{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-21/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this lecture it has been our special task to show that a person may be in the position—without following it with the degree of consciousness of which he is aware—to look for an illness, and this is brought about by an abnormal, deeper condition of consciousness. We had to show that in an illness we are concerned with an awakening of stages of consciousness which as human beings we have long transcended. Through committing errors in a previous life, we have evoked deeper degrees of consciousness than are appropriate to our present life; and what we do from the impulses of this deeper consciousness influences the course of the disease, as well as the process which actually leads to it. Thus we see that in these abnormal conditions ancient stages of consciousness appear which man has long since passed. If you consider the facts of every-day life but a little, you will be able to understand in a general way what has been said today. It is indeed the case, that through his pain, man descends more deeply into his being, and this is expressed in the well-known statement that a person only knows that he possesses an organ when it begins to give him pain. That is a popular saying, but it is not so very stupid. Why does a person in his normal consciousness know nothing about it? Because in normal cases his consciousness sleeps so deeply that it does not dip intensely enough into his astral body; but if it does, then pain appears, and through the pain he knows that he has the organ in question. In many of the popular sayings there is something which is quite true, because they are heirlooms of earlier stages of consciousness in which man, when he was able to see into the spiritual world, was aware of much that we now have to acquire with effort. If you understand that a person may experience deeper layers of consciousness, you will also understand that not only external causes of illness may be sought by man, but also external strokes of fate which he cannot explain rationally, but the rationality of which works from the deeper strata of consciousness. Thus it is reasonable to suppose that a man would not out of his ordinary consciousness place himself where he may be struck by lightning; with his ordinary consciousness he would do anything to avoid standing where the lightning may strike him. But there may be a consciousness active within him, which lies much deeper than the ordinary consciousness, and which from a foresight which is not possessed by the ordinary consciousness leads him to the very place where the lightning may strike him—and wills that he should be so struck. The man really seeks out the accident.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Und was wir aus den Antrieben dieser Bewußtseinsgrade tun, das beeinflußt den Verlauf des Krankheitsprozesses wie auch den Prozeß, der überhaupt erst zur Krankheit führt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-21/p030"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-21/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Da sehen wir, daß in den abnormen Zuständen alte Bewußtseinsstufen heraufsteigen, welche der Mensch längst überwunden hat. Wenn Sie nur ein wenig die Tatsachen des gewöhnlichen Lebens betrachten, können Sie sich schon ein wenig verdeutlichen, was heute gesagt worden ist. Es ist ja so, daß der Mensch durch seine Schmerzen gewissermaßen tiefer hinuntersteigt in sein Wesen. Sie kennen ja den Ausspruch, daß er dann erst weiß, daß er ein Organ hat, wenn es angefangen hat, ihn zu schmerzen. Das ist ein populärer Ausspruch; aber er ist nicht so ganz dumm. Warum weiß der Mensch im normalen Bewußtsein davon nichts? Weil sein Bewußtsein im normalen Falle so weit schläft, daß es nicht intensiv genug untertaucht in den astralischen Leib. Taucht es aber unter, dann entsteht Schmerz, und durch den Schmerz erfährt der Mensch, daß er das betreffende Organ hat. In gar manchen Aussprüchen des gewöhnlichen Lebens liegt etwas durchaus Wahres, weil sie Erbstücke sind aus den früheren Bewußtseinsstadien, in welchen der Mensch, als er in die geistige Welt hineingesehen hat, noch vieles gewußt hat von dem, was wir heute mühselig wieder heraufholen müssen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-21/p031"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-21/p032","passage_number":32,"text":"Wenn Sie begreifen, daß der Mensch tiefere Schichten des Bewußtseins erleben kann, dann werden Sie auch die Möglichkeit haben, zu begreifen, daß nicht nur äußere Krankheitsursachen, sondern auch äußere Schicksalsschläge vom Menschen aufgesucht werden können, welche sich der Mensch nicht als vernünftig auslegen kann, aber deren Vernunft so wirkt, daß auf tiefere Schichten des Bewußtseins gewirkt wird. — So kann es auch wohl denkbar erscheinen, daß sich der Mensch bei gewöhnlicher Überlegung nicht gerade dorthin stellen wird, wo ihn ein Blitz treffen kann. Mit dem Oberbewußtsein wird er das vermeiden. Aber es könnte in ihm ein Bewußtsein tätig sein, das viel tiefer liegt als das Oberbewußtsein und das ihn gerade an die Stelle hinführt, wo ihn der Blitz treffen kann, unter einer Voraussicht, welche das Oberbewußtsein nicht hat, ein Bewußtsein, das also will, daß der Blitz ihn trifft, so daß der Mensch den Unfall geradezu aufsucht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-21/p032"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-21/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":447,"en_words":467,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 120/1910-05-21/p030","GA 120/1910-05-21/p031","GA 120/1910-05-21/p032"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6440,"original_word_count":6592,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100521p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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