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| as such, without having to alternate them, each creating harmoniously in its own mode and function, so | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| unhappiness. They know that they are capable of creating a happy life, first within themselves but then | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| between giving in to the lower self and creating a mask self. As I have explained it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| nature and real self, thus fooling yourself and creating an inner lie. In other words, you do | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| aspect. In this tragedy God was enacting and creating new conditions whereby the return to Him would | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| typically a male aspect. It is again the creating, the doing, that are manifested. And the two | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| lower self. This does not exclude their simultaneously creating harmonious and beautiful forms to the degree that | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| these thoughts of fantasy for the purpose of creating, of fulfilling, of giving something to other people | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| will express themselves perhaps in dancing, or in creating certain worlds or parts of worlds, spheres, or | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| created evil. There is a great difference between creating evil, or giving free will and power to | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| not believe that emotions and thoughts are forms, creating emotional magnetic fields that draw events, people, and | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| other, instead of helping it along and thereby creating one harmonious whole. Is there a question on | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| your unconscious mind an emotional reaction that is creating conflicts in your soul and in your life | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| forcing me into the position of hating and creating this entire circle. The admiration and respect from | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| worse and worse as life goes on, always creating more problems and conflicts. Only when you desire | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| but I might add that all other conditions creating insanity are, to some degree at least, connected | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the individual soul may be much stronger, thereby creating a more powerful image. In most cases, both | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| current of life, do as you please in creating your own life. This will give you confidence | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| these illogical conclusions is the first step toward creating order in your inner universe, your soul. In | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with your illusion, disappointing you, and in turn creating unconscious hostility in you. Hostility is bound to | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| much less than life would actually grant you, creating the preposterous situation that the means employed to | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| would seem that people are not capable of creating an image of God, because it would be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| less egocentric but by becoming more so and creating regulations supposed to safeguard your egocentricity. Thus you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| hand, the distortion of the instinct of self-preservation, creating the restrictive, holding back, inverted motion, will prevent | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| helplessness links the God-image and the idealized self-image, creating the fundamental problem with its pseudo-solutions. The pseudo-solutions | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| relinquish indicates maturity. Repression, on the other hand, creating blind needs and their blind pursuit, makes it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it to come from the outside without your creating it by learning and experiencing in a productive | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| inflict on yourself and on those around you, creating disharmony and separation, are impossible to describe fully | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not misuse the tools of intellect and will, creating more obstructions. If only you could attribute lesser | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| yourself. This very attitude is the prerequisite to creating the resiliency needed to face yourself in utter | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| And the same self-centeredness is therefore responsible for creating false, unreal good feelings. This is another angle | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| conditions. We found that they were responsible for creating psychic conditions damaging to your self-unfoldment. Hurts and | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your real needs without imagining dire consequences and creating false guilt. You now understand that your previously | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hold onto it in pride and self-will, thereby creating ever stronger waves of fear. In order to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| currents pull the personality in two opposite directions, creating stronger and stronger tension and pressure. The way | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| needed on your path is the very no-current creating the problem you wish so much to resolve | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| This should be done as daily meditation work, creating a new mold in the soul substance -- | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| human form. Think of a tremendous power, continuously creating life in a purposeful way. Look around and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you want. All your energies are geared to creating the appearance that what you want exists in | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| commit yourself to, whether this means shaping and creating your life by committing yourself to the universal | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| cannot understand. If you ignore your part in creating your present predicament and deny that you continue | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| results come by themselves, effortlessly and harmoniously, never creating problems or conflict. The right action happens at | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| subsequently stating your desire to change it by creating a new positive attitude. No one is more | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| a waste. Only numbing the real feelings and creating false feelings, no matter how subtle they are | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| frightened of these alienating processes remove them by creating a vague theory. They wish to find a | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| The next obstruction to expanding your life and creating the best of all possible lives for yourself | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| way or another, you have created and are creating whatever is amiss. Don't you ever forget this | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| understood, it is quite impossible to partake of creating, to mold one's fate, to feel safe and | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| the beginning of a cycle of further errors, creating many chain reactions of destructive emotions and attitudes | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of shrinking from the feared pain and thereby creating harmful, life-defeating attitudes, you will learn to cope | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| be on the constructive road that leads to creating and unfolding rather than giving up, as is | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| create your life or your fate, rather than creating it unknowingly. Unconsciously creating, you go through certain | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| your fate, rather than creating it unknowingly. Unconsciously creating, you go through certain experiences which you ascribe | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| of frustration is an important example of error creating tension and negative emotions. What human being is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| it and, victims of their ignorance, are constantly creating destruction without ever knowing it. The human being | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| have unknowingly used your mental processes negatively, thereby creating destructively. Then you can formulate what you now | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| produce in your life. You do this by creating the thought forms, by stating that this is | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| spirit who created the world. You are constantly creating your own world right now: it is the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| first formulating your thoughts as the blueprints of creating. Then the world begins to open. The opening | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| thought, is. Life is endlessly filled with possibilities. Creating starts with thinking, then the thinking takes on | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| more experience, and more effects. The fascination of creating is endless. Since the possibilities are infinite, consciousness | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| how it is to feel and experience darkness. Creating is pure fascination. This fascination is not eliminated | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| of you should remember this. The momentum of creating contains incredibly powerful energies. These energies have impact | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| with its knowing, will, and determination can alter. Creating becomes so involving, and the pleasure of it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| what is created is painful, the pleasure of creating is difficult to abandon as long as the | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| that protects the entity from its own destructive creating. It holds the destructive urges in check. Only | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Conscious processes can swing the pendulum from destructive creating to the original state of consciousness, an expanding | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| the original state of consciousness, an expanding blissful creating. The confining structure will dissolve, and the ultimate | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| On the day when you see your destructive creating and then deliberately change it, you will indeed | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| good feelings. All these are examples of negative creating. Those of you who work very personally and | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to give it up. The pleasurable aspect of creating applies also to negative creating. It is absolutely | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| pleasurable aspect of creating applies also to negative creating. It is absolutely necessary that you feel this | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| that guiltless living can only exist when negative creating is given up. Even the sincere and serious | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| two: to be fully aware of your negative creating by destructive attitudes of your own choosing. There | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you begin to discover the same fascination with creating in a positive way as in the negative | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| earth life, before you became involved with negative creating, and to reexperience yourself as that eternal you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to consider and test the possibility of positive creating. You will then see that to create positively | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| and easy: it is an organic process. Negative creating and destructive attitudes are artificial and contrived, even | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| later on to further stages of being and creating. At first the inability is taken for granted | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| will. I have shown that living inevitably means creating. The person who ventures forth into life in | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| harmonize, but very often conflict with one another, creating friction and crisis. Yet beyond this level of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| life stuff imaginable. Its malleability, its responsiveness to creating mind, is as infinite as the universe itself | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| be in establishing unity within, and therefore in creating a wholly desired and desirable life experience which | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| being -- all levels of your being -- creating wholeness in you. In tonight's lecture I want | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| aim at discontinuing old ways of operating and creating new ones, the process of death and rebirth | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| it is the guilt that would be repressed, creating further splitting and duality. Let us now try | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| and enrichment of the manifesting consciousness take place, creating the preconditions for the evolutionary process of unifying | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| that will enrich and reorient your life toward creating more joy and pleasure. The moment self-identification takes | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by most human beings. Hence, your processes for creating and re-creating life are neglected. Making use of | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feelings down swell and become increasingly more powerful, creating crisis upon crisis. They can only be released | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| levels can affect the body by distorting it, creating all sorts of symptoms and, when neglected long | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| meditation into practice. Meditation is conscious and deliberate creating. It is one of the most dynamic and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| life. And that is meaningful meditation. Meditation is creating because you live in a highly potent creative | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| to make an effort. You will just emanate creating. You will live it, breathe it, be it | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| itself with pride. It maintains its separateness by creating an artificial conflict between the self and others | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| life. But when you are disconnected from the creating power in you, when you create unconsciously, you | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| awareness will motivate you to change your negative creating into a positive one. When you can truly | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| hidden feelings. This energy is absolutely essential for creating your life, for expanding your life and consciousness | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| why you must learn to accept the negatively creating aspects in you. Another reason is that no | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| from something, pursuing a policy of avoidance and creating the darkness of disorderliness. You can perhaps see | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| is momentarily difficult, valuing the peace that follows. Creating order always requires an investment of effort. The | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Often they fall into the further illusion that creating order requires energy they do not have. Nothing | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| its guidance and decipher its messages. Resistance to creating inner order is, as you know, always strong | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to follow. It is yet another step in creating the earthly place where such wonderful work, unfoldment | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| unfailing in its lawful process. But recreating or creating must never be a willful act. It must | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| is blocked. Stagnant energy becomes even more potent, creating a conflict that tears the soul apart. The | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| These are the obstructions that keep you from creating freely. Even now, you could create infinitely more | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| creative seeds are released. But meditative and other creating techniques must be a secondary preoccupation for the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| sow the seed in meditation -- which means creating it -- by a clear, definite thought in | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| example we have chosen this would manifest in creating a partnership in which those areas in the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| your obstructions. This is one aspect of the creating and re-creating process. It is a very important | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| web of interaction and wholeness. Part of the creating process is the patience to let things be | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| know that visualization is quite essential to the creating and recreating work you do in meditation. Unless | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| vision of this principle is also necessary for creating a visualization of your own movement which can | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| no longer need to reject them. Instead of creating loneliness, you can create relationships: the bliss of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and poverty. So the difficulty is in initially creating fullness. Seeking the opposite of what you fear | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| imposes itself over others -- stemming from and creating more fear -- the creative spark is squelched | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| constantly create. There is an enormous difference between creating a closed system by manipulation of others, of | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| events, of the creative energies around you, or creating an open energy system through trust. The key | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| your consciousness goes along with it rather than creating a contradictory force by setting up a countervailing | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| on areas that it has ignored and negated, creating the agonizing struggle in the first place. Another | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| builds up, and psychic nuclear points start exploding, creating more and more positive manifestations, energies and momentum | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| consciousness. Since consciousness is capable of inventing and creating, it can mold, shape, and form out of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you become more responsible and more capable of creating. You then approach the state in which you | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| with evil, for they have often been misused, creating further distortions. They were used to dominate, to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| life, giving them animation and energy, and thereby creating a state of fear, self-hate, distrust and hopelessness | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| attained the new consciousness, who are pioneers in creating a new civilization. You are also called upon | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| circles. Instead of inferiority feelings closing the heart, creating resentment, hate, and therefore frustration and blame of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| imbalance and disharmony within -- and thus against creating it externally. There is of course one key | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| another, loving one another, respecting one another and creating bliss and a new world for each other | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| undertaken without leaving the old body behind and creating a new incarnation. Thus, a laborious change and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| to life. The visions we have shared of creating a new culture will also spread into the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| the next year -- and that is the creating, recreating, and molding of life and soul substance | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| own momentum. It becomes involved in this momentum, creating and recreating its own patterns. Translated into human | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| are only the outcome of the underlying factors creating the word. The word is the energy explosion | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| it, you dictate into your soul a belief creating circumstances that prove it. You then forget that | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| the community you are in the process of creating. Feel the importance of this endeavor. We speak | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and of leadership! In this path we are creating new leaders in many fields, in many directions | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| then become resentful. You are quite efficient in creating cases that are supposed to substantiate and justify | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| forth again on its next cosmic pulse beat, creating new form, enlivening more matter, filling the void | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| more real. Perhaps you discover it first by creating a channel, as you call it. More and | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| then also become, directly or indirectly, influential in creating New Age politics. This will perhaps disseminate the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| the divine spirit surging forward into the void, creating matter and form and eventually animating these forms | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| is limited; hence come error, ignorance, and fear, creating, in turn, further evil attitudes. Light meeting darkness | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| you are involved in the noble process of creating a new society. You may have to deal | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| This then leads to naming the thing; to creating often false associations to the thing; and to | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| in the consciousness of many individual Jews, thereby creating a mass image. The defense against this mass | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| false images, we are now increasingly concerned with creating a new society. This includes dissolving whatever mass | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| but also within yourself, for the purpose of creating widened, more realistic understanding. Obviously this is a | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| distinct energy formation, sending out waves and rays, creating according to the nature of the thought. Open | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| you, as an individual, can be: first by creating truth and order within yourself and then, as | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| this world reflects the combination of both extremes creating this polarity, there must also exist other worlds | 254 SURRENDER |