{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 336/1919-07-26/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then one comes to an inner discovery, to an inner experience, which I would now like to describe as the second shattering event on the way into the supersensible worlds: one experiences inwardly that one's ordinary thinking cannot be distinguished from one's outer physical activity; but that the thinking that one develops through one's own power, that proceeds in such a way that one experiences it: It has nothing to do with any external physical activity; it has nothing to do with any nervous or other activity. When you think as I have just described, you know that you are moving in a purely spiritual element with your thinking, and you have your physical self beside you; you have really stepped out of your body. And now you realize that this human being, when it carries out its thinking in this way, when it carries out its inner soul activity, as it is often described in the everyday illusions of human beings. People also believe in many cases, based on today's popular science, that they are indulging in materialistic ideas: we have developed the nervous system into the wonderful brain; in this brain one can see how research in human development is progressing; with each stage of thinking, the brain develops further. And then people say: So thinking, imagining, arises through the activity of the brain, through the activity of the nervous system. And basically, people who know nothing of the independent bodiless thinking that I have just described to you cannot help it, if they are somehow religious, but think of the illusory body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The Supernatural Essence of Man and the Development of Humanity","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-07-26","location":null,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/336/1919-07-26/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA336/English/SOL2024/19190726e01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/336/1919-07-26/p024"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/336/1919-07-26/p024","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"mixed_sources","scope":"volume","note":"This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage.","evidence":"aufgezeigt anhand von bislang unveröffentlichten Vorträgen, Notizen und Dokumenten","evidence_translation":"shown by means of previously unpublished lectures, notes and documents","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 336/1919-07-26/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Dann kommt man zu einer inneren Entdeckung, zu einer inneren Erfahrung, die ich nun schildern möchte als das zweite erschütternde Ereignis auf dem Wege in die übersinnlichen Welten hinein: Man erfährt innerlich, dass das gewöhnliche Denken von uns gar nicht unterschieden werden kann von der äußeren leiblichen Tätigkeit; dass aber dasjenige Denken, das man so durch die eigene Kraft entwickelt, dass das so verläuft, dass man es an ihm erlebt: Es hat nichts zu tun mit irgendeiner äußeren leiblichen Tätigkeit; es hat nichts zu tun mit irgendeiner Nerven- oder sonstigen Tätigkeit. Indem man so denkt, wie ich es jetzt geschildert habe, weiß man: Du bewegst dich in einem rein geistigen Element mit deinem Denken, und du hast dein Leibliches neben dir; du bist wirklich aus deinem Leibe herausgetreten. Und jetzt merkt man, dass dieses Menschenwesen, wenn es so sein Denken verrichtet, wenn es seine innere Seelentätigkeit vollzieht, wie das oftmals aus den alltäglichen Illusionen der Menschen heraus beschrieben wird. Die Menschen glauben auch aus der heutigen landläufigen Wissenschaft heraus vielfach, indem sie sich materialistischen Ideen hingeben: Wir haben in uns das Nervensystem zum wunderbaren Gehirn ausgebildet; in diesem Gehirn sieht man, wie in der menschlichen Entwicklung die Forschung weiterschreitet; mit jeder Stufe des Denkens entwickelt sich das Gehirn weiter. Und da sagen dann die Menschen: Also entsteht durch die Tätigkeit des Gehirns, durch die Tätigkeit des Nervensystems das Denken, das Vorstellen. Und im Grunde genommen können die Menschen, die nichts wissen von dem, was ich Ihnen jetzt eben geschildert habe, von dem selbstständigen leibfreien Denken, diese Menschen können gar nicht anders, wenn sie irgendwie chrlich sind, als das Illusorische über den Leib denken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":273,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/336/1919-07-26/p024"}],"english":["GA 336/1919-07-26/p024"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":273,"en_words":265,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9641,"original_word_count":9321,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA336/English/SOL2024/19190726e01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 336/1919-07-26/p024"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}