| Split-off...................16 | |
| suffices to say that the ego is a split-off particle of the vaster consciousness, which still remains | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| still remains in all human beings. Unless this split-off part is integrated with its origin, it dies | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| self and then use it to camouflage the split-off and distorted aspects of consciousness. The divine power | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| It does not lead to illusion and to split-off consciousness. It brings into concrete experience aspects of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and reorient them so as to unify all split-off soul substance, then meditation takes a different course | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in the cycle of incarnations, to reintegrate this split-off ego-consciousness and to regain forever wider and deeper | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| creation of the self. Humanity believes that this split-off ego-consciousness is the real self. You identify with | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| must continue until there is no longer any split-off fragment and humanity has reached cosmic consciousness, which | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| entity separate from God. As your outer, hitherto split-off little intellect will become one with the greater | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| control should be. This always also creates the split-off opposite distorted condition: False control tries to compensate | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| term you use, the final aim of all split-off beings is to reunify the individualized, separated aspects | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of the greater consciousness with the whole. The split-off aspects are integrally connected to a great force | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| invisible to you. If you live in a split-off duality in which you have to hate yourself | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| love, commitment, and respect is just such a split-off, denied power current. Human beings who believe that | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| one another is necessarily beyond the stage of split-off sexuality. The typical marriage of former times, which | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| allow themselves to experience sexuality only in a split-off way, cut off from the heart, removed from | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Splits......................25 | |
| a breaking into two followed by many further splits and fragmentations. This explains the origin of the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms. There the splits extend further and further into smaller and smaller | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| very rarely. But as I said, there are splits where the angle is not so wide, where | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| hate, which started the vicious circle, causes further splits, as you can see quite clearly by now | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| many different and contradictory currents and these are splits. Purification means one-ness. QUESTION: If some of our | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| unified core, on the next level of consciousness splits into two opposites. This underlying core is your | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| often held even by the irreligious person. The splits and divisions, the contradictions and either/ors are a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| how life on earth presents itself in two-way splits. Humankind thus expresses a twofold split that manifests | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| father and mother is another symbol of the splits that mark this earth sphere. To the degree | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| within themselves. When you find these contradictions and splits, it is easy to see why you are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| not only separates man from woman, but it splits the great cosmic force within, separating affection from | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| while strenuously and fearfully holding the self together splits and disintegrates the psyche. The more the universal | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| from the self and from daily life, that splits human nature into the spiritual and the physical | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| need. This is one of the most fundamental splits in the human personality. Let us now look | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| the happiness of all concerned. When the duality splits selfishness into false divisions and false values so | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| from the source is indivisible and unifies all splits and conflicts. This, in very broad lines, constitutes | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| humanity. I have often shown how a misconception splits the truth into two opposing halves that confuse | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| yourself. It is only your confusions and dualistic splits that create your misconceptions, fears, and shames that | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| and establishing new ones. It means unifying erroneous splits in concepts on an emotional level and dismantling | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| expression of creative life through you, but also splits you into a state of disunity. You can | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of pain. Evil resists what is and thus splits itself off from itself, forever fragmenting consciousness into | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| expense of others. The distorted form of selfishness splits the interest of self and others; the right | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| altogether. This is equally undesirable because it creates splits rather than unification. Both these extremes are half-truths | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| life meets non-life, energy creates matter, and consciousness splits off into fragments. Truth and reality become confused | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| want to drive you crazy with confusion, dualistic splits, false either/ors, half-truths, and subtle distortions that you | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Splitting...................23 | |
| the universe. ANSWER: As you understood correctly, the splitting of the atom is related to the idea | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| concepts are related. When one says that the splitting of the atoms will reveal the secrets of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| they both work in complete harmony. As the splitting took place, the halves were rarely split apart | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is, as a man. The more irregular the splitting, the more often the entity has to incarnate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| female, you would know in what manner your splitting occurred. To repeat: Every being represents fundamentally either | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| purification. It was not by accident that the splitting became so irregular. It happened due to the | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| truth should expand and grow, and that no splitting should occur. Splitting is chaos; splitting is the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| and grow, and that no splitting should occur. Splitting is chaos; splitting is the nature of the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| that no splitting should occur. Splitting is chaos; splitting is the nature of the Fall of the | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| the Fall with all its miseries and hatreds. Splitting is separation from God, and this initial tragedy | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| which is the goal, is the opposite of splitting and separation. The splitting between Judaism and Christianity | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| is the opposite of splitting and separation. The splitting between Judaism and Christianity after the life of | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| of the same bad root of the initial splitting from God. There should have been oneness between | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| as separate entities is a result of this splitting, as you understand it now. Therefore, each human | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| minerals, are still in a state of further splitting or division. The human condition, the state of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| existence from a unity. In other words, a splitting occurred. It is not only that the one | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the fears responsible for the misconceptions and the splitting of the individual. It originates from some fears | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| is integrated with its origin, it dies. Therefore splitting off and dying are related, as reunification and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the guilt that would be repressed, creating further splitting and duality. Let us now try to find | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| with such feelings. Thus a further process of splitting off sets in where you lose track more | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to maintain the false unity that comes from splitting off the undesirable part you do not wish | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| levels, and certainly never as a result of splitting off any one part from the other. The | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| friends, because in this way you avoid a splitting off process that would defeat the task for | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Spoil.......................7 | |
| so busily hiding have no reality, and yet spoil the life you could enjoy and could use | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| criticism -- real, imagined, or implied -- can spoil the day for you. This black-and-white attitude causes | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| both aware of it. Thus, you sabotage, you spoil every favorable situation that could come your way | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| picture you have of the situation. It may spoil your self-constructed idea, or it may not correspond | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| token, any little criticism or disapproval may completely spoil your mood. It may plunge you into depression | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in this unrealistic fight for survival; how you spoil the growth of mutuality and fulfillment. The need | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| expressing your own negative feelings because they would spoil your obtaining from others everything which you must | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Spoils......................3 | |
| constant fear and insecurity in your soul. It spoils everything for you so much, my dear ones | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| a pampering, indulgent god, like a parent who spoils his child. If this god cannot be found | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| missing. You have to accept that this distortion spoils things for you, rather than bringing you advantages | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Spontaneity.................20 | |
| better, but only when in spite of this spontaneity no day is omitted and solely time and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| manifest without inhibition, with a natural and reliable spontaneity. This is how you will make the best | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| make you blind to reality. It inhibits your spontaneity and intuition and prevents you from adjusting to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| These negative emotions account for the inhibition of spontaneity and for a certain feeling of flatness that | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| you are. Needless to say, this prohibits truth, spontaneity, and reality. In a secondary reaction, you focus | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| The real self always dares to be spontaneous. Spontaneity is out of the question when emotions are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| primary ones, are due to inhibition, lack of spontaneity -- and this is due to manipulation. QUESTION | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| displacement creates confusion and knots. It paralyzes your spontaneity, your capacity to feel, to live, and to | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| imperfect as this self may still be, the spontaneity and awareness of who you really are and | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to your own limited past experiences, cripples the spontaneity of the real self. Even if the real | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and regeneration process, the direct experience of creative spontaneity that only the real self can give. What | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| of imbalance. Introspection must lead to outgoingness, to spontaneity, to reaching out to others. This, in turn | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| either inflicting or enduring cruelty may prohibit all spontaneity and make you withdraw from and numb all | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| consciously or unconsciously, or both. You fear the spontaneity of your feelings. You may ignore this fact | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can manifest only as a spontaneous expression. Such spontaneity exists, for example, when knowledge manifests intuitively from | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the watchful, stilted, premeditated attitudes that make all spontaneity impossible. Frustration and emptiness increase anger and rage | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| attempt this merely deceive themselves. They kill the spontaneity and freedom of the real self. This is | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| accomplished in life on any level. Freedom and spontaneity on the one hand and self-discipline on the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| that is overcautious and examines everything and kills spontaneity, and the other, which gives in with a | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| balance between giving, reaching out and moving, between spontaneity and cautiousness. At times discuss the problems with | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |