{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-17/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This can be achieved by, in a sense, tearing ourselves away from our everyday life of will. I have again given many individual exercises that would have to be practised for years — spiritual science is no easier than research in an observatory or in a clinic —. But I would like to pick out a few individual exercises to indicate the principles involved. When we consider what functions as will in ordinary thinking — for there is always a will present in thinking, thoughts are shaped by the will, the thought-life is only one side of it, in the life of the soul will is always interwoven with thoughts and thoughts with the will. When the will element that lives in the thoughts is thereby torn away from its usual course, which adheres to external physical facts, for example, by presenting something backwards, let us say. While one is accustomed to presenting a drama from the first to the fifth act, we present this drama backwards, from the last events to the beginning. Then one proceeds to presenting external facts backwards. For example, one can imagine one's usual daily life in reverse, proceeding in as small portions as possible, from evening to morning, even to the extent of imagining going up a staircase in reverse, imagining it as going down backwards from the top step to the penultimate step and so on.","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":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-17/p033","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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Ich habe wiederum viele einzelne Übungen gegeben, die jahrelang — Geisteswissenschaft ist nicht leichter als die Forschung auf der Sternwarte oder auf der Klinik —, die jahrelang getrieben werden müssten. Aber ich möchte Einzelnes nur herausgreifen, um das Prinzipielle anzudeuten. Wenn man dasjenige, was im gewöhnlichen Denken als Wille wirkt - denn im Denken ist immer ein Wille vorhanden, die Gedanken werden durch den Willen gestaltet, das Gedankliche ist nur die eine Seite, im Seelenleben ist immer der Wille mit den Gedanken durchwoben und die Gedanken mit dem Willen -, wenn man das Willenselement, das in den Gedanken lebt, dadurch losreißt von seinem gewöhnlichen Gange, der sich an die äußeren physischen Tatsachen hält, dadurch, dass man zum Beispiel etwas rückwärts vorstellt — sagen wir. Während man gewohnt ist, ein Drama vom ersten bis zum fünften Akte vorzustellen, stellen wir einmal dieses Drama von den letzten Vorgängen bis zum Anfange hin rückwärts verlaufend vor. Man gehe dann über dazu, äußere Tatbestände rückwärts verlaufend vorzustellen. 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