93. On the Spiritual in Man

Dream, somnambulism, enthusiasm, and all elevated states are opposed to the seeing consciousness. They lead to areas in which heightened organic activity brings people together with their own, otherwise unknown world, which they can take for the spiritual one just because they do not experience it in ordinary consciousness; the visual consciousness leads people out of themselves, interest, ordinary attention give no incentive ; curiosity is not aroused; fatigue sets in; drowsiness sets in; the spiritual is perceived as tormenting; at first one is afraid of it, then one hates it. This fear must be overcome; this hatred must be transformed into sympathy.

An earlier experience must be perceived, not remembered. Remembering is based on a physical process. When an earlier experience is perceived, there is a real shifting back in time, i.e. a relationship to something that only still exists spiritually.

The spiritual in man needs one to two days before it has freed itself from the physical-organic; during these one to two days the spiritual lingers as physical – then it becomes spiritual – then self-power must be applied to bring about the arising into consciousness. Man is at the mercy of his present experiences for one to two days.

1. Relaying the recording without knowledge of the recording conditions.

2. Relaying the recording with knowledge of the recording, but without knowledge of the recording conditions.

3. Relaying the recording with knowledge of the recording conditions and consciously incorporating them.