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But people are not willing, above all in the case of Spiritual Science, to apply this healthy human reason and ordinary knowledge of life, because they do not want to turn to something that can be achieved only through actual development of the soul. Although the facts presented by Spiritual Science can be investigated only by the methods to be described here, once the facts have been investigated they can be grasped by healthy human reason and ordinary experience. But because a certain mental laziness makes people hesitate to penetrate into Spiritual Science, even those who at the present time have an urge to know something about it prefer to turn to sources more in line with the methods applied in the laboratories, dissection-rooms and other institutions of modern science. And so in order to acquire a certain insight into the spiritual life, people who cannot bring themselves to approach Spiritual Science itself often prefer to concern themselves with abnormal phenomena of human life to be observed in the outer world of the senses. These people believe that the study of certain abnormal phenomena will elucidate certain riddles of existence. That is why Spiritual Science is so repeatedly and so mistakenly associated with endeavours to gain knowledge of spiritual reality by investigating all kinds of abnormal, borderline regions of human life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"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/SOL2018/19180321p01.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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Dagegen ist gerade die Art der Erkenntnisbestrebungen, welche innerhalb dieser Geisteswissenschaft gesucht wird, manchem unbequem aus dem Grunde, weil sie immer wieder aus der Natur ihres Suchens heraus darauf hinweisen muß, daß die gewöhnlichen und auch die in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft üblichen Erkenntniskräfte in dieses Gebiet des geistigen Lebens nicht hineinführen können; denn man findet es eben unbequem, sich an andere Erkenntnisquellen zu wenden. Zwar kann es gerade aus der Betrachtung dieser Geisteswissenschaft jedem, wenn die Betrachtung vorurteilslos ist, immer klarer werden, daß der gewöhnliche, gesunde Menschenverstand, der sich nur wirklich an das Leben heranmacht, in der Lage ist, alles dasjenige unmittelbar einzusehen, was aus der Geisteswissenschaft dargeboten wird. Dennoch will man gerade dieser Geisteswissenschaft gegenüber diesen gesunden Menschenverstand und die gewöhnliche Lebenserfahrung nicht anwenden, weil man sich nicht an dasjenige wenden will, was erst durch die Entwickelung der menschlichen Seele herbeigeführt werden muß. Erforscht können die Tatsachen der Geisteswissenschaft nur werden durch die hier schon geschilderten und weiter zu schildernden geisteswissenschaftlichen Methoden, aber wenn die Tatsachen erforscht sind, so können sie von dem gesunden Menschenverstand und der gewöhnlichen Lebenserfahrung durchaus erfaßt werden. Weil man aber aus einer inneren Erkenntnisbequemlichkeit eine gewisse Scheu hat, an diese Geisteswissenschaft heranzutreten, deshalb wenden sich auch diejenigen Persönlichkeiten der Gegenwart, welche den Drang haben, hierüber etwas zu wissen, gern an andere Quellen, an solche Quellen, welche ihrer Natur nach näherliegen den Methoden, die man im Laboratorium, im Seziersaal oder sonst in der heute gebräuchlichen Wissenschaft anwendet. So kommt es denn, daß diejenigen, die es nicht über sich bringen können, an die Geisteswissenschaft selbst heranzutreten, oftmals gerade die abnormen Erscheinungen des menschlichen Lebens heranziehen, die sich in dem Gebiet der äußeren Sinneswelt beobachten lassen, um gewisse Einblicke in das geistige Leben zu gewinnen. Denn sie glauben, durch dasjenige, was sich am Menschen in abnormer Weise äußert, Aufschlüsse über gewisse Rätsel des Daseins gewinnen zu können. 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