{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1909-01-14/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If one has even a slightly sharpened view through Spiritual Science, one can see how this excess activity has taken over the whole person, throwing itself onto their blood and nervous system. One can see how it has looked inside the organism, like a house that has been built with unsuitable materials, so that one has to make an effort to sort and arrange the unsuitable materials. One does not direct the forces for the processing of nutrients to the inner being with impunity. When we realize this, we will become tolerant and will not oppose nature. Then we must not go in the opposite direction and become fanatics of vegetarianism for everyone. Just as the man I have now cited as a radical example had an excessive inward-directed activity, so it may be that there are people who do not have this power at all, who cannot, so to speak, continue the plant process immediately where it has stopped. If such people were expected to become vegetarians without further ado, they would find that they would have to draw the energy they need for this from their own organism. In doing so, they would in a sense consume it and in a sense starve it. So this can certainly be the case on the other side. The point is that we must turn away from this or that dogma when we talk about healthy and unhealthy conditions, turn away from eating only this or only that. What matters is the individual human being and the need to get to know his or her needs. Above all, it is important that this individual has the opportunity to feel and recognize their own needs in a certain way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-14","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-01-14/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p017","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Dann dürfen wir auch nicht in der entgegengesetzten Richtung wieder zum Schablonisieren kommen und Fanatiker werden des Vegetarismus für einen Jeden Menschen. Gerade so, wie sich bei dem Manne, den ich jetzt als radikales Beispiel angeführt habe, die nach innen abgelenkte Tätigkeitskraft überstürzte, so kann es auf der anderen Seite sein, daß es Menschen gibt, welche über diese Kraft gar nicht verfügen, die sozusagen den Pflanzenprozeß unmittelbar da,wo er aufgehört hat, nicht fortsetzen können. Solche Menschen würden, wenn man ihnen zumutet, ohne weiteres Vegetarier zu werden, erleben, daß sie die Kräfte, welche sie da brauchen, notdürftig aus dem eigenen Organismus nehmen müßten. Sie würden diesen dadurch in gewisser Weise verzehren und in gewisser Weise zum Verhungern bringen. Das kann also durchaus auf der anderen Seite vorliegen. Worum es sich handelt, ist, daß wir den Blick abwenden von diesen oder jenen Dogmen, wenn wir von gesunden und kranken Verhältnissen reden, abwenden davon, nur dieses oder nur jenes zu essen. Das, worauf es ankommt, ist der einzelne Mensch und die Notwendigkeit, seine Bedürfnisse kennenzulernen. 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