| Victim......................61 | |
| oneself. It is easier to feel like a victim. That way one does not have to search | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| have caused events of which you seemed the victim, you will gain the certainty that you are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| puzzling to the active partner as to the victim. They do not understand themselves. The unfaithful one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| of acceptance fosters martyrdom, seeing oneself as the victim. One extreme always creates another. Thus the healthy | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you the recognition that you are not a victim; that you have power over your life; that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it? Am I or am I not a victim of the arbitrary choice of my fellow-creature's free | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| is my fault, how much I became the victim of circumstances over which I have no control | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| thing he has so painfully experienced as a victim. Therefore the hurt is double. The betrayal would | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| eliminate your fear of others, of becoming a victim. You could link up all unfavorable incidents with | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| your being, you like to consider yourself a victim for the very reason I stated previously. This | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to be afraid of. You are not the victim of others; you do not have to fight | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| It is not true that you are the victim of intangible forces inside or outside of yourself | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will then become aware that you are the victim of these thoughts. This awareness will bring you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and you will no longer consider yourself the victim of injustice. QUESTION: How can I make the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| life, you will believe you are an innocent victim; you will feel persecuted and unjustly treated; you | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| a whole. You feel that you are the victim of other people's influence on you and of | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| exposed to others, while one is a helpless victim. All this contributes greatly to the unconscious desire | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be convinced that no one is a helpless victim, that you all create your own life and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and actually becomes a prey, behaving like a victim when he actually is not. This condition can | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| hope and security. It eliminates feeling an innocent victim of circumstances beyond your control. By understanding a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your control, that you are not a persecuted victim of an unfair and unkind fate, that you | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| a prey to it, nor are you a victim of your doubt. It is necessary to take | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the future. When one feels one is a victim of fate, of powers outside one's control, one | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you do not allow yourself to be a victim of your negativity and destructiveness. Simply declaring your | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| which the individual feels singled out as a victim. It is inevitable to feel helpless when one | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| your reach; hence you are not a helpless victim of it. for it is within the realm | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| here that does not make you an innocent victim, that does not make you helpless to construct | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| tension and suffering infinitely greater. One feels a victim of hazard, against which one thinks one must | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| unrealistic as the illusion of being life's passive victim. Accepting your own limitations and the limitations of | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| just that way. You are never an innocent victim, and society itself is but the sum total | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| even if only by pretending you are a victim. But you must analyze it exactly and comprehend | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| is a hating attitude to pretend being a victim of the hate of others. This is only | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| so that he felt himself to be a victim of circumstances beyond his control. But there were | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in this guilt-shifting game. But how about the victim? How is that person to cope? As a | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| How is that person to cope? As a victim, your first problem is that you are not | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| The only way you can avoid becoming a victim of blame and guilt projection is to avoid | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the other in order to make yourself the victim on the emotional level is tantamount to the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and purpose, rather than that of a helpless victim who is led to slaughter. Your fear, my | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| eventually shed the illusion of being an innocent victim and avail yourself of the key to freedom | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| find yourself in the position of a persecuted victim. The stronger your disinclination to admit the negative | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to the illusion that you are an innocent victim. But what unhappiness you buy with this illusion | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| punish you most effectively by making myself the victim, so you cannot blame or catch me. Suppose | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this and is now established as the innocent victim. If you admit your similar unfair demands, your | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| a trapped animal. But you are your own victim. You have trapped yourself by choosing not to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and antagonistic to you, while you are its victim. In that delusion you cannot create. So you | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| unpredictable character. You truly seem to be a victim of circumstances beyond your sphere of influence. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| have in maintaining the fiction of being a victim of life diminishes in the ratio in which | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| is in you. Yet you are still a victim of the fluctuations of your own moods. This | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the suffering person is seen as an innocent victim. The call for self-responsibility is still confused with | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| What is the positive origin of playing the victim game? ANSWER: The distortion is self-exoneration at the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| at the expense of making others guilty, whose victim you profess to be. The truth is the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| all personal responsibility. Thus you find yourself a victim. When you look deep inside you, after having | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| main value? Woman could not simply be a victim of man's egotistical desires to feel superior and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| resent and blame male authority and play the victim game. Similarly, to the degree man does not | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| with apparent justification. The woman will use the victim game; the man will use the blame and | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| reverse this pattern. They seem to be its victim and do not realize how they directly created | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| further consequences, either for himself or for his victim. It will not occur to him to search | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of the defense would entail giving up the victim and blame game. It would entail accepting part | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| between the self that perpetrates suffering and the victim who suffers is so great that the perpetrator | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| that identifies with what appears to be a victim. This living, healthy, loving pain is also the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| guilt on you now and necessarily make a victim out of the previous villain, but you probably | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Victimization...............6 | |
| your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt, injustice and victimization. Let us look into this subject and gain | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| is underneath your particular facade of blame and victimization, in whatever guise it may appear. Your feelings | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| with all its complaints, accusations, and sense of victimization. Being true to yourself dispenses with the tendency | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| what is happening. Most of the time, the victimization happens in a subtle, emotional, and unarticulated fashion | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| get away from facing blame, accusation, and self-justifying victimization, this may lead to a false, superimposed serenity | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| no longer exchange it for the untruth of victimization. The more you enter this new state, the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Victimize...................3 | |
| attack, and the more he will tend to victimize himself and become a martyr. There exists a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| it up. Others are out to hurt, to victimize, to exploit you. If you open your heart | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Let us say, you are convinced that circumstances victimize you, that other people are doing you a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Victimized..................30 | |
| in yourself, you will automatically cease to feel victimized. Although a part of you enjoys just that | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| wrong of the other person that you feel victimized by it. You put blame on everybody left | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of view of how you truly feel yourself victimized, a prey to circumstances. Then observe how you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| at times, but you will not feel insecure, victimized and uncertain about yourself. That is a difference | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to recognize. The person feels unfairly treated, exploited, victimized, resentful, while still being unable to stop the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| of life, and the less you will feel victimized, helpless, and weak. When an entity is not | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| then complain about the results and feel yourself victimized. As long as you waste your energies on | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| you waste your energies on complaining and feeling victimized you are in a vicious circle. The destructive | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| false sense of goodness, the spirit of being victimized, that takes hold of the psyche of the | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| wants. The helplessness and the feeling of being victimized are themselves misconceptions. The false blame launched against | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| will produce bitterness and the sense of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| the sense of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and makes us retain the | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| Not knowing this will make you feel constantly victimized by circumstances beyond your control. In order to | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| generous in dispensing with the temptation to feel victimized and accusatory. With this attitude, you become active | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| His hatred grows to the extent he feels victimized and helplessly entrapped in his own prison. His | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| being done to you and will therefore become victimized by it. The mere awareness will make all | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| all-important key. You cannot ever feel helpless or victimized when the significant transition has taken place in | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of your self-determining power. You no longer feel victimized and can set out to investigate the motivations | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| thoughts. More specifically, the personality invariably feels unjustly victimized, blames others or life, is resentful, withdraws good | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and omnipotence, in the illusion that others are victimized by your incompleteness. Conversely, the moment you fully | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| polluted energy, of other people, thus they remain victimized and dependent. It is as though they expressed | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not -- makes you blame, accuse, and feel victimized. In turn you feel justified to hate, resent | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| impossible to feel quite so helpless, anxious, afraid, victimized, and hopeless. Even if the personality still doubts | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| deny this process and choose instead to feel victimized by life because of the pain you yourself | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| it. You have just given in and become victimized by your own lower self. But this need | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| was caused by obstructing the movement will feel victimized by it and will insist that everything is | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| old relationships between man and woman, the woman victimized herself by acting out a denial of self-responsibility | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| vision of the universe, in fears, in feeling victimized. It can also manifest in resentment, blame, hostility | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| and that they who are less greedy are victimized by the greedy. Both extremes can abuse this | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| led to lack of self-responsibility. Thus humanity felt victimized by evil spirits. Fear of them often led | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |