{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Obviously we cannot expect to achieve this quickly. Spiritual research demands of us far more than research in a laboratory or observatory. It demands above all an intense effort of the individual will. If one has practiced such an inner representation of symbolic images for a certain length of time and striven in addition to dwell contemplatively upon images that one keeps present in the soul in a way analogous to the mental representation of phenomena, images that otherwise only pass away when we race from sensation to sensation, from experience to experience; if one has accustomed oneself to dwell contemplatively for longer and longer periods of time upon an image that one has fully understood, that one has formed oneself or taken at somebody else's suggestion so that it cannot be a reminiscence, and if one repeats this process again and again, one strengthens one's inner soul forces and finally realizes that one experiences something of which one previously had no inkling. The only way to obtain even an approximate idea of such an experience, which takes place only in one's inner being—one must be very careful not to misunderstand this—is to recall particularly lively dream-images. One must keep in mind, however, that dream-images are always reminiscences that can never be related directly to anything external and are thus a sort of reaction coming toward one out of one's own inner self. If one experiences to the full the images formed in the way described above, this is something entirely real, and one begins to understand that one is encountering within oneself the spiritual element that actuates the processes of growth, that is the power of growth. One realizes that one has entered into apart of one's human constitution, something within one; something that unites itself with one; something that is active within but that one previously had experienced only unconsciously. Experienced unconsciously in what way?","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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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. Höchstens kann man - aber man sollte das eigentlich nicht mißverstehen — sich ein Bild machen von dem, was man jetzt, aber nur in seinem Inneren, erlebt, indem man sich erinnert an besonders lebendige Traumvorstellungen, nur daß die Traumvorstellungen doch immer Reminiszenzen sind und nicht unmittelbar bezogen werden dürfen auf etwas Äußeres, daß aber das einem gewissermaßen als Reaktion entgegenkommt aus dem eigenen Inneren. Wenn man also diese Bilder durchlebt, so ist das etwas durchaus Reales, und man kommt darauf, daß man jetzt in seinem eigenen Inneren antrifft dasjenige Geistige, welches den Wachstumsprozeß gibt, welches die Wachstumskraft ist. Man merkt, man kommt hinein in einen Teil seiner Menschheitskonstitution, der in einem ist, der sich mit einem verbindet, der in einem tätig ist, den man aber früher nur unbewußt erlebt hat. Wie unbewußt erlebt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-03_02/p008"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":303,"en_words":317,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6201,"original_word_count":6102,"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/AP1983/19201003p01.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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