{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p005-p009","extent":"range","passage_number":5,"through":9,"paragraph_count":5,"first_locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p005","last_locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","date":"1918-02-23","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19180223p01.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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Even if one continues to develop the matter as it is immediately given in this way, in order to get behind the character of sleeping and waking, it still remains somewhat superficial for spiritual-scientific views in relation to the depths that can be reached here. For we must be clear about the fact that the state of sleep is not only present in our soul life when we sleep in the superficial sense, not only in the time that passes between falling asleep and waking up, but that our soul also carries the state of sleep to a certain extent into the so-called waking state. In truth, even when we are awake for ordinary consciousness, we are only partially awake. We are never fully awake in this ordinary state of consciousness. And if we ask ourselves from a spiritual scientific point of view: to what extent are we fully awake? — then we have to give ourselves the answer: we are awake with regard to everything that we call perception of the external sense world, as well as the processing of these perceptions of the external sense world through the ideas. In our life of perception and imagination, in our thinking life, we are undoubtedly awake. We would not even think of speaking of our waking state if we did not want to describe as such a waking state a certain inner state of mind that is present when we perceive the external world in a fully conscious state and think about it, forming ideas about it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":326,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p006"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 174b/1918-02-23/p006"],"length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":326,"ratio":1.11,"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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It is only an illusion if one believes that one is as awake with regard to one's emotional life, one's affective life, one's emotional life from waking up to falling asleep as one is with regard to one's perception and thinking or imagining. Those who surrender themselves to this illusion do so because we always accompany our feelings with images. We not only imagine external things, we not only imagine chairs and tables and trees and clouds, but we also imagine our feelings; and by imagining our feelings, we wake up in the images of our feelings. But the feelings themselves surge up from the subconscious depths of the soul. For the one who can observe the inner soul processes, the feelings, the affects, the emotions, and the passions do not arise in a greater inner wakefulness than the impressions of the dream. The impressions of the dream are pictorial. We know how to distinguish them quite precisely for the ordinary consciousness of the external perceptions. Our consciousness is no more alert to the real feelings than it is to the dream. If we were to add an image to every dream as soon as we wake up, without being able to distinguish between the dream and the presentation of the dream, just as we always add a thought, an image, to our feelings, we would also consider our dreams to be the content of an awake experience. In themselves, our feelings are not experienced in a more awake state than our dreams.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p006","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p007"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":259,"en_words":278,"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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He imagines something when he wills something; he has an idea when he — let us take a simple volitional impulse — stretches out his hand to grasp something. But what actually happens in the life of soul and body when we stretch out a hand to draw something near remains in the unconscious, like dreamless sleep. While we dream our feelings, we oversleep our will impulses in reality. As a person of feeling we dream, as a person of will we also sleep in the so-called waking state, so that actually even when we are awake, that is, from waking to falling asleep, we are only awake with half of our being, while we continue to sleep with the other half of our being. We are awake in relation to our perceptions and our thoughts, but we continue to sleep and dream in relation to our will and our feelings. Such things can hardly be proved or corroborated more strongly than by what has just been said in the way of suggestion. For the recognition of such things depends on whether one can properly observe the life of the soul. He who can properly observe this life of the soul will unerringly discover the inner psychic equality of feelings, affects, passions and dreams. There is a very beautiful essay by Friedrich Theodor Vischer, the so-called V-Vischer, who is particularly well known in this city, about “Dream Fantasy”, in which he emphasizes this correct observation of the relationship between the emotional and passionate life and the dream world in a very beautiful way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":283,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p007","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 174b/1918-02-23/p008"],"length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":283,"ratio":1.1,"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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But this world, in relation to which we are constantly asleep, is the one that we have in common with human souls that are no longer embodied in the body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p008","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":163,"en_words":168,"ratio":1.03,"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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We can also build this bridge conceptually by becoming aware that we are connected to people in their physical bodies in our ordinary waking state because they are accessible to our perception and our thought life. We are not connected to the so-called dead in our ordinary waking state because we are constantly asleep to part of the world around us. If we were to penetrate into this world, which we so oversleep, we would no longer be separated from the world in which man lives between death and a new birth. Just as we are surrounded by the air, so we are surrounded by the world in which man finds himself between death and a new birth, only we know nothing of this world, precisely for the reason given: because we oversleep it. The clairvoyant consciousness, in the way we have often characterized it, leads to the recognition of this world, which is otherwise overslept, this world in which man finds himself between death and a new birth. To enter into this world in such a way that one can be certain that one's soul passes through the gate of death, enters another world and returns in a new earthly life, is not difficult in itself, if one carefully considers what is contained in the book 'How to Know Higher Worlds' or in similar books.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p009","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1918-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":247,"ratio":0.96,"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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Auch wenn man die Sache, so wie sie unmittelbar in dieser Art gegeben ist, weiter ausführt, um hinter den Charakter des Schlafens und Wachens zu kommen, bleibt sie doch gegenüber den Tiefen, die hier erreicht werden können, für geisteswissen schaftliche Anschauungen noch immer etwas oberflächlich. Denn wir _ müssen uns klar sein darüber, daß der Schlafzustand nicht nur dann in unserem Seelenleben vorhanden ist, wenn wir im oberflächlichen Sinne schlafen, nicht nur in der Zeit, die zwischen Einschlafen und Aufwachen vergeht, sondern daß unsere Seele den Schlafzustand in einem gewissen Grade auch hineinträgt in den sogenannten Wachzustand. Wir sind ja eigentlich in Wahrheit auch dann, wenn wir für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein wachen, nur zum Teil wach. Wir sind in diesem gewöhnlichen Bewußtseinszustand niemals vollständig wachend. Und wenn wir uns vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkte aus fragen: Inwiefern sind wir vollständig wach? — so müssen wir uns die Antwort geben: Wach sind wir mit Bezug auf alles dasjenige, was wir Wahrnehmung der äußeren Sinneswelt nennen sowie Verarbeitung dieser Wahrnehmungen der äußeren Sinneswelt durch die Vorstellungen. In unserem Wahrnehmungs- und Vorstellungsleben, in unserem Denkleben also sind wir zweifellos wach. Wir würden gar nicht darauf kommen, von unserem Wachzustand zu sprechen, wenn wir nicht eben als solchen Wachzustand bezeichnen wollten eine gewisse innere Seelenverfassung, die vorhanden ist, wenn wir die äußere Welt wahrnehmen im vollbewußten Zustand und über sie denken, über sie Vorstellungen bilden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":293,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p006"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Aber wir können nicht sagen, daß wir für unser Gefühlsleben in demselben Sinne wach sind wie für unser Wahrnehmungs- und Vorstellungsleben. Es ist nur eine Täuschung, wenn der Mensch glaubt, daß er mit Bezug auf sein Gefühlsleben, sein Affektleben, sein Emotionsleben so wach ist vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, wie er es ist in bezug auf sein Wahrnehmen und Denken oder Vorstellen. Wer sich dieser Täuschung hingibt, der tut das deshalb, weil wir ja unsere Gefühle immer mit Vorstellungen begleiten. Wir stellen uns nicht nur die äußeren Dinge vor, stellen uns nicht nur Tisch und Stuhl und Baum und Wolke vor, sondern wir stellen uns auch unsere Gefühle vor; und indem wir uns unsere Gefühle vorstellen, wachen wir in den Vorstellungen der Gefühle. Aber die Gefühle selbst wogen aus unterbewußten Seelentiefen herauf. Für den, der die inneren Seelenvorgänge beobachten kann, wogen die Gefühle, die Affekte, die Emotionen, auch die Leidenschaften nicht in einer größeren inneren Wachheit herauf als die Eindrücke des Traumes. Die Eindrücke des Traumes sind bildhaft. Wir wissen sie ganz genau zu unterscheiden für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein von den äußeren Wahrnehmungen. Unser Bewußtsein ist den wirklichen Gefühlen gegenüber nicht wacher als dem Traume gegenüber. Würden wir zu jedem Traum gleich beim Erwachen, ohne daß wir zwischen dem Traume und der Vorstellung des Traumes unterscheiden könnten, ebenso eine Vorstellung hinzufügen, wie wir zu unseren Gefühlen einen Gedanken, eine Vorstellung immer hinzufügen, so würden wir auch unsere Träume für Inhalt eines wachen Erlebens halten. An sich selbst sind unsere Gefühle nicht in einem wacheren Zustand erlebt als unsere Träume.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p007"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Und noch weniger werden unsere Willensimpulse in einem Wachzustand erlebt. Mit Bezug auf den Willen schläft der Mensch fortwährend. Er stellt sich etwas vor, wenn er etwas will; er hat eine Vorstellung, wenn er — nehmen wir einen einfachen Willensimpuls —, um etwas zu ergreifen, die Hand ausstreckt. Aber was da eigentlich vorgeht im Seelenleben und im Leibesleben, wenn wir eine Hand ausstrecken, um irgend etwas heranzuziehen, das bleibt so im Unbewußten wie der traumlose Schlaf. Während wir unsere Gefühle verträumen, verschlafen wir in Wirklichkeit unsere Willensimpulse. Als Gefühlsmensch träumen wir, als Willensmensch schlafen wir auch im sogenannten Wachzustand, so daß wir eigentlich auch dann, wenn wir im Wachzustand sind, also vom Aufwachen bis zum Einschlafen, nur mit der Hälfte unseres Wesens wach sind, während wir mit der anderen Hälfte unseres Wesens fortschlafen. Wir wachen in bezug auf unsere Wahrnehmungen und auf unser Gedankenleben, wir schlafen und träumen fort mit Bezug auf unser Willensleben und unser Gefühlsleben. Solche Dinge lassen sich kaum durch Stärkeres beweisen, erhärten, als durch dasjenige, was jetzt eben schon andeutend gesagt worden ist. Denn daß man solche Dinge anerkennt, das hängt davon ab, ob man das Seelenleben richtig beobachten kann. Wer dieses Seelenleben richtig beobachten kann, der wird unbedingt die innere seelische Gleichheit von Gefühlen, Affekten, Leidenschaften und Träumen herausfinden. Es gibt eine sehr schöne Abhandlung von Friedrich Theodor Vischer, dem ja besonders in dieser Stadt sehr bekannten sogenannten V-Vischer, über die «Traumphantasie», worin er diese richtige Beobachtung von der Verwandtschaft des Gefühls-, des Leidenschaftslebens mit der Traumwelt in sehr schöner Weise hervorgehoben hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p008"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wir gehen also auch wachend durchs Leben, indem wir nicht nur umgeben sind von der Welt, die wir durch unsere Sinne wahrnehmen, von der Welt, die wir denken, sondern indem wir umgeben sind von einer Welt, von der wir eigentlich in unseren Gefühlen nur träumen können, von der wir, als mit unseren Willensimpulsen drinnenstehend, nicht mehr erleben, als wir von unserer Umgebung im Schlafe erleben, nämlich eigentlich nichts. Aber eine Welt, von der man schlafend nichts erlebt, ist doch eben um uns herum. So wie die Tische und Stühle und die anderen Gegenstände in dem Zimmer sind, in dem ein Schlafender ist, der aber von ihnen, während er schläft, nichts weiß, so weiß der Mensch nichts von derjenigen Welt, aus der seine Gefühls- und Willensimpulse kommen, weil er mit Bezug auf diese Welt fortwährend schläft. Nun ist aber gerade diese Welt, mit Bezug auf welche wir so fortwährend schlafen, diejenige, die wir gemeinsam haben mit Menschenseelen, die nicht mehr im Leibe verkörpert sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p009"},{"locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-23/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wir haben von den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten aus versucht, geisteswissenschaftlich die Brücke zu schlagen zwischen den sogenannten Lebenden und den sogenannten Toten. Wir können diese Brücke vorstellungsgemäß auch schlagen, indem wir uns bewußt werden, daß wir mit den im physischen Leibe verkörperten Menschen, weil diese unserem Wahrnehmungsvermögen und unserem Gedankenleben zugänglich sind, in unserem gewöhnlichen Wachzustand verbunden sind. Mit den sogenannten Toten sind wir im gewöhnlichen Wachzustand nicht verbunden, weil wir einen Teil der uns umgebenden Welt ja fortwährend verschlafen. Würden wir eindringen in diese Welt, die wir so verschlafen, so wären wir nicht mehr getrennt von der Welt, in welcher der Mensch zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt lebt. So wie wir umgeben sind von der Luft, so sind wir umgeben von der Welt, in der der Mensch sich zwischen dem Tod und einer neuen Geburt befindet, nur wissen wir von dieser Welt nichts, eben aus dem angeführten Grunde: weil wir sie verschlafen. Das hellsichtige Bewußtsein, in der Art, wie wir es öfters charakterisiert haben, führt dazu, diese Welt, die sonst verschlafen wird, anzuerkennen, diese Welt, in der der Mensch sich befindet zwischen dem Tode und einer neuen Geburt. In diese Welt so einzudringen, daß man zu einer gewissen Sicherheit darüber kommt, daß die eigene Seele durch des Todes Pforte seelisch lebendig geht, um in eine andere Welt einzutreten und in einem neuen Erdenleben wiederzukehren, das ist ja verhältnismäßig nicht schwierig, wenn man sorgfältig dasjenige auf die Seele wirken läßt, was in dem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?» oder in ähnlichen Büchern enthalten ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-23/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[5],"to":[6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[6],"to":[7],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[7],"to":[8],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[8],"to":[9],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[9],"to":[10],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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