{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1914-05-08/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If you stand in ordinary life, where, like hydrogen to oxygen, the soul-spiritual is bound to the physical, then, dear audience, you see the world in such a way that you know: you develop the power of your soul through the tools of your body; you use your senses, your brain; you live in this body of yours. — The first thing you know, after doing the exercises I mentioned, is that you live with your soul and spirit outside your body. This is what you might call the power of thought. In ordinary life, you know about this power of thought: you can use it because your thinking is connected to your brain. But now you experience yourself weaving thoughts and existing outside your brain. What I am telling you is not a fairy tale or a hypothesis, but something that anyone who does the relevant exercises can experience; they come to know: now you live in your thought life as if hovering around your own brain; the power of your thinking develops outside your body. This moment is experienced as particularly striking, one might say particularly shocking. If you make an effort to do the exercises for a while, there comes a time when you cannot yet really experience thinking outside the brain. It is something that spreads like a dreamlike twilight, as a result of concentration; but the moment when you submerge yourself back into the brain, when the thinking that takes place outside the body merges into the thinking inside the body, is actually the first thing you notice very clearly. You feel how you submerge again with the being you experienced outside your body, like something you penetrate with difficulty, and how, in pleasant currents, you feel your thinking being draw into your body and permeate your brain in order to use it again for external thinking. These facts are such that it is understandable that many people today must say: “He who says this is talking nonsense; these are the fantasies of a half-madman.” But these are the facts through which people will recognize how to learn to recognize the true nature of the soul. These are facts that will spread in the culture of the future, for souls thirst for them, even if they are not yet conscious of it. These facts will spread just as the Copernican worldview once spread, that the earth moves through space at great speed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"20. 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Das ist kein Märchen, keine Hypothese, was ich Ihnen da erzähle, sondern es ist etwas, was derjenige erleben kann, der die betreffenden Übungen macht; er kommt dazu, zu wissen: Jetzt lebst du in deinem Gedankenleben wie dein eigenes Gehirn umschwebend; außerhalb des Leibes entwickelt sich die Kraft deines Denkens. - Namentlich den Moment erlebt man als besonders prägnant, man möchte sagen, als besonders erschütternd. Strengt man sich eine Zeit lang an, die Übungen zu machen, dann kommt die Zeit, wo man noch nicht recht erleben kann das Denken außerhalb des Gehirns. Es ist etwas, was eine wie traumhafte Dämmerung ausbreitet, als Erfolg der Konzentration; aber den Moment, wo man wiederum untertaucht in das Gehirn, wo das außer dem Leibe sich vollziehende Denken in das Denken im Leibe übergeht, den merkt man dann eigentlich zuerst ganz genau. Man fühlt, wie man mit dem Wesen, das man außerhalb seines Leibes erlebt hat, wiederum untertaucht, wie etwas, was man schwer durchdringt, und wie in wohligen Strömungen fühlt man sich mit seinem denkenden Wesen in seinen Leib einziehen und das Gehirn durchsetzen, um es wiederum zu gebrauchen zum äußeren Denken. Diese Tatsachen sind solche, dass man begreiflich findet, dass heute zahlreiche Menschen sagen müssen: Der redet Unsinn, der das sagt, das sind Phantastereien eines Halbwahnsinnigen. - Aber das sind die Tatsachen, durch die die Menschen erkennen werden, wie man das wahre Wesen der Seele erkennen lernt. Das sind Tatsachen, die sich verbreiten werden in der Kultur der Zukunft, denn die Seelen lechzen danach, wenn es ihnen auch noch nicht zum Bewusstsein kommt. Verbreiten werden sich diese Tatsachen ebenso, wie sich einst verbreitet hat die kopernikanische Weltanschauung, dass die Erde sich mit großer Geschwindigkeit durch den Weltenraum bewegt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":406,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1914-05-08/p021"}],"english":["GA 69d/1914-05-08/p021"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":406,"en_words":407,"ratio":1.0,"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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