6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

But now I would also like to touch on the other side of human consciousness with a brief remark. What happens when a person actually brings to consciousness what otherwise always remains in the subconscious, what is dreamt away, what is slept away, when he actually raises it to consciousness through such inner processes as you will find described in my books? When consciousness arises about this, as it is only present in ordinary daytime consciousness for the life of the senses and imagination, then the human being actually learns, for example, what is otherwise only overslept in his impulses of will. But just as one learns to recognize, when one focuses on the life of sleep, that ego-consciousness is dependent on the life of sleep, in another way, by actually raising the life of the will from the subconscious to the conscious, one learns to recognize that if one always had this life of the will before one, if one did not sleep through the life of the will, one would have a completely different consciousness, the consciousness that spiritual researchers actually develop in a certain way. That which wills within us, and in a certain sense also that which corresponds to our feelings, which lives in our emotional impulses, would, if we had it before us as we have our life of imagination, affect us like another person, as if we had a second, different human being within us. The human being would walk around with another human being. And one can say: it is arranged in the wise plan of development that the unified consciousness that the human being needs for his life between birth and death is made possible by the fact that the life of the will is pushed down into sleep, so that he is not divided by having to constantly look at the other who actually wants within him. This other person is connected with the eternal core of the human being, with the eternal core of the human being that is free from physicality, with that which does not work through physicality.