| Defended....................12 | |
| more the live center is unrealistically and inadequately defended and blocked, denied and covered up, the more | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| being in which you are adequately and realistically defended, rather than self-destructively and unrealistically. The realistic and | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| know that on that day you have not defended against anything. But possibly you were fortunate on | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| have endured in your early life and have defended against so far. You who have learned to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| make room for the possibility of existent but defended feelings to emerge in a full emotional experience | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Some of you, who are still too tightly defended, will not let the force come in yet | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| hand, if you are very threatened by and defended against pain -- the pain of not having | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to make life dangerous, alien, something to be defended against. In this pattern you feel like a | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| personality. Where the personality is still resistant, blocked, defended, and has a stake in not knowing or | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| penetrate all that is. A system that is defended against common human experience such as pain, suffering | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| truly learn and grow. They are very stiff, defended and closed. Yet the ability to surrender is | 254 SURRENDER |
| authority to take over, are also the most defended against all yielding. They vaguely sense that the | 254 SURRENDER |
| Defending...................18 | |
| house and kill his wife and children without defending them. He must defend those he loves and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| case of war, it is a question of defending a nation and humanity. For humanity, war is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| In the first place, a man is not defending a part of geography but his immediate fellow-creatures | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| lawyer and your reputation were at stake. By defending badly, because in a corner of your being | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| with most of your mental faculties focused on defending yourself, which does not leave you sufficient room | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| reactivated if and when you learn to stop defending when there is no need to do so | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to defend yourself is an illusion and stop defending, the sense of liberation you experience is impossible | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| more destructive on this earth than people unnecessarily defending themselves. There is nothing that creates more disharmony | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| discriminating, and objectively looking at an issue without defending yourselves. May you no longer think and feel | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| to get disentangled from such predicaments: struggling and defending against false assumptions, nonexistent dangers. You have already | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to the inner truth. Let yourself vibrate without defending your soul substance, even though it may seem | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to placate and appease others. The ways of defending yourselves are psychologically so fundamental that you cannot | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| will harm you. The harm comes exclusively from defending yourself against experience, by closing yourself up. The | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| more. You can systematically lower the threshold of defending against your deep accumulated experiences which have become | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| negative in human nature is a result of defending against experiencing painful, undesirable feelings. This denial stagnates | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| energy of denied feelings. Fighting your feelings and defending against them creates a whole extra layer of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| are still too involved in the dualistic struggle, defending their illusory self-image. They are therefore blind to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the part of those who are as yet defending the aspect you see and who have no | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Defends.....................3 | |
| undesirable, painful life experience, against which the personality defends itself by closing up, by building a protective | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| You cannot let go if your innermost being defends against feeling your feelings, which you know exist | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| positive intentionality; and when the individual no longer defends against experiencing pain, a substantial step of the | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Defense.....................194 | |
| will, in their blindness and as their only defense, put an even tighter shell around themselves. This | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the image, certain faults seem necessary as a defense, a protective measure. This, of course, is unconscious | 38 IMAGES |
| you cannot help but realize how faulty your defense mechanism was when you built your image, if | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| my friends, and look at your own conclusions, defense mechanisms, and images from this angle: What did | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| to recognize the hidden significance of your erroneous defense mechanisms, no matter how much you may have | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| child discovered in its own surroundings. Second, the defense mechanism the child chooses with a limited understanding | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| his desires, keeping them, perhaps, as an imagined defense against the hurts of life, against the fact | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| or at least insecure. Their severity is a defense. If you rest secure in your value, you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you become an advocate in his or her defense. Take the case and try to see how | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| and be the advocate in his or her defense. Perhaps he or she will do the same | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| when you let down your inner walls of defense. What do you defend? Why do you have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the similar or corresponding mask self layer or defense mechanism of the other person. I will give | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that the failing is thought to be a defense against your uncertainties, your fears, your vulnerabilities. Only | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| go without effort. You will find that the defense mechanism, the pseudo- protective armor of this fault | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subject may, at times, be a healthy, unconscious defense mechanism. With a person who is always a | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| will clearly understand why you have them, what defense mechanism and rationalization has made you adopt them | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to serve you in actual danger for actual defense, to assert yourself when your integrity is at | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| its predominant pseudo-solution. You will also find other defense mechanisms. You will find the main components of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| Tower of Babel; the dismantling of your own defense mechanisms, which are so damaging to yourself and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| at the present time. Since this was your defense against unhappiness to begin with, it is understandable | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| necessary byproduct of your pseudo-solution, and with this defense mechanism at work the child in you hopes | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| all this seems to confirm your pseudo-solution, your defense mechanism, but this is a very misleading conclusion | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| holding on to a very damaging and useless defense mechanism. QUESTIONER: You know me very well. QUESTION | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| false, necessity. For you, they are a necessary defense. As long as these factors are not thoroughly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understood and you have not recognized that the defense is destructive and ineffective, that in fact it | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| can be dispensed with is understanding the inner defense and the need for it. The consequence will | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| mature acceptance of the results of this destructive defense until such time as the psyche is ready | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of real needs produces repression and, subsequently, a defense mechanism which is very destructive. Some of you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of it. You may ask, What does the defense mechanism have to do with this? The answer | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| more. Since this hurts, you