{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, in my lectures here, I have often described how a person can do inner exercises, purely soul and spiritual exercises, through which he awakens the otherwise dormant cognitive abilities to existence, so that they can really help him in his knowledge. I have pointed out how one can strengthen one's own imaginative life. Just as we strengthen a muscle when we use it continually in work, so we can strengthen our imaginative life when we work at it in the way I have described in detail, for example, in my writing “How to Know Higher Worlds.” If we direct this life of imagination through inner, soul work in a certain direction, if we move certain easily comprehensible images into the center of consciousness and always devote ourselves to this kind of imaginative work, to which we would otherwise not devote ourselves. I can only hint at this in principle here, but you will find clear indications in the work just mentioned and also in the second part of my “Occult Science” that the imaginative life of the human being can become something quite different through such meditation and concentration exercises of thinking. I would like to say that a stronger, more vigorous life of imagination can be produced without any kind of abnormal action, but through the mere further development of what is normal in the life of thought, in the life of imagination in man. And by generating this stronger imaginative life, by elevating ourselves through meditation and concentration above that which is actually merely pictorial in our ordinary imaginative life, we come to what I call in the books mentioned, the imaginative presentation that is rich in content.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddle of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-17","location":null,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220117p01.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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Wenn wir dieses Vorstellungsleben durch innerliche, seelische Arbeit in eine gewisse Richtung bringen, wenn wir gewisse leicht überschaubare Vorstellungen in den Mittelpunkt des Bewusstseins rücken und immer wiederum auf diese Weise einer vorstellenden Arbeit uns hingeben, der wir uns sonst nicht hingeben. Ich kann dies nur prinzipiell hier andeuten, aber Sie finden in dem eben genannten Werk und auch im zweiten Teil meiner «Geheimwissenschaft» deutliche Aufschlüsse darüber, dass das Vorstellungsleben des Menschen etwas ganz anderes werden kann durch solche Meditations-, durch Konzentrations-Übungen des Denkens. Ich möchte sagen, ohne alle irgendwelche abnorme Vornahme, sondern durch bloße Fortbildung desjenigen, was als Gedankenleben, als Vorstellungsleben im Menschen normal ist, kann ein stärkeres, kräftigeres Vorstellungsleben erzeugt werden. 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