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As you know, people generally think—especially those who imagine themselves to be very clever—that external perception arises because the objects are there and then man, inside his skin, receives impressions from the objects; they suppose that his brain (if they think materialistically) produces inner pictures of the external objects and forms. Now that is simply not the case; the facts are quite different. The truth is that the human being is not by any means confined within his skin. If someone is looking at a bunch of flowers, then with his Ego and astral body he is actually within it, and his organism is a reflecting apparatus which reflects it back to him. In reality you extend over the horizon which you survey. In waking consciousness, you are also rooted, with an essential part of your Ego and astral body, in your physical and etheric bodies. The process is as I have often described in lectures. Let us assume that here are a number of mirrors. As long as you walk through space and have no mirror, you do not see yourself, but as soon as you come to a mirror you do. The human organism is not the producer of what you experience in your soul, it is only the reflecting apparatus. The soul is united with the bunch of flowers outside. That the soul may be able to see the flowers consciously depends upon the eye, in unison with the brain-apparatus, reflecting back to the soul that with which the soul is living. Man does not perceive in the night, because when he sleeps he draws out what is within him all day—his Ego and astral body. Therefore, the eyes and brain cease to reflect. 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If we want to experience that of which I have said that it is so fleeting, so mobile compared with the processes and things of the physical world that although we live within it as within the coarse objects of the physical world, we do not experience it because it is too tenuous—if we want to experience this fluctuating, ethereal reality, then our ordinary Ego, the bearer of our individuality, our egoity, must be damped down, must be suppressed. In true meditation this is what we do. What is meditation? We take some content, or mental picture, and give ourselves over entirely to it. We forget ourselves and suppress the egoity of ordinary waking consciousness. We exclude everything that is connected with the egoity of waking consciousness. Whereas we are accustomed to apply egoity on the physical plane, we now suppress it. 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Nun, nicht wahr, da denken die Menschen gewöhnlich - besonders Menschen, die sich sehr gescheit dünken -, daß die äußere Wahrnehmung dadurch zustande kommt, daß die Dinge draußen sind, der Mensch in seiner Haut steckt, daß die äußeren Dinge einen Eindruck auf ihn machen, und daß dadurch sein Gehirn ein Bild der äußeren Objekte und Formen in seinem Innern erzeugt. Nun, es ist ganz und gar nicht so, sondern es verhält sich ganz anders. In Wahrheit ist der Mensch gar nicht drinnen innerhalb seiner Haut [mit seinem Geistig-Seelischen]; das ist er gar nicht. Wenn der Mensch zum Beispiel dieses Rosen-Bukettchen sieht, so ist er mit seinem Ich und Astralleib in der Tat da drinnen in dem Bukettchen, und sein Organismus ist ein Spiegelungsapparat und spiegelt ihm die Dinge zurück. Sie sind in Wahrheit immer ausgebreitet über den Horizont, den Sie überschauen. Und im Wachbewußtsein stecken Sie eben mit einem wesentlichen Teil Ihres Ich und Astralleibes auch im physischen und ätherischen Leibe drinnen. Der Vorgang ist nun wirklich so - ich habe das oft in Vorträgen erwähnt -: Denken Sie sich, sie gingen in einem Zimmer herum, in dem eine Anzahl von Spiegeln an den Wänden angebracht wären. Sie können durch den Raum gehen. Wo Sie keinen Spiegel haben, sehen Sie sich selber nicht. Sobald Sie aber an einen Spiegel kommen, sehen Sie sich. Kommt eine Stelle ohne Spiegel, sehen Sie sich nicht, und wenn wieder ein Spiegel da ist, sehen Sie sich wieder. So ist es auch mit dem menschlichen Organismus. Er ist nicht der Erzeuger der Dinge, die wir in der Seele erleben, er ist nur der Spiegelungsapparat. Die Seele ist beisammen mit den Dingen da draußen, zum Beispiel hier mit diesem Rosen-Bukettchen. Daß die Seele das Bukettchen bewußt sieht, hängt davon ab, daß das Auge in Verbindung mit dem Gehirnapparat der Seele das zurückspiegelt, womit die Seele zusammenlebt. Und in der Nacht nimmt der Mensch nicht wahr, weil er, wenn er schläft, Ich und Astralleib aus seinem physischen und ätherischen Leib herauszieht, und diese dadurch aufhören, ein Spiegelungsapparat zu sein. Das Einschlafen ist so, als ob Sie einen Spiegel, den Sie vor sich hatten, wegnehmen. Solange Sie in den Spiegel hineinsehen können, haben Sie Ihr eigenes Antlitz vor sich; nehmen Sie den Spiegel weg, flugs ist nichts mehr da von Ihrem Antlitz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":399,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-03/p019"},{"locus":"GA 156/1914-10-03/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"So verschaffen wir uns eine Art Begriff, wie das Wahrnehmen und das Erleben auf dem physischen Plan ist. Betrachten wir nun die geistige Welt, von der ich gesagt habe, daß sie so flüchtig, so leicht fluktuierend und leicht beweglich ist gegenüber den Vorgängen und Dingen der physischen Welt. Da leben wir auch drinnen, aber wir erleben sie nicht so wie die groben Dinge der physischen Welt, weil sie zu fein sind. Wenn man dieses fluktuierende Feine erleben will, so kann das zunächst nur dadurch geschehen, daß man das, was unser gewöhnliches Ich ist, was der Träger unserer Individualität, unserer Egoität ist, herabstimmt, richtig herabstimmt. In einer richtigen Meditation tun wir das. Worin besteht diese Meditation? Wir nehmen uns irgendeinen Vorstellungsinhalt und überlassen uns ganz diesem Vorstellungsinhalt. Wir vergessen uns selber und leben in diesem Vorstellungsinhalt, indem wir die Egoität des gewöhnlichen Tagesbewußtseins unterdrücken. Wir schalten alles aus, was mit der Egoität des Tagesbewußtseins zusammenhängt. 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Der physische Leib ist ein Spiegelapparat, und Sie sehen das Bukettchen, weil der physische Leib es Ihnen spiegelt. Wenn Sie das Ich mit der Egoität unterdrücken, dann werden Sie im Astralleib drinnen sein. Und der ist jetzt so fein, daß Sie die feinen fluktuierenden Dinge da draußen bewußt wahrnehmen können, aber dazu müssen sie nun auch erst gespiegelt werden, wenn Sie sie wirklich wahrnehmen sollen. Hier ist etwas, was Sie recht gut ins Auge fassen müssen. Es sind viele unter Ihnen, die sich treulich und wahrhaftig der Meditatiion hingeben. Dadurch erreichen Sie, daß die gewöhnliche Egoität unterdrückt wird, daß das Erleben im Astralleib eintritt. Aber es muß erst die Spiegelung dazukommen, damit Sie bewußt im Astralleib wahrnehmen. Unter Ihnen ist wahrhaftig eine ganze Schar, die durchaus durch die Meditation schon so weit ist, daß sie im Astralleib erlebt. Nun aber kommt es auf die Spiegelung an. 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