list":["post-69174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-48-2025-en","tag-english-issue-48-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69174","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\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}