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Man usually passes by those riddles of life that play into his life daily as something familiar, and the rare and, because of its rarity, oppressive will in most cases easily evoke a longing to be solved as a riddle. Such oppressive riddles of life will be discussed here in the next lecture. Today, however, we will start from a mystery that eludes man in its mysteriousness only because he is so accustomed to the phenomenon in question, namely the alternation of sleep and waking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1912-11-21/p004","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19121121p01.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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Only logical prejudice can deny that man's spiritual and soul essence is also present while he is in the unconsciousness of sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1912-11-21/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19121121p01.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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It is not far-fetched, I say, to think that man's spiritual-soul powers are initially dependent on using the 'ordinary life of the senses and the brain' in order to have a world around them, and that when man, as in sleep, divests himself of the possibility of perceiving through these instruments, they are too low, too weak to really see, really feel and think what they could then perceive.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1912-11-21/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19121121p01.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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This state would have to be similar to sleep in that the person would not be forced, as when falling asleep, but would voluntarily, through his inner powers, through his will, cause himself to withdraw from the senses or from the brain , so that he could be completely awake but not see his surroundings through his eyes, nor perceive anything through the other senses, but bring his eyes and other senses to complete silence. In other words, he would have to be able to completely suppress all sensory activity through his will, and he would have to be able to suppress ordinary thinking, the kind of thinking that is activated in everyday life through ideas about the external physical world. Furthermore, if man could suppress by his own will what otherwise brings him to perceive, he would now be able, in his spiritual and soul essence, not to reach the unconsciousness of sleep, but to concentrate forces that are otherwise weak and thin, so that he can also properly act without his body, outside of his body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1912-11-21/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19121121p01.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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Der Mensch geht ja gewöhnlich gerade an denjenigen Lebensrätseln vorbei, die täglich als etwas Gewohntes in das Leben hereinspielen, und das Seltene und durch seine Seltenheit Bedrückende wird in den meisten Fällen leicht die Sehnsucht hervorrufen, als Rätselfrage gelöst zu werden. Über solche bedrückende Lebensrätsel soll im nächsten Vortrage hier gesprochen werden. Heute aber soll von einem Rätsel ausgegangen werden, das sich allerdings in seiner Rätselhaftigkeit nur deshalb dem Menschen entzieht, weil er die betreffende Erscheinung eben so gewohnt ist, nämlich der Wechsel von Schlaf und Wachen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1912-11-21/p004"},{"locus":"GA 62/1912-11-21/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Wir müssen zur Aufrechterhaltung unseres Lebens mit jedem Tage aus dem Zustande der Bewußtheit in denjenigen der Unbewußtheit übergehen. Was ist denn geschehen — wir brauchen es nur populär anzudeuten -, wenn der Mensch in den unbewußten Zustand des Schlafes übergeht? Die Aufnahmefähigkeit der Sinne hört auf, die Bewegungsfähigkeit der organischen Glieder hört auf, das Denken, das ja an die Tätigkeit des Gehirns gebunden ist, insofern es sich in der äußeren Welt betätigt, hört auf. Wir fühlen im Einschlafen alle die