| and to be loved while you dull your world of feeling into a state of numbness and | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in a rewarding and satisfying way with the world around you, while you put up a wall | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| if you live out your negative emotions, the world will punish you in one form or another | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| spiritual growth is possible while you neglect the world of feeling and allow it to lie dormant | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| that leaves out your personal involvement in the world of feelings. After you see this clearly, you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in yourself where you are angry at the world for not allowing you to be your idealized | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| self, from the blame you throw into the world for not allowing you to be what you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| what you feel you could be if the world would let you. This is the nature of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is based on the childish view of the world as either all good and happy, or completely | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| no longer see yourself in relation to the world around you in the light of truth. The | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| up to your own expectations. They make the world seem good and right and beautiful. In such | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| final, until your next disillusionment. And since the world is good and beautiful, you can be what | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| criticism, or failure are also final. Now, the world is all black and bad. You are unable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| unwittingly been forfeited. But instead of resenting the world for not supplying the desired approval, people who | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| fling their immorality into the face of the world -- perhaps because they cannot distinguish between true | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| battles against the no, and battles against the world that does not offer gratification gratuitously. Only your | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that by speaking about God and the spirit world and its laws you will be able to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| than all the words you hear in the world, no matter how true and beautiful. Outer belief | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| act can be deemed right by the whole world and in accordance with all spiritual laws, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| hand, your action may be condemned by the world. It may be contradictory to any notion of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not to change yourself but to make the world change. Because of the split in yourself into | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| right thing, which you then project on the world. You resent this demand and struggle against it | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| demand and struggle against it. You defy the world, while still wanting to find your way. If | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in your movement by your rebellion against the world. You have to prove that you do not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| well as what is actually wrong in this world. Indiscriminate rebellion can do nothing to change the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Indiscriminate rebellion can do nothing to change the world. To do that you first have to change | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| experience themselves in a realistic relationship to the world at large and to other individuals. Alienated people | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| living superficially in the sense of satisfying the world rather than your own standards. Do not live | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| If it were, the Creator who made the world that way would indeed by cruel. You can | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| reality. If you were more accepting of the world, you would be more accepting of yourself. And | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| experiencing yourself in relationship to others, to the world, to life, and to yourself. Rather ask yourself | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| flattering message into the dream from the spirit world. The true message that comes from your soul | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| kind of message is from the real spirit world. It points to what really goes on in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| yourself. Your non-acceptance of the imperfection of this world, with the slow process of striving, grasping, and | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| you become joyful living in a very imperfect world? People's conscious or unconscious concepts of a joyful | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| often rebel against whatever is unchangeable in your world merely because no perfection can ever exist. At | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| task will become the simplest thing in the world because it is based on truth. Again, the | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| truth. Again, the reality, or truth, of your world is imperfection. And the reality, or truth, of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| reality of both truths -- one in the world and the other in your soul. Even your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| according to standards imposed on you by the world, by religion, by rules -- in other words | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| them. Thus they prefer living in a make-believe world of future fulfillment, expecting that today's fantasy will | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| words, it is a combination of the spirit world working with your own real self. What is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| maintaining the exaggerated glorification, not only because the world seems to demand it of you, but also | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| the ego is too weak to prove the world wrong, as it were -- if the person | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| have pleasure -- masochism is the result. The world seems to deny your right of selfhood, and | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| selfhood, and you give in, agreeing with the world, and make pleasure out of pain in a | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| The pseudosolutions are a way of battling the world, the pain, and all that you wish to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| flight. You no longer reach out into the world; you no longer try to bridge the gap | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Do you not dare reach out into the world and into relationships and hide instead in your | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| Outwardly you pretend to yourself and to the world that you do not want what you want | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| path here on earth than in the spirit world. Yet we know that our loved ones are | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| the solution to the problem. You, in your world, are so conditioned to an overemphasis on thought | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| intellect and will, to survive in the material world. These faculties are needed to cope with the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| These faculties are needed to cope with the world of matter. Thought and outer will are of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| purpose, as is the general way in your world. Thought and will are temporary tools to give | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| imbecile. As long as you live in this world, you need the mind. Dissolve its negative use | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| adopt from the outside. Yet there is a world of difference between the two. Only what comes | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| and others who try to give to the world what one person experienced. Such concepts as slaying | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| I wish to extend our thanks, from the world of spirit, to all of my friends who | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| for. Nothing helps so much in the entire world, as every little step towards the further self-awareness | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| that spiritual helpers, from this or the other world, seem to encourage a phase from which you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you can do, the best prayer in the world, is the renewed constant intent to face yourself | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| bound to contribute to this great change. The world cannot be changed unless a sufficient number of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to be now, contributes more to the entire world, not only to your earth sphere, but to | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| collective means can ever, ever really, change the world, unless it is sustained by inner growth and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| same attitudes are bound to continue in the world, regardless of what social reforms are instituted. Social | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| is really necessary in order to change the world. As long as you are at war with | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you, are responsible for the ills of the world. No guilt, no self-flagellation, only the recognition of | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| on the other side of the scale. The world, in general, is nothing more than the outcropping | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| this work, is what you experience in the world at large. My dearest friends, I leave you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| warmth and the truth that comes from the world of being; that can be yours for the | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| unwilling to see the way out; instead, the world around you should change, sympathize with you, and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| you subtly exert a forcing current upon the world. Furthermore, depression is unhealthy because you passively remain | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| applies to the circumstances of living, to the world, to yourself, to your thoughts and attitudes. To | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| each and every one of you from a world of light and freedom, from a world of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a world of light and freedom, from a world of harmony and truth, a world of love | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| from a world of harmony and truth, a world of love. But this stream of love is | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| be accepted and belong to a symbolic superior world. When this seemingly superior world happens to be | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| a symbolic superior world. When this seemingly superior world happens to be unfeeling, undemonstrative, or even tough | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| the imagined, or real, code of this superior world. If you do that, the damage you do | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| strong selves. But let us suppose the superior world of your aspirations is actually the way you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| you dare to love a person the superior world decrees you should despise, you will discover that | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| discover that the whole division of a superior world and an inferior world is an illusion. This | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| division of a superior world and an inferior world is an illusion. This discovery will set you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| for it as their own blindness when the world and others appear to them only in terms | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to believe that we are living in a world of causality where identical effects stem from identical | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| identical causes? ANSWER: Of course this is a world of causality. As for the identical causes producing | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| beings to accept that they live in a world of causality is not easy to understand. When | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| to understand. When you really look at the world and the events in it, you are constantly | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| in the lives of others, or in the world, or in creation generally. My dearest friends, may | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| forces, from moving toward expansion and union. Your world on earth is indeed a troubled one. Life | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| of the struggle for the soul's survival. This world is full of human beings whose soul forces | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| and you become angry at yourself and the world for these vague pangs of conscience. Take any | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| use the blessings in the right way. The world is filled with the thoughts and wishes of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| restitution to the loved ones in the spirit world. Apart from what you told us we can | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a much less complicated phenomenon in your earth world can possibly be dependent on a number of | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that brought this cosmic truth into your material world -- the same truth that I approached here | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| child is dependent on the more powerful adult world. Everyone understands this dependency. Children are dependent for | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| be bettered -- in yourself and in the world around you. Healthy struggle never exhausts your energies | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| faulty perception cripples your determination and your entire world of feeling. You are bound by the old | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| others it may mean withdrawal from the outer world. As to the latter case, I do not | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| person to cope even better with the outer world and to become joyfully involved in life. The | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| sense that this is not such a bad world to live in, after all. Such thoughts may | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this path which leads you into the inner world of your being. It is one thing to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| good intentions, unselfish acts, considerate attitudes, this inner world of egocentricity continues to exist. The stronger the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and putting the blame on life and the world. If you obey your real conscience, you will | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| creative, active trends are considered unfeminine by the world, and reflecting, perhaps, on her intelligence or resourcefulness | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| because one is afraid of taking risks. This world would be a very different place if more | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| fully explored, the pretense continues toward the outer world, and even toward the self. I should like | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| which is superimposed and is presented to the world and to the conscious self. As you know | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| influence of deeply ingrained prejudices and misconceptions. This world is so filled with generally accepted facts that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to the immediate environment and later to the world outside the family circle. The early adolescent is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to the immediate family environment, to the outer world, and to the opposite sex. As discussed in | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the degree that this infantile attitude toward the world exists, the person is dependent. An infant is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a step toward further independence, going into the world, away from seclusion. When the child starts school | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| school, this is again a step into the world, toward selfhood, away from seclusion. The child begins | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| psyche limps behind. So it is with the world. The average individual who grows into adulthood may | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| in which the selfish ruling child reigns. The world, your earth sphere, is the same. There are | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| two hundred years. Do you think that this world you live in would have wars, upheavals, crime | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| will not only help you to understand the world you live in better, but will deepen your | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| disturbances, your interrelationship with others, and about the world as a whole. In short, the deeper you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| you will become to go out into the world and have fruitful contact and union with others | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the more withdrawn you must be from the world, the less a part of it. A human | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| dependent on circumstances beyond their control. When the world spirit begins to operate that way, all existing | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| millions of years before complete individuation of the world spirit is reached. After the entire span of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| does not mean individuation and wholeness. If the world spirit is truly mature, forcing still immature aspects | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| matter -- thus being drawn into a different world. Such individuals are no longer drawn into this | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| outlook, a different state of being. As the world spirit, as a totality, reaches this state, it | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| personal problems and how they run parallel to world history, to the development of humanity as a | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| conflicting elements in the self and in the world. QUESTION: Could you explain the role of Egypt | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| does not mean it is lost to the world. It is just as in the individual who | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| bring a great deal of betterment in this world, but it does not do away with its | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| personally will make some very significant recognitions. The world harbors many untruthful ideas about what is specifically | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| having greater freedom, of being considered by the world as the superior sex. But these envies and | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| no-current is a universal factor, present in your world in many forms, it might be easier for | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| that you do not live in a chaotic world, where the law of the jungle seems the | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| that there is nothing to fear in God's world, in letting one's own organic development proceed, in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| principles and laws. Knowing them opens up the world. Knowing divine principles can come about only through | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| When you cling to false ideas your personal world falls into disorder. Our common efforts to uncover | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| childish self-importance in which you expect the whole world to revolve around you. It may be a | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| others proclaim -- or what they think the world expects them to be. This other-centeredness amounts to | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| control, and then you must manipulate life, the world around you, your own most vital, creative forces | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| You can indeed be master of this wonderful world in which you forever expand into more blissful | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you are bound and imprisoned in a limited world, where you are fenced in by boundaries you | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| open spaces, containing all the beauty of the world, all that an individual could possibly require for | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not interfere with any constructive issue in the world, nor does it deprive anyone. Nothing stands in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| you are merely not daring to defy the world and the rules which seem to decree that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| on the other hand, makes demands upon the world and on others to reward the self for | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| accomplish the growth. There is nothing in the world he can do to actually bring about the | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |