Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

Anyone who realizes this can place their hope in Spiritual Science when it comes to questions of health. As easy as it is to say that you cannot cure a person with a worldview, it is also true that human health depends on worldview. For humanity today, this is a paradox; for the future, it will be a matter of course! I would like to discuss this a little further. One could say that human beings must arrive at purely objective truth; they must make their concepts into accurate representations of external physical facts. As a theorist, one can make such a demand. One can present as an ideal a person who strives to think only what the eyes can see, the ears can hear, and the hands can touch. Now Spiritual Science comes along and says: You can never comprehend what is real if you only look at what is externally perceptible, what the eyes see, the ears hear, and the hands can grasp. What is real contains the spiritual as its foundation. The spiritual cannot be perceived; it must be experienced through cooperation, through the production of the spiritual-soul. Productive powers are needed for the spiritual. When speaking of the individual parts of his science, the spiritual scientist is not always in a position to demonstrate tangibly what leads to his concepts. He describes that which cannot be seen with the eyes, heard with the ears, or grasped with the hands, because it must be followed with the eyes of the spirit. One might then say: This is a description of something that does not exist in the sensory world. For us, truth is that which gives an inner image of external reality. One may put forward such a theory, but we do not want to talk about its truth and cognitive value today; we want to talk about its healing value. The fact is that all those mental images that we merely abstract from external sensory reality, which are, so to speak, only images of what one sees with the eyes, hears with the ears, and touches with the hands, which are not based on the inner activity of the soul in creating images, all these abstractions, all mental images that cling faithfully to the reality of the outer senses have no inner image-forming powers; they leave the soul dead; they do not call upon the soul to activate its inner dormant powers.