{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 152/1913-05-01/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The first of these powers is that of *thinking*. We live in relation with the world around us by forming thoughts about our surroundings. In ordinary, everyday life a man thinks thoughts which are caused through impressions made on the senses, or through the intellect that is bound up with the brain. In my book *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment* it is said that through meditation, concentration and contemplation, through strengthening his life of soul, a man can make this power of thinking independent of external life. I want to call your attention here to how the power of thinking within the soul, which otherwise is developed only through thought about the external world, can be made essentially free and independent of everything belonging to the body. That is to say, through such development it becomes possible for the soul to think, to form thoughts within itself, without using the brain as an instrument. This is easy to understand if we consider the chief characteristic of ordinary, everyday thinking which is dependent upon the impressions conveyed through the senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Occult Science and Occult Development","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-05-01","location":null,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/152/1913-05-01/p045","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Wir leben im Zusammenhang mit der Welt, die uns umgibt, dadurch, daß wir uns Gedanken über unsere Umweit bilden. Im gewöhnlichen alltäglichen Leben denkt der Mensch Gedanken, die durch Sinneseindrücke oder durch den Intellekt, der an das Gehirn gebunden ist, verursacht werden. In meinem Buch «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» werden Sie finden, wie ein Mensch durch Meditation, Konzentration und Kontemplation, durch die Erkraftung seines seelischen Lebens diese Kraft des Gedankens unabhängig vom äußeren Leben machen kann. Ich möchte Sie gerade hier darauf aufmerksam machen, wie man das, was innerhalb unserer Seele die Kraft des Gsedankens ist, die sonst nur entwickelt wird dadurch, daß man sich Gedanken bildet über die äußere Welt, wie man das im wesentlichen frei und unabhängig machen kann von all dem, was dem Körper angehört. Das heißt, durch eine solche Entwickelung erlangt die Seele die Möglichkeit zu denken, Gedanken in sich selbst zu bilden, ohne vom Körper Gebrauch zu machen, ohne das Gehirn als Instrument zu benützen. Dies können wir gut verstehen, wenn wir betrachten, was das hauptsächlich Charakteristische des gewöhnlichen, alltäglichen Denkens ist, welches von den Eindrücken abhängig ist, die durch die Sinne gewonnen werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/152/1913-05-01/p049"}],"english":["GA 152/1913-05-01/p045"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":182,"ratio":0.88,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6770,"original_word_count":7146,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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