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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-04-23/p021","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140423p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 63/1914-04-23/p021"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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And while the part of our being that is bound to the brain and nervous system distances us from our life instincts, through an understanding immersion in spiritual science we draw closer again to living, active life, so that those who develop a living understanding of spiritual science within themselves are not left to their animal instincts; but will permeate them with the spirit in such a way that he will not allow himself to be dictated to by a separate, abstract knowledge: you should eat this much, you should drink that much, you should walk this much, exercise this much, and so on; Instead, they will directly spiritualize their instincts, allowing the spiritual goods they receive through spiritual science to flow into their instincts, and thereby knowing: this is what you should do in life! One could even say that human beings have distanced themselves from life through the knowledge that is bound to the brain and nervous system; but through spiritual science he will once again permeate life with new content, and through this he will once again know directly: this is good for you, this is beneficial for you, that is not good for you! He will go through life with certainty; he will stand firm and oriented in life because he will build a bridge between the deepest reasons for life and his existence around him. 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Nicht um etwas zu beweisen, sondern nur um etwas zu erläutern, möchte ich darauf hinweisen, wie wir die Heilinstinkte — die Empfindung für das, was dem Organismus gut tut — bei den Tieren beobachten können. Beim Menschen aber können wir, hervorgerufen durch die Tätigkeitskräfte, die an Gehirn und Nervensystem gebunden sind, die Tendenz finden, sich von dem gesunden Leben immer mehr zu entfernen, und dadurch würde er in bezug auf das, was ihm gut tut, zuletzt alles in äußeres, trockenes Wissen verwandeln wollen. Man sieht heute schon Menschen, die nicht mehr ganz ihren Instinkt entwickeln können, der ihnen beim Essen sagt: jetzt hast du genug, sondern die neben ihrem Teller eine Waage stehen haben und nun wiegen, wieviel das Stück Fleisch wiegt, das sie essen dürfen. Das ist nur etwas radikal ausgedrückt; aber wer die Dinge verfolgt, wird sehen, wie sich die Lebensempfindungen allmählich immer mehr in ein abgesondertes abstraktes Wissen verwandeln. Das drückt sich auch darin aus, daß die Menschen in bezug auf ihr Gesundsein und Kranksein gar nicht mehr aus sich selbst, aus ihrem Gefühl heraus handeln können, sondern die Sorge dafür einem andern übergeben möchten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":216,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p021"},{"locus":"GA 63/1914-04-23/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"In dieser Beziehung wird die Geisteswissenschaft den Menschen ein außerordentlich bedeutsames Lebensgut sein können, indem sie nach Durchdringung einer Welt strebt, von welcher der Mensch zwar nur abzustammen scheint, in der er aber noch drinnen steht. Denn in Wahrheit ist der Mensch seinem seelischen und physischen Wesen nach aus dem Geiste entsprungen. Und während man sich mit dem Teile seines Wesens, das an das Gehirn und Nervensystem gebunden ist, von den Lebensinstinkten entfernt, nähert man sich durch ein verständnisvolles Einleben in die Geisteswissenschaft wieder dem lebendigen, tätigen Leben, so daß der, welcher das lebendige Verständnis für die Geisteswissenschaft in sich entwickelt, zwar nicht den tierischen Trieben überlassen wird; er wird sie vom Geiste aus so durchdringen, daß er sich allerdings nicht von einem abgesonderten, abstrakten Wissen vorschreiben läßt: das sollst du essen, soviel sollst du trinken, soviel spazieren gehn, turnen und so weiter; sondern dazu wird es kommen, daß er die Triebe unmittelbar vergeistigt, daß er das geistige Gut, welches er durch die Geisteswissenschaft empfängt, einfließen läßt in seine Triebe und dadurch weiß: dies sollst du so und so machen im Leben! Man könnte geradezu sagen: Der Mensch hat sich durch die Erkenntnis, die an das Gehirn und Nervensystem gebunden ist, vom Leben entfernt; durch die Geisteswissenschaft aber durchdringt er wieder das Leben mit einem neuen Inhalt, und dadurch wird er wieder unmittelbar wissen: das ist gut für dich, das ist vorteilhaft für dich, jenes ist nicht gut für dich! Er wird mit Sicherheit durch das Leben gehen; er wird fest und orientiert im Leben drinnen stehen, weil er eine Brücke schaffen wird zwischen den tiefsten Gründen des Lebens und seinem Dasein um sich herum. Und das wird sich erstrecken nicht nur auf Gesundsein und Kranksein, sondern auf alles Leben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-04-23/p022"}],"beads":[{"from":[21],"to":[21],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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