| Rebellious..................27 | |
| are not really in pain but feel upset, rebellious, and torn in many directions, possessed by very | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| even be noticeable to others. Nevertheless, the same rebellious feelings do exist there, too, in subtle ways | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| just as tangible outer results as the openly rebellious reactions. In the other category are those who | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| The latter feels quite differently and much less rebellious when he encounters a law-upholder who is governed | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to become. It begins with very disharmonious and rebellious moods, encasing you more and more in a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| who seem rather to be quite unsubmissive, quite rebellious, behave in such a forceful way only because | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or only much later. Even a blind and rebellious attitude toward suffering will eventually benefit the soul | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| true even if the idealized self-image is predominantly rebellious and antisocial, because the rebelling minority also represents | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. So you become hurt and angry and rebellious. You then either turn away from God altogether | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| forms, even in those who appear outwardly quite rebellious against all moralizing laws and rules. Whatever words | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| lived it, is very opposite to what the rebellious person fears most -- the goody-goody conformer. Watch | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| do you not? COMMENT: I can't overcome the rebellious feeling that God took my husband. ANSWER: Yes | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| point is made of it. So often, a rebellious minority believes they are free, and, according to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| have to be militant about it. So, a rebellious nonconforming minority may very well serve as a | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| and, at the same time, they have violent, rebellious and cruel impulses. This is exactly the stage | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the door to the universe. Often the most rebellious human beings are most impregnated with mass opinions | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| opinion is wrong. The observations apply equally to rebellious opinions of a minority group. A blind, unquestioning | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| going to the equally destructive opposite extreme of rebellious, hostile defiance. She will be able to change | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| give of yourself. You are neither submissive nor rebellious. You consider ideas or advice from others for | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| against a feeling that exists in you. This rebellious attitude soon creates the misconception in you that | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| down. You may be utterly unaware of the rebellious anger in you that fuels your terror and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| things. QUESTION: I have a stake in being rebellious, in going against authority and even against what | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| seem pleasurable, perhaps because they seem naughty and rebellious, and are thus contrary to God's will. At | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| on what are your feelings. Do you feel rebellious? Do you react blindly? Do you let in | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of love and how that differs from the rebellious, blind state you find yourself in now. When | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| to even really want them, or is so rebellious that he wants to steal them and justifies | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| distinct difference there is between the brittle, stubborn, rebellious strength that is nothing but concealed weakness and | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Rebels......................22 | |
| I would not say sin. When a woman rebels against her femininity it is a deviation, if | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the parent, on the other, it resists and rebels against being restricted by authority. The child feels | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| be more of the kind who revolts and rebels against authority, then you should meditate to gain | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| things that become your duty. He who constantly rebels against these imperfect conditions even though the rebellion | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| that unconsciously one is a law-upholder, while one rebels consciously, particularly against a certain form of authority | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| held back, and made inactive. Your innermost nature rebels against such great frustration because it is against | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| the spirit of the person knows it and rebels against it. The spirit is unhappy about it | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| so it undermines another legitimate need. The soul rebels against this. It continues to crave pleasure. The | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| helplessness of having to adopt rules one inwardly rebels against. This holds true even if the idealized | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| When everything is an ordeal, something in you rebels. If you fundamentally absolve yourself from accountability for | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| center. Last, but not least, whenever a person rebels against laws and all standards of ethics and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is blind in its evaluation. Yet one never rebels against the real, inner conscience. Understand, my friends | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| cannot harm me, although something ignorant in me rebels against it. In spite of it, I say | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| inclusive attitude. The person who, inwardly or outwardly, rebels against postponed gratification is angry, exclusive, negative, tense | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| itself, a sign of a healthy spirit which rebels against the mismanagement of the outer personality. Thus | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| not care about others' views and thus blindly rebels, there is again no self- possession. You lose | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| you also find that part in you that rebels against the group and wants to shun it | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| outer level of existence, when everything in you rebels against the disharmony and the imbalance that have | 228 BALANCE |
| right, wherever his place may be, and then rebels against the leadership he refuses to assume because | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the tradition as handed to them, whereas the rebels need to accept the truth in the tradition | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of the Christian submitter, and vice versa. Christian rebels fear that if they recognize, challenge and dissolve | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| would seem to mean they must become Christian rebels who throw out the beautiful truth of Jesus | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Rebirth.....................17 | |
| will already feel a foretaste of the spiritual rebirth that must come sooner or later when a | 31 SHAME |
| the cycle of incarnation, the time comes for rebirth on earth. At that moment the entity is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| without unduly shaking up the personality. Your spiritual rebirth can occur only after the wall has disappeared | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| after the wall has disappeared that one's spiritual rebirth can occur? Does this disappearance occur when you | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you have actually purified yourself? ANSWER: The spiritual rebirth can occur after you are completely conscious of | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| it in the wrong way. This is the rebirth and the resurrection that Jesus Christ showed in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Remember what I said in the lecture about rebirth, about the preparation of the spirit, how certain | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of inner change, which might also be called rebirth. These details will not present a difficulty. They | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| pains, for each new unification is a spiritual rebirth. Being reborn is always a rediscovery of the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| creating new ones, the process of death and rebirth signifies the identical principle. People tend to oppose | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| You remain in the cycle of death and rebirth, of pain and struggle, of conflict and strife | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| in principle no different from physical death and rebirth. They, too, are often crises for those who | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the first incarnation may die down after the rebirth. They are no longer of interest, they no | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| like to know whether this is actually a rebirth for me at this point? ANSWER: My dearest | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| mentioned that occasionally some human beings experience a rebirth within the present incarnation. When Jesus spoke about | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| the truth of the living God within, a rebirth must take place. This is made possible by | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| and therefore suffering, the wheel of death and rebirth which carries with it fears due to a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Reborn......................14 | |
| first glimmer of self- awareness was born, or reborn, or re-awakened. More and more people came to | 21 THE FALL |
| it over with quickly, so as to be reborn after a shorter span and then start on | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| upon yourself in this sense will you be reborn in spirit. In that way, your own resurrection | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner will is broken. The desire may be reborn on an outer level, but, as I said | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| endure physical death after each life and being reborn and again going through physical death, but also | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| subtle bodies. That is why you always feel reborn when you outgrow illusions that had kept you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| basic prerequisite to outgrow the evil and be reborn into your real self. Cutting out, forcing, disciplinary | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of the character structure are truly transformed -- reborn, as Jesus said. Such complete reorientation of the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| forever changing; it is forever dying and being reborn; it is forever expanding and contracting and pulsating | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| each new unification is a spiritual rebirth. Being reborn is always a rediscovery of the self in | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| of you as a strong sense of being reborn in this very lifetime. I would like to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| crass as the body dying and later being reborn under entirely new conditions. But the break nevertheless | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| than the greater break of dying and being reborn. For many human beings fear of death makes | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| knowledge and understanding. Your Pathwork entity has been reborn several times already. It will continue to do | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |