| on false ideas. These false ideas are often unconscious and form the images we have talked about | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| as ours is aimed at bringing out the unconscious ideas and images. They are really unconscious to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the unconscious ideas and images. They are really unconscious to begin with. But once you find that | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the assumptions of the images, the involuntary, unconscious process is destructive. The conscious mind is an | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| The conscious mind is an instrument of the unconscious perceptions and connections that actually exist, but is | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| a person becomes conscious of the inner, heretofore unconscious processes, the more exactly will he or she | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| through. When an individual is still driven by unconscious images -- thus also driven by the negatively | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| into negative experience, due to the presence of unconscious false ideas. You fear the self-perpetuating, involuntary forces | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| self-confrontation are bound to discover their ingrained, heretofore unconscious assumptions about important aspects of living. Gradually they | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| first. For those who are disconnected from their unconscious, this idea seems at best theoretical and all | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and discover the mechanisms and reality of their unconscious, and can therefore identify and connect with it | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| against their interests. To this day, many people's unconscious concept of love is exactly this. No wonder | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of decision must be noticed. It is never unconscious the way certain truly unconscious material is. It | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| It is never unconscious the way certain truly unconscious material is. It is quite on the surface | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| being. All this often takes place on an unconscious level and what remains on the surface is | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| cannot cease as long as its cause remains unconscious. The moment it becomes conscious, reason can be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| What is, perhaps, most important here is the unconscious -- or perhaps only vaguely conscious -- fear | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by deliberately instructing your still unwilling and tentative unconscious: I let go, I let myself be in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| state on any other factor than their own unconscious processes, they are not self-responsible, no matter how | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| elucidate these deeply-lodged misconceptions which are often more unconscious than conscious. But it is necessary for you | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you have grown up entirely. Yet on the unconscious level where this child exists, you are unaware | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| also becomes aware of the effects these heretofore unconscious fears have on one's life: what they make | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| often blindly driven to act the way the unconscious, fearful, life-refusing part dictates. This is then rationalized | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| and to comprehend the deeper language of the unconscious, which is first quite obscure but later becomes | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| learn to interpret the messages of the destructive unconscious, as well as of the still more deeply | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| as well as of the still more deeply unconscious real self, with all its wonderful creativity and | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| consciousness. This includes, of course, the conscious and unconscious mind -- your total being. What you have | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| short, by allowing so much material to remain unconscious and thus disconnected from you. If you do | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| Again and again, you react as though your unconscious did not exist. You are aware of desiring | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| does not occur to you that your own unconscious must work in the opposite direction from this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| not have. The separation between your conscious and unconscious mind is your greatest enemy. The moment the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of the separating wall between the conscious and unconscious mind. You must not imagine that the conscious | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| You must not imagine that the conscious and unconscious are two different minds. They are one and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| same. They only appear as different when the unconscious part is first discovered. It appears then to | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| delineate the difference. As with the conscious and unconscious of the personality, so with individual and universal | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| They are the same. As with conscious and unconscious, the human and the universal mind are merely | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| of it. You are it. What is now unconscious was conscious at one time. That one part | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| one time. That one part of you became unconscious, is not something that happened to you. It | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| It is something you made. You made it unconscious, as you still continue to make material unconscious | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| unconscious, as you still continue to make material unconscious -- daily. This applies even to material you | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| As you have a personal constructive and destructive unconscious, so it is with the consciousness of this | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| waking, conscious mind as well as the destructive unconscious -- so can group consciousness. Larger bodies of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| The more individuals dissolve their destructive conscious and unconscious processes and transcend them by reaching into the | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| this state, you have to recognize that your unconscious is not yet as willing as your conscious | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| prerequisite for influencing it. Deal with your resisting unconscious in an intelligent way. Speak to it in | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| to the fulfillment of your conscious wish, your unconscious shrinks away from it in terror. The resulting | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| your most destructive defense mechanisms, which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness and conscious frustration. The soul movements | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| most deadly, most poisonous when it is still unconscious and rationalized. Therefore I say to all of | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| person progresses. But the beginner clings to the unconscious hope of finding the causes of his or | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| is not. All these difficulties are illusory. Your unconscious fear about finding the cause of unhappiness within | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| you, be in peace, be in God. 161. UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| May you be as deeply affected in your unconscious by this lecture as you are in your | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| are hindered by the ego -- perhaps the unconscious ego, but nevertheless the ego, which does not | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the reasons for that are at first quite unconscious. It is an important step on everyone's path | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| accomplished. Change is impossible due to the still unconscious obstructions. The fundamental cause of the condition of | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| can exist. If the ego -- also the unconscious part of the ego-self -- is attached to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| which have penetrated the deeper regions of your unconscious. You study the lectures and then you use | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| admit what childish nonsense is lodged in the unconscious is so hard because this contradicts the concept | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| to another alternative that appears, deep in your unconscious, even worse. This, too, is of course, an | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| living comes from a vague feeling in your unconscious that there is something to recapture, some secret | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| firm but relaxed way. The resistant and destructive unconscious must be neither yielded to nor anxiously pressured | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| ego must be alert to recognize what the unconscious expresses indirectly and why it holds back to | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| prevent happiness and unfoldment. To recognize the true unconscious state, the mind has to be calm, observant | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| what happens in the now, thus encouraging the unconscious to express itself. Once the unconscious surfaces with | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| encouraging the unconscious to express itself. Once the unconscious surfaces with all its unreasonableness, it can be | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| line of least resistance when confronted with the unconscious obstructions has to be balanced with the waiting | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| spirit in which the expressions of the destructive unconscious are accepted. The unfoldment of the universal intelligence | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| themselves and life becomes more arduous. The more unconscious your pains and frustrations are, the more you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| for the undercurrents and the will of the unconscious. Therefore the outer or ego- consciousness must treat | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the outer or ego- consciousness must treat the unconscious -- even the destructive, childish, distorted part of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| but must find its own way. Your own unconscious, too, must find its own way. If it | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| mind is tense and anxious and forces the unconscious, it is impossible to establish the kind of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the kind of relationship between the conscious and unconscious that is necessary to first reveal the latter | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| conscious mind and the destructive part of the unconscious can be established by accepting, for the time | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| to each other. Once the destructive and obstructive unconscious aspects are allowed to reveal themselves, the more | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| conscious mind can influence and gradually eliminate the unconscious stumbling blocks. By the same token, a relationship | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| is wiser and more constructive than the buried unconscious. In the other instance, the buried unconscious is | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| buried unconscious. In the other instance, the buried unconscious is by far wiser and more constructive than | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the conscious mind. Treating both aspects of the unconscious with respect is crucial. Respect is given not | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| understand the lawfulness and dynamics of your own unconscious processes. Even the most destructive attitudes result not | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| you learn to be respectful of your own unconscious. Let it unfold in its own way and | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| -- a forcing current directed to your own unconscious. The forcing results--sometimes alternately but often simultaneously -- | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| exactly the same way you treat your own unconscious, you emanate the same climate toward those with | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| it were, You must, just as your own unconscious does. When you do not wish to pay | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| wish to pay close attention to your own unconscious and thus pull back from it or pay | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| attention to it, you cannot help meeting their unconscious in a similar way. Needless to say that | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the universal powers but also the person's own unconscious powers to grow and function according to higher | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| next guidepost on your way into your own unconscious and learn to accept it as it manifests | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| accept this division in the depths of one's unconscious reflexes means untold confusion and pain. The moment | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| very subtle levels of reactions, lodged in the unconscious or semi- conscious mind. The next link in | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| Every challenge to change direction appears to your unconscious as an enormous threat. Activating the realm of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is why there is nothing to fear. Humankind's unconscious imprints are still so powerful that all of | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| free the eternal spirit. This aim may be unconscious in many, but that does not alter the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| However, such awareness habitually slips back into the unconscious, from whence it must be retrieved again and | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| belief is always there, underneath, half-conscious or completely unconscious. It creates a terrible conflict. When you examine | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| rage, and also to the deliberate, although possibly unconscious, mean refusal to give of yourself to life | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| Your work requires that you connect with these unconscious processes little by little. That will happen when | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| symbols, the indirect signs and manifestations of your unconscious processes. Do not be discouraged and feel lost | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| go of stubborn insistence and rigid upholding of unconscious attitudes whose nature is as yet unexplored. You | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| and hate. The greatest obstruction is fear, especially unconscious unrecognized fear. You must clearly understand that these | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| consciousness is reached when people connect with their unconscious blocks and comprehend the obstructions and the unhappiness | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| in a deliberate and purposeful way when his unconscious is still steeped in hostility, rage, and anger | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| deeply acquainted with the nature of the human unconscious to comprehend and sense the fear of the | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| of fear and distrust, born out of the unconscious knowledge that inwardly the yes is blocked off | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| fulfillment does not imply the absence of an unconscious block. This may merely imply a different personality | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| he was clean and decent according to these unconscious standards, but had to forsake being a man | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| being. This unnecessary division resulted from a simple, unconscious misconception. The misconception that sex is dirty led | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| situation, in its negative manifestations, reveals a contradictory unconscious desire. Life cannot be cheated, and whether we | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| person's life is exactly what the conscious and unconscious personality produces. No matter how undesirable the result | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| overt healthy attitudes. But by virtue of being unconscious, the negative attitudes exert much greater power than | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| attitudes. It is therefore imperative to make the unconscious conscious. Vague emotional reactions or passing thoughts one | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| one usually ignores may reveal more about the unconscious state than seems possible at first. When we | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| ideas and opinions. Even more important are the unconscious ones, because they cannot be reoriented. An individual | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| It implies a trustful, accepting attitude toward one's unconscious, with all its responses and movements. As you | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| assimilate and accept. A rigid individual, whose inner unconscious problems create havoc, rejects a flexible, accepting attitude | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unexpected developments, people, and his or her own unconscious inconsistencies and predictabilities. The weak back and ego | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| perhaps even more, the opening up of your unconscious. Often your conscious being has the right knowledge | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| right knowledge but is not sustained by your unconscious perceptions and reactions. So the work is long | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| first step must be to become aware of unconscious fears. This is, as you who work on | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| as crassly definable as the conscious and the unconscious mind. There is an inner knowing and there | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| outer knowing -- the former not necessarily being unconscious at all. There is an inner faculty of | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| true than the notion that your ignorant, destructive unconscious resides in a special area within you, even | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| conscious thinking just as much as with your unconscious thinking and willing. Your thinking ability is the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| reveal that much of what you thought was unconscious is not hidden at all. Observe this especially | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the great creative spirit you really are, are unconscious only because you do not give their existence | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| remove all inner obstructions and patiently explore your unconscious to bring the obstructions to light. You will | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| on this path and have explored their hitherto unconscious being to a sufficiently profound degree, have found | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| result. Hence, fear of death always connotes an unconscious death wish. Conversely, pleasure is made possible when | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| anxious striving versus hopeless resignation, arising from an unconscious rejection of the desired result -- whether pleasure | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| who seriously desires it can bring what is unconscious into awareness. I said in the last lecture | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| can be met, but not when it is unconscious. This is why becoming conscious of any inner | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| real pleasure not only undeserved in your own unconscious estimation, but also actually frightening. It is too | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| not articulate, but they may not be altogether unconscious. Distorted pride, as opposed to healthy dignity, is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| either quite deliberate and committed or haphazard and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing forces that pull toward | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| particular difficulty has been recognized you experience an unconscious helplessness and a sense of limitation. Then you | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| feel that relaxed effort is impossible, search for unconscious reluctance to move forward. Relaxed movement is pleasurable | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| inner and the outer, the conscious and the unconscious, the directly available and the indirectly available. By | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| Many a relationship has faltered due to such unconscious interaction. The launching of blame spreads poison, fear | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| reaction is blind and the projection of guilt unconscious, the counterreaction must also be neurotic and destructive | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| will no longer beset you with conscious or unconscious fears when you use this all-important key. You | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| entity's consciousness -- which includes all levels of unconscious attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and will directions -- forms | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| the haphazard fate you fear is your own unconscious. The powerful currents and attitudes that still elude | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| must deal with establishing the connection with your unconscious and thus regaining genuine control over your destiny | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| removed God, and being connected with one's previously unconscious processes -- are varied. One of them is | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |