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In ordinary waking life, you will agree, we are constantly perceiving, but actually in the very process of doing so we are continually saturating our percepts with concepts; in scientific thinking we interweave percepts and concepts entirely systematically, building up systems of concepts and so on. By having acquired the capacity for the kind of thinking that gradually emerges from *The Philosophy of Freedom*, one can become capable of such acute inner activity that one can exclude and suppress conceptual thinking from the process of perception and surrender oneself to bare percepts. But there is something else we can do in order to strengthen the forces of the soul and absorb percepts unelaborated by concepts. One can, moreover, refrain from formulating the judgments that arise when these percepts are joined to concepts and create instead symbolic images, or images of another sort, alongside the images seen by the eye, heard by the ear, and rendered by the senses of warmth, touch, and so on. If we thus bring our activity of perception into a state of flux, infusing it with life and movement, not as we do when forming concepts but by elaborating perception symbolically or artistically, we will develop much sooner the power of allowing the percepts to permeate us as such. An excellent preparation for this kind of cognition is to school oneself rigorously in what I have characterized as phenomenalism, as elaboration of phenomena. If one has really striven not to allow inertia to carry one through the veil of sense perception upon reaching the boundary of the material world, in order to look for all kinds of metaphysical explanations in terms of atoms and molecules, but has instead used concepts to set the phenomena in order and follow them through to the archetypal phenomena, one has already undergone a training that enables one to isolate the phenomena from everything conceptual. And if one still symbolizes the phenomena, turns them into images, one acquires a potent soul forte enabling one to absorb the external world free from concepts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","site_heading":"Western Spiritual Science: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition","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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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. 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