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These powers are always present in the human soul. Ordinary consciousness leaves them lying in the unconscious; the higher path of knowledge brings them up through meditation and concentration. The seeker devotes himself to certain exercises, intimate soul exercises, through which he strengthens thinking, feeling and willing, thereby evoking more intense experiences in the soul for this soul life than are ordinary experiences. 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It will be touched on in my lecture next Tuesday here in Stuttgart. Today I just want to point out that this path consists of the soul forces that every person has at the bottom of their soul being raised through meditation, through concentration of the soul life, and being applied to the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":72,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":72,"en_words":72,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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As a result, dear attendees, a third state of consciousness is added to the two in which a person alternates in ordinary life. The two states of consciousness that I have in mind are the one that we have from morning till evening, which encompasses our ordinary mental life and also encompasses everything that external science regards as accessible – it is precisely the state of waking; the other state of consciousness cannot really even be called a state of consciousness in the proper sense – it is the state of sleep. But out of this state emerges the strange life of human dreaming – that human dreaming that is perhaps accepted in a superstitious way by one person, marveled at by another, regarded by a third as something mysterious and unknown , but which draws the attention of very many people to the fact that perhaps the directing of the soul's gaze precisely to this emergence of dream waves from the deep ocean depths of the human soul life could have a special importance for the knowledge of the whole of life. Of course, anthroposophy has nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of dream-related superstition. However, if it does not draw any knowledge from the dream life – that is quite beyond it – it must at least point to something deeply enigmatic and vitally important in the dream world. 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And yet, one must admit that through that which one intimately explores in this remote place, by observing, experimenting, and thereby going beyond the ordinary course of existence with observation and experiment, that precisely through this light comes into life; that light comes into life from something that withdraws from life. 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There is an experience in a world that is similar to and yet very different from the world of dreams; similar in that it ceases when we submerge into the full physical life with the dream world, which, after all, flits past us in moments, say, of waking up, and immediately gives way to the life that permeates the thoughts imbued with will. The life in consciousness that is attained in the manner indicated can and must likewise cease when it submerges into ordinary human corporeality. Just as the dream fades away, so the higher consciousness ceases when it submerges into corporeality. This waking up, this higher state of consciousness, if I may use the much-debated term, hovers, I would like to say, in a lightness just like that of the dream world – but on the other hand it is opposed to it because it is interspersed with certain thoughts in just as strict a sense as waking daytime cognition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":286,"en_words":302,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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When one becomes conscious of the complete context with one's corporeality from one or the other area of consciousness, then one or the other occurs in such a form that the dream is extinguished by the waking day life, can at most remain as a memory, but as a memory it integrates itself into the waking day life , but the content of higher knowledge is not erased, but stands alongside ordinary daytime cognition, but stands in such a way that it clearly stands out from it, so that the person can then experience his own existence as if he had two personalities, one can control the other, can illuminate what he has in ordinary consciousness in the waking state from morning to evening, with the higher knowledge that he has attained, which in turn he can control through his ordinary logical thinking, in order to experience how it relates to what can be experienced in the sensory world. This higher knowledge places us in a purely soul-spiritual experience, one that is full of content and inner reality. Just as in the ordinary life of the senses one can distinguish between something merely fancifully imagined and reality itself in life, just as one can distinguish between the mere idea of a hot iron and the real hot iron that one touches through life itself, so one can distinguish between something merely fancifully imagined and what is really seen in higher knowledge, what is directly experienced.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":296,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1922-02-12","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p023","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p023"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":280,"en_words":296,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Diese Kräfte sind immer in der menschlichen Seele da. Das gewöhnliche Bewusstsein lässt sie im Unbewussten liegen, der höhere Erkenntnisweg holt sie durch Meditation, durch Konzentration herauf; er gibt sich gewissen Übungen, intimen Seelenübungen, hin, durch die er das Denken, das Fühlen, das Wollen verstärkt, in der Seele dadurch intensivere Erlebnisse hervorruft für dieses Seelenleben, als die gewöhnlichen sind, dadurch sich aber auch hinausschwingt über dasjenige, was die gewöhnliche Erkenntnis leisten kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p018"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Ich kann heute nicht eingehen auf eine Charakteristik dieses besonderen Weges, die ich ja öfter hier gegeben habe. Andeutungsweise wird das in meinem Vortrage am nächsten Dienstag hier in Stuttgart geschehen. Heute will ich nur darauf hinweisen, dass dieser Weg ja darin besteht, dass Kräfte der Seele, die jeder Mensch auf dem Grunde seiner Seele hat, heraufgehoben werden durch Meditation, durch Konzentration des Seelenlebens, heraufgehoben werden und angewendet werden auf die Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":72,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p019"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Und was tritt dadurch ein? Dadurch — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden - tritt zu den beiden Bewusstseinszuständen, in denen der Mensch wechselt im gewöhnlichen Leben, ein dritter hinzu. Die beiden Bewusstseinszustände, die ich meine, sind derjenige, den wir vom Morgen bis zum Abend haben, der unser gewöhnliches Seelenleben umschließt, der auch alles dasjenige umschließt, was die äußere Wissenschaft für zugänglich ansieht — es ist eben der Zustand des Wachens; der andere Bewusstseinszustand kann eigentlich nicht einmal im richtigen Sinne ein Bewusstseinszustand zunächst genannt werden — es ist der Zustand des Schlafes. Aber aus diesem Zustande heraus taucht auf das merkwürdige Leben des menschlichen Träumens — jenes menschlichen Träumens, das vielleicht in abergläubischer Weise von dem einen hingenommen wird, das von dem anderen zunächst angestaunt wird, von einem Dritten als etwas Rätselhaft-Unbekanntes betrachtet wird, das aber doch sehr viele Leute darauf aufmerksam macht, dass ja vielleicht die Hinlenkung des Seelenblickes gerade auf dieses Herauftauchen der Traumwellen aus den tiefen Meeresuntergründen des menschlichen Seelenlebens für die Erkenntnis des Gesamtlebens eine besondere Wichtigkeit haben könnte. Gewiss kann Anthroposophie nicht das Geringste zu tun haben mit irgendwelchem Traumes-Aberglauben, aber sie muss, wenn sie zwar nicht irgendwelche Erkenntnis aus dem Traumleben hervorholt — das liegt ihr ganz ferne —, doch hinweisen als auf etwas tief Rätselvolles und für das Leben Wichtiges in der Traumwelt. Sie muss doch Folgendes sagen zu ihrer Rechtfertigung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":227,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p020"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Ist denn nicht dasjenige, dem sich die gewöhnliche Erkenntnis hingibt, auch etwas Lebensabgewandtes, wenn wir uns in der gewöhnlichen robusten Weise dem Leben hingeben, wenn wir vom Morgen bis zum Abend nur unter Anstrengung unseres physischen Leibes in der Welt unser Dasein hinleben? Es kann dadurch nicht dasjenige zustande kommen, was wir auch im gewöhnlichen Leben Erkenntnis nennen. Die feineren Begriffe, die intimeren Zusammenhänge über die Welt, die durch die Erkenntnis gesucht werden, sie [hängen] ab — zunächst in formeller Weise ab - von der äußeren, robusten Art des Lebens. Man muss sich gewissermaßen an einen Ort des Daseins zurückziehen im Erkennen, der abseits von dem äußeren Leben liegt. Und dennoch, man muss zugeben, dass durch dasjenige, das man an diesem abseitigen Orte in inniger Weise erkundet, indem man beobachtet, experimentiert, und dadurch auch mit der Beobachtung, mit dem Experiment aus dem gewöhnlichen Daseinslaufe hinweggeht, dass dadurch gerade Licht in das Leben hineinkommt; dass also Licht in das Leben hineinkommt von etwas, das sich vom Leben zurückzieht. Könnte es denn nicht auch so sein, dass zwar die rätselvolle Traumeswelt zunächst für das äußere, robuste Leben bedeutungslos wäre, dass sie aber gerade in ihrer Abseitigkeit, und zwar in einer Abseitigkeit in einem höheren Sinne als es die gewöhnliche Erkenntnis ist, dass sie gerade dadurch auf das Leben in seinem Wesen hinweise?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p021"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Und in der Tat, diese Traumeswelt, dasjenige, was aus der Zeit, die wir zubringen zwischen dem Einschlafen und Aufwachen, in das Wachbewusstsein hinüberklingt und herüberschwingt, das enthält etwas, das in der Tat weiter ausgebildet werden kann. Und diese weitere Ausbildung geschieht eben gerade durch die höhere Erkenntnis des Menschen, durch die Erringung eines dritten Bewusstseinszustandes. Durch Verstärkung von Denken, Fühlen und Wollen wird etwas erreicht, was auf der einen Seite ähnlich ist der Schlafenswelt, aus der das Träumen heraufflutet, und auf der anderen Seite wieder völlig entgegengesetzt ist. Wenn wir sagen, wir schlafen ein, lassen wir aus der Schlafenswelt den Traum heraufklingen; so müssen wir sagen: In der Welt des übersinnlichen Bewusstseins, in welche die anthroposophische Forschung eindringen will, da findet nun nicht ein Einschlafen, sondern im Gegenteil ein höheres Aufwachen statt. Es findet statt ein Erleben in einer Welt, die ähnlich und wieder ganz verschieden von der Traumeswelt ist; ähnlich insoferne, als dass sie, wenn wir mit der Traumeswelt, die ja in Augenblicken, sagen wir, des Aufwachens an uns vorüberhuscht, wenn wir mit ihr untertauchen in das volle physisch-leibliche Leben, aufhört, sogleich demjenigen Leben weicht, das die willensdurchflossenen Gedanken durchsetzt. Dasjenige Leben im Bewusstsein, das in der angedeuteten Art erreicht wird, kann ebenso aufhören und muss ebenso aufhören, wenn es untertaucht in die gewöhnliche menschliche Leiblichkeit. So wie der Traum verglimmt, so hört das höhere Bewusstsein auf, wenn es in die Leiblichkeit untertaucht. Dieses Aufwachen, dieses höhere Erwecktsein, wenn ich mich des viel umstrittenen Ausdrucks bedienen darf, das schwebt, ich möchte sagen in einer ebensolchen Leichtigkeit, wie die Traumeswelt ist — aber auf der anderen Seite ihr deshalb entgegengesetzt, weil es in ebenso strengem Sinne durchsetzt ist von den sicheren Gedanken wie das wache Tageserkennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p022"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1922-02-12/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"So besteht anthroposophische Forschung in einem Vorrücken zu einer Erkenntnis, die mit einer Leichtigkeit erlebt wird wie der Traum, die aber zu gleicher Zeit in einer Festigkeit erfahren wird wie nur irgendwie das Logische in dem Erkenntniszusammenhange. Aber das eine ist bei beiden der Fall. Wird man sich aus dem einen oder aus dem anderen Bewusstseinsgebiete des Vollzusammenhanges mit seiner Leiblichkeit bewusst, dann tritt das eine wie das andere in einer solchen Form auf, dass der Traum ausgelöscht wird durch das wache Tagesleben, höchstens als Erinnerung zurückbleiben kann, aber als Erinnerung sich eben dem wachen Tagesleben eingliedert, der Inhalt der höheren Erkenntnis aber zwar nicht ausgelöscht wird, aber sich neben das gewöhnliche Tageserkennen hinstellt, so hinstellt, dass er aber deutlich sich von ihm abhebt, sodass der Mensch dann wie mit zwei Persönlichkeiten sein eigenes Dasein erleben kann, die eine durch die andere kontrollieren kann, beleuchten kann dasjenige, was er im gewöhnlichen Bewusstsein im Wachzustande vom Morgen bis zum Abend hat, mit der höheren Erkenntnis, die er errungen hat, die höhere Erkenntnis wiederum kontrollieren kann durch sein gewöhnliches logisches Denken, um zu erfahren, wie sie sich mit demjenigen, was in der Sinneswelt erfahren werden kann, verträgt. Es ist ein rein seelisch-geistiges Erleben, in das uns diese höhere Erkenntnis versetzt, es ist ein seelisch-geistiges Erleben voller Inhalt, voller innerer Wirklichkeit. Geradeso wie man im gewöhnlichen Sinnesleben zu unterscheiden vermag irgendetwas bloß phantastisch Ausgedachtes von der Wirklichkeit im Leben selber, wie man unterscheiden kann die bloße Vorstellung des heißen Eisens von dem wirklichen heißen Eisen, das man berührt durch das Leben selber, so kann man unterscheiden etwas bloß phantastisch Vorgestelltes von demjenigen, was in höherer Erkenntnis wirklich angeschaut wird, was unmittelbar erlebt wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1922-02-12/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[19],"to":[18],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[20],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[21],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[22],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[23],"to":[22],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[24],"to":[23],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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