| Self-analysis...............11 | |
| It requires laborious work on the spiritual level, self-analysis, and the thorough absorption of spiritual laws before | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| violations of the laws in your soul. Self-recognition, self-analysis, and the digging out of these currents are | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| anxiety. This has to be done through objective self-analysis and self-testing. Vanity or the desire to impress | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| nature is self- knowledge, honesty toward oneself, and self-analysis. The lower self, in its pride, wants to | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| for that end and continuing the work of self-analysis and self-honesty, one day you will feel as | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| really wanted to, even without this process of self-analysis but you often shrink from such observations because | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| weakness and fear, but by constructive work of self-analysis and inner growth through understanding the unconscious motivations | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| question with a spirit of courage and constructive self-analysis -- learning where you fall short in some | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| than through the path of self-searching, self-understanding and self-analysis. Any one of you who has reached some | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to that of independence and interdependence. Only personal self-analysis can provide the answer to each individual. There | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| sudden openings and closings. This concentrated aspect of self-analysis develops gradually. The predominant emotions that you shrink | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| Self-and....................1 | |
| This organically results in the proper balance between self-and other-centeredness. Others deserve the same consideration as the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Self-annihilating...........1 | |
| because self-acceptance seems too final a judgment, too self-annihilating. And the more you project it outward, the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| Self-annihilation...........6 | |
| this fight against the other appears to imply self-annihilation. The more you fight others, the less they | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| battle. On the one hand there will be self-annihilation, self-punishment, and violent self-hate as a reaction to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| neither your negative aspects, nor your the adamant self-annihilation, nor the pretense that covers everything up. Finding | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| lower self exists, giving it up appears as self-annihilation to that part of the self which is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| like giving up one's very being. Such apparent self-annihilation cannot be risked, even for the beckoning promise | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| primary motivating force of this ego seems like self-annihilation, and you cannot give up what seems to | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Self-appraisal..............2 | |
| required to build it up. With such honest self-appraisal, proper decisions must finally result, and lead to | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way, than others, singling yourself out with unrealistic self-appraisal. This selfish form of distortion automatically brings about | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| Self-assertion..............38 | |
| help, and love. Unconsciously such people believe that self-assertion and standing up for one's wishes and needs | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| forfeit your equally healthy and legitimate need for self-assertion, independence, success, happiness, fulfillment -- all of which | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| false superiority, just as you will confuse healthy self-assertion with this very same arrogance and superiority. The | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| positive aspect too; one may call it healthy self-assertion. This healthy aspect suffers the same split as | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| love, understanding, insight, strength, resourcefulness, resiliency, flexibility, adaptability, self-assertion, creativity -- that your real self is endowed | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| if you love. When you do not love, self-assertion becomes very difficult, because your gnawing guilt either | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you feel as when you lack courage and self-assertion, when you submit in evident weakness. This pseudo-strength | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| for sexual and creative expression; the needs for self-assertion and for flexible adjustment; the needs for ego-gratification | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| not dissolve. Let us take another current problem: self-assertion. Suppose a man feels guilty about expressing his | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| desists from expressing his natural need for masculine self-assertion in the confusion that this makes him wrong | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| This wavering, in itself, makes the expression of self-assertion -- independence, natural healthy aggressiveness -- problematic because | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of the aforementioned respects: fear of love, sex, self-assertion, vocational expression. The fear, I repeat, is the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| responsibility and coping with challenge, the need for self-assertion, as well as the need for cooperation and | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| It means knowing the truth that love and self-assertion can coexist -- in fact, they are interdependent | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| interact; they are not unconnected elements. Lack of self-assertion on one level may induce an angry over-assertion | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| from others or yourself. To the contrary, healthy self-assertion can only happen when you are not cramped | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| such as sadness, self-pity, pain, healthy aggression, and self-assertion. All negative energy currents must be experienced and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the false giving by self-impoverishment and lack of self-assertion takes over, the less real generosity and spontaneous | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| fact, on the surface you may totally lack self-assertion. Your inability or difficulty to healthily assert yourself | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of disapproval. The ego strength of such healthy self-assertion makes self-surrender possible. Conversely, the weakness of an | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| personal happiness, fulfillment, gratification on all levels, self-interest, self-assertion. In this duality, all these contradict goodness and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the universal law of life. Selfhood, autonomy, self-assertion are aspects of maturity and self-responsibility. They are | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It is a subtle fear of making any self-assertion, of claiming anything for the self. Such lack | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| their destructive selfishness and separateness as health and self-assertion. This is why I have waited a considerable | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| use of the creative principle. Therefore, healthy activation, self-assertion, and autonomy are also temporarily bound and must | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| that your selfishness is the healthy version of self-assertion and thus rationalize it, you create another layer | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| distorted, its opposite must be distorted as well. Self-assertion can be an expression of healthy autonomy or | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and a disguise for masochistic self-denial. Again, if self-assertion is healthy, the adaptability will be, too, and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| is also the center of the ego, aggression, self-assertion, backbone and self-responsibility. All these attitudes are centered | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| pain and danger, pleasure with humiliation and shame, self-assertion with unacceptable aggression. These are typical examples of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| have two apparent opposites. The right kind of self-assertion, which accepts the risk of being criticized, leads | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the mutually arising problems, to find balance between self-assertion and giving in, to give and receive and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Do you deplore your weakness, your lack of self-assertion? All these are effects of some negative intentionality | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| quite the contrary. True resilient strength and fearless self-assertion rest upon the ability to accept what is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| say, sexual dissatisfaction? Or between submissiveness, lack of self-assertion, on the one hand, and covert hostility on | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| is appropriate to follow the lead and when self-assertion is called for. When surrender to God is | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the strong energy that creates positive aggression and self-assertion. Thus a very confusing mixture in perception, understanding | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| this lecture: surrendering and standing firm, yielding and self-assertion, giving in and fighting for the good cause | 254 SURRENDER |
| Self-assertive..............8 | |
| submissive type is ashamed of the resentment and self-assertive qualities that smolder underneath. Power drive and aggressiveness | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| courage to be their loving selves than their self-assertive, strong selves. But let us suppose the superior | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| generous, open, trusting, as well as realistic and self-assertive. All of this is part of the greater | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| he or she is merely refusing to be self-assertive and independent and wishes to cling to another | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| give of yourself and yet are strong and self-assertive and do not let another person's destructiveness damage | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| best, your greatest, most wise, generous, loving, creative, self-assertive, unfolding, aware, courageous, humble self, with all its | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| the quality of being centered within, being firm, self-assertive, standing your own ground, being secure in your | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| service, to become more self-responsible and consequently more self-assertive. You find a balance: The more you stop | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-assurance..............1 | |
| of your real and false guilt. Self-respect and self-assurance can not exist when you hide from seeing | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| Self-augmenting.............1 | |
| stronger and stronger. They are self-perpetuating, self- feeding, self-augmenting in ever-increasing speed and momentum; self-revolving in an | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Self-aware..................3 | |
| do not discharge them on others. The more self-aware you grow, the more unselfish you must become | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| growth-pursuing spirit in its approach to suffering. Many self-aware people understand that suffering is self-created. Your realization | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| fit into the appropriate channels. One then becomes self-aware and can institute a harmonious and fluid operation | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Self-awareness..............84 | |
| currents, from the lack of self- discipline and self-awareness, from all the formations that manifest when a | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| by your personal spiritual endeavor, by your increasing self-awareness. Striving to overcome your resistance is the only | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| incarnation, provided you are absolutely determined to choose self-awareness and purification. In this way it will be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| also other substances which were at first without self-awareness. Just as a plant is without self-awareness, so | 21 THE FALL |
| without self-awareness. Just as a plant is without self-awareness, so too were these substances. As time went | 21 THE FALL |
| people came to live on earth. Only with self-awareness, which includes thinking and deciding, can development take | 21 THE FALL |
| motion that can only be broken if sufficient self-awareness and understanding is gained about these facts. If | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| Therefore you certainly have a great advantage through self-awareness, knowing your own stupidities, while others do not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| the wisdom that this is dangerous material unless self-awareness is present to a marked degree, and if | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| great role, particularly in this type of work. Self-awareness must be developed if psychic powers are not | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| in the action itself, it lies in the self-awareness and honesty. That is the key to all | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| who has gained some understanding and vision, some self-awareness, even before he is part of the great | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harm you. By a systematic method of increased self-awareness, a condition in which you are open to | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| insight. There are many ways in which increased self-awareness can come. The concept of approaching contact with | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not demand your entire attention. More and more self-awareness will come to you on all levels. When | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| any given instance. When you arrive at this self-awareness, not just a few times, but can see | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| your entire personality will be revived by increased self-awareness. A particular confusion confronts a growth-pursuing spirit in | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| self-deception, an ostrich attitude, and a lack of self-awareness. On the other side, the psychologist asserts that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| It is an indirect outcome of inner growth, self-awareness, and self-facing. QUESTION: Can one draw a conclusion | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others can come only as a result of self-awareness. And self-awareness is just the process of recognizing | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| come only as a result of self-awareness. And self-awareness is just the process of recognizing how you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| the error has to be recognized and dissolved. Self-awareness must increase and then, little by little, the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of themselves. They are an indirect byproduct of self-awareness and arise spontaneously, not determined by your outer | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| about it. You look inside until you attain self-awareness and understand what is going on in you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you do, little by little, through your increased self-awareness, your sensitivity to the other person's needs will | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of your will -- be it for growth, self-awareness, realizing a potential, or establishing a meaningful relationship | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| people have, and, most of all, it takes self-awareness, to let the other free, even in his | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| help him by quietly pursuing this work of self-awareness and self-acceptance. You know all this, but so | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| world, as every little step towards the further self-awareness of each individual. Nothing can help eliminate suffering | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| this is the cycle that humanity goes through. Self-awareness must eventually lead to the state of being | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to some degree, experienced the peace of true self-awareness, without self-condemnation or self-justification, as rarely as this | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| prepared you for that which is the key: self-awareness. The ability, willingness, courage, incentive, and reason to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| man reaches the stage of active pursuit of self-awareness, of facing himself as he really is, he | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| meaningless, contradictory. His prayer is the action of self-awareness and of looking at himself in truth. His | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you express them clearly, you cannot gain the self-awareness you wish and which is so essential for | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more, there is no other way than cultivating self-awareness in the way you are doing. The more | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| growth and transformation which is the product of self-awareness. As long as man does not face his | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| most important. This will help you greatly toward self-awareness in understanding your relationships. And now to your | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you recognize and humor your own resistance to self-awareness. Find your willingness to recognize your rationalizations that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| of this basic split indicates considerable progress and self-awareness. When this realization begins to take shape, you | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you have made sufficient inroads and have cultivated self-awareness. Then it becomes abundantly obvious. As long as | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to bring you. Freedom can come only through self-awareness. Lack of awareness imprisons you and makes life | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| my friends, who pursue a path of increasing self-awareness, raise their level of consciousness in the fastest | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| true function. It should be fulfilled by greater self-awareness and the outgrowing of one's problematic emotions. The | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| erroneous, unconscious concepts, limited understanding and lack of self-awareness. For example, displacement and superimposition result in a | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| which is always the result of lack of self-awareness. Look at your present activities and relationships in | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| tolerate frustration if need be. This discipline of self-awareness and the self-responsibility of facing the real situation | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| all this to the degree that one lacks self-awareness. On any real path of development, regardless of | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| from yourself. General awareness is the result of self-awareness. It must begin with the truthful facing of | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| from it will be. When, due to increased self-awareness, parts of the wall begin to crumble while | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| are about to approach two fundamental points of self-awareness. The causal connection between these two points can | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| be completely mustered. Therefore, these two points of self-awareness must be alternately, and at times simultaneously, worked | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| centers. In addition to the general pathwork of self-awareness, of facing the truth, of establishing contact with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| mind-matter. As you can perceive in your growing self-awareness, your inner blocks of tension and cramp only | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| had put anything anywhere. Once you have sufficient self-awareness and discover that it is you who rejects | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of attentive self-search are necessary to obtain this self-awareness. But when you do, then you can truly | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| messages, you will make a great step toward self-awareness, which then will enable you to experience original | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| exist in the still disunited personality. The less self-awareness human beings achieve, the less will they realize | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| foremost a process of making things conscious. This self-awareness unifies you and unifies the split in you | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| may still struggle to verify this point of self-awareness, but will sense that they are on the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| trusted. It means that there is ongoing life, self-awareness, and ever-increasing joy. You find out that the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| ego fears losing its present state, meaning its self-awareness, so much that the fear displaces the instinct | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you have already acquired a certain amount of self-awareness and you are already within the expansive movement | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| only people who possess a considerable amount of self-awareness can begin to recognize it in themselves, and | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| waiting for you on your path to total self-awareness, which is the absolute prerequisite to unification with | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| personality, and its importance in the self-creating process. Self-awareness, whether it concerns awareness of inner problems, confusions | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| when a certain foundation of inner self-purification and self-awareness exists, these techniques can be expanded. It will | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| along your path you will have gained sufficient self-awareness to have a subliminal understanding of what is | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| into play, but it must go toward establishing self-awareness in all those mundane aspects that are unwelcome | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| does not know it exists. It has no self-awareness. It can feel and move and grow, and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| an extent, think, but below the threshold of self-awareness, like a mineral or a plant. The organisms | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| long time on the first state: consciousness without self-awareness. Animals, plants, minerals, and inanimate matter fall under | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| than the other categories. The second state is self-awareness, which begins at the human level. What does | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| The state of consciousness below the threshold of self-awareness cannot make choices. It blindly follows the in- | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that within the human state of consciousness, of self-awareness, there are many, many degrees and variations. You | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| described, is completely lacking. The human state of self-awareness lives within its self-created dimension of time. Thus | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| though it is already fully in possession of self-awareness. On the highest rise of the curve we | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| level of development the state of being surpasses self-awareness. It has reached universal awareness. To put this | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| consciousness. It is the final state of expanded self-awareness that you cultivate on a path such as | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| apart, but only as you gradually grow in self-awareness do you become attuned to seeing this -- | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| the now. As these potentialities increasingly animate matter, self-awareness expands and you then know the truth about | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| Until you have reached a certain state of self-awareness through the process of purification and transformation, you | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| negativities no longer exist, while greater honesty and self-awareness do exist. As a consequence there is much | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the will -- every aspect of life and self-awareness -- consists of its main pulse, causing its | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |