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 Reversed....................21
The direction of your innermost currents will be reversed when you attain the new state of oneness 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION
cope with life, but if this energy-current were reversed, life would become very different. You fight with 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY
is very true. With you the process is reversed. Your astounding progress in a relatively short time 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
B's negative one; at other times they are reversed; at still other times, both negative currents are 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
consider the possibility that the negative can be reversed if you truly desire this and are prepared 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
through this phase before its direction can be reversed. This is why you fear the realm of 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
in emotional experience, before the process can be reversed; a truthful concept creates unity which creates a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
needs is vigorously overcome can all this be reversed. Real needs never require others to comply and 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
of life and yourself today may be totally reversed tomorrow when you experience life and yourself very 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
and feelings create suffering. This chain must be reversed and can only be reversed when awareness of 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
chain must be reversed and can only be reversed when awareness of the mask self, the lower 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
a deeper and more subtle level it is reversed, simply because the ego does not want to 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
greed, and hate. These same aspects can be reversed: fear becomes faith and trust; pride humility; selfwill 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
life. Thus activity and passivity need to be reversed. Your mind will thus become an instrument. It 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
admiration and approval is withheld, or perhaps even reversed, the ground shakes and you become lost; you 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
into higher realms of being. This is a reversed view, reflecting a consciousness still locked into space 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
different level, or even simultaneously, this can be reversed. Expansion can then have a negative manifestation and 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
level -- this self-defeating pattern can never be reversed and transformed unless you heal yourself spiritually by 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
from experiencing grace. The automatic habit of this reversed thinking extends to many different issues and aspects 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
collective entity, and when the process can be reversed and the collective entity can give more to 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
of the other. At other times it is reversed. A certain balance should be maintained, though it 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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after a while and your old, habit-bound emotions revert to their fearfulness of long standing, in blind 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
one's inner nakedness. How easy it is to revert back to the shame out of long-standing habit 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
you lose this good state temporarily and must revert in the spiral movement to the residues of 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
too long. This does not mean you should revert back to the purely blind, emotional desire-nature, rather 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
the disappointing results of wishful thinking -- you revert into the superstition of pessimism. Let us be 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM
you despair. At the same time, if you revert to your mask self, you are right back 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
as you must feel now when you blindly revert, out of habit, to outdated reactions toward yourself 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
what is dearest to you. You may then revert back to the old, drab, gray state to 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
to taste it can no longer bear to revert to secret living for any length of time 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
 
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in that breath of God, and you can review it again. Spirits sufficiently advanced in their development 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION
would be necessary for the new friends to review what I have said before, in order to 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
to be done every day. You ought to review your day and examine your own reactions to 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
God, in God. 17. THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW Greetings in the Name of the Lord. I 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
is by doing what I call the Daily Review. With its help you can find out your 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
actions go against a spiritual law. The daily review should be conducted in the following manner: Let 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
and guidance every time you conduct the daily review. Then ideas will flow into you and will 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
in your hour of prayer, meditation and daily review, when something like this comes up. Oh, here 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
it is very important to write your daily review and to check your reactions to all you 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH
in God! 28. COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW Greetings in the name of the Lord. I 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
to practice using a powerful tool called daily review. You do not have to be extremely far 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
can do so. All you should do is review the day and think of all the instances 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
which you can learn to recognize. Doing your review will not take more than ten or fifteen 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
to it. After you have kept a daily review for a while, read all daily review notes 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
daily review for a while, read all daily review notes through and recollect the incidents, with your 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW
And that is the purpose of the daily review I mention so often. But if some of 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
your discovery work in the form of daily review, there are other ways of doing it. Whenever 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
so is by practicing any type of daily review. Use self-honesty to examine your feelings and the 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
goal when you observe yourself in your daily review. If you who work in such a way 36 PRAYER
shoulder them. It is a good beginning to review your life, concisely enumerating all your troubles. And 38 IMAGES
how these reactions repeat themselves throughout your life. Review the disappointments that apparently have nothing to do 39 IMAGE-FINDING
wrongness of the conclusions as such. You will review your reactions. You will reexperience the wrong emotions 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
First you must learn to conduct your daily review, which I have often suggested. The next step 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
the individual, and the practice of the daily review. With this material at hand, you can certainly 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE
have the courage to examine the subject, to review it freely and independently. If then you arrive 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS
first. Concentrate on this proving in your daily review and self-observations. It must be examined, analyzed, and 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED
have to be constantly observed in your daily review, in your work on this path. Watch your 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
laws are restored within the entity. If you review earlier lectures on the manifold problems of the 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
you look back on your life. When you review certain of your life experiences, you will find 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
to understand this particular process, you have to review how the idealized self-image came into existence. The 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS
then your depression and discouragement, disappear. Let us review in brief how an image comes into existence 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES
allow your true feelings to surface. When you review how you reacted to certain incidents, you will 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
conflict and dissolution of inner error. The daily review I advocate is one of the best means 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME
other being superimposed. It will be useful to review briefly some characteristics of the superimposed conscience. When 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
not yet ready for. Ascertain in your daily review, This or that factor brings me embarrassment. I 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
of its existence, the practice of the daily review, as you have learned, is immensely helpful and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
the proper procedure of prayer, meditation, and daily review; of formulating confusions, unanswered questions, vague uneasy feelings 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
attitude. On this path, you have learned to review your life in the light of progress already 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
more than anything else. When doing a daily review, examine your reactions of disharmony and meditate in 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
responsibility. Here I have given you a brief review to connect these ideas with the deeper understanding 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
does not know this and suffers. Let us review. Conscious processes can swing the pendulum from destructive 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
comes from the spiritual cleansing of doing daily review and meditation and from commitment to God's world 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
Nothing could be more reliable. In your daily review each night, ask yourself, Is my life as 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
pathwork to use what I call a daily review. Go through the days in terms of the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
a record of your disharmonies in your daily review; you learn the power of repeated impressing in 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
may incorporate into your self-observations and your daily review. When you find yourself in rebellion, no matter 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
this will continue. Let us make a brief review, from this point of view, about the various 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
into this substance and thereby made available to review. Thus a person's life may be perused from 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS

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