Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Absolutely amazing how advanced Rudolf Steiner's teaching is. He said that in ancient times, people sensed the outer world along with their breathing. In today's world we have come to experience the world as dead, Steiner said. The ancient breathing was called Sophia and they called themselves philosophers. If they had tried to think like we do today like in modern science, they would have experienced pain as if lots of tiny needles in the brain and they would have seen that as a destruction of the brain. Sounds like very far-fetched claims, but I have a guess that Steiner may have pointed to the truth.

I came to think of how this gives a different possible meaning for the term 'the philosopher's stone' in alchemy. Not necessarily as in the ancient form of breathing but a reactivation of our ability to sense the world as living instead of as today when we experience physical matter and the material world as lifeless. Ra called our experience of the world an illusion, and the illusion may be that we have lost the ability to sense the aliveness in the world and therefore to us today it appears dead.