| Measuring...................8 | |
| a decision does not apply to weighing and measuring the right middle way. It applies much rather | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of you to understand why this way of measuring your progress is very wrong and can be | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| are? We use the wrong yardstick. Instead of measuring and discriminating, we are either for or against | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you distinguish between two totally different ways of measuring or of evaluating what amounts to two totally | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| that your own specialness can be unlocked without measuring yourself against others, you will have no problem | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you can conceive of expressing yourself is by measuring and comparing yourself with others. When you know | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| opposed to healthy dignity, is always comparing and measuring the self with others and is thus perpetually | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the wrong premise that self-value is determined by measuring and comparing the self with others. This, too | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Mechanical..................26 | |
| you may encounter the problem of becoming too mechanical. Now that you have progressed so far, you | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| very unreal pseudo-cure. COMMENT: It takes you by mechanical means out of a psychosis and brings you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| recurrence of the psychosis. But is it purely mechanical? ANSWER: You said it brings one back to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| it like a parrot repeating a word. This mechanical usage is harmful. It has the very opposite | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that has ever been created. They are not mechanical laws such as the law of gravity. All | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| it were attempted through artificial means, or by mechanical means, such an attempt would even be dangerous | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| practice. For any kind of practice that is mechanical, that deals merely with exercises of concentration, breathing | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| them. Usually these practices are more or less mechanical, such as concentration and breathing exercises. As I | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| see, the practices I suggest are never merely mechanical. They always have a direct relationship to your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| inner universe. One deals with outer and often mechanical aspects of living while the other represents one's | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| idea and all those activities which are more mechanical and ego-determined work together in harmony, the object | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| determination of the ego will. It is more mechanical and laborious, requiring consistency and effort. It has | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to contain or express consciousness. It seems a mechanical force that consciousness can direct but that is | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| has thrown it at humankind in such a mechanical, distorted, and often meaningless way that many individuals | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Only when the ego has learned the more mechanical aspects of this process can the influx of | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| first to be painstakingly acquired, often through quite mechanical processes. Then the new knowledge will become the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the sexual experience must be blocked, flat, unsatisfactory, mechanical and, in more severe instances, even totally paralyzed | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| other words, these energy movements are not merely mechanical constructs that simply exist separately from mind. They | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| routes we mentioned before. If meditational exercises are mechanical, the way is an illusory one. Only when | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| now points by artificially induced means. I include mechanical exercises and practices as such means. There is | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| cannot be a thought -- even the most mechanical, dead, sterile, cut-off thought -- that does not | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| mean, I repeat, abstraction in the sense of mechanical, dead, alienated, superficial, unfeeling or defensive thinking. How | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not you are aware of it. The most mechanical, fragmented and cut-off thought breeds a series of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| word. You may have knowledge on a purely mechanical level. Such knowledge is not insight, wisdom, true | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lead to balance. Balance is not a cold, mechanical, coincidental factor, but the expression of supreme intelligence | 228 BALANCE |
| of the inner reality is not stilted or mechanical. There is a meaning behind it. Finding your | 228 BALANCE |
| Mechanically................7 | |
| uncomfortable must take place again and again, not mechanically, but with an ever-renewed readiness. In no way | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD. This, too, is often mechanically repeated, without attaching any meaning to it. People | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| gets lost when thoughts and actions are repeated mechanically. What I am saying here is old wisdom | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is an instrument that prescribes, predetermines, and thinks mechanically; it determines rules and laws. By itself it | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| always happens when one uses an expression often, mechanically and unthinkingly. It is therefore necessary to contemplate | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| may vary. Simple menial work can be done mechanically and yet relatively efficiently, though it can also | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| disregarded or forgotten, the rituals involved may be mechanically repeated and thus the tradition has been deadened | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Mechanics...................8 | |
| are seriously interested can find out about the mechanics of mediumship, of what is necessary to communicate | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| She would like to know what the metaphysical mechanics are concerning the hardening of the brain arteries | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| latter voluntarily. It requires deep insight into the mechanics of one's inner life to even discover this | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| You entrust yourself so readily to the outer mechanics where the negative processes sweep you into a | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| existence of the live center, 2) observe the mechanics by which you discourage its manifestations and toughen | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| toughen the vulnerable spot; 3) deliberately stop the mechanics of disengagement and allow the live center's unfoldment | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| for granted that you are unaware of its mechanics. Once you pay attention to these areas, you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| processes are awesomely impressive, for their principle and mechanics are based on a lawfulness that is identical | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Mechanism...................75 | |
| this way. The soul is such a complicated mechanism that there are no two souls alike. Certain | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| cannot help but realize how faulty your defense mechanism was when you built your image, if you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| discovered in its own surroundings. Second, the defense mechanism the child chooses with a limited understanding of | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| emotions -- which work slower than the brain mechanism -- still adhere to their old patterns. Then | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| similar or corresponding mask self layer or defense mechanism of the other person. I will give you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| without effort. You will find that the defense mechanism, the pseudo- protective armor of this fault, is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| look at it. If you view the whole mechanism of the soul, with all its currents, attitudes | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| may, at times, be a healthy, unconscious defense mechanism. With a person who is always a bad | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| appear in order to become conscious of the mechanism of thought process. You will then become aware | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| clearly understand why you have them, what defense mechanism and rationalization has made you adopt them. What | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Hence it is necessary that I discuss the mechanism of this resistance. Let us first be clear | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| byproduct of your pseudo-solution, and with this defense mechanism at work the child in you hopes and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this seems to confirm your pseudo-solution, your defense mechanism, but this is a very misleading conclusion. Immature | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| on to a very damaging and useless defense mechanism. QUESTIONER: You know me very well. QUESTION: In | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| real needs produces repression and, subsequently, a defense mechanism which is very destructive. Some of you, my | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it. You may ask, What does the defense mechanism have to do with this? The answer is | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| fulfillment. You may then discover that your defense mechanism has come into being not only because you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. The destructive defense mechanism, trying to do justice to two mutually exclusive | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| proceed, you will become aware of your escape mechanism and resistance at the moment it manifests, while | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| to finally giving up the twisted, damaging defense mechanism. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes, but it just | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| In the third phase we investigate the defense mechanism you have developed in order to obtain what | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aware of the hardened mass of your defense mechanism. Let us examine for a moment the difference | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you have on others due to a defense mechanism, you will be able to close the circle | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| point on my path I use my defense mechanism and am aware of it. I try not | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| time ago that the result of the defense mechanism can be determined by the effect it has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| correctly, but occasionally I find that my defense mechanism is perfect, and that the effect it has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your potential that cannot unfold with the defense mechanism that you think works so well for you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the last lecture, with reference to the defense mechanism, you said that the basic defense is a | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| to the instances just mentioned, is your defense mechanism. Feeling it is a great step forward; you | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| forward; you will come to see how this mechanism in you reacts and how such reaction is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| This, of course, is due to the defense mechanism that chooses a particular view as necessary and | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| path. Now, in your case, your very defense mechanism, as you know, is that of remaining a | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| real me and which is a protective defense mechanism. By observing emotional exaggeration versus repression you will | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| cause before it is too late. The same mechanism applies to your soul life. Most people, however | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| real fears, they therefore represent the same escape mechanism as your daydreams. You experience either substitute fears | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| which will not damage you if your defense mechanism works only in those rare instances. After the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| else. A similar procedure occurs when your defense mechanism functions in a neurotic, unreal situation. You choose | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| for it. You begin to allow your defense mechanism, whatever your individual pseudo- solutions are, to go | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| undesirable, but not necessarily dangerous. Yet a defense mechanism, by its very nature, is a process of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| laws in operation. If you imagine the complicated mechanism necessary, the variety of conditions that have to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| an impression in unresilient soul-stuff, your entire psychic mechanism functions according to this impression, exaggerating it way | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not oppose. They do not require the complicated mechanism of perceiving the feelings of another. They do | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a whole. There are many life organisms whose mechanism you cannot possibly see, understand, or evaluate. Therefore | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| on to destructive patterns, even resisting understanding their mechanism, the more painful these old, obsolete patterns finally | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of facing the truth within yourself. The identical mechanism works with displaced feelings and needs. Are there | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| help? ANSWER: It happens because of a protective mechanism in the human psyche. It enables a person | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| numbness. First, numbness toward the self, a protective mechanism. Second is the numbness toward others. In this | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and effect within yourself and with that inner mechanism that affords you relaxed self-government and thus the | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| total self. All of you must comprehend this mechanism thoroughly and discover the means you resort to | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| best in you to unfold. There is a mechanism which holds it back, which makes it appear | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| terms of their own innermost being, because the mechanism of escape is often so deeply entrenched. This | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| but they are disconnected in themselves from the mechanism that wishes the negative result. The work on | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| a hereafter. What I explain, however, is a mechanism taking place within the personality. The innermost self | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| have pointed out before that a fine inner mechanism regulates the psychic processes, so that justified reasons | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| not it also causes false guilts. This inner mechanism is exact. No self-deception or conscious denial can | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| them off. There is deep in you a mechanism that says, No, I will go no further | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| be adequately described. It contains a wonderful self-regulating mechanism that can be utterly trusted. To the degree | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| covertly this may be done. There is a mechanism in the psyche that directly connects this displacement | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| new feeling of comprehension, so that the obstructing mechanism weakens and the creative expansion process becomes stronger | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| of self-rejection is based on a very exacting mechanism in you that, regardless of your conscious rationalizations | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| inner being of both partners. There is a mechanism in a relationship between a man and a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| false needs and insisting on their fulfillment. This mechanism seems at first extremely subtle, but once you | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| abundance of the universe. A finely calibrated inner mechanism prevents you from violating the divine laws beyond | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| self-perpetuating; it is like a deeply imprinted motor mechanism, set in motion with great energy. Thus a | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| interact, complement one another and create an immense mechanism that humankind can never even remotely conceive of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| innate powers and resources. There is an inner mechanism that is extremely important for you to understand | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| simple. It is the same self-protective, finely calibrated mechanism that knows that something in you is not | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| There can be no mistake. A finely calibrated mechanism in the deepest regions of your psyche works | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| waste. Each situation is entirely different. The inner mechanism at work is directed by the real, divine | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| and anger they will simply go away. The mechanism by which you try to solve this problem | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| destroy the divine. So, as an in-built protective mechanism, negativity closes the perceptive organs: blindness, deafness, dumbness | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| parental admonitions. You can see clearly that the mechanism is very much the same as with all | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in reality? Every human being contains a built-in mechanism that makes receiving quite impossible when the soul | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| riches that surround and penetrate you. This inner mechanism makes your receiving impossible; it strengthens and finally | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| will also lift the lever that locked the mechanism. You will reach out into this rich world | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |