{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p015-p022","extent":"range","passage_number":15,"through":22,"paragraph_count":8,"first_locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p015","last_locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"9. The Sleeping-and-Waking Rhythm in the Context of Cosmic Evolution","date":"1915-03-09","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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We must withdraw from the physical body, the sphere of our physical senses, with this thought. We must hold on to this thought and have no help from the physical world as we meditate. In our ordinary everyday thinking activity we have the help of the physical body, of the physical world. We think when impressions reach us through the senses. This makes thinking a comfortable process—the world makes both a physical and an etheric impression on us and this provides support for our thinking. When we meditate we must go apart from all that is physical, and that includes all ideas or concepts. Entirely of our own free will we have to make a thought the centre of our conscious mind. As a result something very specific occurs, a process more subtle than the process of perception. We have to reach a point where we forget the rest of the world—as though the rest of the world were not there and nothing really existed in space and time except for the one thought. When we have reached the point where we are indifferent to the whole world, living only in that meditative thought, something occurs which physical science will never be able to demonstrate. This subtle process of meditation causes heat consumption—a very small amount of heat is used, is taken away. It is a process we cannot demonstrate by physical methods but consumption does take place. We may return to the subject on some other occasion.[^1] We shall see then that it is possible to prove too to ordinary scientists, on the basis of processes everyone will be able to observe, that the process of meditation involves a subtle heat process and also a subtle light process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":340,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":317,"en_words":340,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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There is something else we consume, but let us for the moment just consider the fact that we use up heat and light. These things we take in make happen what I spoke of a week ago, that something evolves which is very delicate and alive. When we are thinking in the ordinary everday way, something lives within us that leaves its imprint on the organism, triggering a process that also has to do with heat; it leaves its imprint and the process which takes place causes us to have memory. This, however, must not happen when we meditate. When we live in a pure thought or feeling content, separate from everything else, the heat, light, etc., we consume does not leave its imprint on the body, it leaves its imprint in the general ether. It triggers a process outside us. Dear friends, if you are seriously, genuinely meditating, you are impressing your thought form into the general ether; it will be there within it. And if you then look back on a meditation this will not be the usual way of remembering; You are looking back to something which has left its imprint in the cosmic ether.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":481,"en_words":509,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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It is a subtle process and we perform it in such a way that it establishes a link between us and the etheric and astral world surrounding us. A person wjo develops only the ordinary everyday kind of perception and thinking is only involved with himself; it is a process that takes place entirely within us. On the other hand, someone taking up real, genuine meditation lives in a process that at the same time is also a cosmic process. Something goes on there, though it is exceedingly subtle. What happens is that a small amount of heat is used up during meditation. When heat is used up coolness develops; the general cosmic ether is cooled down when we meditate. Light is used up as well so that it is subdued; darkness arises, subdued light. The result is that when someone meditates in some place in the world and then goes away, he leaves behind in that place a very slight coolness and a very slight reduction in light. The general light state is subdued, has grown darker. A clairvoyant is always able to detect where someone has been meditating, genuinely going through the process of meditation. When the person leaves, a shadow image of him remains and this is also cooler than the surrounding area. A cool dark spectre is thus left in that place; we have engraved it there. In a very delicate and subtle way, something has been done in that place which we may very roughly compare with what happens on a photographic plate. A kind of spectre is produced. This is a process which takes place not only within man but as a cosmic reality; man makes himself part of the cosmos through this.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p017","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":481,"en_words":509,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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All is life, therefore, the human being has trailing behind him what he is thinking as an ego, and this stretches out mobile feelers or tentacles in all directions. Man is always leaving a spectre-like jellyfish behind him, all through his life. This is a very real thing, for at one and the the same it contains everything a person has lived through—in so far he has thought and felt it with his ego. This remains. And when the human being has gone through the gate of death he will gradually learn to look back on what he has left behind. This makes it possible for a link to exist between what a human being experiences after death and what he has left behind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":250,"en_words":264,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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Something we need to stress again and again is that real, genuine meditation is a very real process, an absolutely genuine process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":89,"en_words":106,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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For the spectre of himself which man has produced will now influence him and in conjunction with his later life give rise to what will be his karma.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/157/1915-03-09/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1915-03-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":112,"en_words":102,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Anna R. 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A real process is taking place, one that goes beyond us, having an effect on the cosmos, and because of this the person meditating gets the feeling that meditating is something different from the usual kind of thinking activity. With the latter we have the feeling that it is we ourselves who put the thoughts together, taking one with the other; it is we ourselves who make the decisions. Meditating, we gradually get the feeling: It is not just you yourself who is meditating, for something is going on of which you are indeed part, but it also takes place outside you, as something that has happened and remains. That is the feeling which should arise. If I throw a fragile object across the room I have the feeling that what happens is not only what went on before it flew through the air but also something that followed, once the object has become separate from me. In the same way meditation gives rise to the feeling: It is not just you who is thinking. 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Wenn wir das tun, so liegt wirklich viel daran, daß wir nun nicht unser Leibliches benützen, um diesen Gedanken zu bilden, um den Gedanken zu haben, sondern daß wir wirklich uns von dem Leiblichen, dem Physisch-Sinnlichen mit diesem Gedanken zurückziehen, daß wir in ihm verharren, daß wir beim Meditieren keine Hilfe haben an der physischen Welt. Beim gewöhnlichen Alltagsdenken hilft uns der physische Leib, hilft uns die physische Welt. Wir denken, wenn durch die Sinne auf uns Eindrücke gemacht werden. Dadurch wird uns das Denken bequem. Denn die Welt macht auf uns zugleich einen ätherischen und einen physischen Eindruck. Das ist eine Unterstützung für unser Denken. Wenn wir meditieren, müssen wir uns gerade abseits stellen von allem Physischen, auch von allen Vorstellungen. Wir müssen ganz aus dem eigenen freien Willen einen Gedanken in den Mittelpunkt unseres Bewußstseins stellen. Dadurch geschieht nun etwas höchst Eigentümliches, das dem Wahrnehmungsprozeß gegenüber ein feinerer Prozeß ist. Wenn wir es dahin bringen, daß wir gleichsam im Vergessen der ganzen übrigen Welt — als wenn die übrige Welt nicht da wäre, es eigentlich nichts geben würde in Raum und Zeit als den einzigen Gedanken -, wenn wir es dahin gebracht haben, daß uns die ganze Welt gleichgültig ist und wir nur leben im Meditationsgedanken, dann tritt dasjenige ein, was selbstverständlich keine physische Wissenschaft konstatieren kann: durch diesen feinen Prozeß des Meditierens wird gewissermaßen ein feiner Wärmeverbrauch erzielt; Wärme wird verbraucht, wird weggebracht. Es