{"id":748,"date":"2014-04-18T16:26:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=748"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:10:15","slug":"everything-blooming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/translations\/everything-blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Blooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>After<i> Jean Gebser<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Everything blooming<br \/>\nis destined to die.<br \/>\nWho sees it coming<br \/>\nknows that it\u2019s \u00a0nigh.<\/p>\n<p>The tree feels still<br \/>\nin the breezy air.<br \/>\nWe rarely conceive<br \/>\nwho we actually are.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers think flower.<br \/>\ncreatures, creature.<br \/>\nA clod in the fields<br \/>\nshould be our teacher.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Jean Gebser was a German-born eccentric philosopher who fed to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Switzerland amid the carnage of WW2. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anagarika_Govinda\">Lama Anagarika Govinda<\/a> described him as \u201cone of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of modern Europe.\u201d His bio is <a href=\"https:\/\/gebser.org\/jean-gebser-bio\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A<\/em><i>lles Bl\u00fchen<br \/>\nmeint schon den Tod.<br \/>\nNur die sich m\u00fchen,<br \/>\nsind wirklich bedroht.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Still f\u00fchlt der Baum<br \/>\nden zitternden Wind.<br \/>\nWir denken kaum<br \/>\nwas wir eigentlich sind.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Blume denkt Blume,<br \/>\nund Tier denkt Tier.<br \/>\nDes Ackers Krume<br \/>\nist gewisser als wir.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Jean Gebser Everything blooming is destined to die. Who sees it coming knows that it\u2019s \u00a0nigh. The tree feels still in the breezy air. We rarely conceive who we actually are. Flowers think flower. creatures, creature. A clod in the fields should be our teacher.\u00a0 *** Jean Gebser was a German-born eccentric philosopher who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/translations\/everything-blooming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything Blooming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/748\/revisions\/5918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}