The Earth Is the Substance of Our Destiny

Ueli Hurter

Ueli Hurter

27 May 2026 · 1 min read

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 duality occurs time and again throughout our lives; it is an archetypal experience of ourselves as conscious and self-aware human beings. I can recall, for example, how, as a child, lying in a meadow and gazing at the sky, I suddenly realized: the clouds
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Ueli Hurter

Ueli Hurter

Ueli Hurter, bis 2020 als biologisch-dynamischer Landwirt in der Leitung von L’Aubier, Demeter-Hof mit Ökohotel. Seit 2010 in der Co-Leitung der Sektion für Landwirtschaft. Seit 2020 Mitglied des Vorstandes der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft.

CategoriesDeepeningsEnglish Issue 22/2026Ausgabe 20/2026

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