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| again, as I said before, those beings will contract the fluidal threads and from the state of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| speak of compulsion either. If you make a contract with a person, then due to that contract | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| contract with a person, then due to that contract you are obligated to fulfill certain conditions. This | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| anger cause you to do within, how you contract. Observe these soul movements. It will become obvious | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is losing causes you to close up and contract in all situations that might bring forth your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| old fear is still rampant. The soul movements contract and the fantasy cannot be realized. This is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| dangerous for those who hate themselves. When you contract after every temporary opening you can realize that | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| otherwise with the people who remain separate, who contract, and cannot open up to mutuality; two such | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| different reaction. Begin to first want to not contract, but to remain pulsatingly open, even to the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| negative phase, so that you will no longer contract against it quite so much. You can let | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| fight, even for the good, the more you contract. And the more you contract, the more you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the more you contract. And the more you contract, the more you perpetuate the negative cycle. But | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| holding on to good feelings. You see yourself contract again, right after you have opened up and | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| have heard it mentioned that you make a contract with yourself to fulfill a certain task. This | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| with the inner self or to fulfill the contract the soul has come to carry out. I | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| mind may battle against the inner decision and contract against its own disposition, widening the disconnection. Fear | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| degree the life and death process fulfilled the contract from the total entity's point of view, the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| against it, if you fear its influx and contract against it, it will appear to be a | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| feel beclouded and your life will seem to contract into a crisis. This is a period of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| into a negative manifestation. In this blindness you contract about your contractions, as it were, and then | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| self-love has not yet been completely established, you contract in these moments in a frightened reaction, finding | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| was supposed to be a financial and social contract to satisfy other personality functions and lower motives | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
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| it already is cramped, hardened, and so exaggeratedly contracted that pulsating life movement becomes impossible. All outer | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| good must come. You become more and more contracted, a state in which it is impossible to | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| state of pride, you must be tense, anxious, contracted. You cannot pretend when you are in a | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| self-expression. But if desire is tense, urgent, and contracted, it forms a block. Such desire implies, I | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| ideas, or they are emotionally and spiritually too contracted to open their own individual creative channels. In | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| through the control you exert when you are contracted. To the degree that this holds true you | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| a protective armor -- which is the closed, contracted state. Thus a larger vicious circle becomes a | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| parts. Little by little you will energize the contracted consciousness that has separated itself from the whole | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you to see that people who are very contracted, restricted, and alienated from their core are unable | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| deepest pain is a revivifying experience. It releases contracted energy and paralyzed creativity. It enables people to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| trust in the universe. It creates a tense, contracted energy system and prevents the flow of the | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the state of unrest and fear and negative, contracted pain is always a reflection of something you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the process of evolution, for which you have contracted for a chain of incarnations. You thus are | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| has been collected and ripened in the positive contracted state. The positive contracted state means bringing to | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| ripened in the positive contracted state. The positive contracted state means bringing to fruition what has been | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| when you derive the full meaning from your contracted state, it will no longer be a negative | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| lecture. The outer physical manifestation is weak and contracted. The inner evolving life is stronger than ever | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| your soul, for otherwise you become anxious and contracted in a negative way and you reject the | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| Contracting.................23 | |
| or not the universe is physically expanding and contracting or static. Is there an answer to that | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| The truth is that the universe is expanding, contracting, and static. The same applies even to inanimate | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| Life is always moving, reaching out, expanding and contracting, finding new areas of experience and branching into | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| when it should pleasurably expand. When the natural contracting movement is supposed to set in, in rhythmic | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and being reborn; it is forever expanding and contracting and pulsating. It is always moving and branching | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| mutuality, able to accept an open flow without contracting, the energy from one interpenetrates the energy field | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| the second stage, where alternate opening up and contracting occurs, the mental activity of the person is | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| flow evenly. The healthy alternation of the expanding, contracting and static principles prevails where individuals find themselves | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES Greetings, blessings and welcome to all of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| The creation of negative life experience, with its contracting movement, is supposed to ward off negative life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of its evolution. Let us begin with the contracting state, due to negation, which causes more contraction | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the vicious circle is to observe your own contracting movement when the negative, undesirable experience comes to | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| negative experience with a positive attitude, instead of contracting against it, you remain open, flexible, pulsating, alive | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of stating and acknowledging in clear-cut words your contracting reaction, with all that this implies. Indicate the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| its noise, and tight within your channel by contracting your energy into hard knots of defense. You | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| created without the threefold interaction of the expanding, contracting and static principles, be it a small object | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| with the creative movement, while you perceive the contracting principle as destructive. You ignore the existence and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| fixed and closed to the truth. When the contracting principle expresses itself, you judge yourself according to | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| as you follow the harmony of expanding and contracting and letting it ripen in-between and reaching out | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| its way forth into the void, expanding and contracting. Each expansion moves the eternal life forward and | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| which bring life into manifestation: the expanding, the contracting, and the static. In terms of a single | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| life penetrates the body of matter. During the contracting movement life withdraws into the inner eternal realm | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| partial, but then total -- withdrawal, that is, contracting movement. A short life span is a typical | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
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| you define pleasure as expansion and pain as contraction? ANSWER: Yes, that is quite true. Pain is | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Yes, that is quite true. Pain is a contraction in the sense that it is a cramp | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| cramp. But in pure pleasure there is also contraction, only in a rhythmic smooth motion, in a | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| a harmonious way. Unpleasure is an extended cramp-like contraction. QUESTION: The way I experience fear of pleasure | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| back from this fact in tension, fright, and contraction? Certainly not. This would only make it worse | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| would only make it worse. By fright and contraction the person would express a refusal of the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| in such a physical state of constriction and contraction. He must sink -- and so it is | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| emotions; and the body expresses all this with contraction, tension, stiffness, rigidity -- which are also behind | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| incompatible with pleasure. Your negativity creates tension, separateness, contraction. It comes from an excessive ego-orientation and is | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is fear, there must be a state of contraction. Contraction cannot be fully given up, ever, no | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| fear, there must be a state of contraction. Contraction cannot be fully given up, ever, no matter | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| absolute prerequisite to pleasure. Fear is a total contraction. It cannot trust anyone, neither the self nor | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| sure to attract the partner with whom the contraction appears justified? For the deeper self always knows | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| and flow, although without real mutuality. Withdrawal and contraction also include anger and hate, disappointment and blaming | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of life is the alternation of expansion and contraction. You also know, to some extent, the meaning | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the meaning of the movements of expansion and contraction. Expansion takes place when a positive, open, committed | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| and on and on goes a benign circle. Contraction takes place when a negative attitude toward life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| truth of life are bound to create a contraction of consciousness, of soul movement, and even of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| world, in this sphere of consciousness, expansion and contraction create opposite experiences: pleasure and pain. Only when | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| transcend the level of duality, do expansion and contraction both become blissful experiences of different sorts. But | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| contracting state, due to negation, which causes more contraction -- and so on. As I mentioned, the | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| automatic reflex reaction to negative experience is blind contraction with its accompanying destructive emotions and thoughts. More | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| you. Become keenly aware of your state of contraction, of hardening and numbing yourself, of warding off | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| this observance, in this acceptance of the tight contraction that is still automatic -- can you proceed | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| When you do so, the negativities that create contraction will gradually diminish. Sustain the painful feelings -- | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| their significance. You can also observe the cramping contraction and become intensely aware of this state of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| pleasure and joy. Does it respond with involuntary contraction, notwithstanding your conscious desires and aims? This observation | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| time you come through a negative period of contraction in this self-observing way, your ability to endure | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| illusory because the stagnant state is really a contraction, and contraction is by no means relaxing and | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| the stagnant state is really a contraction, and contraction is by no means relaxing and restful, although | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| moving. This is impossible in a state of contraction. You can verify this by looking around you | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| longer lasting, and less fraught with subsequent fearful contraction. You become more capable of fulfillment because of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| what I mean. A completely fearless state, without contraction and tension, is the state that makes a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| of all life, so it will have no contraction or fear that can cause suffering and pain | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| can be generalized. But when death occurs in contraction and fear, it is an inorganic manifestation, even | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| faith. Be your God. 235. THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION Greetings and blessings, my very dearest friends. Love | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| increase. Tonight's lecture is about the anatomy of contraction. Many years ago -- in your earthly time | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| gave a lecture about the principles of expansion, contraction, and what I called static principle. It will | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| I will specifically concentrate on the principle of contraction because there is so much misunderstanding, so many | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| in your world of duality. You imagine that contraction is negative, bad, while expansion is positive and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| a human consciousness, the states of expansion and contraction are both equally painful and negative. As the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| On that level, expansion may become positive and contraction negative. Gradually the movement changes again, and on | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| Expansion can then have a negative manifestation and contraction a positive one. In still further evolutionary states | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| In still further evolutionary states, both expansion and contraction become positive. Let me show you how expansion | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| positive. Let me show you how expansion and contraction can be both positive and negative. This is | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| than less, and thus contrasts with positive expansion. Contraction is negative when there is a tight holding | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| them out, as is the case with positive contraction, but rather in a refusal to move, reach | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| to move, reach, love, trust, and give out. Contraction in its positive form has a beautiful, beautiful | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| but to be able to do so, positive contraction must occur first. Expansion means gathering the riches | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and then bringing them into the outer universe. Contraction means gathering the riches of the outer universe | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| positive manifestation bears no resemblance to the negative contraction. There is no fear or distrust, no ungivingness | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| this possibly be designated as negative? In positive contraction you gather from without, like a wave that | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| momentary pause between every alteration of expansion and contraction. We call it the static principle for lack | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the process to ripen, so that after each contraction that restful ripening phase must set in. This | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| judge yourself according to your preconceived idea that contraction is something undesirable and bad and should not | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| believe, so must you experience. If you believe contraction is bad, you will experience only its negative | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and, indeed, most positive. Your false idea that contraction is negative makes you misjudge one aspect of | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and cohesive with the overall plan, a simultaneous contraction on another level has to take place. This | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| yourself, in the most positive spirit, to the contraction of one aspect of your personality, the expanding | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| when the other level gives in to the contraction and derives most benefit from it. Until you | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| where on one level expansion, on the other contraction exists. You only connect with the level that | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| it were, and then it becomes a self-perpetuating contraction. And that of course is indeed undesirable and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the meaning in the spiral movement of the contraction and the expansion harmoniously, you will see what | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| This is then harmony, the harmony of life. Contraction is as necessary as expansion. It is part | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| yourselves, where and when and how is your contraction part of your creative process, how can you | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| much to where I am in this ingathering contraction of rest. My defenses against my sexuality and | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| idea about the rhythmical state of the expansion, contraction and the static? In terms of our time | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| existence by spiritual forms pulsating outwardly. When the contraction occurs, life withdraws and matter disintegrates. Although I | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| When you observe your own similar reactions of contraction, restlessness, and anxiety when great pleasure and fulfillment | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| consciousness, no being. Each breath consists of expansion, contraction, and the static moment in-between. Each of these | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |