| Trance......................16 | |
| as mediumship. Not everybody has to become a trance medium like this medium through whom I speak | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| in a good meditation, whether it is a trance session or simply a meditation, strong forces are | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| through simply by the medium going into a trance. If a human being's unconscious were so penetrated | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| with such knowledge that merely going into a trance would suffice to bring it to the surface | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| it to the surface, the discrepancy between the trance state and the normal state would not be | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| type of mediumship. There are many types of trance mediumship, a fact that is for the most | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an entirely different kind of mediumship than ordinary trance mediumship. It is very difficult to explain all | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the breathing. And when any kind of a trance occurs, be it a mediumistic one or any | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| part that must be extended to accomplish a trance. This same threefold rhythm is in the whole | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| pain in that state. In various states of trance or hypnosis this may also happen, but not | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| this may also happen, but not in all trance states. QUESTION: What subtle bodies remain in a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in which the medium was not in a trance, but could see certain spirits. What happens in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| as, for example, between physical psychic phenomena and trance mediumship, or automatic writing. There one can clearly | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| my instrument comes out of the state of trance, as you are quiet and listen to the | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| anxiety she had felt prior to going into trance. She had hesitated before giving this lecture, fearing | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| my life, she said, coming out of the trance. We all expressed our gratitude, and told her | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Trance-mediumship...........1 | |
| are many different types of mediumship, even of trance-mediumship alone, not to speak of all the others | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Tranquilizers...............3 | |
| and forced me to resort again to taking tranquilizers. Second, I will see a person very soon | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| work on the path, he was drugged with tranquilizers and unable to feel anything but the most | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| approximately two years now he has been without tranquilizers. He has finished college and has held a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Transcend...................72 | |
| a helpful experience that enables you to further transcend yourself, to understand your problems in a more | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and overemphasized, can you use this ego to transcend itself and reach a further state of consciousness | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| of you. These blessings are a reality that transcend and envelop you. They are the universal love | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| you will have more strength and stamina to transcend the momentary immersion in your distortions which make | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| this sphere within your consciousness so you can transcend it by transforming yourself. You must live it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of dualism. By transcending dualism you will also transcend the pain it causes. Few human beings transcend | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| transcend the pain it causes. Few human beings transcend the dualistic plane, so most people experience only | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| for the fulfillment of your deep longing to transcend and find, deep within yourself, a new state | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| planes and of how they can learn to transcend the dualistic plane in their practical daily existence | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| human consciousness is geared to duality and cannot transcend it, the growth process is very problematic. Growth | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| This step widens your perception, enabling you to transcend your dualism and perceive the unitive state. This | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| and distrust yourself and the world, you can transcend this state only by accepting what you fear | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| fulfillment remains elusive. The only way you can transcend this state is by temporarily accepting it, knowing | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| you will develop the courage and honesty to transcend the blocks that deform creative energy and divine | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| now, experience this mood, whatever it is, and transcend it, you will not have to wait for | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| you. If you look for the answers you transcend the now and experience the truth of the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| This fearless meeting of it enables you to transcend the experience, to truly assimilate it. In that | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| living in a dualistic way. The moment you transcend dualism, two opposite and apparently mutually exclusive aspects | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| dissolve their destructive conscious and unconscious processes and transcend them by reaching into the unified divine depths | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| another entity, via the capacity to forget and transcend oneself. Another state is deep meditation. This is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| in this context, that the human need to transcend the ego, to let go of it, is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| than remove the block of the ego and transcend it. This is also why the person whose | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a limitation as it is now can you transcend it, in the realization that the limitation does | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| you come into your own. The more you transcend these levels, the freer inner guidance becomes, and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to your individual problems, and in the application transcend the problems. Then you experience every force of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| before. Only when, through your personal evolution, you transcend the opposites and conciliate them, can you reach | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| as it were. Therefore, you must learn to transcend the fear of being abandoned, to no longer | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| No mental process, no conceptualizing can help you transcend this fear. Rather, you have to first see | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| matter how apparently insignificant. In that way, you transcend dualism, and consequently fear, greed, a sense of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| If you learn to let go trustingly, you transcend duality. You come out of the struggle between | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| basic principle of unity versus duality. You can transcend duality only when neither of two alternatives unduly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| and the universe is part of you. You transcend the structural limitations even while you are still | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| you are at any given moment, you can transcend this one instant, no matter how unpleasurable it | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| an illusion. No, it is not easy to transcend your now and tune into your inner cosmic | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| fragmentary as the reality it is supposed to transcend. This seems indeed an insurmountable hurdle. Thus, the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| Only by accepting the duality can you truly transcend it. No expansion of consciousness, no integration and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| opposite experiences: pleasure and pain. Only when you transcend this sphere of being, when you transcend the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you transcend this sphere of being, when you transcend the level of duality, do expansion and contraction | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| happen individually with increased frequency in order to transcend the cycle of suffering, so that you can | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| more able to accept your destructiveness and thus transcend it. As you become more aware, you must | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| life and death, good and evil. You cannot transcend these opposites as long as the key of | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| truth, love, energy, strength of feeling, capacity to transcend painful opposites that will enrich and reorient your | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| potentials and powers? I mean that these powers transcend by far the human capacities considered normal in | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| when they start out. This limited mind must transcend itself in order to realize its unlimited power | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| present limitations, transcendence cannot occur. The attempt to transcend the momentary, limited mind and to experience divine | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| experience. It is always easier and quicker to transcend a state when we have deliberately confronted it | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| fully feel whatever is in you, and thus transcend it. (4) The Level of the Body and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| abundance of creative power at your disposal must transcend every limitation you seem to encounter. Whatever hurdle | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| step by step, overcoming the inherent resistance to transcend this separated state, do you find out gradually | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| prevent the focusing necessary for the ego to transcend itself. To transcend its present limited state, the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| necessary for the ego to transcend itself. To transcend its present limited state, the ego requires a | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| universal state which you are called upon to transcend. On this path you must be concerned with | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and grope for an understanding of, how to transcend the ego, and what that really means. Isolation | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| change its lazy, resistant attitudes in order to transcend itself to become able to unify with the | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| order to venture beyond its present confines, to transcend itself, and learn and own as yet unknown | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can transcend itself and unify with the naturally healthy divine | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the attempt of the ego to lose or transcend itself because it can no longer bear itself | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| At this depth, everybody possesses the means to transcend the narrow confines of his or her own | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| investments must die. In that way you can transcend death and intuitively experience the reality of life | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to your negativities without despairing because you can transcend the limited consciousness of this stage. Your journey | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| must go through the same fundamental struggle to transcend the ego. You are unique in the way | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| Only in this way can you reconcile opposites, transcend dualities. Each duality, each mutually exclusive opposite you | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| discover its own potential to change direction and transcend its narrow confines. You can apply all this | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| which aspect of it you perceive. You can transcend the painful, confusing and limited state of dualistic | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| when you go very deeply into yourself and transcend the rules, the adherence to public opinion, give | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| all frustration. Thus you never learn how to transcend frustration so it can no longer occur. Of | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| next step on the ladder of learning to transcend frustration is the active, deliberate and renewed search | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| better. By thus embracing your self-created boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your frustration will become | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| become the very tools the soul needs to transcend this entire realm of consciousness. Perception is the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| face with an apparent duality which you can transcend when you see the positive and negative possibilities | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| their inability and unwillingness to face and therefore transcend the lower self, frequently made them the prey | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| after your own consciousness begins to change and transcend this reality, the creation of the mass mind | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |