{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-16/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Although the latter is to a certain extent unconscious, it is not so in so great a degree as our eating. In spite of the fact that our breathing is not so conscious as our hearing and seeing, it is more conscious than the process of digestion for example; and while in the East today, the attempt to make the digestive process a conscious one has, as a rule, ceased (this used to be done in olden times), the breathing process is still in a certain sense brought up into consciousness. (The snake raises the process of digestion into consciousness, but the consciousness of the snake is of course not to be compared with human consciousness). There is a certain training of the breathing, where the inhaling and exhaling are regulated in such a way that the process is transformed into a sense-perception. 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Es gibt eine gewisse Trainierung des Atmens, da das Atmen so vollzogen wird, daß es in einem gewissen Sinne verfließt wie eine Sinneswahrnehmung. Sie sehen, es ist das Atmen hineingestellt zwischen die bewußte Sinneswahrnehmung und das ganz Unbewußte des menschlichen Stoffwechsels. So daß der Mensch in der Tat drei Welten angehört: der Welt, die ihm bewußt vorliegt, der Welt, die ganz unbewußt bleibt, und der Welt, die den Vermittler bildet, der Welt des Atmens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":194,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-16/p008"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-16/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":194,"en_words":200,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5456,"original_word_count":5443,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/19200416p01.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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