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auras, therefore, are not the images themselves, only reflections of the images. These forms create the spheres 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK
is necessary. You may ask what bearing these reflections have on your relationship to time. If you 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
approximately between the shoulder blades. They both are reflections from one center, which is located more internally 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
soul movements -- not the distortions, but the reflections of the greater cosmos. In order to be 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
body, although particles of that consciousness remain as reflections within each molecule, within each cell, within each 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
you experience in your outer world, in symbolic reflections, how the lower self of nations becomes exposed 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
 
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subtle bodies and penetrates the physical body. It reflects, in fluctuating colors, various moods, diseases of body 47 THE WALL WITHIN
God rather than what you think. Your God-image reflects the whole scale between the two opposite poles 52 THE GOD-IMAGE
be perfectly true that the other person's incapacity reflects his or her emotional immaturity, inner problems, and 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
something important about your unconscious attitudes. It often reflects, in reality, a fear of relinquishing one's false 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
parents is repeated throughout a person's life, and reflects the degree of the intensity of that experience 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
another person. The separateness causes misery, because it reflects the separateness between the outer and inner self 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
be blessed, be in God! 159. LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION Greetings, all my dearest friends here 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
that life can be cheated. As such, it reflects one's most significant and telling attitude to life 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
The degree of consciousness of a group organism reflects the sum total of its individuals, just as 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
just as the overall consciousness of an individual reflects the sum total of his or her psychic 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
soul movement is very different from one that reflects an attitude of fear and hate. The greatest 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
can be detected only indirectly: The glandular system reflects them and is determined by them. But the 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
acted-out, destructive behavior of others toward you again reflects your lack of awareness of when and how 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
needed. Outer disorder in a person's life always reflects the inner attitude: It mirrors the inner sense 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
false abandonment, of wishful thinking and avoidance. It reflects your illusory state. Outer order in a person's 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
is, as you know, always strong. One person reflects this in his outer life; another type of 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
inner attitude and explicit intention. Such an event reflects specific distorted ideas which, in turn, engender specific 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
to give will come to me. This attitude reflects an open energy system and is compatible with 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
so. It will develop organically, for human language reflects the organic development of humanity as a whole 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
sometimes referred to as soul substance -- which reflects every particle of the person's life. Nothing is 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
now to understand that this manifestation in nature reflects precisely humanity's overall state of consciousness which is 254 SURRENDER
human beliefs creates your environment, the earth sphere reflects this polarity exactly. Its presence can be observed 254 SURRENDER
conditions within and around them. If this world reflects the combination of both extremes creating this polarity 254 SURRENDER
another to sustain its own life. Art sometimes reflects this blissful world because the soul deeply knows 254 SURRENDER
polarity does not exclude the other, and this reflects exactly your own state of mind. Perhaps you 254 SURRENDER
every way of thinking, feeling, being and reacting reflects directly on your participation in the greater scheme 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
 
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tackle. You can consider any happening as a reflex of your unconscious reactions. If you observe your 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
you are face to face with the blind reflex itself. When this takes place you are aware 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
that a person unconsciously desires rejection, but the reflex was already established at a time when this 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
the denial of the link between the automatic reflex of pleasure and a negative situation? Or is 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
in-between -- remain inwardly relaxed. Observe the automatic reflex reaction in your soul movement, how it automatically 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
to hurt. It is a response, an automatic reflex reaction and, as that, it is blind. This 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
the word, the concept tulip, is already a reflex, so that you do not experience the tulip 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
so that it tenses up as a conditioned reflex. The error may now sit in the tiniest 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
so on. As I mentioned, the usual, automatic reflex reaction to negative experience is blind contraction with 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
knowing that your old response is a conditioned reflex created to fit a smaller way of functioning 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
of functioning in life; second, by questioning that reflex and the beliefs behind it. Last but not 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY
of perception is the result of a conditioned reflex in focusing, which, in turn, is the result 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
images about tradition. These images trigger off conditioned reflex reactions as soon as this term is mentioned 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
challenged. The personality reacts blindly in a conditioned reflex, rather than out of truth appropriate to the 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
 
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assimilated material. This, in turn, forces you into reflexes so automatic, so limited, that you cannot perceive 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
and their entire value system suffers from unrealistic reflexes. To be more specific, if the drive toward 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
be in God! 127. EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
In this phase people respond according to automatic reflexes -- emotional reactions based on deeply imprinted wrong 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
be, in this context, concerned with uncovering blind reflexes. All subterfuges, rationalizations, explanations, justifications, self-deceptions, serving to 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
proportion to how much awareness you gain, blind reflexes cease, and you reach understanding. Offhand, you may 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the resistance to face what lies behind blind reflexes. The awareness that blind reflexes are still governing 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
lies behind blind reflexes. The awareness that blind reflexes are still governing you in certain respects is 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
just discussed. It means becoming aware of blind reflexes; understanding why they exist and what they cause 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
This is the battle that leads from blind reflexes that every single human being is governed by 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
beings. Only on a path leading from blind reflexes to knowingness can one truly understand that control 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
be governed by outer knowledge, or by blind reflexes, which may either make you fearfully overmodest or 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
much others are involved with their own blind reflexes, they are often a good mirror for you 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
this is what you want. Observe your inner reflexes as you do so. Are you relaxed when 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES
way that the marriage is established. The automatic reflexes are then geared to a situation that combines 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
when you experience with courage how the automatic reflexes of the pleasure principle are geared to the 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
You then find out that these reactions and reflexes, these emotions and moods, are based on certain 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
unconscious material conscious and consequently reorienting the faulty reflexes of previously unconscious material, the closer you come 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
emotions and assumptions become self-regulating in the automatic reflexes they force upon you. Once you allow the 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
hurt. You understand that such impulses are conditioned reflexes, that you are not fundamentally bad and different 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
But you must be prepared that your conditioned reflexes cannot be re-conditioned so quickly. Whether you consciously 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
I have no feelings but act according to reflexes. I also recognize how I manipulated myself in 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
independently to what is, but according to conditioned reflexes. This will be quite shocking at first, and 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
own true, free, and spontaneous reactions, but preconceived reflexes. They result not only from what you picked 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
are usually too busy following your habit-bound, conditioned reflexes, in which you respond to what you believe 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
they really are, without preconceptions or preconditioned sensory reflexes. Your preconceptions are illusions, and they can be 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
this division in the depths of one's unconscious reflexes means untold confusion and pain. The moment a 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the onetime experience will not remain. Your conditioned reflexes are too deeply ingrained. The old fear will 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
all its aspects. When you see the automatic reflexes, you must also accept that here are processes 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
situation and automatically fall into the old conditioned reflexes, your negative approach, without paying attention to what 174 SELF-ESTEEM
This requires paying attention to your innermost soul reflexes. When you do so, the negativities that create 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
again in the old blindness and its conditioned reflexes. But this need not deter me. I will 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
of spontaneous behavior no longer based on conditioned reflexes, and of creative expression of feelings. Misconceptions can 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
is merely a blind reaction based on emotional reflexes and turbulent feelings that you are mostly unaware 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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