| Automatism..................23 | |
| acquiring objects. This action is almost like an automatism which the person cannot understand. Such people need | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relive the past. We have often discussed this automatism, but none of you, my friends, are as | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| The more conscious you become of your blind automatism, your stereotyped responses, the more they will diminish | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| overview. The lowest phase of human consciousness is automatism. In this phase people respond according to automatic | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| more primitive, such self-deception is less necessary. Blind automatism is always the result of unwillingness to face | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| subterfuges, rationalizations, explanations, justifications, self-deceptions, serving to deny automatism, must be ruthlessly exposed, investigated and given up | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this takes place you are aware of the automatism -- hence the automatism no longer exists. Needless | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| are aware of the automatism -- hence the automatism no longer exists. Needless to say, you succeed | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| you succeed first in specific areas, retaining blind automatism in others until much later phases of your | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the next in every respect. The transition from automatism to awareness is one of the most difficult | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| ideas, you are no longer operating with blind automatism. Such a realization requires courage and cultivation of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| of hostility. First, in the stage of blind automatism, it rages in the person's soul. According to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| therefore are driven by it into a blind automatism that they choose to explain away. The moment | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| by becoming aware of it, they stop the automatism. But this stage does not yet mean that | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| aware where you are still governed by an automatism despite your having discovered the image that causes | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| only when you observe, acknowledge, and admit that automatism still exists. Once awareness has been gained, it | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| what they cause; knowing the truth behind the automatism caused by specific misconceptions. When the personal path | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| where and how you are still immersed in automatism; where you are aware; where you understand; and | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is by the way you feel about it. Automatism makes you feel bleak, hopeless, depressed, anxious, afraid | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| to their fearfulness of long standing, in blind automatism. Only knowing the truth will prevent this. To | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| automatically adopts opinions or standards without question. The automatism that allows most people to take conditions and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| life for granted prevents autonomy of self. This automatism is widespread and affects more areas of life | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| are still often caught unconsciously in the old automatism. In many cases you have followed this direction | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Autonomous..................22 | |
| and feeling one's self to be self- governing, autonomous. The principle of cycles or circles -- whether | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| damaged when an individual refuses to come to autonomous conclusions about life's rules? Blindly taking limitations and | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| The second aspect of this power is its autonomous intelligence. When you comprehend this you can integrate | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| all facets of your person. In addition, the autonomous intelligence can manifest from deep within you, guiding | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| may notice the life principle's ever-present power as autonomous consciousness or as energy. The separated ego-personality possesses | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| universal life principle's basic characteristics, whether expressed as autonomous consciousness or as energy, is that it is | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| other. I am also a totally free individual, autonomous and completely responsible for the life I shape | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you are not ready to become a fully autonomous individual who is part of the group, being | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| world. In a group that consists predominantly of autonomous individuals, the richness multiplies and compounds with almost | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have her emotional fulfillment and still be an autonomous adult? These are not real opposites but consequences | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| actually blossom only when the woman is free, autonomous, independent in the best sense of the word | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| benign circle will open the heart. The fully autonomous, self-responsible, self- actualizing man and woman have nothing | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| that you are divided. You are not yet autonomous. The only way true autonomy can be established | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| authorities in your life will be, like you, autonomous people whose inner soul movement follows the call | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the human family. You can become an autonomous person only if you let truth stand above | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and stronger. It enables you to be more autonomous and active. Genuine positive activity and self-affirmation renders | 254 SURRENDER |
| resistance to reaching the all- important state of autonomous selfhood. You still crave an authority figure who | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| and when you are willing to be your autonomous self. If you follow through you will no | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| with others and always contributes to them. Truly autonomous people can be strong leaders, as well as | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| destructive, most shortsighted, is the self that is autonomous. You want to believe that the line of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| friends, that only a community that consists of autonomous people is autonomous, safe and creative as a | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a community that consists of autonomous people is autonomous, safe and creative as a group entity. In | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Autonomy....................55 | |
| come through outer sense perception to bring about autonomy of the inner perception or intuition. Outside help | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| You do not wish to give up your autonomy submitting to the rule of another person. Hence | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| vicious -- is always the principle of self-perpetuation. Autonomy is positively self-perpetuating, set in motion by reality | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| over others, but it cannot ever give you autonomy and independence, so that, sooner or later, the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| conditions and laws of life for granted prevents autonomy of self. This automatism is widespread and affects | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| part of the universal law of life. Selfhood, autonomy, self-assertion are aspects of maturity and self-responsibility. They | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| initiating, activating, doing. This aspect includes self-responsibility, independence, autonomy, free choice, and the power of the self | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the creative principle. Therefore, healthy activation, self-assertion, and autonomy are also temporarily bound and must wait for | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the same token, a woman who surrenders her autonomy to a mate because she is too fearful | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| well. Self-assertion can be an expression of healthy autonomy or of rebellion and hostile opposition. Flexible adaptability | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| frustrations. The equation of the acceptance of full autonomy with the capacity for pleasure is extremely important | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| figure one depends on. You will want selfhood, autonomy, in the truest sense of the word -- | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| on another authority or on chance -- and autonomy, between living in fear and living fearlessly. As | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| swayed and influenced by others and thus losing autonomy. My friends, it is very important that you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| self that alone can bring about true selfhood, autonomy, independence. You have a stake in your lack | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| responsibility of making decisions, choices, and of establishing autonomy. The person who doubts in the right way | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| to the degree you deny, fear and distrust autonomy, to that exact degree you will dislike yourself | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and give to the group without losing selfhood, autonomy, and self- responsibility. They do not lose privacy | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when each individual has found his or her autonomy. In the overall development the phases are never | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| your history, humanity is ready for the individual autonomy that can form groups and ready for the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| separatism. But those who follow the movement of autonomy within a new group consciousness will create the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| find true self-responsibility, your own inner strength, your autonomy, your own channel to the highest, where you | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| group will never eliminate their privacy or the autonomy of their being. It will further it as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to come to prepare the individual for full autonomy and selfhood. This had to happen first only | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| first only on the outer levels, for full autonomy and selfhood on all levels can exist only | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| feet, but resents the price of losing her autonomy. Both play the same game but hesitate to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| substance. This new state requires a strength and autonomy that has to be earned. It needs to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| and the other, between the self and truth. Autonomy is an ever- growing process that dissolves distrust | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| infant who leans on others, who negates her autonomy. So to be fully receptive on the feeling | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to fend for themselves until a certain minimal autonomy and independence is established. Once this creative channel | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| to create, to resolve, to heal in full autonomy. Simultaneously you know the necessity to be in | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| are not yet autonomous. The only way true autonomy can be established is by your total surrender | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| dignity and inner freedom are more important. Your autonomy can only grow out of total surrender to | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it to you stronger, cleaner, and with greater autonomy than ever. Resistance to your destiny to surrender | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Your fear that you will thus lose your autonomy is totally false and irrational. Real autonomy must | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| your autonomy is totally false and irrational. Real autonomy must rest on what is cosmic and universal | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Christ with rigid morality that denies feelings, sexuality, autonomy and the strong energy that creates positive aggression | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| prohibition of feelings, positive aggression, sexuality, self-responsibility and autonomy. But they certainly should not deny the truth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| sexual feelings being sinful, my surge for individuality, autonomy and self- expression being sinful. I would never | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| still too immature to grasp the immense strength, autonomy and freedom that lie in giving over totally | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that if you surrender you will lose your autonomy and your ability to make future decisions. The | 254 SURRENDER |
| a case, surrender becomes a giving away of autonomy. This is why those who are secretly and | 254 SURRENDER |
| greater the show of I must protect my autonomy, so I will never be told what to | 254 SURRENDER |
| fighting and standing firm. As you grow in autonomy and self-creation, you will sense very clearly that | 254 SURRENDER |
| over can you find your real strength and autonomy. It is equally correct to state that all | 254 SURRENDER |
| divine intent. Your primary aim is still reaching autonomy, in its fullest sense and meaning. You, as | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| life and thus from experiencing your reality. When autonomy exists, there is no need for rebellion against | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| more likely it is that you abhor real autonomy, that you do not wish to take full | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| exactly the problem of still avoiding full self-responsibility, autonomy, accountability. Your freedom is directly dependent on that | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| rather than weakness, depends on that. Of course, autonomy, or its lack, is always a question of | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you view with suspicion those who encourage your autonomy and deserve your trust. If you cannot trust | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| feels momentarily most pleasurable is tantamount to your autonomy. This may occasionally be so, but by no | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| you cannot reach this state of health and autonomy by merely psychological means. Your psychologists have the | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| possible in an extended way only when true autonomy exists in the human personality. Otherwise the road | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| this unfinished state, while partially striving for real autonomy, fear surrender in all forms. What they really | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |