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The experience of the spirit cannot be ultimately prevented. Yes, my dear ones, I know you do 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES
to come into your world, it will be prevented by spiritual means, though it may take place 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
with everything else. Common criminals have to be prevented from continuing their deeds by law-enforcing institutions that 47 THE WALL WITHIN
build a world in which vicious circles are prevented or broken before they come to the last 47 THE WALL WITHIN
If it is something mundane, they are often prevented from seeing it, although sometimes they do see 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
one's true self, for the indignity of being prevented from being who one truly is. One then 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
and not a fake, you could never be prevented by others from being what you are. But 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
but for one reason or another, you were prevented from attaining it. On the other hand, if 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You will seek and find how you have prevented this happiness so far and what you can 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
speak. Without this force, inner drought cannot be prevented. This dryness of soul makes you feel that 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
of course, this pattern will be stopped and prevented from ever recurring; then a constructive, realistic pattern 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
streams of emotions that are blocked and thus prevented from flowing. These other emotions may be manifold 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
it, while in other respects you are still prevented from doing so because of barriers that still 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
to be related to my job. It has prevented me from sleep and forced me to resort 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
become too firmly entrenched. Thus the negativity is prevented from starting the self- perpetuating cycle. It is 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
this as well as many other symptoms have prevented you from living. But what really prevents you 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
body, the cell system in these areas is prevented from being permeated with the divine energy stream 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
rage, an overactive outer will that is being prevented from hitting out, and also from a specific 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
It is as though a wall in you prevented you from the clear, concise commitment to what 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
It is only held in abeyance and momentarily prevented from manifesting, but it gathers behind the scenes 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
unfair. You act as though you were being prevented from executing your own capacity to be a 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
more exactly, the denial of your fears -- prevented the full beat of the pulse of your 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
because they desire an outer reason for being prevented from being alone. However, other human beings who 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
They are, as I said, that you be prevented from making any mistakes, from having to pay 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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which at first will manifest itself perhaps by preventing you from following this path at all. The 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS
already knew that you had this fault, thereby preventing yourself from realizing that you have come across 39 IMAGE-FINDING
through life according to their personal life plans, preventing only what is contrary to the law of 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
that balances the expansion and thus creates harmony, preventing the outgoing movement from getting out of control 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES
currents should bring his passivity to the fore, preventing the active current from becoming too aggressive, rounding 62 MAN AND WOMAN
This is one of the best means of preventing background thoughts, which take you away from the 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
that it is no longer a question of preventing the struggling soul from gaining harmful and hindering 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
your outer actions, for your physical life, for preventing destructive impulses to manifest. But when it comes 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
fact, you waste a great deal of energy preventing this inner material from coming up and then 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
or, you may harbor fear and guilt, thus preventing organic growth. Your instincts remain in the primitive 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
Such false ideas make your wish capacity weak, preventing it from issuing forth the strong, clear, unbroken 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
helpless endurance, instead of correcting, healing, improving and preventing negative occurrences in the future. When one feels 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
from universal forces and sets up a barrier preventing you from becoming part of the cosmic forces 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
of this transaction, about the complexity that is preventing a clear and direct solution. GUIDE: You see 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
evil that very exacting laws and rules exist, preventing Satan from acting outside these laws. Definite limits 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
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in humility. Seek what is within you that prevents the clean spirits from manifesting themselves. Whenever you 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
should learn to accept humbly that your ego prevents your seeing the truth. The fighting spirit that 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
At times it is the lower self that prevents success in a certain direction, and sometimes it 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
recognizes that this is not good, so it prevents you from achieving success. You can find the 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
you feel a hardness in you, something that prevents you from being completely empty and flowing. QUESTION 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
little, you will begin to eliminate that which prevents you from connecting with it. You will approach 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE
in the way of arriving at recognitions. It prevents you from finding the truth about yourself. It 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE
parents, an unconscious resentment exists in you, which prevents you from forgiving them for the hurt. You 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
is something about our system of education that prevents such creativity from being manifested. Would you like 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
aim. The child in you thinks that this prevents your happiness. You emerge from childhood with the 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
little everyday issues, holds the soul imprisoned. It prevents growth, produces some form of stagnation on all 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
imperfection, the pride and lack of humility that prevents you from accepting yourself as you are now 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
however, such a person stresses the goodness which prevents him or her from having what less good 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
truly is. One then believes that the world prevents self-realization and abuses and takes advantage of one's 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS
distortion exists and to what degree. The restriction prevents assimilation of new ideas and attitudes. It also 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
reality. It inhibits your spontaneity and intuition and prevents you from adjusting to what is possible. And 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
intuition. Such overemphasis on the reasoning power constantly prevents the real self from coming out. Thus it 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
be your idealized self-image, where you feel it prevents you from being what you could be without 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
the original need. Both contain the cowardice that prevents people from finding that need and changing the 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
be all that and so to remove what prevents you from being a good and loving person 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
cause of your misery and confusion, where it prevents the creative process of your real self. Many 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION
there are many guards and much pride that prevents the true opening of the channels that will 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
Is there not a wall in me that prevents insight? Am I, perhaps, guarding against recognizing something 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
is the effect, it is its cause that prevents you from really living and fulfilling yourself. What 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
psyche hinders living. It does so because it prevents you from relating to others. We began discussing 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
an inner tension, a cramped closing up. This prevents you from meeting others freely and openly, without 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
flow, as it were. This very deep-rooted guilt prevents you from claiming your freedom, asserting yourself, feeling 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
the place to air it. If your pride prevents you from doing so, it is not only 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
but by a violation of the soul that prevents it from developing its potential. This is always 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
oversensitivity. The wall is hard and brittle; it prevents feeling and experiencing and causes the first type 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
the direct imprint made upon your soul-substance. This prevents you from being in the constant flow of 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
an easy way out rather than tackling whatever prevents you from living as fully as you are 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
disharmonious flow of the self and life, one prevents the free flow that brings awareness. The outer 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
removed the barricade because you realized that it prevents development, but another part of you bargains to 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
struggling against the wave. The fear of drowning prevents people from swimming, even though they have capacity 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
quality inherent in the soul. It certainly never prevents crime or destructive actions. In fact, it causes 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
latter that creates so much confusion and often prevents you from reaching freedom and truth. It is 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
you to reexperience what keeps you rigid, what prevents your complete organic growth. Do not be afraid 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
on artificial infancy. This carefully nurtured parasitical state prevents liberation through overcoming the fear which is a 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
self or the other. The same holding on prevents you from entering into the cosmic stream of 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
an opposing current of fear in you that prevents the experience. To find it, to lift it 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
you will trust them all. Your distrust now prevents you from giving yourself up, from letting yourself 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
comes from illusion and confusion, distorts perception and prevents self-evaluation. From these results, disturbed interaction and disharmony 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
actions. Hence control seems necessary, a control that prevents union, prevents free self-expression and relaxed, joyful living 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
control seems necessary, a control that prevents union, prevents free self-expression and relaxed, joyful living. The tighter 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
It puts shackles on your best faculties and prevents the best faculties of others from reaching and 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS
come into being. Any overexertion of the ego prevents real experience. All really beautiful, valid, constructive, meaningful 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
opposition must exist whenever fear of one alternative prevents you from being in peace and joy. For 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
therefore always a violation of personal integrity that prevents the personality from coming into its own -- 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
take conditions and laws of life for granted prevents autonomy of self. This automatism is widespread and 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
the repeated presence of unfulfilled yearning. The shock prevents growth in this one area so that the 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
seemed to be the saving grace that controls, prevents and dominates the realm of feelings. An untold 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
not to feel, which creates weak dependency and prevents finding the resources for meaningful action. The defensive 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
a feeling of helplessness and the passivity that prevents the individual from doing what is necessary to 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
to them by accident. Saying, This is life prevents the consciousness from seeing the difficulty as a 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
which you know that something hardened in you prevents you from living fully -- set out to 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
create beautiful life experiences for yourself. What then prevents you from indeed wanting positive experiences, fulfillment, pleasure 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
is already clear, liberated, purified, good. It also prevents most individuals from loving and respecting themselves because 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the self only. But the underlying seething hatred prevents positive deeds of loving and giving; it prevents 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
prevents positive deeds of loving and giving; it prevents one from contributing to life. So, in the 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
have prevented you from living. But what really prevents you from fully living is your fear of 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
of your feeling self is spiritual hygiene and prevents the stagnation of your soul. It is the 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
relationship and then utterly depend on the other, prevents you from even wanting to assume self-responsibility. Doing 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
be safely assumed that the level of venom prevents the real experience of the residual original pain 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
substance. You first use meditation to eliminate whatever prevents you from meditating. This sounds like a paradox 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
of the universe. A finely calibrated inner mechanism prevents you from violating the divine laws beyond a 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
need help to get beyond it. What truly prevents you from saying, I do not want to 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
same. Resistance stems the flow, closing up; it prevents the movement of the universal energy -- of 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
the world ought to revolve around you, and prevents you from seeing the entire picture objectively. What 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
close to others. Your stake in your innocence prevents intimacy. Again, you cannot feel right. Most human 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
in to the false idea, the fear, which prevents you from moving on any level. The healthy 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
your own by going through whatever in you prevents you from experiencing it. This state already exists 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
lose yourself in the wrong way and thus prevents you from losing yourself in the right way 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
no with a weakness, a tightness, an unhealthiness prevents creative receptivity. By the same token, the grabbing 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
same token, the grabbing, insisting, self-righteous yes equally prevents creative receptivity. Both yes and no can be 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
are people who have a deep misconception that prevents them from full commitment to their task. It 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
It creates a tense, contracted energy system and prevents the flow of the life force. Hence spiritual 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
enormous obstacle on your path, for either alternative prevents you from growing and expanding and becoming one 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
means labor, courage, search. Obeying the outer rule prevents this. So what I have shown you about 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
human psyche, similar to a physical restriction, that prevents the human organism from its natural expansion. The 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
you fear and wish to avoid. Avoiding it prevents your ever-flowing movement of life from taking its 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE
require you to remove the very block that prevents the desirable event or state. The less you 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
activated by your commitment to this path. What prevents you from making the connections with the inner 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
destruction. What keeps the planets in place and prevents them from colliding into one another? It is 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
a personality trait -- whatever it is, it prevents you from attaining the new freedom and joy 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
always sense it, your state of separation still prevents you. So be patient and surge on with 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING
This confusion fosters the forces of evil and prevents you from fulfilling all your needs and attaining 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
deepest possible psychic level, a tightening occurs that prevents healing. Healing requires a deep -- and more 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
is the movement that ripples the water and prevents the peace that flows from the Most Holy 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
death makes dying traumatic. The threat of extinction prevents the entity from experiencing the sweetness of the 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
no expectations whatever: expectations create tension, and tension prevents the necessary state of total inner and outer 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
is important for you at this point. What prevents you most from going through these doors is 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS

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