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But something strange happens when one goes through everything that belongs to pre-birth and post-death life: as one emerges from one's own physicality, as one's own physicality becomes pictorial, what one otherwise has as the self-experience of the ego flutters away and disperses. This is the dangerous moment for knowledge, when the ordinary ego disperses. It is scattered throughout the world, as it were, and feels itself to be without consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":115,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-04-20/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/SOL2018/19180420p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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It is experienced as having just submerged; for if it has not submerged into the physical body, then the human being is asleep; then the I is outside and he does not experience it. It is experienced in the body, specifically in that part of the human organism that is not the regressive main organism and not the extremities that extend beyond normal development; rather, it is stimulated in the rest of the human organism through the activity of the lungs and heart. It is stimulated by the fact that the human being is inside his organism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":232,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-04-20/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/SOL2018/19180420p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). 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The spiritual researcher recognizes it as unconscious intuition. This is the intuition that is gained when the true I, which otherwise does not appear in consciousness at all, submerges itself in the organism, namely in the middle organism of the human being. The consciousness of the I is based on unconscious intuition. That is why you often hear people talk about “intuition,” but much less about imagination and inspiration. But it is precisely this highest form, which occurs as a process of spiritual research outside the body, that is dimly conscious. This is what Hamerling calls the “sense of self.” It flows up from the organization. This is how the organization lives. Unconsciously, imaginations flow from sensual-free thinking into that part of the human being that is embedded in the extremities, and from there they go out into the future. What lives in the present ego consciousness dissipates; it is only by being in the future that it is freed from this dissipation. This can be seen when one pursues the matter further. For there is now a threefold aspect to human nature, namely the three members of the eternal human being: that which lies before earthly incarnation, which lives into the unconscious inspiration of the organism; then that which is experienced during earthly life in unconscious intuition; and thirdly, that which is sensed as the essence of the human being after death in the imagination. These are the three members of the human being, and they always work together in the human being. In truth, the human being is not the simple monadic being dreamed of by those who like to have all knowledge conveniently at their fingertips, but in truth three selves work together in the human being: the inspiring self, which lives in thinking, carried over from the spiritual world and from previous earthly lives; the intuitive self, which lives in the present physical body; and the imaginative self, which is carried over, like a carriage carries its passengers, into the spiritual world, which is entered by passing through the gate of death.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":363,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-04-20/p030","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","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/SOL2018/19180420p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Aber ein Merkwürdiges stellt sich ein, wenn man alles das durchmacht, was zu dem vorgeburtlichen und zu dem nachtodlichen Leben gehört: Indem man so herauskommt aus der eigenen Leiblichkeit, indem die eigene Leiblichkeit zur Bildhaftigkeit wird, da zerflattert, zerstiebt das, was man sonst als Selbsterlebnis des Ich hat. Da ist der gefährliche Moment für die Erkenntnis, wo das gewöhnliche Ich zerstiebt. Er wird gleichsam in alle Welt zerstreut, fühlt sich ohne Bewußtsein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":116,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-04-20/p028"},{"locus":"GA 67/1918-04-20/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Dieses Gefühl ist eine merkwürdige, bedeutsame Erkenntnis. Man merkt, daß das, was man zurückgelassen hat, aus dem man herausgegangen ist, gerade für das gewöhnliche Ich die Grundlage war. Für das Ich, das der Mensch sein «Ich» nennt im gewöhnlichen Leben, ist die körperliche Organisation die Grundlage. Dieses Ich beginnt mit der Empfängnis, mit der Geburt; später beginnt erst das Bewußtsein dafür. Dieses Ich, dieses unmittelbare Gegenwarts-Ich, ist an den Organismus gebunden; das kann man nicht finden, wenn man aus dem Organismus herausgeht. Darauf beruht aber gerade das Vollbewußtsein dieses Ich. Nun erlebt man aber doch dieses Ich als ein in sich geschlossenes. Es wäre furchtbar, wenn der Mensch das als sein Ich erleben würde, was der Geistesforscher als Ich in seiner Zerstäubung erlebt, wenn er aus dem Leibe heraus ist. Wie erlebt man dieses Ich? So erlebt man es, daß es eben untergetaucht ist; denn wenn es nicht untergetaucht ist in den physischen Leib, dann schläft der Mensch; dann ist das Ich heraus und er erlebt es nicht. Es wird im Leibe erlebt, und zwar in demjenigen Teil der menschlichen Organisation, die nicht die sich rückentwickelnde Hauptesorganisation und nicht die über die Normalentwickelung hinausgehende Extremitätenorganisation ist; sondern es wird im übrigen Teile der menschlichen Organisation durch die Lungen- und Herztätigkeit angeregt. Es wird dadurch angeregt, daß der Mensch in seinem Organismus drinnensteckt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-04-20/p029"},{"locus":"GA 67/1918-04-20/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Was ist dieses Ich, das sonst zerstäubt? Dieses Ich wird dadurch bewußt, daß es untertaucht in den Organismus. Der Geistesforscher erkennt es als unbewußte Intuition. Das ist die Intuition, die gewonnen wird, indem das wahre, sonst gar nicht im Bewußtsein auftretende Ich untertaucht in die Organisation, und zwar in die Mittelorganisation des Menschen. Auf unbewußter Intuition beruht das Bewußtsein vom Ich. Daher können Sie auch oftmals von «Intuition» sprechen hören, jedoch von Imagination und Inspiration viel weniger. Aber gerade von diesem Höchsten, das als ein außer dem Leibe sich vollziehender Prozeß der Geistesforschung auftritt, ist ein dumpfes Bewußtsein vorhanden. Das ist es, was Hamerling das «Ichgefühl» nennt. Das strömt herauf aus der Organisation. So ist die Organisation, wie sie sich darlebt. Unbewußt gehen vom sinnlichkeitsfreien Denken Imaginationen in denjenigen Teil der menschlichen Wesenheit, der eingebettet ist in den Extremitätenteil, und gehen von dort hinaus in die Zukunft. Was im gegenwärtigen Ichbewußtsein lebt, das zerstäubt; das wird erst, indem es zukünftig ist, aus diesem Zerstäuben befreit. Das sieht man gerade, wenn man die Sache weiter verfolgt. Denn man hat jetzt ein Dreifaches in der Menschennatur, nämlich das, was die drei Glieder des menschlichen ewigen Wesens sind: Das Vergangene, vor der Erdenverkörperung Liegende, das sich in die unbewußte Inspiration des Organismus hereinlebt; dann das, was während des Erdenlebens erlebt wird in der unbewußten Intuition; und drittens das, was vorgefühlt wird als Wesenheit des Menschen nach dem Tode in der Imagination. Das sind drei Glieder des menschlichen Wesens, und sie wirken im Menschen immer zusammen. In Wahrheit ist der Mensch nicht das einfache monadenhafte Wesen, von dem diejenigen träumen, die gern alle Erkenntnis nur recht bequem haben wollen, sondern in Wahrheit wirken drei Iche im Menschen zusammen: Das inspirierende, das im Denken lebt, das herübergetragen ist aus der geistigen Welt und aus dem vorhergehenden Erdenleben; das intuitive, das in der gegenwärtigen Leiblichkeit lebt; und das imaginative, das hinübergetragen wird, wie ein Wagen den Insassen trägt, in die geistige Welt, in die eingetreten wird mit dem Durchgehen durch die Pforte des Todes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":338,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/67/1918-04-20/p030"}],"beads":[{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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