| Authorities.................5 | |
| spheres and hospitals and physicians and higher placed authorities and assistants and ledgers and plans--all this exists | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| elation? The question has been answered by many authorities, but may we hear what you have to | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| new relationship or a new mate. The new authorities in your life will be, like you, autonomous | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is so powerful, in fact, that the very authorities against whom there has been so much rebellion | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| feared this combined current more than anyone. These authorities are not that far removed from those who | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Authority...................252 | |
| the question and answer form. QUESTION: As an authority whose opinion I hold in high regard, would | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| one above it to consult, that it has authority for all and can decide without consulting higher | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| God. So any spirit claiming it has complete authority is not trustworthy. Furthermore, a spirit of God's | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| arbitrarily choose the subject myself on my own authority. This is not quite so. I think it | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the Fall. Lucifer has given this spirit the authority for this earth sphere, for the world of | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be outstanding, to be admired, to be an authority. The moment the mixture of motives is calmly | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| not because the person seems to be an authority and therefore easy to believe. How many people | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| many people accept something said by a respected authority and yet reject the very same words if | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| have received permission to do so from higher authority. My dear friends, let me first tell you | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| developed far enough, decisions are made by higher authority. But even in these cases, the entity is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| difficult--or too easy. In such instances, the higher authority, advising and planning the next incarnation with the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the spirit to be incarnated or the higher authority planned it--development is speeded up or slowed down | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| moment the entity is brought again to the authority in charge of its whole cycle, who has | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| there before a certain spirit who has high authority and great responsibility. The entity to be incarnated | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| soon is difficult to say--when an intermediary human authority between man and God will no longer be | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| peace, my dear ones. Be in God! 46. AUTHORITY Greetings in the name of God and Jesus | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| subject chosen for tonight is the question of authority and what this concept implies for human beings | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| question than you now realize, my dear friends. Authority is the very first conflict for a growing | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| parents or parent-substitutes, and later on teachers represent authority for the child. This authority denies the child | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| on teachers represent authority for the child. This authority denies the child many a wish fulfillment. Therefore | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| denies the child many a wish fulfillment. Therefore, authority seems hostile. No matter how much love, warmth | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| first hurdle of life. The child's attitude toward authority is carried over into adult life. The often | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| into adult life. The often unconscious reactions to authority indicate whether this hurdle has become a stepping | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not. If the grown person can adjust to authority maturely and freely, another milestone has been reached | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| soul. If, on the other hand, reaction toward authority remains childish because unconscious compulsive attitudes prevail, then | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reached, the imperfect soul would react negatively toward authority, even if it were administered in a perfect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a perfect way. But since people are imperfect, authority too is often administered in a very imperfect | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is set up between the child and the authority, the grown-up. It is worse if love is | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it resists and rebels against being restricted by authority. The child feels the authority as a hostile | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| being restricted by authority. The child feels the authority as a hostile force, an enemy that locks | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to exist. But when the child grows up, authority merely changes: instead of parents and teachers, authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| authority merely changes: instead of parents and teachers, authority is now represented by society, government, law-enforcing institutions | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| old feelings are carried over from childhood, and authority now restricts you as an adult. The same | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be loved and accepted, therefore to rebel against authority was impossible -- or so you believed. As | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| recognize your own particular way of reacting toward authority. Broadly speaking, you react to authority in one | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| reacting toward authority. Broadly speaking, you react to authority in one of two ways -- all human | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at those who rebel and revolt outwardly against authority. They feel authority as an enemy because many | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| rebel and revolt outwardly against authority. They feel authority as an enemy because many desires that were | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| well as later -- were forbidden by some authority. They know, or think, that there is nothing | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| is nothing wrong with what they want. Yet, authority hinders them, and they often feel that the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hinders them, and they often feel that the authority is not only unjust, but generally harmful, narrow-minded | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| unconsciously thinking, If I become one with the authority, much as I may dislike that authority, I | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the authority, much as I may dislike that authority, I am safe. The belief in this apparent | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| own tendencies of hidden rebellion against law and authority, the more will they find it necessary to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the law as such any longer, or against authority in its good and true sense, but actually | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of the kind who revolts and rebels against authority, then you should meditate to gain the right | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| for an awareness of the difference between real authority in the divine sense and the imperfect human | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the divine sense and the imperfect human authority you have often encountered in your life -- | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that unconsciously you are under the impression that authority means only the wrong kind. Once you can | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| encountered the true one -- your resistance against authority will automatically diminish. And after such recognition, you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the distorted and weak brother of the true authority and law that is your protection as much | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| anyone else's. You will no longer feel that authority, as such, is an enemy force. The knowledge | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| necessity for law and order, and therefore for authority whose task it is to uphold it. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| any longer. The ideal, wise, good and understanding authority will remain a goal to be attained. You | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| will understand that even the imperfect form of authority, as it manifests on earth, is necessary. In | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| certain subtle manifestations of the wrong kind of authority in the past. Furthermore, you will become increasingly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| become increasingly aware of the meaning of divine authority that manifests also in some human beings who | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just because you may feel that it represents authority. Unless you focus your attention on this whole | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in all ways, and who is, therefore, an authority -- not necessarily on any particular subject, this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| mean at all -- but a person of authority, as such. If you observe, in retrospect, the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| longer recognize the true and right kind of authority, even if they should come across it. They | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| realize that there are two different kinds of authority -- the self-righteous kind and the higher kind | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that one automatically has to react against any authority. This healthy reasoning process will, among other things | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| what appeared to you the stronger force, the authority as you perceived it. True, good motives are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just because you are on the side of authority, on the side of the law, you are | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Jesus brought so much censure upon himself? Human authority censured him because he associated with the lowly | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| laugh at the wrong and pompous kind of authority that is so proud of its law and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and its letter. His is the kind of authority you should strive for, my friends. Go with | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it is partly because the wrong kind of authority has prevailed too long, and has driven the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Isn't the only person who is a real authority, in the final analysis, the one to whom | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| That goes without saying. God is the only authority. But that is not the point of this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not deal with the question of accepting God's authority versus human authority. The question is to find | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the question of accepting God's authority versus human authority. The question is to find out your attitude | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| question is to find out your attitude toward authority as such. Your childhood reactions still color your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| of a person to the concept of human authority as such, in whatever form it may present | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| words. QUESTION: In connection with your lecture on authority, could you give any further advice to a | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| who finds that with a particular form of authority he is unconsciously a law-upholder, but consciously he | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| acute resentment, dislike, and intolerance toward this particular authority? ANSWER: I will gladly answer this question. Once | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| rebels consciously, particularly against a certain form of authority, the foundation for change is laid. Without this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| deem it important enough for all of you. Authority is not only that which emotionally represents the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| forces that prohibit your doing what you wish. Authority can also be represented for you personally by | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| love your parents, and yet they are your authority. The conflict came into existence because you loved | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you love, and therefore this person becomes your authority. The answer to this question is: Examine your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| person for whom the loved one becomes the authority because of an overdependency will learn that though | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you are forced, or compelled to obey, an authority that is stronger than you. I outlined this | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| already, such as love, eros and sex or authority; others I shall discuss in the future. Think | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| in the area where you still rebel against authority. Since you still crave to belong, and your | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| your life. Children experience their first conflict with authority at an early age. I have talked at | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| They also learn that God is the highest authority. Therefore it is not surprising that children project | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| surprising that children project their subjective experiences with authority on their imaginings about God. An image is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the child's, and later the adult's, relationship to authority is, his or her attitude toward God will | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| influenced by it. Children experience all kinds of authority. When they are prohibited from doing what they | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| from doing what they enjoy most, they experience authority as hostile. When parental authority indulges a child | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| most, they experience authority as hostile. When parental authority indulges a child, authority will be felt as | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| as hostile. When parental authority indulges a child, authority will be felt as benign. When there is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| there is a predominance of one kind of authority in childhood, the reaction to that will become | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| Then the combination of these two kinds of authority will form their image about God. To the | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| punishment from God -- the highest and sternest authority. In addition, you are bound to encounter human | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| injustices are perpetrated by people who stand for authority -- and are, therefore, unconsciously associated with God | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the case in which a child experiences benign authority to a greater extent than fear and frustration | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| only depend on the particular kind of predominant authority experienced in childhood, but also on the characteristics | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| also play a role. For instance, when hostile authority in the person of a domineering parent is | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| false. In every child's life both kinds of authority are experienced, no matter how much stronger one | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| sibling. It is never just one kind of authority. It is very important, my friends, to find | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to examine and analyze your emotional reactions to authority, to your parents, to your fears and expectations | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| you about your guilts, about your revolt against authority, and about your fears of not being accepted | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| one of the many forms of rebellion against authority. It is also quite true that if a | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Partly it has to give in because the authority is stronger, but partly it gives in because | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| almost sound paradoxical. This raises the question of authority, whether or not one should pay attention to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| just that. You want to have a benign authority above you who steers your life in all | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is so because you wish to make this authority responsible for the negative things only. Many of | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| learned as to judge rightly, we seek an authority because we are weak and in need of | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unhappiness. At first such a person embraces this authority unquestioningly. Then he or she goes to the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reject certain things coming from people who represent authority. It will no longer matter who said it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the pseudo-safety of utter reliance upon another authority. This is why you cannot find an unblurred | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| On the one hand, people need the strong authority who upholds the fixed rule because then they | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| security are the parents' responsibility and call for authority on their part. There are parents who never | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| never dare to punish or exert a healthy authority. This failing is due to guilt because real | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| severe, too strict. They thereby exert a domineering authority by bullying the child, and not allowing its | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| his last moment. Many a spiritual teacher or authority would hesitate to admit moments of fear and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the rules of life, or it may be authority, in the sense of a must. The main | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in building these defenses, whether as a vague authority or an imaginary, severe, punishing God. The decrees | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| severe, punishing God. The decrees of this powerful authority make safety and happiness impossible, cause frustration and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| determinants is that in false religion obedience to authority is one of the great strongholds. In all | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and appease a more powerful person, being, or authority. Obedience to authority has been encouraged by exponents | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| more powerful person, being, or authority. Obedience to authority has been encouraged by exponents of religion under | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| world -- or God, or life, or human authority -- see the necessity of taking care of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feel rejected by God, by life, by human authority, and this shame must be hidden at all | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you a wish for the strong hand of authority that is utterly good to you, and your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| God is neither a benign nor a hostile authority, that God has freed us and it is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| religion, even if the weakness and clinging to authority happens to take a consciously secular form. Thus | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and security. While you cling to a stronger authority than yourself in order to avoid effort and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| weaker and more helpless. Such a relation to authority can take the form of a vague sense | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| I can do nothing without God, without an authority who permits me to be happy. This God | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| may do so peremptorily, because someone else in authority has told you to do so. But even | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you. This other being is often a human authority or church authority claiming to act on behalf | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| being is often a human authority or church authority claiming to act on behalf of God. Thy | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| their own resources, they will no longer need authority. As for those who are not yet far | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| power outside of yourself. You may invest some authority with such powers, whether it is an individual | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it is estrangement from yourself to project faculties, authority, dependency and strength upon isolated fragments of your | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| is not fully yours but based on outside authority. But once you have reached this point of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| by rules -- in other words, by outer authority. This effort, be it ever so subtle, causes | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| of a need to cling to a loving authority, but it cannot be true faith unless you | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| proper and conform to the commandments. The final authority is not outside of yourself, but embedded in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| meaningful life for yourself, but wait for some authority to give it to you, then you cripple | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Creator. On the one hand he wants an authority who thinks for him, who decides for him | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| thus responsible for him. He clings to this authority in the hope of being relieved of self-responsibility | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| because some spiritual law prohibits forcing. Obeying an authority or a law is not a free action | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| instead of with yourself. You merely obey another authority. You have merely shifted your identification. Rather than | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and spirit. The bond of dependency on parental authority is cut. The healthy spirit will cut this | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and unconscious refusal to cut ties with protective authority lies identification with such authority. Children need a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| ties with protective authority lies identification with such authority. Children need a good example from which to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| minority may very well serve as a substitute authority to identify oneself with. People may also identify | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| are still compelled to identify with an outer authority. I do not advocate a life in which | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| on their own feet. They desire a higher authority to be responsible for them, but lack the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| feet, dispensing with the necessity of having another authority responsible for you. Every effect in your life | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| your own feet, you will cling to an authority outside yourself and rely on an externalized God | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Concomitantly, as long as you need such an authority, you must be disappointed and rebel against it | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| cannot possibly exist. When you want an outer authority to substitute for you, then all your faculties | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are challenged, you feel cornered and lean on authority; you conform, without ever using your own resources | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| have too ingrained a tendency to obey an authority. We have discussed this amply in the past | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| the former continues to bind you. Only the authority has changed, not you and your attitudes. This | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| that restraint is due to outer demands, outer authority. With the awareness that you are making a | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| are closed. This is not because some forbidding authority decided that you are not worthy of this | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| have explained. Reward and punishment suppose an outer authority who hands out the just deserts of the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| fear and shirk, you are truly independent of authority and help that comes from outside. Your dire | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| comes from outside. Your dire need for such authority cripples you, for you possess everything you ever | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| be helped by following other people's advice and authority so that heavenly bliss will descend upon you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you feel dependent on an outside force or authority for all your wants and needs. Because of | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| dependent you become on reconfirmation by an outside authority -- a parent-substitute, public opinion, or certain groups | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| is supposed to fulfill the role of the authority and grant you what you need in the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| persuasion through false strength and assumption of an authority role. Deep down they all mean, You must | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| freely and willingly, not out of fear of authority or of the consequences of disapproval. The ego | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| than paying allegiance to public opinion, to an authority, to society at large. Such submission only happens | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| fear? Do you still expect an omnipotent, benign authority to remove it from the outside? Could this | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| their frantic struggle is exclusively a rebellion against authority, or a self-destructive maneuver against a secure, safe | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self-activated inner powers, one surrenders to another person's authority, then the role of the creative feminine principle | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the man who is supposed to be her authority. She must fear her self-determined enslavement. Thus the | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| line of least resistance. Trying to find an authority who will take on what is really their | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| as a substitute for his own conscience or authority. The abdication of responsibility may happen in a | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| not a law from retribution of a vindictive authority up in heaven. It is so because you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| a reward to the good child from an authority figure one depends on. You will want selfhood | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| in a human being as the strange, removed authority figure of a punishing god. Your path from | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| between infantile dependency -- be it on another authority or on chance -- and autonomy, between living | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| is not a childish attitude that wants an authority to do it for you. Quite the contrary | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| us say parents or parent substitutes or general authority figures. Or there might be a spiteful attitude | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| angry and spiteful because there is no loving authority present who will eliminate these undesirable experiences for | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a good little obedient follower of a powerful authority figure in order to be rewarded. Since the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| wholly enveloped by them. Therefore people required strict authority from the outside to keep their lower natures | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| discipline in any form, associating it with parental authority against which he continues to wage war. This | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| soul stuff. The more you look for parental authority to take care of your life, the more | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| changes in the expectation of pleasing the parental authority who is supposed to give you what you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| traits in the parent, and later in other authority figures, are to be used for its life | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| not trusted. It is confused with untrustworthy parental authority, which may often have proclaimed something as good | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| nourished by a childish will to refute genuine authority, truth, guidance and the need for self-discipline and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and self-dependence, of knowing that there is no authority that will do it for you. It is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| a stake in being rebellious, in going against authority and even against what I know to be | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| QUESTION: Abuse of power, of a position of authority? ANSWER: Distortion of true leadership. True leadership is | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| real rights, in order to please some imaginary authority. You have also found that you do this | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| service but by design. You always wanted this authority to do something for you that was not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cannot handle life. Nor is the group an authority that one needs to rebel against. The group | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| enslave. Only those who have overcome rebellion against authority because they are their own inner authority, because | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| against authority because they are their own inner authority, because they have that honesty, can be free | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| to be taken care of by a stronger authority figure. Again, similar attitudes exist in man. However | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| could be taken care of. She wanted an authority figure to make decisions for her, take the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| unrealizable demands, she must resent and blame male authority and play the victim game. Similarly, to the | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| what you secretly wanted from a superior father authority you have shifted onto a mate. You also | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to make you resent and fear the very authority you wish to exploit. Love can flower only | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| They will also be free from rebellion against authority and secret desires to exploit others. This fundamental | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| You reactivate, often unnecessarily, your old, already obsolete authority problem. Anyone who is a leader in the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| subtle, unnoticeable ways. But you will be an authority in your own right in the best sense | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| sense of the word. You cannot have true authority unless you reconsider the attitudes I have mentioned | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you act as if others who have more authority took it away from you. So I implore | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| in many different ways. When you rebel against authority figures, you believe that through your rebellion you | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| what you believe is done to you by authority, by frustrations. Now I would like to shed | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| attaining self-love through others, or placating a benign authority in return for a life of unrestricted indulgence | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| them are unfair and abusive. Now, even if authority is being abused, those who are unwilling to | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| follow that discipline within yourself, then you earn authority in the best sense of the word in | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Is it the lazy part that resents the authority without wanting to be one and pay the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| important to understand. If you fear a human authority -- whether this authority really abuses power or | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you fear a human authority -- whether this authority really abuses power or you only imagine he | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- it is because you depend on this authority in some tangible or intangible way. You may | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for it, or by blind rebellion against the authority, in order to avoid self-hatred and to preserve | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the true insight, you cannot distinguish whether the authority is indeed abusive or whether you react like | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perceive with utter clarity the unworthiness of an authority who tries to subdue you, abuse you, exploit | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all, you will clearly see that the human authority may be abusive, and you can then choose | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| which may be to give up what this authority holds out for you because your dignity and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| perception is distorted and you assume that any authority is out to humiliate and abuse you, your | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| longer be compelled to rebel against a rightful authority who merely expects your rightful part in the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| part in the mutual venture. Rebellion against any authority often masks your own hidden desire to have | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission to substitute authority and power, as well as indiscriminate rebellion against | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| power, as well as indiscriminate rebellion against all authority, are both results -- effects -- of the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| obstructed. When God is recognized as the highest authority, all falls into place. Otherwise you must be | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| place. Otherwise you must be confused about the authority you need and serve, not knowing when it | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that in certain areas of your life an authority or leader is necessary, that you have a | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| no longer doubt the nature of a human authority or person you depend on and need, and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new phase is greeted with rebellion against the authority that presents you with what seems to break | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a sanctimonious edict, issued forth by an arbitrary authority that makes demands on you and then possibly | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| shackle imposed by a moralizing outer or inner authority, but as a freely chosen gift, the greatest | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| dependent, those who crave most for a perfect authority to take over, are also the most defended | 254 SURRENDER |
| your passivity, your irresponsibility in wanting an ideal authority to do it all for you. You need | 254 SURRENDER |
| state of autonomous selfhood. You still crave an authority figure who will take over for you when | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| growing into full selfhood. Whenever you rebel against authority figures, take it as a sure sign that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| sign that you are still craving the right authority, the super-person who protects you from the vicissitudes | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| exists, there is no need for rebellion against authority. There is no confusion. You have a clear | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| difficult and unfair. Then you demand a perfect authority to put things right. The more strident your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| your decisions. The greater the rebellion against those authority figures in your life whom you accuse of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| these goals remain unreachable, you resent and blame authority figures, often accusing them exactly of the opposite | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| The telltale sign is how you feel about authority figures in your life, how you can distinguish | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| have learned to listen to the true inner authority that is capable of saying no to momentary | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| so now, because too many individuals hanker after authority figures who allow everything and forbid nothing, who | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| confusing. The wish to surrender to the false authority figure who permits all and sets no limits | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |