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I mention these characteristics of spiritual experience because they at once show the great difference between an experience in the spiritual world and an experience in the outer, physical world of the senses and how little justification there is for people who know nothing to insist that the spiritual investigator simply brings ideas and concepts acquired from the outer world of the senses as reminiscences into some kind of imaginary spiritual world. Anyone who really knows something about the characteristics of the spiritual world, knows too that it differs so entirely from the world of the senses that nothing can be imported into it from the latter, but that the development of special faculties is essential before the spirit can confront spiritual reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p008","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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Ich erwähne diese Eigentümlichkeiten des geistigen Erlebens aus dem Grunde, weil sie schon zeigen, wie sehr das Erleben im Geiste verschieden ist von dem Erleben in der äußeren physischen Sinnenwelt und wie wenig es daher eigentlich gerechtfertigt ist, wenn immer wiederum von Nichtkennern behauptet wird, daß es nur die aus der äußeren Sinnenwelt gewonnenen Ideen und Begriffe sind, die der Geistesforscher als Reminiszenz hineinträgt in irgendeine von ihm geträumte geistige Welt. 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