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For anyone who can look at human mental life with an open mind, it is clear that even ordinary memory – admittedly, it lies in the realm of the healthy, of course – is connected to the human physical organism, and that when the normal connection between the human soul and the physical organism develops in the direction of the abnormal in the process of remembering , when the soul life becomes more bound, more intimately bound to the physical organism, those pathological conditions arise which express themselves in hallucinations, in visions, in illusions, in easy suggestibility, and so on, and which lie at just the opposite pole from that to which anthroposophical paths of knowledge lead. Everything that presents itself to us pathologically leads the soul life deeper down into the bodily functions, deeper down than the ability to remember lies. What is developed through the described strengthening of thinking makes human thinking more and more similar to the behavior of the human soul when taking in an external sensory impression. Just as the human being is much more alive when absorbing an external sensory impression than in ordinary, more passive thinking, so too should thinking be energized so that it becomes as alive and intense as the experience of an external sensory impression would otherwise be. It is precisely in this coming to life of the world of thought that one notices more and more that one is penetrating into a soul life that is not the ordinary one. You know, my esteemed audience, how pale, rightly called pale, the ordinary thought life is compared to the life in sensual impressions and in external processes in general. Just as one usually lives in sensual impressions and external processes, so should the whole thought life become for those times when one wants to devote oneself to supersensible knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":357,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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The radical difference of the thoroughly healthy anthroposophical path is that the ordinary personality always remains as healthy as it is in life, controlling, criticizing, alongside the developed other personality. On this condition, it may be said that – it takes years for some people, depending on their disposition, but only months for others; some can achieve it in a few weeks through meditation and by concentrating on a specific thought content, that is what I call it – it may be said that it can be achieved that a person feels similarly to how they feel during ordinary thinking. In ordinary thinking, he needs the physical organism. 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Für denjenigen, der das menschliche Seelenleben unbefangen betrachten kann, ist es klar, dass schon die gewöhnliche Erinnerung - allerdings, sie liegt auf gesundem Gebiet, selbstverständlich —, aber, dass schon die gewöhnliche Erinnerung gebunden ist an den menschlichen physischen Organismus, und dass, wenn das normale Gebundensein der menschlichen Seele an den physischen Organismus im Erinnern nach der abnormen Seite sich hin entwickelt, wenn das Seelenleben mehr gebunden wird, intimer gebunden wird an den physischen Organismus, jene pathologischen Zustände auftreten, die sich in Halluzinationen, in Visionen, in Illusionen, in der leichten Suggerierbarkeit und so weiter kundgeben, und die gerade nach dem entgegengesetzten Pol hin liegen, als demjenigen, nach dem anthroposophische Erkenntniswege führen. Alles dasjenige, was da pathologisch uns entgegentritt, das führt das Seelenleben tiefer hinunter in die körperlichen Funktionen, tiefer hinunter, als die Erinnerungsfähigkeit liegt. Dasjenige, was ausgebildet wird durch die geschilderte Erkraftung des Denkens, das macht das menschliche Denken immer ähnlicher und ähnlicher dem Verhalten der menschlichen Seele beim Aufnehmen eines äußeren sinnlichen Wahrnehmungseindruckes. Wie da der Mensch viel lebendiger diesem sinnlichen Eindruck hingegeben ist, als dem gewöhnlichen, mehr passiven Denken, so soll eben das Denken erkraftet werden, damit es so lebendig, so intensiv werde wie sonst das Erleben eines äußeren sinnlichen Eindruckes. Gerade an diesem Lebendigwerden der Gedankenwelt merkt man immer mehr und mehr, dass man in ein Seelenleben hineindringt, das nicht das gewöhnliche ist. Sie wissen ja — meine verehrten Anwesenden —, wie blass, mit Recht blass genannt wird das gewöhnliche Gedankenleben gegenüber dem Leben in sinnlichen Eindrücken und überhaupt in äußeren Vorgängen. So wie man sonst in sinnlichen Eindrücken und äußeren Vorgängen lebt, so soll das ganze Gedankenleben werden für diejenigen Zeiten, in denen man der übersinnlichen Erkenntnis sich hingeben will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p013"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Nun muss ich, damit ich nicht missverstanden werde, noch einen anderen Unterschied angeben gegenüber den abnormen Seelenzuständen, die ich eben genannt habe, das ist: Indem derjenige, der anthroposophische Forschung sucht, solches Erkraften des Denkens entwickelt, bleibt immerzu in ihrer vollen, gesunden Seelenverfassung die gewöhnliche Persönlichkeit bestehen. Es entwickelt sich gewissermaßen eine zweite Persönlichkeit. Und die erste, die Persönlichkeit mit dem gesunden Menschenverstand, mit der gesunden Kritik, bleibt kontrollierend neben der entwickelten Persönlichkeit, der Persönlichkeit mit der höheren Erkenntnisfähigkeit bestehen. Wenn jemand in Halluzinationen, in Visionen, in Illusionen verfällt, wenn er zum Medium wird, wenn er Suggestionen ausgesetzt ist, dann geht seine ganze gewöhnliche, gesunde Persönlichkeit in den Zustand des Halluzinierens, der Illusionen und so weiter über. Das ist der radikale Unterschied des durch und durch gesunden anthroposophischen Weges, dass die gewöhnliche Persönlichkeit immer so gesund, als sie sonst im Leben dasteht, kontrollierend, Kritik übend, neben der entwickelten anderen Persönlichkeit bestehen bleibt. Indem das vorausgesetzt wird, darf dann erst gesagt werden, dass — es dauert bei dem einen, je nach Anlage, jahrelang, bei dem anderen nur Monate, mancher kann in wenigen Wochen das erreichen durch Meditieren und durch Konzentration auf einen bestimmten Gedankeninhalt, so nenne ich es —, es darf gesagt werden, dass dadurch erreicht werden kann, dass der Mensch ähnlich fühlt wie beim gewöhnlichen Denken. Beim gewöhnlichen Denken braucht er den physischen Organismus. In dieser Beziehung — könnte man sagen — erkennt die anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft das Berechtigte des Materialismus voll an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":241,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p014"},{"locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Der Mensch braucht, um überhaupt seine Seelenfähigkeiten im gewöhnlichen Leben und in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft zu entwickeln, den physischen Leib. Und er wird erst vom physischen Leibe frei, indem er also das Denken erkraftet, intensiver, lebendiger macht. Das Denken wird in dem Grade vom physischen Leibe frei, wie die äußeren sinnlichen Erscheinungen vom physischen Leibe frei sind. Bedenken Sie, wie unabhängig der physikalische Apparat des Auges ist von dem übrigen menschlichen Organismus. Ich kann das jetzt nicht weiter charakterisieren, möchte nur andeuten. Dasjenige, was im Auge geschieht unter dem Einflusse der Außenwelt, das macht in einer gewissen Weise aus, dass der Mensch in den Sinneswahrnehmungen des Auges einer objektiven Welt hingegeben ist. Indem er sein Denken mit dieser objektiven Welt verknüpft, wird auch das Denken selber in eine objektive Welt eingeführt. 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