{"id":72578,"date":"2026-05-22T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=72578"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:26:44","slug":"easter-morning-on-iona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/easter-morning-on-iona\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Morning on Iona"},"content":{"rendered":"On the quality of the sensual as a shared experience of the forces of resurrection in nature.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Easter morning, we walked from the ferry to the Abbey on Iona (Scotland) to join in the Iona Community\u2019s Easter service. The day before, a violent storm had swept across the islands. The house was without power for hours; the wind whistled through the walls all night; sleep was nearly impossible. Cold, rain, hail, and turbulence dominated the day. And then, Easter morning: bright sunshine, clear air, a vast, luminous sky\u2014it was as if the world had been transformed overnight. Everything looked washed clean. No dust, no heaviness, no gray to be seen. The pink granite on the big neighboring island of Mull glowed across the water; the silvery gleaming gneiss of Iona caught the light; the<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>On the quality of the sensual as a shared experience of the forces of resurrection in nature. On Easter morning, we walked from the ferry to the Abbey on Iona (Scotland) to join in the Iona Community\u2019s Easter service. The day before, a violent storm had swept across the islands. The house was without power for hours; the wind whistled through the walls all night; sleep was nearly impossible. Cold, rain, hail, and turbulence dominated the day. And then, Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9257,"featured_media":72278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8839,8837],"tags":[11797,11798,8814],"class_list":["post-72578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-experience","category-restrospective","tag-ausgabe-19-2026-en","tag-english-issue-21-2026","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72578","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=72578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72609,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72578\/revisions\/72609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}