12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

How, with people's materialistic mindset, has precisely that which is good for them in terms of health and life-promoting factors gradually become mere dry knowledge! Not to prove anything, but only to explain something, I would like to point out how we can observe the healing instincts — the sense of what is good for the organism — in animals. In humans, however, we can observe a tendency, caused by the forces of activity connected to the brain and nervous system, to move further and further away from a healthy life, and as a result, humans ultimately want to transform everything that is good for them into dry, external knowledge. Today, we already see people who are no longer able to fully develop their instinct, which tells them when they have had enough to eat, but who have scales next to their plates and weigh how much meat they are allowed to eat. This is only a radical expression, but anyone who follows these things will see how the sensations of life are gradually being transformed into separate, abstract knowledge. This is also expressed in the fact that people can no longer act on their own behalf, based on their own feelings, when it comes to their health and illness, but want to hand over this responsibility to someone else.