{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Those who are familiar with anthroposophy know that all these outlets are from the pathological realm, from a diseased soul life. The soul life of a medium is diseased because their physical life must be attuned down at the moment when they are acting as a medium. This detuning makes it impossible for the person acting as a medium to grasp what his soul is directly experiencing. It is impossible to verify — even for an external observer, who may have a sound mind when observing the medium — it is impossible to realize what kind of relationship the person, the medium, has to another world if one is not immersed in this experience. The medium is, after all, singled out and, with his healthy human understanding, distracted from what he is experiencing in his mediumistic states. Whenever a person has hallucinations, we can always show how these have their roots in a diseased area of the human body and how what arises in the soul as other experiences can only be there because of this diseased part of the human organization. Thus we have no possibility of finding the transition we are seeking from the healthy human soul life to a knowledge of the supersensible, of the spiritual realm. For wherever we turn to the sick soul life, we lack control at every step. And so most of our contemporaries feel compelled to cling to time-honored, traditional ideas when it comes to the supersensible, to the spiritual, to that which has developed from earlier epochs of humanity into our time as the content of creeds and worldviews.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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Man kann dann nicht prüfen — auch nicht als äußerer Beobachter, der dann ja seinen gesunden Verstand haben mag, wenn er das Medium beobachtet -, man kann dann nicht darauf kommen, was eigentlich für eine Beziehung des Menschen, des Mediums, zu einer anderen Welt vorhanden ist, wenn man nicht darinnensteckt in diesem Erleben. Das Medium ist ja gerade herausgehoben, es ist mit seinem gesunden Menschenverstande abgelenkt von dem, was es uns in seinen medialen Zuständen darlebt. Immer können wir, wenn der Mensch zu Halluzinationen kommt, zeigen, wie diese Wurzeln in einem krankhaften Gebiete der menschlichen Leiblichkeit, und wie dasjenige, was da als andere Erlebnisse auftritt in der Seele, eben nur da sein kann aus diesem erkrankten Teile der menschlichen Organisation. So haben wir auch da nicht die Möglichkeit, jenen Übergang zu finden, den wir ja gerade suchen, von dem gesunden menschlichen Seelenleben zu einer Erkenntnis des übersinnlichen, des geistigen Gebietes. Denn überall fehlt, bei jedem Schritt fehlt die Kontrolle, wenn wir uns an das kranke Seelenleben wenden. Und so fühlen doch wiederum die meisten unserer Zeitgenossen, wenn es sich für sie um das Übersinnliche, um das Geistige handelt, sich gedrängt, an altehrwürdige überlieferte Vorstellungen sich zu halten, an dasjenige, was aus früheren Menschheitsepochen als Bekenntnisinhalte, als Weltanschaungsinhalte in unsere Zeit herauf sich entwickelt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p008"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":268,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9395,"original_word_count":9183,"may_be_abridged":false},"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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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