{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is actually as follows. What has to be developed by spiritual science in the second third of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch does not yet exist at all. What is the position of human beings today when they observe the external world? And how do scientists stand in this regard? It is very instructive to look at the position of present-day science, especially present-day scientists—of course only in so far as this science presents the natural relation of human beings to their environment. When they look at outer, physical nature, whether it is the mineral, plant, animal, or human kingdom, neither modern scientists nor ordinary human beings have the power really to enter into what they observe. Physicists carry out experiments and then describe them. But they do not venture to fathom the mysteries of what they are describing. They do not feel able to search more deeply into the processes the experiments reveal. They remain on the surface. In relation to the outer world they are in exactly the same situation as you are when you are on a different plane when dreaming. You dream because your etheric body radiates the experiences of the astral body back to you. Anyone observing nature or making an experiment nowadays also observes what it radiates back to him, what it presents to him. He only dreams of nature. The moment he were to approach nature as spiritual science does, he would wake up. But he does not want to. In this first third of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch people only dream of nature. Human beings must wake up! Occasionally someone does wake up out of his dream, and says, “What is out there is no mere dream; there is something living within it.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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 heutige Wissenschaft und auch der gewöhnliche Mensch, wenn sie die äußere physische Natur anschauen, sei es das mineralische, das pflanzliche, das tierische, das menschliche Reich, haben nicht die Kraft, wirklich einzudringen in dasjenige, was sie beobachten. Der Physiker stellt ein Experiment an, er beschreibt es. Aber er traut sich nicht, einzudringen in das, was er beschreibt. Er traut sich nicht, in die Vorgänge, die ihm das Experiment über seinen Verlauf gibt, tiefer einzudringen. Er bleibt an der Oberfläche haften. Er ist der äußeren Welt gegenüber ganz genau in demselben Zustand, in dem Sie auf einem anderen Platze sind, wenn Sie träumen. Da träumen Sie dadurch, daß Ihr Ätherleib Ihnen die Erlebnisse des astralischen Leibes zurückstrahlt. Wer heute äußerlich die Natur betrachtet oder wer ein Experiment macht, der betrachtet auch dasjenige, was sie ihm zurückstrahlt, was sie ihm gibt. Er träumt nur von der Natur. Er würde aufwachen in dem Moment, wo er an die Natur so heranginge, wie Geisteswissenschaft an die Natur herangeht. Das will er nicht. Heute, im ersten Drittel der fünften nachatlantischen Zeit, träumen die Menschen nur über die Natur. Sie müssen aufwachen, die Menschen! Sie träumen nur über die Natur. Nur manchmal wacht einer aus dem Traume auf, und dann sagt er sich: Das, was da draußen ist, das ist doch nicht ein bloßer Traum, sondern da lebt was drinnen in dem Traum.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p020"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":322,"en_words":291,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9740,"original_word_count":9892,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.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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