{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 182/1918-04-29/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For how does man experience what is given to him through conception or birth? Imagine: a cannon is fired at some distance from you. You hear the bang. You see the light a little earlier. But now imagine the following: You are standing next to the cannon and, due to some event, you are shot out as fast as the sound. You would fly through the air at the speed of sound: you would not hear the sound; you would stop hearing the sound the moment you move at the speed of sound. That is why man does not notice the spirit, because he moves from birth to death at the same speed as the spirit works. The moment you absorb spiritual truths, you put yourself at a different speed than the body. Therefore, you begin to perceive the world in a different light. Just as you perceive sound because you do not have the same speed, so you perceive the spirit in the course of your life by bringing yourself to a different pace, creating inner peace, as you can read in my book 'How to Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds'. Not living with the body, but creating a different pace! But this is something that humanity must acquire in the first place, something that is of tremendous importance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Man and the World","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-04-29","location":null,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/182/1918-04-29/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death as a Way of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA182/English/SOL2024/19180429p01.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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Das ist der Grund, warum der Mensch den Geist nicht bemerkt, weil er mit derselben Schnelligkeit, wie der Geist wirkt, sich bewegt von der Geburt bis zum Tode. In dem Augenblick, wo Sie geisteswissenschaftliche Wahrheiten aufnehmen, versetzen Sie sich in eine andere Geschwindigkeit als der Körper. Daher fangen Sie an, die Welt in einem anderen Lichte wahrzunehmen. So wie Sie den Schall wahrnehmen, weil Sie nicht die gleiche Geschwindigkeit haben, so nehmen Sie den Geist im Lebenslaufe dadurch wahr, daß Sie sich in ein anderes Tempo bringen, innere Ruhe herstellen, wie Sie es lesen können in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten ?». Nicht mitleben mit dem Körper, sondern ein anderes Tempo herstellen! 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