Perception as Revelation of the Spirit (From the Works of Rudolf Steiner)

Gabriel, Dr. Douglas J.

ISBN 10: 1963709136 / ISBN 13: 9781963709131

Published by Our Spirit, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perception as Revelation of the Spirit (From the Works of Rudolf Steiner)
• Publisher: Our Spirit
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963709136
• ISBN 13: 9781963709131
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Modern scientific theories about perception are often unfulfilling because they do not relate to reality. Much like particle physics, perception is simply theoretical to a scientist because the object being perceived can change because the observer is observing. Thus, light can be seen as a particle or a wave, depending on who is perceiving the phenomena. Scientists leave the nebulous world of perception and the act of “knowing” to the psychologists. Science knows that optical illusions, ambiguous imagining, perception confusion, and distortion happen frequently and cannot be explained by their mechanisms of sense perception. Science will often defer to religion on issues of human perception because scientific mechanisms only work in limited situations.

Rudolf Steiner tells us:

“If we therefore wish to grasp what we perceive, the perception must be prefigured in us as a definite concept. Our thinking is the translator that interprets for us the gestures of experience.”

“Thinking is not there to rehash the sense-perceptible but rather to penetrate what is hidden to the senses. Sense perception provides only one side of reality. The other side is a thinking apprehension of the world. Now thinking confronts us at first as something altogether foreign to perception. The perception forces itself in upon us from outside; thinking works itself up out of our inner being. Perception affords a kind of specialization of the statements made by thoughts, a possibility left open by these statements themselves. Perception needs to be complemented by the spirit, for it is not at all something definitive, ultimate, complete.”