{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 349/1923-04-18/p050","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, I was once very much urged to attend a spiritualistic seance. Well, I said I would do this because you can only judge such things when you have seen them. There was now a medium, he was actually terribly famous, a very famous medium, and after the people had sat down, had first been slightly numbed by some music that had been played – they all sat there numbed – the medium began, just as the people wanted, to make flowers fly down from the air all the time! Now every medium has a so-called impresario, if he is a real medium. Well, the people paid their mite after they had had their enjoyment. The main thing for those who had organized it was that the mite was left behind. And I said – people are terribly fanatical then, they start to scuffle with you when you want to enlighten them, they are the worst – but I said to some sensible people, they should investigate once, but not at the end, but at the beginning; there they will find the flowers in the impresario's hump inside! – So you will find things everywhere.","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":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-18/p050","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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Nun, ich sagte, ich will das tun —, weil man ja solche Dinge n'ır beurteilen kann, wenn man sie gesehen ha:. Da war nun ein Med.um, es war eigentlich furchtbar berühmt, ein ganz derühmtes Medium, und nachdem die Leute sich gesetzt hatten, erst ein bißchen betäubt worden sind durch eine Musik, die gemacht worden ist — es saß alles betäubt da —, fing das Medium an, so richtig nach dem Wunsch der Leute, immerfort Blumen aus der Luft herunterfliegen zu lassen! Nun hat ein jedes Medium einen sogenannten Impresario, wenn es ein richtiges Medium ist. Nun, die Leute haben ihren Obolus entrichtet, nachdem sie ihren Genuß gehabt haben. Denjenigen, die es veranstaltet hatten, kam es hauptsächlich darauf an, daß der Obolus zurückgelassen wurde. 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