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 Counterfeit.................4
your feelings, denying your real feelings and substituting counterfeit feelings, and also becoming cruel. All these measures 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
first, this, too, may be covered up by counterfeit feelings. After the first superficial layer is removed 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
you are. You will stop the imitation, the counterfeit feelings and ways of being, and venture out 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
tendency to overdramatize, to be willful and to counterfeit feelings, should abstain from these exercises because they 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
 
 Counterforce................3
spell until consciousness steps in with its deliberate counterforce. Even if what is created is painful, the 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION
At best, it will battle against the unconscious counterforce, vacillating between the two states of fulfillment and 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION)
grabbing, anxious, and ruthless. Instead of changing the counterforce that eliminates full commitment, you will use the 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
 
 Countermeasure..............3
them creates a basic problem. The most significant countermeasure to which people resort in the false belief 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
universal pseudo-protection. They never realize that this very countermeasure not only does not avoid, but rather brings 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
religion. Anything false always brings an equally false countermeasure. So, find in what subtle, deeply hidden recesses 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
 
 Countermovement.............9
often mentioned, my friends, that there is a countermovement in you. One movement embraces life and longs 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
life and longs for the divine. But the countermovement denies all that. It wants to remain in 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
and destructive for the self and others. This countermovement has its history in the creation of the 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
evil. There have been many names for this countermovement throughout history. Those names can become obstacles in 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
incredibly efficient way against the onslaught of the countermovement. You immunize yourself against the countermovement from within 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
of the countermovement. You immunize yourself against the countermovement from within your own lower self, and therefore 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
are the ones who perceive only the negative countermovement and are blind to the light itself. When 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
for the man and rejecting love. In the countermovement of the pendulum, man has left his positive 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
path. You all know that there is a countermovement in the human soul, and that is the 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN
 
 Counter-pull................7
to the divine evolutionary plan? It is the counter-pull in this struggle that creates layers which seem 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
is a fundamental fact of creation. But the counter-pull, with its fear, distrust, and other destructive feelings 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
create negative contact. All human beings experience some counter-pull, even relatively integrated, healthy individuals. But let us 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
individuals. But let us take the individuals whose counter-pull is relatively weak and whose predominant personality affirms 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
The cosmic pull always remains stronger than the counter-pull, since it is a primary force, while the 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
you are still pulled toward contact. But your counter-pull denies the primary force, so the negation combines 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
others; the pain arising from it expresses the counter-pull. To the degree you fear the cosmic pull 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
 
 Counter-reaction............4
our responsibility. We have free will. And a counter-reaction sets in. And then, man often turns to 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
both may exist simultaneously. One may be a counter-reaction to the other. You may first find the 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
have been particularly guilty of this distortion. A counter-reaction had to set in to reestablish the balance 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
set in to reestablish the balance. However, any counter-reaction will first go beyond the truth into the 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
 
 Countries...................15
who have lived at other times in other countries. This is also wrong. The truth is, my 19 JESUS CHRIST
an urge to get out, to see other countries and people and thus broaden their view. It 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
Asia and China, and in all the backward countries where people are so undeveloped, than in the 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: In the previous question the word backward countries was used, implying that we are forward. Does 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
earth sphere, is the same. There are groups, countries, nationalities, religions, sects, sections -- geographically and ideologically 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
squabble between mates or as a conflict between countries at war. It exists in all difficulties humanity 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
character, self-value, and so on. Look at warring countries that cannot come to a peace agreement. Each 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
that a new order can be established. When countries go through such crises, changes are often brought 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
also outer bankruptcy, both in individuals and in countries. The shambles can be collected and the structure 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
practical levels. Giving and receiving can exist when countries share their resources, rather than hoarding them and 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
of friendship, and finally to the relationship between countries. Keeping your negative aspects secret makes it impossible 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
look at your world, at the interaction between countries, you will see what an enormous role secrecy 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
enormous role secrecy plays in the interrelationship between countries. Such relations are more marked by secretiveness, pretense 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
even considered viable among the governments of different countries. It is universally taken for granted that opaqueness 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
To make peace possible, whether between individuals or countries, there has to be a yielding. Yet we 254 SURRENDER
 
 Country.....................39
given on the subject of past lives. The country is rarely important, but other circumstances are important 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
be different; you may live in a different country, you may have a different life pattern, yet 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
the spirit world are still tied to their country and their names? ANSWER: The same answer would 18 FREE WILL
a person who may be attached to his country come back to the same country? ANSWER: As 18 FREE WILL
to his country come back to the same country? ANSWER: As a spirit, you mean, or in 18 FREE WILL
through this love overcome his attachment to his country. But if his love for his country is 18 FREE WILL
his country. But if his love for his country is strongest, this will determine his fate. There 18 FREE WILL
a spirit finds himself back in his old country, it will again depend on his attitude as 18 FREE WILL
fulfill in connection with a people or a country. But if a spirit is so attached that 18 FREE WILL
a spirit will be reincarnated in the same country. This may occasionally happen if there are some 18 FREE WILL
a person live somewhere else, perhaps in the country he hated most in his last life. The 18 FREE WILL
harmony as you might travel into a beautiful country. In the world of spirit the country is 21 THE FALL
beautiful country. In the world of spirit the country is both you and your product. Therefore, the 21 THE FALL
necessary, then people have to fight for their country. Even if all people refused to fight, evil 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
man goes to war simply to defend his country, this will not count against him. What counts 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
an incarnation has taken place in a certain country, does that mean where a person was born 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
where your roots are; it would be the country you consider your home, where you have made 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
fluidal body. And according to these problems, parents, country, and life-circumstances are chosen, so that you can 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO
nationality. There are some people born into a country where there is perhaps a strong trend of 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
nationalism and exaggerated patriotism. They remain in this country, and it never occurs to them that their 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
outlook is prejudiced. Others, born into the same country, feel an urge to get out, to see 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
these upheavals, people would not go from one country to another and broaden their views. This destroys 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
friends and acquaintances or the town or the country, makes no difference. One's universe is always as 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
has a symptom or a sickness in one country and loses it in another country? ANSWER: This 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
in one country and loses it in another country? ANSWER: This offers a much stronger indication that 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
may have various reasons. For instance, in one country certain psychological conditions may prevail for the person 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
person which do not exist in the other country. Naturally, the conflict is not in the country 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
country. Naturally, the conflict is not in the country or the outer environments, but these outer environments 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
very well go to a place in this country where climatic conditions of a similar nature exist 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
you. Blessed is this hour. People in this country have just celebrated the day of Thanksgiving. At 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS
plan and the plan determines the parents, the country and circumstances into which the spirit is born 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures)
immediate result of yourself, including your body, your country, as well as every other factor in your 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
unnoticed. One human being blames the other, one country blames the other, one group blames the other 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
the same time as your Center in the country is being established. There it will best take 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
space. As your earth train moves through one country toward another -- toward an environment that is 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
deserving of the privileged position of leading a country, a society, a civilization, a group of individuals 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
will not be partisan, not only within the country, but even concerning outer forms of government. The 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
as to the inner personal ones. Whenever a country goes through severe crisis -- riots, revolution, war 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
is based on truth, justice, and fairness. No country will then deny the other its resources; mutual 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT

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