| Résumé......................3 | |
| you need, provided you work with them. The résumé of past material, approached in this particular form | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| words did not get on the tape. 193. RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you. I have been asked to give a résumé of the teachings which I have brought to | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Resurrection................9 | |
| was symbolized by the body of Jesus. The resurrection of his spirit signifies the life eternal of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| reborn in spirit. In that way, your own resurrection will take place. The new, free life will | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong way. This is the rebirth and the resurrection that Jesus Christ showed in the symbolic act | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as Jesus demonstrated by His death and spiritual resurrection. That is the symbolism of these words. QUESTION | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| fully understood. Even those who understand that Jesus' resurrection and appearance indicate the continuation of spirit life | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| the emphasis the church places on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. What is your comment on | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to interpret Jesus Christ's reappearance as a physical resurrection. The other aspect has a much deeper and | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| explained extensively in the previous lecture. Jesus Christ's resurrection teaches symbolically that if you do not flee | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| symbolized in your religious history by Easter, where resurrection follows death. At one time in your history | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Retain......................25 | |
| can be treated as a meditation. You should retain these words and not just read them once | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| brings, both good and bad -- and to retain a positive attitude. The distortion is in the | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| If you do neglect this meditation, you may retain what you have found, but gradually it will | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| Often you do not understand what made you retain an impression upon which you formed a wrong | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| whole and truly healthy. As long as you retain any part of the wall within yourself, no | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| distorted reaction. Thus you will be able to retain your gladness, your gratefulness, your joy in whatever | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| truth -- or any other -- and still retain in their souls the very obstructions that will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are not in truth. If you can but retain this thought, it will help you in difficult | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| situation, you register it very finely, while you retain the outer situation in your intellectual memory. The | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of thought think of something different. This will retain flexibility of outlook and prevent misunderstanding. COMMENT: Even | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. When you give up instant gratification but retain the attitude of keeping alive, in principle, the | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the hard mass. You are now trying to retain it without repression. But instead of retaining it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your soul-substance is too impressionable, when you unduly retain impressions -- in this case, the currents of | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| laziness, they blindly follow what is established, and retain values long past their temporary usefulness. People's self-alienation | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| as in the individual who is bound to retain constructive facets of an attempt to resolve problems | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and feel safe. But how long can you retain mastery over life as you cling to dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| deny them to remain safe and secure and retain the parents' love. As time goes by and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel victimized only increases blindness and makes us retain the destructive attitude that produced it in the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| no matter how undesirable that is, and yet retain this attitude, and those who are ignorant of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the deeply embedded misconceptions responsible for wanting to retain this game. But now there is a new | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| ability to think, to weigh, to discriminate, to retain knowledge, to remember, in short, to use all | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a true mutuality. You would of course both retain your individual centership, if I may use this | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| to let go of something. You want to retain the state you are in, not trusting that | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| combine the old and the new. It must retain tradition and renew and enliven it. These are | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| sense and change in the best sense. You retain the values of the old and constantly eliminate | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Retained....................7 | |
| not remember the material I give. Had you retained the lecture about the state of being of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and anxiety, that even though your intellectual memory retained what you have learned and known, you were | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| understand what I am saying. When you have retained an impression in unresilient soul-stuff, your entire psychic | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| is more superficial, even though it may be retained longer in the soul substance. An emotion comes | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the divine kernel. Could this stubbornness not be retained and transformed into a positive manifestation of your | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| species did what so many individuals do: it retained an attitude long after it remained useful. Man | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| an attitude long after it remained useful. Man retained his superiority long after physical prowess ceased to | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Retaining...................7 | |
| and experiences. Hence, you make a compromise by retaining the original wrong conclusion: I must not love | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| going into the unknown, without any assurance of retaining what one cherishes, can produce true growth. So | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to retain it without repression. But instead of retaining it, you have to dissolve it by this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a head. Your protection and defense lies in retaining childhood and, as I said, a part of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| to say, you succeed first in specific areas, retaining blind automatism in others until much later phases | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| but only as long as you persist in retaining the particular ignorance or misconception that has created | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| ideas your lower self has a stake in retaining. You need to put aside enmity and distrust | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Retains.....................7 | |
| birth, is awake at short intervals and then retains such memories. It may be close to the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one does give oneself up entirely, but one retains the self in a new way that does | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| personality grows into an otherwise mature being, but retains the particular impression that is bound to color | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| to avoid it. Conversely, a healthy attitude that retains awareness will obtain immediate growth and liberation. That | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| of this process, understanding of why the psyche retains it, will produce results. Battling it forcefully will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| said, so malleable, sticky and pasty, that it retains all imprints, unable to regain the original printless | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| destructiveness is not given up, it at least retains a modicum of sanity. The exaggerated self-governing of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Retaliation.................3 | |
| misunderstanding to think of this in terms of retaliation, rather than in terms of cause and effect | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| which only comes back to the self in retaliation. What I mean is that these emotions must | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| to you. His or her anger, rejection and retaliation may be less dangerous to you. Or you | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Reticent....................3 | |
| you have experienced. When you are shy and reticent, it creates in the other person a similar | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| The defensiveness may be much stronger in calm, reticent people who quietly go their own ways than | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| make the human heart so timid and so reticent. Being overcautious about loving increases one's withdrawal and | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| Retrace.....................5 | |
| the other, and why. You can and should retrace all this to childhood feelings and reactions to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| perfect functioning, the more difficult it is to retrace all the points in the chain reaction of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Then it will become possible for you to retrace the various negative chain reactions, find the appropriate | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the connection to your own processes. You must retrace your steps to the point where you know | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| can set the grooves so deeply that to retrace one's steps becomes almost impossible after a certain | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Retract.....................6 | |
| are spirit quality or substance; or they can retract their fluids at will and become a spirit | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Salvation is completed, will it be possible to retract their fluids at will and, for certain purposes | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| being of a spirit and its possibility to retract its fluids, thus becoming an entity, you would | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life, you negate life and your feelings and retract from life, from your feelings, and consequently lose | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| those with whom you are involved. Other people retract from this onslaught of forcing that says, as | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| reaction which at first seems inexplicable: where you retract from happiness, fulfillment, pleasure, and love. You close | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Retracted...................3 | |
| God wills it so, the fluids may be retracted so that His male aspect becomes prevalent again | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| comparatively uncomplicated process whereby the fluids will be retracted a little, certain adjustments will be made, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not in the capacity of a closed and retracted entity. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes, thank you | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |