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Otherwise, a kind of bondage must usually befall the person. Certainly, esteemed attendees, one really does not have to go so far as to grow long hair in order to become a spiritual researcher, or, if one is a lady, to cut one's hair very short or to seek to remove oneself from ordinary life by other extravagances; one does not have to take it that far. But even if you do not go that far, you can still have the belief that if you are to become a spiritual researcher, you have to step out of the ordinary routines of life, create some kind of colony where you live in completely new circumstances, and you even have to arrange these living conditions in a certain way. This will not be particularly beneficial for the beginner in spiritual research, because it encourages the mistake of introducing the previous way of life into another, and one does not have the advantage of having the previous way of life alongside, like an object to hold on to.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. The Harmony Between Spiritual Science and Natural Science and the Misconceptions about the Former and the Building Dedicated to it in Dornach","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-01-14","location":null,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-01-14/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160114p01.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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Da ist von besonderer Wichtigkeit, dass der Anfänger sich nicht dazu verleiten lässt, sein gewöhnliches Leben nun gleich zu verändern, gleich in ein anderes überzuführen - etwas, was dem Hange des Menschen sehr häufig entsprechen kann -, sondern es ist notwendig und gut, wenigstens vorteilhaft, wenn der Anfänger in der Geistesforschung bei den Verrichtungen des Lebens, bei der vernünftigen Führung des Lebens, die er vorher aus seiner Erziehung oder aus sonstigen Verhältnissen heraus getrieben hat, möglichst stehen bleibt, und dasjenige, was er als geistesforscherisches Bewusstsein entwickeln will, wirklich nebenher entwickelt. Sonst muss meistens eine Art von Unfreiheit an den Menschen herantreten. Gewiss, sehr verehrte Anwesende, man braucht wirklich nicht so weit zu gehen, dass man, um Geistesforscher zu werden, sich lange Haare wachsen lässt, oder auch, wenn man eine Dame ist, sich die Haare ganz kurz abschneidet oder durch andere Extravaganzen sich aus dem gewöhnlichen Leben womöglich zu entfernen sucht; man braucht es nicht so weit zu führen. Aber man kann, wenn man auch nicht so weit geht, doch den Glauben haben, man müsse, wenn man Geistesforscher werden solle, aus den gewöhnlichen Lebensverrichtungen heraustreten, irgendeine Kolonie anlegen, in der man in ganz neuen Verhältnissen lebt, und man müsse sogar diese Lebensverhältnisse in einer bestimmten Weise einrichten. 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