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We transcend this kind of thinking by carrying out exercises in meditation seriously, patiently and energetically, and by repeating them over and over again. Depending on predisposition, it may take one person years, another not so long; but each can note, as he arrives at the crucial point, how his thinking, from what I have previously called dead and abstract thinking, becomes inwardly vital thinking in tune with the rhythm of the world. A balanced view of the world and of life thus strives, not to conjure up visions or hallucinations from the soul, but to experience the life of thoughts and concepts with an intensity that we otherwise experience only through the outward senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p021","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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You can refer to the exercises, they are all directed at what I am trying to describe—and you will find that everything that is carried out by way of exercises in the life of the soul is done as consciously, as reasonably, as precisely we may say, as are operations in mathematics or geometry.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":195,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p022","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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Only when we say to ourselves: we have attained one component of spiritual life, but it is a semblance component; it merely tells us something about powers that operate within ourselves—about what we ourselves can do through our own human nature; only when we really say to ourselves: this imaginal knowledge cannot give us any information about any kind of outside world, not even about what we are in the outside world; only if we perceive *ourselves* in this semblance-making and know *ourselves* as a power living within it—only then do we have the right attitude to this experience and feel ourselves as spiritual beings outside the body, and yet feel ourselves only *in* ourselves, with an inner plasticity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p025","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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But when one has just struggled, although without driving oneself into auto-suggestion—which cannot occur if we are self-possessed—to focus one's consciousness upon certain concepts, then unusual strength is required to banish them from consciousness again. However, one must develop this greater strength gradually; and just as at first we concentrated all our attention and inner strength of soul, so that we might dwell upon such a concept in a state of meditation, so now we must dispel these concepts, and all other concepts, calmly and voluntarily from consciousness. And there must be able to enter, from our will, what one might call “empty consciousness.” What “empty consciousness” (if only for a few moments) implies, can be judged by reflecting on what happens to ordinary consciousness when it has to forgo both sense-impressions and recollections—when for some reason or other man is deprived of external impressions and even memories: he falls asleep; that is, consciousness is depressed and dimmed. The opposite of this is what must happen: completely controlled, conscious wakefulness, despite the fact that the will has swept consciousness completely clear.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p026","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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It is a sober recognition of the limits of ordinary consciousness, tied to the body, that impels us to develop in ourselves those powers that alone are capable of really discovering the soul and the spirit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. Rowley","identified_edition":"HS1963","book_title":"The Tension Between East and West","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA083/English/HS1963/19220602p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p027"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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Anyone who explores the soul with their aid does, it is true, leave behind his physical body with its capacity for ordinary thinking and ordinary orientation in life. He steps out of this body and learns to see imaginally, free of body; he develops a visual thinking. Yet not for a moment is he completely subsumed in this higher man, if I may so call it without arrogance. He always remains capable of regaining his body and acting just as calmly as before: there always stands beside this more highly developed man that ordinary man with his healthy common sense who is a sober critic of everything to which in his vision this higher being attains.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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We can see into our spiritual life in its direct association with the physical. We cease trying to establish by philosophical speculation how the soul affects the body. In seeing the soul, we also see how at every moment our physical life on earth has been informed by what the tableau shows us. This will be described more fully in the next few days.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":215,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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We succeed in removing from consciousness what in our earthly existence we call our inner life, so that now our consciousness is empty not only of current impressions, but also of all that we experience within as if in a second and finer body (which yet informs our growth and our memory), a finer being, an ethereal being as it were, a now for the first time super-sensible being. And when we do so, our consciousness, which though fully awake is now empty and yet has attained a greater inward power, will be able to see further in the spiritual world. It will now be able to look at the nature of its own soul before this descended from spiritual worlds to an earthly existence. Now, what we call the eternity of the human soul is taken out of the sphere of mere philosophical speculation and actually beheld. 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Wir kommen dadurch über dieses Denken hinaus, daß wir Meditationsübungen in ernster, geduldiger und energischer Weise machen, daß wir sie immer wieder und wiederum machen. Je nach den Anlagen dauert es bei dem einen jahrelang, bei dem andern weniger lang; aber jeder kann merken, wenn er an dem entscheidenden Punkt angelangt ist, wie sein Denken dann aus dem, was ich gestern das abstrakte, tote Denken nannte, ein innerlich lebendiges Denken wird, ein innerlich lebendiges Denken, das den Weltrhythmus mitzuerleben in der Lage ist. Da strebt eine besonnene Welt- und Lebensauffassung nicht danach, Visionen oder Halluzinationen aus der Seele herauszuzaubern, sondern danach, das, was Vorstellungsleben, was Gedankenleben ist, in einer solchen Intensität zu erleben, wie man sonst nur erlebt, was den äußeren Sinnen gegeben wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p021"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Sie brauchen ja nur ehrlich zu vergleichen die Lebendigkeit, mit der wir leben in den Farben, wenn wir durch das Auge diese Farben wahrnehmen, in den Tönen, wenn wir durch das Ohr die Töne hören, mit der Blaßheit des Gedankenerlebens im gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein. Durch jenes Energisieren des Gedankenlebens, von dem ich gestern gesprochen habe, machen wir allmählich das bloße Vorstellungsleben, das bloße Gedankenleben innerlich so intensiv, wie sonst nur das Sinnenleben ist. Nicht also sucht der moderne Mensch, der Geistiges erkennen will, wenn er ein besonnener Mensch ist, die auftauchenden Halluzinationen und Visionen; er strebt gerade nach dem Ideal, möchte ich sagen, des Sinneslebens in bezug auf dessen Intensität und dessen Bildhaftigkeit, in voll besonnener Weise im Gedankenleben, im Vorstellungsleben selbst. Und wenn Sie sich solchen Meditationen als Geistesforscher hingeben, wie ich sie charakterisiert habe, so dürfen Sie nicht irgendwie abhängig sein vom Unbewußten oder Unterbewußten, sondern das, was da vollzogen wird —- Sie können die Übungen nachlesen, alle sind sie auf das gestimmt, was ich jetzt charakterisieren will —, alles, was da im intimen Seelenleben an Übungen vollführt wird, verläuft so bewußt, so besonnen, man darf sagen, so exakt, wie sonst nur die mathematischen oder geometrischen Verrichtungen verlaufen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":199,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p022"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Daher darf gesagt werden: Man hat es hier nicht mit dem alten nebulosen Hellsehen, sondern mit einem Hellsehen zu tun, das durch vollbewußte, besonnene Seelenerlebnisse und Seelenübungen herbeigeführt ist. Die Besonnenheit ist dabei auf jedem Schritt so, daß man das, was der Mensch erlebt und aus sich selber macht, eben mit dem vergleichen kann, was man sonst an einem geometrischen Problem erlebt. Sonst ist dieses Üben nicht tauglich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":68,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p023"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Dann aber, wenn der moderne Mensch zu einem solchen Vorstellungsleben kommt, das nun energisiert ist, das nun auch unabhängig wird vom Atmungsleben, das aber auch leibfrei wird, das eine bloße geistig-seelische Funktion ist, demgegenüber man durch die unmittelbare Wahrnehmung weiß: man vollzieht nicht mit dem Körper dieses Denken, sondern im rein Geistig-Seelischen —, dann fühlt er erst dieses Denken gegenüber dem abstrakten Denken wie ein Lebendiges gegenüber dem Toten. Geradeso wie wenn wir einen toten Organismus plötzlich zum Leben erwacht fänden, so erleben wir, wenn wir den Übergang gewahr werden von dem gewöhnlichen abstrakten Denken zu dem lebendigen Denken. Und dieses lebendige Denken ist, trotzdem es geistig-seelischer Vorgang ist, nicht so linienhaft, nicht so flächenhaft nur wie das gewöhnliche abstrakte Denken. Es ist innerlich gesättigt und bildhaft. Und auf diese Bildhaftigkeit kommt es an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p024"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Dann aber kommt des weiteren außerordentlich viel darauf an, daß wir jene Besonnenheit, die wir während des Übens haben müssen, ausdehnen auf den Augenblick, wo dieses belebte Denken, dieses bildsame Denken in uns auftritt. Wenn wir in diesem Augenblicke uns hingeben den Bildern, zu denen wir uns selber hingerungen haben, und glauben, in ihnen schon Realitäten geistiger Art zu finden, dann sind wir nicht Geistesforscher, dann sind wir eben Phantasten. Das dürfen wir gewiß nicht werden; denn das könnte uns nicht eine auf festem Grunde erbaute Weltanschauung für den modernen Menschen geben. Erst dann, wenn wir uns sagen: Wir haben einen Inhalt des seelischen Lebens erlangt, aber dieser Inhalt ist ein Bildinhalt, dieser Inhalt sagt uns nur etwas über Kräfte, die in uns selber walten, über das, was wir selber durch unsere eigene menschliche Wesenheit im Innern vermögen; erst wenn wir uns im vollen Sinn des Wortes sagen: Über keinerlei Außenwelt, auch nicht über das, was wir sind in der Außenwelt, vermag uns diese, ich nenne sie gewöhnlich imaginative Erkenntnis, eine Auskunft zu geben; sondern allein, wenn wir uns in diesem Bildwerden, in diesem Bildweben erfühlen, wenn wir uns drinnen lebend wissen als eine Kraftheit: erst dann stehen wir auf dem rechten Standpunkt diesem Erlebnis gegenüber, dann fühlen wir uns in unserem Selbst, dann fühlen wir uns als geistig-seelisches Wesen außerhalb des Leibes — fühlen uns aber eben nur in unserem Selbst, mit einem innerlichen Bildcharakter unseres Wesens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p025"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Und erst wenn wir dann den Mut haben, die Übungen bis zur nächsten Stufe fortzusetzen, kommen wir zu einer wirklichen geistigen Anschauung. Dieser nächste Schritt muß nicht nur darin bestehen, daß wir jetzt die Fähigkeit entwickeln, gewisse Vorstellungen, die wir leicht überschauen — so etwa, wie wir geometrische Vorstellungen überschauen, denen gegenüber wir wissen: es ist nicht etwas Unbewußtes in ihnen wirksam —, in den Mittelpunkt unseres Bewußtseins zu rücken, um an ihnen unsere seelische Kraft zu verstärken, sondern darin, daß wir in die Lage kommen, diese Vorstellungen mit Besonnenheit und Willkür aus unserem Bewußtsein fortzuschaffen. Das ist unter Umständen eine schwierige Aufgabe. Im gewöhnlichen Leben ist das Vergessen nicht etwas so Schwieriges, wie ja das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein weiß. Aber wenn man sich erst angestrengt hat — auch ohne daß man sich in irgendeine Selbstsuggestion hineintreibt; das kann ja bei Besonnenheit nicht stattfinden —, gewisse Vorstellungen in den Mittelpunkt seines Bewußtseins zu rücken, dann hat man eine stärkere Kraft, als sie sonst im Seelenleben angewendet zu werden braucht, nötig, um diese Vorstellungen wiederum aus dem Bewußtsein fortzuschaffen. Man muß aber diese starke Kraft allmählich entwickeln, so daß man ebenso, wie man zuerst alle Aufmerksamkeit, alle innere Seelenkraft, Seelenspannkraft zusammengenommen hat, um zu ruhen auf einer solchen Vorstellung im Meditationszustand, nun dazu kommen muß, diese Vorstellungen, und überhaupt alle Vorstellungen, mit besonnener Willkür aus dem Bewußtsein fortzuschaffen. Und es muß eintreten können aus unserem Willen heraus, was man nennen könnte «leeres Bewußtsein». Was «leeres Bewußtsein» heißt, auch nur für einige Augenblicke, das wird der ermessen, der unbefangen darüber nachdenkt, wie es dem Menschen mit dem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein ergeht, wenn dieses Bewußtsein entbehren muß der Sinneseindrücke, entbehren muß auch der Erinnerungsvorstellungen, wenn durch irgendwelche Vorkommnisse dem Menschen die äußeren Eindrücke, auch die Erinnerungen genommen werden: er kommt zum Einschlafen, das heißt, das Bewußtsein wird herabgedämpft und herabgedämmert. Das Gegenteil davon muß eintreten; vollständig besonnenes, bewußtes Wachsein, trotzdem alles durch inneren Willen aus dem Bewußtsein herausgeschafft worden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p026"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Wenn man so erst die Seele erkraftet und sie dann leer gemacht und bei Bewußtsein erhalten hat, dann tritt ebenso, wie vor das Auge die Farbe tritt, wie vor das Ohr die Töne treten, vor dieser Seele, die sich also dazu vorbereitet hat, eine geistige Umwelt auf. Wir schauen in die geistige Welt hinein. Und so können wir sagen: Gerade der hier gemeinten Geistesforschung ist es vollkommen begreiflich, daß für das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein Geist und Seele nicht erreicht werden können, ja daß sich als ein Richtiges - wie zum Beispiel für Richard Wahle — herausstellen muß: das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein sollte gar nicht von einem Ich reden. Denn alles, was da, ich möchte sagen, wie Dunkelheit gegenüber der Helligkeit hereintaucht und im gewöhnlichen Leben eigentlich nur mit Worten bezeichnet wird, das taucht eben erst auf, wenn solche Kräfte entwickelt werden, die gewöhnlich noch nicht da sind. Gerade die nüchterne Erkenntnis, was das gewöhnliche, an den Leib gebundene Bewußtsein