{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-03-19/p064","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I do not want to talk about appearances, dear attendees, I do not want to talk about the fact that today there are still people who see an essential thing in how one feeds oneself in order to get on the path of a certain spiritual research! Whether one is a vegetarian or not is a matter of taste; it depends on other things. There may be certain advantages and benefits; but with regard to the intimate development of the soul, which generates the forces that have been mentioned and leads to the spiritual world, what one eats or does not eat has nothing to do with it, directly. It can make the physical life, which goes hand in hand with it, more comfortable; but it has nothing to do with it directly. You cannot eat your way up into the spiritual world by not eating certain things, for example. And anyone who believes that you can eat your way up into the spiritual world through such external materialistic processes or not eat – let's say starve – is just as much on the wrong track as someone who, out of his materialism, what de La Mettrie, whom I quoted the day before yesterday as the father of modern materialism, saw as the influence of the food of a meal, the substances ingested, on the actual life of a person. These things are indeed plausible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"17. A Healthy Emotional Life and Spiritual Research","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-03-19","location":null,"word_count":235,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-03-19/p064","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":"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/SOL2024/19160319p01.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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Es kann das nebenher gehende Leibesleben bequemer machen; aber es hat unmittelbar nichts damit zu tun. Man kann sich in die geistige Welt nicht hinaufessen dadurch, dass man gewisse Dinge nicht isst zum Beispiel. Und derjenige, der glaubt, dass man durch solche äußeren materialistischen Vorgänge sich in die geistige Welt hinaufessen oder nicht essen — sagen wir: hungern kann, der ist ebenso auf dem Holzwege, wie derjenige, der aus seinem Materialismus heraus dasjenige annimmt, was de La Mettrie, den ich vorgestern angeführt habe als den Vater des neuzeitlichen Materialismus —, was de La Mettrie über den Einfluss der Speisen eines Mahles, der aufgenommenen Stoffe, auf das eigentliche Leben des Menschen sah. 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