{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1913-03-09/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Well, the very first thing is that through self-knowledge, human beings recognize themselves as supersensible beings and come to understand their own supersensible nature. And there is much in the soul life of human beings that is connected with the cultural achievements of the present and also of humanity as a whole, which stands in the way of true self-knowledge. In their soul life, human beings are, in a sense, never truly alone with their soul, and they must manage to be completely alone with their soul if they want to recognize it in its deepest essence. Namely, knowing [they are] never completely alone. But there is a certain aloneness that occurs when the human being enters a state in which he does not use his outer limbs, but surrenders them to the gravity of the earth, commands the memory and the mind bound to the senses to stand still — this is the case every day when he enters the state of sleep. And the scientific assertion or insight that, in their physicality, when they have fallen asleep, humans offer nothing that can explain what ebbs and flows in the soul until they wake up, that the processes of the sleeping body do not make anything understandable of what goes on in the soul during sleep — this will be unreservedly admitted by scientific knowledge in a relatively short time, [and] that the contents of the soul submerge into the physical body upon awakening [and thus] — as with inhaling the air — become a part of one's own body. The same is true of falling asleep, since the content of the soul leaves the body, so that between falling asleep and waking up one is actually dealing with an entity that is separate from the physical body, which offers no tools for observing it. One can therefore say that the sleeping soul is alone in a certain sense, that is, it is not connected to the outside world through the intellect, the senses, and memory, as the awake person is. But in normal life, the sleeping person loses consciousness when falling asleep; and so it must be said that [where] the person is alone, they are not in a position to observe the soul dwelling in the body. This is also what makes true self-knowledge impossible for the ordinary person.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-03-09","location":null,"word_count":392,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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 es gibt doch ein gewisses Alleinsein, das dann eintritt, wenn der Mensch in den Zustand übergeht, in dem er sich seiner äußeren Gliedmaßen nicht bedient, sondern sie der Schwere der Erde übergibt, dem Gedächtnis und dem an die Sinne gebundenen Verstand Stillstand gebietet — das ist ja jeden Tag der Fall, wenn er in den Schlafzustand übergeht. Und gegen die geisteswissenschaftliche Behauptung oder Erkenntnis, dass der Mensch in seiner Leiblichkeit, wenn er in den Schlaf übergegangen ist, nichts darbietet, was dasjenige erklärlich machen kann, was auf- und abflutet in der Seele bis zum Aufwachen, dass die Vorgänge des schlafenden Leibes nichts von dem verständlich machen, was in der Seele während des Schlafens vorgeht - das wird in verhältnismäßig kurzer Zeit schon die naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis rückhaltlos zugeben, [und] dass der Seeleninhalt mit dem Aufwachen untertaucht in die Leiblichkeit [und so] - wie beim Einatmen die eingeatmete Luft - ein Stück des eigenen Leibes wird. Ebenso ist es mit dem Einschlafen, da das, was Seeleninhalt ist, aus dem Leibe heraustritt, sodass man es zwischen Einschlafen und Aufwachen tatsächlich zu tun hat mit einer Wesenheit, die getrennt ist von der Leiblichkeit, die keine Werkzeuge darbietet, um das zu beobachten. Man kann also von der schlafenden Seele sagen, dass sie in einer gewissen Beziehung allein ist, das heißt, dass sie nicht so wie der wache Mensch mit der äußeren Welt in Zusammenhang steht durch Verstand und Sinne und Gedächtnis. Aber der schlafende Mensch verliert ja im normalen Leben das Bewusstsein beim Einschlafen; und so muss man sagen, dass [da], wo der Mensch allein ist, er nicht in der Lage ist, die in dem Leibe wohnende Seele zu beobachten. Das ist es auch, was eine wirkliche Selbsterkenntnis unmöglich macht für den gewöhnlichen Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":387,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p005"}],"english":["GA 69d/1913-03-09/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":387,"en_words":392,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7380,"original_word_count":7148,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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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