14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?

Human beings educate their thinking through the sensory world; it is their teacher. As a result, they do not have confidence in thinking as such, but rather in thinking that is anchored in the external sensory world. From the outset, human beings do not become accustomed to having such an instrument in their thinking that can guide them through all areas of their lives. As a result, they lose their security; they become uncertain when they encounter something that does not come to them in everyday life. And this makes them opposed to spiritual science. That is understandable; as I said, there is nothing to be said about it. On the contrary, our contemporaries cannot make anything of it. But that is because their thinking is trained in the sensory world. It is as if people wanted to enter a world that is not the sensory world. Now, people are trained in the sensory world, which trains their external thinking. This is understandable when areas arise that lie in a different field than what is experienced in external thinking. The one thing they feel confident about, their thinking, becomes shaky in the face of the supersensible world.