{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-03-22/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The polarity in man is only comprehensible if we know that his structure is a dual one and that the upper portion perceives the lower. The following too must be considered: the lower functions—one pole of the whole human being—are considered through the study of nutrition and digestion in the widest sense, up to their interaction with respiration The interaction goes on in a rhythmic activity; we shall have to consider the significance of our rhythmic system later. But linked up with and belonging to the respiratory activity there is the sensory and nervous activity, which includes all that appertains to external perception and its continuation and its being worked up in the nervous activity. Thus, respiration and sensory and nervous activity form one pole of the human organism. Nutrition, digestion, and metabolism in its usual sense, form the other pole of our organisation. *The heart is primarily that organ whose perceptible motion expresses the equilibrium between the upper and lower processes; in relation to the soul (or perhaps more accurately in the sub-conscious) it is the perceptive organ that mediates between these two poles of the total human organisation*. Anatomy, physiology, biology can all be studied in the light of this principle; and thus light is thrown, and only thus, upon the human organisation. As long as you do not differentiate between these two poles, superior and inferior, and their mediator the heart, you will not be able to understand man, for there is a fundamental difference between the two groups of functional activity in man, according to whether they pertain to the upper or the lower polarity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Heart as Mediating Organ: Upper and Lower Polarities","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber verschlungen mit der Atmungstätigkeit, dazugehörig zu der Atmungstätigkeit, müssen wir die Sinnes-Nerven-Tätigkeit ansehen, alles dasjenige, was sich bezieht auf die äußere Wahrnehmung und auf die Fortsetzung dieser äußeren Wahrnehmung, auf ihre Verarbeitung durch die Nerventätigkeit. Wenn Sie also auf der einen Seite sich vorstellen alles dasjenige, was zusammenhängend ist: Atmungstätigkeit, Sinnes-Nerven-Tätigkeit, so haben Sie gewissermaßen den einen Pol der menschlichen Organisation. Wenn Sie zusammennehmen alles dasjenige, was auf der anderen Seite Nahrungsaufnahme, Nahrungsverarbeitung, Stoffwechsel im gewöhnlichen Sinne des Wortes ist, so haben Sie den anderen Pol der Prozesse in der menschlichen Organisation. Das Herz ist im wesentlichen dasjenige Organ, welches in seinen beobachtbaren Bewegungen der Ausdruck ist des Ausgleiches zwischen diesem Oberen und Unteren, welches psychisch oder vielleicht besser gesagt, unterpsychisch das Wahrnehmungsorgan ist, das vermittelt zwischen diesen beiden Polen der menschlichen Organisation. Sie können alles dasjenige, was Ihnen Anatomie, Physiologie, Biologie bieten, studieren auf dieses Prinzip hin, und Sie werden sehen, daß dadurch erst Licht kommt in die menschliche Organisation. Solange Sie nicht unterscheiden zwischen diesem Oberen und Unteren, das durch das Herz vermittelt ist, werden Sie den Menschen nicht verstehen können, denn es ist ein Grundunterschied zwischen alledem, was in der unteren Organisationstätigkeit des Menschen vorgeht, und dem, was in der oberen Organisationstätigkeit vorgeht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-03-22/p005"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-03-22/p006"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":269,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 312/1920-03-22/p005"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.88,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5070,"original_word_count":5775,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1948","book_title":"Spiritual Science and Medicine","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA312/English/RSP1948/19200322p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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