Editorial

Issue 22/2026

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Aufsätze

3 Beiträge

Im Fokus

Becoming Human

Biography Work in the House of Life illustrates how opportunities and challenges can be understood and fulfilled in every stage of life. Who am I? What is the meaning, the leitmotif, of my life? Often, many people today want to ignore these important questions. At the same time, one of the signatures of our time is the wish to make the most of what life has to offer. Anthroposophical biographical work, the foundations of which were developed by Rudolf Steiner, …

Susanne Hofmeister · 10. Juni

Conversation
A Circle Around Mother and Child
When a mother and child face a crisis, a living, supportive enclosure must be rebuilt. Katharina Guldimann describes the Ita Wegman Mutter-Kind-Haus [Ita Wegman Mother-Child House] as a protective space, a “family sheath” that envelops the mother, child, and the whole family organism. Questions by Johanna Lamprecht. On a beautiful, sunny spring day, I arrive at the Ita Wegman Mother-Child House in Gempen, a small village up on the plateau, east of Dornach. The house is located at the edge …
Katharina Guldimann · 27. Mai
Essay
The Earth Is the Substance of Our Destiny
We incarnate on a planet whose evolution is intertwined with the destiny of humanity. The “Great Mother” is our body. We have a karmic relationship with the Earth. Our primary experience is unity—oneness between self and world. Gradually, duality emerges: child–mother, ‘I’–world, human–Earth. Every day—upon waking—we can try to catch that moment when the ‘I’ again falls out from the unified continuum of experience and ‘I’ and world stand in opposition to one another as separate objects. This awakening to …
Ueli Hurter · 27. Mai

Zeitsymptome

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Essay
It’s Worth Asking
Questions are a way of listening to one another and showing interest. But not every question awakens the other person’s interest. For some, certain questions aren’t really “their” questions, either because they already know the answer or have figured it out for themselves or because they don’t find the question particularly interesting or relevant. How can I tell the difference? How do I know whether a question touches me or not? What makes it moving, and what makes it boring? …
Andreas Laudert · 10. Juni
Medicine
When Prenatal Life Becomes Biography
Recent medical research reveals an association between complications during pregnancy and early childhood developmental issues. How much of the quality of a child’s life is predetermined during gestation? In recent years, medical research has increasingly turned its attention to the prenatal period, recognizing that human development is shaped long before birth. A large-scale cohort study published in JAMA Network Open reinforces this perspective, showing that certain complications during pregnancy—most notably hypertensive or high blood pressure disorders such as preeclampsia—are associated …
Gerry Katramados · 27. Mai

Worte

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Column

When It Comes to Life and Death

There are two occasions when a community becomes closely knit and deeply connected, as if by magic. At these moments the heavens seem to descend upon the group. They occur in the case of life and of death, when a person speaks of their own life or about someone else’s.

Wolfgang Held · 10. Juni