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This means that the “I,” together with the ennobled parts of the astral and ether body, and perhaps part of the physical body, must establish harmony between itself and what is inherited. This usually happens through the fact that the spiritual, by transforming itself, adapts to the physical. 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A book by Moritz Benedict,[^2] the criminologist and anthropologist, though not written from a spiritual scientific viewpoint, has much of interest to say on this subject. He suffered from a partial cataract in the left eye that impaired his sight. He describes his own experiences: When in the dark he looked in a certain direction and saw spectres of a peculiar kind; he was once so startled that he grabbed a weapon.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":84,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-01-31/p011","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-01-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 55/1907-01-31/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-01-31/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":450,"en_words":495,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It becomes conscious of itself, and feelings of hopes, wishes and cravings, that is, the attributes of the astral body, are projected and appear as forms approaching from outside. Madness, querulousness, hysteria—all conditions in which a person cannot make his feelings agree with what goes on around him—belong to this category. The ether body can also suffer disturbance through inner abnormalities. It contains our mental pictures of the outside world. As long as it is not conscious of itself it receives these pictures in their true form, but if they become projected outwards due to a disturbance of the ether body, the result is delusions and Paranoia. When that aspect of the physical body that should bring about the accord with the physical environment becomes disturbed, becomes conscious of itself, it leads to idiocy. A human being can become what is called “demented” when the physical body is too ponderous, too unwieldy, so that the astral body is unable to master it. 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This is true especially of delusions; they can arise from either projections or a sickening of the astral body. The effect may be so strong that delirium sets in; such attacks imprint themselves in the ether body and give rise to delusions. These imprints are like scars from the wounds in the astral body, and are much more difficult to heal than the delirium itself. Glaucoma is often a forerunner of madness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1907-01-31/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-01-31","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 55/1907-01-31/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-01-31/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":450,"en_words":495,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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A face reflected in a convex mirror is distorted, but no one assumes that the real face must therefore also be distorted. The various forms of insanity are the distorted reflections of the spirit in the physical. Consequently, it is quite useless to attempt a cure by means of abstract logical reasoning; such methods have no effect whatever. Nothing is more remote from concentrated spirit than shadowy abstract logic—and our bodily organs are concentrated spirit, albeit not our spirit—whereas passionate, imaginative, pictorial ideas and images are more akin to spirit, and are capable of driving out the distorted images that cause the condition. Such counter-images must be provided by the strength and power of another personality. An individual cannot through explanations convince the ill person that he is illogical, whereas vivid, strong counter-images will be effective. 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Mit diesem physischen Leib muß sich die Individualität vereinigen. Das Ich mit seinem veredelten Astral- und Ätherleib, ja sogar Teile des physischen Leibes, müssen mit dem Ererbten zusammenstimmen, eine Harmonie muß das zusammen bilden. Fast immer findet auch wirklich ein Zusammenstimmen statt, denn dem Geistigen paßt sich das Physische an, es wandelt sich um. Wie, wenn aber eine solche Anpassung nicht möglich ist, wie, wenn der Astralleib ein Nervensystem bekommt, das er nicht ohne weiteres benutzen kann?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-01-31/p007"},{"locus":"GA 55/1907-01-31/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Sinnestäuschungen rechnen wir nicht zu den Geisteskrankheiten. Dazu kann uns ein Buch des Wiener Kriminalanthropologen Moritz Benedikt viel Interessantes bieten, obwohl es nicht in geisteswissenschaftlichem Sinne geschrieben ist. Benedikt erzählt darin seine eigenen Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen. Er hat im linken Auge einen partiellen Star, so daß er etwas unregelmäßig sieht. Wenn er nun im Dunkel in einer ganz bestimmten Richtung schaut, so sieht er Gespenster ganz besonderer Art. Einmal ward er davon so erschreckt, daß er zur Waffe griff. Das ist so zu erklären: Ein gesunder Mensch ist sich der inneren Bestandteile seines Auges nicht bewußt. Wer aber Unregelmäßigkeiten im Auge hat, der wird sich deren in der Weise bewußt, daß sie ihm außen im Spiegelbilde erst entgegentreten. Das wollen wir nun auf die ganze menschliche Wesenheit ausdehnen. Wir werden uns ja unseres Innern überhaupt nicht bewußt, sondern nur dessen, was uns von außen übermittelt wird. Wenn Harmonie herrscht zwischen oben und unten, so ist man sich der innern Vorgänge überhaupt nicht bewußt. Hat einer zum Beispiel ein schwerfälliges Gehirn, das der AstralJeib nicht gebrauchen kann, so drückt sich diese Störung, die der Astralleib erleidet, ebenso nach außenhin aus, wie die Störung im Auge es tat. Da wird der Astralleib sich seiner selbst bewußt, weil er gestört ist; da sieht er sich nach außen projiziert, Hoffnungen, Wünsche, Begierden treten ihm in Gestalten von außen entgegen. Wahnsinn, Querulantenwahnsinn, Hysterie gehören hierher, alles das, wo der Mensch seine Gefühle nicht in Einklang bringen kann mit der Außenwelt. Aber auch der Ätherleib kann an inneren Abnormitäten leiden. Er ist der Träger der bildlichen Vorstellungen. Wenn der Ätherleib sich seiner selbst unbewußt ist, so treten die Bilder der Außenwelt ihm wahr entgegen. Spiegeln sich aber bei Störungen des AÄtherleibes die Bilder nach außen, so werden es Wahnideen, Paranoia. Wenn der physische Leib, der den Einklang mit der physischen Umgebung bringen soll, selbst erkrankt, wenn der physische Leib sich seiner selbst bewußt wird, so tritt Idiotie auf. Wenn der physische Leib zu schwer ist, so daß der Astralleib ihn nicht beherrschen kann, daß er nicht heraus kann, so tritt das ein, was man Dementia nennt. Wenn die physischen Organe aber zu beweglich sind, so daß sie die seelische Tätigkeit nicht deutlich ausdrücken,so entsteht Paralyse. Doch es gibt hier eine unendliche Fülle von solchen Fällen, die ganz verschiedenen Ursprung haben können, namentlich die Wahnvorstellungen. Sie können entspringen einmal aus der Projektion des Astralleibes oder aus der Erkrankung des Astralleibes. Dann werden die Affekte so stark, daß es zu Tobsuchtsanfällen kommt. Diese drücken sich im Ätherleib ab und daraus entstehen Wahnideen. Diese Wahnvorstellungen sind wie die Narbe zu der Wunde im Astralleib. Sie sind viel schwerer heilbar als die Tobsucht. Pupillenstarre ist manchmal eine Vorbereitung zum Wahnsinn.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":450,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1907-01-31/p008"},{"locus":"GA 55/1907-01-31/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Wir wollen uns nun daran erinnern, daß der Mensch mehr als einmal geboren wird. Zuerst physisch. Dann zur Zeit des Zahnwechsels wird der Ätherleib geboren und zur Zeit der Geschlechtsreife der Astralleib. Es kann nun vorkommen, daß erst bei der Geburt des Astralleibes der Mißklang zwischen oben und unten bemerkbar wird. Vorher bewahrte die umschließende Astralhülle den Einklang. Nach der astralen Geburt ist dann der Astralleib sich selbst über Jassen, und nun tritt der Mißklang zwischen ihm und dem physischen Leibe hervor. Diese Art von Irrsinn äußert sich in der Weise, daß das junge Wesen oft auf ganz verschiedene Fragen ein und dieselbe Antwort gibt; auch leidet es unter Zwangsvorstellungen. Man nennt diese Erkrankungen Jugendblödsinn. Doch tritt dies nicht plötzlich auf, sondern bereitet sich langsam vor, vom elften, zwölften Jahre an. Depressionszustände, Ermüdbarkeit, Nicht-Auskommen mit der Umgebung, Kopfschmerzen, Verdauungs- und Schlafstörungen sind Vorboten. Es ist traurig, wenn man bedenkt, daß die meisten Eltern ihre Kinder für solche Erkrankungen noch bestrafen, da sie diese Zustände für Unarten halten. Gerade der Jugendblödsinn ist am schwersten zu heilen. Aber der Geist als solcher kann nicht krank sein; er ist immer gesund. Er wird nur gestört, wenn das Untere nicht dazu stimmt. Wenn man sich in einem Gartenkugelspiegel betrachtet, so sieht man ein Zerrbild seiner selbst. Niemand schließt aber aus dem Zerrbild, daß das wahre Gesicht auch verzerrt sein müsse. So ist es auch mit den Geisteskrankheiten. Zerrbilder des Geistes im Physischen sind die Wahnsinnsformen. Darum ist auf dem Wege der Logik, des abstrakten Begriffes nie eine Heilung möglich. Solche Versuche sind völlig wertlos. Auch unsere körperlichen Organe sind verdichteter Geist, wenn auch nicht unser Geist. Und am fernsten stehen dem zum Physischen verdichteten Geiste schattenhafte, logische Gebilde; am nächsten aber bildliche, von Leidenschaften durchzogene, imaginative Vorstellungen. Diese können die krankmachende Kraft anderer Bilder aus dem Felde schlagen. Gegenvorstellungen muß man geben durch die Macht und Gewalt einer anderen Persönlichkeit. Das Unlogische kann man den Kranken nicht durch Klarmachen beweisen, aber durch lebendige Vorstellungen kann man wirken. Die Macht der Persönlichkeit muß dem Kranken beweisen, daß er zum Beispiel das, was er nicht zu können glaubt, doch kann. Das muß der Kranke sehen. Auf dem Gebiete der sogenannten Geisteskrankheiten wird sich die gewöhnliche Wissenschaft einst mit der Geisteswissenschaft verbinden müssen. Ein ausführliches Studium ist nötig, um immer die richtigen Gegenvorstellungen bereit zu haben. 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