| Relieve.....................17 | |
| reasons, yet quite often courage and willpower could relieve them if only you opened the inner door | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| in you. As long as you do not relieve the tension, it will be difficult for you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer manifestation is already progressed too far to relieve the entire sickness. In such a case, a | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| truly perceive such a mutual interplay, it will relieve the feeling of isolation and guilt you all | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| to come to the fore in order to relieve yourself of pressure and give them an outlet | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| acts. Then the criminality is an outlet to relieve the inner pressure. QUESTION: Are the members of | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| furnish the answer and will thus not only relieve the tension but lead to important further insight | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| cannot progress and gain sufficient new insight to relieve the dullness and meaninglessness of your existence, try | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| so, learning more about it. Such activity will relieve the strained atmosphere which produces his fear. The | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| it out with subsequent action -- it will relieve a hurting heart, heal a festering sore. Beware | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| for humankind as a whole. This may still relieve a person from intimate personal involvement -- the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for better or for worse, is bound to relieve the involved situation of surplus intensity and painfully | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to pass on a true experience, will not relieve the real tension. The only way to truly | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| aims in themselves may be worthy, they cannot relieve the basic fear or the sense of meaninglessness | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| be cultivated; no rules can be made to relieve you of the need to feel into yourself | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| The benefit of being aware of yourself will relieve you from the tremendous pressure of the inner | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| your need to see others as imperfect to relieve your own conscience. In this new kind of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Relieved....................13 | |
| complexes which pull them down, but feel instantly relieved and at peace, because truth always brings about | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| do so, without any subterfuges. You will be relieved by the mere knowledge, for that will explain | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| core. QUESTION: We found something, and she was relieved. Then two days later it started all over | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| belief in your unworthiness conscious, you will be relieved to find that it is not you who | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to this authority in the hope of being relieved of self-responsibility. On the other hand, his fears | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| at work. When the pressure to talk is relieved inappropriately, one will concentrate on matters that are | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| hopelessness. This hopelessness can be understood and instantly relieved only when this particular fact is profoundly comprehended | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| stream. The solitude of inner secretiveness cannot be relieved, no matter how favorable your outer circumstances. Such | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| favorable your outer circumstances. Such loneliness can be relieved only when you overcome the pride hidden by | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you know it is nonsense, and you are relieved to give up the burdensome beliefs. In addition | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| now know that your loneliness can never be relieved by another person's love as long as you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| dread this possibility, but you are also profoundly relieved to find out that every smallest particle of | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| hand, the longing for oneness can never be relieved without oneness being achieved. The longing is desperate | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Relieves....................3 | |
| it becomes. It is also conceivable that one relieves an inner tension to the maximum, but the | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| deeply involved in one's problem. Talking it out relieves pressure and that sets valuable energy free. You | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or gratification of your desires, yet this never relieves the inner anxiety that you are a helpless | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Religion....................159 | |
| right decision, so that their lives become living religion and not just a theory. Do you think | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| perhaps a door to their unconscious. What is religion? There is so much misunderstanding about this, and | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| some sect and blindly accept a set dogma. Religion means re- connection with God, and everybody wants | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| wish to return to God, that is, to religion. The more a person is aware of this | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| to higher perception. This is the essence of religion that people can discover also by adhering to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| which they must build their own house. But religion, that is, reconnection with God, is essential for | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| part in the fall of the angels. Eastern religion, having received a number of emissaries of its | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| But if you follow the teachings of your religion whereby you learn and do what alone matters | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| for self-knowledge, self-purification, and utter self-honesty, then the religion to which you belong or which you have | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| if you do not recognize officially the Christian religion. Just as all religions have enough of the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| each one of you: Try, regardless of what religion you belong to, to open your hearts and | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and the Plan of Salvation as the Christian religion does. I have explained this already. If you | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a cure, too. Through differences of race, religion, nationality, or various other categories, humanity can become | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| and individuals who are not bound to any religion. There is so much to be fulfilled in | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| down falsehoods. Truth has to grow slowly. Any religion on earth, therefore, will have emissaries born into | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| from highly developed incarnated spirits of their own religion, they would not be open for any inspiration | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| beings who have fervently believed in one particular religion. In many ways they are still imperfect and | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a person or spirit to develop in every religion. Only if a certain point of development is | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| that the issue is not so much what religion you believe in, but whether or not you | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| be an escape. This is true certainly of religion and even of this path! For instance, if | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| God in the wrong way. No matter what religion or philosophy you believe in, you can only | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| have very firm opinions about any subject from religion to politics. The moment these opinions are fanatical | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| considerable time. The proper choice of parents, nationality, religion into which to be born, life circumstances, certain | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| see the one truth that underlies all religions. Religion will no longer be a separating factor. And | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| God? ANSWER: There is human error in every religion. In one religion it may be one kind | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is human error in every religion. In one religion it may be one kind of error, in | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| their personal images. The same will happen in religion. Therefore, it is shortsighted to think that a | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| anyone who adheres rigidly to dogma, in whatever religion. Such a person may commit all sorts of | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| by yourself and with your coworker. Take politics, religion, your idea about love and sex, or whatever | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in sex as pointed out in the Catholic religion in the postulate of overcoming, or the conquest | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| universe as benign and as loving as metaphysics, religion and some philosophies teach? This is the battle | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for the expression of your spiritual nature, organized religion is seldom the answer, especially not in your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your time. But even in former times, organized religion could accomplish but little. Like most human institutions | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| than the maximum growth of another person. Organized religion does not take this into account. Nor do | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| account. Nor do the various modern substitutes for religion. The only way a human being can learn | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| there is this special day that this particular religion designated on which an inventory should be made | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a way, a new beginning, in the Jewish religion appropriately following the New Year. Is that clear | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| often at the root of people's resistance to religion. Psychology, on the other hand, teaches the opposite | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the universe. Every spiritual teaching or philosophy, every religion, even modern psychology proclaims this truth. Love is | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| can lean. It was this tendency which caused religion to be distorted into dogma. Rigidity satisfies the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| I have been studying a little about gnostic religion and I found that the teachings expounded here | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| for the decline and virtual disappearance of gnostic religion? ANSWER: It has not disappeared. It has reappeared | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| distorted it. If you study the history of religion closely, you will see that all religions, including | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| does not understand the essence of truth or religion because it does not want to understand. It | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| like to raise one point here. The Christian religion, or, specifically, the Catholic Church did manage to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| the extent of the outer power a successful religion may have. Here again, it is a question | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| you think is the place of myth in religion? ANSWER: People do not understand what myth really | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| so bound by their allegiances and loyalties to religion, politics, or anything else to which they adhere | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| action and reaction responsible for this confusing result. Religion symbolizes the struggle between opposites as the struggle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| Faced with this confusion, people often resort to religion in any of its varied forms. But they | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| in the spirit of evasion and fear. Thus religion, no matter how true its teachings, will not | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| because they are afraid. Thus, the enemies of religion are often right when they say that religion | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| religion are often right when they say that religion is an opiate. By the same token, the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| truth. This rarely indicates acceptance of a denominational religion, but, rather, the presence of their own private | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| books could be written about philosophy, psychology, and religion. There is so much contained in it. However | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God! world-weariness see lecture 52 The God-Image 88. RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| ages divine effort was focused on conveying true religion to humankind. That endeavor, however, was accompanied by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| anti-religion, as you may believe, but of false religion. This distortion is promoted by giving to falsehood | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of truth. If you follow the history of religion, you will be able to determine an obvious | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| relapse, leading from the false toward the true religion. Particularly in recent times, despite, or maybe because | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the trend is stronger than ever toward true religion. What are the main differences between true and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are the main differences between true and false religion? One of the main determinants is that in | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of the main determinants is that in false religion obedience to authority is one of the great | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| concept of obedience plays an important role. True religion does not obey. It is free. True religion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| religion does not obey. It is free. True religion is a willing process: a free, self-determined action | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to authority has been encouraged by exponents of religion under the half-true and only partly valid argument | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| prevent such destruction need not be combined with religion. In other words, religion would not have to | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| not be combined with religion. In other words, religion would not have to convey the idea of | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| other means to effect that through civil law. Religion need not be distorted and truth obscured by | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| that are exploited in order to maintain false religion. You know by now, because of your work | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| help but feel injustice in the world. False religion has encouraged and capitalized on this very sick | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| easily into this submissive and dependent attitude. False religion encouraged fear, dependency, helplessness, and a humiliating, though | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| your task in self-search to ascertain where false religion exists deep in your soul; where you borrow | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the surface. But so does the tendency of religion to encourage blind obedience. Both causes produce personalities | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| at the moment toward the elimination of false religion and its substitution by real religion in the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| of false religion and its substitution by real religion in the world at large. Obedience, as false | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in the world at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and teaches it, is completely incompatible with | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| attain divinity. Once blind obedience is eliminated from religion and from the soul of the individual, rebellion | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| what is truly good, wise, and loving in religion will cease because religion will lose that tinge | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| wise, and loving in religion will cease because religion will lose that tinge of hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| often has for a number of individuals. True religion, genuine spirituality, aims primarily to make you free | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| you encourage it, as well as encouraging false religion, even if the weakness and clinging to authority | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| deviations play hand in hand with false authoritarian religion. Anything false always brings an equally false countermeasure | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a false crutch out of the truth. False religion does more harm to true religion than complete | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| truth. False religion does more harm to true religion than complete atheism and materialism because it makes | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to the God-image I have discussed before. False religion and your unconscious insistence on remaining an infant | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| In the transitional state between giving up false religion and embracing true religion, there comes a phase | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| between giving up false religion and embracing true religion, there comes a phase of nothingness. It is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to exist at all. But as the false religion and its God-image vanish, even while you feel | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| back into the misleading, shallow comfort of false religion. If you develop your own strength for the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| will be victorious, and the road to true religion will be paved by your own attitude and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| avoiding your fears and doubts; not by using religion as a crutch to support you in the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and bravely encountering them. Only then can true religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| can true religion and knowledge replace the false religion of escape and the vague beliefs that serve | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and real security. The emotional climate of false religion can be expressed in these words: I am | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to let go of the illusion of false religion, of false consolation. And in this transitory state | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| could easily obtain by your own efforts. When religion is a substitute, it may help for a | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| in you the tendency to succumb to false religion. Then true religion will come out of your | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| tendency to succumb to false religion. Then true religion will come out of your own strength, not | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this topic? QUESTION: Could you explain what true religion is, as compared to the wrong attitude? Where | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| is a help when you come to true religion after abandoning the crutch, but in a completely | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are a neglected and unjustly treated child. True religion is spiritual and emotional maturity. God's role is | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| often the same for both true and false religion, but the inner experience is entirely different. Both | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| are still too far from awareness. QUESTION: What religion is farthest away from the truth? ANSWER: One | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| From what you say, it becomes clear that religion is a matter of each individual soul developing | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| this by relying on others, or on false religion. This makes you weak and helpless. But if | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| my friends. You all know, regardless of what religion or spiritual philosophy or teaching you follow, that | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you hope to gain spirituality -- and spirituality, religion, and love are one -- by neglecting your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| faith in God, in the sense of true religion as opposed to false religion, is again a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| sense of true religion as opposed to false religion, is again a matter of emotional maturity because | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| again a matter of emotional maturity because true religion is self- dependent. It does not cling to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| with it? Aren't we taught not only in religion, but in all philosophies, the importance of goodness | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| I am not speaking about the God of religion, but about the God that is. I know | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is truly built on sand. It is false religion that leads to obedience and fear. It is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reinforcing weakness instead of strength. That kind of religion you should avoid. Not only is it found | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in individuals who are not affiliated with any religion. It is a subtle and pervasive poison. QUESTION | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of self-finding, leads to escapism and the false religion I discussed recently. It leads to the wrong | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| standards imposed on you by the world, by religion, by rules -- in other words, by outer | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| so insufficient that such information was connected with religion. Merely sanitary, or health reasons dictated them. In | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| laws were changed. Nowadays, it is unnecessary for religion to set up such rules. At no time | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| an element out of the ancient religions where religion had a punitive character? ANSWER: Yes, it also | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| that he is responsible for his life. While religion teaches the latter, it simultaneously cripples free decision | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| be looking for theories and answers in philosophy, religion, science. You may, indeed, find many valuable and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| will show that what is taught by conventional religion contains a great deal of truth; and yet | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| in this manner. In politics, economics, and even religion, humanity approaches life and its problems on the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| upon only indirectly: the concept of evil. Traditional religion postulates that evil is a separate force. According | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| separated or divided. This separation constitutes what in religion is referred to as the Fall of the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| This illusion is the real meaning of what religion refers to as separation from God, or the | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in the remotest recesses of your personality. What religion refers to as salvation -- and what psychology | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| fulfillment, and that unlimited realization of potentials which religion calls heaven. Heaven is usually thought to be | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| This compromise exists in every form of formalized religion that removes God from the self and from | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| from others what they let flow into you. Religion has emphasized giving. It has preached for a | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| friends, happiness always amounts to the basic virtues religion preaches. In the very last, culminating point it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| while the negating principle is sick, bad, undesirable. Religion itself has made this division, explicitly representing God | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| But what should you accept? Deprivation, unfulfillment, sacrifice? Religion has taught this for centuries, for millennia, because | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| or she feels from it. Thus, in primitive religion, humans believe the universal consciousness resides outside as | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| does the mind want to take this direction? Religion calls it sin or evil. Psychology calls it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| as well as for the individual human entity. Religion speaks of the ultimate bliss of being. However | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the ultimate reality. Bliss is not -- as religion seems to imply in its misunderstood interpretations -- | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and superimposed, as opportunistic and conformist, as false religion used to be. By the same token, just | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| does evil mean as a phenomenon of consciousness? Religion has of course talked amply about this in | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Jesus. The word evil suffers a similar fate. Religion has thrown it at humankind in such a | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| can be distorted. In the days of pre-psychology, religion had indoctrinated man with a distorted, debilitating guilt | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| have apparently two opposites -- faith and doubt. Religion will glibly say faith is right and doubt | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| movement in this respect. In previous times, when religion was strongly represented in the life of humanity | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| intervention to help you attain the state that religion often calls salvation. Be wise and humble enough | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| all issues of human life that every single religion has taken up in its own way. Salvation | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| offend you because you associate it with a religion you have outgrown. But this does not alter | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| makes a great deal of difference. Politics and religion, to name but a few aspects of life | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| tradition blindly and meaninglessly create extreme orthodoxies in religion and politics -- and of course within the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| change in a very new way. It is religion, for you learn about Creation, your part in | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| there were always those who did not want religion. Each of these arguments came from the fear | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| word be Jew or Christian, Jesus Christ or religion. For many people the word reincarnation has a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| truths, regardless of whether it fits into the religion embraced by certain individuals or not. Does it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| same applies to any other human expression. In religion, too, truth combines and unifies, untruth separates. Untruth | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| can never be associated with any group consciousness, religion, nationality, political party. True individuality blossoms only when | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| almost all organized religions. This is why organized religion has fallen into ill repute today. The state | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| into an atheist because of the errors of religion, so it is foolish to discard marriage altogether | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| words used in the Bible and in organized religion, words that have indeed often been misused and | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |