{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I should like to put before you a simple fact which will show you the nature of this connection, a fact which is not invented, but has been observed in many cases. A man notices at a certain time that he has feelings which formerly he did not know; that he has sympathies and antipathies which formerly he did not know; that he succeeds easily where before he found difficulties. He cannot explain it. His surroundings cannot explain it to him, nor do the facts of life itself give him any clue. In such a case it can be found, when we observe accurately (it is true that one must have an eye for such things), that now he knows things which he did not know before and does things which he could not do before. If we examine matters further and have had experience of the teachings of Anthroposophy, it may be that we shall hear something like the following from him: “I do not know what to think of myself. I dream of a person whom I have never seen in my life. He comes into my dreams, though I never had anything to do with him.” If we follow the matter up it will be found that till now he had no occasion to occupy himself with this person. But this person had died and now first approaches him in the spiritual world. When he had come near enough to him he appeared to him in a dream which was yet more than a dream. From this person, whom he had not known in life, who, however, after death, gained influence on his life, came the impulses which he had not known before. It is not a question of saying: “It is only a dream.” It is far more a question of what the dream contained. It may be something which, although in the form of a dream, is nearer to reality than the outer consciousness. Does it matter at all whether Edison invents something in a dream or in clear waking consciousness? What matters is whether the invention is true, is useful. So also it does not matter whether an experience takes place in dream-consciousness or in physical consciousness; what is of importance is whether the experience is true or false.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Life's Meaning Through Spiritual Science and Reincarnation","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Die Tatsachen des Lebens selber geben ihm auch nicht die Erklärung. Bei einem Menschen, bei welchem wir solches beobachtet haben, wird man erfahren können, wenn man aufmerksam zu Werke geht — man muß allerdings auch einen Blick für solche Dinge haben —, daß er jetzt Dinge weiß und kann, über die er früher nichts gewußt, die er früher nicht gekannt hat. Geht man der Sache weiter nach, wenn man durch die Lehren des Okkultismus und der Geisteswissenschaft durchgegangen ist, so wird man von ihm ungefähr folgendes hören können: Ich komme mir jetzt ganz merkwürdig vor. Ich träume jetzt etwas von einer Persönlichkeit, die ich nie im Leben gesehen habe. Sie spielt in meine Träume hinein, obgleich ich mich nie mit ihr beschäftigte. — Verfolgt man die Sache nun, so wird man finden, daß er bisher keine Veranlassung gehabt hat, sich mit ihr zu beschäftigen. Nun starb aber die Person, und nun erst tritt sie an ihn heran in der geistigen Welt. Als sie ihm genügend nahe gekommen war, zeigte sie sich ihm noch als Traumgestalt in einem \"Traume, der mehr war als Traum. Von dieser Person, die er vorher im Leben nicht gekannt hat, die aber, nachdem sie gestorben war, Einfluß auf sein Leben gewann, kamen die Impulse, die er vorher nicht gehabt hatte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1912-05-23/p050"},{"locus":"GA 155/1912-05-23/p051","passage_number":51,"text":"Es kommt nicht darauf an, zu sagen: Es ist ja nur ein Traum, der hier vorliegt. Es kommt vielmehr auf das an, was er enthält. Es kann etwas sein, was zwar in Traumform erscheint, aber der Wirklichkeit viel näher ist als das äußere Bewußtsein. Kommt es denn etwa darauf an, ob Edison im Traume oder bei hellem Tagbewußtsein eine Erfindung machte? Es kommt darauf an, ob die Erfindung wahr, brauchbar ist. 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