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The everyday event that takes place with a person without their will is that the surging perceptions, drives, passions, that pleasure and pain, cease to be conscious in the soul when the person finds themselves tired in the evening, and sink into an indeterminate darkness. At this time of falling asleep, external impressions cease. But instead, the human being sinks into the state of unconsciousness, or rather, the subconscious. 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He must, so to speak, be able to be conscious with an empty soul as he is otherwise conscious with a full soul that receives external impressions. So then, the spiritual researcher must have the strength to reject all external impressions, but still be able to consciously remain in the state of the empty soul. That is the first act that the spiritual researcher has to perform.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-03-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":172,"en_words":185,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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These images and sensations and volitional impulses, which he must now bring to life in his soul through his inner strength, are not there to reflect external impressions, to give an external truth. Anyone who were to look at them from this point of view would be very much mistaken. What must constitute the inner life of spiritual knowledge is an ascent of very definite, or, as I see it, symbolic concepts and ideas, etc., which have such a strong effect in the soul that they might indeed mightily shake up this soul life from within, shake it up more powerfully than all outer impressions and stimuli can shake up the soul life. That is the second act of spiritual knowledge, when the spiritual researcher can stimulate such experiences in himself that powerfully shake up his soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-03-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":147,"en_words":163,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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If the spiritual investigator were to stop at this act, he would not be able to ascend in truth to an insight into the spiritual world; he must add the third act, which consists in his power to would otherwise have an earthquake-like effect on his soul through mere inner contemplation, so that he transforms his entire soul life as if to an inner sea calm, to a complete [inner] calm. Then, when he is able to control and work on his soul inwardly, he will experience that something rises from his inner being, which can only be compared at a higher level to the outer senses at a lower level. Then – this has already been said several times – the spiritual world, which is always around him like color and light around the blind, will flood in as light and color flood into the eye of the blind who has undergone an operation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-03-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":165,"en_words":162,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But at first this spiritual world is closed to the physical gaze and mind. We have to ask ourselves: What are the reasons for this spiritual world being closed to the physical gaze and mind of the human being? There are reasons for this, and these reasons will become clear to us when we ask ourselves: Well, where in ordinary life do we encounter that which stands like a boundary between the physical and the spiritual world?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1910-03-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p027","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p027"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":92,"en_words":92,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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What does the spiritual researcher actually do when he activates his inner soul powers? He makes the moment that otherwise occurs involuntarily for a person, the moment of falling asleep, into a conscious one, and what otherwise occurs through falling asleep is shaped by the spiritual researcher into a supreme experience. In ordinary consciousness, everything that a person could possibly experience sinks into unconscious darkness when falling asleep. In the world into which the human being plunges every night, and in which he dwells during sleep, he could perceive the spiritual world. For it has been shown here many times that precisely that which we call the 'soul being' lifts itself out of the physical body and out of what is connected with it, out of the etheric or life body, but at the moment when what we call the soul being lifts itself out with sleep, for the person in normal consciousness, consciousness itself ceases, that is to say, the world into which he enters is shrouded in a veil so that he cannot see it. 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He attains consciousness of the external world when he submerges himself in his physical body in the morning and makes use of his physical organs and the physical mind that is connected to the brain. But in doing so, he is bound to the limits of the physical organs. The spiritual researcher, on the other hand, once he has achieved what has just been outlined, when he has acquired these inner abilities, he in turn returns to his physical body, so that he no longer needs to perceive only through the physical senses, but can perceive his environment directly with the inner organs of the soul. In this way he sees behind that which extends in the outer world like a boundary and obscures the actual spiritual world. The spiritual researcher learns to see behind every color into that which the color presents to us; the spiritual researcher hears behind every sound that which stands behind it as a spiritual being. He sees behind every perceptible impression. 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Da muss der Mensch etwas, was sonst ohne seinen Willen im alltäglichen Leben immer eintritt, mit seinem Willen und seinem Bewusstsein hervorrufen. Das alltägliche Ereignis, das mit dem Menschen sich abspielt ohne seinen Willen, das ist dasjenige, dass die auf- und abwogenden Wahrnehmungen, Triebe, Leidenschaften, dass Lust und Leid am Abend, wenn der Mensch sich müde findet, aufhören, in der Seele bewusst zu sein, dass sie in ein unbestimmtes Dunkel hinuntersinken. Da hören in dieser Zeit des Einschlafens die äußeren Eindrücke auf. Dafür aber sinkt der Mensch in den Zustand des Unbewusstseins, besser des Unterbewusstseins hinunter. Seine Seele ist leer von äußeren Eindrücken; aber er weiß sozusagen auch nichts mehr von irgendeiner Welt und von inneren Erlebnissen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p022"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Dasjenige, was so unwillkürlich sich vollzieht, das muss der Geistesforscher, derjenige, der sich hineinleben will in die geistige Welt, bewusst und durch seine Willkür hervorrufen können. Er muss die äußeren Eindrücke bewusst zum Schweigen bringen. Er muss auch allen Interessen, allen Sympathien und Antipathien mit den äußeren Eindrücken Stillstand und Schweigen gebieten. Ganz dasselbe, was des Abends bei der Ermüdung im Einschlafen eintritt an Schweigen, an Stillstand der äußeren Anregungen und Eindrücke, das muss willkürlich der geistige Erkenner bei sich hervorrufen. Aber er muss bei alledem dabei sein; er muss verhüten können durch seinen Willen und sein Bewusstsein, wenn er also die Seele leer macht von allen äußeren Anregungen und Eindrücken, dass sein Bewusstsein in Unbewusstheit übergeht. Er muss sozusagen bei leerer Seele so bewusst sein können, wie er sonst bei einer vollen Seele, die äußere Eindrücke erhält, bewusst ist. So also muss der Geistesforscher die Kraft haben, abzuweisen alle äußeren Eindrücke, dennoch aber bewusst verharren können im Zustande der leeren Seele. Das ist der erste Akt, den der Geistesforscher durchzuführen hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p023"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Das Zweite ist, dass er eine Reihe von Vorstellungen und Empfindungen und Willensimpulsen, die ihm bezeichnet werden, auf seine Seele wirken lässt. Diejenigen Vorstellungen und Empfindungen und Willensimpulse, die er nunmehr aus innerer Kraft heraus in seiner Seele beleben muss, sind nicht dazu da, äußere Eindrücke widerzuspiegeln, eine äußere Wahrheit zu geben. Wer sie von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus ansehen würde, würde sich sehr irren. Dasjenige, was da das innere Leben des geistigen Erkennens ausmachen muss, das ist ein Aufsteigen von ganz bestimmten, meinetwegen symbolischen Begriffen und Vorstellungen und so weiter, die so stark in der Seele wirken, dass sie allerdings dieses Seelenleben, das leer geworden ist, mächtig von innen heraus aufrütteln, stärker sogar aufrütteln, als alle äußeren Eindrücke und Anregungen das Seelenleben aufrütteln können. Das ist der zweite Akt des geistigen Erkennens, wenn der Geistesforscher selber solche Erlebnisse in sich anregen kann, die seine Seele mächtig aufrütteln.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p024"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Dies darf aber nicht das Ende sein. Würde der geistige Erkenner stehen bleiben wollen bei diesem Akt, dann würde er nicht aufsteigen können in Wahrheit zu einem Einblick in die geistige Welt; er muss den dritten Akt hinzufügen, der darin besteht, dass er durch seine Kraft dasjenige, was sonst erdbebenartig auf seine Seele wirken würde durch die bloße innere Versenkung, so mildert, dass er sein ganzes Seelenleben umgestaltet wie zu einer inneren Meeresstille, zu einer vollständigen [inneren] Windstille. Dann, wenn er imstande ist, seine Seele also innerlich zu beherrschen und zu bearbeiten, wird er die Erfahrung machen, dass aus seinem Inneren an geistigen Organen etwas aufsteigt, was sich auf einer höheren Stufe nur vergleichen lässt mit den äußeren Sinnen auf niederer Stufe. Dann — es ist dies schon öfter gesagt worden - tritt das ein, dass die geistige Welt, die immer um ihn herum ist wie Farbe und Licht um den Blindgeborenen, hereinflutet so, wie Licht und Farbe in das Auge des operierten Blindgeborenen hereinfluten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p025"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"So also kann der Mensch in die geistige Welt eindringen. Dann erschließt sich ihm das hinter dem Sinnlich-Physischen waltende und wirkende geistige Unbekannte, die geistigen Tatsachen, die geistigen Wesenheiten, die nicht da sind für die bloß sinnliche und verstandesmäßige Auffassung der Wirklichkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":42,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p026"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Nun ist der Mensch also mitten drinnen stehend in einer Welt des geistigen Lebens. Aber zunächst verschließt sich diese geistige Welt seinem physischen Blick und Verstand. Wir müssen uns fragen: Welches sind die Gründe dafür, dass sich diese geistige Welt vor dem physischen Blick und vor dem Verstande des Menschen verschließt? Dafür gibt es Gründe, und diese Gründe werden uns dadurch klar werden, dass wir uns fragen: Ja, wo tritt denn im gewöhnlichen Leben uns das ein klein wenig entgegen, was wie eine Grenze dasteht zwischen der physischen und der geistigen Welt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":92,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p027"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Das tritt uns entgegen gerade in demjenigen Moment, den wir vorhin bezeichnet haben. Was tut im Grunde genommen der Geistesforscher, wenn er seine inneren Seelenkräfte regsam macht? Er macht jenen Moment, der sonst unwillkürlich für den Menschen eintritt, den Moment des Einschlafens, zu einem bewussten, und was sonst durch das Einschlafen eintritt, das gestaltet der geistige Erforscher gerade zu einem höchsten Erlebnis. Beim gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein sinkt alles dasjenige, was überhaupt der Mensch erleben konnte, beim Einschlafen in ein unbewusstes Dunkel hinunter. In derjenigen Welt, in welche der Mensch jegliche Nacht eintaucht, in der er verweilt während des Schlafes, da könnte er wahrnehmen die geistige Welt. Denn das ist hier schon öfter gezeigt worden, dass gerade dasjenige, was wir «Seelenwesen» nennen, aus dem physischen Leib und aus dem, was damit verbunden ist, aus dem Äther- oder Lebensleib sich heraushebt, aber in dem Augenblick, wo dasjenige, was wir Seelenwesen nennen, sich heraushebt mit dem Schlafe, hört für den Menschen im normalen Bewusstsein eben die Bewusstheit auf, das heißt es umzieht sich ihm die Welt, in die er eintritt, mit einem Schleier, sodass er sie nicht sehen kann. In diese Welt aber sieht hinein derjenige, der zum geistigen Forscher wird!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p028"},{"locus":"GA 68b/1910-03-12/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Und wodurch erlangt der Mensch für die äußere Welt nur ein Bewusstsein? Für die äußere Welt erlangt der Mensch ein Bewusstsein, wenn er morgens wiederum untertaucht in seinen physischen Leib und sich der physischen Organe und des physischen Verstandes, der an das Gehirn gebunden ist, bedient. Dadurch aber ist er an die Grenze der physischen Organe gebunden. Der Geistesforscher hingegen, wenn er einmal das erreicht hat, was eben skizzenhaft geschildert worden ist, wenn er diese inneren Fähigkeiten erlangt hat, der tritt wiederum zurück in seinen physischen Leib, sodass er jetzt nicht mehr bloß durch die physischen Sinne wahrzunehmen braucht, sondern dass er unmittelbar mit den inneren Organen der Seele auch in seiner Umwelt wahrnehmen kann. Dadurch sieht er hinter dasjenige, was in der äußeren Welt wie eine Grenze sich ausbreitet und die eigentliche geistige Welt verdeckt. Der Geistesforscher lernt hinter jede Farbe zu schauen in dasjenige hinein, was die Farbe vor uns hinstellt; der geistige Forscher hört hinter jedem Ton dasjenige, was als geistiges Wesen dahintersteht. Hinter jeden wahrzunehmenden Eindruck schaut er. Die Welt wird kristallhell für ihn. Und wenn er so durchsieht durch den Teppich der äußeren Welt, dann enthüllen sich ihm geistige Wesenheiten und Wirklichkeiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1910-03-12/p029"}],"beads":[{"from":[22],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[23],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[24],"to":[24],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[25],"to":[25],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[26],"to":[26],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[27],"to":[27],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"medium"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"medium"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}