| Tide........................10 | |
| the personality only too often struggles against the tide, trying to force life into the wrong concept | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| The proper attitude would be when the low tide comes to make the best of it. Without | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in full awareness, is to swim with the tide, not to resist it by a wild struggle | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| hoping for fulfillment, they simultaneously stem against the tide of time, desiring to stop its movement, or | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| can you enter the stream, flow with the tide of time, space, and movement in harmony with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| friends. Another equally important aspect of changing the tide is identification, which I have also discussed in | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the mind is exceedingly important in changing the tide, because the fragmented consciousness must find its way | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the ebb and flow of the sea. The tide flows forward in great masses, only to recede | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| ebb and flow of the sea, of high tide and low tide, is never exactly the same | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| of the sea, of high tide and low tide, is never exactly the same. Mostly one lasts | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Tied........................11 | |
| other become visible -- but this band is tied in freedom, in the sense that we are | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| whether spirits in the spirit world are still tied to their country and their names? ANSWER: The | 18 FREE WILL |
| so urgent, so tense that you are all tied up in knots when you think of the | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| separated from other inner conflicts. They are all tied together. As long as this overall insight is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you see, my friends, how all this is tied together with one string. Immaturity is non- acceptance | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| moralizing attitude and all the rigidity that is tied up with it. The rules and regulations you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fulfilled, therefore I need substitute fulfillment. One is tied to the other. This is why you alternate | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| into being between two people who have been tied together by a variety of mutual distortions, such | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| constructive or destructive, right or wrong, is often tied in with what is momentarily pleasurable or unpleasurable | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| by one's attitude. As long as one is tied to the wrong idea that an outer event | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| in which the ego is not very strongly tied to the inner being. It is this dissolving | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| Ties........................21 | |
| the more will the band of love which ties one soul to the other become visible -- | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| or at least get some intimation that the ties we have with our loved ones will remain | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| me how the fulfillment of one's own will ties in with Thy will be done? ANSWER: There | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| security either in financial terms or through emotional ties. People also seek happiness, love, and security by | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| with God can provide. Financial success, satisfying emotional ties, and professional recognition can also be yours if | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| home, where you have made your connections, your ties, and your karmic links. QUESTION: This does not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| world, although still on this earth plane. This ties in with the first words of tonight's lecture | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the purpose of this incarnation; then other karmic ties are used for this life that would have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Some of you may wonder how all this ties in with the God-image. Since both the God-image | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| your conscious concept. This aspect of the God-image ties in quite easily with the subject just discussed | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| loss and fear of the unknown. This again ties in basically with love and trust as you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is Y(I)R(A)H. This word ties in with the ninth of the Ten Sephirot | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| I have said in all these recent lectures ties in with communication. Every lecture is intimately connected | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| its health and meaningfulness. Close examination of the ties and their significance is the only answer. One | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| supplementing this lack with a lot of superficial ties; if others are constantly sought as a safeguard | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| growth occurs organically, will they gradually cut the ties to the parents by standing on their own | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Beneath the inner and unconscious refusal to cut ties with protective authority lies identification with such authority | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| one way or another. You will see the ties you have so far refused to cut and | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| it will be comparatively easy to cut the ties and become yourself. And now, my friends, you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| stubbornness. How warm and rich could be your ties with others, your positive relationships. I say to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| including the time and the manner of severing ties with the physical vehicle. In such cases, as | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Tight.......................108 | |
| knotted, and entangled, until there is such a tight ball of confusion that one can disentangle it | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| -- must become increasingly unhappy with the resulting tight inner bondage. Many people who revolt against human | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| be the very opposite of his or her tight conviction. I am not referring to the basic | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| of any kind there has to be a tight inner knot. Take such a resistance as a | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| are! Think about your idiosyncrasies, your prejudices, your tight emotions in certain domains of life. Think how | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| also a few who have built such a tight wall of fear and pride around their souls | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| is always a bad subject it indicates a tight holding on, a general fear and distrust in | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| is a good subject is free of such tight holding-on to the self, has no fear or | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| afraid of facing that you set up a tight resistance against going deeper into your soul. It | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| respect when the surrender was not forthcoming. A tight band will have dissolved; now you let the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| to unearth this deep-rooted misconception, which creates a tight, tense current -- the forcing current. It creates | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| soul movement of this particular distortion is a tight holding down of a force that should be | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| clearly. The pressing need causes you to hold tight to that which you can get, even though | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| itself to another situation. Perhaps it produces a tight overinvolvement with your work, causing too many intense | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| out of an objective, realistic attitude releases the tight grip of control that stands in the way | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| a very necessary spiritual and emotional medication. Every tight or too firm conviction in connection with your | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the insignificant outer brain, the difference between the tight, anxious, doubtful, greedy pseudo-yes-current and the relaxed, calm | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the event, one learns to let go of tight currents and give up one's self will and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| busy, distrusting, and holding itself together in a tight knot. When the individual re-establishes the balance, fences | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| loss of the final control over destiny. The tight control one grabs at is a pseudo-control that | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| We have discussed the importance of relinquishing too tight a control and the failure to use those | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of the outer ego faculties, when to relinquish tight over-control, and when to use outer will in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| stale. That happens only when you keep a tight check on yourself. When you let go and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| and you do not need to exert a tight control and pressure. You therefore cannot be owned | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| its own fate in the best possible way. Tight gripping and holding on to the self is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you. The control in this case is a tight wall consisting of fear and the dualistic belief | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| not cheat life by withholding from it. Hence, tight, anxious control becomes utterly superfluous. The control which | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| you try it. When your consciousness is too tight a nucleus, this harmony cannot be established. The | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| degree of the ego faculties with their too tight control. All creative manifestations are the direct work | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| liberate themselves from the burden of the too tight control. They cannot stand the state of overloading | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| into the other extreme of holding on too tight to the very ego which created the imbalance | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| control is not established in the soul through tight and anxious holding on but through a harmonious | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| let go of the little ego with its tight control if there is no trust? And how | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| and the self is master, not in a tight, tense, hostile way, but in the sense that | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the possibility of connecting with it; and a tight, cramped psychic state with tight, cramped soul movements | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| it; and a tight, cramped psychic state with tight, cramped soul movements. These two factors make contact | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| -- it fears letting go and relaxing its tight hold, the very soul movement that leads to | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| old way, with fear, distrust, anxiety, despair, and tight selfwill, usually in the areas where your psyche | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| be reached when the soul is in a tight cramped state. Letting go induces relaxation, without which | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| concept underlying this fear; you must relinquish your tight grip on certain attitudes that are obviously destructive | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| dishonesties, causing you to withhold yourself in a tight grip on your ego. The innate urge to | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of the fear to let go of all tight ego defenses. By the same token, those who | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| go of the defenses that make you so tight and rejecting of new ideas that seem to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to threaten you. When ego control is too tight, such words may indeed seem threatening. That which | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| yourself. You all have to fight against too tight an ego control where reason and will crowd | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| real feelings, bound to outer rules and regulations, tight and fearful. Discipline is used against truth, not | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| it can be emptied. When you hold yourself tight and guarded, you not only fail to protect | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| themselves in the preposterous predicament of holding themselves tight and restricted, guarded and overwatchful, unable to be | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| out from inside, it often closes into a tight knot formed of pressure against the self. Deliberate | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| The initiating, active, masculine principle distorts into the tight tension of impatience, anxiety, and ego pride which | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| a lasso that wishes to dominate and hold tight. It seems easy to pretend that the latter | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| spiritual -- without a trace of apprehension, tension, tight greed or separateness. It is the capacity to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the other, you are in a state of tight, anxious defense. You are in an insurmountable struggle | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fear and deprivation on the one hand, and tight holding on in guilt and anxiety on the | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| usual state, your awareness of inner knots and tight cramps will follow quite naturally. You will suddenly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| there is no confinement, where there is no tight structuring, this unit is experienced as a living | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| constructive. Do this not by willing in a tight, insistent, constricted way, but in a relaxed, confident | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| pride, selfwill, and fear the ego-structuring becomes more tight and rigid. Selfwill says, Me, me, me! meaning | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| being that extends beyond the ego consciousness. The tight ego structure says: It is my ego world | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| necessary in the least. It creates a closed-up, tight, and very negative energy and an atmosphere that | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| back, to hold the self together in a tight package of ungiving. All feelings will stream forth | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in this observance, in this acceptance of the tight contraction that is still automatic -- can you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| your own. You may put yourself into a tight little box of prescribed behavior and values that | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| relaxation. You cannot express yourself when you hold tight against a movement in your inner life. You | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| it, and is therefore in a state of tight denial and defense. Let us now take the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| of false needs causes unbearable pain. It is tight, locked and bitter, with the added connotation of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| unchallenged, and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and tight selfwill, and by the negation and repression of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| it should be receptive and passive, it is tight, forced, and active. Balance is re-established as purification | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| do so also causes you to create a tight will current to ward off what you believe | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| your inner, healthy, relaxed will can function. The tight selfwill of the little, ineffective ego is strengthened | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| answers can come only when there is no tight, fearful attitude and when the readiness to deal | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| as your heart and mind are small and tight, not as long as you do not want | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| anxiety can possibly exist. Nor is there a tight pulling within drive you and make you restless | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| will. The experience, however, must not come from tight selfwill; it has to come from the smooth | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| outcome. If the desire is too strong, too tight, if it evolves out of a misconception that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| -- the false, cramped no, creates a harsh, tight soul movement, a movement that is full of | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| and disappointment must not exist creates a very tight and pointed no movement. The no is not | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Does it flow smoothly or is it a tight, pushy current? If the latter, what does that | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of ardent attempts on your part, investigate how tight this current is. The very tightness may hide | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| these desires, feel it. As you feel the tight, strenuous current of the need to blame, experience | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| wrong, healthy and distorted, relaxed and creative or tight and uncreative, is a focus you need to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| receptivity and nurturing to grasping, grabbing, stealing, holding tight, catching, and taking without letting go. These principles | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| avoid this they then hold on in a tight, squeezed way that prohibits the influx of the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| flow. The state of consciousness that produces these tight, untrusting, insisting attitudes is antithetical to divine consciousness | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| vacuum created after they have given up their tight selfwill and have begun to let go. Instead | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| to be tightly holding against actual domination. The tight holding, the not letting go, always points to | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| I mentioned before: The giving up of the tight selfwill implies first of all letting go of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the forcing, holding attitude is that of a tight prison or a short leash. Stealing creates guilt | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| system by seeing how your demands and your tight holding defeat your fulfillment and imply an insult | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| problem by finding a necessary outlet for a tight energy accumulation, without jeopardizing the relationship with the | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| you squeeze a growing physical organism into a tight container. This would thwart the growth and cripple | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| flow of being, of not being cramped and tight and overactive with the ego forces. It connotes | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| neutral. You need to give up the strong, tight, self-willed yes or no to make way for | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| you made yourself artificially dull by packing yourself tight: tight in the mind because of its noise | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| made yourself artificially dull by packing yourself tight: tight in the mind because of its noise, and | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in the mind because of its noise, and tight within your channel by contracting your energy into | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| and you tend to immediately shut the lid tight again. Yet by denying your fear you also | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| less perfect than the inner greed, jealousy, envy, tight ambitiousness and vanity involved here, not to mention | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| expansion. Contraction is negative when there is a tight holding back, a cramp, a refusal to flow | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| You often find yourself rebelling against your own tight structure of false needs. Take the need to | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| is all about will you see what your tight structure really does to you. By temporarily accepting | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| universe is no different: ungiving, stingy, withholding, hoarding, tight, ungenerous, leaving you poor. You expect from it | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| can fill you only when you remove the tight so-called knowledge and make room for a different | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| liberated when anything within you is closed up tight? Can the justifying of your ancestors' infallible rightness | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| over and perform the operation of removing the tight lock -- that has existed for millennia -- | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| The personality needs to squeeze into a very tight structure, and this is experienced as painful. When | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| or later you will have less of a tight urge to pursue, often with undue aggression, untruthful | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| difficult for you to let go of the tight hold of your position. The reason is that | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |