| Peter.......................8 | |
| explain what Jesus meant when he said to Peter, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| meant when he said to Peter, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| 18-20). ANSWER: The meaning is this: Jesus entrusted Peter with His teachings, that he might organize the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to explain this: What Jesus meant was that Peter should spread the teachings exactly as He has | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| sense, exactly as Jesus had taught and as Peter had meant then, which included such a communication | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth. It was part of Jesus' teachings that Peter was supposed to spread. And also -- which | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| through adhering to the teachings of Jesus that Peter was to maintain, spread and organize, would also | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for our friends here from across the sea Peter and Eileen Caddy from Findhorn. As I said | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| Petrifications..............3 | |
| -- to dissolve all the walls, rocks and petrifications within yourself and so allow the life force | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| The more you dissolve the inner obstructions, the petrifications, by facing your misconceptions, misunderstandings and the untruth | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is responsible for all the images, wrong conclusions, petrifications, generalizations, and all that is crippling in you | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Petrified...................15 | |
| apply to everyday life. An inanimate object is petrified life force. A beautiful idea, a truth, is | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the physical body either. For your matter is petrified life force and exists only where the field | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| the truth about yourself. Life force is regeneration. Petrified life force means degeneration. In your images, your | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| Everything good. And everything negative or detrimental is petrified life force: divine truth or divine law that | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| It is completely irrational. It outpictures symbolically the petrified impression in the soul, that only by having | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is finding that in the soul which is petrified, which is stuck, so to speak. And there | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impressions accumulate to form the images -- the petrified wrong conclusions -- and establish the patterns of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| meaning of the Bible: something negative, imagined, frozen, petrified. And we do worship it in our way | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| made an image out of an experience, has petrified this onetime experience into a general rule and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| often forgotten that the unconscious not only harbors petrified wrong conclusions, destructive behavior patterns resulting from images | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| It is equally important to stir up the petrified part of the unconscious. If left alone, untouched | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| weaken it merely by observing it. When the petrified part of the unconscious is sufficiently badgered -- | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to become aware of, observe, and decipher the petrified and destructive part of the unconscious. When you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| to be alleviated by holding on to unmoving, petrified psychic substances. The unmoving seems safe; the moving | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| solidified, just as in inanimate objects energy is petrified. Consciousness and energy are not the same, but | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Pettiness...................8 | |
| conditions, favorable and unfavorable, the greatness and the pettiness, is a direct result of all the consciousnesses | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| universe, not ever wanting to risk, is a pettiness in the spirit. Wherever human conflicts and problems | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| conflicts and problems reside in the soul, this pettiness also exists. Thus, the only way is to | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| life's limitation and enmity against humanity; humanity's defensive pettiness of spirit; self-alienation; the false, destructive reaction to | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| and therefore distrustful of life. Consequently, you institute pettiness in your approach to life. Wherever there are | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| same devil, with all its cruelty, malice, dishonesty, pettiness, hate and fear is essentially an angel. Allegorically | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| is true, I have this or that dishonesty, pettiness, false pride, hatred, malice, or whatever, but this | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| unselfish in theory, while you continue to practice pettiness, ungivingness and selfishness in your everyday life, and | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Petty.......................17 | |
| to imply that such a person may be petty and unwilling to give. It is just that | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| it aside, and busy yourself with worries and petty concerns. You forget what is most essential. Yet | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| to do with selfishness. But when, in your petty vanity, you place disproportionate importance on your own | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to inflict material disadvantage on another person. Your petty vanity, your need to be above others, even | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| path? To fall back into the silly and petty little crossnesses. This seems to me like the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| where your pride, self-will and fear, your separateness, petty self-pampering and cowardice surround you with a wall | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| instance, however, the identical action can be a petty and degrading one. The loving deed comes from | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| apart from such ignorance, this tentative bargaining and petty, distrustful withholding of all the generous spontaneous moves | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| your best self; for greatness, regardless of how petty you may now be. Look at nature, at | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you become. There will be none of the petty defenses, pseudoprotections, and pretenses that one who distrusts | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| energy flow through your being. When your small, petty, mean side is accepted without thinking that it | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| fraudulent mask or the hateful demon or the petty, selfish egotist. So, identification with the real self | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to say, no. Would you be envious, jealous, petty, self-serving, spiteful, manipulative, malicious, denying others their own | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you fully face the most undesirable, dishonest and petty infringements of truth in you, you get into | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| higher, more evolved and purified. As this happens, petty feelings of egotism and jealousy make way for | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| for and often displace, confusing it with the petty pride of the limited ego. The true value | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| and selfwill. To give is courage because the petty heart in its negativity still believes that when | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Phantom.....................14 | |
| This is the only way to discover your phantom world of fear and shame that has no | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| because it is unnecessary. It is but a phantom, my friends. The fear and shame you are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| of Utopia is proven unreal. This is the phantom fear which makes you believe your life is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| illusion of this fear, this abyss and its phantom quality, is first to visualize, feel, and experience | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| not you learn to free yourself of the phantom conclusion that you cannot err. The guilt and | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| bear that you set up all sorts of phantom thoughts and soul-forms that make your life miserable | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| exposure. By this process you will remove the phantom world you have created out of the false | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a tremendous relief it is to exorcise this phantom world and live in reality. Only the real | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| face your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of your illusions, so that you can | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and inner conditions culminate in showing up the phantom of the idealized self for what it really | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| because he or she hurt your vulnerability? This phantom creates havoc in your life, my friends. After | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| treating the fear as if it were a phantom or ghost -- which you cannot grasp or | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| it. Go through it. When you see the phantom of abandonment, you must observe your inner reactions | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| go into it and expose it as the phantom it really is. There is not a human | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Phantoms....................4 | |
| images are responsible for your suffering, for the phantoms you carry about decade after decade, and often | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| self-search and purification which ultimately will eliminate the phantoms of fear that have blocked harmonious functioning. This | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| terror and evil, they live in you as phantoms. These phantoms create disaster and chaos. Turn around | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| evil, they live in you as phantoms. These phantoms create disaster and chaos. Turn around one hundred | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Phase.......................272 | |
| create a resistance against the recognitions. In this phase the battle is to overcome the resistance and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the best possible way. To progress in this phase the person has to attack the resistance from | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| of them are important. In a particular developmental phase one of them can be emphasized and in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| as unimportant or accidental becomes clear in this phase of purification. Deep within, the spirit entity will | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| be practiced and fully mastered before the second phase sets in. You have to learn first to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| After you have learned that, your particular second phase will be made known to you -- about | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| self they are dealing with at a certain phase of the treatment. They will develop different means | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the Eastern teachings have lived through a different phase of Brahman and want to go into finding | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| various intermediate states. When this happened, a major phase was accomplished. This was the time when the | 21 THE FALL |
| place on earth, showing humankind that a major phase in the history of creation was over and | 22 SALVATION |
| of creation was over and an important new phase was to begin. I could talk on for | 22 SALVATION |
| of self-finding and self-purification begins, and for this phase again, many incarnations, accompanied by changing conditions and | 22 SALVATION |
| and circumstances, are necessary. Even in this secondary phase, many beings have not yet the strength to | 22 SALVATION |
| process of self-purification. Only then will a further phase come in which the process of very gradual | 22 SALVATION |
| occurrence that is on the surface. The next phase -- and these phases often overlap -- is | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| to say something else to you about this phase of preparation and decision: expect to have a | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| as yet. You mistakenly want to skip this phase altogether, and by so doing you will inevitably | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| must come sooner or later when a certain phase is reached. The greater the effort and the | 31 SHAME |
| phases varies. There is no rule governing which phase comes first and which follows after. Purification work | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| of clarity, you are moving into a major phase. You must not get discouraged when at first | 36 PRAYER |
| in your circle, but there will come the phase where you can centralize a few major issues | 36 PRAYER |
| and meditation. They were useful in the last phase of your development, but now you have to | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is discovered, an entity has reached an important phase in his or her whole cycle of incarnations | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| development and can make the best of each phase, whatever it may be. It is appropriate that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| the decision yourself when to change from one phase into the other. Your personality will have found | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| This will be a new and very important phase in your work now. Are there any questions | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the sexes. You can see where this particular phase of the work will lead you. By finding | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| importance of personal development and purification. The second phase of my lectures dealt with the obstructions in | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| negative aspects of the human personality. But this phase is by no means all that is necessary | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| this subject. We gradually prepared you for the phase to come with that lecture. But apart from | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of such resistance might also persist in this phase of the work. But on the whole, it | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| And that, broadly speaking, is the first important phase in this area of development and growth. I | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| these words be the beginning of a new phase on a deeper level for each one of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| a deeper, or higher level. Seven indicates the phase that is most restful in which, to a | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into place. For a moment, in this present phase of your development, you have a certain clarity | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subjectivity, which we discussed last time, is one phase of reality versus unreality. You must understand that | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that which you need most in the present phase of your development. Whenever you feel confused or | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| light all that should be tackled at each phase. All that I have said today and in | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| It seems to me that with the new phase, a new group of subjects has begun this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| them. Now we seem to enter a new phase which I can't put my finger on. ANSWER | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| on. ANSWER: Of course it is a new phase. I even said so before your summer vacation | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| elements, but the approach is different in this phase, as you rightly perceive, and as I indicated | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| indicated some time ago. While in the previous phase we concentrated mostly on obstacles that eclipsed or | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| eclipsed or prohibited healthy functioning, in the present phase we are able to put the pieces together | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| comes from one of these. The second major phase of this path dealt with your complexes, your | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| it already is. Now comes a third major phase on this path. For those of you who | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| into the depths of your being, in this phase of self-search. Then I tried to show you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is, it may be a purely temporary phase. Another possibility is that the person may still | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have tried to show you how the present phase of our work, of your inner development, fits | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| conflict. So, as you proceed in this particular phase of the work, you will come to understand | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| or attitude. As you proceed in this new phase of your work, you will sense and feel | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| may be tempted to skip a very necessary phase that is unpleasant at the moment but without | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Be in God! Lecture 84 87. THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Greetings, my | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| season starts, we shall enter into a new phase, just as we did last year. In this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as we did last year. In this coming phase the principal aim will be less a further | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| recognize this more and more in the coming phase of our work. If we purposely refrained from | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| season, when we enter into an important new phase of work. Be blessed, my dearest friends, our | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| religion and embracing true religion, there comes a phase of nothingness. It is a difficult phase indeed | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a phase of nothingness. It is a difficult phase indeed. It is a phase in which you | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| is a difficult phase indeed. It is a phase in which you feel alone because the false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| yet take hold of your being. In this phase all your faith may begin to crumble. You | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| work you have to do in this particular phase. It is a crucial and decisive milestone on | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| have to persist in working on this particular phase. You now have caused entirely unnecessary hindrances in | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| soul, and therefore in your life. So this phase of your work carries us a great deal | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| healthy and good for you, in this particular phase of your development, to put less stress on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| repressed emotions, positive and negative. In the third phase we investigate the defense mechanism you have developed | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that you have actually entered into such a phase. But let me assure you, my friends, the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| be divided into two major phases. The first phase is recognizing and becoming aware of the roots | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| their causes, effects, links, and connections. The second phase is change. The change can happen in various | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| a certain rhythm of development in a specific phase which is appropriate at this time, because many | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you, my friends, either are already in this phase or are about to approach it. We recently | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| describe indicates that you have not finished the phase of search in this area and therefore change | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| you do not remain mired in this difficult phase. If you then make the inner decision of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |