| prevent yourself from making peace with your innermost physical and emotional instincts. The peace between body and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| this life or in a life beyond the physical state. It is possible right here, right now | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of the atom. This spiritual power surpasses all physical manifestations. The infinitesimal fraction of life can be | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| force cannot enter the emotional realm. If the physical realm is muscularly tense and taut, the life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| and taut, the life force cannot enter the physical system. Thus gradual illness, decay, and physical death | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the physical system. Thus gradual illness, decay, and physical death come about. You may remember that a | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| made taut through intensely held opinions, emotions, and physical muscles, both outer and inner. It does not | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| intensity of your emotions, thoughts, and also your physical being becomes conscious and you begin to sense | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of intensity of muscle tissues and your whole physical being. When you thus focus your attention on | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| in some way directly to human beings by physical means, by physical devices -- not necessarily to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| directly to human beings by physical means, by physical devices -- not necessarily to solve the whole | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| make the life force more available to the physical system through outer devices, thus opening the possibility | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| much of it can be made available through physical devices, the essence of the life force is | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| on mental, or spiritual, attitudes. The effect of physical devices must, after a while, wear off if | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| a limit. The best way to use the physical approach is to help the personality reorient itself | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| a removed deity, or a life beyond this physical life. These are misinterpretations that have arisen as | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| splits human nature into the spiritual and the physical being. Thus total fulfillment is removed from the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| creates the world you live in, including its physical laws. You are so used to putting effect | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| humanity's overall state of consciousness. One of the physical laws expressing this state of consciousness is the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| law of gravity parallels, or expresses on the physical level, the emotional reaction to and the apprehension | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| transcended the dualism of this plane have different physical laws, corresponding to their overall consciousness. Human science | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| that effect. This is the background of all physical illness. Which organs are affected depends on their | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| by the ego can be paralleled on the physical level. As the body always responds favorably when | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| enough, these qualities are primarily ascribed to the physical manifestations of life and are ignored as far | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| heart automatically loses this rhythmic quality. On the physical level the rhythm occurs according to that dimension | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that dimension of time which applies to all physical manifestation -- three-dimensional time. From the three-dimensionally oriented | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this truth. All this is observable on the physical level. The identical laws apply to the level | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| dimension of consciousness is not three-dimensional, as the physical organism is. The emotional or mental or spiritual | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| kind of regularity in its intervals as the physical pulsations. To the three-dimensionally oriented perception the pulsations | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| appear in regularly spaced intervals, as do the physical pulsations of the organism. However, when a person | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| misconception, fear -- is expelled, just as the physical organism expels waste. The movements that follow are | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| parallel these laws run on the spiritual and physical levels of a human being. What I explained | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| applies in exactly the same way to the physical body. Just as you should keep your soul | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| flexible pulsation. Making such a comparison between the physical and psychic levels will be quite helpful. It | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in you. I do not refer to occasional physical threats, where a quick defensive tightening is automatic | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from within, just as you must let the physical pulsation happen without interference by a fearful, distrusting | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| briefly as a combination of the metaphysical and physical. You will learn to feel and observe the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it is an illusion. You merely see the physical level, and that has indeed stopped living, vibrating | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are unequipped to observe the consciousness behind the physical system, where living, breathing, pulsating, vibrating -- and | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or not this occurs in a state of physical death or while in the body. In fact | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| otherworldly pleasure, disconnected from the body. It involves physical pleasure as well. The irony then is that | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| applies to all levels of your being -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual -- that is, your | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| therefore in some way also move with their physical being. This heaviness is perhaps the most difficult | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| intensely pleasurable that it is almost like a physical taste in your mouth. The bliss also comes | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suspiciously hold back. It also exists on the physical level, in that you do not permit your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| millions of ways. The crassest one is the physical life and death curve. It is the most | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to all levels of one's being. On the physical level this is obvious. Even though you are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| and atomic energy are nothing in comparison. These physical energies create a single impact, a tremendous physical | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| physical energies create a single impact, a tremendous physical effect. The energy of life is a constantly | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| health is a result of this duality. Intense physical pleasure is a legitimate need and legitimate longing | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to float. Imagine a swimmer in such a physical state of constriction and contraction. He must sink | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| all levels of being: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. Therefore it is the most total spiritual experience | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| and various degrees of death set in. Actual physical death is the natural end result of a | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to hear of the well-known levels of the physical, mental and spiritual realities, about which we have | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your psychic life, and consequently through our outer, physical life. Rejection itself would not be the threat | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| life-defeating attitudes so it can continue to grow. Physical death results from the same principle. Physical matter | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| grow. Physical death results from the same principle. Physical matter dies off only because underlying life-defeating attitudes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| to move. The phenomenon of dying in the physical, material world is an expression of many inner | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| in you and therefore, ultimately, the phenomenon of physical dying. One's will and attitude cause all outer | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| it is with the universal earth phenomenon of physical dying. Dying is a direct result of wanting | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| every false attitude I discussed in this lecture. Physical death is, on a certain level, the final | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the law of gravity. All laws, even impersonal, physical ones have come into existence from, through, and | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| All human beings have within their psychic and physical organism certain energy centers. The time has come | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| your body. They are not actually in your physical body, but in the so-called subtle body, which | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in the so-called subtle body, which affects the physical glands. Although the functioning of the glandular system | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| on these centers, the centers themselves are not physical organs that can be discovered by X-rays or | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| that can be discovered by X-rays or other physical investigation. Their reality is psychic; their physical reality | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| other physical investigation. Their reality is psychic; their physical reality can be determined only by their effects | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the base of the spine represents all the physical, emotional feelings -- sexuality, partnership love, personal love | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in a series of lectures. QUESTION: Is the physical work going to be connected with breaking through | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| through the closed centers? ANSWER: Yes, indeed. The physical work has a great deal to do with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| after certain basic resistances, fears, mental, emotional, and physical blocks have been eliminated. Only then will this | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to use all the available spiritual energy. The physical work is one aspect of preparation. As we | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the most intense pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual. Most human beings are not | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| also means opening up the centers. The human physical body is just a crude reflection of the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| organs are infinitely more refined than in the physical structure. This body of the eternal being cannot | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| not yet unified with its spiritual self. The physical body is the crudest, most temporary outer manifestation | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| heart and kidneys are visible organs in the physical body. The various other subtle bodies also contain | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of disunity with the spiritual structure. In the physical organism the centers can be detected only indirectly | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| can be clearly experienced. The effect has distinct physical marks. However, the centers themselves are not visible | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| we call self-realized -- whether still in the physical body, or having already transcended the body state | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| tighten up because of such negative feelings, the physical structure must eventually also tighten up. The tightness | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| capacity to experience pleasure on all levels -- physical, emotional, mental, spiritual -- without a trace of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| perhaps somewhere in-between. It is reflected in the physical body primarily in these two places. If the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| bubble and surge through your entire system -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. They will work in | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and organ in the personality exists in the physical body as well as in the invisible body | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| be explained by the voluntary and the involuntary physical responses. Much of your physical functioning occurs on | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and the involuntary physical responses. Much of your physical functioning occurs on a voluntary basis. Your directly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| attained awareness of the outer thinking, feeling, and physical states, the inner awareness begins to grow. Your | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| can no more be directly controlled on the physical level than you can will yourself to feel | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| slightest tension closes the centers. Every exercise -- physical or otherwise -- every meditation, every self-examination and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| error. The error may have gone into your physical functioning, so that it tenses up as a | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you. You may simply try to connect the physical responses to your inner erroneous state. This effort | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the cosmic state of bliss, that spiritual and physical pleasure are one -- not opposites. Pleasure, in | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| substitutes and escapes. I mean a state of physical and spiritual bliss that is experienced in every | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| not a divided experience. It is not a physical experience with the spiritual side left out, nor | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| a spiritual state that does not include the physical state. Your entire being vibrates and pulsates, undividedly | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| all levels of the human personality. On the physical level: physical health and well-being are regulated by | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| of the human personality. On the physical level: physical health and well-being are regulated by and dependent | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| even less blocked by the gross matter of physical life. It is important to understand that feelings | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| different from their earthly one. Any kind of physical illness or deterioration, including physical death, is a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| Any kind of physical illness or deterioration, including physical death, is a manifestation of division, conflict, and | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is at least as great as on the physical. How can you shoulder mature self-responsibility? How can | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and decency, pleasure and emotional maturity, pleasure and physical health are all intricately and intimately connected. Now | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| it brings the greatest of all pleasures -- physical as well as mental and emotional pleasure. It | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to walk, it experiences a disunity between its physical powers, the laws of gravity, and the world | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| an effortless, natural part of you. On the physical level you experience the voluntary hard labor giving | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| attitudes corresponds to sustained practice in building new physical or mental skills. The first appearance of effortless | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| becomes adventure and joy. Many people increase their physical and mental skills. This is also a valuable | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| intuitive guidance and knowledge toward true outer unifications. Physical and mental skills have their value, but they | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| substance. It is subtle matter, invisible to the physical eye, but this does not mean it is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of one's present incarnation as a whole, then physical death will occur. In the latter case, the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| you discuss the aspects of mutuality on the physical, mental, and spiritual levels from the energetic point | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| This is not a healing power on the physical level. Nor does it allow you merely to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of a spiritual healing force they mean a physical healing force given to a passive recipient, destined | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to a passive recipient, destined to remove a physical symptom of an inner, spiritual malfunctioning. But to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| an inner, spiritual malfunctioning. But to call this physical healing force spiritual is truly a misnomer, for | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| contribution in the healing process. Healers who dispense physical healing power tap a powerful universal energy, but | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| one's life, depression, lack of energy, and often physical difficulties characterize this state. These manifestations are the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to others and through your own psychic and physical system. You can verify every day of your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your spiritual, your psychological, and often also your physical system. This poison can be eliminated only by | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| whole organism -- your spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical being. The full experience of your feeling self | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| your total organism. Just as the accumulation of physical waste that is not expelled and eliminated creates | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| through the process described here are not merely physical energies which bring wellbeing, flow and pleasure. They | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| in a reality that transcends the human or physical one, two or more worlds can easily coexist | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| of feelings (4) the level of physicality and physical expression. When all these levels are conscious and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |