| its true identity and connection with the real self. This happens through an often laborious groping search | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| conscious ego must make this decision. The higher self will not and cannot force it upon the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| all emphasis on the connection with the divine self that already exists without focusing on the problematic | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of and your connection with the inner, real self will make life glorious, and so you will | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| failing to establish the connection with the inner self or to fulfill the contract the soul has | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| wrongs of others so as to avoid the self -- and who is thus committed to his | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the bridge between the inner and the outer self is not yet working. What happens when death | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| death comes, if the outer and the inner self, the higher self and the ego personality, the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the outer and the inner self, the higher self and the ego personality, the will of the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the ego personality, the will of the divine self and the will of the conscious mind are | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| inner being may decide to die. The higher self knows that to continue in the established direction | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| it is organic in relation to the higher self. In these instances, the outer personality is totally | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| circumstances the struggle may continue and the inner self may choose gradually to discontinue the old stage | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| one, without, however, overexerting its powers. The inner self may allow the outer self to keep the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| powers. The inner self may allow the outer self to keep the battle going to some extent | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| This is a convenient way to delude the self, because spiritual development can become an escape, even | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| not to look for new approaches to the self and life. The self-perpetuating principle accelerates the psychic | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| even though it could. The inner, real, divine self knows of the very favorable circumstances and is | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| favor of a continued life. But the outer self willfully destroys this life, acting out its worst | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| affect one another? How much should each higher self infuse its guidance, inspiration and energies? Too much | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| has consistently weakened its connection to the real self by willfully going in the opposite direction, then | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| cannot yet experience the reality of your divine self. But even in your conscious mind, are you | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| defense against feelings and undesirable aspects of the self. Abstract thought is a result of a highly | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| apprehension, anxiety about the complexity of what the self suspects to exist and wishes to avoid. Self-hate | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a necessary prerequisite for connecting with the divine self. It is a state to be cherished for | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| having an effect on the world around the self must result in accountability and the seriousness of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| state of consciousness all is known. The innermost self is known, the God-self is known. The God-self | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| put this differently, and possibly more accurately: the self is recognized as being in all that exists | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you must eliminate the blind spots about the self, so that the self can find out the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| blind spots about the self, so that the self can find out the answers about itself. You | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| as outer events, states of being in the self and in others, connections and interrelationships between people | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| scale to deal with certain areas of the self. The question can be simply stated as follows | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| divine life. I do not trust my higher self. I do not trust God's creation and God's | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| of impatience with the limited state of the self indicated an eagerness to grow and goodwill toward | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| state, which, in turn, results in hate of self, therefore fear of self, therefore resistance to the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| results in hate of self, therefore fear of self, therefore resistance to the whole of your being | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| my friends, the inexorable connection between fear of self and fear of life, as opposed to total | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| opposed to total commitment to all of the self, hence increasing loss of fear of self, trust | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| the self, hence increasing loss of fear of self, trust in self, trust in life. Making the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| increasing loss of fear of self, trust in self, trust in life. Making the total commitment to | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| your own ground, being secure in your own self, rather than being constantly swayed and influenced by | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| ego must surrender to. It is this divine self that alone can bring about true selfhood, autonomy | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| center. If you are centered within your divine self, then vanity and egotism stop. Vanity and egotism | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| endeavor that sets oneself into opposition to another self. In reality, on the divine level of inner | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| process, the reason is different. Before the spiritual self takes possession of the human body in the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| with the laws and processes of the inner self. Certain highly developed individuals with a capacity for | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| them; they lack courage to establish the inner self as the true center of individual life. The | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| occasionally the voice of the childish, demanding, negative self. Then, of course, you are convinced that this | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you, and so you avoid facing the negative self even more, until later when, perhaps, you learn | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| attitude becomes consistent, as confrontation between the lower self and the conscious, reasonable, positive ego-self takes place | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| by skipping over the confrontation with the lower self that also always speaks to you. Your ego | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| distinguish between them. The voice of the lower self says, I want it for me. I do | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| know, to purify totally all aspects of the self. Had you always heard the divine voice, purification | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the divine voice is the anesthesia that your self deliberately chooses for the incarnatory process. In the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| to the power you give to the negative self that rejects any rule but its own. The | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| rejects any rule but its own. The negative self does not want to know itself. Yet the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| itself. Yet the divine voice leads the negative self to know itself. That is the first step | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| That is the first step for the negative self to purify itself. Many of my friends on | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| hearing both voices. What is the negative, lower self? It may manifest under a clever disguise. And | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| divine voice in many areas, yet the negative self still exists. The ego's block against recognition of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| requests wisdom from the divine part of the self to find the best way to deal with | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| must test it out and explore your inner self. Do you sense any desire to cheat, or | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| the utter will to be truthful with the self. But once you arrive at this juncture and | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and others -- it cannot be either the self or others, it can only be both. I | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| In the second step you allow the divine self to supply the answer. If you take this | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| you will catch occasional glimpses into the divine self within, how it is, how it feels, how | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| make that leap in self-surrender to a larger Self that is truly you in the best sense | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and deal with any unpleasant aspects of the self or others, or life in general. This comes | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| all of you. 222. TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF Blessings, greetings, love and help are pouring forth | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| and dealt with deeper levels of your lower self, you would be able to establish more contact | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| able to establish more contact with your higher self, and that some of your lower-self aspects would | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| defenses to really see and accept your lower self in a realistic and constructive spirit. Years went | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| more creative experiences; more meaningful self-fulfillment. Your spiritual self will manifest more and more and make you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| depths and have bared aspects of your lower self, have brought your negative intentionality out in the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| are only a minor part of your total self. You can identify aspects of the lower self | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| self. You can identify aspects of the lower self without totally identifying with them. On the negative | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| applies to a specific area where the lower self does not wish to budge. It is therefore | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| prevails, you are still controlled by your lower self. But at least you know it now, and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| in and become victimized by your own lower self. But this need not be so. When you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| surrender to God and give up my lower self for what I know to be happiness, abundance | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| its terms are life-denying and destructive for the self and others. This countermovement has its history in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| There is hardly any human being whose lower self could approach the intensity of the evil that | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| in the lower spheres. And the now-manifest higher self could not by any means approach the intensity | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| means in these terms. You, as your higher self, have taken on a task and have brought | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| choose to allow the will of the lower self to control your whole person. Or you can | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your conscious mind and will with the higher self, without pushing out of awareness the will and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| awareness the will and voice of the lower self. You also need to think about what it | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| what it means when you follow the lower self without questioning it, when you are still tempted | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Now, in none of you does the lower self approach anywhere near the intensely destructive levels I | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| destructive levels I discussed earlier. But the lower self is always destructive; otherwise, it would not be | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| destructive; otherwise, it would not be a lower self. It may be destructive in wanting to be | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that what is selfish is good for the self. It is destructive simply in refusing total self- | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to you, but they live on. Your lower self can be transformed and you have seen this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| begin to see these areas of your lower self, it is very important for your conscious mind | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| likewise change. Energy that emanates from the lower self is very slow moving. It is often halting | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| crass; it gives off distinctly unpleasant colors; higher self emanations, in their color and brilliance, convey peace | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| beautiful and harmonious. The sounds of a lower self are disharmonious, ugly and displeasing to the inner | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| other energy bodies. The energy of the higher self is felt as soft, nurturing, vitalizing; you bathe | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| As you overcome each hurdle of the lower self, as you commit yourself forever more strongly to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to move toward a new vision of life, self, and a new mode of being. The new | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| It incorporates the pure substance of the old self into a new, expanded version. You also know | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the part of you we call the lower self obstructs this movement. It fears, distrusts, and resists | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the more you act in accordance with higher self principles, the shorter the crisis will be. In | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you resist growth, you create crisis. The lower self is not merely devious, dishonest, and selfish; it | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| destructive and negative. Earth also possesses a lower self. Like the individual's, Earth's lower self is not | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a lower self. Like the individual's, Earth's lower self is not only negative, selfish, greedy, and dishonest | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are beginning to experience that fulfillment of the self lies in service. And service can be executed | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the real surge and message from the higher self is interwoven with the masking cloak, the false | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it and perpetuate the pretenses of the mask self. So you had to learn to be selfish | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| distorted form of selfishness splits the interest of self and others; the right kind unifies them. At | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| there is no longer a dichotomy between the self and others. When you free yourself of the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| become unselfish without sacrificing personal fulfillment. The lower self with its lower aims must often be sacrificed | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| expose the short-sighted selfishness of the lower, little self. Then you learn healthy selfishness, and from there | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the mandala-shaped design. In this figure the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which is | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the higher self is surrounded by the lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self and | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower self, which is surrounded by the mask self and the defenses. Individually you have dealt with | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| reap tangible fruits of fulfillment, represent the higher self of the group. You have traveled through the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| can identify more and more with your higher self, since you are increasingly able to differentiate between | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it and the wishful thinking of the mask self that hides the distortion and the untruth of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the distortion and the untruth of the lower self. You thereby come to hear the true voice | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to hear the true voice of your higher self, which you can increasingly trust. Your community as | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the inner nucleus function as the higher self of the community. This does not mean that | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| capable of establishing the channel to the higher self. You are increasingly capable of totally committing yourself | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| against the countermovement from within your own lower self, and therefore from without, against the lower self | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self, and therefore from without, against the lower self of the planet. Then there are those others | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the phase of owning up to the lower self, laboriously getting to know it by penetrating the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it by penetrating the concealments of the mask self. In this struggle the temptation to hide, as | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| first cannot find the channel to your higher self, and thus do not even want it. You | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| who are still strongly identified with their mask self. They have the most difficult time, and they | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to recognize that they identify with their mask self and must begin to travel through the layers | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have learned to take responsibility for your lower self and overcame the shame to admit it, so | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for and not be ashamed of your higher self. Admit where you have indeed already arrived. Then | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| new way. It is aware that the outer self does not know, that it is not trustworthy | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| prejudices. The new consciousness always consults the higher self and learns to wait quietly and patiently for | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with your ego-mind. The workings of the greater self so far surpass the mind's imagination that specificity | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| all that is, and yet infinitely your personal self. As it is now, you carry your mind | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and the technical dexterity. If the childish lower self wants to use the channel to the greater | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| to truly know yourself, your weaknesses, your lower self, where you are corruptible, where you are dishonest | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| higher purposes to enrich the world and the self. At the same time you need to cultivate | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| deal with such fears by questioning your lower self. But the time comes when you are ready | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| connections. You know, for example, what your lower self wants and why you have negative intentions. The | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| seems hard to find contact with the higher self. The new person has established a new balance | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| Group consciousness means finding the oneness between the self and others. In the early development of consciousness | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| certain lessons in bridging the gap from the self to the other. So now the emphasis had | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| resistance on your path when encountering your lower self. Since the planet also has a lower self | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self. Since the planet also has a lower self, there are factions of people who express a | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| give you the sustenance that only the divine self can give. People who use the group as | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and your emphasis will be put on the self, rather than on those against whom you rebel | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| necessary. Others can mirror to you where the self is stuck, and the self deeply needs this | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you where the self is stuck, and the self deeply needs this awareness of its effects on | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| does not diminish uniqueness, but furthers it. The self no longer uses the group as a crutch | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |