| 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 |