| Meetings....................4 | |
| from abstract theorizing. You would not really need meetings to just theorize, which comes easily for most | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that they do not choose to witness these meetings. Thus they don't avail themselves of an additional | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Universal love is highly concentrated here, at our meetings, so that you do not receive just words | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| energy was the strongest yet experienced at these meetings. Beloved friends, strong transmuting forces have now been | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Meld........................6 | |
| more harmoniously each soul current and tendency will meld and the whole personality will reach a higher | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| was sinful, the instinct could not grow and meld with the love force. Consequently, sex in fact | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| remain selfishly childish and is therefore unable to meld with the need to give and receive love | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| one set of intelligence exists. The two can meld when the outer, conscious one deliberately reaches toward | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| self is in charge, activity and passivity can meld as one unit, so that your reactions become | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the totality of the earth entity. The cells meld into one structure, although they each have their | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Melding.....................8 | |
| allow the clear-cut, concise formulation of this particular melding point into your emotional experience, when you experience | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| out of seclusion. It moves toward contact and melding. To follow the cosmic pull is therefore blissful | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| opposition is great, the pull toward contact and melding with another must remain, for that is a | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| fear of letting go of the ego, a melding with the universal forces becomes possible. This is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| proportionately. The most effective and intense form of melding the ego with the universe is through another | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| experiences sexuality without love, without a deeply personal melding with a specifically chosen other, and who chooses | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| reality. This can also ideally happen through the melding of a man and a woman who are | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| have a great deal of ambivalence about this melding. On the one hand, you fear giving up | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Melt........................6 | |
| surrendering to the divine flow, dissolve itself, and melt into it. And it can also reconstitute these | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| split of the original being; the soul particles melt together. But there is spirit in all created | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| conflict and pain. When unification occurs, the layers melt into a oneness, which is then activated and | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feelings. When you abandon your defenses, you can melt with life, melt with the psychic substances of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| abandon your defenses, you can melt with life, melt with the psychic substances of others, exchanging love | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| forces that are within you and let them melt into the forces given you now. You will | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Melting.....................7 | |
| a faint echo of this blissful feeling of melting into oneness when overtaken by a feeling of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this is not true. Although there is a melting and dissolving, the individuality, the I-consciousness is not | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| God. In the highest sense, union is the melting and fusing together of two beings who were | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| through eliminating negation and slowly, bit by bit, melting away the duality. In doing so, reality, as | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| accepting of, the transcending goodwill toward and consequent melting into another being is precisely the kind of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of attitude compatible with the universal forces. This melting leads to an experience that involves all levels | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| bitterness to the real pain that is soft, melting, and joyous -- yes, joyous. The real pain | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Member......................8 | |
| yourself in a position -- perhaps with some member of your family or with a friend -- | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| to bring such a willing person to another member of this group so a team can be | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| they did find relief. Later, when some particular member of their family would come to visit, the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| questions will benefit all. An essay by a member of our group is appended. Greetings, my dearest | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a spirit of truth, with a still living member of your family with whom you might never | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| humanity, for both are the same. The third member of this triad is the healthy balance between | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| new-age woman between being a productive, creative, contributing member of society, and being a loving mate. In | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| he no longer needs to be the superior member of the team. He can afford to relate | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Members.....................15 | |
| that there is no karmic relationship with some members of the family. It may be a new | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not hesitate to get in touch with those members of this group who are qualified to help | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| have been working, as one of the oldest members of the group, I find that if we | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a tendency on the part of the earliest members, certainly on my part, to ask increasingly fewer | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: I'm working with one of our group members. She is scared to go into the subway | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to relieve the inner pressure. QUESTION: Are the members of the same family always on the same | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| all! In one human family you may have members of very different spiritual families. QUESTION: Why is | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| aware of what you really feel about all members of your family, or others who were important | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the social organism of which we are all members? What should be our attitude towards social problems | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Ask yourself what you believe the other group members feel about you. When you bring it out | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| and self-choice is true. One of our group members was a borderline psychotic, slipping in and out | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is in the growing numbers of new Pathwork members; in the nature of these newer people who | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to one's tribe and protection of the other members of the tribe had to be learned. So | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| becomes an amorphous mass. Instead of highly individuated members, such groups have a mass-consciousness that must not | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| centers. There has been an exchange between our members, we discussed holding a full-scale European conference next | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Memories....................6 | |
| there are priests -- and I have childhood memories in mind -- and when you ask them | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| a technical procedure, so to say. If such memories occur, it may be in rare instances that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| awake at short intervals and then retains such memories. It may be close to the parents in | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then forget it or do we carry these memories with us as long as we are in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| advance and become more aware and conscious, or memories from the Spirit World that wish to serve | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| put something in motion within. For some, religious memories and considerations may represent such a push. For | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Memory......................57 | |
| to the right path and the right attitude. Memory fades automatically the moment matter envelops the spirit | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| this implies. This is so partly because the memory has been extinguished and needs to be regained | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| sense that clear vision is restored, the extinguished memory regained, and one understands what it is all | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| spirit remembers, although it does not allow the memory to reach the surface. As far as your | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| lightly, there would be no purpose for the memory to be taken away from one life to | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| development, remember something of a former life. The memory will come to them. And as development advances | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in front of your eyes and in your memory; think of everything that has happened and has | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| us further assume that he has lost his memory and has had amnesia since having committed this | 18 FREE WILL |
| make any difference. Due to his loss of memory and his failure to believe what he is | 18 FREE WILL |
| these beings. It goes without saying that the memory of God and his worlds was extinguished to | 21 THE FALL |
| would be no point in taking away your memory when you are born on this planet. All | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| namely, like in this instance, that this is memory from the time the child was in the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reasons are the same that operate when the memory of your previous incarnation is taken away from | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| from one incarnation to the other, or the memory of the soul's existence in the spiritual worlds | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| put into your lap either by retention of memory or other means, there would be no fight | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| anywhere. But with the help of your own memory you can go back to its origin in | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| remember these early emotions, for you have no memory of your first few years. That these primitive | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| knowledge of this still exists in the superconscious memory, but is distorted by wrong motivations, by misunderstood | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you retain the outer situation in your intellectual memory. The latter has much less effect on you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of discrimination; increased inner and outer vitality; better memory; clearer and stronger thoughts; and, last but not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| that when we are reincarnated we have no memory of our previous lives. Now, when we get | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| after this life, do we then have the memory of previous lives, at least for a short | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| with the spirit in the beyond and the memory is only taken away during life on earth | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| given by the Spirit World is really a memory of your sojourn in the Spirit World while | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| about something and then you can take a memory along to help bring out what your soul | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has been impressed with. Even without such a memory, this soul-impression from a spiritual experience will eventually | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| all have imbedded in your spirit the vague memory of a life in another state of consciousness | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| excessive demand. The need comes from a vague memory imbedded in the spirit. Now you may ask | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| depression and anxiety, that even though your intellectual memory retained what you have learned and known, you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| your thinking capacity; you absorb, you train your memory and your logical reasoning. All this furthers mental | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| and receiving approval. He has only a vague memory that something favorable came forth when he was | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of a word is done by your intellect. Memory is the will to recapture what was once | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| it is important to cultivate and develop intellect, memory, discrimination, and willpower. Without these qualities, as I | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Human beings need to learn, they need their memory, and they need intelligence in order to cope | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is only the mind that does it. The memory, combined with the tendency to form habits, is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| of the soul. QUESTION: Karma, then, is the memory of the soul from former unresolved problems? ANSWER | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| former unresolved problems? ANSWER: I would not say memory. It is the result of all previous incarnations | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| fragment of reality. The unconscious still has a memory of the great experience of timelessness and tries | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| issue, to project and displace, often blurs one's memory of past victory; of the proper procedure of | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| was found has faded and lingers only as memory. In other words, it has become theoretical knowledge | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| little that has registered is easily forgotten, for memory is also dependent on a free state of | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| blissful state of total delight exists in your memory, my friends, and it can be attained in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on your psychic forces than as an intellectual memory of the words. Many of my friends on | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| can perhaps find a special strength in the memory of your forefathers -- not because such a | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| impossible to reconstruct it directly, for no mental memory of it suffices, even if it does exist | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| The truth must be recaptured each time anew. Memory will only help you to know that the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the fore any previously accumulated waste material. But memory of previous incarnations is blotted out, so that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| past experiences to draw on. The dimming of memory is a byproduct of the life/death cycle in | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| very life, you perpetuate the process of dimming memory. Thus you perpetuate the cycle of dying and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| it is possible to re-establish the links of memory. If all the feelings of this lifetime are | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the particles of the divine spark lose their memory, and have not yet regained the knowledge of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| this three-dimensional world, you automatically close off the memory of other states of consciousness. These forgotten states | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| much more. The feeling of omnipotence is a memory of another state, a state of consciousness in | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| state of its total personality. However, as the memory is translated into the confined and limited ego | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| trustful patience, flowing with the stream, unwillful receptivity. Memory of the power to create must be temporarily | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| However, it does not seem to be rediscovered memory. Instead, connecting thoughts, wishes, intents, feelings and attitudes | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| the moment it is uttered. Impatience is the memory of this experience, without the connectedness with the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |