{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-24/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But then a new task arises. The world we now experience is quite different [from the physical one]; it does not have certain things that we rightly consider to be the defining characteristics of our physical world. It initially presents itself to us in a pictorial way, while we recognize our physical world in its true objectivity when we strip away the pictoriality. But when we now ascend from the grasp of our own etheric body to the ethericity of the world, we notice that precisely those senses that otherwise convey the external world to us in the most beautiful way lag behind in their effectiveness. We owe what we have of the physical external world to the eye, the ear and so on. These senses, as it were, recede at first, and the very senses that are ignored in ordinary physical life come to the fore in human experience as we become so attuned to the etheric world: the sense of balance, the sense of movement, the sense of life. These come to the fore. We are freed, as it were, from our own heaviness. We enter into an experience of the world's own equilibrium, into which we find our way. The movements observed through the eyes or those detected by instruments cease. But what can be inwardly experienced in the movement when the human being is in this movement is experienced in the imagination through the resting human being, in that the movement first increases. This is a living penetration into the etheric world. And here I would like to draw your attention, ladies and gentlemen, to the fact that it is really as I characterized it in my introductory words today, when I said that the path of anthroposophical knowledge means a series of inner soul experiences of destiny. For what occurs, so to speak, as a damping of the higher senses and as a spiritualization and strengthening at the same time of the senses usually regarded as low, is connected with such a fate. And, although I know what one is exposed to in such a description, I would like to mention what I want to say here with an example: I was once occupied with the internal mental processing of what a person actually experiences when they profess their soul to these or those worldviews, when they become a materialist, idealist, realist, spiritualist, positivist, skeptic, and so on. These things cannot be exhausted by what ordinary life and ordinary contemporary science produce about them, if one really strives to recognize them from within. Ordinary life and ordinary contemporary science are actually exhausted in the fact that the idealist rails against the realist, criticizes him, and that he refutes what the realist puts forward; the spiritualist becomes haughty, and nevertheless he is often a complete layman in that which can only be recognized in the material world, he indulges in the most disparaging criticisms of materialism, which nevertheless was a cosmic side effect of our modern, justly so praised scientificness. These things, why the human mind leans towards materialism on the one hand, and on the other, for example, towards spiritualism or idealism, these things lie deeper than one usually thinks.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Die Welt, die wir jetzt erleben, sie ist eine ganz andere [als die physische]; sie hat gewisse Dinge nicht, die wir mit Recht als das Maßgebende unserer physischen Welt betrachten. Sie tritt uns zunächst in einer Bildhaftigkeit entgegen, während wir unsere physische Welt in ihrer richtigen Objektivität erkennen, wenn wir das Bildhafte abstreifen. Aber wenn wir nun aufsteigen aus dem Ergreifen unseres eigenen Ätherleibes zu der Ätherizität der Welt, dann bemerken wir, daß gerade diejenigen Sinne, die uns sonst in der schönsten Weise die Außenwelt vermitteln, daß diese in der Wirksamkeit zurückbleiben. Wir verdanken dasjenige, was wir von der physischen Außenwelt haben, dem Auge, dem Ohr und so weiter. Diese Sinne treten gewissermaßen zunächst zurück, und ge{ade diejenigen Sinne treten, indem man sich so in die Ätherwelt einlebt, in dem menschlichen Erleben in den Vordergrund, die im gewöhnlichen physischen Leben eigentlich nicht beachtet werden: der Gleichgewichtssinn, der Bewegungssinn, der Lebenssinn. Die treten in den Vordergrund. Die Schwere fällt gewissermaßen von uns ab. Ein Erleben eines der Welt eigenen Gleichgewichtes, in das wir uns selber hineinfinden, tritt ein. Die äußerlich durch die Augen angeschauten Bewegungen oder die mit den Instrumenten konstatierten Bewegungen, sie hören auf. Dasjenige aber, was in der Bewegung innerlich erlebt werden kann, wenn der Mensch selber in dieser Bewegung ist, das wird erlebt in der Imagination durch den ruhenden Menschen, indem das Bewegen sich zunächst steigert. Das ist ein lebendiges Hineindringen in die ätherische Welt. Und hier darf ich darauf aufmerksam machen, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, daß es wirklich so ist, wie ich in meinen Einleitungsworten heute charakterisiert habe, indem ich sagte, der Weg der anthroposophischen Erkenntnis bedeutet eine Reihe von inneren seelischen Schicksalserlebnissen. Denn dasjenige, was da gewissermaßen als Dämpfung der höheren Sinne und als Vergeistigung und Verstärkung zugleich der gewöhnlich als niedrig angesehenen Sinne eintritt, das ist mit einem solchen Schicksalserlebnis in Verbindung. Und, ich möchte, trotzdem ich weiß, wessen man sich aussetzt bei einer solchen Schilderung, ich möchte dasjenige, was ich hier sagen will, an einem Beispiel erwähnen: Ich war einstmals beschäftigt mit dem innerlichen gedanklichen Durcharbeiten desjenigen, was der Mensch eigentlich erlebt, wenn er sich mit seiner Seele zu diesen oder jenen Weltanschauungen bekennt, wenn er Materialist wird, Idealist, Realist, Spiritualist, Positivist, Skeptiker und so weiter. Diese Dinge lassen sich ja, wenn man sie wirklich aus dem menschlichen Inneren heraus zu erkennen strebt, nicht erschöpfen in dem, was das gewöhnliche Leben und die gewöhnliche heutige Wissenschaft über sie hervorbringen. Das gewöhnliche Leben und die gewöhnliche heutige Wissenschaft erschöpfen sich eigentlich darinnen, daß der Idealist über den Realisten schimpft, ihn abkritisiert und daß er dasjenige, was der Realist vorbringt, in Grund und Boden bohrt; der Spiritualist wird hochmütig, und trotzdem er oftmals ein völliger Laie ist in demjenigen, was man nur in der materiellen Welt erkennen kann, ergeht er sich in den abfälligsten Kritiken über den Materialismus, der dennoch eine kosmische Begleiterscheinung war unserer modernen, mit Recht so gerühmten Wissenschaftlichkeit. Diese Dinge, warum das Menschengemüt nach der einen Seite sich zum Materialismus hinneigt, auf der anderen Seite zum Beispiel zum Spiritualismus oder Idealismus, diese Dinge liegen tiefer als man gewöhnlich meint.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":524,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-24/p015"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-24/p015"],"method":"structural_identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"unverified","length_check":{"de_words":524,"en_words":535,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6644,"original_word_count":6275,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077b/English/SOL2024/19210824p01.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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