{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What circulates in the blood is the external physical expression of our feeling. Furthermore, our feeling is connected with our thinking. What we imprint upon the circulation also vibrates within the heart. Goethe used the word “eye” to mean an inner, living organ, and the heart is just as much a living organ. It does not just move the blood. It has an enormous significance within the entire organism. Whereas the eye is affected for only a short time by light outside it, the heart continuously responds to feeling and thinking as it relates to feeling with small vibrations that are then carried into the blood. After a time, the heart’s vibrations include what lives specifically in feeling and in feeling-related thinking. The heart is a part of the body that influences us when we remember experiences. All human organs that partake of the currents of organic human fluids, that are included in the liquid currents—whether it is the kidneys imbedded in this flow or the liver connected to it in the digestive stream—all these organs vibrate in unison, vibrate with our feeling and willing in circulation and metabolism. Just as an after-image arises in the eye, in the same way a memory arises within the entire human being, though in differentiated and specific ways; it is a memory of experiences in the outer world. The whole human being is an organ that vibrates, and the organs people normally say are placed next to each other are there in reality so that human beings can process and retain spiritual-soul experience in a certain way. We will see that this only appears to be a materialistic perspective. We will see that it is precisely this that allows us to properly recognize the human being as a spiritual being. Today, however, now that I have mentioned this, you can see how we can grasp the entire human being through such a perspective. We can comprehend the human being not only in the way materialistic science does, by placing the individual organs alongside each other, even assuming that they interact mechanically. The spiritual-scientific perspective shows that the entire human being is unified as body, soul, and spirit, but our thinking separates these three perspectives. In reality, body, soul, and spirit are always interconnected within the human being.","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":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-22/p022","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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Unser Gefühlsleben wiederum verbindet sich mit unserem Vorstellungsleben. Nun, was wir da einprägen unserem Zirkulationsleben, das alles vibriert im Herzen des Menschen mit. Und das Herz ist eben — Goethe gebraucht den Ausdruck vom Auge, daß es ein inneres lebendiges Organ ist —, das Herz ist ebenso ein lebendiges Organ. Es hat nicht bloß die Aufgabe, dem Blute zu dienen, es ist etwas, was im ganzen menschlichen Organismus eine große Bedeutung hat. Während das Auge gewissermaßen nur für kurze Zeit sich dem äußeren Lichteindrucke anpaßt, macht das Herz fortwährend die kleinen Schwingungen mit, in die das Blut versetzt wird unter dem Eindruck des Gefühlslebens und des mit dem Gefühlsleben zusammenhängenden Vorstellungslebens. Nach und nach nimmt das Herz selber in die Konfiguration seines Vibrationslebens dasjenige auf, was insbesondere im Gefühls- und in dem damit zusammenhängenden Vorstellungsleben lebt. Und eines der Glieder, welches mitwirkt, wenn wiederum Erinnerungen an Erlebnisse zurückgebracht werden, ist das Herz. Alle Organe des Menschen, die teilnehmen an dem menschlichen Flüssigkeitsstrome im Organismus, die da eingeschaltet sind in den Flüssigkeitsstrom — wie eingebettet die Nieren sind in den Absonderungsstrom, wie eingeschaltet die Leber ist in den Verdauungsstrom und so weiter -, alle diese Organe vibrieren mit, indem mitvibrieren mit unserem Gefühls- und Willensleben die Zirkulation und das Stoffwechselleben. Und so wie aus dem Auge das Nachbild kommt, so kommt aus unserem ganzen Menschen differenziert, spezifiziert in der Erinnerung, dasjenige zurück, was wir erleben an der Außenwelt. Der ganze Mensch ist ein Organ, welches nachvibriert, und die Organe, denen man gewöhnlich nur zuschreibt, daß sie da physisch eines neben dem anderen lagern, die sind in Wirklichkeit dazu da, um dasjenige, was der Mensch auch seelisch-geistig erlebt, innerlich zu verarbeiten und es in einer gewissen Weise aufzubewahren. Wir werden schon sehen, daß das nur scheinbar eine materialistische Anschauung ist; wir werden sehen, wie das gerade dahin führt, den Menschen als Geisteswesen richtig zu erkennen. Aber schon heute können Sie, indem ich Sie auf das aufmerksam mache, ersehen, wie durch eine solche Anschauung der ganze Mensch nicht nur so erfaßt wird, wie es heute die materialistische Naturwissenschaft tut, indem sie nebeneinanderstellt die einzelnen Organe, sie nebeneinander zeichnet und dann ihnen sogar materielle mechanistische Wirkungen beilegt, wie dem Herzen als»Pumpe«, dem es gar nicht einfällt, eine Pumpe zu sein. Die geisteswissenschaftliche Anschauung zeigt, daß dieser ganze Mensch zugleich Leib, Seele und Geist ist, und wir eigentlich nur in der Vorstellung trennen nach diesen drei Gesichtspunkten, nach Leib, Seele und Geist. 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