{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-02-10/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have here been telling you of one of the fundamental characteristics of intercourse between the so-called living and the so-called dead. If this example helps you to realise one thing only, namely, that conditions are completely reversed in the spiritual world, that there one has as it were to turn right round, then you will have taken hold of a significant concept that is constantly needed by those who wish to enter the spiritual world. The concept is extremely difficult to apply in the actual, individual case. For instance, in order to understand even the physical world, which is permeated through and through with the spiritual, it is essential to grasp this idea of complete reversal. And because modern science fails to grasp it and it is altogether unknown to popular consciousness, therefore there is today no spiritual understanding of the physical world. One experiences this even with people who try very hard indeed to comprehend the world, and one is often obliged simply to accept the situation and leave it so. Some years ago I spoke to a large number of our friends at a General Meeting in Berlin about the physical organism of man, with special reference to certain of Goethe's ideas. I tried to explain how the head, in its physical form, can only be understood aright when it is conceived as a complete transformation of the other part of the organism. No one was able to understand at all that a bone in the arm would have to be turned inside out like a glove, in order that a head-bone might be produced from it. It is a difficult concept but one cannot really understand anatomy without such pictures. I mention this in parenthesis only. What I have said to-day about intercourse with the dead is easier to understand. The happenings I have described to you are going on all the time. All of you sitting here now are in constant intercourse with the dead, only ordinary consciousness knows nothing of it because it proceeds in the sub-consciousness. Clairvoyant consciousness does not charm anything new into being; it merely brings up into consciousness what is present all the time in the spiritual world. All of you are in constant intercourse with the dead.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Dead are with Us","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-02-10","location":null,"word_count":378,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-02-10/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"D. S. 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Und weil ihn die heutige Wissenschaft gar nicht hat, und weil ihn das populäre Bewußtsein gar nicht hat, deshalb versteht man auch die physische Welt nicht geistig. Man erfährt dieses gerade dann, wenn sich Menschen recht viele Mühe geben, die Welt zu verstehen. Man muß manchmal von solchen Dingen geradezu absehen. Ich habe vor Jahren, anknüpfend an gewisse Goethesche Vorstellungen, über den äußeren menschlichen physischen Organismus gesprochen vor einer großen Anzahl von unseren Freunden bei einer Generalversammlung in Berlin, wo ich versuchte, einmal klarzumachen, wie der Kopf in seiner physischen Form nur verstanden werden kann, wenn man ihn als völlige Umdrehung des übrigen Organismus versteht. Davon hat niemand etwas verstanden: daß ein Knochen, den wir im Arm haben, wie ein Handschuh gewendet werden müßte, um einen Kopfknochen daraus zu bekommen. Das ist schwierig, aber man kann nicht Anatomie kennen, ohne sich diese Vorstellungen zu bilden. Das habe ich nur nebenbei erwähnt. 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