Ausgabe 20/2026

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 und Johanna Lamprecht · 27 May 2026 · 1 min

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 May 2026 · 1 min

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 May 2026 · 1 min

The Maternal Body

When Marcel Proust was denied a kiss, the longing that remained gave birth to his future writings. Ensheathed by the principles of the mother and unconditional love, we are perpetually reborn. Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time opens with a missing kiss. His mother stays at an evening party and sends word to her son that she cannot say goodnight to him tonight—and thus plunges him into a deep crisis. In the absence of his mother’s kiss, an inner …

Luke Wilkins · 27 May 2026 · 1 min

Embodying Anthroposophy

Our physical body [Körper] resembles everything visible and formed. When viewed as a body of functions and processes [Leib], it emerges as a living whole. Anthroposophy can be understood as this kind of body, a body of spirit for the ‘I’. A meditation for the Pentecostal season. The physical body [Körper] refers to the material form of a human being. The Latin root corpus denotes a corpse, as well as things like a piece of furniture or a musical instrument, …

Kai Hansen · 27 May 2026 · 1 min

I am My Own Home

Linz, Austria/Ytterjärna, Sweden. What is life like as a young person in today’s world? We asked around. Answers from Alva Hitsch, currently a participant in the Youth Initiative Program in Ytterjärna, Sweden.

Paula Boslau · 27 May 2026 · 1 min