Which Spirit Child Am I? - Thinking Pictures on the Road

The experiences we have had during the meditative pilgrimages, explorations of sustainability or local discussions on a wide variety of stages on the Sternenweg confirm that aesthetic and ethical perceptions can be inspired to a great extent by artistic reflections.

Against this background, the idea was born in 2016 to develop poetic images and thoughts along the Starry Paths, so-called “thought images”, for deepening and further thinking. The “thought pictures” arise in each case from the spirit, or the theme of a special detail, one of the recorded medieval buildings along the way.

In an artistic and poetic way, the impulses of the place give rise to an interpretation related to the present. The visitors and pilgrims are invited with the mental image between the times and living spaces to sense an inner connection that can be thought further.

In essence, the thought pictures invite us to face the challenges of life with its puzzles. Which child of the spirit am I? How can traditional limitations and structures in existence be overcome? What does the good life mean in contemporary Europe?

These “thinking-pictures”, which one already encounters at some medieval cultural sites along the way, have an experimental character. They aim to open up perspectives from a different angle and form a further level of understanding in the model project “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles”: New (further) thinking can arise when people engage with the impulses of the places and the thought images and meditate on them while walking.

So far, mental images can be found in Gimmeldingen, Zweibrücken, Altheim, Böckweiler and at the CulturePlace Wintringer Chapel discover

As it happens, other places will receive such a “Denkbild” in the future, to offer people an opportunity for (self-)reflection while on the move.