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Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Thoughts
Identifier
013755
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I think he 'saw' the process of learning - the taking of thoughts - perceptions - and their processing to form memory - something more 'heavy' weighty and permanent
A description of the experience
Rudolf Steiner – Nature Spirits
Thoughts in their chimerical lightness and evanescence [need to be] present in our heads … for this it is necessary that there should be spirits who prevent our thoughts with their non reality from immediately vanishing from us
These spirits Steiner perceived as
a volatile fleeting band of followers......
we can therefore say that amongst the world's unknown … there is one that is peopled by a spirit folk of 'fools', fools who throng towards human cleverness. In the present age these beings have actually no life of their own. These spirit fools rivet themselves to thoughts, drag at them and give them weight, so that they remain with [the person] ... outside of nature they are almost giants – of an enormous size – they become quite tiny when they are inside people's heads. One could say that they are an abnormal species of nature spirit … intimately connected with the whole of human evolution on earth.
The source of the experience
Steiner, RudolfConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
LearningLearnt function
Memory
Memory - the types of model in memory
Memory and perceptions
Memory and systems
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBelieving in the spiritual world
Communing with nature
Contemplation and detachment
Dont hurt
LOVE
Reducing and controlling emotions
Reducing desires
Reducing opportunities
Reducing threats
Squash the big I am
Suppressing memory
Suppressing obligations