III. Education Based on Knowledge of the Human Being II

GA 303/1921-12-25/p027 ·1921-12-25 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
Record: unknown. How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.

In the waking state, human beings not only have consciousness but also experience an inner life and actively participate in life. During sleep, on the other hand, people loses their ordinary consciousness, and consequently they examine sleep while awake. A proper study of this phenomenon, however, requires more than abstract theories. Entering sleep in full consciousness is essential for understanding it.

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/303/1921-12-25/p027.json
Cite: GA 303/1921-12-25/p027 · edition English