Tätigkeiten und alle Bewußtseinserfüllung, welche uns den Tag über ausfüllt, versinken. Es wäre für jeden unbefangen Urteilenden schon eine logische Unmöglichkeit, zu denken, daß dasjenige, was im bewußten Zustande vom Morgen bis zum Abend in unserer Seele auf und ab wogt als unsere Vorstellungen, unsere Gefühle, Empfindungen, Affekte, Leidenschaften, ja, als unsere Ideale und Ideen, mit dem Einschlafen seiner eigentlichen Wesenheit nach jedesmal ins «Nichts» überginge und am nächsten Morgen wieder entstehen würde. Nur eine logische Befangenheit kann leugnen, daß des Menschen geistig-seelischer Wesenskern auch vorhanden ist, während der Mensch in der Bewußtlosigkeit des Schlafes ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1912-11-21/p005"},{"locus":"GA 62/1912-11-21/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wenn wir heute zunächst einmal hypothetisch voraussetzen — die folgenden Vorträge sollen diese Voraussetzung rechtfertigen —, daß der Mensch, während er in der Bewußtlosigkeit des Schlafes ist, sich mit seinem eigentlich geistig-seelischen Wesenskerne gewissermaßen herausgezogen hat aus dem physischen Leib und den diesen physischen Leib belebenden Kräften, und daß er dann in einer geistigen Welt lebt, so liegt es zunächst als Annahme, als Vermutung nicht fern, daß im Menschen der Grund zu suchen ist, wenn er mit seinem geistig-seelischen Wesenskerne aus seinem ‘Leibe herausgezogen, nicht ebenso seine Umgebung wahrnehmen kann, wie er sie wahrnimmt, wenn er in der physischen Welt sich seiner Augen, seiner anderen Sinneswerkzeuge und des Instrumentes des Gehirnes bedient. Es liegt, sage ich, nicht fern, zu denken, daß des Menschen geistig-seelische Kräfte zunächst darauf angewiesen sind, sich im ‚gewöhnlichen Leben der Sinne und des Gehirnes zu bedienen, um eine Welt um sich zu haben, und daß sie, wenn sich der Mensch, wie im Schlafe, der Möglichkeit entledigt, durch diese Instrumente wahrzunehmen, zu gering, zu schwach sind, um das wirklich zu schauen, wirklich zu empfinden und zu denken, was sie dann wahrnehmen könnten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1912-11-21/p006"},{"locus":"GA 62/1912-11-21/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Als richtig erweisen könnte sich eine solche Vermutung nur dann, wenn wirklich die Möglichkeit vorhanden wäre, die Kräfte, welche man da als schwache vermutet, tatsächlich aus ihrer Verborgenheit hervorzuholen, etwa wenn man imstande wäre, die seelischen Kräfte, die im gewöhnlichen normalen Leben gewissermaßen «dünn» sind, in sich zu verdichten, in sich zu konzentrieren, so daß dann nicht das eintreten müßte, was der Mensch im Schlafe erlebt, wenn er aufhört, sich seiner Sinne oder seines Gehirnes zu bedienen, sondern daß es auch einen Zustand geben könnte, der dem Schlafe ähnlich ist, und doch wieder in einer gewissen Beziehung ihm vollständig entgegengesetzt ist. Ähnlich müßte dieser Zustand dem Schlafe darin sein, daß der Mensch nicht gezwungen, wie beim Einschlafen, sondern willkürlich, durch seine inneren Kräfte, durch seinen Willen das Sichzurückziehen aus den Sinnen oder aus dem Gehirn hervorrufen würde; so daß er es bewirken könnte, daß er zwar vollständig wach ist, aber nicht durch seine Augen seine Umgebung sieht, auch durch die anderen Sinne nichts wahrnimmt, sondern die Augen und die anderen Sinne zum vollständigen Schweigen bringt. Mit anderen Worten, daß er alle Sinnestätigkeit durch seinen Willen vollständig unterdrücken kann, daß er ebenso das gewöhnliche Denken unterdrücken kann, jenes Denken, das sich im alltäglichen Leben durch die Vorstellungen über die äußere physisch-sinnliche Welt betätigt. Ferner müßte der Mensch, wenn er so durch seine Willkür unterdrücken könnte, was ihn sonst zum Wahrnehmen bringt, imstande sein, in seinem geistig-seelischen Wesenskerne nun nicht zu der Bewußtlosigkeit des Schlafes zu kommen, sondern Kräfte zu konzentrieren, die sonst schwach, dünn sind, so daß er sich auch ohne seinen Leib, außerhalb seines Leibes, richtig betätigen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1912-11-21/p007"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[6],"to":[6],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[7],"to":[7],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}