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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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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. 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