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the issue, since you have already so many misconceptions in purely earthly matters. The issue is rather 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD
not into temptation. These words give rise to misconceptions and can do harm. For God does not 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
the pain inflicted by the wrong conclusions and misconceptions of the image. This is when the person 38 IMAGES
-- you have to anticipate coming across inner misconceptions that will first give you an unpleasant sensation 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY
the inner obstructions, the petrifications, by facing your misconceptions, misunderstandings and the untruth that lives in your 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
may dutifully pray for the recognition of your misconceptions, but inside there is a resisting block that 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
what way and why does this happen. What misconceptions are responsible for it? This outlook should help 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
that is free of hindrances stemming from your misconceptions. You, who are on this path, will find 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
fear of God, the monster created by your misconceptions, residing in your unconscious. As you know, in 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
and on, is the result of many basic misconceptions in the human race. Whether death comes one 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
since the human race appeared on earth, certain misconceptions and mass images about the man-woman relationship came 62 MAN AND WOMAN
versa. Freeing yourself of extreme mass images and misconceptions which, by the way, are always based on 62 MAN AND WOMAN
in mind how the influence of these general misconceptions and mass images sustain and strengthen your personal 62 MAN AND WOMAN
to their upbringing, environment, and their personal inner misconceptions or images. Inner resistance blocks the way to 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
pseudo-love. Only after fully understanding the inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all their ramifications and chain 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
desires -- and subordinate them because of such misconceptions, you act from erroneous and unhealthy motives from 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
impeded because of the images, wrong conclusions, and misconceptions you carry in your conscious and unconscious mind 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
motives, but also because the unconscious deviations and misconceptions, apart from the desire itself, suffice to cover 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
As I already stated, your personal images and misconceptions also hinder the inner will. But so do 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
now like to discuss one of these mass misconceptions, a very widespread one, affecting practically everybody to 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
may be wholly right and good, but your misconceptions -- about selfishness as well as in other 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
unconscious mind. Many of you have similar unconscious misconceptions without being aware of them. To find these 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
extent -- is the basis for correcting such misconceptions which may lie only in your emotions and 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
their lower selves, their faults and weaknesses, their misconceptions and deviations. Tonight I should like to discuss 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF
the human soul due to conscious or unconscious misconceptions, wrong conclusions, deviations -- in short, the images 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
your faults, your childish selfishness, and your various misconceptions. The work becomes a liberation only after full 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
yourself so as to overcome your weaknesses, your misconceptions and illusions, your limitations and blindness. God in 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
This is really quite simple. Your wrong conclusions, misconceptions, distortions, create an inner world of illusion. They 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you are unwilling to face your confusions and misconceptions. Be on the alert for the tendency to 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
you deviate out of unreasonable fear based on misconceptions. We shall then compare the right concept to 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
fall short of loving wherever your conflicts and misconceptions exist. As you all know, at least theoretically 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
due to negative aspects and deviations, images and misconceptions. We still have to deal with those elements 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
damage of such knowledge and of the resulting misconceptions for a spiritually unready humanity. Let us go 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING
or bad. Your conflicts, your images, and your misconceptions are contagious and affect the other person immediately 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
this path dealt with your complexes, your images, misconceptions, and your unconscious confusions and conflicts. I stressed 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
thinking was when you created your images and misconceptions. There are good reasons for such a recommendation 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
within your innermost conflicts. When you recognize your misconceptions and wrong conclusions as compared with reality and 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
your restricting, separating barriers of false beliefs and misconceptions. Then you find union with all people. You 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
is easy to see that your conflicts, images, misconceptions and inner problems prohibit your real self from 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
your world of duality. Behind your images and misconceptions you always find conflict. In one way or 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
all byproducts of healing the soul of its misconceptions, distortions, and deviations. The true experience of pleasure 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
or wrong conclusion. It is true that certain misconceptions exist and need to be faced. Then it 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the environment, to mass images, and to mass misconceptions. Your ignorance and the ignorance of educators and 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
