{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Unprejudiced observation shows that if we expose the eye to the external world, the eye’s experiences create an afterimage that soon disappears. When we develop the world of feeling, that world has a close connection with the circulation of the blood. It has a connection with other things also, but here I am speaking only of the blood circulation. Recall for only a moment that when we feel shame, we turn red. Everyone knows this is because the blood comes to the surface. If we are fearful, we turn pale as the blood moves toward the inside. The physiologist Lange12 from Copenhagen has done a number of good studies about the connection between blood circulation, and other organic processes, and processes in the soul. Just as in the extreme cases where the soul’s experience of fear or shame has an effect upon blood circulation, the normal life of the soul also continuously affects our circulation. Our feeling life is always active, but it influences normal circulation toward one direction or another only when our feelings move toward one extreme or another. Just as we are continuously breathing, we also continuously feel. Just as our blood circulation is uninterrupted, our feeling is uninterrupted. If we were to follow these processes further, you would see that we even feel during sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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So wie in diesem extremen Falle - und das kann in einzelnen Fällen studiert werden -— der Kopenhagener Physiologe Lange hat ausgezeichnete Studien über diesen Zusammenhang der Blutbewegung, überhaupt der Vorgänge im Organismus und der Seelenvorgänge gemacht -, so wie man in radikalen Fällen beobachten kann, wie das seelische Gefühlserleben der Angst, der Scham auf die Blutzirkulation wirkt, so wirkt fortwährend das normale Seelenleben auf die Blutzirkulation. Unser Gefühlsleben ist fortwährend rege. Es beeinträchtigt nur die normale Blutzirkulation nach der einen oder anderen Seite hin, wenn es sich nach der einen oder anderen Seite ins Extrem gestaltet. 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