Steiner went on to report that, at the time Jesus met with John the Baptist, the bulk of humanity no longer possessed even this “dreamy clairvoyance,” that the daily life of the average individual was as “hard-wired” to the five physical senses as it ever was, even in comparison to today. Steiner reports that, at the time of Christ, human intuitive reach was at perhaps its lowest ebb and presented a kind of “divine crisis” for the future of humanity. What can Creator tell us?

It is certainly the case that in the time of Christ things were no better, and this, of course, is highly variable, there are always some who have more intuition than others, but at times when the world is dark it is because there is greater subjugation and suppression across the board of all human thought and activities. This is done to keep you on a tight leash, so to speak, but through mind control manipulation and sometimes technological means to fog the mind so little happens. That keeps you submissive and easily manipulable, but will hamper your ability to do anything truly useful, and certainly not able to take the initiative for self-help and improvement. The era of Jesus Christ was a dark one from many standpoints. Life was quite harsh and people struggled greatly to eke out an existence, particularly because of the harsh subjugation by ruthless overseers, on the part of the ruling bodies manipulated to be that way—heartless, punitive, and cruel in how they went about it.