{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 243/1924-08-18/p052","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now similar results were obtained from the experiments of Schrenk-Notzing. The subjects of his experiments were certain mediumistic types, negative psychics, who, in a state of diminished consciousness, when the Ego had been suppressed, were ideal material for elementary beings by virtue of their fluid skin emanations. There is an interesting book on the subject by Schrenk-Notzing. Some condemned it as fraudulent, others gave it high praise. It is not surprising that the latter regarded his findings as extraordinary; for it is extraordinary that, when experiments are made with a medium, ectoplasm issues from a certain part of the body, a form that embodies a spiritual element not to be found on Earth. In many cases there is found associated with the form a picture which the medium recently saw in an illustrated paper. Something streams out of the medium. It is the skin emanation. And into this there streams something wholly spiritual; but associated with this was something that the medium recently saw in an illustrated paper or comic journal, for example, a portrait of Poincaré.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Knowledge of the World of Stars. Differentiation of the Historical Epochs of Mankind and their Spiritual Background","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-18","location":null,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/243/1924-08-18/p052","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. 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Er hatte gewisse mediale Naturen zur Verfügung, die ganz besonders, wenn das Bewußtsein heruntergerutscht war, also das Ich ausgeschaltet war, für die elementarischen Wesen behandelbar waren durch ihre Hautausstrahlungen flüssiger Natur. Es gibt ein interessantes Buch von Schrenck-Notzing. Die einen halten es ganz für Schwindel, die anderen sind entzückt davon. Bei denen, die entzückt darüber sind, braucht man nicht davon überrascht zu sein, daß sie die Dinge als etwas Wunderbares hinnehmen. Es ist ja etwas Wunderbares. Es ist etwas Wunderbares, wenn da ein Medium vorhanden ist, mit dem experimentiert wird, und dann an einer bestimmten Stelle eine plastische Gestalt aus dem Körper herausgeht, welche etwas Geistiges hat, das nicht auf Erden vorhanden ist. Aber auch da ist bei manchem der Fälle hineingemischt ein Bild, das das Medium zuletzt in einer illustrierten Zeitung gesehen hat. So also strahlt aus dem Medium irgend etwas aus. Es ist die Hautausdünstung. In die strahlt hinein irgendwo etwas, sagen wir, ganz Geistiges; aber daneben etwas, was dieses Medium zuletzt in einer illustrierten Zeitung gesehen hat, sagen wir zum Beispiel eine Gestalt Poincar&s, so wie er in Zeitungen erschienen ist, vielleicht in einem Witzblatt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/243/1924-08-18/p053"}],"english":["GA 243/1924-08-18/p052"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":197,"en_words":177,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.87,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5887,"original_word_count":6776,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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