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The etheric double pdf4/18/2023 That’s why it’s so gosh darn important to use the exercises that Rudolf Steiner described in his lectures, or something similar. We can’t focus: it’s too long I didn’t read. The Internet - in its memes, its tl dr’s and its Buzzfee article-is pure reflex, pure automatism, making us more and more into machines. The editors of this book make the point that the computer and the Internet, as machines that mutliply data beyond our ability to consciously remember (*consciously* being the key word), are versions of this Ahrimanic double. And they’ve been doing a pretty good job, I’d say. They long to destroy the human capacity for connecting to the etheric level of consciousness - that part of us that thinks simultaneously and not successively, in felt mental images, not coldly or mechanically. They are beings who, cast out of heaven before the twentieth century even started, plague the earthly level of our consciousness. He explains that within the electricity of our nervous systems, there is another spiritual entity, a kind of doppelganger, who lives in our autonomous reflexes and unconscioius compulsions, who belongs to the sphere of the evil being Ahriman. Sounds like our reality, right? As I type this review, I’m doing exactly what Steiner described a hundred years ago. In a sense, the human being will be able to let his thoughts flow into machines.” “And the connection will be made between the death forces in the human being, which are related to electromagnetic forces, and outer machine forces. Stunningly, here a Rudolf Steiner speaking in 1917 says this about the twentieth century and beyond: The Electronic Doppelgänger: The Mystery of the Double in the Age of the Internet by Rudolf Steiner
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