{"id":69252,"date":"2025-12-03T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=69252"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:17:09","slug":"play-and-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/play-and-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Play and Form"},"content":{"rendered":"In the west stairwell of the Goetheanum stands a stone figure whose face seems to be speaking both inwardly and outwardly. The sculpture is a focal point during guided tours because it explains without words what Rudolf Steiner wrote in 1924 about the hope of the anthroposophical movement: \u201cto combine genuine, true esotericism with the greatest possible public openness.\u201d This is also reflected in the name of the Public Secrets initiative, founded in 2023 by Elke Schmitter, Christiane Leiste, Maike Meyer-Oldenburg, Daniel H\u00e4ni, Bodo v. Plato, and Stephan Nussbaum. This independent association organizes meditation days for invited guests in Berlin, Witten, and Basel. What membership in the School of Spiritual Science promises in terms of commitment and spiritual seriousness in an anthro<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>In the west stairwell of the Goetheanum stands a stone figure whose face seems to be speaking both inwardly and outwardly. The sculpture is a focal point during guided tours because it explains without words what Rudolf Steiner wrote in 1924 about the hope of the anthroposophical movement: \u201cto combine genuine, true esotericism with the greatest possible public openness.\u201d This is also reflected in the name of the Public Secrets initiative, founded in 2023 by Elke Schmitter, Christiane Leiste, Maike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":69027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9183,8823],"tags":[11732,8798,11733],"class_list":["post-69252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-anthroposophy","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-47-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-49-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252","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=69252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}