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Yet one must only consider with an open mind this fact of consciousness, this interaction between the senses and nature, in order to observe something extraordinary transpiring within man. We must look into our soul to see what is there, either by remaining awhile before fully awakening within that dull and dreamy consciousness or by looking back into the almost dreamlike consciousness of primordial times. If we look within our soul at what lies submerged beneath the surface consciousness arising in the interaction between senses and the outer world, we find a world of representations, faint, diluted to dream-pictures with hazy contours, each image fading into the other. Unprejudiced observation establishes this. The faintness of the representations, the haziness of the contours, the fading of one representation into another: none of this can cease unless we awake to a full interaction with external nature. In order to come to this awakening which is tantamount to becoming fully human—our senses must awake every morning to contact with nature. It was also necessary, however, for humanity as a whole to awake out of a dull, dreamlike vision of primordial worlds within the soul to achieve the present clear representations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness, Matter, and the Crisis of Modern Thought","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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Aus dem dumpfen, schläfrigen Kulturleben der Urweltzeiten entzündete sich das Bewußtsein an dem menschlichen Sinnenverkehr mit der äußeren Natur. Aber nun muß man dieses Entzünden des Bewußtseins, diesen Wechselverkehr des Menschen mit der äußeren Natur nur einmal unbefangen beobachten, und man wird finden, daß da etwas Eigentümliches im Menschen vorgeht. Wenn wir zurückschauen in unser Seelenleben, was da ist, entweder indem wir des Morgens aufwachen und vor dem Aufwachen noch drinnen verharren in der Dumpfheit des Traumbewußtseins, oder indem wir auf Urzustände der Menschheitsentwickelung, auf das auch fast traumhafte Bewußtsein dieser Urzeiten schauen, wenn wir das alles ins Auge fassen, was gewissermaßen zurückgeschoben ist in unserem Seelenleben hinter der an der Oberfläche liegenden Bewußtseinstatsache, die aus dem Sinnenverkehr mit der äußeren Natur entsteht, so finden wir eine Vorstellungswelt, wenig intensiv, bis zu Traumbildern abgeschwächt, mit unscharfen Konturen, die einzelnen Bilder ineinander verschwimmend. Das alles kann eine unbefangene Beobachtung feststellen. Diese geringe Intensität des Vorstellungslebens, diese Verschwommenheit in den Konturen, dieses Auseinanderschwimmen der einzelnen Vorstellungsbilder, es hört nicht anders auf, als daß wir erwachen zum völligen Sinnenverkehr mit der äußeren Natur. Wir müssen, um zu diesem Erwachen, das heißt, zum vollen Menschendasein zu kommen, jeden neuen Morgen erwachen zum Sinnenverkehr mit der Natur. Aber es mußte auch die ganze Menschheit vom dumpfen, traumhaften Urweltanschauen aus zu dem jetzigen klaren Vorstellen aus solcher Seelenwelt erst erwachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-09-27/p016"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-09-27/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":325,"en_words":301,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4353,"original_word_count":4129,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber","identified_edition":"AP1983","book_title":"The Boundaries of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA322/English/AP1983/19200927p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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