'_Large temptations will emanate from these machine-animals, produced
by people themselves, and it will be the task of a spiritual science
that explores the cosmos to ensure all these temptations do not exert
any damaging influence on human beings_.'
In an increasingly digitised world, where both work and play are more
and more taking place online and via screens, Rudolf Steiner's
dramatic statements from 1917 appear prophetic. Speaking of
'intelligent machines' that would appear in the future, Steiner
presents a broad context that illustrates the multitude of challenges
human beings will face. If humanity and the Earth are to continue to
evolve together with the cosmos, and not be cut off from it entirely,
we will need to work consciously and spiritually to create a
counterweight to such phenomena.
In the lectures gathered here, edited with commentary and notes by
Andreas Neider, Rudolf Steiner addresses a topic that he was never to
speak of again: the secret of the 'geographical' or the 'ahrimanic'
doppelganger. The human nervous system houses an entity that does not
belong to its constitution, he states. This is an ahrimanic being
which enters the body shortly before birth and leaves at death,
providing the basis for all electrical currents that are needed to
process and coordinate sense perceptions and react to them.Based on
his spiritual research, Rudolf Steiner discusses this doppelganger or
'double' in the wider context of historic occult events relating to
'spirits of darkness'. Specific brotherhoods seek to keep such
knowledge to themselves in order to exert power and spread
materialism. But this knowledge is critical, says Steiner, if the
geographical doppelganger and its challenges are to be understood.
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ISBN
9781855844773
Publisert
2019
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Rudolf Steiner Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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