{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-05-02/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have pointed out that we only gain a clear insight into these things by comparing what takes place in the far distances of cosmic space with what goes on within the boundary of our skin, in our own organism. Reflect for a moment and you will find that what is called the period of rotation of the Earth round the Sun, corresponds to something in yourself. In the foregoing lecture we showed that in order to represent the daily series of events, we have to use a certain curve, a certain line that turns back upon itself. In a similar way must the curved line corresponding to the yearly motion of the Earth be imagined. It is quite immaterial whether man's view is that the movement of the Earth is at the same time a movement round the Sun or no; for what have we here? Let us think. We have our own daily cycle of life, which we will consider now, not in its correspondence to the Cosmos, but as it presents itself in man, so that we can also include those whose sleeping and waking do not correspond with the alternation of day and night—idlers as well as all those who do not live by rule! Let us consider this daily round of man on the basis already established, that is to say, representing it in thought as a line in which the points of sleeping and waking lie upon one another, as I have pointed out. There are many reasons, but one will suffice for an unprejudiced judgement to understand that we are bound to place the point of waking over that of falling asleep. Consider the remarkable fact that when we look back over our life, it appears to us as an unbroken stream. We do not feel compelled to regard life in such a way as to say: Today I have lived and have been conscious of my environment from the moment of waking; before that all was darkness; before that again, my falling asleep of yesterday was preceded by life, I lived again, back to the moment of waking; but then darkness again. You do not picture the stream of memory like this, you picture it so that the moment of awaking and the moment of falling asleep really unite in your conscious recollection. That is a plain fact. This fact can be expressed in that the curve representing the daily round in man comes out as a spiral, with the point of awaking always crossing the point of falling asleep. If the curve were an ellipse or a circle, then awaking and falling asleep would have to be separate, they could not possibly be joined. In this way alone therefore can we picture the daily round of man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Eleven","site_heading":"The Head's Cosmic Origins: Saturn, Venus, and Dimensional Thinking","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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In einer ähnlichen Weise wird auch vorzustellen sein diejenige Kurve, diejenige krumme Linie, welche der jährlichen Bewegung der Erde entspricht, ganz gleichgültig, ob man nun der Anschauung ist, daß diese Bewegung der Erde zugleich eine Bewegung um die Sonne ist oder nicht. Denn was haben wir da eigentlich vor uns? Bedenken Sie einmal: Wir haben in unserem eigenen Tageskreislauf, den wir jetzt nicht so nehmen wollen, wie er dem Kosmos entspricht, sondern wie er im Menschen auftritt, so daß wir auch diejenigen, deren Schlafens- und Wachenszeit nicht zusammenfällt mit dem Wechsel von Tag und Nacht, daß wir also auch die Bummler und unregelmäßig Lebenden fassen können. Wir wollen diesen Tageskreislauf im Menschen so betrachten, daß wir ihn aus dem Grunde, den wir gestern schon angeführt haben, uns repräsentiert denken durch solch eine Linie (Tafel 20, rechts oben), wobei die Punkte des Einschlafens und Aufwachens übereinanderfallen. Ich habe gestern schon bemerkt, daß man diese Punkte des Einschlafens und Aufwachens übereinanderfallend denken muß. Es gibt viele Gründe, aber es genügt ein Grund, um vor unbefangenem Urteil einzusehen, daß wir den Punkt des Aufwachens über den Punkt des Einschlafens zu legen haben. Denn nehmen Sie einmal die auffälligste Tatsache: Wenn Sie zurückblicken auf Ihr Leben, so erscheint Ihnen dieses Leben wie eine geschlossene Strömung. Sie sind nicht veranlaßt, dieses Leben so vorzustellen (die unterbrochene Gerade in mittlerer Höhe, von rechts nach links): Heute habe ich gelebt und die Umgebung gewußt bis zum Aufwachen; dann kommt Dunkelheit; dann gestern, da bin ich eingeschlafen, da habe ich wiederum gelebt bis zum Aufwachen; folgt wiederum Dunkelheit. So stellen Sie sich die Erinnerungsströmung nicht vor, sondern Sie stellen sich die Erinnerungsströmung so vor, daß in der Tat der Moment des Aufwachens und der Moment des Einschlafens wirklich zusammenfallen in Ihrem erinnernden Bewußtsein. Das ist eine einfache Tatsache. Diese Tatsache läßt sich nur so zeichnen, daß man die den Tageslauf im Menschen repräsentierende Kurve als eine Schleifenlinie zeichnet, wo dann der Punkt des Aufwachens über den Punkt des Einschlafens fällt. Wäre eine Kurve richtig, die eine Ellipse oder ein Kreis wäre, dann müßte das Einschlafen und das Aufwachen deutlich voneinander getrennt sein; es könnte nicht sich anschließen unmittelbar das Aufwachen an das Einschlafen. 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