When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 1 - Waldorf Research Institute

continue. It will then become increasingly difficult for human bodies to
sustain a basis for integrated ego consciousness into the future. They then
become the basis for the activity of those evil beings—so called “anti-spirits”
of personality to which Steiner has given the name of “Asuras.” The loss of
immunological identity that we are also witnessing at the present time is,
I believe, the mirror image of this. That is to say, it is the polar expression
of the same phe nomenon. In the realm of psychiatry, the possibility of the
conscious ego to integrate itself with its own karma is threatened, and at the
level of immunol ogy, the possibility for the unconscious organization of the
ego to penetrate physical substance is also threatened.
This theme is obviously one with which we could occupy ourselves not
only in coming days, but also in the coming decades and centuries. We
live in a time when developments are accelerating around us, but this was
something that Rudolf Steiner antici pated at the beginning of this century
and which anthroposophy is intended to help us to master. We are, however,
still only at the beginning of doing just this—it lies in the hands of each of
us to help to realize this aim.
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