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A more delicate observation, which does not yet advance very far into the region I have described in my book “How to Know Higher Worlds,” shows that the life of thought is not at all as simple as one usually imagines it to be. We need only compare this ordinary thought life, the coarse thought life, of which everyone becomes aware when observing a person between waking and sleeping, with an element that is indeed problematic for ordinary consciousness, namely the element of dreaming.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eighth Lecture","site_heading":"Cosmic Thought and Human Consciousness: Beyond Logic","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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Und weil man der Meinung ist, Gedankenerlebnisse seien für den Menschen eben da, so lange er wacht, verlieren sich aber im Schlafe in irgendein Unbestimmtes, über das man sich nicht weiter Aufklärung zu verschaffen versucht und man sich die Sache eben so vorstellt, so kann man eigentlich über den Menschen als Gedankenwesen sich nicht aufklären. Eine feinere Beobachtung, die ja noch gar nicht besonders stark vorrückt bis in diejenige Region, die ich gezeichnet habe in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?», zeigt, daß das Gedankenleben durchaus nicht jenes Einfache ist, als das man es sich gewöhnlich vorstellt. 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