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Indem wir die Luft einatmen, drückt diese Luft auf unser Zwerchfell, auf unsere ganze Organisation. Es wird das Gehirnwasser durch den Rückenmarkskanal nach aufwärts nach dem Gehirn gedrängt. Dadurch wird eine Verbindung hergestellt zwischen der Gehirntätigkeit und dem Einatmen. Und dasjenige, was sich vom Einatmungsprozeß auf diese Weise im Gehirn spezialisiert, das wirkt in der Sinnestätigkeit als Wahrnehmen. So daß, ich möchte sagen, ein Ast des Einatmens das Wahrnehmen ist. Dann wiederum beim Ausatmen: Das Gehirnwasser geht hinunter, es drückt auf den Blutkreislauf. Es ist das Hinuntersteigen des Gehirnwassers verbunden mit der Willenstätigkeit, und das wiederum verbunden mit dem Ausatmen. Aber derjenige, der die «Philosophie der Freiheit» wirklich studiert, wird finden, daß in jenem Denken, das wir als das reine Denken erreichen, Wille und Denken zusammenfallen. Das reine Denken ist im Grunde eine Willensäußerung. Daher wird dasjenige, was Denken ist, was reines Denken ist, nun verwandt mit dem, was der Orientale erlebte im Ausatmungsprozeß. Es ist verwandt das reine Denken mit dem Ausatmungsprozeß, so wie das Wahrnehmen verwandt ist mit dem Einatmungsprozeß. Wir müssen gewissermaßen mehr zurückgeschoben nach dem Inneren des Menschen denselben Prozeß durchmachen, den der Orientale durchmacht mit seiner Jogaphilosophie. Diese Jogaphilosophie geht auf ein reguliertes Einatmen, Ausatmen, und ergreift so das Ewige im Menschen. Der Abendländer, was kann er tun? Er kann klar für sich seelisch zum Erlebnis machen auf der einen Seite die Wahrnehmung, auf der andern Seite das Denken. Und er kann dasjenige, was sonst abstrakt und formhaft nur in Ruhe verbunden wird, Wahrnehmen und Denken, in innerem Erleben verbinden, so daß er innerlich geistig-seelisch erlebt, was man physisch erlebt bei Einatmen, Ausatmen. Physisch erlebt man Einatmung, Ausatmung; in ihrem Zusammenklang erlebt man bewußt das Ewige. Im gewöhnlichen Erleben erlebt man die Wahrnehmung, das Denken. Indem man beweglich macht sein seelisches Leben, erlebt man den Pendelschlag, den Rhythmus, das fortwährende Ineinandervibrieren von Wahrnehmen und Denken. Und wie sich eine höhere Wirklichkeit in Einatmung und Ausatmung für den Orientalen entwickelt, so entwickelt sich, indem der Okzidentale in sich den lebendigen Prozeß der modifizierten Einatmung im Wahrnehmen, der modifizierten Ausatmung im reinen Denken entwickelt, indem er Begriff, Denken und Wahrnehmung ineinanderwebt, gewissermaßen ein geistig-seelisches Atmen anstelle des physischen Atmens der Jogaphilosophie. Und er zwingt sich auch allmählich hinauf durch diesen rhythmischen Schlag, durch dieses rhythmische Eratmen in Wahrnehmung und Denken zu der wahren geistigen Wirklichkeit in Imagination und Inspiration und Intuition. 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