| highly charged with emotion in our time of world conflict. May I ask for a little patience | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| on. The Iron Curtain not only separates the world geographically, but the ideological curtain separates even brother | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| brother from brother. At present, about half the world is committed to collectivism, and half the world | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| world is committed to collectivism, and half the world to individualism. Just recently the Pope called for | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the following: How do you, in the Spirit World, look upon this conflict and what can we | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| I have already indicated some time ago, the world conflict is an exact duplication of the individual | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| nations. As in the individual conflicts, so in world conflicts, often one side is more flagrantly wrong | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| soul. Hence, the ideology in the so-called free world is closer to what is healthy from the | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| whole, such as you cannot imagine. If the world leaders were on such a path, you would | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| you would surely live in a very different world, although it would not guarantee you a world | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| world, although it would not guarantee you a world without conflicts. You would still have conflicts; you | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| conscious, material ones, or inner, unconscious, emotional ones. World peace and harmony can only come by more | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| The day will come when at least the world leaders, the people who are in responsible positions | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| thought material appears to us in the spirit world in a very specific form. It is fluid | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your lower nature, your deviations and the phantom world of your illusions, so that you can change | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| some insights, the entire significance of the child's world within yourself would still be hidden. Your life | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| at a comprehensive overall view of the inner world of illusion. Even that recognition does not suffice | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| for approval, for proving yourself, for impressing the world. You will then understand what you really fight | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| makes you unable to give love; 3) your world of illusion wherein you are in terror of | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because they are still living in this illusory world you will quietly withdraw, without losing your basic | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and goodwill. The seven-day weeks pass in your world, one week after the other. They are merely | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Your wrong conclusions, misconceptions, distortions, create an inner world of illusion. They create fears and tensions. This | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth. Thus, the personality lives in a fearless world. The illusions, being untrue, in the last analysis | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| All spiritual teachings and philosophies agree that the world of manifestation is illusory. The only reality exists | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that has no real root in your inner world. By becoming aware of the unreality within yourself | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| can be attained only by changing your inner world of unreality into one of reality. You cannot | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to dramatize yourself. You not only overdramatize the world around you as it relates to you, but | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to live it out. Thus, you force the world around you in fantasy only. You build up | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you to find this particular aspect of your world of illusion -- where and how you dramatize | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| so bleak that you create a more pleasant world for yourself. This is true, but there is | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| so unbearable that you escape into an illusory world by concocting fantasy situations. The more you fabricate | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| disappoint you, since part of the illusory childhood world is the desire for instant gratification, the total | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| what absolute reality really means and why this world of the earth plane is illusory. As long | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| floating, often irrelevant thoughts, nor in a dream world. When you float away into the unreality of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the other person is the center of your world. While this is true to some extent, it | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| so, you have all the reason in the world for distrusting your judgment, your choice, and the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| is much talk in your time and your world of accepting reality. We have discussed this many | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| would they acquire an understanding of the inner world, its laws, its reality, and the interplay of | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| human relationship as this happens in the inner world of emotions. Therefore, in order to understand the | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| feels itself entirely different from others, in a world of its own. It lives in such a | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| tell you, my friends, that we in our world thank each human being who makes an effort | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| know that all of us in the spirit world thank you for your efforts, not only on | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| currents. There is nothing more contagious in this world than emotions, thoughts, reactions, and attitudes. You can | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| only real weapon against the ills of the world. In unawareness, two people will set up a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| good. But you all live in your closed-up world in which you do not see the other | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| It will be the basis of education. The world is moving toward this goal. Still another aspect | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| these things. Even while the conditions in your world are still far from being what they should | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| by millions in the future. Ever since the world of matter began, all these feelings -- good | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| state of separateness was, and still is, your world. Then your conscious desire to leave the old | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| Then your conscious desire to leave the old world behind will increase. When I say self-centeredness I | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to an entirely different state of being, one world, or one soul principle, as against another. As | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| within your hearts, that in leaving the old world and attaining the new you have to leave | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| steps in the transition from one state or world into another are self- knowledge and the understanding | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| which are just as much part of your world as the positive. You automatically tune into that | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| blessings for this season. Of course, in our world we do not have or know seasons. But | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have or know seasons. But you, in your world, have chosen this particular time of the year | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world of manifestation. You cannot penetrate anymore into the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| QUESTION: If our souls go into the Spirit World while we sleep, what is the reason for | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| subconscious rise, a fear of going into the world of the spirit and, perhaps, hearing something one | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| approaching the time they must go into our world, they are unconsciously aware of not having faced | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| task -- but to prove and show the world to accept suffering and use it for purification | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| organized spirit, either incarnated or from the spirit world? ANSWER: You can recognize a spirit -- we | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| activities, for learning and purification in the Spirit World, as well as for advance planning for the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| dreams are sent to us by the Spirit World in order to teach us a lesson, why | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| The dream that is given by the Spirit World is really a memory of your sojourn in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a memory of your sojourn in the Spirit World while your body was asleep. You know that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| reason is that the language in the Spirit World is a picture language. When you are in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| aware and conscious, or memories from the Spirit World that wish to serve the same purpose in | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| do with the picture language of the Spirit World. The latter is infinitely more subtle and has | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in reality. It cannot manifest in a self-created world of illusion, in a world based on wrong | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in a self-created world of illusion, in a world based on wrong assumptions. That is why, whenever | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| be loved and respected, that life and the world is hostile to you and prohibit you from | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your useless struggle, it cannot evolve. In your world of unreality, unreal and untrue impulses operate. They | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| in reality than real feelings can in a world of unreality. Is it surprising then that you | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| cannot trust yourself, you cannot trust life, the world, or God. So, my friends, once you have | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| They become hostile because they think the entire world is hostile and aggression is the only means | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your personality you feel at ease with the world. That again may be difficult to trace. While | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| not want anything from others, life, or the world. They withdraw into isolation, never experiencing the dreaded | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| them and standing alone in a seemingly hostile world. You will judge in reality, seeing what is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| your individual work. The psyche indicates your inner world of feeling and reacting, generally speaking. Is that | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| strong, often unconscious, desire to belong in the world that seems most desirable to you produces impatience | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| artificial attitudes and emotions. Since neither this desirable world, nor the way you go about obtaining it | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| people were taught to understand this truth your world would be very different. There is in the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| like marriage or friendship, makes no difference. Your world here on earth is, to a large degree | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| give up what I believe, then my whole world and personal safety crumbles. They cannot afford to | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| form, like the picture language in the spirit world, like the picture language you experience in dreams | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| psychic activity that is projected into the outside world is highly individual and relative? In other words | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| personal. There is so much oversimplification in your world. The real benefit of the message which the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| strength and love we bring you from our world. Be in peace, be in God! 81. CONFLICTS | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| peace, be in God! 81. CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY Greetings. God bless all of you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| distort your life. We have penetrated into the world of duality, which is below this superficial level | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is a larger conflict always related to your world of duality. Behind your images and misconceptions you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| core. Behind it is the origin of the world of duality, just as the world of duality | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| of the world of duality, just as the world of duality is where your images originate. Strangely | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| earth prohibits such fulfillment. This prohibition creates the world of duality, and therefore your conflict. It is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| is equally true, however, to say that the world of duality created the prohibition. It created life | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| see that the fear of death creates the world of duality and the world of duality creates | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| death creates the world of duality and the world of duality creates a reality that says no | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| are bound to encounter the level of the world of duality. Once you comprehend it at its | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| within, he or she helps to change the world and these conditions in ever so subtle but | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| close together. Time is a product of your world of illusion, and therefore the length of time | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| There is physical death and sickness, and the world of matter, bound to decay. There is struggle | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| amplification of the last lecture, Conflicts in the World of Duality. This day, very appropriately, commemorates a | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| to change, first subtly in your own inner world, and then slowly in the outer world. It | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| inner world, and then slowly in the outer world. It is entirely wrong to say that creative | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| not as good and as perfect as the world seemed to expect you to be. This truth | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| discover the deeply hidden fear that says your world will come to an end if you do | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| project the blame for failure into the outer world, onto others, onto life. The more you try | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| interpreted to mean the return into the spirit world after physical death. Much more is meant by | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| that knows that the laws of the divine world take care of everything. But this certainly does | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| one truly is. One then believes that the world prevents self-realization and abuses and takes advantage of | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the artificially cultivated view of how bad the world and people really are. A person who looks | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| yourself; how you reject, at least emotionally, the world you live in, yourself included. You demand of | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| self-image to ourselves, as well as to the world. This must put intolerable strain on human relationships | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be threatened by the dangers of a hostile world, which does not understand me. In contrast, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to cope with a seemingly hostile and frightening world is not equipped to find the real solution | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and can be experienced only after the inner world of feeling has been explored and understood. The | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feeling has been explored and understood. The inner world is the only reality that counts. It determines | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul, it must also exist outwardly in the world. World conditions are the sum total of all | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it must also exist outwardly in the world. World conditions are the sum total of all of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusions make up the inner and outer world of humanity. This is the Tower of Babel | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the Tower of Babel. It symbolizes your inner world and the result of it in the outer | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and the result of it in the outer world: difficulty of communication. The East, whence you came | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| All of them are symbolic of the inner world. The world of reality, the world that determines | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them are symbolic of the inner world. The world of reality, the world that determines your life | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the inner world. The world of reality, the world that determines your life, is the inner world | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world that determines your life, is the inner world. That is always the cause. The world of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner world. That is always the cause. The world of matter is always the effect. Whether you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| occasional appearances to the contrary, that the outer world is the cause and the inner world is | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| outer world is the cause and the inner world is the effect. No! It is just the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the sum total of humanity's soul life than world conditions and relations among nations. This is not | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| among peoples. What you can contribute to better world conditions in every respect is the removal of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| goal would make all the difference in the world. Even small gratifications of this sort -- let | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the purpose of coping with a hostile, dangerous world, but also cover up the helplessness of having | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether there will be continued contact with our world or not. If you proceed in your sincere | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to remain helpless, to force the powerful adult world, or God, or any substitute for these two | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| You cannot help but feel injustice in the world. False religion has encouraged and capitalized on this | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| helpless child in order to make the grown-up world -- or God, or life, or human authority | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and its substitution by real religion in the world at large. Obedience, as false religion encourages and | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the form of a vague sense that the world at large must be appeased. This can be | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| the God-consciousness will reveal to you that His world is wonderful and that you have much more | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| The God Image Lecture 81, Conflicts in the World of Duality 89. EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| emotional growth and discouraged yourself from experiencing the world of feeling. Why is there such a predominant | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is there such a predominant emphasis in your world today on physical and mental growth and a | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| only symptoms of the root anyway. In the world of feeling you experience the good and the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |