| Schizophrenia...............1 | |
| In modern psychology we frequently hear the word schizophrenia applied to people who are psychotic. According to | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| School......................35 | |
| sphere of purification; some of them go to school there; some of them prepare for the next | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a school of thought that does not admit to any | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| indeed necessary. Life on earth is like a school where you develop from one class to the | 22 SALVATION |
| he was incarnated, he was in a certain school in the spirit world. He had, through previous | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are these arguments about various matters, where one school of thought claims one thing and another the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a vague impression of a very strict, pedantic school teacher who shakes His finger at you and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| who does so has not even entered the school of life. To turn to God because this | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and hazardous represents the first grade of elementary school. The way to seek God is out of | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to react to tests, trials, and hardships. One school of thought claims God does not send tests | 38 IMAGES |
| unhappy? This is true, my friends. The other school of thought says that it is necessary that | 38 IMAGES |
| takes time, effort, and patience. So, as one school of thought says, patience and humility are absolutely | 38 IMAGES |
| know that life is to be considered a school. You go from one incarnation to the other | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| your earth plane. Life in itself is a school. The curriculum of this school is made up | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| itself is a school. The curriculum of this school is made up of the outward-manifesting conditions of | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| failed. Compare it with a child going to school, from one class to another. While in the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| was quite demanding as far as work in school was concerned. She expected a high standard from | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| about the use of will. There is the school of thought that says you must not pursue | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| You must let go. And there is another school of thought that says that without will there | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| set. Then your group will truly become a school where each person is pupil and teacher at | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| world, away from seclusion. When the child starts school, this is again a step into the world | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that a child in the lowest grade of school cannot understand what an adult understands. So it | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| need not feel guilty about it. The other school of thought says that thoughts and attitudes are | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of learning, although this will not necessarily be school learning. You know there is another learning. Let | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learning. Life learning is even more important than school learning. Life learning is what the path can | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| that no lesson is learned in that phase. School age is the first phase in this particular | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is ready to leave home and go to school. This is not only a physical expansion, but | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Therefore it must also be part of the school curriculum, starting as early as kindergarten and continuing | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| say so. But also tell the child that school is the place to find the answers. Encourage | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| if you cannot as yet create a new school system with a new curriculum. Just knowing of | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| new consciousness and a new awareness that experiences school as the most exciting adventure imaginable. The classroom | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| are handed to the child. Children will experience school as a privilege they look forward to, even | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| far away when you will create your own school, even though there may not be too many | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| now. Your current politicians come from the old-age school system and the consciousness behind it. Their approach | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| outer leadership or statesmanship. You can be a school teacher, you can supervise others in an office | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| society, or what might be called a mystery school, in which knowledge about inner truths, real values | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Schooling...................4 | |
| beings who have already been through some spiritual schooling and are a little more sensitive can use | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| can happen only when you go through this schooling successfully, by learning to know and to apply | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| again. A person who has had some spiritual schooling can discern very accurately, when he or she | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| stronger chance for advancement. So, there is a schooling connected with the decision-making and planning for the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Schools.....................20 | |
| of development. There are, further, many kinds of schools and universities. There are hospitals, my dear ones | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| language becomes necessary and for that we have schools, just as you have schools. We have schools | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| that we have schools, just as you have schools. We have schools for many, many subjects, and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| schools, just as you have schools. We have schools for many, many subjects, and language is one | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| spirit world when the entity goes through certain schools, receives instruction according to its personal needs, and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in order to do so rhythmically. The different schools of thought have just perceived one aspect of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| come your way. Both errors are represented by schools of thought on your earth plane. Life in | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| always keep in mind that other people or schools of thought think of something different. This will | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it comes the opposite term of sadism. Modern schools of psychology rather use the word algolagnia to | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a different meaning for different people or different schools of thought. The word introverted may mean to | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of consciousness, with its repeated incarnations serving as schools of experience, is all about. And this is | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| equally important and both should be cultivated. Some schools of thought concentrate on one aspect, others on | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilt to be handled? There are two basic schools of thought that have existed throughout the ages | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and energy of the person. These apparently opposite schools of thought -- or approaches to life exist | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| which are really one. Many movements and spiritual schools of thought preach asceticism and the denial of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| this path. They are even known by psychological schools which attempt to find the inner self. They | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| child grows older and can take in more. Schools in the coming age will know that the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will in most instances be truly self-chosen. New-age schools will be infiltrated energetically with a new consciousness | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| will be a thrill if those who create schools, educational systems and curricula participate in the new | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| why so many seemingly new organizations, orientations, or schools of thought, arise constantly. The old is either | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Science.....................52 | |
| This, however, does not have to be so. Science could obtain more knowledge of this kind if | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| very interesting question that can provide a key. Science has already found much that could be informative | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| found much that could be informative, if only science would connect the results with the basic questions | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| spirit world could be called the sphere of science. Yet it is not like your human science | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| science. Yet it is not like your human science. All the knowledge that exists, which humankind discovers | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| world, of course. For every specialty, art, or science -- and I have mentioned this before -- | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Another may be drawn to art, another to science. Others just enjoys the beauty of Creation, still | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| a disease. Your human history and your human science show you how many ways medicine has found | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| on this earth, no matter what wonderful progress science and medicine make. As long as the disease | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| My question concerns the prolongation of life through science, the extension of the life span and the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| is so beautifully planned, how is it that science claims to have some part in the extension | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| some part in the extension of life? ANSWER: Science can find only what God's Spirit World allows | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| he is fulfilling the necessary requirements. Now, if science is discovering today so many new things, it | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| improvement follows, at least to some degree. So science on the whole, or the scientist individually, is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| self-exploration, which will soon be confirmed by human science. You have to descend into your unconscious in | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| important, knowledge in the form of general knowledge, science, knowledge of the universe, the manifested world, or | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| those spiritual aspirants who in some way disregard science? They claim that spiritual development alone would bring | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| different tasks: one in the arts, others in science, and so on. Oneness must eventually result from | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| reality as self- knowledge, no matter how much science may be abused temporarily. Therefore it is a | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| human beings may combine their spiritual development with science, others with an art, still others perhaps in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| on any of the subjects discussed tonight? QUESTION: Science says that life is light and consciousness. Does | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| be created. There is no branch of human science where these principles cannot be found. They penetrate | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| question, although I don't think it is permissible. Science is now agreed that in the millions of | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| it. In society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect are the outcome of the man's | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| known among humankind, particularly in the field of science. Though sometimes different, these new approaches will eventually | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approaches will eventually be understood and accepted by science and will no longer be deemed unscientific. Then | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirit-matter in the lower forms. In this respect, science is closer to the truth, although science interprets | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| respect, science is closer to the truth, although science interprets it a little differently. It leaves out | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spiritual development for the individual in society; for science and philosophy could find unity in spiritual law | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| So the wish for immortality through art, or science, or any other expression is, in essence, not | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| or less decisive. You all know from occult science that there is not just one subtle body | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| approach of humanity: people's disinclination to think. Your science today may find certain conditions that make it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| looking for theories and answers in philosophy, religion, science. You may, indeed, find many valuable and valid | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and open your eyes. In all branches of science you find aspects of the universal intelligence and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| a living being, the creation of art or science, a relationship, or the particular manner, style, and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| not been sufficiently understood because psychology and spiritual science have not merged sufficiently. Vague attempts have been | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| chemistry, in physics, in practically every field of science. It should therefore be easier to accept than | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| here between general areas of life -- of science or philosophy -- which either have no direct | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| self. All acts of creation in art and science, all great inventions, all truly enriching and lasting | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Even though all important spiritual teachings, including modern science in the form of psychology and psychiatry, agree | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| even to remotely conceive of it. Consider the science of atoms, which has shown that the smallest | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| and small things have little power. With the science of atoms, a revolutionary reorientation has begun, forcing | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| every new step of branching out, whether in science or in any other realization of truth. However | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| physical laws, corresponding to their overall consciousness. Human science, even from the merely materialistic point of view | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| of view, shows this to be so. The science of space proves this. In outer space there | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| inanimate matter, as you now know from present-day science, has an intrinsic life and incredible movement, once | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| life in all its different facets: art, nature, science. You can do all things, learn everything your | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| itself. The most sophisticated computer of your present-day science could never figure out all these details. Nothing | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| and self- indulgence. The same is true of science or any other field. Now how about this | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of physics, chemistry, biology -- of every conceivable science in your physical reality -- are governed by | 228 BALANCE |
| for this approach. The new kind of politics, science, economics, sociology, art -- everything that is part | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of many arduous steps and inner battles. Human science has recognized that every atom is a duplication | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |