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If one wants to go further one has to develop still other capacities in the soul.—The particulars about this you can read up in the above mentioned books, for this can only be achieved by the practicing of many details. Here only the principle shall be described.—Imagine that at a certain time of day you are remembering back to the morning when you got up, or woke up. If you try hard, the course of the day up to this moment can stand before your soul. Now if you don't place the course of the day in such a way before your soul that you start with the morning, then go on to the experiences of the forenoon and so on, but if you place the course of the day backwards before your soul, so that you start at the certain time and now trace it backwards, then you can also say that you get up to the night when you have slept. But there you then don't add anything, there something remains empty, and that which connects again with the backwards imagined happenings is the last experience before going to sleep, and then you can again place the course of the previous day before your soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/231/1923-11-15/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Luise Boeddinghaus","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA231/English/Singles/19231115p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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In their thoughts they do not connect the threads towards the outer world so strongly, that these threads to the outer world connect with their memories. The human being usually has no inclination at all to live in the outer world, in reality in the outer world, with his memories. How much this is the case, of this one can convince oneself in daily life. I have known people who for instance have seen a lady in the morning who had interested them very much, and when one asks them: What colour was the lady's dress?—they don't know it. Therefore it is as though they had not seen the lady at all, for if they had seen her, they would surely also have seen the colour of her dress. How tenuously is one thus connected with the outer world, if in the afternoon one doesn't even know what colour the dress of a person was whom one had seen in the morning! 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Truly, the investigator of spirit does not become a man of phantasy; he must acquire a sense of reality to the point that it cannot happen to him that he doesn't know in the afternoon what dress the lady was wearing to whom he was speaking in the morning. He must really be able to live with a sense of reality already in the sense world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/231/1923-11-15/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1923-11-15","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 231/1923-11-15/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/231/1923-11-15/p022"},{"locus":"GA 231/1923-11-15/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/231/1923-11-15/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 231/1923-11-15/p023"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":599,"en_words":409,"ratio":0.68,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The aligner paired 2 German passage(s) with 2 English, but the English side holds only ~68% of the German side's length (409 vs 599 words). 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Without any difficulty people simply leave out that which lies between these two pictures as a night-abyss, they tie the picture of the first happening after waking up directly onto the last happening before going to sleep. They usually don't even notice with a lively consciousness that something lies between the two. But if one wants to acquire such a consciousness that one connects that which one has experienced inside with the picture which is there from the outer world, then one must realise that that which one experiences in the morning after waking up is connected with the whole of nature which makes an impression on us, is connected with the rising sun, with all the impressions one has through the rising sun and so on—and that which one has as the last happenings before the last going to sleep is connected with something which in nature doesn't belong together, namely with that which one experienced after the last awakening. There one will notice with the pictures that are standing next to each other: there is something missing!—But by practicing this, by awakening again capacities of soul that don't exist in ordinary life, one gains the strength that as one looks back to where one now has the first picture after the last awakening and wants to proceed to the last picture before the last going to sleep, one now does not see a stretch of darkness in between, but sees that this darkness is beginning to light up spiritually, that something places itself into this darkness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/231/1923-11-15/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Luise Boeddinghaus","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA231/English/Singles/19231115p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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And just as our ordinary consciousness is filled with the experiences of natural existence, so our consciousness is now filled with that which surfaces like a remembrance, but of a remembrance of which one now knows that one has experienced it in the unconscious.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/231/1923-11-15/p031","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Luise Boeddinghaus","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA231/English/Singles/19231115p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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Will man weiterkommen, so muß man noch andere Fähigkeiten in der Seele entwickeln. — Das Genauere darüber können Sie in den schon angeführten Büchern nachlesen, denn das Genauere ist nur durch das Üben vieler Einzelheiten zu erreichen. Hier soll nur das Prinzipielle erörtert werden. — Denken Sie sich, Sie erinnern sich an einen Zeitpunkt des Tages bis zum Morgen, wo Sie aufstanden, ja aufgewacht sind. Wenn Sie sich Mühe geben, kann der Tagesverlauf bis zu diesem Zeitpunkte vor Ihrer Seele stehen. Wenn Sie nun nicht in der Weise den Tagesverlauf sich vor die Seele stellen, daß Sie beim Morgen anfangen, dann zu den Erlebnissen des Vormittags und so weiter gehen, sondern wenn Sie den Tagesverlauf in rückwärtigem Ablauf vor die Seele stellen, so daß Sie bei dem bestimmten Zeitpunkte anfangen und ihn nun weiter rückwärts verfolgen, dann können Sie auch sagen, Sie kommen dann bis zu der Nacht, wo Sie geschlafen haben. Aber da stückeln Sie dann nichts an, da bleibt etwas unausgefüllt, und was sich dann an die rückwärts vorgestellten Ereignisse wieder anschließt, ist das letzte Erlebnis vor dem Einschlafen, und dann können Sie wieder den Tagesverlauf des vorigen Tages sich vor die Seele rücken. Kurz, wenn der Mensch in dieser Weise im gewöhnlichen Leben erinnert, so bleiben immer Abgründe zwischen dem bewußten Erleben - die Abgründe, die wir im bewußtlosen Zustande während des Schlafens durchgemacht haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/231/1923-11-15/p022"},{"locus":"GA 231/1923-11-15/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Um nun weiterzukommen mit den Übungen, die sich an dieses Rückwärts-Erleben anknüpfen können, handelt es sich darum, daß man einen recht starken Wirklichkeitssinn sich aneignet. Ein solcher Wirklichkeitssinn ist zunächst nicht das, was die Menschen der Gegenwart stark auszeichnet. Es ist sogar etwas, was nicht ganz leicht zu erringen ist, denn mit Bezug auf das Erinnern bleiben die Menschen zumeist bei dem stehen, was im engsten Sinne irgendwie an ihrer Persönlichkeit haftet. Sie ziehen in ihren Gedanken nicht so stark die Fäden nach der Außenwelt, daß sich diese Fäden nach der Außenwelt mit ihren Erinnerungen verknüpfen. Der Mensch hat zumeist überhaupt nicht die Neigung, mit seinen Erinnerungen in der Außenwelt zu leben, real in der Außenwelt zu leben. Wie sehr das der Fall ist, davon kann man sich im alltäglichen Leben überzeugen. Ich habe schon Menschen kennengelernt, die zum Beispiel am Vormittag eines Tages eine Dame gesehen haben, die sie sehr interessiert hat, und wenn man sie fragt: Wie war die Farbe des Kleides der Dame? - wissen sie es nicht. Also ist es so, als wenn sie überhaupt die Dame nicht gesehen hätten, denn wenn sie sie gesehen haben, so haben sie doch damit auch die Farbe des Kleides gesehen. Wie locker ist man also mit der Außenwelt verbunden, wenn man am Nachmittage nicht einmal weiß, welche Farbe das Kleid eines Menschen hatte, den man am Vormittag gesehen hat! Ja, ich habe schon Leute kennengelernt, die haben sich in einem Raume aufgehalten und wußten nachher nicht, ob Bilder oder keine Bilder in dem Raume waren. Die unglaublichsten Erfahrungen kann man da machen. So muß daher der, der sich einen Wirklichkeitssinn aneignen will, sich erst darauf trainieren, auch in der äußeren sinnlichen Wirklichkeit voll zu leben, so daß das, an dem er vorübergeht, so vor ihm steht, wie es da draußen in der Wirklichkeit ist. Der Geistesforscher wird wahrhaftig kein Phantast; er muß sich Wirklichkeitssinn bis zu dem Grade aneignen, daß es ihm nicht passieren kann, am Nachmittage nicht zu wissen, was für ein Kleid die Dame trug, die er am Vormittag gesprochen hat. 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