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The enjoyment is in the gourmet’s soul. It is the same with all pleasure and pain known to the soul. When the soul delights in beautiful colours or other things, a physical eye is needed if pleasure in the colour is to enter into the soul. The element in the soul that demands to be satisfied through the senses is kama. In the kama loka, the soul still thirsts for the pleasure but it no longer has the organs for this after death. The soul then develops an inner feeling of a particular kind. It may be compared to what happens in the soul if one walks through a desert where there is no well and suffers raging thirst. The condition after death is therefore due to the fact that one does not have the organs to satisfy one’s desires. The individual then experiences a raging thirst which will continue until all desire has gone. The more he has managed to free himself from the need to have his senses satisfied during life on earth, and the more he has made the beauty and the good of the world his own, things that are pure and independent of the body, the sooner will the time in kama loka be over. 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In reality, however, this image comes from you yourself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":54,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-22/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-22/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-22/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":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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Human beings feel themselves growing larger and larger in their ether body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/96/1906-10-22/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1906-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-22/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-22/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":289,"en_words":347,"ratio":1.2,"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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In the astral body, human beings can be in all kinds of different places at once. If an individual going through kama loka has caused another person physical or mental pain at some time during life on earth, he will feel himself to be inside the other individual when he reaches that time in his journey back through life’s experiences and he will feel the pain of the other individual in his own astral body. All events and actions of the past life come up a second time in this mirror of inner sensations. 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Diese Lust an der Speise hat er nicht etwa im physischen Leibe. Der nimmt nur die Speise auf, das sind physische Vorgänge. Diese physischen Vorgänge können sich als chemischer Prozeß zutragen. Das ist aber nicht der Genuß an der Speise. Den Genuß enthält die Seele des Feinschmekkers. So ist es bei allen Freuden und Schmerzen, welche die Seele erlebt. Um den Genuß an einer Speise zu haben, braucht der Mensch natürlich das physische Werkzeug, um diese Speise in sich aufzunehmen. Wenn die Seele sich an schönen Farben oder anderen Dingen erquickt, ist es notwendig, daß ein physisches Auge da ist, damit die Freude an der Farbe in die Seele einziehen kann. Das, was verlangt in der Seele, durch die Sinne befriedigt zu werden, ist Kama. Im Kamaloka lechzt die Seele noch nach dem Genuß, aber ihr fehlen nach dem Tode die Organe, um die Begierden zu befriedigen. Da kommt in die Seele eine Empfindung besonderer Art. Man kann sie mit dem vergleichen, was in der Seele vorgeht, wenn man durch eine Wüste geht, in der kein Quell ist, während man einen brennenden Durst hat. Der Zustand nach dem Tode ist also dadurch bedingt, daß die Organe zur Befriedigung der Begierden fehlen. Da erlebt der Mensch einen brennenden Durst, und zwar so lange, bis alle Begierde geschwunden ist. Je mehr er sich in diesem Leben davon befreit hat, durch die Sinne befriedigt zu werden, je mehr er sich das Schöne, das Gute der Welt, das Reine, die leibfreien Ideen angeeignet hat, desto schneller geht die Kamalokazeit vorüber. Hat er sich gar in die geistige Welt eingelebt, hat er seine Seele mit den Vorstellungen und Gedanken durchdrungen, die hinter der Sinnenwelt stehen, dann ist seine Kamalokazeit kurz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":303,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-22/p011"},{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-22/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Auf dem Astralplan verläuft alles rückwärts, und die Dinge stellen sich umgekehrt, also im Spiegelbild dar, zum Beispiel muß die Zahl 641 da als 146 gelesen werden. Eine Leidenschaft, die man erzeugt, kommt in Gestalt eines Bildes auf den Menschen zu, etwa als wildes Tier. Ein solches Bild geht aber in Wahrheit von dem Menschen selber aus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":57,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-22/p012"},{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-22/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"So durchlebt der Mensch das hinter ihm liegende physische Leben noch einmal, rückwärts. Die Dinge, die vor dem Tode geschehen sind, lebt er zurück. Dieses Rückwärtserleben führt ihn bis in die Kindheit zurück. Dadurch wird er schließlich von allem, was ihn an das physische Dasein gebunden hat, frei. Das Wort erfüllt sich: «Wenn ihr nicht werdet wie die Kindlein, könnt ihr nicht ins Himmelreich eingehen.» Er ist angelangt an dem Punkt, wo er war, ehe er sich inkarnierte. Er wird wiederum, wie er als ein Kind war. Damit ist er reif, in das Devachan zurückzukehren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/96/1906-10-22/p013"},{"locus":"GA 96/1906-10-22/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Zwei Begriffe müssen wir uns aneignen. Wir müssen eine Empfindung in Betracht ziehen, die im Moment des Sterbens mit starker Intensität auftritt. Gleichzeitig mit dem Erinnerungsbilde empfindet der Mensch, daß er immer größer und größer wird. Die Bilder, die ihn umgeben, welche die Bilder des vergangenen Lebens sind, vergrößern sich ebenfalls. Indem der Mensch sich noch im Ätherleib befindet, wächst er sozusagen in seine Umgebung hinein. Wenn der im Ätherleib befindliche Mensch ein Ereignis erlebt hat, das sich fünfzig Meilen entfernt abgespielt hat, dann ist das so, als ob er sich bis zu dem Schauplatz des Ereignisses ausdehnte. Wenn er einmal in Amerika war, fühlt er sich hinauswachsen bis nach Amerika. Im Ätherleib empfindet der Mensch das Immer-größer-Werden. Im Astralleib fühlt er sich dagegen aufgestückelt in verschiedene einzelne Teile. Er empfindet den astralischen Leib keineswegs als eine räumliche Einheit. Es gibt zum Beispiel Gallwespen, deren Vorder- und Hinterleib nur durch einen ganz dünnen Stiel verbunden sind. Das ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie auch in der physischen Welt zwei zueinandergehörige Teile nur durch eine Verbindung von sehr geringer Ausdehnung zusammengehalten werden. In der astralischen Welt kann es nun vorkommen, daß sogar überhaupt keine Verbindung zwischen zwei Teilen da ist und dennoch der eine Teil zum anderen gehört und diese Zugehörigkeit durchaus empfunden wird. Im Astralleib kann sich der Mensch an den verschiedensten Orten zugleich befinden. Wenn ein Mensch, der durch das Kamaloka hindurchgeht, in seinem Erdenleben einmal einem anderen einen physischen oder seelischen Schmerz zugefügt hat und im Rückwärtserleben zu diesem Zeitpunkt gelangt, dann fühlt er sich in dem anderen darin und erlebt dessen Schmerz in seinem eigenen Astralleibe. Alle Erlebnisse und Taten des vorangegangenen Erdenlebens werden in diesem Empfindungsspiegel zum zweitenmal vorgefunden. 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