vermag, spornt uns an, solche Kräfte in uns zu entwickeln, die nun die Seele und den Geist erst wirklich entdecken können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p027"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Dabei ist aber noch eins zu berücksichtigen, wenn man auf diesem Wege zu einer gesunden und nicht zu einer krankhaften Seelenkunde kommen will. Nehmen Sie als krankhaft das Mediumistische, Visionäre, Halluzinatorische, so ist es so, daß der, der in ein solches krankhaftes Seelenleben verfällt, mit seiner ganzen Wesenheit in ihm aufgeht. Er wird eins - wenigstens für den Verlauf seiner seelischen Erkrankung - mit dem, was als krankhaftes Seelenleben auftritt. Nicht so ist es, wenn solche Übungen vorgenommen werden, wie sie hier angegeben wurden. Derjenige, der auf diese Art ein Seelenforscher wird, der läßt zwar seinen physischen Leib zurück mit den Fähigkeiten, die da sein müssen für das gewöhnliche Denken, für gewöhnliche Orientierung im Leben; er tritt heraus aus diesem Leibe, lernt leibfrei imaginativ schauen; ein schauendes Denken entwickelt er: aber keinen Moment geht er vollständig auf in diesem - wenn ich es so nennen darf, es ist nicht im Hochmut so genannt —, in diesem höheren Menschen, sondern er ist immer in der Lage, ebenso besonnen wiederum innerhalb seines Leibes zu wirken wie sonst, so daß der gewöhnliche Mensch mit seinem gesunden Menschenverstand immer neben diesem höher entwickelten Menschen steht — der gewöhnliche Mensch mit seinem gesunden Menschenverstand, der ein nüchterner Kritiker alles dessen ist, wozu im Schauen ‘dieser höhere Mensch kommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p028"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Gegenüber der eigenen seelischen Wesenheit gelangen wir zunächst dadurch, daß wir das bildhafte lebendige Denken ausbilden und dann das leere Bewußtsein herstellen, zu einer Anschauung, die als eine Bildeinheit alles umfaßt, was wir durchgemacht haben in dem Erdenleben seit unserer Geburt, seit wir eingetreten sind in dieses Erdenleben. Nicht so wie es sonst in der Erinnerung ist, in der einzelne Reminiszenzen auftauchen — selbständig oder durch Anstrengung -, nicht so steht dieses vergangene Erdenleben jetzt vor der Seele, sondern es wird auf einmal überschaut wie ein mächtiges Tableau, das aber nicht im Raum, sondern in der Zeit vor uns steht. Wir überblicken auf einmal, mit einem Seelenblick, dieses Leben; aber so, wie es auch eingreift in unsere Wachstumsverhältnisse, in die Kraftwirksamkeiten unseres physischen Leibes. Wir schauen uns, wie wir auf dieser Erde hier als denkende, fühlende, wollende Wesen waren, aber so, daß Denken, Fühlen und Wollen sich jetzt verdichten und sich zu gleicher Zeit hineinorganisieren in die menschliche Wesenheit. Wir durchschauen unser geistig-seelisches Leben, wie es in unmittelbarer Verbindung steht mit dem Körperlichen. Wir geben es auf, durch philosophische Spekulation zu ergründen, wie die Seele auf den Leib wirkt. Wenn wir die Seele schauen, dann schauen wir auch, wie in jedem Augenblick das, was uns so in dem Tableau erscheint, in unser physisches Erdenleben eingegriffen hat. Die Einzelheiten werden in den nächsten Tagen zu schildern sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p029"},{"locus":"GA 83/1922-06-02/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"Der nächste Schritt muß nun darin bestehen, daß wir, indem wir die Kraftvorstellungen, die wir selbst in uns versetzt haben, wegschaffen aus unserem Bewußtsein, diese Kraftvorstellungen immer mehr und mehr verstätken. Wir verstärken sie, indem wir diese Übungen immer mehr und mehr fortsetzen, wie wir die Muskeln verstärken, wenn wir sie immer und immer üben. Und indem wir diese Kraftvorstellungen fortsetzen, gelangen wir dahin, dieses ganze Tableau des Seelenlebens, zu dem wir uns selbst erst durchgerungen haben, dieses ganze Tableau des Seelenlebens zwischen unserer Geburt und dem Moment, wo wir stehen, nun auch aus dem Bewußtsein wegzuschaffen. Das erfordert allerdings eine größere Anstrengung, als bloß Bildvorstellungen wegzuschaffen; aber man gelangt zuletzt dazu. Und wenn es uns gelingt, dieses eigene Leben, das wir im Erdendasein unser Innenleben nennen, aus dem Bewußtsein so fortzuschaffen, daß jetzt nicht nur unser Bewußtsein gegenüber gegenwärtigen Eindrücken leer wird, sondern daß es leer wird von alledem, was wir innerlich als in einem zweiten Leibe, in einem feineren Leibe, der aber in unsere Wachstums- und Erinnerungsverhältnisse selbst eingreift, erleben, was wir so wie in einem feineren Menschen, gleichsam in einem ätherischen Menschen, einem ersten übersinnlichen Menschen erleben — dann wird unser Bewußtsein, das nun bei vollständigem Wachsein zwar leer ist, aber eine stärkere innere Kraft sich errungen hat, weiter schauen können in der geistigen Welt. Und es kann jetzt auf das schauen, was das eigene Seelenwesen war, bevor es aus geistig-seelischen Welten heruntergestiegen ist zu einem physischen Erdendasein. Jetzt wird das, was wir die Ewigkeit der Menschenseele nennen, Anschauung, wird herausgehoben aus der Sphäre der bloß philosophischen Spekulation. 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