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is you and yet is greater than the conscious you. Then you will see that this greater 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
attempts to put meditation into practice. Meditation is conscious and deliberate creating. It is one of the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
what the sum total of your feelings, your conscious and unconscious opinions and convictions are, by your 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
surely as if they were to commit a conscious act. Between them and those people who attempt 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
substance changes constantly as it becomes impregnated by conscious thought and intent. This is how creation unfolds 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
how creation unfolds in its myriad forms. In conscious creation you express various thoughts, feelings, and attitudes 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
most important aims on this path to make conscious all you think and know, perceive and conceive 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
say only that in the first stage the conscious mind almost always assumes the active part by 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
the thoughts and intents. The more concisely the conscious mind claims and states, and the more constructive 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
how this works. Meditation must begin with your conscious mind. Like all acts, it follows from a 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
The concepts and thoughts you form with your conscious mind are your initial tools. I repeat: clarity 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
the obstructions by dealing with them, when your conscious mind formulates strongly and concisely, your inner will 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
can quite easily determine whether you reject a conscious thought by the way you feel about it 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
strong unconscious neurotic desire that conflicts with your conscious wish, your conscious mind may refute this desire 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
desire that conflicts with your conscious wish, your conscious mind may refute this desire and battle against 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
as this battle continues in the unconscious, the conscious wish will be impotent. At best, it will 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
way to test how much you resist your conscious positive desire for fulfillment. To what degree do 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
to the thought you issue forth. Thus the conscious concept must also prevail in the unconscious. When 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
determine whether there is any conflict between the conscious and the unconscious concept. The unity between the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
and the unconscious concept. The unity between the conscious and unconscious directly affects the second stage: impressing 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
no matter how well-intentioned they may be. Their conscious mind may be active enough to formulate the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
the content of your own unconscious, or partly conscious, beliefs and attitudes, feelings and reactions. The incontrovertible 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
varying roles of active and receptive interaction. Your conscious ego-mind can activate the divine process and let 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
is being impressed and called forth by the conscious good will and by the mind. But then 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
self must become the active principle, and the conscious mind must become receptive, listening, pliable, impressionable. It 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
another possibility is that you actively use your conscious ego-mind, but address it this time to the 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
must again become receptive and listen with your conscious mind, so the lower self can truly be 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
be heard. This does not mean that the conscious mind gives in to it, identifies with it 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
in that sense impressed by it. Rather, the conscious mind listens and absorbs, evaluates and discriminates. As 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
listens and absorbs, evaluates and discriminates. As your conscious mind lets itself be instructed by the spiritual 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
lower self can be instructed by both the conscious ego-mind and the divine self -- perhaps in 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
self. Let the divine self talk to your conscious mind and your undeveloped lower self. Listen to 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
process can happen during your sleep without your conscious mind being directly involved. The process may create 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
may become clear only much later. If your conscious and unconscious mind do not obstruct such an 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
More unfoldment, more enlightenment must come. But if conscious resistance and unconscious negation, fears and blocks bar 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
be aware of your previously concealed but now conscious negative intentionality. In the past you may have 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
and fruitfully. This may sound preposterous to the conscious mind that wishes for nothing more than any 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
them that, of which you are already quite conscious. Nevertheless, you may find that you still cannot 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
you choose to change this course. To the conscious mind, such negative intentions may appear preposterous, but 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
identify with? Such identification is not something the conscious ego chooses. Once again, it is something that 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
you exclusively identify with the ego -- that conscious, willing, acting part of you -- it is 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
inspirations. The first answers may come from your conscious mind. Your ability to formulate new possibilities and 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
unconscious interaction takes place in addition to the conscious exchange. It is the former that breeds rifts 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
to make the unconscious perceptions of negative intentionality conscious -- and that is a blessing. They will 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
rejection, even though they may not be actually conscious of their reaction. It is up to them 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
up to them, whether to make the pain conscious and go on from there on their path 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
-- and such extrication depends entirely on the conscious determination of the person in question. If the 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
then you will aid the process by your conscious determination to relinquish resisting the evil in you 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
expression of a negative intent. Those who are conscious of and admit their deliberate choice of a 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
all deeply repressed material. It is really a conscious attitude and expression, only you have chosen to 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
In order to make the remaining aspects completely conscious, and also in order to bring about the 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
into this pitfall. The process must be a conscious dialogue, as I have explained in the lecture 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
reactions. This inner state -- whether you are conscious of it or not -- makes you blame 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
the specific unhappiness. I do not mean the conscious intent, I truly mean the hidden negative intentionality 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
of creative energy. Being honest includes challenging your conscious or unconscious assumption that if you go into 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
always follow to integrate the experience with the conscious ego personality. Still another may discover an ability 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
to love any woman. Regardless of your outer, conscious belief, inwardly you now discover that this is 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
same token, a negative intentionality may be quite conscious, or it may manifest indirectly and you are 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
may manifest indirectly and you are not yet conscious of it as such. Needless to say that 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
and involuntary intentionality it is essential for the conscious mind to express its positive intent and formulate 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
must be brought face to face, and the conscious personality shall make the final decision. We have 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
mind. If you now hate, say with your conscious mind, I also have in me the possibility 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
love, the power in me can make me conscious of them. It can help me lift myself 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
feelings are accessible, and that is in your conscious mind, in your conscious thinking, willing, and doing 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
that is in your conscious mind, in your conscious thinking, willing, and doing. If this were not 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
Some of these are in disharmony with your conscious goodwill; others, in harmony. On the very deepest 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
the utmost divine reality, comprising everything that is conscious within the most powerful creative energy, the most 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
within it all seeds. Brilliant, effervescent, alive, intensely conscious, it is endowed with every conceivable and inconceivable 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
is your task indeed to make your whole conscious being aware of this, so that you can 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
add here is that you can make yourself conscious of the state, which is as yet only 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
that constantly go through you can be made conscious only when your emotional state is agile, when 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
remember that this voice does not express the conscious mind of the human instrument through whom I 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
must exist. As you translate this longing into conscious terms, you may become involved in some confusion 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
already are the beauty you are not yet conscious of but which you long to connect with 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
Inner order exists when human beings are fully conscious, when there is no longer any unconscious material 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
is with order. An entity that is totally conscious of itself and the universe is no longer 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
within. I repeat: Though one may not be conscious of the anxiety that disorder creates on any 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
innermost being is sending a message to the conscious self. The message says, make order in yourself 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
relationship. Often the deviated sexual expression is quite conscious and is indulged in and enjoyed to whatever 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
often said, the sum total of all your conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious, explicit and implicit thoughts, beliefs, assumptions 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
creation than anything you deal with on the conscious level. Fear and guilt are potent creative agents 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
in the human ego state is not yet conscious. You need to know why you came and 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
does not affect you, while only what is conscious is an obstruction in your life or may 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
repression. The step after repressing is making it conscious but not acting it out. Only after reaching 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
reality. Wisdom will guide you, manifesting into your conscious mind. Energy, feelings of love, light and hope 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
be new, per se, but new for your conscious mind. You will hear the voice within that 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
I want to give the best of my conscious life to let the truth and love and 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER
All of this can exist on a quite conscious, deliberate level, or on very subtle, subliminal, and 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
become its choices. This applies both to the conscious and unconscious choice of figures we want to 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
which form very limited and fixed closed systems. Conscious and/or unconscious identification which forms an inner image 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
may be very committed to God on a conscious level, but you may not realize at all 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
it very easy to believe on a merely conscious level that this commitment to God is what 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
acknowledge your contrariness, fear, selfwill, and pride, your conscious commitment will always be blocked. Unless you own 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
why certain results are still lacking despite your conscious commitment to truth, to God, to love. This 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
that could otherwise never become known to your conscious mind. When I speak of inner reality, in 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
mind forgets the greater truth of being, the conscious ego self temporarily identifies with the aspects needing 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
focus your efforts, attention, and energies on becoming conscious of further buried material that causes this blockage 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
and ignores your self-responsibility for anything but outer, conscious actions. You also know that, as a rule 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
deepest self-responsibility and thus robs one of the conscious capacity to create and recreate. I attempt to 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
distortion and destructiveness untouched so far by your conscious awareness. In still other areas you have gained 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
lost any remote inkling of it in your conscious mind. You activate new creation, you set new 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
to contribute. What you can determine with your conscious mind is the intent, the wish to surrender 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
stronger and more responsible. You will become more conscious instruments, each in your own beautiful, perfect way 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
on the surface so you can become fully conscious of them. Only then will you be able 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
of any kind can take place unless a conscious intent is embedded somewhere in the force that 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
direction have become frightening. In the past your conscious mind was strong and intelligent enough to note 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
go as follows: First, the search for your conscious and unconscious negativities. Second, owning up to them 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
it. But this requires much higher states of conscious ness, which must be earned. Humankind, as a 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
As you grow further, you will become more conscious of this time projection. What you often believe 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
of life as you know it in your conscious being. This realm of existence is the expression 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
the essence. It is then up to the conscious mind to decide whether or not it will 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
the unpurified part in the task fulfillment. The conscious ego must make this decision. The higher self 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
will not and cannot force it upon the conscious mind. This would go against all spiritual law 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
your body. Such thoughts may not be quite conscious, but they nevertheless exist. Your awareness of and 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
as a sign that something is amiss. The conscious mind should start a deliberate search. This longing 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
phases come out of the soul, which the conscious mind at first has trouble understanding and recognizing 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
the less developed person will not have the conscious awareness and connection with the inner voice. In 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
the divine self and the will of the conscious mind are divided? Several possibilities exist. For example 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
has reached this point of no return, no conscious mind can possibly evaluate -- only the deeper 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
painful, slow illness and, above all, with the conscious mind completely disconnected from the inner will. The 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
mind completely disconnected from the inner will. The conscious mind may battle against the inner decision and 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
outer mind to any alternatives. First the disconnected, conscious mind must make a deliberate effort to be 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
effort to be ready for other possibilities. The conscious mind, as it is now available to you 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
of your divine self. But even in your conscious mind, are you not also something else? You 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
or destructive energy fields. When you are truly conscious of this potency, you become more responsible and 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
as confrontation between the lower self and the conscious, reasonable, positive ego-self takes place constantly, will you 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
more comprehensively in order to make you more conscious of them and to help also those to 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
those negative intentions are secret even from your conscious mind, you also secretly believe that you are 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
God. You also begin to make the connections conscious and see what price you pay for persisting 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
person. Or you can choose to align your conscious mind and will with the higher self, without 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
and greater motivation to put all of your conscious being into the service of the divine consciousness 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
lower self, it is very important for your conscious mind to ask, What was this trait in 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
and you have not consciously used it. Your conscious application of it will make you even more 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
all the senses, but on a level the conscious mind is usually not aware of. Lower-self energy 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
know that your energy system -- whether your conscious mind knows it or not -- perceives all 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
in this respect has to be a very conscious understanding that your life must consist of much 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
within to sustain them. This thought is rarely conscious, but on a path such as this the 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
this the time comes when you do become conscious of this fearful thought. Then the first reaction 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
first of all, on the level of your conscious or unconscious fear of death. Life cannot be 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
virtually superstitious, but on those levels of semi- conscious thinking and reasoning this is hardly surprising. You 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
govern your life to a degree that your conscious, mature mind is at first unable and unwilling 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF
process unfolds completely independent of your mind and conscious expectations. Such a plan fulfills itself in certain 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
level that is as yet inaccessible to your conscious perception. But it manifests indirectly. In the apparent 228 BALANCE

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