{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-12-26/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Anyone who wanders through the world today as a sensible person can still find the last remnants of atavistic clairvoyance. Here and there, someone will come up to them and tell them what they have seen in the astral world as their own experiences. Such a person, wandering through the countries in this way, can then hear about those who still have an inkling of the true reality, the fairy tales. This is how they are recorded in our books. This is how the Brothers Grimm collected fairy tales. This is how others collected them, most of whom were not clairvoyants themselves, but received the fairy tales from third, fourth, fifth, and sometimes even tenth hand, so that they came to them in a manifold distorted form. But the time of twilight was drawing to a close, when people still had their intimate connection with the spiritual world, which has just been characterized. People are increasingly withdrawing from this spiritual world. Atavistic clairvoyance is becoming rarer and rarer, at least that which can be described as healthy, and true clairvoyance will increasingly be something that can only be attained through training. And of what people saw in ancient times, most people who still know something about these things will be able to say in a certain future: Once upon a time, old people told this or that from their astral experiences. Where was it? It could have been anywhere. But today you will rarely find anyone who can tell you about it from a real source. And one will be able to say of fairy-tale experiences: They happened once—and if they have not died, these fairy-tale experiences, they still live today. But for most people who are inwardly entangled with the physical plane, they died long ago.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"9. Interpretations of Fairy Tales","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-12-26","location":null,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/108/1908-12-26/p032","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Answers Provided by Anthroposophy Concerning the World and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA108/English/SOL2024/19081226p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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So haben sie andere gesammelt, die meist selbst nicht Hellseher waren, sondern die Märchen aus dritter, vierter, fünfter Hand bekamen, ja manchmal auch erst aus zehnter Hand, so daß sie ihnen in einer mannigfaltig entstellten Gestalt entgegentraten. Aber es neigte sich die Zeit der Abenddämmerung, wo die Menschen noch ihren intimen Zusammenhang mit der geistigen Welt hatten, der jetzt eben charakterisiert worden ist. Immer mehr und mehr treten die Menschen von dieser geistigen Welt zurück. Das atavistische Hellsehen wird immer seltener und seltener werden, wenigstens das als gesund zu bezeichnende, und wahres Hellsehen wird immer mehr und mehr das bloß durch Schulung dem Menschen zuteil gewordene sein können. Und von dem, was die Menschen in alten Zeiten gesehen haben, werden die meisten Menschen, die noch etwas wissen von den Dingen, in einer gewissen Zukunft sagen können: Es war einmal, daß alte Leute aus ihren astralischen Erlebnissen heraus dieses oder jenes erzählten. Wo war es doch? Es kann eigentlich überall gewesen sein. - Aber heute findet man nur noch sehr selten irgend jemanden, der das aus einer wirklichen Quelle heraus erzählen wird. Und man wird von den Märchenerlebnissen sagen können: Sie ereigneten sich einmal - und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, diese Märchenerlebnisse, so leben sie heute noch. 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