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And then, if you pursue this further by studying the facts that are already available today in an entirely empirical way, you will find that there is a certain process that leads from epithelial cells to sensory cells; that is one current in the organization. We can also follow this current in the opposite direction: epithelial cells – glandular cells. This enables us to gradually ascend in our consideration of the human organization to the way in which the senses are formed from the main organization and from the related organization through a certain development of forces, as if from the inside out. We have localized what can be seen in this process. But since things are not schematically localized in the human being, we have to say that they are mainly localized in the head; but they are also present in the rest of the organism, just as certain senses are spread over the whole organism, while the head preferably contains the senses. Thus we can see how human nature pushes us to develop the sense organs out of itself; other areas are more organized in the direction of developing the epithelium into a glandular state. When we see these polar opposites, we will say: when looked at inwardly – and one must look at human nature inwardly, otherwise one cannot see through it – it all rests on the fact that the current in the organization runs from the inside out one time, the other time, so to speak, in the opposite direction, from the outside in. Here we have something again that develops in the human organism in one direction or the other. And now, my dear audience, it can happen that, due to very specific conditions in areas of the human organism that are otherwise predisposed to processes that run from the outside in, these areas are crossed in an incorrect way by processes that run from the inside out. However paradoxical it may sound, it must be said that in an area of the human organism that in its normal organization is only predisposed to develop glandular tissue, the tendency can arise to lead to a predisposition for a sensory organ formation process. In a certain way, the tendency is incorporated into the epithelial formation, which is otherwise only justified in the human organism where the senses develop. Of course this can occur because, to a lesser extent, everything in the human organism is embedded in everything else; one only has to distinguish it; it can also express itself in the head, which is a counter-process to the sense-forming process. One need only bear in mind that secretory organs are asserting themselves everywhere alongside the sense organs.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. 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Gerade an diesem Prozeß, der den Zusammenhang zwischen den Sinneszellen und den Drüsenzellen auf einem Umwege ergibt, werden Sie bekräftigt finden können, wie das, was ich gestern angeführt habe mit Bezug auf das sinnliche Erfassen nach außen hin und das sinnliche Erfassen des menschlichen Innern, anatomisch-physiologisch verfolgt werden kann an dieser Metamorphose der Zellen selber. Und dann, wenn Sie diese Richtung weiterverfolgen, indem Sie die heute schon durchaus empirisch vorliegenden Tatsachen studieren, so werden Sie finden, daß da ein gewisser Prozeß vorliegt, der sie führt von den Epithelzellen zu den Sinneszellen hin; das ist die eine Strömung in der Organisation. Wir können diese Strömung auch im entgegengesetzten Sinne verfolgen: Epithelzellen - Drüsenzellen. Wir haben damit die Möglichkeit, in der Betrachtung der menschlichen Organisation allmählich aufzusteigen zu der Art und Weise, wie aus der Hauptesorganisation und aus der mit ihr verwandten Organisation durch eine gewisse Entfaltung von Kräften, wie von innen nach außen gehend, die Sinne gebildet werden. Wir haben das, was in diesem Prozeß zu sehen ist, lokalisiert. Da aber im Menschen die Dinge nicht schematisch lokalisiert sind, so müssen wir sagen, sie sind hauptsächlich lokalisiert im Haupt; sie sind aber auch im übrigen Organismus vorhanden, so wie gewisse Sinne über den ganzen Organismus ausgebreitet sind, während vorzugsweise das Haupt die Sinne enthält. So können wir sehen, wie die eine Seite die menschliche Natur dazu drängt, aus sich die Sinnesorgane herauszubilden; andere Gebiete sind mehr nach der Richtung hin organisiert, welche das Epithel zu dem Drüsenhaften hin entwickelt. Wenn wir diese polarischen Gegensätze sehen, werden wir sagen: Es beruht, innerlich angeschaut - und man muß die menschliche Natur innerlich anschauen, sonst kann man sie nicht durchschauen -, es beruht alles darauf, daß die Strömung in der Organisation einmal von innen nach außen verläuft, das andere Mal sozusagen im entgegengesetzten Sinn, von außen nach innen. Da haben wir wieder etwas, was nach der einen oder der anderen Seite im menschlichen Organismus sich entwickelt. Und nun, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, kann durch ganz bestimmte Verhältnisse in Gebieten des menschlichen Organismus, wo vorzugsweise sonst diejenigen Prozesse veranlagt sind, welche von außen nach innen laufen, das eintreten, daß diese in einer unrichtigen Weise durchzogen werden von Prozessen, die von innen nach außen laufen. So paradox es klingt, man muß sagen, daß in einem Gebiet des menschlichen Organismus, das in seiner normalen Organisation nur dazu veranlagt ist, Drüsiges zu entwickeln, die Tendenz entstehen kann, hinzuführen zu einer Anlage eines Sinnesorgan-Bildungsprozesses. Da lagert sich in einer gewissen Weise in die Epithelbildung die Tendenz ein, die sonst im menschlichen Organismus nur da berechtigt ist, wo sich die Sinne entwickeln. Selbstverständlich kann das auftreten, weil ja in einem schwächeren Maße alles im menschlichen Organismus in allem eingelagert ist, man muß es nur unterscheiden; es kann sich auch im Haupte das aussprechen, was ein Gegenprozeß ist gegen den Sinnesbildungsprozeß. 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