{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Not fanciful images, not fantastic notions! Imaginative cognition is a state of consciousness filled with images that are present in the soul in the same way as mathematical configurations and formulas. And in this free handling of supersensible reality, which one distinguishes from every [physical] reality just as one distinguishes the triangle drawn with chalk on the blackboard as a mere symbol with full inner consciousness [from the purely spiritual concept of the triangle]. By being able to remain in this imaginative life of the soul for a while, one comes to know the life of the soul as something that can be torn away from the body. We are so used to our life being bound to the nervous system and the rest of the organism that we only really recognize this when we do such exercises. We see that, independently of the organism, the soul-spiritual runs in itself, and that the soul-spiritual can be filled with images. Only through this does one get to know the meditative life. These images are quite like the memory images - not like hallucinations. It is not true that one is filled with something like hallucinations or visions when doing anthroposophical research, but one gets to know the novelty, the new kind of content, through the existence of the memory being, in which the images of imaginative cognition or imaginative consciousness appear. But one also knows that one can no longer say when these images occur: I imagine, therefore I am not – as one can say about thinking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Und in diesem freien Handhaben der übersinnlichen Wirklichkeit, die man von jeder [physischen] Realität ebenso unterscheidet, wie man das Dreieck, welches man mit der Kreide auf die Tafel aufgezeichnet hat, als ein bloßes Symbolum mit vollem inneren Bewußtsein [von dem rein geistigen Begriff des Dreiecks] unterscheidet. Indem man in diesem imaginativen Leben der Seele nun selber etwas verharren kann, kommt man dazu, tatsächlich das Seelenleben kennenzulernen als etwas, was sich losreißen kann vom Leibe. Wir sind im gewöhnlichen Leben so - das lernt man erst dann recht erkennen, wenn man solche Übungen macht -, daß unser Leben gebunden ist an das Nervensystem und an den sonstigen Organismus. Wir sehen, daß, unabhängig vom Organismus, das Seelisch-Geistige in sich selber verläuft, und daß sich das Seelisch-Geistige mit Bildern erfüllen kann. Dadurch erst lernt man das meditative Leben kennen. Diese Bilder sind durchaus so wie die Gedächtnisbilder - nicht wie die Halluzinationen. Es ist nicht wahr, daß man mit so etwas wie Halluzinationen oder Visionen erfüllt ist, wenn man anthroposophisch forscht, sondern man lernt gerade an dem Dasein des Gedächtniswesens das Neuartige, die neue Art des Inhaltes kennen, in welcher die Bilder des imaginativen Erkennens oder imaginativen Bewußtseins auftreten. 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