{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 128/1911-03-27/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we study this bony system thoughtfully with regard to its functioning as a whole in the human organism, we cannot but be struck by the fact that it really withdraws itself, as it were, from all conscious life, and that it does this to a greater degree than any of the other systems of organs. If at the same time we go on from this bony system to the other organic systems, for example, to that inner cosmic system of the liver and spleen, the heart and lungs, etc., we are compelled to affirm that the processes within these systems are also to a very high degree withdrawn from our conscious life, although not so completely as those in our bony system. We certainly need to give far less conscious thought and attention to our bony system than to these other organs just mentioned. Some of these latter make known very clearly in their functions, in the case of some people at any rate, that they do reach up into the plane of consciousness. Just as beings which dwell in the waters of the ocean push the waves up to the surface, so does much of what goes on in the heart or the other organs belonging to these systems push its way up into our conscious life. We know how hypochondriacs, to their own injury, naturally, are partly aware of these things even though in an entirely different way, to be sure, from that in which they actually take place below. I do not here refer at all to the fact that a certain degree of illness may be developed in these organs, for then it is, of course, something quite different which causes the person to become conscious of them. I mean that one need not come anywhere near that borderline which a healthy man may designate as “bordering on being ill.” This border-line, unfortunately, gets very much displaced nowadays, to the great injury of humanity. We know, at the same time, that we are protected from becoming conscious of what goes on below by means of the sympathetic nervous system opposing these inner processes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Conscious Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-03-27","location":null,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/128/1911-03-27/p015","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1951","book_title":"An Occult Physiology","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA128/English/RSPC1951/19110327p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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An unser Knochensystem brauchen wir doch viel weniger zu denken, auf dasselbe zu achten als auf die Organe, die eben genannt worden sind. Einige dieser genannten Organe geben sich dem Menschen sogar sehr deutlich in ihren Funktionen kund als etwas, was über das Unbewußte herausragt. Es ist etwa so, wie wenn ein Gegenstand, der im Wasser des Meeres schwimmt, teilweise heraufstößt und wie eine Insel über der Oberfläche sichtbar wird. So dringt zum Beispiel manches von dem, was im Herzen vorgeht, in das Bewußtsein herauf. Sie wissen ja aus Erfahrung, wie besonders hypochondrische Naturen — zu ihrem Schaden natürlich — etwas von den Dingen verspüren, die in ihren inneren Organen vorgehen, allerdings wird es ihnen ganz anders bewußt, als es drinnen vorgeht, aber sie empfinden es doch. Ich spreche jetzt nicht davon, wie es ist, wenn ein gewisser Grad von Erkrankung in den Organen schon eingetreten ist. Beim Krankwerden nämlich wird man sich der Organe bewußt; da liegt aber eine wirkliche Ursache vor, wodurch die Wirkungen der inneren Weltsysteme heraufsteigen bis in das Bewußtsein; sondern ich spreche davon, daß lange nicht diese Grenze erreicht zu werden braucht, welche ein gesunder Mensch gegenüber dem Kranksein hat. Diese Grenze verschiebt sich aber leider recht oft. Was oft schon als Krankheit angesprochen wird, kann durchaus als ein geringerer oder höherer Grad des Hinaufdringens innerer Vorgänge in das Bewußtsein angesehen werden. Wir müssen also wirklich die Ursachen der verschiedenen Krankheiten immer so untersuchen, daß wir uns fragen: Liegen die Ursachen der Schmerzen in Krankheiten der Organe, oder haben wir sie anderswo zu suchen? - Wir wissen ja, daß wir vor dem Ins-Bewußtsein-Treten dessen, was sich da unten im Organismus abspielt, geschützt sind durch das sympathische Nervensystem.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/128/1911-03-27/p014"}],"english":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p015"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":377,"en_words":358,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 128/1911-03-27/p014"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.25,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8470,"original_word_count":6754,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSPC1951","book_title":"An Occult Physiology","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA128/English/RSPC1951/19110327p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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