| energies. Sometimes -- but not always -- physical death is such a phenomenon. Physical death can also | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| -- physical death is such a phenomenon. Physical death can also be a harmonious, organic and creative | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| to the process of connection to birth and death from the human standpoint. Let us first take | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| standpoint. Let us first take the process of death. Birth will be better understood as a sequel | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| will be better understood as a sequel to death, rather than the way you on earth choose | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Since humanity sees birth as the beginning and death as the end, starting with death may seem | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| beginning and death as the end, starting with death may seem senseless from this disconnected view. But | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| if you see it as a sequel to death -- or, rather, to the manner in which | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| -- or, rather, to the manner in which death occurred. I am not referring here to the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| life, which is reflected in the manner of death. The dying process can take many different forms | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| fulfill the task planned in their contracts. The death of the physical matter is equally meaningful. It | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| liberation and unfoldment. It is not traumatic. When death comes it is not feared, nor is it | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| make life glorious, and so you will experience death as glorious. That state of consciousness will make | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| my friends, that task fulfillment, organic life and death, connectedness and inner peace are not necessarily a | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| self is not yet working. What happens when death comes, if the outer and the inner self | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| by starting over again. In such instances, the death does not manifest as organic, but it is | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in the larger context. When I say that death does not manifest as organic, I mean that | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| this category. Nothing can be generalized. But when death occurs in contraction and fear, it is an | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| arbitrary. The outer consciousness will then struggle against death without realizing that its greater total consciousness has | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the next scene. In these cases a life-or- death struggle is literally taking place inside. On one | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| case in which the inner being decides for death and the outer personality resists it. In this | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| future embodiments is determined by the life and death process outlined in this lecture. Time, place and | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| total plan. To the degree the life and death process fulfilled the contract from the total entity's | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| your most basic fears is the fear of death. The fear of death has its origin in | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| is the fear of death. The fear of death has its origin in the confusion of dualistic | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| itself leads to further confusion. The fear of death can be allayed by not thinking about it | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| level of your conscious or unconscious fear of death. Life cannot be non-life, for it is the | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| about life, there can only be life. Therefore death must be an illusion. On the level of | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| them, in one form or another. Fear of death is connected with one of the most important | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| particular duality again and again. The fear of death, the fear of non-life, has a great deal | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| in two apparently opposite ways. If fear of death lurks in your heart, consciously or unconsciously, self-forgiveness | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| threat into focus. It triggers it. Fear of death creates also a fear of movement. And that | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| connection between self-hate, fear of punishment, fear of death and the disintegration of the cell structure that | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| experience the self-hate and fear of dying, of death, of non-life, then you live in a very | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of development this break occurs, for example, with death. But death is only a break. Consciousness and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| this break occurs, for example, with death. But death is only a break. Consciousness and energy are | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| if hindered, result in atrophy and finally in death. Let us suppose you put a human organism | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| it is indeed responsible for the creation of death. For you experience life according to your conviction | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| effect. In other words, you continue to see death as an unknown phenomenon, an inevitable fact, and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| fact, and you conclude that your fear of death stems from this unknown state. In reality, your | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| this unknown state. In reality, your fear of death is the effect of your belief that change | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and faith will the manifestations of time and death change. It always requires courage, the taking of | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| life in which there is no fear of death. How would you live? If you are a | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| developed, conscious, and God-expressing individual, no fear of death would mean unending joy, a fearless existence in | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| universal life, then absence of the fear of death would perhaps make you even lazier and less | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| I am not saying that the fear of death is given to manipulate you into further initiative | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| I say to you that the fear of death that you have created through your fear of | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| Therefore, what is behind the curtain of so-called death need not be feared, even if it is | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| the unknown future. As you cease fearing future death, this new attitude becomes more known in your | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| your physical existence. And thus your fear of death is eliminated as you realize your God-nature, and | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| movement, I say: you already begin to overcome death. It is not only that the fearsome unknown | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| cannot even imagine. You also begin to overcome death in a more direct sense. And about this | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| crisis is in principle no different from physical death and rebirth. They, too, are often crises for | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| is feared, then life is feared, and naturally death is feared as well. Death is only one | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| feared, and naturally death is feared as well. Death is only one aspect of life. It must | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| who completely accepts and embraces life cannot fear death, and vice versa. They are one and the | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| and the same attitude must prevail about life, death, change, movement. QUESTION: Concerning my recent crisis, I | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| thinking process translates this awareness into fear of death, just as the message of the higher self | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| personality as fear of imperfection. The fear of death says, on the deepest level: I want to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| temporarily