{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What actually occurs within the human being? We can understand this only when we have a detailed understanding of certain interactions within the human being. Here I want to draw your attention to a fact that our modern scientific way of thinking has put into an incorrect light, namely, the function of our heart in connection with the whole human organism. You now find the heart described everywhere as a kind of pump that pumps blood throughout the organism. Actually, the blood circulation is forced upon the heart. The fact that embryology contradicts the standard view and more detailed observations of the heartbeat and such things also offer contradictions is something modern people still do not want to hear. Only a few people have noticed this: for example, the physician Schmid,10 who wrote a treatise about it in the 1880s, and the criminologist Moritz Benedikt. That was not enough, though. There are only a few who have realized that the movements in the heart are a result of the movement of the blood, and that the blood circulation itself is what is fundamentally alive. Thus the heart does not pump; rather its movement is due to the influence of the living movement of the blood. The heart is nothing more than the organ that creates a balance between the two blood circulatory systems, that is, between that of the upper human being, the head, and that of the limbs. These two movements of blood form a pool in the heart. The blood, however, is not something dead; it is not simply pumped like a stream of water. The blood itself has an inner life and is subject to its own movement. It passes that movement on to the heart, which simply reflects the movement of the blood in its own movements. Just as we can say that there is a parallel between the more or less solid organs and processes in the soul, there is also a parallel, which I mentioned yesterday, between the movements of the blood and soul processes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Understanding the Human Being: A Foundation for Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-22","location":null,"word_count":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-22/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200422d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Ja, das kann man nur verstehen, wenn man intimer eingeht gerade auf gewisse Wirkungsweisen im menschlichen Organismus, auf die ich hingedeutet habe im Beginne der heutigen Betrachtung. Ich will auch hier aufmerksam machen auf eine Tatsache, die in ein ganz falsches Licht gerückt ist durch die moderne naturwissenschaftliche Betrachtung. Das ist der Gang und die Aufgabe unseres Herzorganismus im ganzen menschlichen Organismus. Sie finden heute überall das Herz so geschildert wie eine Art von Pumpe, die das Blut nach allen Teilen des menschlichen Organismus hin pumpt. Gewissermaßen der Herzaktivität wird die ganze Blutzirkulation aufgebürdet. Daß das der Embryologie widerspricht, daß das feinere Beobachten auch des Herzstoßes und dergleichen Widersprechendes ergibt, auf das will man durchaus heute noch nicht in einer gehörigen Weise hinschauen. Es sind eigentlich nur wenige ‚Leute, wie zum Beispiel der ausgezeichnete Arzt Schmid, der schon in den achtziger Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts eine Abhandlung über diese Sache geschrieben hat, und dann wiederum der Kriminalanthropologe Moritz Benedikt, die auf diese Sache aufmerksam gemacht haben; aber alles das ist nicht hinlänglich; ist nur elementar; es sind einige wenige nur, die eigentlich aufmerksam darauf geworden sind, daß die Herzbewegungen eine Folge der Blutbewegung sind, daß die Blutbewegung selber das elementar Lebendige ist, daß das Herz nicht pumpt, sondern daß das Herz selber in seinen Bewegungen unter dem Einfluß des lebendig beweglichen Blutes steht. Das Herz ist nichts weiter als dasjenige Organ, welches gewissermaßen die beiden Blutzirkulationen ausgleicht, nämlich die des oberen Menschen, des Kopfmenschen, und diejenige des Gliedmaßenmenschen. Da stauen sich diese beiden Blutbewegungen im Herzen. Aber das Blut ist nichts Totes, das bloß wie ein Wasserstrom gepumpt wird, sondern das Blut ist selbst innerlich lebendig und gibt sich selbst seine Bewegungen und überträgt diese Bewegungen auf das Herzorgan, das in seinem Bewegen bloß widerspiegelt die Bewegungen des Blutes. Ebenso aber, wie man sagen kann, es gibt einen Parallelismus zwischen dem mehr oder weniger festen Organ und zwischen den seelischen Vorgängen, so gibt es einen Parallelismus, ich habe das gestern ausgeführt, zwischen dieser Bewegung des Blutes und den seelischen Vorgängen,","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":350,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p018"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-22/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":350,"en_words":341,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5026,"original_word_count":5630,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200422d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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