| Contacted...................13 | |
| about great people like Moses, for instance, who contacted the spirits and asked them about decisions. Should | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| God's world, it never happens that the spirit contacted has free choice of subject matter because too | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| do I feel that I have really fully contacted it? ANSWER: Before you can feel it, you | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is the inner person who has to be contacted with the outer, ego faculties of will and | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| ready to respond, but it must be specifically contacted. It will fill you with new, stimulating, challenging | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| aliveness, because at one particular moment you have contacted your innermost being. When this inner you is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| exist in many forms. If you have not contacted your true self first, you cannot allow yourself | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| power, even underneath the strongest negative self-perpetuation, is contacted -- because such negative process is only conceived | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| plane. The unified real self can always be contacted. Let us again return to our example in | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| of the real self, which must be directly contacted and activated by the ego faculties. Without this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| bad -- it is as if you had contacted a foreign power within yourself. As you do | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of this. You are aware that you have contacted another dimension of reality in which there is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lately, the majority of my friends have indeed contacted the negative inner will. I want to stress | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Contacting..................8 | |
| the first stones which block your way to contacting God's world. The purpose of outside help is | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| freely choose a subject. Whenever people succeed in contacting God's world, it never happens that the spirit | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| the wall of separation. Eliminate this wall by contacting deeper and vaster faculties to activate you, even | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| the fear of self and the fear of contacting others so great? Basically the fear is due | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| any effort to overcome fear and resistance before contacting the real self. The more the ego is | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| all experience on this path the necessity of contacting hidden cruelty, brutality, sadism, vindictiveness, and malice. As | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| Such answers are the reason why you resist contacting your inner wisdom. For this divine wisdom makes | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| done on the inner levels you are now contacting through this work, not just superficially on the | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Contacts....................14 | |
| each other and make the contact productive. These contacts will not harm the soul, as do some | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will not harm the soul, as do some contacts, no matter how innocent they may appear. Yet | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| those who can still be harmed spiritually through contacts with less developed souls are usually still at | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| are usually still at a stage where these contacts will not be unpleasant to them, and so | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| be weakened. Rather, they ought to seek out contacts which will strengthen them. On the other hand | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| no longer be harmed, for whom these disharmonious contacts are but tests through which they can strengthen | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| themselves, are in a state in which these contacts feel like sacrifice; they want contact only with | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| on the earth plane. There you will rediscover contacts, loved ones, old friends. And when reincarnation is | 18 FREE WILL |
| responsibility in their lives. Their family and business contacts know that they are thoroughly responsible. Yet when | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| relate to other human beings and have fruitful contacts with them. As self-development proceeds, barriers fall; fear | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| manifests in your daily living, in your reactions, contacts, attitudes, in the work on the path itself | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| more subtle form. Outwardly you may engage in contacts but inwardly you remain uninvolved, isolated, separate. This | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| relationship: mates, parents and children, friendships, or business contacts. The tendency to make yourself emotionally dependent on | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Finding the most fitting environment, parents, siblings, friends, contacts in later life, and many other variables, that | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Contagious..................9 | |
| souls of others. For there is nothing as contagious as inner currents, be they positive or negative | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| shame and guilt feelings. There is nothing as contagious, my friends, as emotions, thoughts, and attitudes, conscious | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| other person's problematic currents. There is nothing more contagious in this world than emotions, thoughts, reactions, and | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| Your conflicts, your images, and your misconceptions are contagious and affect the other person immediately. However, the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| decreased, if not entirely eliminated. You know how contagious human behavior is. Thoughts and emotions are also | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| human behavior is. Thoughts and emotions are also contagious. In other words, outer behavior will influence outer | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| thought, and unconscious feelings influence unconscious feelings. The contagious actions, at least in their crassest forms, were | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| influence us; we might almost say they are contagious. This applies to both positive and negative attitudes | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| feelings and the states they create can be contagious. It is known that some people's opinions can | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
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| you need at any time, for everything is contained in it. I will show you how the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| higher self of your neighbor. All this is contained in the first two words of the prayer | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| which both the male and female poles are contained. God has created them both in perfection, each | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| on the emotional level. In this rebellion is contained a rebellion against God, against creation, against her | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| is in the wish that the result is contained. Often the result cannot come immediately -- I | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| read? ANSWER: It is possible because the thought contained in the written word is a form. Every | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| faster. Your earth sphere, with all that is contained therein -- landscapes, mountains, seas, houses, any object | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| of previous lives, merits, and so-called sins are contained in this field, as well as the whole | 18 FREE WILL |
| what you need for your spiritual development is contained in all the great religions. It is up | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| a person who can grasp all the levels contained in it. QUESTION: The names -- I think | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need a transcendent revelation. God's will is always contained within you, behind your blind spots. From the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| one. Dangerous because there is so much pride contained in it and also because it is so | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the images. You know that if desires are contained in the images that contradict your most cherished | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| like to say this: Since all knowledge is contained within you, something of that truth gets through | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| experience the great feeling and beauty that is contained in real love. They would never get the | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| perceived it. True, good motives are surely also contained in these inner decisions, but also weak ones | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| in the universe. The universal life force is contained in every sphere or world, all inanimate objects | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| least particles of the life force that is contained in every blessing. How much you can absorb | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| -- and therefore of God -- is also contained in the fact that God lets you deviate | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of hers. It is as though they each contained within themselves a facsimile or imprint of their | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| all details that we may consider later are contained in the points mentioned tonight. We will merely | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| the new knowledge that is acquired? Everything is contained in the answers to these questions. We cannot | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| partner? ANSWER: Well, I think the answer is contained in what I had to say about this | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| see that all religions, including the traditional ones, contained the life-spark of truth. But as they spread | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| purification, everything -- that spark, that burning spark contained in all living organisms. If you let this | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and a spirit of vigor. You keep yourself contained within yourself and thereby you go against life | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| idealized self-image, one finds that omnipotence is always contained in it. These emotional reactions are so subtle | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| philosophy, psychology, and religion. There is so much contained in it. However, I will briefly give you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| false, rigid moralizing. Whoever thought that my discussion contained the message of discarding moral codes has not | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| unfulfilled need for love, warmth, companionship, union, is contained in the unexpressed claim contained in the main | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| companionship, union, is contained in the unexpressed claim contained in the main image. Here you can clearly | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| contain the fear, bitterness, self-pity, struggle, and hardness contained in the pain of identification, in pity. QUESTION | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| this may be true, yet in it is contained the I should not of perfectionism. However, if | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| negative attitude in themselves. If all the benefit contained in the recognition has been derived from it | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| replaced with any other goal. There are riches contained in each individual soul. They are yours for | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| pleasure principle. The possibility for utter bliss is contained in the life force. It is your inborn | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Society's taboos regarding the erotic and sexual forces contained in the life force have resulted in intellectual | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| one listens to any harsh or disturbing emotion contained in them. I have also often mentioned that | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| striking aspects is that there is no conflict contained in it. The limited human mind is often | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| your own unconscious mind -- as though it contained a monster you have no control over, separated | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| sought, the either/or attitude has three important subdivisions, contained in all mass and personal images: (1) If | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| try to use the material as if it contained rules to be governed by. This, of course | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| one of you. May the strength of understanding contained in these blessings aid you in assimilating this | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| unconscious level, of every living being. The power contained in the nucleus of your being is so | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| cooperate with life's laws, which are most certainly contained in the reasons for the unfulfillment itself. This | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the most powerful, creative and intelligent forces are contained. For its own protection, it must separate the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a position to handle life. The inner wisdom contained in the live center begins to manifest only | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| happiness cannot exist. The tremendous strength and intelligence contained in this vulnerable spot will govern all your | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| entirely on universal values. Everything that matters is contained within it. Why does humanity put up such | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| but at the same time there is fear contained in this new hope. What can you tell | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this universal life power. Every conceivable possibility is contained in it. What you are now is not | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| prove the reliability of the involuntary creative processes contained in every human soul. To get to this | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| breathing are interrelated. The movement of life is contained in both. The movement is involuntary and occurs | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| thus eventually transforms itself into pleasure. The energy contained in the emotion can find its way back | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of love became more of an abstraction and contained the threat of forcing upon individuals certain actions | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| consciousness is partly constructive, partly destructive; what is contained in it is partly aware, partly not. Just | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in creative and joyful living and well-being, is contained and held back by condensed emotions -- by | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| constant flow spreads and spreads and yet is contained within itself. There is no chaos in this | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| not slump down, yet sit without tension, completely contained within yourself, without stiffness. The spine should be | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| the intrinsic desirability of all the creative energy contained in even your most destructive aspects you cannot | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| deny the vital, original creative energy that is contained in all evil. This energy must be made | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| your understanding of the destructive and contradictory attitudes contained in envy, jealousy, resentments, competitiveness, blame, and so | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| this endeavor, you will experience the powerful energy contained in the previously hidden feelings. This energy is | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and eternality. For all the whole is also contained in the part. It is your task indeed | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you may look into existing resistances and problems contained within your desire. How strong and firm is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| also a defiant refusal to recognize the keys contained in them. In such cases these manifestations are | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| hope will be your reality. This reality is contained in your innermost center. Now, as a sufficient | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| of love, you will know that everything is contained in that word. To recapitulate briefly: previous phases | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| a mathematical system, of the literally infinite qualities contained in the ether. Still, you may not even | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| systems of creation, systems within smaller systems, are contained in the creation of each of these examples | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| consciousness content within this potent energy, the consciousness contained within the outwardly dead material. What does such | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| create these objects -- molds the energy, and contained consciousness, like inanimate matter, receives the imprints of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| meaning of it, and the peace that is contained in it. You will feel the ongoing aliveness | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| a stagnant deadening state. The activity and movement contained within the receptive state makes it as alert | 228 BALANCE |
| state is. If you think of the qualities contained in the active and passive principles, you see | 228 BALANCE |
| force and it is design. So much is contained in the word. It is significant that Scripture | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| however, the original facets of true value are contained. Your dignity is a reality that you look | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| and self -- can you realize the riches contained within. That is the movement of all life | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| task. This is, broadly speaking, the divine reality contained in the regimes of monarchy or feudalism. It | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| beautiful new world. Every one of you is contained in the deepest of security, in the guidance | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| like to lift up the jewels of truth contained in this book, separating the grains from the | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| elucidate through acts or attitudes the divine truth contained in the tradition in question, signifies death. Aliveness | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| they suffer physical pain. All divine attributes are contained in this light, but the light of truth | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| non-action. It registers feelings and attitudes that are contained behind the decision not to act. Since you | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| this in your lives. The great spiritual forces contained in dynamic love are more feared, resisted, and | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| pain, the pain you suffer from some untruthfulness contained within your psyche. It is not easy to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |