| Men.........................54 | |
| recognized this -- that there are in all men feminine elements and in all women masculine elements | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| sense of the word and yet lived as men. My question has nothing to do with homosexuality | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| spirits developed far enough to be born as men and women, the spiritual life force first acted | 21 THE FALL |
| often become sad. We see so many struggling men and women longing to be loved who do | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| particularly with women -- when eros has left. Men may then seek eros else-where. For the sexual | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| need will always lurk in their souls. Since men are by nature more active and adventurous, they | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| for a woman to talk to a man. Men don't answer when one tries to get into | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| that usually the reasoning faculty is stronger in men. Because of this the revealing of his emotions | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| into emotional maturity. It will make you truly men and women. I say this advisedly, I do | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| do not say human beings now, I say men and women. For no one can be truly | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| For in this way you will become loving men and women. Be in peace. Be blessed. Be | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fear of women in a man, or of men in a woman. Still another reason or possibility | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| mass images is twofold. In the first place, men and women suppress their opposite trends, feeling guilty | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| often noted that women are emotionally stronger than men. There is some truth in this, for which | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| overall view, the same thing happens to both men and women, only in each case the opposite | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| us discussed why it is so difficult for men to communicate when there is an emotional problem | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| partners. Women try to talk it over and men evade it. Is that the shame of the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| city and the tower which the children of men had builded. 6: And...said...This they begin | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a crass misunderstanding to believe that mature men and women can love when they are hated | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| case, not even one of casual friendship. Mature men and women will have understanding and warmth in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| means something much more specific. Humanity consists of men and women. Human beings cannot reach self-fulfillment if | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| must fear their own sex, fear themselves as men or women. They must distrust themselves in this | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| human beings desperately yearn for their fulfillment as men and women through union with their counterparts, and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| with the other sex for its advantages. Hence men secretly envy women for their privileged position of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| is expected of him. Women, in turn, envy men their privileged position of having greater freedom, of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| be confused with its distorted counterpart in which men become feminine and women masculine. You all know | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| most satisfying way. Thus you will truly become men and women, each fulfilling the destiny of your | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| senseless falsity so much suffering would be avoided. Men and women would be vibrantly alive in the | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| the other hand, every enlightened philosophy teaches that men and women are the masters of their fate | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| life and produces displeasure, frustration, and restriction. When men and women have not established both masculine and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| own soul and mind, they cannot fully be men or women. The two principles or forces have | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| self and life make both attitudes possible. Both men and women represent these two principles; only their | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| woman represents exclusively the principle of letting be. Men and women must express both aspects, but the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| to express these destructive impulses. There are many men as well as women in this world who | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| powers, surrender must be debilitating and dangerous. Since men and women express both the masculine and feminine | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| why you find on this path that both men and women come across the identical patterns of | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| is one such way to evade accountability. Both men and women therefore have to work out the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| No self-realization is possible unless you become full men and women in the deepest possible sense. This | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| with this topic. True spirituality must make fuller men and women out of you in the best | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| principles, in harmony and distortion, exist in both men and women. They can easily be detected with | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| sexes. As the planet is maturing, so are men and women. What does this really mean? How | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to both sexes emerged as development progressed. Yet men -- and often women as well -- persisted | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| is still often confused with genuine selfhood. Both men and women must find their way out of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| group consciousness that is made up of free men and women for whom God's will reigns first | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that these motives were morally right and virtuous. Men married women who brought a good dowry and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| and pride were glamorized and endowed with righteousness. Men considered themselves the superiors of women. Marrying a | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| fact. Even without the awareness of the concept, men acknowledged this responsibility toward other men but totally | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the concept, men acknowledged this responsibility toward other men but totally neglected it when dealing with women | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the moral indignation, the moral self- righteousness of men and women toward those who deviated from the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| For example, the antagonism that generally existed between men and women had to manifest specifically between individual | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| and women had to manifest specifically between individual men and women to a much greater degree than | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| and respect. The negative mutuality between many individual men and women created the collective consciousness, created karmic | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| with concomitant limitations on personal growth for both men and women -- to recognition of the debilitating | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| has to emerge. At the same time, individual men and women need to understand the enormous importance | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Mend........................5 | |
| life. This will persist until you resolve and mend it through insight and understanding. At this point | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| master life, as these split concepts begin to mend through your widened understanding. Spiritual teachings postulate that | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| truth behind the illusion, split concepts begin to mend; psychic upsets begin to balance; confusion, disorder, conflict | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| fearing the thing you want -- can only mend when you look for the cause of this | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and your consciousness appear inseparable does the rift mend and life begin to become what it potentially | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Mended......................3 | |
| real life creates a split that could be mended by increased awareness. The harm of daydreams, then | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| key is love. Without love nothing could be mended, nothing could unify, no truth could ever be | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| result of being split off from God is mended, and this new wholeness increasingly permeates your person | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Mending.....................3 | |
| built up to lead to this point: the mending of split concepts through the proper soul movements | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your own self. Becoming conscious is to begin mending the rift; consciousness diminishes the rift. Consciousness must | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| you unify knowing and feeling, you work toward mending and integration, which manifests as a wonderful new | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Mends.......................3 | |
| by perceiving and experiencing true reality, the split mends and negative involvement ceases. This idea has been | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| harmony are incompatible, and therefore as the split mends through comprehension and realization, your inner harmony must | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| through what you fear. Going through the fear mends the split of the duality. It lessens the | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| Menial......................3 | |
| are applicable to all endeavors. Whether you do menial labor, or work as an artist, a scientist | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| which these principles must function may vary. Simple menial work can be done mechanically and yet relatively | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| You may have to deal actively with apparently menial, mundane issues. You may have to confront actively | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Men's.......................3 | |
| can also understand what the underlying motive for men's inclination to be unfaithful is. Women tend much | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| who brought a good dowry and who raised men's social image. In other words, greed and pride | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Obviously this was not only the result of men's distortion and negativity; it was just as much | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Mental......................217 | |
| spirit world, the landscapes or objects are the mental expression, the product of the mentality of the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| you happiness on every plane of existence: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. But as long as you | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| so that you will meet them with better mental equipment. 34. PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION Greetings in the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| your loved ones. First, you engage in the mental process of thinking of them; then to that | 36 PRAYER |
| process of thinking of them; then to that mental process you bring your feelings and the depths | 36 PRAYER |
| practiced in praying for your enemies. Here the mental process may not be so difficult, but uniting | 36 PRAYER |
| new finding usually does not fit into the mental picture you have of yourself. It calls attention | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| at all and concentrate on your own spiritual, mental, and emotional development and on your own path | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| in the proper spirit, will contribute to your mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Are there any questions | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| used for therapy? ANSWER: Physical as well as mental therapy. It could be used for all sorts | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| It is a blending of two people's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures. It can be done | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| this does not prevent her from also giving mental and spiritual birth at other times, when this | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| all the physical help possible -- and the mental, spiritual and psychological help as well. All work | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| background thoughts. You have no idea how much mental and emotional -- and eventually physical -- strength | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sickness may remain, but the suffering, physical and mental, will decrease in proportion to one's inward progress | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| as incarnated human beings depends on your maturity, mental as well as emotional. Maturity, in turn, depends | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| also are unaware of their lack of reality. Mental and emotional health is reality. To the degree | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the physical level will make you realize that mental, emotional, and spiritual subsistence is necessarily just as | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| death -- and the acute suffering of physical, mental and spiritual pain. Jesus met it squarely, without | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| being. You may feel that spiritual, intellectual, or mental pleasure is not a dangerous pursuit. It does | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| beings who function harmoniously have developed the physical, mental, and emotional sides of their nature. These three | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| healthy. A good portion of humanity cultivates the mental side. In order to do so you learn | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| memory and your logical reasoning. All this furthers mental growth. But why is the emotional nature generally | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| unfolding of creative ability is not a mere mental process. In fact, the intellect has much less | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| emphasis in your world today on physical and mental growth and a conspicuous neglect of emotional growth | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| immaturity and to reach a certain physical and mental maturity. Let me give you an example on | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| lopsided, leaving your personality structure crippled. When your mental processes mature, you have to go through transition | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| gain truth by avoiding error. It strengthens your mental faculties, your logic, as well as your range | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| mistakes in your thinking or your opinions, your mental faculties could not grow. Strangely enough, there is | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the necessary growing pains of the physical and mental sides of the personality than to the growth | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| happen through a process of will, an outer mental decision which represses what is still a part | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you discourage their growth, you live by your mental faculties only -- and they are secondary in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| there will be a mutual harmony between the mental and emotional faculties. One will not contradict the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| he is a god. This is not a mental or intellectual consideration, but something I feel. ANSWER | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| such search constantly creates change in your emotional, mental, spiritual and even physical being because you face | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| then an imaginary outlet is necessary. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fulfillment is then possible only in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| greater extent it is found in emotional and mental illness. If, to begin with, this misconception did | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you to understand the processes of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual nature, and specifically what happens | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you will develop more strength -- physical or mental -- than you normally have in order to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| This is the physical side. As to the mental side of your nature, when you are in | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you are in actual realistic danger, all your mental faculties will automatically concentrate -- with the help | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| no danger of attack, the development of your mental faculties is bound to suffer. Your concepts will | 101 THE DEFENSE |