{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How does this everyday breathing process take place? More or less unconsciously. Only when we are somehow affected by illness do we become aware of our breathing. Otherwise, inhaling, holding our breath, and exhaling take place to a great extent unconsciously. And it is precisely on this unconsciousness of inhaling, holding our breath, and exhaling that the unbiased matter-of-factness of our life is based. Those who believed in ancient Orient that they could become yoga scholars trained for certain periods of time to regulate their breathing differently than nature itself regulates human breathing. They created a different rhythm for inhaling, holding and exhaling. What did they achieve by doing this? He achieved the ability to breathe more or less consciously, while otherwise breathing unconsciously, to experience breathing as a fully conscious process. This happens to me when I breathe in, this happens to me throughout my entire organism during the flow of inhalation, this happens to me during the retention of breath, this during exhalation. In particular, the yogi focused his attention on what now resulted from this altered breathing process, raised into consciousness, for his thinking. For his thinking, what resulted then? Well, we can characterize it physiologically in the modern sense, what happened there. That which unconsciously takes place in the breathing process, what is it in relation to the human head organization, to the thought organization? We breathe in, the respiratory impulse goes into our organism, works up through the spinal cord channel to our brain, to the tool of our thinking, which performs a certain activity out of the nerve-sense life, so that something flows through this activity from the respiratory current. In reality, we are not only dealing with the activity of our nervous sensory life in our thought life, but this nervous sensory life is permeated and permeated by the rhythmic life of the respiratory current. But we know nothing of this. The yogi, who aspired to higher knowledge, brought himself to consciousness of this permeation of the physical part of his thought activity with the respiratory current. What did he attain there? We can only grasp what he attained there by comparing what the yogi experienced in his consciousness with regard to thinking, when we compare that with what his whole environment, the rest of humanity, experienced.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":384,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p015","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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Mehr oder weniger unbewusst. Nur wenn wir irgendwie von Krankheiten befallen sind, werden wir uns unseres Atmens bewusst. Sonst gehen im höchsten Maße unbewusst vor sich Einatmen, Atem-Halten, Ausatmen. Und gerade auf dieser Unbewusstheit von Einatmen, Atem-Halten, Ausatmen beruht die unbefangene Selbstverständlichkeit unseres Lebens. Derjenige, der glaubte im alten Oriente, dass er ein Yoga-Gelehrter werden könnte, der bildete für gewisse Zeiten ein Atmen aus, das er anders regelte, als die Natur selber das selbstverständliche menschliche Atmen regelt. Er bildete einen anderen Rhythmus für Einatmen, Atem-Halten, Ausatmen. Wozu gelangte er dadurch? Er gelangte dadurch dazu, während man sonst unbewusst atmete, mehr oder weniger vollbewusst zu atmen, das Atmen als einen vollbewussten Prozess zu erleben. Das geht in mir vor, indem ich einatme, das geht während der Einatmungströmung in mir durch den ganzen Organismus vor, das geht während des Atem-Haltens in mir vor, das während des Ausatmens. Insbesondere richtete der Yogi seine Aufmerksamkeit auf dasjenige, was sich nun ergab aus diesem veränderten, ins Bewusstsein erhobenen Atmungsprozess für sein Denken. Für sein Denken, was ergab sich denn da? Nun, wir können es im modernen Sinn physiologisch charakterisieren, was da geschah. Dasjenige, was unbewusst sich vollzieht beim Atmungsprozess, was ist es denn in Bezug auf die menschliche Hauptesorganisation, auf die Gedankenorganisation? Wir atmen ein, der Atmungsstoß geht in unseren Organismus hinein, wirkt durch den Rückenmarkskanal herauf auf unser Gehirn, auf das Werkzeug unseres Denkens, das eine gewisse Tätigkeit vollbringt aus dem Nervensinnesleben heraus, sodass in dieser Tätigkeit etwas durchströmt von dem Atmungsstrom. In Wirklichkeit haben wir es nicht bloß zu tun in unserem Gedankenleben mit demjenigen, was Tätigkeit unseres Nervensinneslebens ist, sondern dieses Nervensinnesleben wird durchwellt und durchwallt von dem rhythmischen Leben des Atmungsstromes. Davon wissen wir aber nichts. Dieses Durchströmen des physischen Teiles seiner Gedankentätigkeit mit dem Atmungsstrom, dieses Durchströmen, das brachte sich der Yogi, der zur höheren Erkenntnis aufstrebte, zum Bewusstsein. Was erlangte er da? Was er da erlangte, können wir nur begreifen, wenn wir vergleichen dasjenige, was so der Yogi erlebte in seinem Bewusstsein mit Bezug auf das Denken, wenn wir das vergleichen mit dem, was seine ganze Umgebung, die übrige Menschheit erlebte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":358,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p015"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p015"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":358,"en_words":384,"ratio":1.07,"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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