ist ein Prozeß, den man selbstverständlich nicht physisch konstatieren kann, aber der Verbrauch findet statt, und wir werden einmal darüber bei Gelegenheit sprechen. Dann werden wir sehen, wie durch Vorgänge, die jeder beobachten kann, man nachweisen kann der physischen Wissenschaft, daß der Meditationsprozeß mit einem feinen Wärmeprozeß und mit einem feinen Lichtprozefß3 verknüpft ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":317,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p012"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Von dem Licht, das wir aufgenommen haben, verbrauchen wir innerlich etwas; wir verbrauchen Licht. Wir verbrauchen auch noch etwas anderes, aber wir wollen dabei stehenbleiben, daß wir Wärme und Licht verbrauchen. Das, was wir verbrauchen, das macht eben, daß dasjenige eintritt, was ich vor acht Tagen hier besprochen habe, daß aus dem Prozeß des Meditierens sich etwas bildet wie ein feines Lebendiges. Wenn wir im gewöhnlichen Alltagsprozesse denken, lebt auch in uns etwas, was sich eindrückt in unseren Organismus und einen Prozeß bewirkt, der auch mit Wärme zu tun hat; das drückt sich da ein, und das, was sich da abspielt, das bewirkt, daß wir Erinnerung haben. Aber dazu darf es beim Meditieren nicht kommen. Wenn wir abgeschlossen leben in dem reinen Gedankenoder Empfindungsinhalte, dann drückt sich nicht in unserem Leib dasjenige ab, was wir da verbrauchen, sondern das drückt sich ab im allgemeinen Äther. Das verursacht außerhalb einen Prozeß. Ja, meine lieben Freunde, wenn Sie wirklich ernstlich, wahrhaftig meditieren, dann drücken Sie dem allgemeinen Äther Ihre Gedankenform ein; die ist da drinnen. Und wenn Sie dann auf einen Meditationsprozeß zurückschauen, ist es nicht ein gewöhnliches Erinnern, sondern ein Zurückschauen zu dem, was sich eingedrückt hat dem Weltenäther. Das ist wichtig, daß wir das beachten. Das ist ein feiner Prozeß, den wir so ausführen, daß er eine Beziehung darstellt zwischen uns und der umgebenden ätherischen und astralischen Welt. Der Mensch, der das gewöhnliche, alltägliche Wahrnehmen und Denken entwickelt, hat nur mit sich selbst etwas zu tun; es ist ein Prozeß, der sich in uns nur abspielt. Derjenige aber, der sich einläßt auf das wahre, echte Meditieren, lebt in einem Prozeß, der zugleich ein Weltenprozef, ein kosmischer Prozeß ist. Da geschieht etwas, wenn es auch etwas außerordentlich Feines nur ist. Und was geschieht, ist das folgende: Beim Meditieren wird etwas Wärme verbraucht. Wenn sie verbraucht wird, entsteht Kälte; es wird der allgemeine Weltenäther, wenn wir meditieren, abgekühlt. Und da auch Licht verbraucht wird, wird er gedämpft; es entsteht Dunkelheit, abgedämpftes Licht. So daß, wenn ein Mensch an einer Stelle der Welt meditiert und dann weggeht, er an dieser Stelle zurückläßt eine schwache Abkühlung und zu gleicher Zeit eine Dämpfung des Lichtes. Der allgemeine Lichtzustand ist herabgedämpft, ist dunkler geworden. Hellsichtig kann man immer verfolgen, wenn ein Mensch an einer Stelle meditiert hat, wo er wirklich den Meditationsprozeß ausgeführt hat. Wenn er wieder weggeht, ist ein Schattenbild von ihm da, das sogar kühler ist als die Umgebung. Es ist also ein kühles dunkles Gespenst an die Stelle hingebracht; das haben wir dort eingraviert. Und es ist im feinen, im ganz feinen wirklich etwas vollzogen an der Stelle, was Sie vergleichen können im groben mit dem, was auf der photographischen Platte entsteht. Es ist wirklich eine Art Gespenst da gebildet. Es ist das also ein Prozeß, der sich nicht bloß im Menschen, sondern kosmisch wirklich abspielt, wodurch der Mensch sich einfügt in den Kosmos.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":481,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p013"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nun gibt es allerdings einen Gedanken, den der Mensch meditiert, auch wenn er gar nicht Meditant ist, wenn er gar nichts weiß von irgendwelcher Geisteswissenschaft. Einen Gedanken meditiert der Mensch schon. Und dieser eine Gedanke, es ist ja scheinbar ein recht kleiner, aber ein für das Leben unendlich wichtiger, das ist der Gedanke des Ich. Der Gedanke des Ich wird nämlich immer so gefaßt, daß er leibfrei gefaßt wird. Und insofern wir mit unserem Ich ein Verhältnis zur Welt haben, werden auch gewisse Dinge, die mit unserem Ich zusammenhängen, wenn es auch der Mensch nicht merkt im Leben, so gedacht, daß sie eben, ich möchte sagen, wie Zweige an einem Baume sind. So werden gewisse Gedanken, Empfindungen, Willensimpulse wie Zweige oder auch wie Fühlhörner, bewegliche Fühlhörner; die werden um das Ich herumgruppiert sein. So daß in der Tat der Mensch immerfort, sein ganzes Leben hindurch, hinter sich hergehen läßt dasjenige, was er als Ich denkt und was solche bewegliche Fangarme nach allen Seiten ausstreckt. Eine gespensterartige Qualle läßt der Mensch immer hinter sich, sein ganzes Leben hindurch. Aber das ist eine sehr reale Sache, denn die enthält zu gleicher Zeit alles das, was der Mensch - insofern er es in seinem Ich erdenkt, erfühlt - durchlebt hat. Das bleibt bestehen. Und wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes gegangen ist, lernt er allmählich auf dieses Zurückgelassene zurückschauen, und das macht die Möglichkeit, daß ein Zusammenhang besteht zwischen dem, was er nach dem Tode erlebt und was er zurückgelassen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p014"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Im Meditieren müssen wir als Erdenmenschen zunächst erreichen das Festhalten unserer Organe durch den Willen; und es beruht ja die Möglichkeit, richtig zu meditieren, darauf, daß wir wirklich unser Denken, Fühlen und Empfinden in der Meditation freimachen, so daß der Leib nicht mittut und wir dadurch so stark uns innerlich konzentrieren können, daß bloß das, was wir wollen, nicht was wir nicht wollen, sich eingräbt, sich abphotographiert gleichsam in den Weltenäther. Das müssen wir immer betonen, daß wirkliches, richtiges Meditieren ein realer Prozeß ist, ein wirklich realer Prozeß ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":89,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p015"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Wenn wir bedenken, daß der Mensch das zurückläßt und im Grunde die ganzen Erlebnisse in dem drinnen sind, was er zurückläßt, und daß das bleibt, so werden wir auch einsehen, daß, wenn der Mensch durch die Zeit hindurchgegangen ist, die zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt liegt, und wieder herunterkommt auf die Erde -, daß er dann noch im Weltenäther drinnen das vorfindet, was er da zurückgelassen hat. Da haben wir das real, wie sich Karma bewirkt. Es ist ja da dasjenige, was der Mensch erzeugt hat als sein Gespenst und was auf ihn nun wirkt und im Zusammenhang mit dem späteren Leben eben das bildet, was im Karma sich abspielt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":112,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p016"},{"locus":"GA 157/1915-03-09/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Man kann erst langsam und allmählich zu der Erkenntnis dieser Dinge kommen. Weil das so ist, weil ein wirklicher Prozeß sich abspielt, der über uns hinausgeht, der in den Kosmos eingreift, daher bekommt der Meditant das Gefühl: es ist das Meditieren etwas anderes als das gewöhnliche Denken. Bei dem letzteren haben wir das Gefühl: wir sind es, die die Gedanken zusammenfügen, die den einen Gedanken zum anderen bringen; wir sind es, die da urteilen. Beim Meditieren bekommt man allmählich das Gefühl: das bist nicht bloß du, der da denkt, der meditiert, sondern da geschieht etwas, worin du zwar stehst, was aber auch sich außerhalb von dir als etwas bleibend Geschehenes abspielt. Und dieses Gefühl muß man bekommen. Gerade so, wie wenn man das Gefühl hat, daß, wenn man einen zerbrechlichen Gegenstand an die Wand wirft, nicht nur dasjenige geschieht, was vor dem Fliegen geschehen ist, sondern nachher etwas, was damit im Zusammenhange steht: er zerbricht, das geschieht, wenn er sich losgelöst hat von uns -, so bekommt man das Gefühl im Meditieren: das bist nicht du, der denkt, sondern du fachst zwar deine Gedanken an, aber dann wirbeln sie weiter, sie wirbeln und wesen. Du bist dann nicht mehr bloß der Herr von ihnen, sondern sie beginnen ein selbständiges Eigenleben und Eigenwesen. Und dieses sich wie in der Atmosphäre, wie in der Webe- und Wesens-Atmosphäre seiner Gedanken Darinnenfühlen, wie wenn die Gedanken sich sogar wie Wellen durch unser Gehirn hindurchbewegen würden -, anfangen dieses zu fühlen, das ist das, was das feste, sichere Gefühl ergibt: du stehst in einer geistigen Welt darinnen; du bist selbst nur ein webendes Glied in dem allgemeinen Weben darinnen. Und das ist wichtig, daß wir wirklich zu solcher Stille, zu solcher Seelenruhe im Meditieren kommen, daß wir zu diesem bedeutsamen Gefühl kommen: du bist nicht allein, der das macht; es wird gemacht. Du hast angefangen, diese Wellen zu bewegen, aber sie breiten sich aus um dich herum. Sie haben ein Eigenleben, dessen Mittelpunkt du nur bist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":331,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/157/1915-03-09/p017"}],"beads":[{"from":[15],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16,17],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[18],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[19],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[20],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[21,22],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}