bliss,

In order to awake and become conscious, the soul needs strong forces and preparation.

(Remembering what has been learnt from experiences.)

how has it come to be like this or to act like this?

This is how modern meditation differs from the yoga exercises practised in very ancient times. There are naturally many intermediate stages; I chose these two extremes. The yogi sank down, as it were, into his own breathing process; he sank into his own self. This caused him to experience this self as if in memory; he remembered what he had been be

energy. This path of inner schooling, which Rudolf Steiner developed out of his own experience, permeates the entire corpus of his life work.

to enrich their conceptual life with new ways of understanding.

The higher organs become formed in one who strives for initiation. And in order to form them the astral body must be taken where it exists in purity. The lifting out of the etheric body is by no means easy today.

The first practical experience gives one the consciousness of living in thought as if in the environment of the head. One knows that one lives and weaves without employing the instrument of the brain and that this weaving in thought is accomplished outside the head.