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.
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, but also the Crucified One. It thus refers to the formed, the dead. The German language distinguishes between Körper and Leib. The word Leib comes from Leben, life. Formed matter is transitory. The formative force of life has a spiritual nature. Life is mirrored in the sensory, where it endlessly develops and transforms it
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Kai Hansen (*1957) war am Anthroposophischen Studienseminar, als Klassenlehrer, Bothergymnast an der Widar-Schule in Bochum und 30 Jahre in der Freien Wirtschaft als Organisationsentwickler tätig.
