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He is rid of his physical body for a while, and he perceives that as a sense of well-being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p034","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240220p02.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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He does not have ordinary dreams, but perceives the spiritual world. He makes great journeys through the spiritual world. He likes that. It lifts him up, as you say, into the spiritual world. When he drinks alcohol, on the other hand, his physical body is completely taken up, right down to his blood. His astral body is not freed. Everything is taken up even more by the physical body. Therefore, when a person drinks alcohol, his physical body takes up much more of him than usual. That is precisely the difference. With opium, the soul and spirit are freed, firstly enjoying the physical body in its sweetness, but secondly it goes on journeys, whereby it enters the spiritual world, albeit somewhat disorderly, but nevertheless into the spiritual world. And the Orientals have much of what they describe in the wrong way, but still from the spiritual world, from opium, hashish and the like.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":308,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/352/1924-02-20/p035","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"A Spiritual Scientific View of Nature and Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA352/English/SOL2024/19240220p02.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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Er hat seinen physischen Leib für einige Zeit los, und das empfindet er als Wohlgefühl.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":70,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/352/1924-02-20/p034"},{"locus":"GA 352/1924-02-20/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Der Mensch sagt leicht, Sie werden das schon gehört haben: der Schlaf ist süß. Aber beim Schlaf ist es ja so, daß der Mensch diese SüRigkeit gar nicht so recht empfinden kann, weil er eben schläft! Er kann diese Süßigkeit nicht empfinden; er kann sie nur im Nachgeschmack haben. Und weil er sie im Nachgeschmack hat, so kommt es eben vor, daß die Leute sagen, der Schlaf ist süß. Aber wenn nun der Mensch den Mohnsaft, das Opium zu sich nimmt, dann spürt er diese Süßigkeit; denn eigentlich ist er so im Leib, wie wenn er schlafen würde, und ist zugleich wach. Dadurch kann er die Süßigkeit genießen, und dadurch fühlt er diese Süßigkeit und fühlt sich ungeheuer wohl darinnen. Es ist, wie wenn sein ganzer Leib mit Zucker durchdrungen wäre, mit einem ganz besonderen Zucker, durch und durch mit Süßigkeit. Aber zugleich ist sein astralischer Leib frei vom physischen Leib, und dadurch nimmt er, wenn auch nicht deutlich, allerlei wahr. Er hat nicht gewöhnliche Träume, sondern er nimmt die geistige Welt wahr. Er macht große Reisen durch die geistige Welt durch. Das gefällt ihm. Dadurch wird er hinaufgehoben, wie Sie sagen, in die geistige Welt. Beim Alkoholtrinken hingegen wird sein physischer Leib ganz in Anspruch genommen, bis ins Blut hinein. Da wird sein astralischer Leib nicht frei. Da wird alles noch mehr vom physischen Leib in Anspruch genommen. Daher wird der Mensch, wenn er Alkohol trinkt, eben ganz vom physischen Leib in Anspruch genommen, viel mehr als er sonst in Anspruch genommen wird. Das ist eben der Unterschied. 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