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We are now in the right frame of mind to guide our souls in the direction briefly indicated yesterday—along the first steps of the way leading to Imagination. It is possible to pursue this path in a form consonant with Western life if we simply try to surrender ourselves completely to the world of outer phenomena, so that we absorb them without thinking about them. In ordinary waking life, you will agree, we are constantly perceiving, but in the very act of doing so we are always permeating out perceptions with concepts. Scientific thinking involves a systematic interweaving of perceptions with concepts, building up systems of concepts and so on. 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Dann wird man in der rechten Verfassung sein, um nun gewissermaßen das in gutem Sinne vorzunehmen für seine Seele, was ich schon gestern bezeichnet habe, mit ein paar Worten allerdings nur, zunächst als den Weg in die Imagination hinein. Dieser Weg in die Imagination hinein, er kann so vollzogen werden, angemessen unserer abendländischen Zivilisation, daß man versucht, sich ganz nur der äußeren phänomenologischen Welt hinzugeben, diese unmittelbar auf sich wirken zu lassen mit Ausschluß des Denkens, aber so, daß man sie doch aufnimmt. Nicht wahr, unser gewöhnliches Geistesleben im wachen Zustande verläuft ja so, daß wir wahrnehmen und eigentlich immer im Wahrnehmen schon das Wahrgenommene mit Vorstellungen durchtränken, im wissenschaftlichen Denken ganz systematisch das Wahrgenommene mit Vorstellungen verweben, durch Vorstellungen systematisieren und so weiter. Dadurch, daß man sich ein solches Denken angeeignet hat, wie es allmählich hervortritt im Verlaufe der «Philosophie der Freiheit», kommt man nun wirklich in die Lage, so scharf innerlich seelisch arbeiten zu können, daß man, indem man wahrnimmt, ausschließt das Vorstellen, daß man das Vorstellen unterdrückt, daß man sich bloß dem äußeren Wahrnehmen hingibt. Aber damit man die Seelenkräfte verstärke und die Wahrnehmungen im richtigen Sinne gewissermaßen einsaugt, ohne daß man sie beim Einsaugen mit Vorstellungen verarbeitet, kann man auch noch das machen, daß man nicht im gewöhnlichen Sinne mit Vorstellungen diese Wahrnehmungen beurteilt, sondern daß man sich symbolische oder andere Bilder schafft zu dem mit dem Auge zu Sehenden, mit dem Ohre zu Hörenden, auch Wärmebilder, Tastbilder und so weiter. Dadurch, daß man gewissermaßen das Wahrnehmen in Fluß bringt, dadurch, daß man Bewegung und Leben in das Wahrnehmen hineinbringt, aber in einer solchen Weise, wie es nicht im gewöhnlichen Vorstellen geschieht, sondern im symbolisierenden oder auch künstlerisch verarbeitenden Wahrnehmen, dadurch kommt man viel eher zu der Kraft, sich von der Wahrnehmung als solcher durchdringen zu lassen. Man kann sich ja schon gut vorbereiten für eine solche Erkenntnis bloß dadurch, daß man wirklich im strengsten Sinne sich heranerzieht zu dem, was ich charakterisiert habe als den Phänomenalismus, als das Durcharbeiten der Phänomene. Wenn man wirklich an der materiellen Grenze des Erkennens getrachtet hat, nicht in Trägheit durchzustoßen durch den Sinnesteppich und dann allerlei Metaphysisches da zu suchen in Atomen und Molekülen, sondern wenn man die Begriffe verwendet hat, um die Phänomene anzuordnen, um die Phänomene hin zu verfolgen bis zu den Urphänomenen, dann bekommt man dadurch schon eine Erziehung, die dann auch alles Begriffliche hinweghalten kann von den Phänomenen. Und symbolisiert man dann noch, verbildlicht man die Phänomene, dann bekommt man eine starke seelische Macht, um gewissermaßen die Außenwelt begriffsfrei in sich einzusaugen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":454,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-03/p007"},{"locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Man muß selbstverständlich nicht glauben, dies sei zu erreichen in kurzer Zeit. Geistesforschung erfordert weit mehr Arbeit als Laboratoriums- oder Sternwartenforschung. Sie erfordert vor allen Dingen eine intensive Anstrengung des eigenen Willens. Und hat man eine Zeitlang ein solches symbolisches Vorstellen getrieben, hat man sich dazu noch bemüht, auf den Bildern, die man in dieser Weise ganz in Anlehnung an die Phänomene in der Seele präsent sein läßt und die sonst nur vorübergehen, indem man ja im Leben von Sensation zu Sensation, von Erlebnis zu Erlebnis eilt, hat man sich gewöhnt, kontemplativ lange und immer länger auf einem Bilde, das man ganz durchschaut, das man sich selber gemacht hat oder sich auch von jemandem anraten läßt, so daß es keine Reminiszenz sein kann, hat man sich gewöhnt, kontemplativ auf einem solchen Bilde zu ruhen, und wiederholt man diesen Vorgang immer wieder und wiederum, so verstärkt sich die innere Seelenkraft, und man wird zuletzt gewahr, daß man in sich selber etwas erlebt, von dem man vorher eigentlich keine Ahnung gehabt hat. 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