Object consciousness

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The object consciousness (also called waking consciousness, daytime consciousness or sensual consciousness) is the brightest consciousness that humans generally have today. It is balanced in the daily sleep-wake rhythm by deep sleep at night. Object consciousness only formed during earth evolution and is also a purely earthly consciousness in that it has lost all cosmic expanse. Earlier states of consciousness were duller than the awake daytime consciousness, but through them the human being subliminally experienced cosmic events at least in part. These earlier states of consciousness have certainly survived in a modified form, but today they are completely overshadowed by the bright daytime consciousness and thus pushed into the realm of the subconscious. This consciousness, which man has today on the physical plane, is at the same time a kind of sleep in relation to the co-experience of the higher worlds.

Object consciousness has a high degree of alertness through which man perceives the objects of the sensual world and attempts to comprehend them in their lawful context through the sensual mind. For the first time, an inside and an outside are distinguished through this state of consciousness. By being able to separate oneself from the world in consciousness, self-consciousness becomes possible, which did not yet exist on earlier embodiments of our Earth. With object consciousness, I-consciousness necessarily arises in counter-attack.

Of all earthly beings, only man has developed object consciousness to the greatest possible extent. In the higher animals it appears at most in rudimentary form.

The first illumination of I-consciousness occurred when the sense organs opened outwards. The Egyptian initiates called this the scorpion sting, which pierced the sense organs (Lit.:GA 105, p. 77). The object consciousness of man could only develop when the Moon separated from the Earth during the earth evolution in the Lemurian period.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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