{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 197/1920-07-30/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This gives an indication of the extent to which we have to change our thinking if the decline is to become an upward movement again. People think they are materialists or idealists or spiritualists because they follow a particular philosophy. That is not the case. We are far from being spiritualists when we say we contemplate the inner and not the outer life. It could indeed happen that someone is concentrating on his inner life and exactly by doing so comes to observe matter; the way it turns into a flame inside us. To find the right path it will be necessary to grasp what I mean, and to do so with the right inner attitude. The outer world as we perceive it with the senses offers only phenomena; it does not reveal the root and origin of the phenomena. Their root and origin lies inside our own skins. Anything we see outside should be regarded in the same way as we regard a rainbow. Anyone who believes a rainbow to be more than merely a phenomenon, thinking it to be something material spanning the heavens, is taking the wrong view. In the same way we are in error If, due to the fact that our sense of touch is also involved when we perceive the world around us, we believe we are surrounded by material things and not mere phenomena. The only difference compared to a rainbow is that other senses are also involved. Materiality cannot be found there, however, just as it does not exist in a rainbow. Everything outside us is phenomenon. The root and origin of the phenomena therefore is inside the human skin. The processes that carry the affairs of the earth from one age to another take place inside the human skin.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Spirit and Matter: Reversing Materialist Consciousness","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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Wir finden, wenn wir die äußere Wahrnehmungswelt überschauen, nur Phänomene, nur Erscheinungen und nicht etwas, worin diese Phänomene, diese Erscheinungen wurzeln; denn worin sie wurzeln, das liegt innerhalb unserer eigenen Haut. Dasjenige, was wir außen sehen, ist genau so zu bewerten wie dasjenige, was wir am Regenbogen sehen. Wie derjenige falsch sieht, der glaubt, der Regenbogen sei etwas anderes als ein Phänomen, sei etwas, was sich da ausspannt als eine Materialität, so ist im Irrtum auch derjenige, der glaubt — weil die andern ihn umgebenden Wahrnehmungen neben den andern Sinnen auch den Gefühlssinn berühren, während man durch den Regenbogen durchgreifen kann -, es wären die Erscheinungen, die uns umgeben, nicht Erscheinungen, sondern Materialität. Sie unterscheiden sich vom Regenbogen nur dadurch, daß sie auch andere Sinne berühren; aber Materialität ist in ihnen ebensowenig zu finden wie im Regenbogen. Äußerlich ist alles Erscheinung. Dasjenige, worin die Erscheinungen wurzeln, liegt also innerhalb der menschlichen Haut. 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