is in fact most creative. Because of these misconceptions, you have deliberately starved such needs. That cannot 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
soul. The distortion, in combination with the general misconceptions, increases the confusion. The split also makes communication 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
that you have made errors and cling to misconceptions, you cannot come to terms with yourself. Nor 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
comes from compulsions, which, in turn, come from misconceptions, your images, your lack of belief in yourself 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
and insights that dealt with your wrong conclusions, misconceptions, images, pseudo-solutions. You are, to some extent at 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
tale in which you find your deviations and misconceptions and evasions, and, after having done so, nothing 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
fuller understanding of all your pseudo- solutions and misconceptions, whose depths will make you aware of your 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
it habit that causes you to stick to misconceptions, wrong conclusions, generalizations that are always half-truths, at 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
through your emotions and thereby determine the specific misconceptions you have harbored all your life. Awareness of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
justifying yourself -- then you can understand what misconceptions are behind these unreasonable attitudes. Then they will 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
truth. Together we have tried to understand what misconceptions and deviations prevent you from being in harmony 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
and experienced, the other work on images and misconceptions will not really help you. We have often 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
through the maze of your various images and misconceptions, you will be able to come face to 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
due to fear, cowardice, pride, betrayal, and other misconceptions, all of which would leave others in need 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
while other areas are blocked off. Obstructions and misconceptions create a wall. But wherever walls do not 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
act of will. Only finding and changing your misconceptions, pseudo-solutions, and distortions can bring this about. To 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
become part of your soul because of your misconceptions. If you could trust the flux of time 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
how your determination, is limited by your unconscious misconceptions. To the degree you are capable of assimilating 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
answers through the understanding of the inner errors, misconceptions, faulty perceptions. Only this will bring true security 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
unfulfillments, frustrations as a result of your inner misconceptions and subsequent faulty responses to other people and 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
removed. As you so well know, your personal misconceptions and confusions, your erroneous conclusions blot out this 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
real, self is not only your errors and misconceptions, your false images and distortions, your lower self 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
in this work to understand and resolve images, misconceptions, distorted unhealthy attitudes, in short, everything breeding problems 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
will discover little by little your personal unconscious misconceptions, making abundantly clear how they create the various 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
isolated scraps of recognition of specific images or misconceptions. They all must form one nucleus, manifesting your 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
conflicts. Its duality is due to illusion and misconceptions. At the same time, its psyche is very 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
and in their confusion constantly engendering each other's misconceptions and fortifying the split. This process is difficult 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
is the influence of deeply ingrained prejudices and misconceptions. This world is so filled with generally accepted 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
infant is not burdened with guilts, shames and misconceptions. Therefore, the instinctual drives manifest much more intensely 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
This phenomenon is completely natural, and only traditional misconceptions stamp it as wrong. Generation upon generation of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
that leads toward spiritual maturity. All images, pseudo-solutions, misconceptions and inner conflicts arise from the infant's struggle 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
freer you become of blind fears, guilts, and misconceptions, the more you can choose freely with penetrating 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
freer you are of inner unresolved problems and misconceptions, the more accurately will these inner faculties function 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
the necessary information about the inner misunderstandings and misconceptions which are responsible for your fear of love 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
same applies, of course, to a woman. Age-old misconceptions handed down from one generation to the next 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
fear. All faults, problems, confusions, distortions, conflicts, and misconceptions derive from pride, self-will, and fear in one 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
the conscious mind because the absurdity of conscious misconceptions and unrealistic outlooks is more easily detectable and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
yourself from the rubbish of useless fears and misconceptions that divide you, the constructive, creative, productive elements 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
or have gained, understanding of your images and misconceptions, nor how and why they came into existence 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
mistaken when you believe that having found the misconceptions, the erroneous conclusions, will automatically change your innermost 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
and in your pathwork you have discovered unconscious misconceptions, false guilts, and destructive attitudes that prohibit it 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
eliminated unless the deep fear and its concomitant misconceptions, which call it into existence become conscious, and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
way it manifests, as well as on what misconceptions it is based. Your unconscious speaks steadily, my 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
on searching for an intellectual understanding of one-time misconceptions, thereby overlooking the steady flow of the no-current 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
that the fear is not understood, since the misconceptions and the unreal outlook behind it are not 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
ascertaining why it exists, and on what specific misconceptions it is based. When this is perceived for 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
erases the old, rigid, heavy, untruthful one. When misconceptions of not deserving all that happiness are found 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
yourself and strengthen you to change false images, misconceptions, and to swing from the no-current, that has 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
starts out in life with personal images and misconceptions, having fabricated certain remedies against the illusory dread 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
against happiness by fearing truth and holding onto misconceptions. Liberation as a result of this path, the 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
aware of resistance and can pinpoint your exact misconceptions and confusions, you have already won, because then 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
life force, apart from one's personal images and misconceptions. So often the great spiritual truths, in particular 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
at your disposal. These inner deviations, ignorances and misconceptions, the insistence on a childish way of life 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
the imagined annihilation of your cherished images and misconceptions. Now, these fears are founded on false ideas 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE
understand the cause and effect of images and misconceptions. You know what the right conclusions are behind 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
ones. And it is always, and exclusively, the misconceptions that create havoc, disharmony, unhappiness. Nothing else can 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the truth behind the automatism caused by specific misconceptions. When the personal path is taken this way 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
how you act as a consequence of your misconceptions and images, how your negative emotions make you 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
of the years, we have amply discussed that misconceptions are responsible for all suffering. This includes the 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
to find any number of general and personal misconceptions. Now, my dearest friends, if you take all 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
my dearest friends, if you take all these misconceptions, put them together, and search for a common 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
a long chain reaction of negative beliefs and misconceptions, you will no longer feel hopeless about your 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
fog is not enough. All unconscious countercurrents, all misconceptions, must be dislodged. I have often said that 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
a major fulfillment is blocked by innumerable little misconceptions, they have to be tackled one by one 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
have given you, always first finding and removing misconceptions. Do not superimpose the right concepts, but evaluate 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
state of mind, uncluttered by fear, prejudice, and misconceptions. The little the soul does remember is soon 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
both. When such fears exist, there must be misconceptions and erroneous imprints in the soul. When fear 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
enemy sits within, a product of false fears, misconceptions, and unnecessary limitations. It is because of these 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
understand its contents. You must understand that particular misconceptions make the water muddy, what these misconceptions are 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
particular misconceptions make the water muddy, what these misconceptions are, and in what way they are misconceptions 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
misconceptions are, and in what way they are misconceptions. This is the expressing, the emptying out. Let 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
problem arise a number of general and particular misconceptions and destructive attitudes. You will find the following 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
a path the personality is still filled with misconceptions and utterly unaware of its confusions. Then all 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
terminated the day after tomorrow because too many misconceptions and false fears clog up the channel. Giving 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
where you clearly feel the foreign body of misconceptions to be just that. Many of your victories 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
soul does not dare to face. The existing misconceptions and confusions, as always, stop the flow of 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
is one of the most frequent and hindering misconceptions in the pathwork. This is why I have 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
a mangled, distorted way because of all the misconceptions and confusions. You strive toward this end, but 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
and more as the personality removes distortions and misconceptions embedded in the psyche. These distortions create a 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
This is particularly important to understand, because these misconceptions are the cause of humanity's predicament. All misconceptions 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
misconceptions are the cause of humanity's predicament. All misconceptions, as you find them in the course of 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
how this holds true. When you examine the misconceptions, the images, as they unfold through your pathwork 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
through your pathwork, and you look at these misconceptions deeply enough, you are bound to find that 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
and relaxation is the primary duality, underlying all misconceptions, resulting in a situation where you see only 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
a deeper level. I have often said that misconceptions create strife, and this is perfectly true. But 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
any pleasure? Both resistances are the result of misconceptions. These particular resistances, for example, create a confusion 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
powers, can solve all your problems. Whatever your misconceptions are, this in-dwelling consciousness can change them into 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
to be in negativity or hang on to misconceptions, such as these, in that moment you take 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
the human psyche, way beneath the ordinary neurotic misconceptions and fears human beings harbor in their unconscious 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
way to your destiny because your fears and misconceptions lead to self- alienation and escape from life 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
reality will be doubted as long as personal misconceptions are not eliminated -- it fears letting go 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
it is easy to verify that all these misconceptions govern you and rob you of the beauty 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
afflicted by images, by neurotic behavior patterns, and misconceptions so deeply engraved that you require more extended 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
time we have concentrated on finding the errors, misconceptions, and defects which are, of course, interdependent. In 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE
to corresponding mental and emotional blocks, distortions and misconceptions. When you are sick in your outlook, in 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
into the closed chambers of your dark, dismal misconceptions about life and your own innermost nature. QUESTION 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY
This is the most profound reason for your misconceptions, false fears and guilts, negativity and destructiveness. Deep 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
true that all your difficulties come from these misconceptions, which you embrace as the final spiritual truth 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
It is closer to the truth that these misconceptions stem from the deep spiritual conflict that motivates 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
child experiences that later cause inner conflicts and misconceptions. All life moves toward resolving it. The precondition 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
goes beyond the neurotic fears that stem from misconceptions and personally experienced traumas. What is this basic 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
These artificial levels do not exclusively result from misconceptions in the usual sense. When the naked core 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
basic as all the fears responsible for the misconceptions and the splitting of the individual. It originates 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
form the images we have talked about. The misconceptions, deeply lodged in the soul substance, compel people 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
negatively. When you are free from illusion and misconceptions -- and therefore, in contact with your real 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
they are only destructive according to your hidden misconceptions. Yet, in actuality, you still fear the self-perpetuating 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
They are the result of the distortions, images, misconceptions, misunderstandings of early painful experiences. They do not 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
and rest. In the disturbed organism, distorted by misconceptions, the expanding movement appears fraught with danger. Misconception 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the consciousness, on its deepest levels, corrects the misconceptions that have brought the outer unwelcome experience about 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is nothing but the consequence of deeply lodged misconceptions with their inevitable further result: fear, guilt, anger 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
your search for your true self, for your misconceptions, and in the observation of your mental and 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
your freedom or enslavement to your images and misconceptions. They determine the depth and scope and nature 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
lives for yourself is the following cluster of misconceptions which are widespread in the world: It is 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
do not have to further elucidate these deeply-lodged misconceptions which are often more unconscious than conscious. But 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
what you wish. It is also based on misconceptions such as, Pleasure is wrong, or It is 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
individual is completely ensnarled in this trap of misconceptions, distortions, and illusions with all the destructive emotions 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
become tired because every soul movement based on misconceptions is exhausting by its very nature. It makes 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
battling through the waste and mud of one's misconceptions and destructiveness. You all know that and experience 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
destructive and sloppy thinking processes, your fears, your misconceptions, your ignorance -- in short, by allowing so 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
and, above all, deprived. The more one sheds misconceptions and wakes up to life, the thinner this 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
mean that you have -- through your errors, misconceptions and destructive feelings and behavior patterns -- created 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
indeed is possible. All I can say is, misconceptions and destructiveness hang on to you because you 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
two contradictory original assumptions multiply the confusion, entanglements, misconceptions and the resulting pain. For error is pain 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
a path knows from experience how burdensome such misconceptions and confusions and mutually exclusive ideas are and 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
you to have more initiative about discovering the misconceptions of your suffering. On this day that commemorates 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE
have talked about many obstructions, such as your misconceptions and destructive attitudes, in many ways and from 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
your fears are, why you are afraid, what misconceptions exist that create fear, and so on. I 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
of cramp because their centers are closed. Your misconceptions, fears, and negativities create this cramp. It is 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
give it up -- for whatever reasons and misconceptions -- but at least you see a vitally 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
and the feeling of being victimized are themselves misconceptions. The false blame launched against the world makes 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Your parents are not finally responsible for your misconceptions. Resentment against them violates the law of self-responsibility 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Imprints After you become thoroughly conscious of your misconceptions and actively experience your negative emotions without acting 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
that was necessary to become conscious of the misconceptions and negativity -- and that will have increased 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
has an open mind and is free from misconceptions. No false beliefs create fear, defensiveness, destructive emotions 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
individual particles of consciousness accept truth and abandon misconceptions and error. Every sick part of your body 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
asked you again and again: What are the misconceptions that make you close up against life, that 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
your confusions and dualistic splits that create your misconceptions, fears, and shames that are so superfluous. Let 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
deny yourself pleasure -- due to shames, fears, misconceptions, negativities, impurities -- to that degree you cut 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
the pain that you have created through your misconceptions and destructiveness, and do not cringe or run 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
state. Therefore, dynamic growth is also mastery over misconceptions. Misconceptions always lead to more disunity. They stem 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
Therefore, dynamic growth is also mastery over misconceptions. Misconceptions always lead to more disunity. They stem from 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
and painful. On your path you have found misconceptions that equate love with pain and danger, pleasure 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
and real unification. As a result of such misconceptions, all forward movement appears dangerous. The stagnating, restricting 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS
If you lack such willingness, examine yourself; grave misconceptions must be hindering the willingness. Nothing could be 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
and effort to comprehend further the deeply embedded misconceptions responsible for wanting to retain this game. But 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
explored for origins, results, further ramifications. What underlying misconceptions are responsible for the overt self-destruction, the hate 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
spite, the malice, the ruthless selfwill? When the misconceptions are being recognized, guilt and self-hate diminish proportionately 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
work which is the exploration of the underlying misconceptions and the heavy price paid for them. The 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
self and then the understanding of the underlying misconceptions, the causes and effects, the meaning and the 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
yourself from your negativities. What are they? The misconceptions; the destructive emotions, attitudes and behavior patterns that 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
not ad infinitum. For example, you know that misconceptions create behavior patterns that inevitably seem to prove 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
least developed and still full of fear and misconceptions is able to expand only very little. Since 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
stands still. It moves and moves and moves. Misconceptions and errors breed negativity. Negativity breeds more error 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
you saw how you were compelled to reexperience misconceptions and stagnant feelings. Over and over again you 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
the mask. This fragmentation creates misunderstandings, illusions, and misconceptions. It is one of the tasks of this 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
the tasks of this pathwork to find these misconceptions and correct them. Now let me shed some 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
entirely conscious and their exact manifestations understood can misconceptions be corrected, because lack of awareness creates misconceptions 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
misconceptions be corrected, because lack of awareness creates misconceptions. Misconceptions, in turn, create negative energy and feelings 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
be corrected, because lack of awareness creates misconceptions. Misconceptions, in turn, create negative energy and feelings. Negative 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
level of mind must deal with concepts and misconceptions. Thoughts and thought processes which are directed into 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
conditioned reflexes, and of creative expression of feelings. Misconceptions can be quite conscious without your knowing that 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
quite conscious without your knowing that they are misconceptions. Therefore your conscious beliefs must also be tested 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
conscious beliefs must also be tested and investigated. Misconceptions can be vaguely conscious. This is the case 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
to the fact that you are governed by misconceptions, but you have not yet concisely specified what 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
you have not yet concisely specified what these misconceptions and their consequences are. Then the work of 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
work of specific identification needs to be done. Misconceptions can also be unconscious. In that case, the 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
to love, and have your reasons, or rather misconceptions, for not loving. Hence, unconscious misconceptions can only 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
or rather misconceptions, for not loving. Hence, unconscious misconceptions can only be unearthed by looking at your 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
be scrutinized, understood, and made conscious. Where distortions, misconceptions, and negativities exist in a psyche, the forces 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
Feelings Again, where there are conscious or unconscious misconceptions of the mind and an imbalance of the 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
negating the greater reality altogether. In both instances, misconceptions must be eliminated in order to free the 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
then can you see all the conflicts and misconceptions. Only then can you begin to create a 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
be used for the very purpose of eliminating misconceptions and destructive attitudes. With the help of meditation 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
meditation you can become aware of what your misconceptions are and why they are erroneous. With the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
turn it into a negative manifestation. Once the misconceptions are eliminated, you can actively create more desirable 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
is wrong; why it is so; what its misconceptions are as well as the damage it causes 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
connection between the latter and character defects, images, misconceptions, and destructive feelings. It is an important fact 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
to explore deep inner layers, which consist of misconceptions, negative intentionality, residual pain. With each individual the 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
purification consists of dealing with these three. When misconceptions can, on the innermost level, can be exchanged 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
Negative intentionality is a defense against experiencing pain. Misconceptions are a result of both. So there is 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
any type of negativity, and it results from misconceptions. Every individual's task on the evolutionary road is 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
imposing artificial interpretations on the event. Then no misconceptions, no negative intentionality, no evil, no suffering can 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
universal bliss. To the degree evil exists -- misconceptions, defenses, negative intentionality, refusal to experience one's self-produced 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
It is essential to deal with confusions, inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
the layers that separate you from it. The misconceptions, false images, negativities, illusions, pretensions, defenses, unexperienced and 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
is easy to veer off into distortions and misconceptions of truth. If you are frightened of pain 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the whole self is involved. Wherever there are misconceptions, ignorance, false ideas, and withheld emotional matter -- 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
is, as a whole, of negative feelings, illusions, misconceptions, of negative intentionality and attitudes. Every bit of 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
the soul and the less encumbered by distortions, misconceptions, negativity, and destructive impulses, the more reliable become 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
the term images in the pathwork to define misconceptions and generalizations which form very limited and fixed 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
thwarts this natural state. Maybe you hold onto misconceptions that will prevent you from wanting to go 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
preconceptions. It means letting go of fears, distrust, misconceptions, and suspicion. But it also means letting go 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
know by now how to search for the misconceptions, negative intentionality, and destructive attitudes that must underlie 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
it. You rather trust the pseudo-reality of your misconceptions, of your puny fears and defenses, of false 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
path to admit these resistances, to question the misconceptions, to work on them, to meditate, to make 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
is hardly surprising. You have found many absurd misconceptions in the course of your path that you 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
disappointing, unfulfilling way of life for her. All misconceptions sooner or later turn out this way. But 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
Whenever something real is denied because of the misconceptions that it is too difficult, those difficulties must 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
fact that you can point out the fallacies, misconceptions distorted expectations, illusory aims and negative feelings within 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
humble and good. One of the many dualistic misconceptions of your world is the equation of self-devaluation 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
because there is so much misunderstanding, so many misconceptions, about this principle in your world of duality 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
reality around you to suit your most infantile misconceptions and unreal needs for instant gratification. You feel 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
emotion follows reason and will. If you have misconceptions that to love is to lose, to be 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
recognitions in this regard. You have found many misconceptions, personal and general, that create this resistance to 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
and emotional problems, beyond the images and mental misconceptions. All of these are the result of the 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
total surrender to God will show you your misconceptions and your perception will adjust to reality. Thus 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
but making yourself desirable, playing into other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission to substitute authority and 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
for images are not only distortions of truth, misconceptions and misperceptions. They inevitably create a rigid soul 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
habit of putting effect before cause creates gross misconceptions and misinterpretations of life that prevent you from 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT

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