Even ‘choirs of angels’ could achieve little – Can a sense for deeper realities be awakened in de-spiritualised times?

In this fascinating lecture Wolfgang Müller travels through epochs and cultures, from the Odyssey by way of the Bhagavad Gita to Goethe’s Faust, and shows how the invisible, spiritual world once existed as a matter of course alongside the visible one – in contrast to the modern “disenchantment” and “transcendental homelessness”. He divides his talk into longing, the harshness of rejection and suggested approaches (in thought and in atmosphere), reflects on sceptical contemporaries and calls for an anthroposophical re-conquest of spiritual realities.

A contribution by Wolfgang Müller to the fringe programme of the exhibition ‘Aus des Kosmos Geist entzünden ...’ at the Goetheanum.

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Published: 17 April 2026