{"id":318,"date":"2015-11-19T23:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T22:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-11-27T00:42:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T23:42:25","slug":"then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/googleaf3e64612a0fad9a.html\/then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Harz Mountains.<br \/>\nNorth Germany.<br \/>\n14. November 2015<br \/>\n21. Century<\/p>\n<p>The Harz Mountain is a\u00a0cuddly forest. Long time ago, in the 18. Century the Brother Grimm&#8217;s were inspired by exactly those mountains for writing their fairy-tales.<br \/>\n&#8220;Cinderella&#8221;, &#8220;Sleeping Beauty&#8221;, &#8220;Snow White&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Brocken,<\/span><br \/>\n&#8230; a little mountain which caries plenty of the mythological, historical, meteorological and other stories. If you find yourself on this 1.141m high Summit when the sun is low, you will experience yourself as a huge shadow as a game of light and little watery foggy particles. <a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brockengespenst-und-Glorie_TdT_2014-10-03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-325 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Brockengespenst-und-Glorie_TdT_2014-10-03-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Brockengespenst-und-Glorie_TdT_2014-10-03\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0This natural phenomena in German is called &#8220;Brockengespenst&#8221;, well, it means Brocken Ghost and it has been very scary for people of the 18. Century in a Brother Grimm&#8217;s Land which is situated in the vicinity of the Harz Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen neither my 3D giant me, A, \u00a0or the B variation. The C we all know and like, and I wish that the Sea is and will not be a fairy-tale with a sad ending for the whole humanity, today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s walk some steps down the Brocken Summit, to the paths which many people walked on and one of them was Goethe, in 1777.<\/p>\n<p>Some impressions from the path from a little town Schierke up to the Summit&#8230;<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n\t#foogallery-gallery-328 .fg-image {\r\n        width: 150px;\r\n    }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox-free fg-gutter-10 fg-center fg-default fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-small fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-hover-fade fg-hover-eye fg-ready\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-328\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:false,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:false},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" >\r\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure 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src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06321-Kopie.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"382\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2015\/11\/DSC06321-Kopie\/485828299.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faust and Mephisto, the two characters from the Goethe&#8217;s story about Faust, were also climbing the Brocken to take part in a party called Walpurgis Night. Faust is a smart fellow who read many books but can&#8217;t find the meaning of life and Mephisto doesn&#8217;t like life so much.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_300\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06329.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-image-300 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06329-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Faust 1 route\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Devil&#8217;s Steps&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walpurga was a catholic saint and Walpurgis Night is a Witches&#8217; night which was celebrated on the night between 30. April and 1. May in several countries of Northern and Central Europe.<br \/>\nIt\u00a0is the night when witches from all over the World meet on the Brocken Summit where they make sum of the acts they did in past and make plans for the future, just like some people today meet to make plan for the future of our society, our freedom, our rights.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Steps&#8221; are snaky and mossy and kind of mystical.<br \/>\nYou need anti-slip-boots, thats all. Ok, and loads of belief and positive thoughts too. If you search for the meaning of life, it is good to mix time and good will and pass by this path.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere around this place, walking the path Faust felt the spring all over and Mephisto felt only cold.<\/p>\n<p>Me myself I enjoyed the mossy, mystical path. It is a really wonderful forest. I try to do my best. Whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-301 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06331-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Harz\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06331-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06331.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06331-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-303 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06333-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harz\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06333-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06333.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-305 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06335-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brocken Summit\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06335-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06335.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The vegetation stops right under the summit. The extreme weather condition will give you a feeling that you are standing on a\u00a0over 2.000m high mountain or in some\u00a0place on\u00a0Island.<\/p>\n<p>It is extremely windy high up, the peak stands alone in an open space and the messages coming from its isolation are not to be underestimated at all. You never know what the giants intend, especially the isolated ones.<\/p>\n<p>300 foggy days per year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A sweet steam train&#8217;s sound is merging with\u00a0the extreme weather conditions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-306 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06338-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Steamy \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06338-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06338.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06338-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-310 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06339-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Steamy \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06339-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06339.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06339-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each moment is different up there and while taking those couple of photos without gloves my fingers were almost frozen. I could not stop thinking of the climbers, the mountains and the recently seen movie \u00a0&#8220;Everest&#8221;, about people who are paying 65.000$ more or less and torture themsleves very often to death&#8230; on this planet, our planet, here and now, when<strong> every 15 seconds a child dies<\/strong> of hunger. Right<strong> HERE<\/strong> and right <strong>NOW<\/strong>.<br \/>\nMister Ego&#8230; the dark one, which lives only for himself and for himself only. A worshiped hungry creator of the fog which kills human hearts, the most valuable thing in the Universe.<br \/>\nThe good thing is that the mirror (read: the Ego) has always two sides. One is dark and the other is light. The light one is able to notice a illusion. This is the road which guides somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06344.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-image-311 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06344-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06344-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06344.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06344-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brocken Summit, 14. November 2015. Temperature -1,9C, wind is blowing 67,0 km\/h<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On my visit the Brocken, on November 14Th, 21. Century, where the human brain is the most developed thing on the Earth, I was also thinking of the issue of the Faust&#8217;s story. A man, as a unique creature with his dubble existence, his limited mind and unlimited soul, his frustrated passion and noble optimism, and the merging of all this with the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>18. Century?<br \/>\nNo. 21. Century, why?<br \/>\nGoethe, then and now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; <strong>&#8220;Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-343 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063491-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Brocken \" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063491-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063491-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;What lies beyond doesn&#8217;t worry me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Suppose you break this world to bits, another may arise.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My joy springs from this earth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> this sun shines on my sorrows.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When I leave here, let come what must.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> What do I care about it now, if hereafter<\/em><br \/>\n<em> men hate or love, or if in those other spheres<\/em><br \/>\n<em> there be an Above or a Below?&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em> Faust, Part I<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em><strong> &#8220;Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*** \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06334-Kopie-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-383 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06334-Kopie-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brocken \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06334-Kopie-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC06334-Kopie-2.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063451.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-347 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063451-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063451-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dancinglila.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC063451.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I love those who yearn for the impossible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Goethe, Faust\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Good night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Good morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Good luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harz Mountains. 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