{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-03-21/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, when a person, through the exercises I have described in the book “How to Know Higher Worlds”, brings themselves to remember the time when one would otherwise not remember, when one was a very small child, then one comes to understand what this actually consists of, this life of the infant, who as yet knows nothing of the world, who only uses his body, only wriggles, only lives in his eyes, lives in his ears, but does not yet understand anything of all this. In ordinary life, a person does not think of looking back. They say: Oh, what do I care about my childhood; I'm here now. But if you look back into this short time, which you otherwise do not remember, in terms of knowledge, you realize what you actually did there. Yes, you actually get a terribly uncomfortable feeling when you think about it. Because this fidgeting of the very young child consists of trying to forget all this knowledge of the universe. You give it to the body, and it knows it afterwards. Therefore, it can take it over during life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Human Existence in Sleep and Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-03-21","location":null,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-03-21/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230321p02.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. 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Der sagt: Ach, was geht mich meine Kindheit an; ich bin nun einmal da. - Wenn man aber erkenntnismäßig in diese kurze Zeit, an die man sich sonst nicht erinnert, zurückschaut, so merkt man, was man da eigentlich getan hat. Ja, man bekommt eigentlich zuerst ein furchtbar unangenehmes Gefühl, wenn man darauf kommt. Denn dieses Zappeln des ganz kleinen Kindes besteht darin, daß man sich bemüht, dieses ganze Wissen vom Weltenall zu vergessen. Man gibt es an den Körper ab, und der weiß es nachher. 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