{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 61/1912-03-21/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now what occurs when anyone experiences this sudden fear of losing his life? For a moment, though retaining consciousness, he ceases to use the external organs of his body. During the experience he loses the power of seeing with his eyes, of hearing with his ears; he is torn away, as it were, by his inner being from the physical body and from ordinary life, but without loss of consciousness. The fact that he is able to have this backward vista of his present life is proof that, when he thus looks consciously into his own depths, all that arises in his memory must be attributed to his inner being. For he retains his memory when thus torn from his physical body. Anyone experiencing a violent shock of this kind must realise that whatever it is which fills him with memories goes with him all through life but has no connection with his outer sense organs. Hence we must say that man is united with some more delicate soul-vesture that is the bearer of his memories, although at such a moment it is lifted free from his bodily organs. Obviously he cannot be asleep, for then it would be the usual thing in sleep to have this backward survey. So it follows that during a fright of this kind he has within him something not present in sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Nature of Eternity","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-03-21","location":null,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/61/1912-03-21/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19120321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Für einen Augenblick tritt dann das ein, daß er sich nicht seiner äußeren Leibeswerkzeuge bedient und dennoch das Bewußtsein behält. Der Mensch verliert durch ein solches Erlebnis die Möglichkeit, durch seine Augen zu sehen, durch seine Ohren zu hören und so weiter. Er wird gleichsam durch seine Innenwesenheit herausgerissen aus seinem physischen Leib, der alle Werkzeuge seines physischen Lebens enthält. Er wird herausgerissen aus dem gewöhnlichen Leben, behält aber doch das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein. Daraus nun, daß er eine Rückschau auf sein bisheriges Leben gewinnen kann, kann auch geschlossen werden, daß der Mensch, wenn er — und zwar bewußt - auf sein Inneres blickt, alles, was in seiner Erinnerung auftauchen kann, zu diesem seinem Inneren hinzurechnen muß. Denn indem er aus seinem physischen Leib herausgerissen wird, bleibt ihm diese Erinnerung. Der Mensch erlebt also in einem solchen Momente des Schreckens so in seinem Innern, wobei dieses Innere noch vom Gedächtnis erfüllt ist, was durch das ganze Leben hindurchgeht, aber in keinem Zusammenhange steht mit den äußeren Sinneswerkzeugen, die sonst das Bewußtsein vermitteln. Daher muß man davon sprechen, wenn man das Leben verstehen will, daß der Mensch mit einer feineren Seelen-Leiblichkeit verbunden ist, die der Träger des Gedächtnisses ist, die aber in einem solchen Momente aus dem äußeren Leibeswerkzeug herausgehoben ist. Der Mensch ist - das kann wieder der gesunde Menschenverstand einsehen — in einem solchen Schreck nicht im Schlafe, denn sonst müßte er im Schlafe auch eine solche Rückerinnerung haben. Daraus folgt, daß er bei einem solchen Schreck etwas in sich hat, was er im Schlafe nicht in sich hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/61/1912-03-21/p015"}],"english":["GA 61/1912-03-21/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":272,"en_words":228,"ratio":0.84,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8000,"original_word_count":8902,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2016","book_title":"Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/English/eLib2016/19120321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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