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We know, and those who are particularly interested in such things will know from the psycho-pathological literature, what it means for a healthy mental life that the memory is intact up to a point in childhood that lies quite early; that there is no period in life from which memory images do not emerge, bringing to mind the experiences we have gone through. If that which memory is extinguishes, then the human ego is destroyed; a severe mental illness has come over him. Now, what memory gives us is a re-emergence in pale or vivid images. It is precisely this ability, this power, that can be further developed. What is its peculiarity? Well, otherwise the experiences flit past us. The images we form of these experiences also flit past our soul. Memory retains them. I can only speak about this memory in sketchy terms; in my literature you will find a developed science precisely about this ability to remember.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p034","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80c/1921-02-23/p033","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p033"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":206,"en_words":207,"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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This is what one first takes up and develops in the spiritual scientific method; one develops it through what I call meditation and concentration in the books mentioned. This consists of either seeking advice from someone who has experience in these matters or gleaning the advice oneself from the relevant literature, and of taking easily comprehensible complexes of images such as are geometric or mathematical figures, which one completely overlooks, knowing that these are not reminiscences from life emerging from the subconscious, but everything one has in consciousness is there through one's own arbitrariness in consciousness. One is not subject to auto-suggestion or reverie; one surveys that which one brings into the center of consciousness. Then one remains in consciousness for a long time with complete inner calm on this idea. Just as muscles develop when they perform a particular kind of work, so certain soul powers develop when the soul devotes itself to this unusual activity of remaining on such ideas. It looks easy, and not only do some believe that the spiritual scientist draws what he has to say from some kind of influence, but some also believe that what I am describing here as methods that take place in the inner, intimate life of the soul itself is easy. No, what I am telling you now also requires a long time; some people can do it more easily, others more difficultly. The depth of the performance is much more important than the length of time spent in such meditation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p035","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80c/1921-02-23/p034","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p034"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 80c/1921-02-23/p034"],"length_check":{"de_words":277,"en_words":266,"ratio":0.96,"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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And what one has to accomplish within the soul is truly no easier than what one accomplishes in the laboratory, in the physics room, or at the observatory. Outward research is no more difficult to acquire than that which is carefully and conscientiously cultivated in the soul over many years. But then certain inner soul powers, which we otherwise only know as powers of remembrance, become stronger, and thus something arises in us as soul power that we have not known at all before. This enables us to clearly recognize what materialism says about the power of memory and remembrance. Materialism tells us that the human being's power of remembrance is bound to the material body; if something in the nervous system is not properly constituted, then the power of remembrance also declines, and it declines with age. In any case, mental powers depend on physical development. Spiritual science does not deny this for the life between birth and death. For someone who is developing his memory as I have just described it knows from direct experience how the ordinary memory, which conjures up images of our experiences before our soul, is dependent on the human body. But what he is now developing becomes completely independent of the human body. And the human being experiences how one can live in a soul realm, so that one has supersensible experiences in this soul realm, just as one has sensory experiences in the physical body. I would like to explain to you how these supersensible experiences are in the following way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":267,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-02-23","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 80c/1921-02-23/p035","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p035"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":267,"ratio":1.03,"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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Man weiß, und besonders diejenigen, die sich mehr für solche Dinge interessieren, werden es aus der psycho-pathologischen Literatur wissen, was es bedeutet für das gesunde Seelenleben, dass die Erinnerung intakt ist bis zu einem Punkte in der Kindheit, der ziemlich früh liegt; dass da nicht eine Strecke ist im Leben, aus der nicht auftauchen Erinnerungsvorstellungen, die uns die Erlebnisse wiederum vor die Seele bringen, die wir durchgemacht haben. Löscht aus dasjenige, was die Erinnerung ist, dann ist das Ich des Menschen zerstört; eine schwere Seelenkrankheit ist über ihn gekommen. Dasjenige nun, was uns die Erinnerung gibt, ist ein Wiederauftauchen in blassen oder lebhaften Bildern. Gerade diese Fähigkeit, diese Kraft, sie kann weiter ausgebildet werden. Was ist denn ihre Eigentümlichkeit? Nun, sonst huschen die Erlebnisse vor uns vorbei. Auch die Vorstellungen, die wir an diesen Erlebnissen uns bilden, sie huschen an unseren Seelen vorüber. Die Erinnerung bewahrt sie auf. Ich kann nur skizzenhaft über diese Erinnerung sprechen; in meiner Literatur finden Sie gerade über diese Erinnerungsfähigkeit eine ausgebildete Wissenschaft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":206,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p033"},{"locus":"GA 80c/1921-02-23/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Dasjenige, was die Erinnerung macht aus den sonst vorüberhuschenden Vorstellungen, das ist, dass sie ihnen Dauer verleiht. Das ist dasjenige, was man in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Methode zunächst aufgreift und weiterbildet; weiterbildet durch dasjenige, was ich in den genannten Büchern Meditation und Konzentration nenne. Es besteht darin, dass man sich entweder raten lässt von jemand, der in diesen Dingen Erfahrung hat, oder dass man sich aus der Literatur selber den Rat herausholt, dass man Vorstellungskomplexe, die leicht überschaubar sind, nimmt; solche überschaubaren Vorstellungskomplexe, wie etwa die geometrischen oder mathematischen Figuren sind, die man völlig übersieht, von denen man weiß: Das sind nicht Reminiszenzen aus dem Leben, die aus dem Unterbewussten herauftauchen, sondern alles, was man im Bewusstsein hat, das hat man durch eigene Willkür im Bewusstsein. Man unterliegt keiner Autosuggestion, keiner Träumerei, man überschaut dasjenige, was man in den Mittelpunkt des Bewusstseins rückt. Dann verharrt man im Bewusstsein längere Zeit mit völliger innerer Ruhe auf dieser Vorstellung. Geradeso, wie die Muskeln sich entwickeln, wenn sie eine besonders geartete Arbeit verrichten, so entwickeln sich gewisse Seelenkräfte, wenn sich die Seele hingibt dieser ungewohnten Tätigkeit des Verharrens auf solchen Vorstellungen. Es sieht einfach aus, und nicht nur, dass manche glauben, dass der Geisteswissenschafter dasjenige, was er zu sagen hat, aus irgendwelchen Einflüssen hervorhole, sondern es glauben auch manche, dass dasjenige, was ich hier schildere als Methoden, die sich im inneren, intimen Seelenleben selber abspielen, das sei leicht. Nein, auch dasjenige, was ich Ihnen jetzt erzähle, es erfordert eine lange Zeit; der eine Mensch kann es leichter, der andere kann es schwerer verrichten. Die Tiefe der Verrichtung ist viel wichtiger als die lange Zeit, die man mit einer solchen Meditation zubringt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p034"},{"locus":"GA 80c/1921-02-23/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Allein man muss solche Übungen jahrelang machen. Und was man da verrichten muss im Inneren der Seele, es ist wahrhaftig nicht leichter als dasjenige, was man im Laboratorium, im Physiksaal, auf der Sternwarte vollbringt. Äußerliche Forschungen eignet man sich nicht etwa schwerer an als dasjenige, was so in der Seele sorgsam und gewissenhaft durch lange Jahre heranerzogen wird. Dann aber erstarken gewisse innere Seelenkräfte, die wir sonst nur als Erinnerungskräfte kennen, und dadurch ersteht in uns etwas als Seelenkraft, was wir vorher überhaupt nicht gekannt haben. Dadurch gelangen wir dazu, nun deutlich zu erkennen gerade dasjenige, was sonst über die Gedächtniskraft, die Erinnerungskraft der Materialismus sagt. Der Materialismus sagt uns: Diese Erinnerungskraft des Menschen ist ja an den materiellen Leib gebunden; ist irgendetwas im Nervensystem nicht in der richtigen Weise konstituiert, so geht auch die Erinnerungskraft zurück, auch mit dem Alter geht sie zurück. Überhaupt, die Geisteskräfte hängen von der leiblichen Entwicklung ab. Das leugnet für das Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod Geisteswissenschaft nicht. Denn derjenige, der gerade seine Erinnerungskraft so entwickelt erhält, wie ich es eben geschildert habe, der weiß durch unmittelbare Anschauung, wie die gewöhnliche Erinnerungskraft, die uns die Bilder unserer Erlebnisse vor die Seele zaubert, allerdings abhängig ist von dem menschlichen Leibe. Aber dasjenige, was er jetzt entwickelt, das wird ganz unabhängig von dem menschlichen Leibe. Und der Mensch erfährt, wie man kann in einem Seelischen leben, sodass man in diesem Seelischen übersinnliche Erfahrungen hat, wie man in dem physischen Leibe sinnliche Erfahrungen hat. Ich möchte Ihnen auf die folgende Weise erklären, wie diese übersinnlichen Erfahrungen sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80c/1921-02-23/p035"}],"beads":[{"from":[34],"to":[33],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[35],"to":[34],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[36],"to":[35],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}