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The most varied attempts have certainly been made to overcome this feeling. But the disputes of philosophers and the changing philosophies that have succeeded one another provide the impartial observer of humanity with factual evidence of the impossibility for ordinary consciousness of approaching the mind's experience. Everywhere there obtrudes a sense of the powerlessness of the mind as it is perceived by ordinary consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p012","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Wer die seelischen Wesenhaftigkeiten von Denken und Fühlen - beim Wollen ist es so, daß es nicht durchschaut werden kann; daher gilt in einer gewissen Beziehung für die Seelenforschung gegenüber dem WolJen dasselbe wie gegenüber dem Denken und Fühlen —, wer dieses Denken und Fühlen mit den Mitteln der Seelenkunde anschaut, dem kommt es kraftlos vor, so daß er nirgends etwas finden kann, was wirksam wirklich eingreifen könnte in das Leibliche. Da empfindet dann der Seelenforscher, was man nennen könnte die Ohnmacht des Seelenlebens für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein. Allerdings ist ja in der verschiedensten Weise versucht worden, dieses Gefühl der Ohnmacht des Seelenlebens zu überwinden. 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