{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, there are people in Europe who feel the need to numb themselves. Now, of course, many other means are used. I have told you that now, for example, cocaine is used to numb the senses; but in Europe, opium has always been used to numb the senses. There have always been people who, when they were not satisfied with life or when they had too many worries, didn't know what to do, and so they got high on opium. They took a little opium, always just a small amount of opium. What happened then? First of all, when someone takes a small amount of opium, they enter a state of inner experience; they no longer think, they begin to dream in wild images. They like this very much, it does them a lot of good. These dreams become more and more intoxicating. For some, it is the case that they get the gray misery, that they begin to behave like a sinner; another begins to rage, to race, that he even gets murderous. And then people fall asleep. So this consumption of opium actually consists of people being brought violently, by means of an external poison, into a state that consists of slowly drifting off to sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Why Don't We Remember Our Past Lives?","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-18","location":null,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-18/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","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/SOL2024/19230418p02.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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Zunächst, wenn einer eine geringe Menge Opium nimmt, dann kommt er in einen Zustand des innerlichen Erlebens; er denkt nicht mehr, er fängt an, in wüsten Bildern zu träumen. Das gefällt ihm sehr, das tut ihm sehr wohl. Diese Träume werden immer berauschender. Bei dem einen ist es dann so, daß er das graue Elend kriegt, daß er anfängt, in sich zu gehen, wie ein Sünder sich zu benehmen; ein anderer fängt an zu toben, zu rasen, daß er sogar Mordlust kriegt. Und dann schlafen die Leute ein. 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