{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 154/1914-05-05/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It will become increasingly clear to us how this earthly life is connected with spiritual life. We rely on nature, which is on a lower level than we are, for our nourishment. For some time after death, the dead derive their nourishment from the ideas and the unconscious emotions that we here on earth take into sleep with us. Those who have died perceive a tremendous difference between people who in their waking life are filled only with materialistic feelings and ideas and also take them into sleep, and others who are wholly filled with spiritual ideas while awake and who continue to be filled with them in sleep. The two types of people are as different in their effect on the dead as a barren region where no food can grow, where people would starve, and a fruitful area that offers nourishment in abundance. For many years after death, the dead draw a vitality from the souls sleeping here on earth filled with spiritual content, a vitality that is similar, only transposed into the spiritual realm, to what we draw in our physical life from the beings of the kingdoms of nature below us. We literally turn ourselves into fruitful pastures for the dead when we fill ourselves with the ideas of spiritual science. And we turn ourselves into barren ground and starve the dead if we take only materialistic ideas and attitudes into sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. Awakening Spiritual Thoughts","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-05","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/154/1914-05-05/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Christian von Arnim","identified_edition":"AP1990","book_title":"The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA154/English/AP1990/19140505p01.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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Immer mehr und mehr wird uns auffallen, wie dieses Leben zusammenhängt mit dem geistigen Leben. Da brauchen wir als Menschen die andere, gleichsam unter dem Menschen stehende Natur, von der wir uns ernähren, aus der wir also unsere Nahrung ziehen. Dasjenige, wovon zunächst eine Zeitlang nach dem Tode die Toten ihre Nahrung ziehen, das sind die Vorstellungen, die Empfindungen, die unbewußten Empfindungen und Gefühle, die die Menschen hier auf Erden in den Schlaf hinübertragen. Für die Toten ist es ein gewaltiger Unterschied, ob irgendwo, sagen wir, eine Schar von Menschen schläft, die sich nur anfüllen während ihres Wachlebens mit lauter materialistischen Empfindungen und Vorstellungen und diese in den Schlaf hinübertragen und im Einschlafen durchdrungen sind von den Nachwirkungen dieser Materialismen, oder ob irgendwo schläft eine Schar von Menschen, die während des Wachens sich ganz und gar durchdrang mit geistigen Vorstellungen und die auch während des Schlafes noch von solchen durchdrungen ist. Wie eine öde Oberfläche, die nichts von Nahrungsmitteln enthält und auf welcher die Menschen verhungern müßten, sich verhält zu einer fruchtbaren Gegend, die den Menschen Nahrung bietet, so verhält sich für diejenigen, welche durch den Tod gegangen sind, eine Schar von Menschen, die mit materialistischer Gesinnung schläft, zu einer Schar von Menschen, die mit geistigen Vorstellungen schläft. Denn aus dem Erfülltsein der Seelen, die hier auf Erden schlafen, mit geistigen Vorstellungen, ziehen die Toten zunächst viele Jahre nach dem Tode Lebenskraft, die ähnlich ist, nur geistig, nur ins Geistige versetzt, dem, was wir als physische Menschen aus den uns Nahrung gebenden Wesenheiten der unter uns stehenden Naturreichen ziehen. Im buchstäblichen Sinne machen wir uns zum fruchtbaren Acker für die Toten, wenn wir uns erfüllen mit den Vorstellungen, die uns von der Geisteswissenschaft kommen. 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