{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Even without being a spiritual researcher, one can convince oneself of the truth of what has just been said through ordinary, more intimate observation of the soul life, albeit in a field that is only superficially considered today, and is particularly misrepresented by the fact that a certain branch of science, which is very much oriented toward the material, has taken hold of this field, namely, so-called analytical psychology or psychoanalysis. But I do not want to go into that. I would like to point out, however, that anyone who can truly observe the dream life knows that the involuntary emergence of dreams is always somehow connected with the impressions of the last few days, actually only the last two or three days. But don't misunderstand me! Of course, long-past events come up in dreams as reminiscences. But it is something else that evokes these long-past events. If you can observe the dream closely, you will always see that there must be some evoking idea from the last two or three days. This is what evokes long-past events. For two or three days, impressions from the outside world have the power to produce dreams. Everything else then structures itself around them. If no such idea from the last two or three days can generate the dream, then it cannot arise. Now, of course, one must be able to really observe what I have just indicated, because ordinary consciousness cannot observe it. It is precisely because it takes place in the unconscious that it is so unknown in the widest circles today. As a rule, people today do not acquire any knowledge of how they relate differently to an idea that has not been present in their soul for two or three days and to one that has been present for so long. All these things can only be observed accurately and correctly by a spiritual researcher. However, in order to observe them properly, the spiritual researcher needs a certain strengthening, an invigoration of the ordinary soul life. For ordinary soul life, imagination actually only extends to repeating and elaborating in a certain way what the senses perceive and grasp from the outside. This soul life can now be strengthened, even though ordinary science knows little about it, so that this pale, indefinite life of imagination in everyday life today can appear in the soul in a completely different way, so that it can appear as powerful as imagination, so that its power is equal to external, sensory perception. But this must happen if one really wants to do research in the spiritual realm. This research cannot be done with the ordinary powers of the soul of knowledge. Now, in my book How to Attain Knowledge of Higher Worlds and in my Secret Science, I have described in detail the method by which one can elevate imagination — to use a technical term that can easily be misunderstood — and by which one can turn it into imaginative cognition, into seeing perception.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Ich möchte aber darauf aufmerksam machen, daß derjenige, der das Traumleben wirklich beobachten kann, weiß, daß das unwillkürliche Heraufkommen von Träumen immer irgendwie zusammenhängt mit den Eindrücken der letzten Tage, eigentlich nur der letzten zwei bis drei Tage. Aber mißverstehen Sie mich nicht! Selbstverständlich kommen im Traum längst verflossene Ereignisse als Reminiszenzen herauf. Aber etwas anderes ist es, was diese längst verflossenen Ereignisse heraufruft. Wenn man genau den Traum beobachten kann, wird man immer sehen, daß irgendeine hervorrufende Vorstellung aus den letzten zwei bis drei Tagen da sein muß. Die ruft erst längst verflossene Ereignisse hervor. Durch zwei bis drei Tage haben die Eindrücke der Außenwelt die Kraft, Träume zu erzeugen. Das andere gliedert sich dann um sie herum. Wenn nicht eine solche aus den letzten zwei bis drei Tagen stammende Vorstellung den Traum erzeugen kann, kann er auch nicht entstehen. Nun muß man allerdings das, was ich jetzt angedeutet habe, wirklich beobachten können, denn das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein kann es nicht beobachten. Es ist ja das gerade deshalb in den weitesten Kreisen heute so unbekannt, weil es im Unbewußten verläuft. Der Mensch eignet sich in der Regel heute kein Wissen davon an, wie er anders steht zu einer Vorstellung, die noch nicht zwei bis drei Tage in seiner Seele anwesend ist, und zu einer solchen, die schon so lange anwesend ist. Alle diese Dinge kann man genau und richtig eigentlich nur als Geistesforscher beobachten. Der Geistesforscher braucht aber zur wirklichen Beobachtung eine gewisse Verstärkung, eine Erkraftung des gewöhnlichen Seelenlebens. Das Vorstellen erstreckt sich für das gewöhnliche Seelenleben eigentlich nur darauf, daß es in einer gewissen Weise wiederholt und ausgestaltet das, was die Sinne von außen wahrnehmen, von außen auffassen. Dieses Seelenleben kann nun, wenn auch die gewöhnliche Wissenschaft wenig davon weiß, verstärkt werden, so daß dieses blasse, unbestimmte Vorstellungsleben des heutigen Alltags in einer ganz anderen Weise in der Seele auftreten kann, daß es so kraftvoll als Vorstellen auftreten kann, daß seine Kraft einer äußeren, sinnlichen Wahrnehmung gleichkommt. Das aber muß eintreten, wenn man wirklich auf geistigem Gebiete Forschungen machen will. Mit den gewöhnlichen Erkenntnisseelenkräften kann man diese Forschungen nicht machen. Nun habe ich in meinem Buche «Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten» und in meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» die Methode ausführlich beschrieben, durch die man das Vorstellen heraufheben kann — um einen technischen Ausdruck zu gebrauchen, der leicht mißverstanden werden kann —- und durch die man es zum imaginativen Erkennen, zum schauenden Wahrnehmen macht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":474,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-02-07/p012"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-02-07/p012"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":474,"en_words":501,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8485,"original_word_count":8069,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180207p01.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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