| Transitional................6 | |
| infant combine to produce this God-image. In the transitional state between giving up false religion and embracing | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| stop its functioning because you consider the growing transitional period so dangerous that you proceed to stop | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the crises of growth. Let us look at transitional periods of growth in the individual from the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| organic and desirable movement, you prolong the painful, transitional period -- painful primarily because it is misunderstood | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| become aware of this terror. This is a transitional period which may last for weeks or for | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the mass mind still remains intact. In that transitional state, the individual lives in both realities. He | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Translate...................38 | |
| it into unconsciousness. Then you must try to translate the readiness into action. And so the spiritual | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| spiritual procedure. This, of course, is impossible to translate into human language. Therefore, the language I have | 22 SALVATION |
| It is important to learn to interpret and translate such perhaps vague feelings into concise thoughts. This | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| out this trend in you. Then try to translate these feelings into concise thoughts and words. Do | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| muster the courage to test your feelings, to translate them into clear and concise words so as | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you are willing to take the trouble to translate them into concise thoughts, but it needs a | 31 SHAME |
| your emotions and, as I so often say, translate them into clear- cut concise thoughts. Then, when | 31 SHAME |
| are unwilling to take the medicine. Try to translate your feelings and learn what they mean, so | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| also by working with others. If you can translate the milder cases into stronger cases of law-violations | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| sometimes less. It produces the pictures that you translate into symbols in a dream. If the feeling-body | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| also mentioned that it is rather difficult to translate it into human language. I was wondering whether | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do you, when you talk through the medium, translate from your picture language or do you think | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: It is a combination of both. I translate from the picture language and use her thought | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Understanding the anatomy of the human body should translate into a deeper understanding of the emotional level | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| observe your emotions and see what they mean. Translate them from vague feelings into concrete language. Then | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I am speaking of your emotions. If you translate your emotional reactions to people, you will see | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| aware of them, you will be able to translate such feelings into clear-cut language. You will then | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such emotions simmer on the surface, try to translate them into meaning, and you will see that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the pictures is something you have to translate. This, incidentally, is one of the reasons why | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| familiar with that language and you have to translate the meaning into the language that is familiar | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| all your emotions, to appraise their significance and translate them into meaning. Without this activity, it will | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| ways, often at the same time. I can translate my emotions very well, but I still need | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| your feelings and see what they really say. Translate your emotions. This is always the very best | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| untrue, you feel in mortal danger. If you translate your emotional reactions to such criticism, you will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| and closely watch your emotional reactions. When you translate them into meaning, you are bound to find | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a loving person. The conscious mind does not translate this message properly and struggles to be correct | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of in these exact terms, but when you translate your emotions, this is what it amounts to | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| no-current without frantic self-accusations, it becomes possible to translate the latter into concise human language. The concise | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| concept of life exerts its influence on you. Translate your emotional reactions into concise words. Analyze their | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| This, then, increases guilt. If you were to translate into concise words what is taking place in | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| at your most subtle moods and reactions and translate them into concise words. You then find out | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| have to interpret the meaning of the wall. Translate it into clear words. Whether you doubt that | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| that actually exist, but is only able to translate them hazily. The more a person becomes conscious | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| or an outside event appears. If you then translate this anxiety into clear-cut words, thus verbalizing your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| capacity to experience life must exist. As you translate this longing into conscious terms, you may become | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| simple core of the fear and resistance and translate its meaning, what will inevitably come to the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| it than you have ever had. You can translate these words into your own new awareness of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| all you need from this inner source and translate it into outer experience. Christ has come in | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Translates..................5 | |
| not stay with the good intent alone but translates it into action in spite of unavoidable relapses | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| between the divine spark and the physical body translates the longing to love into a longing to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| material and do not see how infallibly it translates itself into the creation of matter, of events | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| self warps this truth. The conscious thinking process translates this awareness into fear of death, just as | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you will see that your fear of movement translates into the message, If I move, what will | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| Translating.................3 | |
| speak of the desires of your emotions by translating them into concise language, for otherwise they could | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| a limitation. Imagine it in the sense of translating a text from a foreign language. If you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| love makes itself precisely known to you. After translating this noise into concise thoughts, such meditation will | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| Translation.................10 | |
| is not quite exact. Time is always a translation, so to speak, for in spirit, time -- | 22 SALVATION |
| the passage in Isaiah may be a wrong translation -- that the Lord created evil. In other | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| unconscious. And then, my friends, you take my translation of your emotions as an injustice because consciously | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| is a question of semantics and of wrong translation. The word fear is extremely misleading and damaging | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| But there is also a question of wrong translation, perhaps because of the remnants of that earlier | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| language of the unconscious. This is a successful translation of it. No matter how many findings you | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| not discuss dream interpretation, which deals with the translation of deeper layers. For this, more help is | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| than the observation of half-conscious material and its translation into your known language. The half-conscious material comprises | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and more essential desire. Perhaps the most accurate translation of this longing would be a feeling or | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| domineering, forcing, or manipulating amounts to cheating. The translation of such an attitude into concise words would | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Transmission................3 | |
| you may think, even when the ability of transmission is present. We spirits who work here rejoice | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| have a very clear idea of how the transmission could take place, but when you are open | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| this particular pathwork. First, the phenomenon of this transmission, whether you are interested in it, believe in | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Transmit....................3 | |
| are the facts, as well as I can transmit them to you, at least in a condensed | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your life. You will not be able to transmit this to others who are still battling for | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| to do so, even if you cannot perfectly transmit all the nuances, you will make the effort | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Transparency................4 | |
| the pathwork is totally shared. This openness and transparency has to be learned. It is a path | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| to see that the courage and honesty of transparency, no matter what shameful facets may have to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| is taking place: an ever-increasing openness and a transparency in which all secrets of self and others | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| assessment of others' motives will be very shaky. Transparency is a new way of being, a habit | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Transparent.................5 | |
| self. The excuses are manifold. Some are quite transparent, like I have no time. Or they take | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you should become: Here I am, behind a transparent glazed wall, and through it, outside, I see | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| cause. The new-age marriage is totally open and transparent. There are no secrets whatever. The soul process | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| spill out all secrets and make themselves as transparent as possible. This is not an easy or | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| which hiding seems utterly absurd, and being totally transparent is the greatest joy. Only when you risk | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Trap........................29 | |
| or not you have fallen unconsciously into this trap. You may even hide behind a true recognition | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you to work your way out of the trap you now find yourself in. You do not | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| And yet you keep falling into the same trap. You know very well by now that only | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| undesired results, you are caught as in a trap, unable to make a constructive choice. A festering | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| situation if you are not caught in the trap of your own repressed needs with the consequent | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the outer self always put you in a trap. They offer no real solution. One alternative may | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| incapable of coming out of this confusion, this trap. I discussed the topic of being caught between | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| about it. You feel caught in your own trap, not seeing how to get out of it | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are, the less will you fall into the trap of set habit patterns; of clinging to old | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| importance and intensity. You are caught in this trap until you become aware of it. This is | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| differently before you can come out of the trap. And if you do not want to feel | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| motion that will bring you out of this trap. All your fears must then dissolve like fog | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| any direction. It puts you in the well-known trap, in which you are paralyzed, numb and lifeless | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| individual. They never drive the individual into a trap from which there is no way out. Real | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| in conflicts that make life become one big trap. Then the meaning of the word freedom is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tighter; the individual is completely ensnarled in this trap of misconceptions, distortions, and illusions with all the | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will not find your way out of this trap. You will be constantly vacillating. On the one | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| You get more and more lost in a trap because you think you must make a choice | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| selfishness, so you will not fall into the trap of pretending that one is the other. This | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of pretending that one is the other. This trap must be avoided. Then the comprehension of these | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in you express itself, without falling into the trap of believing its truth is the truth, so | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| or torment. It never puts you into a trap from which there is no way out. It | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and desire, then you are caught in a trap from which you can escape only when you | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| impulses and desires realistically, without falling into the trap of projection, self-justification, self-righteous exoneration while blaming others | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| circle is broken, you are liberated from the trap. It is therefore imperative to clearly see, understand | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| for you; you will not fall into the trap of an ego trick and sit in doubting | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| inner presence to help you out of this trap because doing so would instantly fill you with | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| level where fear and desire annihilate unity and trap the mind into deeper illusions of the world | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| But those who do not fall into this trap should not give up altogether using a term | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |