{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who in the sense indicated at the beginning of this lecture adopt an easy-going attitude where Spiritual Science is concerned, would like to investigate the spiritual world in the same way. But such people cannot reach the true spiritual world which guarantees eternal life for the soul; they can work only with what permeates and pervades the physical environment. What is working in the somnambulist, in the medium, works in the normal human being too, but differently. This may indeed sound strange, but it is nevertheless a finding of Spiritual Science. What is really working in the medium, in the somnambulist? In ordinary life we have a certain moral link with other human beings; we act out of moral impulses. I said that these moral impulses are generated by way of the physical body. We perform acts in the field of external civilisation, we learn to write, to read, we learn what the human will inculcates as a spiritual element into the outer physical world. With the forces employed by our soul in the activity of learning to read, of assimilating other cultural endowments, of entering into moral relationships with the world—with all these forces the soul of the somnambulist or the medium is connected in an *abnormal* way. This activity which is otherwise exercised only in the moral domain, in the domain of the cultural life, is transferred directly into the bodily constitution of the medium or the somnambulist; this is possible because the consciousness has been lowered and the soul disconnected. Whereas in normal life the human being is in contact with the surrounding world solely through his senses, in the case of the somnambulist and the medium, the *whole* man comes into connection, through his will-mechanism, with the surrounding world. This makes it possible for influences from a distance to take effect; a thought can also work into the distance and distant vistas—both spatial and temporal—can arise. But in most of these cases, what penetrates into the human organism is the spiritual element which pervades the physical world to which we belong as physical men, it is the spiritual element belonging to the cultural and moral life. But it penetrates in such a way that the soul is disconnected from the organism. Hence what is made manifest through the medium or the somnambulist does not lead to the being of spirit-and-soul in man but is simply a caricature of the workings of the spiritual upon man's bodily nature. Whereas in normal life the soul itself must be the intermediary between the truly spiritual and the body, in these abnormal states the spiritual is working *directly* on the body—but only in the sense I have described. The result is that with his consciousness disconnected, such a man becomes a kind of automaton; only those elements which belong externally to cultural or moral life are expressing themselves in him. From this it will be clear to you that, although it is disguised and masked in the most diverse way, what is to all appearances the spiritual *does* come to expression through mediumship and somnambulism, but only provided certain combinatory factors and associations are present; these cannot be discussed here because it would lead us too far afield. The essentials which come to expression in this way originate from the physical environment. Men who stand firmly on the ground of natural science but do not outgrow its established notions, would like to penetrate into the spiritual world to which the eternal core of man's being belongs, by taking to their aid the phenomena of somnambulism and mediumship. But this leads to countless fallacies and errors.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":606,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p036","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. 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Wenn wir im gewöhnlichen Leben stehen, stehen wir mit den anderen Menschen in einer gewissen moralischen Verbindung. Wir handeln aus moralischen Impulsen heraus. Ich sagte, daß diese moralischen Impulse gerade mit dem äußeren physischen Leib erzeugt werden. Wir handeln im äußeren Kulturleben, lernen schreiben, lesen, lernen dasjenige, was sonst der menschliche Wille der äußeren physischen Welt als Geistiges einfügt. Mit dem nun, was wir in der Seele für unsere Tätigkeit in Anspruch nehmen, indem wir lesen lernen, indem wir uns sonstige Kulturerrungenschaften aneignen, indem wir in moralische Beziehungen zur Welt treten, mit all dem lebt die Seele des Somnambulen, des Mediums in einer abnormen Weise zusammen. Diese Tätigkeit, die sonst nur auf moralischem Felde, auf dem Felde des Kulturlebens herauskommt, die drückt sich durch die Herabstimmung des Bewußtseins, durch die Ausschaltung der Seele unmittelbar in die Leiblichkeit des Mediums oder des Somnambulen ein. Während sonst der Mensch im normalen Leben nur durch seine Sinne mit der Umwelt in Berührung steht, kommt beim Somnambulen und beim Medium der ganze Mensch durch seinen Willensmechanismus mit der Umwelt in Beziehung. Dadurch können Fernwirkungen eintreten, der Gedanke kann in die Ferne wirken, es können auch räumliche und zeitliche Ferngesichte auftreten und so weiter. Es kann aber nur dasjenige, was in der physischen Welt, der wir als physische Menschen angehören, als Geistiges enthalten ist, zumeist dasjenige nur, was dem Kultur- und dem moralischen Leben angehört, hineintreten in den menschlichen Organismus. Aber es tritt so hinein, daß dieser menschliche Organismus das Seelische ausgeschaltet hat. Dadurch führt dasjenige, was durch das Medium, durch den Somnambulen auftritt, nicht zu dem Geistig-Seelischen im Menschen, sondern zu einer Nachäffung der Wirkungen des Geistigen auf das Leibliche des Menschen. Während im normalen Leben die Seele Vermittler sein muß zwischen dem wirklich Geistigen und dem Leiblichen, wirkt da unmittelbar — aber nur so geartet, wie ich es geschildert habe — das Geistige auf den Leib. Die Folge ist, daß der Mensch mit Ausschaltung des Bewußtseins wie zum Automaten wird, und daß doch eigentlich nur das, was äußerlich dem Kulturleben oder dem moralischen Leben angehört, in diesem automatisch werdenden Menschen sich ausdrückt. Dabei werden Sie sehen, daß, zwar in der verschiedensten Weise kaschiert, maskiert durch den Mediumismus und Somnambulismus, auch scheinbar Geistiges zum Ausdruck kommt, aber nur durch ganz gewisse Kombinationen und Verbindungen, die hier jetzt nicht erörtert werden können, weil das zu weit führen würde. Das Hauptsächlichste, was auf diesem Wege zum Ausdruck kommt, stammt aus der physischen Umgebung. Gerade diejenigen, die voll auf naturwissenschaftlichem Boden stehen, aber über die hier charakterisierten naturwissenschaftlichen Vorurteile nicht hinauskommen, möchten auf solche Art, indem sie den Somnambulismus und Mediumismus zu Hilfe nehmen, in diejenige geistige Welt eindringen, der der Mensch mit seinem Ewigen und seiner Seele Wesenskern angehört. Da können dann die mannigfaltigsten Irrtümer entstehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":565,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-03-21/p033"}],"english":["GA 67/1918-03-21/p036"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":565,"en_words":606,"ratio":1.07,"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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