{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Another thing, I would like to say, is something that can lead us into a sad chapter of human soul life. Many of you have certainly heard how, in extreme cases, the human soul can be disturbed by the fact that the recollection of one's own experiences is somehow interrupted. In very special cases, it happens that a person suddenly feels torn away from their activity; they no longer know what they are doing; they have forgotten part or all of their previous soul life; and lives as if in a different state of consciousness. They can travel, can undertake all kinds of activities, but only later does the undisturbed, continuous memory of their experiences reappear. Then they suddenly become aware of who they are, whereas before they had forgotten their ego. Although this represents a radical case of human illness, the disturbance of memory occurs in the human soul in a more or less mild form, and these things could occur much less frequently in life if one were to note that this continuity of consciousness, this overview of one's own experiences – so that one is always truly present with oneself – depends on developing the activity of attention as much as possible. And we do children a great service for their later life when we encourage them to concentrate their interest on individual processes and entities. We strengthen their willpower, insofar as it arises from the connected experiences of life, and also their power of judgment through attention. But when we look into ordinary soul life, we must say: Attention takes place between the lines of life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-05-08","location":null,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","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/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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In ganz besonderen Fällen tritt ja ein, dass irgendein Mensch plötzlich sich aus seiner Tätigkeit herausgerissen fühlt; er weiß nicht mehr, was er tut; er hat sein früheres Seelenleben zum Teil oder ganz vergessen; er lebt wie in einem anderen Bewusstseinszustand. Er kann reisen, kann allerlei unternehmen, aber erst später taucht die ungestörte kontinuierliche Erinnerung an seine Erlebnisse wieder auf. Dann wird er urplötzlich gewahr, wer er ist, während er früher sein Ich vergessen hatte. Wenn das auch in dieser radikalen Weise einen Krankheitsfall des Menschen darstellt, so kommt doch die Störung des Erinnerungsvermögens in der menschlichen Seele in mehr oder weniger leichter Weise vor, und diese Dinge könnten viel weniger ins Leben hereintreten, wenn man beachten würde, dass auch diese Kontinuität des Bewusstseins, dieses Überschauen des eigenen Erlebens - so, dass man wirklich immer in starker Weise bei sich selbst ist, davon abhängt, dass man möglichst viel die Tätigkeit der Aufmerksamkeit entwickelt. Und man tut den Kindern für das spätere Alter etwas ungemein Gutes, wenn man sie anhält, das Interesse auf einzelne Vorgänge und Wesenheiten zu konzentrieren. Man stärkt ihre Willenskraft, insofern sie sich aus den zusammenhängenden Erfahrungen des Lebens ergibt, und auch ihre Urteilskraft durch die Aufmerksamkeit. Wenn man aber so ins gewöhnliche Seelenleben hineinsieht, so muss man doch sagen: Zwischen den Zeilen des Lebens vollzieht sich die Aufmerksamkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p017"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":267,"en_words":270,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10124,"original_word_count":9939,"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/SOL2024/19140508p01.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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