| was, and still is, your world. Then your conscious desire to leave the old world behind will | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of confused and faulty thinking, which can be conscious or unconscious. By deeply analyzing such negative emotions | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| have existed all along. You merely become more conscious of them now. This battle has been going | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| beings always fear that because they are more conscious of a negative condition, they are more endangered | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| is just the opposite. The more you are conscious of this or any other fear, the less | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| wishes to advance and become more aware and conscious, or memories from the Spirit World that wish | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| happiness. You emerge from childhood with the rarely conscious conviction: In order to be happy, my will | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| means terror, darkness, and unhappiness. Simultaneously, the evolving conscious part has realized that you cannot always get | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| life. I need hardly emphasize again that one's conscious attitude is not necessarily the real inner and | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| end, you must inwardly be torn apart. Only conscious awareness of this conflict will show you the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are going. Seek another way out. Your conscious feeling only knows futility and this gives you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| examined with a maximum of self-honesty. The outer, conscious motivations may be true, but keep in mind | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| far as valid desires are concerned, one is conscious only of their constructive purpose, while ignoring the | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| immature and distorted motivations, in addition to the conscious valid ones. These unrecognized motivations are not bad | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will come from motives that are positive and conscious. Try to visualize this strong, forward-surging motion, with | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| are levels of unconscious reactions that should become conscious in you so as to be handled properly | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| a dream, or from the observation of their conscious daily reactions. May you all derive some benefit | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| how to die. Not only can your occasional conscious fear of anything that connotes death help you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| therefore you have to go through it. Remain conscious of your intellectual knowledge all the while, without | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| hardship for the psyche. Needless to say, the conscious awareness of this contradiction is missing until this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in misery. This misery may at times be conscious but most of the time it is not | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| the former type experiences it only on more conscious levels when outer and inner conditions culminate in | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| on life, and on fate, will become a conscious experience you absolutely need. At first sight, this | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| for all these hitherto hidden emotions to become conscious, so that you can really use them for | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| should be. Of course, none of this is conscious. It is not understood in the unconscious that | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| be rationalized in many ways, but whatever the conscious reason for such resistance, deep down you all | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| from the other two false solutions. On the conscious, more superficial level of personality, this third attempt | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| obtained, rebellion and self-pity set in, with no conscious awareness of the cause. This entire process is | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| unfulfilled and why. All this has to become conscious in this work. Whenever an unsuccessful, half-hearted attempt | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| different way, still feel have to be become conscious. Then you will see the contradictions, the arbitrariness | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| make others comply with your demands. Yet the conscious acknowledgement of such demands crassly contradicts the general | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| welling up of resentments that you were never conscious of and that are connected with guilt and | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| direction and produces just the reverse of your conscious aim. Again, this is symbolized in the story | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| personality can be discovered only when it becomes conscious. But unconsciously you battle against this very awareness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| show you how you inwardly deviate from your conscious beliefs. So where there is outer religious faith | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| childish tendencies to refuse to grow up. Your conscious right opinions are worth very little when they | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| how much you unconsciously deviate from your correct conscious opinions. While you may know perfectly well that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| how preposterous they are; how incompatible with your conscious belief; how contrary to your own best interests | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| false religious attitude. They are filled with their conscious right beliefs, while their unconscious concepts are still | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| another -- and you may never remember the conscious declaration of intent -- your solution was to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| you disadvantages. But your error lies in the conscious or unconscious thought that to be aware of | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will comprehend how preposterous this attitude is. Your conscious or unconscious rationalizations in still denying the awareness | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| often do, even though you may not be conscious of it. As long as your right conduct | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| experience of yourself. This is not an intellectual, conscious judgement, but an emotional reaction. This extreme, negative | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| slave to your needs, because you are now conscious of them. Furthermore, you can go about finding | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| become ill before you are aware on a conscious level. You escape into not facing that thing | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| unconscious, until you have succeeded in making it conscious. This predicament results in further negative chain reactions | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the confusion and the belief in your unworthiness conscious, you will be relieved to find that it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you would somehow be threatened or annihilated. Make conscious what it is you fear would happen to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| path of this sort. He will first become conscious of the tremendous drive for success, surpassing his | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| neither is constructive. This conflict may not be conscious at all, but it accounts for much resistance | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| not happen overnight. After a certain period of conscious unfulfillment of real needs -- as opposed to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to previous unconscious unfulfillment of real needs and conscious unfulfillment of false needs -- while you search | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| joyful living in a very imperfect world? People's conscious or unconscious concepts of a joyful life are | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| love, and perfect relationships. This attitude is never conscious, never formulated with such clarity; nevertheless, if your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| further self-alienation. The productive approach is to make conscious what you feel, desire, fear, and then to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| do this. Since you recognize many of your conscious feelings as imperfect, you try to forcefully superimpose | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Delayed reaction is certainly progress compared with no conscious reaction. In this respect, too, only if you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is meaningless, whether or not such thoughts are conscious. In addition to successful self-discovery, there is another | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| aware of your needs, or if you are conscious of them, you do not evaluate them. You | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| perfectly well from your recent findings that your conscious fears are not your real fears. They are | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| that your creative faculties are inhibited. Not having conscious daydreams may also indicate resignation or stagnation. This | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| daydreaming as well as other considerations. Loss of conscious desires, wishes and goals, or hopelessness about them | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| Both sides of your nature can be partly conscious and partly unconscious. For instance, you may be | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and partly unconscious. For instance, you may be conscious of certain aspects in yourself, or about general | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| or about general concepts, but you are not conscious of their entire significance. Your awareness is neither | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| confused about, then such answers cannot come. Hence conscious effort has to be made most of the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| for -- a craving you were not even conscious of when you first began this path. The | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| aware of all the emotions you were not conscious of. Only then can we go into the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| need, which you may or may not be conscious of, is disconnected from the causes that brought | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| by bringing it out into the open. A conscious need can mature into a mutual state where | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| -- pain or hurt -- is no longer conscious, or if it is intermingled with the secondary | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the will that can be activated by your conscious determination. Hence, the primary step is always self-understanding | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| will enslave you whether or not it is conscious. The inner cultivation of your will -- be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| guilt. Also, this guilt has to become fully conscious. Such awareness will bring into clear focus the | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| past experiences which are deeply imprinted on your conscious or unconscious mind, and to free yourself of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to wonder. This first wonderment represents the first conscious steps towards relating to the Creator. Who created | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to certain concepts he clings to, in his conscious mind, while inwardly he is already beyond it | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you cause less suffering for yourself. But your conscious or unconscious expectation that life should be perfect | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| lecture itself. Prayer will be adapted to the conscious attitude and concept of any given phase. In | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| any reservation; to remove all pretenses between your conscious mind and that which is in you; and | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| up this well to be penetrated by your conscious understanding. When such profound communication with others, based | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| artificially producing toughness. Again, all this is not conscious. You may not be at all aware of | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of their self-search. Chances are that underneath the conscious urgent need, they will find a reason for | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| prohibited from developing and this must be made conscious. Repeated unfulfillment hurts so much more than it | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| solution, but the message is misunderstood by the conscious mind. The psyche says, Give up your defenses | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| for it, change, become a loving person. The conscious mind does not translate this message properly and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| have burning questions. Some of these are quite conscious, others are unformulated, vague, out of laziness and | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| movement. Needless to say, this may not be conscious, but when you attend to your inner reactions | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| healthily into resilient elasticity. Over-tender soul-stuff causes both conscious and unconscious pain. Since the effect is bound | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| find out how incompatible they were with your conscious concept of yourself. If you have not reached | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| be clear that you may be no more conscious of demands on you than you are conscious | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| conscious of demands on you than you are conscious of your making demands on others. The fact | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| defiance, and hostility. None of it may be conscious in you at the moment, or these feelings | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| part of the soul, much of it is conscious. QUESTION: We claim that attitudes determine the happenings | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| destructive motivations, even though they may be quite conscious, will not bring the desired result. On the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the other hand, constructive motives, no matter how conscious, will not bring the good results either if | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| his being, prohibits an unsplit will. Therefore, a conscious determination to be ruthless will have no effect | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| that part of them which one is not conscious of -- that hinder the will and subsequently | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| it by your own efforts: this is the conscious process of self-confrontation. Waiting until nature takes its | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| protect you. When you start the work, the conscious self does not realize that this forbidden area | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| allowing the flow of all feelings into your conscious mind is due to, first, fear of imperfection | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| thoughts can never replace utter self-facing and making conscious what heretofore slumbered in the hidden recesses of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in, after all. Such thoughts may not be conscious, but affect the psyche when sufficient insight has | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| take on various forms. You may through a conscious or unconscious insistence expect that others bend to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| self-pity. However, none of these emotions may be conscious. Another form of outside search may be looking | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| moment. My friends, you are not yet sufficiently conscious of what really bothers you. If you realize | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| True liberation cannot come in half-measures. Making the conscious recognition half-conscious again is due to the specific | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| is presented to the world and to the conscious self. As you know, the idealized self-image denies | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| to open to the real situation. The more conscious you become of your blind automatism, your stereotyped | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| that to the degree that an entity is conscious, so is it alive. There are many degrees | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| because they permeate the atmosphere and the adults' conscious and unconscious thinking. The result of these labels | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you find areas within which completely contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| contradict your conscious convictions. Emotional reactions either contradict conscious views, or are split within themselves. When you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the entity humankind will be comparable to the conscious concepts an individual has gained through absorbing good | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| thoroughly explore and understand all levels: the outer conscious, the semi-conscious and the unconscious. The moment you | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| before that if the original fault were fully conscious, there would be comparatively little disturbance. Let us | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| levels of your being. Nor are you quite conscious of your needs and their rightful place in | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| all human beings. There are some people whose conscious concepts are quite reasonable and truthful, but unconsciously | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to hold back. If you look at your conscious and unconscious attitudes toward the passage of time | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| innermost, hidden attitudes toward love, regardless of your conscious, healthy desires. You will find that the fear | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| life, love, and death. I showed that the conscious conviction and feeling about these three great forces | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| factors. The unconscious is much stronger than the conscious mind because the absurdity of conscious misconceptions and | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| than the conscious mind because the absurdity of conscious misconceptions and unrealistic outlooks is more easily detectable | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| noticeable of the two because it is mostly conscious. Whenever you find yourself disturbed because of a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| concomitant misconceptions, which call it into existence become conscious, and your reason and intelligence can examine their | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| disguise, what they are governed by behind their conscious attitudes and facades. You will know what their | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| inhibitions -- the no-current -- must become fully conscious in most of its aspects. Then only can | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| No toward life in general. While on a conscious level an urgent, frantic, hopeless Yes -- not | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| even if the positive attitude is stronger and conscious, while the negative one remains hidden. It is | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| my friends, although their confusion is not always conscious. It is the fact that the pathwork, at | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| one that hitherto unconscious material has now become conscious. This is temporarily bothersome. But there is another | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| of coping can no longer be used. The conscious self now sees their preposterousness and they can | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| potent force, determining the outcome regardless of the conscious will. The latter is of immeasurable importance, but | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| it must be geared to make the unconscious conscious in order to remove all obstacles and division | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the now. But when the confusion is not conscious, when it can be denied and unpleasant feelings | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Whether or not you have made such confusions conscious, they often exist, and it is important to | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| are. The stage of awareness essentially means becoming conscious of error, of deviation from truth. The moment | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| is the monster; that once the unconscious is conscious, you are not a slave to it, but | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| are a free creature even before you become conscious of your own strength and freedom. It is | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| of dying in full consciousness. In addition, the conscious intellect ignores the true facts of dying, but | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the struggle, a no- current works against your conscious wishes. It is essential to become specifically aware | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| long as you are only aware of your conscious desire and do not see the unconscious withholding | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| exists. The two can meld when the outer, conscious one deliberately reaches toward the inner, still hidden | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| what to do? Give up struggling on a conscious level to force yourself to adopt truths your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |