{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 205/1921-07-02/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human metabolism is by no means a mere simmering and seething of chemicals in a retort which modern physiology describes. You need only to take a step in walking and a certain metabolic effect is produced. The metabolism then taking place is not simply the chemical process which may be examined by means of physiology and chemistry, but bears within it at the same time a nuance of morality. And this moral nuance is in fact stored up in the heart and carried over as karmic force into the next incarnation. To study the human being in his entirety means to find in him the forces which reach over beyond earth life. Our head itself is a sphere, and this form is modified only because the rest of the organism is attached to it. Our head is formed out of the cosmos. When we go through death we must, with the spiritual and soul organization which remains to us, adapt ourselves to the whole cosmos. The whole cosmos then receives us. Up to the middle of the period between two incarnations—I have called it in one of my Mystery Dramas the Midnight of Existence—up to this time, if I may so express myself, we continue to spread out into our environment and what thus goes out from us into the surrounding world gives the astral and etheric configuration for the next incarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-02","location":null,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/205/1921-07-02/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"May Laird-Brown","identified_edition":"AP1946","book_title":"Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Psych/English/AP1946/19210702p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","note":"rsarchive's lecture list spells the credit 'Mary Laird-Brown'; the lecture pages of this edition print 'May Laird-Brown', which is served.","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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Sie brauchen ja nur einen Schritt zu machen, so wird ein Stoffwechsel vollführt. Dieser Stoffwechsel, der da vollführt wird, der ist nicht bloß der chemische Vorgang, den man untersuchen kann mit den Mitteln der Physiologie, der Chemie, sondern der ist zugleich moralisch gefärbt, der trägt eine moralische Nuance. Und diese moralische Nuance wird tatsächlich aufgespeichert im Herzen und als karmische Kraft hinübergetragen in die nächste Inkarnation. Und den ganzen Menschen studieren, heißt, in ihm die Kräfte finden, die durchaus über das Erdenleben hinausreichen. Unser Haupt selbst ist ja eine Kugel. Nur dadurch, daß der übrige Organismus daran hängt, ist die Kugelgestalt beeinträchtigt. Unser Haupt wird ganz aus dem Kosmos herausgebildet. Wir müssen ja, wenn wir durch den Tod durchgehen, in unserer Organisation, wie sie uns dann geistig-seelisch bleibt, eigentlich uns anpassen dem ganzen Kosmos. Der ganze Kosmos nimmt uns dann auf. Und ungefähr bis zu dem Zeitpunkte, der in der Mitte drinnen liegt zwischen zwei Inkarnationen — ich habe ihn in einem meiner Mysteriendramen die Mitternachtsstunde des Daseins genannt -, bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf, vergrößern wir uns immer in die Umwelt hinein. Wir werden nach und nach ganz identisch mit der Umwelt. 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