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Thinkers such as Richard Wahle and Johannes Volkelt have done this, registering how, say, a postman comes in, delivers a letter, what happens to this letter, how one image of perception after another is chaotically strung together in contrast to the ordering of thought. But this gives one a real insight into the constantly ongoing, only minimally conscious activity in the human soul, which consists of constantly mixing perception with thinking, that is, passively observed things with things actively produced internally.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Thinking as Creative Participation in Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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