in the dualistic 'airpocket' of life versus death -- an either/or. In that experience, in that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| giving up one for the other. Fear of death also implies lack of faith in the ever-ongoing | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| immortality in order to avoid the fear of death. Adopting spiritual truths in order to deny feeling | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| in order to deny feeling your fear of death is a neurotic manifestation. The personality fears to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| role here. If you hide your fear of death, your lack of faith, and disconnect your awareness | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| not perfect, what is life and what is death, what is power and what is weakness. When | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| perceive the dynamics. You often believe something is death, when it is really life, and life when | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| really life, and life when it is really death. For example, when you deaden your faculty to | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| terror -- or your imagined worthlessness -- is death, that it will annihilate you. When you muster | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| In fact, those very feelings you feared as death itself contain much of the life energy and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| follows the celebration of what you experience as death. It is an endless chain, a continuum of | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| birth always gives rise to new joy. And death is nothing else but another form of birth | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| your religious history by Easter, where resurrection follows death. At one time in your history, birth had | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| particular kinds of fear may arise: fear of death, fear of illness, fear of losing what is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| of missing out will create a fear of death. This is a very familiar fear. However, no | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and fully according to his potentials will fear death. A common misconception contributes to the resistance to | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| that you thereby halt time and prevent your death. Yet you would not fear death if you | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| prevent your death. Yet you would not fear death if you would move and live fully. So | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| creates on the conscious level the fear of death. The irrational meaning of the fear would read | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| no longer manifest to you, fear of untimely death, chaos, disruption, meaningless suffering. Again, not only my | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| health, for happiness, for abundance, for avoiding physical death as long as possible. Obviously, every one of | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| light and true knowledge will experience life after death accordingly, while the personality aspects that live in | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| this process, the illusion is perpetuated that physical death is an extinction of consciousness. The aspects that | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| those who tremble at the thought of physical death because they do not feel the reality of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| the importance of working through the fear of death and the longing for eternal life. As a | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| body, without a trace of fear of physical death. The personality fully realizes that on the more | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| exists, which is free from the threats of death, nonbeing, pain, injustice, insecurity, loneliness. The externalized life | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| in the body, in spite of impending physical death, becomes a joyous venture for a greater cause | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| a joyous venture for a greater cause. Physical death itself is increasingly seen as a transformation into | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| have not yet totally experienced the fear of death and the longing for eternal life, even if | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| and love, ignorance and wisdom, separateness and union, death and eternal life. One of the most important | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| has been lost is therefore a process of death, rather than of life. Carrying over a tradition | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| truth contained in the tradition in question, signifies death. Aliveness always means a dynamic thinking process, an | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| this in a spirit of life rather than death, in a spirit of faith rather than denial | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| and without. There is no birth and no death, yet the unchanging existence here is not the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| terms convey that there is a time after death when all is revealed. Human beings usually react | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| as opposed to suffering, life as opposed to death, health as opposed to illness? You would hardly | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| state of unity in which there is no death and no pain. The way to go about | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| reactions to pain and pleasure, to life and death. These reactions contain a great deal of material | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| other feelings and attitudes. In your fear of death and of pain, and in your movement to | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| How can you reasonably resent the existence of death? How can you be angry about it? How | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| anger, bitterness or rage at life for imposing death and pain on you, for putting you in | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| which you want life not because you fear death, but because you know that there is no | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| but because you know that there is no death. You know that leaving the body brings a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| common human experience such as pain, suffering and death, or against one's own feelings of rage and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| People in this state do not rush into death and pain, but feel an inner peace because | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| fears and desires in connection with life and death, pleasure and pain. As these observations become more | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| of fear. Life is feared as much as death, pleasure as much as pain, success as much | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| affirmation of all opposites -- of life and death, pleasure and pain, light and darkness. When you | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| there is no longer any pain, strain, or death, be it ever so temporary. There is no | 254 SURRENDER |
| from our vantage point. There can never be death, there can only be a withdrawal of life | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| accelerate the process. When you perceive life and death as a pulsating breath, when you experience the | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| hold of your being, you must experience life, death, and all happenings in a very different way | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| existential anger, rage and fear about life and death that we discussed in another recent lecture. But | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| being reborn. For many human beings fear of death makes dying traumatic. The threat of extinction prevents | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| actual abstraction is the outer space. In physical death, the spirit, that which is alive, withdraws into | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| when fear, doubt, distrust -- and therefore suffering, death and all evil -- are overcome. Focused emptiness | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| reflect error and therefore suffering, the wheel of death and rebirth which carries with it fears due | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| incentive are also lacking. Through the life and death of Jesus a new modality was created within | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |