| Tastes......................3 | |
| do not understand why you have certain opinions, tastes, or idiosyncrasies; even your good qualities may be | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| depends entirely on their personalities, on their personal tastes, talents, and inclinations. There may be one spirit | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| yourself -- your conscious aims and reactions, your tastes and idiosyncrasies, and so on. But there are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Tasting.....................5 | |
| the light they had once possessed. Only after tasting the self-chosen medicine for a considerable time, that | 21 THE FALL |
| other inner sense organs of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting. That is why the subconscious of one affects | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the burden of badness for the sake of tasting some of the delights life offers and intrinsically | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| began than it will find itself after temporarily tasting and savoring the blissful now points by artificially | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| is never only seeing, it is simultaneously hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling -- and many other perceptions you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Taught......................53 | |
| understanding of the divine laws and commandments and taught that you can sin also in thought. At | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| not even to themselves. For everything that is taught to you by a spirit of God, here | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| negativity and leave it at that. You, however, taught us not only to confront our faults, but | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| the giving up of the ego-self which Jesus taught. Only thus will you win your life. So | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| it bring victory, and such. But we are taught that we should make our own decisions, and | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| in deed and in fact what others have taught, and He did it under infinitely more difficult | 22 SALVATION |
| in their true sense, exactly as Jesus had taught and as Peter had meant then, which included | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with every creature. QUESTION: If our soul is taught during sleep, why do we not remember in | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| able to use a lot of what I taught you constructively. It will give you a deeper | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| by meditating on it in the way I taught you in this lecture. You can expand your | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| and then it is a must. I have taught you, for instance, that life's imperfections have to | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| attain true emotional maturity. These are universal truths, taught in all religions and philosophies of any value | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| The hatred causes guilt because the child is taught early that it is bad, wrong, and sinful | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the breaking point mentioned before. Those who were taught that self-consideration is selfishness are completely confused. They | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| also reaches greater depths. QUESTION: Communism, particularly as taught and practiced by the Russians and Chinese, seems | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| best of my ability. QUESTION: Here we are taught that salvation comes through work, through self-search, through | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the expense of somebody else. Since you were taught that it is wrong to be selfish, you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| he was therefore opposed to it. I was taught that prayer is the means by which God's | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concepts of love, at least in outer appearance, taught in some religions and philosophies. It seems to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| a rational and a founded fear. We are taught here, for example, that fear has a negative | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| not come through among certain people. It was taught and it spread, but as I said, the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| their lives they heard what their respective religions taught and -- due to inner fears -- held | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| often you experience events in sleep. You are taught or advised about something and then you can | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| child will then have to be guided and taught to assume the right concepts. Such teachings will | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that this truth is ignored. If people were taught to understand this truth your world would be | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| of arriving at it. Many religious philosophies have taught this truth. But the end result has been | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| religions which originally possessed this truth when they taught the denial of death. However, due to an | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| ask, What is wrong with it? Aren't we taught not only in religion, but in all philosophies | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| yourself. All the truth ever proclaimed and outwardly taught lives in you. If you do not dare | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| have a little girl and, naturally, I have taught her that it is bad to kill anything | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: But the spiritual approach which you have taught and which has added so much to the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Being who ever lived; the Being who had taught and lived and died by all the truth | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| any other exponent of truth, has not only taught, but also lived it, is very opposite to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| child will have automatic reactions without having been taught. I wish to make one more important point | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| channels, love cannot prevail. All religions have always taught that love is the key to life. Without | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| path together we have done more than merely taught this truth. Together we have tried to understand | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| This inner experience will show that what is taught by conventional religion contains a great deal of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| on a path such as this one is taught hat God must not be sought in order | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| that there is no contradiction between your being taught that you are responsible for your fate and | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| balance in these forces of communication cannot be taught. It can only come through personal growth. The | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| should you accept? Deprivation, unfulfillment, sacrifice? Religion has taught this for centuries, for millennia, because it misunderstood | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| such a venture at the beginning will have taught you the necessary lessons. By handling obstructions in | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| now can put into practice what I have taught you all these years: As you unify yourself | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| perhaps begin to realize, this path can be taught to children, not only as theory but as | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| some now find dull, will become interesting when taught with this new consciousness. The approach and the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| they perceive. If this law of communication is taught early, children will understand them. What an enormous | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| look back on the material I brought and taught you, you will easily see that I have | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| exploring inner, unconscious levels and attitudes. I have taught you how to experience pain, helplessness, rage. I | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| meditation were explained in detail and its dynamics taught so that you could use this essential tool | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| consider the dynamics of images, as I have taught you to do and as you have worked | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Judaism and Christianity, at least as they are taught today. Yet it is one of the eternal | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is such an important law that it is taught in all the religious scriptures that ever existed | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| up in heaven. When Jesus Christ came, He taught that God lives in the inner spaces and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Taut........................6 | |
| habitual state is one of more or less taut intensity which is foreign to and incompatible with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| when the psyche is in flux and not taut can the personality give its total attention to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| If the physical realm is muscularly tense and taut, the life force cannot enter the physical system | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cannot exist when the flowing movements are made taut through intensely held opinions, emotions, and physical muscles | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the over-tension of soul substance makes you withdrawn, taut and immovable, no matter how frantic the artificial | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you. Think about this, my friends. Relinquish your taut, habitual reactions. And now, before ending this particular | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Tautness....................4 | |
| will follow when energy is expended. The unnatural tautness and intensity of a person's state of mind | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| cosmos. You will then realize how hindering this tautness in you is. The artificiality of it creates | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| an outer struggle. The intenseness of the outer tautness -- whether it manifests in jerky movements or | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| reluctance? You can also begin to observe your tautness and an intensity that surpasses relaxed and natural | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| Taxing......................7 | |
| person from intimate personal involvement -- the most taxing form of love, and therefore the most fulfilling | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| believer. The former may not shy away from taxing involvement and mutual growth through it, while the | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| for inner closeness. For many, closeness is too taxing. On the surface this seems related to how | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| that those of you who pursue this very taxing but very real pathwork, will find the undefended | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| security, bliss, and peace. The path is so taxing because it leaves no room for projection and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to know this now. This path is a taxing one, but it is real. It does not | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| for the fragmented individual as a much more taxing one would be for a more highly developed | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Teach.......................49 | |
| we will help you in that, we will teach you how to establish your personal contact. There | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| exercises -- similar to what I will eventually teach you -- and also because of their high | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| on this path to train mediums. You will teach them to establish contact with God's spirit world | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to the divine order and can help and teach and other types who cannot. Everything else is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to a medium, the aim should be to teach them rather than allow them to have control | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| is against the will of God. And I teach you first of all to learn at all | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will give you knowledge about yourself and will teach you the humility you need. For as long | 21 THE FALL |
| blindness, for a while. 2) This will also teach you the necessary humility that is a major | 21 THE FALL |
| you can never develop. No system trying to teach ways to jump over this hurdle can ever | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| him now, then you will be able to teach him. Perhaps one day, all of a sudden | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to him now. This is what you can teach him by having a conversation with him in | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| the result must inevitably be that life will teach you a lesson and you will reap the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| Then the various churches and religious organizations will teach their followers in a way similar to how | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| only the most severe and sincere self-testing can teach you the truth about your soul-reactions. Do not | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| pride and self-will the lesson life has to teach me? Am I afraid of this lesson, of | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| it. All the great philosophers of this world teach you that pain and pleasure become one in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| in previous lectures. Practically everything I say and teach is based on it although I do not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| done. It is the work I advocate and teach. In this process, the wall recedes. The more | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in you out into the open, you can teach it to be willing to let go of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| more people are coming is a measure to teach mankind to fully utilize all it has. If | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as loving as metaphysics, religion and some philosophies teach? This is the battle in you that contains | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| certainty or the sense of immortality. All religions teach that the soul or the spirit is immortal | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to come to the surface. Many current movements teach thought-control by suppression. As I have often said | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| very best is impossible. I shall attempt to teach this to you in detail next season. In | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| forth additional material about your unconscious conflicts and teach you to control your mind in a healthy | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| us by the Spirit World in order to teach us a lesson, why then are they so | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the instant you recognize the lesson it can teach you. By no means does this imply that | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| contrary to the will of God. Many religions teach this error. The healthy way to meet suffering | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| resistance to relinquishing, because your own experience will teach you that letting go is something utterly good | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| them and make use of them. They will teach you to further your growth and strength until | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| come to experience inwardly what some doctrines may teach you in words. That is the only belief | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| your soul's forces. Maturity will come as you teach your soul to be able to stand frustration | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| with the real self in the endeavor to teach the child the truth. The outer maturity must | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| balance can change your attitude toward yourself and teach you to accept yourself as you are; and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| learn to see through these explanations it will teach you the art of self-observation. Let us say | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| undeveloped lower self. Listen to it; let it teach and inspire you on all levels. Let it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| This is not just to inform you and teach you cosmology. What I will tell you about | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| bad because of them. So this path must teach you to face whatever is in you, for | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| thing. The purpose of this explanation is to teach you that there is nothing in you that | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| learning. Life learning is what the path can teach you. You can apply this as you are | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| or to avoid? Only deep, inner experience will teach you and give you security. Try again and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| needs and wishes, can enliven their surroundings and teach their consciousness to others. Many different tasks exist | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| but all who serve in this cause must teach and lead, representing the new consciousness and the | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| inner potentials will remain untapped. But if you teach that there is another level of consciousness, little | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| The approach and the consciousness of those who teach is instrumental. A child can understand that the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| it in your own consciousness. Then those who teach can little by little bring out what they | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| are dealing with at this time have to teach you? For, as I said, and I deliberately | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| you have learned the lesson it has to teach. And flow with it, go with it, accept | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| receptive to what you know and have to teach and, similarly, if you were more open and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |