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First become aware of the forcing current, the current of I want on the one hand, and 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
Once you are clearly aware of how this current manifests in you, you will be able to 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
aware and then let go of the forcing current, I want. This work is a path within 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
you have the distinct awareness and feel the current, visualizing it as a foreign substance, you are 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
there any questions? QUESTION: I feel this forcing current in me. I know that I want certain 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
them. How can I give up the forcing current? In what way do I work? ANSWER: The 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
let go of the weapon of your forcing current. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that in this 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
and even feel, that you have the forcing current in you. You have to find the exact 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
with the same person. One day your forcing current manifests in one way, the next day in 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
the moment to identify it as the forcing current. Only afterward will you see what it was 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
abyss of unhappiness by holding on to this current. But again, this general answer is not sufficient 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
here. Unconsciously, you may think of your forcing current in different terms, so that emotionally my words 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
it fluctuates and changes, at one time one current is stronger, at another time the other. Still 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and yield where they should assert this healthy current. Yet where they should not, they often use 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
-- and therefore life as such. Take the current example of the universal psychological process we so 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
craving, you will understand that this hitherto unconscious current causes the door to close in the other 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
motion, with all the impact of the forcing current, and you will fully understand the inevitable response 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
toward the recognition and awareness of the basic current of your longing for pleasure supreme, as well 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
does not eliminate the existence of the underlying current, which determines the result. But when you are 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
proving something. We have often discussed this proving current. Some of you have detected its existence. Some 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
that way. You exaggerate the importance of your current situation. You are permeated with a momentary lack 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
are only giving up an illusion, a forcing current, a false need. Ultimately you have to recognize 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
like to give an overall understanding of your current work. I will use an approach that is 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
you to experience it. Take any of your current problems and look at it from the point 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
within, if one recognizes the falsity of one current and then the second current kicks in, where 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
falsity of one current and then the second current kicks in, where does the discipline come in 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
the direction of further understanding of why this current exists. The outer answer may be quite obvious 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
little to do with the outer one. This current may be some sort of pseudo-protection. It may 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
With this comes the urgency of the forcing current. Another reason may be the need to convince 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
forgotten and thus cannot be linked with the current material, so much understanding is lost. How can 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION
fear, and a forceful will -- the forcing current -- play a role in establishing this pattern 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
your life problems, and so on. The forcing current comes from your strong repressed needs, all the 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
path brings you closer to a powerful eternal current in the universe. You may call it the 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
happiness of being a part of this eternal current. Humanity is separated from this current by obstructions 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
this eternal current. Humanity is separated from this current by obstructions in the psyche, such as selfishness 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to enter the great flow of the eternal current. The ultimate reason for living is to make 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
life meaningful, but without being merged into this current this cannot happen. Many people feel that life 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
to their environmental conditions. For example, an electric current will manifest differently in a wet environment than 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS
no better way to pray than using your current resistances and stumbling blocks in a most specific 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
be one without the other. Both are one current of inflicting pain. The so-called sadistic person inflicts 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
force will stop the sadistic and the masochistic current. So these two forces are really one and 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
hurt someone else. This is so because this current derives out of blindness, and it must make 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
and it must make you blind. Since this current derives from a lack of understanding it will 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
it is absolutely true that there is this current of cruelty, and no matter toward whom it 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
desired way and without guilt, without any forcing current, and fully accept yourself as you are, recognizing 101 THE DEFENSE
some of it. Where there is a forcing current and a driving need, there is lust. You 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
the other person is capable of meeting, your current makes that other person withdraw in fear. When 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
fluctuate between forcing on someone an overpowering love current that cannot be received, and feeling resentful and 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
in the eternal now; of flowing in a current of love with all beings; of understanding and 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
your self-pity. Thus you subtly exert a forcing current upon the world. Furthermore, depression is unhealthy because 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
you. You would feel the actual stream, the current of love that flows to each and every 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
untruth brings you much nearer to the love current coming to you from without and to the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
to you from without and to the love current within yourself. Within each individual there exists a 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
your natural feelings, thereby cutting off the love current from within. Conversely, you believe that if you 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
know. Strive to detect that fine and subtle current, often at first quite covered up, in which 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
as it were. Once you come across this current and become more aware of it, you can 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
may immediately diminish when they sense a love current coming from you. For their demands are often 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
and threat. Their remedy is a strong forcing current. Needless to say, this remedy is unproductive, even 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
this remedy is unproductive, even destructive. The forcing current prohibits a free giving of love. In its 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
with one another. The demands and the forcing current frighten away the other person, even if the 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
or lack of it. The subsequent powerful forcing current, employed to dispel the dreaded worthlessness, becomes then 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
position. Out of the overactivity of the forcing current, the wild struggling, a serenity is generated which 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
barrier is understood. Again a warm stream and current of love is reaching toward each one of 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING
is a pure wish. It is an active current of energy. Fear denotes selfishness. Wishes are energy 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
by a contrary feeling which makes the energy current weak. But if the energy current goes in 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
the energy current weak. But if the energy current goes in one direction, or predominantly in one 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT
obstruct. QUESTION: I read a story in a current magazine about miracles. This story said that a 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
relationship to both your parents into all your current life-situations. Once you perceive this in all its 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
sunlight of awareness remain thwarted and, in their current form, are actually destructive. They could grow into 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
gained. The life force is a free-flowing energy current, manifest in the entire universe. Wherever an organization 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
recognitions, does not dissolve. Let us take another current problem: self-assertion. Suppose a man feels guilty about 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
do not concisely acknowledge this fact, the energy current shifts into another outlet. Not being aware of 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
in love and, subsequently, displace that particular energy current into the channel of vocational success, the slightest 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
if some of you -- due to your current problems and your involvements which make you temporarily 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
wishful thinking and persisting in applying a forcing current because you do not wish to give up 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
-- again professed and actual; one's reactions to current life circumstances -- all this has to be 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
this fantasy life, there must be an opposing current of fear in you that prevents the experience 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
Hence the created being emanates one unified cosmic current. Again, this applies to a stellar system, an 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
help but breed love and unity. The no- current is destructiveness because it inadvertently deviates from truthfulness 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
work, thus inhibiting each other. Consciously the yes- current is stronger and blots out the unconscious no-current 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
not attain is proof that an undetected no- current is at work. It is not sufficient to 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
a reason for the existence of the no- current which functions exclusively when it comes to reality 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
some of its substance. This causes the no- current to appear strongly on the surface, less and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
It is not a question of whose no- current is stronger and whose is weaker. The determining 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
which must be clearly understood. A stronger no- current is constantly weakened by your awareness and is 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
be observed continuously. Only then will the no- current slowly weaken. Each observation may bring deeper and 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
in this light, understanding will eliminate an inner current of anxiety, which in turn would be picked 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
harmonious. All those adapting themselves to the yes- current must be in equally smooth harmony, must reach 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
step toward bringing the personality into the yes- current. Change, such as transformation of character structure, as 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
to the upward life-giving stream, to the yes- current. My dearest friends, you are all blessed. May 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
and real similarities between the original and the current conditions? How are these related in your psyche 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
have a personal bearing on your problems, your current attitudes or blocks? The most immediate freedom you 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
remove fence after fence, you will emanate a current of trust which will have its positive effect 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
As a result of the struggle, a no- current works against your conscious wishes. It is essential 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
unimaginable for human nature to comprehend the free-flowing current of the love force, and what the ability 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
and thus no blockage of the free-flowing energy current or the vast possibilities for creation and expansion 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF
of the conscious desire for acceptance, the pleasure current will only be activated in conjunction with rejection 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
find your specific inner marriage between the pleasure current and a negative condition. As you find this 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
to a situation that combines the inherent pleasure current with the painful event. QUESTION: And the child 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
my dearest friends. There is a great, warm current of strength and love gathered here. This blessing 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL
on your personal life or are beyond your current comprehension. It goes without saying that people, in 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
It goes without saying that people, in their current state of development, cannot possibly know everything. But 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
how you embrace error and opposition, a no- current, out of fear and ignorance. It can show 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
new way. 148. POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT Greetings, my dearest friends. May the blessings of 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
or it can turn into a destructive, negating current. In order to understand this process in a 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
this natural flow is interfered with, the energy current seeking expression is blocked and prohibited from flowing 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
create a severe blockage, freezing the floating energy current and petrifying it into a hardened psychic mass 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
desire to punish or to use the forcing current that says, If I am sufficiently unhappy, that 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
detection of the original nature of the life current. This is precisely why negativity seems so difficult 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
must be changed, so that the identical life current can reconvert itself, negativity can be left behind 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
from out of nowhere, but that the same current will manifest differently, then what seems hard will 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
be in a position to allow the destructive current to unfold, express itself, and reconvert itself. The 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
must be a distinct realization. Since the pleasure current in the life force primarily manifests itself in 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
parallel between the outer problem and the pleasure current in your sexuality, you will be able to 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
must have such a nucleus, where the original current has been blocked and is therefore distorted, and 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
to this endeavor and stops the outgoing energy current. The current then becomes either negative or numbed 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
endeavor and stops the outgoing energy current. The current then becomes either negative or numbed. This means 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
the brakes on one's most constructive outgoing power current. When you are ignorant of the fact that 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
reason: the pleasure supreme of the cosmic energy current must seem unbearable, frightening, overwhelming, and almost annihilating 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
separate forces, not one and the same energy current. QUESTION: It seems to me that when I 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT
manifestations of the life principle, of the pleasure current, as though they were proof of its badness 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION
moving you. Self-realization and unification with the power current of the cosmic stream means to go out 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
of its unique personal existence. This is the current condition of human beings. You live under the 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER
rage is not a new emotion or energy current. It consists of the same original substance as 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
destructive emotion to reconvert to its original pleasure current. As I said, not only are the destructive 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING
take place when the destiny of the pleasure current is willfully and artificially stopped. Pleasure comes about 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION
anxious, and pressing mind force -- a forcing current directed to your own unconscious. The forcing results--sometimes 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
always, blessings stream forth. A blessing is a current which is a power, to be received by 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
your own soul system and with your soul current, the more you will sense that it is 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
we discussed before in different connections. The Yes current represents the affirmative principle, the principle that expands 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
is open and receptive to life. The No current represents the negating principle. It pulls back, retracts 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
This lecture is an attempt to continue the current sequence for my friends who are actively engaged 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
or later on the path, discover that your current problematic reactions reveal the original trauma. You then 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
them, we are blind to the causes of current hardship. But we do possess the total freedom 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
exercises than on your underlying attitudes -- your current attitudes, not those that would exist in a 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
the consciousness that nourishes and directs the energy current in question. Hence, if the underlying concepts and 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
therefore positive, the self-perpetuating momentum of the energy current will increase ad infinitum the expressions and attitudes 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
therefore negative, the self-perpetuating momentum of the energy current will compound, though not ad infinitum. For example 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
every one of these traits is an energy current, originally good and beautiful and life-affirming. By searching 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
the power manifests is undesirable, but the energy current behind this manifestation is desirable in itself, for 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
of self, and is thus a destructive energy current. Death will become superfluous, will be overcome, when 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
only a distortion of a divine creative power current. Such distortion and lack of awareness cause you 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
assumptions that create the split in your will current. It is easy to see that unification will 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
some accompanying words or without, a very strong current of energy, of a force of light that 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES
this latter instance, people may often use a current event or difficulty to explain away their inner 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
between those feelings, your inner knowledge, and your current action patterns. The paralysis that is often deemed 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS
small, controlling mind. When you substitute a forcing current -- I must not experience that and I 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
a duality. Your fear creates both a Yes current and a No current, and that split current 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
creates both a Yes current and a No current, and that split current is the entire basis 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
current and a No current, and that split current is the entire basis of the painful state 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
subtly forced hopelessness that results from a forcing current. The forcing current is a manipulative process that 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
that results from a forcing current. The forcing current is a manipulative process that expresses into life 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
the disunified, fearful being, who issues a forcing current into the world saying, I must not feel 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
and go to its very end, its energy current transforms itself into its original life flow. Thus 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
produced it and that it exists within you. Current psychology often says that a child is incapable 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
itself back into its original, flowing, life-bringing energy current. Hard pain is a result of fighting against 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
limitations of will and let go the forcing current of your over-active will. Such redirection of will 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
also causes you to create a tight will current to ward off what you believe to be 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
dark aspects of the self. It is a current illusion and wishful thinking to assume that this 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
twisted, bitter pain that stems from a forcing current that says, in effect, Don't do this to 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
intentionality. When residual pain has been worked off, current pain should it come your way, is experienced 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT
When resistance stops the movement of the energy current, its movement slows and its form condenses, clogging 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL
spirit of one-upmanship. Whether or not in your current incarnation your development happens to be ahead or 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
cannot bear happiness and pleasure -- if the current is too strong and disquieting -- you can 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
opposite feelings are one and the same energy current, appearing in different frequencies and degrees of condensation 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
the self and denies its intrinsic divinity. The current trend, as a result of the pendulum having 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
just talking about general concepts, but about your current situations. What happens is you adopt certain opinions 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
a must, or whether it contains the forcing current can be easily ascertained in yourself, and even 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
as it is when a strong, pushy, forcing current exists, but it is still there, hidden behind 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
flow smoothly or is it a tight, pushy current? If the latter, what does that mean? What 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
attempts on your part, investigate how tight this current is. The very tightness may hide an important 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
fulfillment can come, or the tightness of the current may reflect your lack of trust in the 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
put into both desires, which influences the soul current. Approach the current of these desires, feel it 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
desires, which influences the soul current. Approach the current of these desires, feel it. As you feel 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
feel it. As you feel the tight, strenuous current of the need to blame, experience and observe 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
facets become magnetized and energized by the sexual current, thereby determining its direction. When this direction is 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
natural transformation in the direction of the sexual current will organically take place. You who have been 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
drive in whatever way it now manifests. The current predominance of stagnation, low vitality, and frequent sexual 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
is so badly that you create a forcing current which prohibits fulfillment because its tension and its 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE
that they must let go of their forcing current seems to imply resignation to emptiness, suffering, pain 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
that the inner pressure of the subtle forcing current which says, You must love me, creates exactly 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
you feel is so often traceable to the current which says, I want it desperately. However, the 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
humanity's conflict is between either using a forcing current, or resignedly accepting a negative state, becoming hopeless 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
partially put into the service of the forcing current, then for a long time you may get 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
acted out. Not letting go implies a forcing current; forcing, no matter how concealed, amounts to stealing 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
earlier: augmentation. One might suppose that an energy current will, after a while, exhaust itself. In the 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS
often believe are free actions, determined by the current situations, are not at all freely chosen, but 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW
may coexist with this. As its underlying energy current, abstract thought contains a feeling of immense peace 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS
growth process free to evolve. Rejection of the current state and anger about it are obstructions that 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
have reached their first foothold in that cosmic current, which constantly expands, will know that the group 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
than what the ordinary politician has now. Your current politicians come from the old-age school system and 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION
consequences. Then perhaps you can feel the energy current in each word you speak silently or aloud 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
is as though you are carried by that current, and indeed you are. But you are no 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
you are no longer consciously connected with the current. You do not know that you created the 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
You do not know that you created the current through the thoughts that create the words you 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD
The subdivisions in the life pulse of your current manifestation are manifold. Every level of your consciousness 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION
one, without many of the drawbacks of your current abode. You are in the impossible position of 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
was a mistake. You may see the inner current that led you to the act, you may 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
be it in its best sense. In the current turmoil about Jesus Christ, those who are burdened 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
awakening and growing consciousness cannot be halted. The current is in flux. The great waters of truth 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS
yet not use misapplied faith to justify the current tendency of your world to function on deficit 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
vision to the future. You will view the current attitude toward this institution with the larger picture 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
itself from which everything is made. This powerful current can express itself in many ways, not just 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
soul. The unpurified soul cannot stand this power current. To the degree unpurified soul substance festers in 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
soul substance festers in the personality, the power current has to be denied, suppressed, and split. Sexuality 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
respect is just such a split-off, denied power current. Human beings who believe that pornographic or promiscuous 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
respected. Sometimes the unconscious fear of the power current is so strong that the split is total 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
the woman, the denial of the unified power current often manifested in total denial of the sexual 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
carry the force of the fully unified power current, whose strength can be borne only by someone 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
marital duty. Both are afraid of the love-sex current that is unified through the power of eros 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
results of this fear of the unified love-sex current. Self-purification was practically nonexistent for the average person 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
But there again, the full power of the current was diminished by the edict of celibacy. True 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
is simply the release of a spiritual power current in which God is experienced as a living 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
self-purification. Their union will release this inner power current so that they will experience God in themselves 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
of love and sexuality, of the greatest power current, which is in itself an expression of the 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
appropriate attitude toward fear of the full power current is acceptance; gentle training is needed so that 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
if it were morally desirable. Whenever one soul current is put secretly into the service of another 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
pleasure. Quite the contrary is true. The power current evoked through a fusion between love, respect, passion 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
been so much rebellion have feared this combined current more than anyone. These authorities are not that 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
of revealing your fear of the strong spiritual current, of the forces released by the unification of 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
and God in yourself. No wonder the power current is too strong to bear unless your personalities 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
finally, changes in perceiving reality. A simple and current example, on a very practical level, is precisely 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
much more than the life plan of the current incarnation. There is an overall plan that shows 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
when sufficient groundwork has been done, when your current life plan has been fulfilled. You need to 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
has bearing on your present struggle, on your current task. The process of birth is, as I 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE

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