{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Another condition is that in his life of soul a genuine spiritual investigator must to the greatest possible extent be proof against suggestion, against allowing himself to be influenced by suggestion; he must confront the things of external life too with a discriminating, sceptical attitude of mind. A person who prefers to be told by others what he ought to do, who is glad not to have to arrange his life according to his own independent judgment and decisions, is not very suitable for spiritual investigation. Anyone who knows how great a role is played by suggestion in normal everyday life, also realises how difficult it is to combat the general tendency to succumb to it. Think only to what extent, in public life particularly, people allow things to be suggested to them, how few efforts they make to create in their own souls the conditions for independence of judgment and for governing their affairs by their own will. Those who study the findings of spiritual research because their healthy intelligence makes them desire relationship with the spiritual world are very often accused of blind belief in the investigator. But the fact is that blindly credulous adherents are anything but welcome to an investigator who tries to penetrate with conscious vision into the spiritual world. A society composed of credulous followers would be the caricature of a society suitable for the cultivation of spiritual knowledge. The genuine spiritual investigator will find, to his joy, that sooner or later those who come close to him develop independence of judgment and a certain inner freedom also in regard to himself, that they do not adhere to him blindly, under the influence of suggestion, but because of common interest in the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p010","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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Wer weiß, welch große Rolle auch im normalen alltäglichen Leben Suggerierbarkeit spielt, der weiß auch, wie schwer anzukämpfen ist gegen diese allgemein übliche Suggerierbarkeit. Man bedenke nur, wieviel gerade im öffentlichen Leben sich die Menschen suggerieren lassen, wie wenig sie darauf aus sind, zu versuchen, sich in ihrer eigenen Seele die Bedingungen zu verschaffen für selbständiges Urteil und für die Einrichtung der Lebensverrichtungen aus den eigenen Willensimpulsen heraus. Den Menschen, welche eingehen auf die Geistesforschung, weil sie aus ihrem gesunden Menschenverstande heraus ein Verhältnis zur geistigen Welt gewinnen wollen, wird sehr häufig vorgeworfen, daß sie blind an den Geistesforscher glauben. Es darf gesagt werden, solche blinden Anhänger kann der Geistesforscher, der wirklich versucht, durch schauendes Bewußt sein in die geistige Welt einzudringen, sich am allerwenigsten wünschen. Und eine Gesellschaft von Menschen, die also einem solchen Geistesforscher anhingen, wäre die Karikatur einer Gesellschaft, die geeignet wäre, um solche geistige Erkenntnis zu pflegen. Im Gegenteil, der wirkliche Geistesforscher muß es erleben und wird es mit Freude erleben, daß gerade diejenigen, die ihm nahetreten, über kurz oder lang auch ihm gegenüber zu einem selbständigen Urteil, zu einer gewissen inneren Freiheit kommen, und daß sie nicht durch blinde Anhängerschaft, durch Suggerierfähigkeit sich zu ihm halten, sondern durch die gemeinsamen Interessen gegenüber der geistigen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":294,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-03-21/p010"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-03-21/p010"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":294,"en_words":290,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10888,"original_word_count":10914,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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