{"id":72580,"date":"2026-05-22T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=72580"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:25:51","slug":"inside-a-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/inside-a-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"Media that attempts to convey a specific message increasingly distances us from immediate experience and reconstructs predictable relationships. But there are gaps that allow consciousness to shine through.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow can a person enter the innermost essence of a rose? They can do so by observing its color and form, perceiving its fragrance, and following the rose\u2019s whole life cycle as the seasons change\u2014its blooming and its fading. In itself, the rose is a unity. But through the various activities of our senses, this unity is, as it were, broken apart into different spheres of perception: into a world of colors, forms, scents, and more. By bringing these different sensory worlds back together in our consciousness, we can grasp the essence of the rose as a whole. Our senses build the f<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>Media that attempts to convey a specific message increasingly distances us from immediate experience and reconstructs predictable relationships. But there are gaps that allow consciousness to shine through. How can a person enter the innermost essence of a rose? They can do so by observing its color and form, perceiving its fragrance, and following the rose\u2019s whole life cycle as the seasons change\u2014its blooming and its fading. In itself, the rose is a unity. But through the various activities of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12175,"featured_media":72274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8839,8809],"tags":[11797,11798,8814],"class_list":["post-72580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","category-digital-world","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\/72580","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\/12175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72607,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72580\/revisions\/72607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}