| Mother's....................5 | |
| a reason. The physical shell grows in the mother's body, although there is no spirit in it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the human being goes back further than the mother's womb. The truth is that you all have | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| very limited degree, as the baby in the mother's womb can grow to only a certain point | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| baby. When the infant is weaned from the mother's breast, it is a crisis. Each such phase | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| understand the origin of this. I know my mother's role is important here, but I don't think | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Motion......................135 | |
| in the spirit is in continuous, ever-vibrating, circular motion. Nothing is static, neither feelings nor circumstances, nothing | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| cause and effect you yourselves have set in motion by your past actions or attitudes. Your difficulties | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| consequences and a chain reaction is set in motion. This kind of preoccupation with one's faults is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you possess true humility which will set in motion the forces of transformation from deep within. Then | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| change since everything in spirit is in perpetual motion. The aura of the physical body shows physical | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| sensational and phenomenal -- forces are set in motion to train this particular medium for his or | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| cycle, whether vicious or benign, is set in motion between the two. This will never change as | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| about by causes you yourself have set in motion. Let me give you an example. Suppose a | 18 FREE WILL |
| advantage, you yourself set the respective causes in motion; whether in this same lifetime or in a | 18 FREE WILL |
| cases where, for some reasons, this freedom of motion cannot be given. It is too complicated to | 18 FREE WILL |
| succumbed to the temptation, it set something in motion that could not be changed any more. This | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| others. Thus a vicious circle is set in motion that can only be broken if sufficient self-awareness | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of revolting you set an active force in motion where a passive one should exist. Only after | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| back and a vicious circle is set in motion. But when you do understand what you are | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| automatically as an effect of causes set in motion, and partly administered by spirit helpers. This is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| new conflicts: rejection from others will set in motion a new chain reaction. Or the person represses | 38 IMAGES |
| really is. These obstacles include time, space, and motion. Time, space, and motion are completely different in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| include time, space, and motion. Time, space, and motion are completely different in the spiritual world than | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| form, and, like the universe, is continuously in motion. Everything is flexible and flowing. All divine forces | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| paint the many-colored cosmic forces in beautiful, harmonious motion, and also show how they stagnate and congest | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| retribution, or effect of the cause set in motion, may be carried out in a different way | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| two opposite extremes set a vicious circle in motion: the greater the rebellion on the part of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| but because they have set certain forms in motion that oppose their life plan. When the life | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| understand the wrong causes you have set in motion before you can truly understand divine truth. If | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| attitude. It will set the life force in motion in your soul. For, among many other things | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| ANSWER: No. You set your own causes in motion by your decisions or the lack of them | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reach: the state of being, of timelessness, and motion in motionlessness. It is the final stage of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| incentive to turn around. In any kind of motion or movement, things change. If they change for | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| depressive state. Besides, the very momentum of your motion, wrong as it has been so far, will | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| to summon the strength to set yourself in motion. And you may not even realize the necessity | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of being, is static and therefore apparently without motion. It is no contradiction, my friends, although I | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you imagine it as a cycle, a circular motion, you will come closer to the truth. In | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| that the self-punishing and self-destructive forces, put in motion by wrong motives, affect not so much the | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| shall now discuss the chain reactions set in motion by a wrong concept of happiness. The desire | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| individual himself or herself has set it in motion. Let us assume a person commits a crime | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and slowing down the abrupt and too quick motion of the overactive current. From an overall view | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| so, an entire benign chain-reaction is set in motion, replacing the vicious circle that existed before. Intuition | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| it as the effect you have set in motion through your own inner causes. And if you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| understanding the causes that you have set in motion will you be able properly to assimilate your | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the other person to withdraw from the exaggerated motion of your demand. If the person has inner | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and conscious. Try to visualize this strong, forward-surging motion, with all the impact of the forcing current | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| actually the very effects that you set in motion. The knowledge of such laws will liberate you | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of the other person. Contrarily, the grabbing, craving motion I described in this lecture, the distortion of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of self-preservation, creating the restrictive, holding back, inverted motion, will prevent communication. So what I have said | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| yet realized, if only you set it in motion by removing your own obstacles to fulfillment. The | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| cannot fail to set negative chain reactions in motion. In this connection, we may speak of primary | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| shoot out, but still in a tense, cramped motion. Both movements were tense and cramped, one pressing | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that was heretofore frozen. You put it into motion and thus enable it to grow, so that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| in consequence of the patterns you set in motion whose effects have not yet worn off -- | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| two full- fledged vicious circles are set into motion. One is a vicious circle within yourself, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| thereby falsified. A destructive pattern is set in motion, which remains in force as long as the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| a much more subtle procedure is set in motion, an automatic reaction that is not commensurate with | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the subtle, but nevertheless very distinct inner double motion, you will find a psychological value in understanding | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| is of a shorter span of time and motion. Thought, which is movement, brings you into another | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| and thereby an inner growth is set in motion, if it does not stop halfway but is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| life goes out. The entire universe is in motion because it is alive. This principle applies equally | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of life, which is always flexible, always in motion. Feelings are movement, too. When feelings are prohibited | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| absence of barriers sets a healthy flow in motion which causes the entity to come out of | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| trying to hold back time in a fear-cramped motion, and rushing ahead because you cannot stand the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| you even know it. Something is set in motion when you deliberately tap your divine self for | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| In other words, you set new causes in motion by refusing to be the prey of your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| commitment you automatically set the creative powers in motion. This must produce results, which then justify entrusting | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| is, grow. These powers can be set in motion only by consciousness. One has the choice of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| consciousness. One has the choice of letting the motion happen automatically, allowing one's unconscious attitude to affect | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| The self-directing mind sets the universal forces in motion; they respond according to the direction set by | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| around you. You set the creative process in motion in a marvelous way when you know that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| real self, and universal forces are set in motion. When you reach into the ego world with | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| understandable. This tremendous life substance is in continuous motion. Let us go a little more deeply into | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| come nearer to straightening out this imbalance of motion. As you proceed in reorienting your until recently | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| whereas the whole cosmos is in perpetual, beautiful motion. When you establish the same cosmic movement within | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fear defeat you will set those powers in motion that will bring you out of this trap | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| of the negative causes that you set in motion. The pathwork must primarily be concerned with uncovering | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| result of some cause you have set in motion, the moment you say I must somehow have | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| of self-perpetuation. Autonomy is positively self-perpetuating, set in motion by reality consciousness. Again, this can be ascertained | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this deliberate process which sets something new in motion. Such pathwork process accomplishes just this. It is | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of insight and understanding has been set in motion. But then the still existing, because not yet | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| action are both cause and energy, setting in motion a series of chain reactions. It is the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| back to the inner center, to the inner motion, it always comes down to the point at | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| It never repeats and never needs an opposing motion. It has transcended the principle of cause and | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and controlled by the destructive force set in motion by your negative concept of life, your negative | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| the rhythm of the universe, the same unstrained motion of peace. The principle of active-passive balance must | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| freedom, enslavement to the false processes set in motion. One no longer chooses either excitement or peace | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| intent simply and firmly, something is set in motion that will bring the awareness. The clearer you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| is also contraction, only in a rhythmic smooth motion, in a harmonious way. Unpleasure is an extended | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| of causes beyond those you inwardly set in motion. It is always a product of your own | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the conscious self strives and grasps. Such tense motion -- even toward the desired goal -- defeats | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| to you because you set their effects in motion a long time ago and the causes cannot | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you can avoid setting new undesirable results in motion. Such strength and ability grows from direct, head-on | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| sincerely meant attitude something new is set in motion right at that moment! Generally and specifically, wherever | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or push in order to put something in motion within. For some, religious memories and considerations may | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| merely a result of the forces set in motion by striving away from the center. The incredibly | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| that the conscious entity deliberately claims, sets in motion, moves toward, causes, determines, or purposefully uses these | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| integral part of setting the creative forces in motion. This is active doing. We may call this | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| fruition, of surrendering to a force set in motion: this may be called the feminine principle in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| for fruition, by trusting the forces set in motion? Your own intuitive powers reach your consciousness only | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| finish lawfully what you have deliberately set in motion, you will be unafraid to surrender to a | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| too, are enhanced. I feel very much in motion and my faculties have been supercharged and expanded | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| As you deliberately set the activating principle in motion, so will you deliberately let the fruition come | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| echo is created that will set something in motion within you which may make you want to | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| you sense that somehow you set something in motion that you might repeat again and again without | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| love will grow in an ever- increasing, self-perpetuating, motion. So it is with every other constructive feeling | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| point to set a new energy influx in motion. The voluntary attitude of commitment will create an | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the creative process you have deliberately set in motion. It cannot be emphasized enough that meditation, like | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| then a very harmful process is set in motion because the inner expansion pushes forward and the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| group as a whole. You have set in motion something that is indeed greater than the human | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| it feels to set a positive intentionality in motion. As you avail yourself of this new freedom | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| as the result of the cause set in motion, which in this case is a half-commitment, a | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| from are direct effects of causes set in motion by your negative intentionality. You still ascribe the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| mind power and the energy it sets in motion. This oneness works in both a constructive and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| at first, because to go from stasis to motion on any level first requires accepting a temporary | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| disassociating yourself from the causes you set in motion by this or that attitude and will direction | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| ensuing actions and events are inexorably set in motion, and these actions and events continue to perpetuate | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| like a deeply imprinted motor mechanism, set in motion with great energy. Thus a stronger energy is | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you alter the course you have set in motion and create a new force field because you | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the partners striving for union set something in motion that takes on its own momentum like a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| accept this benign force and set it in motion. You distrust yourself as you are now because | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| new creation, you set new psychic events in motion, which have an inexorable effect on life and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the specific attitude that sets the circle in motion. When humans find themselves in the illusion of | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| the most brilliant creative genius to set in motion the energy systems, the muscular coordination and control | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| certain point. Negative creative processes can set in motion a spiral configuration, consisting of psychic nuclear points | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| points. The creation has to be set in motion until it takes on its own momentum. When | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| part of a process you have set in motion through your commitment to be in truth, to | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| change from a negative to a positive self-perpetuating motion and creation, how you can create an involuntary | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| each human being, wittingly or unwittingly, sets in motion. Listen to their underground noises, see their meaning | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| immense and benign energy cannot be set in motion unless you speak the truth. You are experiencing | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| the initial word that set all this in motion -- that many of you have spoken. Even | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| spiral and find yourself on a deeper circular motion, leading to the treasure of your inner universe | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| by either the cause you have set in motion or by the effect you have brought about | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| most creative and beautiful causes are set in motion. In this enlightened state of consciousness, cause and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- of the cause that is set in motion when your natural soul movement of surrendering to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| future. You thus set a new cause in motion that will bring new effects. Many of your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the connections between the causes you set in motion and their effects on yourself and others. Once | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| be motivated to set the further process in motion. Next, you need to make the decision on | 254 SURRENDER |
| force of the new influx is set in motion, it cannot be halted. The more opposition it | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| it continues. Something new has been set in motion. Through communication, through exposure, the whole world knows | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |