| Projecting..................16 | |
| anything. Self-estrangement exists also in the form of projecting your own faculties and powers onto aspects of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| objective anger about a very personal issue, while projecting a subjective emotion upon a general issue. It | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| energy and desire, laziness, being blocked, not understanding, projecting anger on those who help, dramatizing and exaggerating | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| this self-dislike, whether or not you are still projecting your self-hate onto others. Then you will realize | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| energies and also creates the emotional hazard of projecting onto the outside world the non-fulfillment you impose | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| to admit this, so you go on continually projecting the blame onto others. The energies entrapped in | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to give up the dishonesty, the hiding, the projecting, and the game playing that exist on subtle | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| grows from giving up your stake in hiding, projecting, denying, and distorting; it grows from giving up | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| it, and assume responsibility for it rather than projecting it onto others, the freer you will be | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| deeply conditioned by denial and acting out, with projecting and blaming others, that it seems at times | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| self-respect, which you can pay when you stop projecting the unacceptable on others or using the ugliness | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| your methods of hiding. For hiding always requires projecting your real guilt on others, blaming, self-whitewashing, hypocrisy | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| only leads to self-hate, denial, repression, self-justification and projecting onto others. This in turn leads to more | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| taking full responsibility for it and no longer projecting it outward. You are losing your self-deception. Yet | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| it down by strengthening the destructive process of projecting on others what you fear in yourself. Clarity | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| here. One part strongly aims for covering, justifying, projecting, and thereby increasing the lower-self energies and activities | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Projection..................35 | |
| a reflection, an image in a mirror, a projection of the real. The body, which houses the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| The latter are a logical result, an inevitable projection of the former. Perhaps you desire fulfillment of | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| particular person has these trends? Or is it projection and response? ANSWER: It can be both and | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| and think about it. It is rather a projection of what is bound to happen by itself | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| and takes advantage of one's goodness. This is projection. Second, they exist because one is incapable of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| honestly, humbly, with dignity and poise; without embellishment, projection, humiliation, or pretense. The pretense can go in | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| begins to fear this God of his own projection. Thus he begins to appease, to cajole, to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| a genuine, spontaneous, creative experience, but to a projection of himself. The more the mind grows in | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| instantaneously to other people is that not a projection of a kind of black magic, due to | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| negatively involved. For instance, pity may be a projection of your fear that the fate the other | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| what seems like a terrifying self-confrontation. Hence the projection cannot yield peace and liberation, regardless of how | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| other people? ANSWER: This may easily be a projection. It may also be a reversal of the | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| or not one is afraid of dying. This projection applies both to the fear of living alone | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the temptation of the outer direction of displacement, projection, and emphasis -- even on a truth -- | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to individual. The chain reactions, the levels of projection vary. In your case it works this way | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| You will teeter between self-pity and bitterness, between projection onto others and life for your misfortune on | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| an interaction, or exclude another. Such distortions indicate projection and denial of self-responsibility for the difficulties in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| unification within yourselves, are still involved in deep projection in this area. A favorite tendency among people | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| long as the reaction is blind and the projection of guilt unconscious, the counterreaction must also be | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| all the more difficult to detect because guilt projection is so widespread. Also, the recipients should look | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| avoid becoming a victim of blame and guilt projection is to avoid doing it yourself. To the | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and destructiveness, can you defuse someone else's guilt projection. Only then will you not be drawn into | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| desires realistically, without falling into the trap of projection, self-justification, self-righteous exoneration while blaming others on the | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| so taxing because it leaves no room for projection and escape. Some fall by the wayside because | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| self-honesty for what they are. Denial, rationalization, and projection must be given up. The searchlight must be | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and fewer experiences that are a total outer projection and symbol of inner reality. At this stage | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is a reflection, a mirror image, an outer projection into which your real self is thrust in | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you will become more conscious of this time projection. What you often believe are free actions, determined | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| processes under discussion. These are (1) displacement, (2) projection, (3) denial. I will give simple examples of | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| problem is already diminished. Let us now take projection. You are a little more familiar with that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| by the past, striving toward the future, displacement, projection, and denial -- are attempts to get away | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| component in that? ANSWER: Apart from the obvious projection of your very harsh judgment against yourself that | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| less than the former, being merely an outward projection of what emotions are held back with a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| pain you inflict on others with this evil projection. Do not ever delude yourself into believing that | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| imply unfairness, arbitrariness, rejection. This is clearly a projection of humanity's own state of affairs. Divine justice | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Projections.................13 | |
| image of God since human-made images are only projections, but that only God can create the image | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are in a vicious circle. The destructive projections and blaming of others consumes the energy you | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| at the base of the spine has other projections, or concentration points, in the pelvis and genitalia | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| with your games, roles, and pretenses, with your projections and your escapes. Truly look at yourself. The | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| weakened negative self of another person -- whose projections and accusations cannot be counteracted when you are | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| meet it constructively and without false ideas and projections, will not prove to be a tunnel through | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| the negative intentions, the acting out, the dishonest projections of the other person. This is why everyone | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| attention in your daily life to the outer projections of your inner realities or to the inner | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| something. The second is that sometimes their own projections interfere with and distort the exact nature of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| only partially accurate. They were tinged with your projections and with your need to see others as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| function on the level of mutual pretense. Mutual projections and accusations are no longer needed to keep | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| present yourself in totality, without any false self- projections. You must understand that to whatever degree you | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| self into the world? Do not rationalize such projections by pretending to preserve your privacy. Look at | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Projects....................6 | |
| already these positive and negative forces which it projects and by which it is affected? ANSWER: But | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| man. The other person senses it and then projects his or her resistance on the divine instead | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your consciousness what the inner problem is. It projects these pictures, but then there is this other | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| perceives as truth, is related to what one projects. And what one projects is relative to one's | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| related to what one projects. And what one projects is relative to one's specific psychic activity and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| pain of its unfulfillment perpetuates the need and projects it into a later time and onto other | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| Prolonged...................5 | |
| or her very best, his life may be prolonged because through his special fulfillment he may have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| time refuses to face the tragic disadvantages of prolonged childhood. This soul-crippling attitude finally succeeds in really | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| like a precipice which brings hesitation and a prolonged pseudo-existence. When this point is not dealt with | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| deny it makes it much more painful and prolonged than it needs to be. Yet, on the | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| exists. It is often experienced as intense, sometimes prolonged crisis. Since crisis is painful, it weakens the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Promiscuity.................5 | |
| and are seeking a happy relationship, how much promiscuity do you advocate? ANSWER: I do not advocate | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| do you advocate? ANSWER: I do not advocate promiscuity at all. What do you mean by promiscuity | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| promiscuity at all. What do you mean by promiscuity? QUESTION: You speak of the sex instinct as | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| terms, and values. From our point of view, promiscuity may be one single act, with all the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to say, this widened experience does not mean promiscuity. The more you reach out, integrating all your | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |