| Prejudice...................23 | |
| on the path. It may be a rigid prejudice that would make it impossible to be open | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that a person does not work on, each prejudice is an impenetrable obstacle for God's spirits. It | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| darkness and disharmony, evil and envy, hatred and prejudice, war and greed would be cast off and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| receptive, if you are open and put all prejudice aside for the moment. And now, my friends | 22 SALVATION |
| much controversy and personal feeling that the image prejudice will prevent nearly everyone from hearing anything about | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| illusion, or mass images. Certainly, violence and hatred, prejudice and selfishness, all the causes of war, are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| something to someone who is open and without prejudice. No matter what startling proofs may occur here | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that Jesus refers to is the lack of prejudice so necessary in the approach to this whole | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| necessary in the approach to this whole path. Prejudice is something extremely widespread and general. We can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| beings who are constantly suffering because of the prejudice of others. Why are they suffering? If there | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the greatest prejudices, perhaps in a different way. Prejudice is a wall of darkness, while a child | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of darkness, while a child is usually without prejudice, an unwritten page, at least so far as | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| made you adopt them. What does the word prejudice mean to you emotionally? Everyone has a different | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| people usually are most emotional about concerns the prejudice to which they happen to be most sensitive | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| an image in the soul which magnetically attracts prejudice. Therefore you project on others what you actually | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| one person it will be rejection, for another prejudice, for a third the fear that somebody will | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to one's character structure; for instance, avarice, rigidity, prejudice. In short, any inner urge that holds on | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| stingy. If you carefully examine the emotions of prejudice, you will see that preconceived ideas have the | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| whom there is not somewhere a tightness, a prejudice, a closeness, a fear of relinquishing a preconceived | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| it as wrong. Generation upon generation of inherited prejudice halts the growing individual's natural development. Fears of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| its aspects. Quite the contrary is true. Before prejudice, fear, and misconception tend to prohibit the natural | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| a free state of mind, uncluttered by fear, prejudice, and misconceptions. The little the soul does remember | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the matter, the greater the ignorance, error, misconception, prejudice, limitation, and darkness -- hence, the greater the | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| Prejudices..................15 | |
| as your final goal. Your inner stubbornness and prejudices create conflicts in your soul, as well as | 36 PRAYER |
| faults really are! Think about your idiosyncrasies, your prejudices, your tight emotions in certain domains of life | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| respect. One is capable of freeing oneself of prejudices and preconceived ideas and nothing will stand in | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them liberate themselves. People hold on to certain prejudices according to their upbringing, environment, and their personal | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chances are that they themselves have the greatest prejudices, perhaps in a different way. Prejudice is a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is concerned. All these influences that later form prejudices and images have not yet had a chance | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| finding your images is to think where your prejudices are. And later, when more of your images | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| most sensitive, and they overlook the fact that prejudices also exist in their own minds. Perhaps these | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| others. One who is constantly haunted by the prejudices of others finds a pattern here to look | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the personality is the influence of deeply ingrained prejudices and misconceptions. This world is so filled with | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and you become freer from fears, shames, and prejudices, so you can open yourself up to its | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| not wish to expose its vanity, its cherished prejudices and illusions. Yet your total personality must cooperate | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| dependent on the personality and on the predisposition, prejudices, and blocks of the individual entering this path | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| specific topic, you must try not to allow prejudices and word associations to create a wall that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and is full of subjectively colored distortions and prejudices. The new consciousness always consults the higher self | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Preliminary.................16 | |
| to make the following distinction: Prayer is a preliminary step to meditation. Prayer is a matter of | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| into meditation unless one has first learned the preliminary state of concentration. The person who has walked | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| threatening Russians and Chinese? ANSWER: The most important preliminary is the understanding of cause and effect. If | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| what it is. I will, however, discuss two preliminary stages in the evolution toward union. These two | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to do without it. This is a necessary preliminary. Without it, maturity is impossible. This stage cannot | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| much easier to do so with all the preliminary work you have done. Once you see the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| if the mind assimilates such knowledge as a preliminary step toward transcending the mind, if the person | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| way out of proportion. All this is healthy preliminary work for the phases to come. This is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is a tremendously changed attitude to life. Usually preliminary work has to be undertaken before the pathwork | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| feelings, will dissolve. You have already gained some preliminary insight into this fear, and this insight will | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| called the third eye. This center is a preliminary manifestation of spiritual wholeness and fulfillment -- total | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| react without selfwill, pride, and fear. These are preliminary exercises, my friends, to practice for your further | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| in Roscoe, NY. We were then in very preliminary negotiations about buying the Phoenicia property that was | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| give yourself this adventure of discovery. In the preliminary stages of this phase of evolutionary development, you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all else you have done so far was preliminary work. But according to the great clock of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| never stop there, however. Self-knowledge is only the preliminary phase. The next organic step is learning the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Premature...................7 | |
| parents also fulfill the best conditions for a premature birth. In such a case a premature birth | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| a premature birth. In such a case a premature birth will occur. In other instances, birth may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the next step, which at this point is premature. One thing at a time. Learn first to | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and therefore change, with its necessary discipline, is premature. Look only for further awareness here. Change may | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| way. For some friends this exploration may be premature. Many other aspects may have to be explored | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| self-will take over and make inner listening impossible. Premature and violent deaths, as when young people die | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| selfhood exist, service to a greater cause is premature, because you misuse it and perpetuate the pretenses | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Premise.....................39 | |
| know how to continue on logically from this premise. They limit God all the time. There are | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| where not. Let us start out from the premise that you will wish above all to fulfill | 18 FREE WILL |
| trends still existing in yourself. Only from this premise can you go on and change the impurity | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| wrong, but unpleasant emotions must have a faulty premise somewhere, no matter how wrong others may be | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| others may be. The assumption of a faulty premise often manifests in an active pressure to change | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| reaction merely by having recently recognized its faulty premise. Emotions cannot be controlled that way. I have | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| at your disposal. If you start from this premise and meditate on it, and if from now | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| little egotism as possible, but with the healthy premise that I am to be considered just as | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a vicious circle, always built on a false premise, is activated within you. Again, I say: all | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and therefore more reliable, to start from the premise that major changes from without can only come | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| abuse these powers, on the ground of the premise that one creates one's life and fate. Second | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| in order to understand the truth of the premise that man creates his own fate, self- search | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| established this inner reality by removing the untrue premise and forever taking leave of it, you are | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| personality as it is now. If this basic premise is the main governing force of your motivation | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| As I said before, due to the unreal premise that all women are the way the mother | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| worked out because of its in itself correct premise. Then consider the hidden claim, which did not | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| have been forthcoming had you relinquished the false premise that you would encounter it. Take this simple | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| your reaction, which is based on a false premise. Therefore your reactions are not responsive to the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| fear may be based on an entirely illusory premise and therefore be unnecessary. It may be due | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| life -- is based on an utterly false premise. It is often a nonexistent problem in itself | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| others -- are a struggle against this false premise. To defend yourself against this dreaded happening, you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| from this point of view, has a nonsensical premise. This false struggle not only concerns motivations -- | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| is -- you will have fulfilled the main premise of this path. Doing so affords you the | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the expression -- neurosis. People proceed from the premise -- often quite consciously, or at least semi-consciously | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| may sense they are somehow false. The painful premise seems preferable to another alternative that appears, deep | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| of action in this fashion. Thus the very premise you start from is already the ground work | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| frustration -- implies the willingness to accept our premise, even though you cannot see it yet and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| truly accept this and can proceed from that premise, you create a different pattern of energy and | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| are indeed illusory. You started off with the premise, for example, that you could not live without | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| negative feelings. The moment you believe in the premise that you have reason to feel deprived because | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and jealousy -- also departs from the wrong premise that self-value is determined by measuring and comparing | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| quiet the busy, loud mind. Start with the premise that there is a deep nucleus of knowing | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| puny protection: your pride and selfwill. Question this premise and experiment with new alternatives. Open yourself for | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| longing is realistic when you start from the premise that the clue to fulfillment must lie in | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| self, not as a theory or a philosophical premise, but as stark reality, right here and now | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| are no longer handled irresponsibly on the delusory premise that they do not count and are of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| nothing. But how about trying to reverse this premise? Would you really feel less than nothing if | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| easier to comprehend a philosophical concept or spiritual premise in general terms than in its everyday applications | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| this conflict exists because you operate from the premise of an imaginary poverty, convinced that you could | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |