{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1921-01-28/p091","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, I have often been asked: How can one easily distinguish suggestions from non-suggestions, from the truth? For example, it can happen in life that someone only has to think of lemonade and they taste lemonade in their mouth. I readily admit this, since these things are well known. But—and this is addressed to those of you who are present—anyone who is an epistemologist knows that a real experience can only be determined through life. Only through life and the context of life can we determine whether anything we imagine corresponds to reality — but it is only from the context of life that we can be certain [of it]. It is the same in relation to the higher worlds; there too, we can only determine it from the context of the whole. If one wants to go from the suggestion of the taste of lemonade to the totality of the experience, then the comparison no longer applies. One must now say: It is nice to have the taste of lemonade in one's mouth through suggestion, but the question arises as to whether anyone has quenched their thirst with such an image of lemonade. You cannot claim that. There you have the transition to the totality of phenomena. And that is what must always be borne in mind: reality cannot be decided by remaining with the partial phenomenon, but the phenomena of life always have something that signifies their transition to totality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p091","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 Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.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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So ist es auch in Bezug auf die höheren Welten; man kann auch da nur aus dem Zusammenhang des Ganzen heraus es feststellen. Wenn man bei der Suggestion des Limonadegeschmacks übergehen will zu der Totalität des Erlebens, so kann der Vergleich nicht mehr gelten. Man muss jetzt sagen: Schön, wenn man durch Suggestion dazu gelangt, den Limonadegeschmack im Munde zu haben, so kommt die im Grunde genommen berechtigte Frage hinzu, ob schon jemand sich mit einer solchen Vorstellung der Limonade den Durst gelöscht hat? Das werden Sie nicht behaupten können. Da haben Sie den Übergang zu der Totalität der Erscheinungen. 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