{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I was obliged to speak first of these conditions because they provide the basis for studying the abnormal provinces of the life of soul which we shall be considering. In true spirit-knowledge, what otherwise remains unconscious is revealed and this revelation sheds light upon the eternal, essentially free, core of being in the human soul. It is therefore possible to compare what is thus revealed with abnormal manifestations of the life of soul. The upsurging and ebbing world of dream which beats against human consciousness rather than actually passing into it, cannot really be counted among these abnormal manifestations. The world of dream has become the subject of much scientific and philosophical research, although it cannot be said that the methods applied with such brilliance in natural science are particularly suited to penetrate into the real nature of this borderline province of human life. The same may be said of the contention that thinking must be in strict keeping with that of natural science and surrender completely to the conceptions arising from it. Although, understandably enough, modern people claim to be free from any tendency to believe in authority, they are very inclined, under certain conditions, to do so. Whenever somebody who is publicly reputed to be a great thinker produces a bulky volume dealing with the investigation of abnormal psychic phenomena, numbers of people who really do not understand much about the subject, praise the book to the skies, and then, as a matter of course, our contemporaries, while disclaiming belief in authority, accept it as a reliable basis.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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Diese Traumeswelt ist auch schon Gegenstand äußerer naturwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Untersuchungen geworden, ohne daß man sagen kann, daß gerade die Methoden, die heute für die äußere Naturwissenschaft so glänzend dastehen, besonders geeignet wären, in dieses Grenzgebiet des menschlichen Lebens einzudringen. Aber auch in bezug auf Grenzgebiete, wie wir sie heute noch erwähnen wollen, ist dasjenige, was so recht nur im Sinne der heutigen Naturwissenschaft denken will und sich ganz den Vorurteilen, die sich daraus ergeben, hingibt, wenig geeignet, in die Wahrheit der Sache einzudringen. Die heutige Menschheit hat ja zwar vielfach, obwohl sie erklärlicherweise sich für recht wenig autoritätsgläubig hält, eine gewisse Hinneigung, alles auf Autorität hin unter gewissen Voraussetzungen anzunehmen. 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