Readers’ Letters on the Corona crisis
Readers’ Letters on the Corona crisis of Christian Pax, Würzburg (DE), Virginia Sease, Beatrice and Martin Schüpbach, Dornach (CH), Elisa Betancor, Las Palmas Gran Canaria (ES), Kai Hansen, Nürtingen (DE) und Gunvor Smith, Rennesøy (NO).
Rudolf Steiner pointed out that Easter is always related to the Christmas 33 1/3 years earlier. For this Easter that would be Christmas of 1986. At that time we were struggling with the Chernobyl disaster. Then, as today, it was dangerous to send children outside to play. For months people lived in fear of eating radioactively contaminated food.
Christian Pax, Würzburg (DE)
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The earth needs us. Not only humans are struggling with flu; the immune systems of animals and plants, of the earth and its atmosphere are damaged and need our loving attention. This is why we started a seminar with Virginia Sease in February with the ‘Hallelujah’ in eurythmy. We asked ourselves then how it would be if everyone who feels a connection with the Hallelujah would do it once a day in eurythmy for the earth. According to Rudolf Steiner it means, “I purify myself from everything that hinders me from beholding the Highest”. We have gained much, thanks to the achievements of our civilization and to our thinking, but much has also been polluted and destroyed. Maybe this could be a modest way of bringing help and conciliation.
Virginia Sease, emerita member of the Executive Council at the Goetheanum; Beatrice und Martin Schüpbach, Dornach (CH)
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I have published three very simple videos on YouTube, aiming to help people I have worked with
• to move their joints and guide their body consciously. In addition there are exercises
• for the morning and in relation to nature, and
• for the night, in order to get to sleep more easily and to connect with the earth.
Elisa Betancor, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (ES)
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I think that we should look ahead: improvement is possible and what is possible must be thought and made thinkable. What we say and how we say it is equally important. Reflection instead of fear. We need to rethink the industrial nations’ (that is, our) mania for availability and control that wants to have everything all the time, from everywhere, as cheaply as possible. Because we are the ones paying the price now. The ideology of self-sustaining egotism (nationalism, too) must give way to a fundamentally new community spirit. The outcome of such activity could be a willingness to coexist with nature in peace. The separation of subject (‘I’) and everything else out there (world) is also a construct. In truth, all living things are interconnected and depend on each other.
Kai Hansen, Nürtingen (DE)
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We humans were meant to work with Nature, not against it. That means unity with all people and movements and Nature. Humanity must try to come together as a unit. It also means that nature is stronger than our intellect, at least here on earth, but also in our souls and spirits the intellect is not as big and important as we think it is. It divides us unnecessarily, and it also limits the development of the anthroposophical movement.
Gunvor Smith, Rennesøy (NO)