{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A person may at first try a path by means of his life of thought, i.e., attempt to depict the *I* to himself. Especially people who are philosophically inclined have in recent years become convinced that this is a secure path. They will say: That which I look upon as *I* remains from birth to death the same entity. If I look back in memory over my life, I find that I am always the same. However, this statement is contradicted daily for every normal human being, as I have often pointed out. Between going to sleep and waking the ordinary person has no means of knowing how things concerning the *I* really are. He has no external observation of the *I* during sleep. The *I* he depicts to himself he can only relate to the times he was awake; during sleep the chain of his life's external events is broken. This is easy enough to see. Therefore, he who believes that the *I* lives in his thoughts, in such a way that he can actually find it there, must recognize that it is blotted out every time he sleeps, at least as far as his consciousness is concerned. Something which plunges into darkness and becomes imperceptible every night cannot be regarded as having a secure existence.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VI","site_heading":"The I Across Incarnations: Thought, Will, and Hidden Connections","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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Ich habe schon öfter erwähnt, daß dies für jeden normalen Menschen jeden Tag widerlegt wird, denn er kann gar nicht wissen, bloß durch die äußere Betrachtung, wie es sich verhält mit diesem Ich, dieser Ich-Vorstellung, in der Zeit vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen. Er kann eigentlich von diesem Ich in den Vorstellungen nur für alle die Wachzustände, die er durchgemacht hat, reden und muß immer die Kette für alle die Schlafzustände unterbrochen denken. Das werden Sie leicht einsehen können, denn es ergibt sich das aus einer einfachen Überlegung. Derjenige, der also glaubt, das Ich, das lebe in dem Vorstellungsleben so, daß man es in den Vorstellungen finden könne, der sollte sich vor allen Dingen ganz klarmachen: Ja, meine Vorstellungen gehen mir eigentlich mit jedem Einschlafen verloren; da geht mir auch das Vorstellungs-Ich, für das Bewußtsein wenigstens, verloren. Etwas, was jeder Tag in die Nacht des Nichtwahrnehmbaren hinuntertauchen kann, das kann man eigentlich nicht so bezeichnen, wie wenn es ein sicheres Sein, ein sicheres Dasein wäre. So daß der Mensch, wenn er auf dem Wege des Vorstellens sein Ich sucht, sich philosophisch recht klar sein kann: so und so ist der Ich-Gedanke. Aber dieser Ich-Gedanke wird ihn nicht glücklich machen. Dieser Ich-Gedanke kann ihm auch keine besondere Sicherheit geben, auch wenn er nicht darauf kommt durch die einfache Überlegung, daß dieser Ich-Gedanke jeden Tag abreißt. Das ganze innere Wesen des Menschen, das wahrer ist als unser Vorstellen, das bringt es schon zum Ausdruck, daß man zunächst bei der bloßen Ich-Vorstellung unbefriedigt ist, wenn man das Ich sucht. Es ist einem zu wenig, ich möchte sagen, etwas zu Dünnes, was man da findet, wenn man das Ich bloß im Vorstellungsleben sucht. 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