will produce a defense against such hurts which will prevent the fulfillment | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| and fulfillment. You may then discover that your defense mechanism has come into being not only because | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| sabotage them; how you have done so; what defense mechanisms caused such sabotaging. Eventually you will find | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| your feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. The destructive defense mechanism, trying to do justice to two mutually | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| heightens the fear of giving up a precious defense. The impatience is caused to a large degree | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| lead to finally giving up the twisted, damaging defense mechanism. Do you understand? QUESTION: Yes, but it | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is burdened with unworkable wrong conclusions and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| negative. In the third phase we investigate the defense mechanism you have developed in order to obtain | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| idealized self image, form a part of your defense. But your defense is more than all of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| form a part of your defense. But your defense is more than all of this. The basic | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is more than all of this. The basic defense is a general inner climate that you yet | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| predicament results in further negative chain reactions. The defense mechanisms become stronger and stronger in every possible | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| he is unworthy of it, but because his defense against being hurt is to be arrogant, rejecting | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| process of image-formation, the needs, false claims, destructive defense mechanisms, together with all the traits of the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| acceptable cloak, but it contains as hardened a defense structure as the extreme opposite. The defense structure | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a defense structure as the extreme opposite. The defense structure is an invisible wall, unconsciously perceived by | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you. Only by repeatedly observing how your destructive defense feels in you, what it makes you do | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| completely aware of the hardened mass of your defense mechanism. Let us examine for a moment the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and shame of them. Your aggressiveness is a defense, not so much against outer hurts, but against | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in this conflict. You cannot give up the defense that keeps you chained to both tendencies. Or | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| difference you cannot know the effect of your defense. When you realize the effect you have on | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| effect you have on others due to a defense mechanism, you will be able to close the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| this point on my path I use my defense mechanism and am aware of it. I try | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| rather than recognition. You somehow know that the defense is destructive in general, and you obey this | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| But you have not yet seen why the defense is unnecessary and against your own interest. Once | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| difficult to prevent yourself from acting out your defense, because you will have no further need for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| persistent inner conviction that you still need the defense. Therefore, it now becomes imperative for you to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you fear would happen to you without this defense. What happens now is that because you no | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| safe point, was the hardened mass of your defense, which necessitates either of the two hard movements | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| question: What am I afraid of without the defense? Find the answer. From there on, you will | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| now coming to a head. Your protection and defense lies in retaining childhood and, as I said | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| some time ago that the result of the defense mechanism can be determined by the effect it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that correctly, but occasionally I find that my defense mechanism is perfect, and that the effect it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| I want. If I follow through with a defense to keep people from meddling in my affairs | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| do not seem to mind how the particular defense you are thinking of affects them, it has | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| all your potential that cannot unfold with the defense mechanism that you think works so well for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| others and how others affect you. When your defense comes up in one instance, and not in | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the difference between functioning with, or without the defense. This will reveal your inner life to you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| In the last lecture, with reference to the defense mechanism, you said that the basic defense is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the defense mechanism, you said that the basic defense is a general inner climate you can feel | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| reaction to the instances just mentioned, is your defense mechanism. Feeling it is a great step forward | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| idea. This, of course, is due to the defense mechanism that chooses a particular view as necessary | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| this path. Now, in your case, your very defense mechanism, as you know, is that of remaining | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the real me and which is a protective defense mechanism. By observing emotional exaggeration versus repression you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| that are superimposed by your pseudo- solutions and defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience these painful | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| It is then that the destructive images and defense mechanisms begin to form. In the past we | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| In the past we have examined the various defense mechanisms rather extensively. The images that you create | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| rather extensively. The images that you create are defense mechanisms. Through their wrong conclusions you seek a | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| from loving, and from living, it is a defense against being hurt. Only after considerable insight into | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| say, this is never accomplished with your destructive defense mechanisms and various images. Let me repeat here | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| unconscious. Due to this unawareness and to your defense mechanisms of various sorts, your ability to give | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| others is bound to strengthen their own destructive defense mechanisms, just as their destructive defenses fortify your | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Be in peace. Be in God! 101. THE DEFENSE Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless each one | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Blessed are your efforts. We have discussed your defense mechanisms repeatedly. We have worked on this subject | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| Or you will quickly judge and decide whether defense by counterattack or flight is the better way | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| poison which will not damage you if your defense mechanism works only in those rare instances. After | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| anything else. A similar procedure occurs when your defense mechanism functions in a neurotic, unreal situation. You | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| hostility for it. You begin to allow your defense mechanism, whatever your individual pseudo- solutions are, to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| be undesirable, but not necessarily dangerous. Yet a defense mechanism, by its very nature, is a process | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| people. Instead you isolate yourself with your busy defense against an unreal danger. Actual dangers in which | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| person whose inner system is constantly geared for defense against unreal dangers is often incapable of coping | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| is why we have to eliminate the unreal defense against an unreal danger. Such dangers are emotional | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| off the imaginary danger, you use all your defense mechanisms to preserve your status as a lovable | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| or distortion will bring forth acceptance, while a defense against exposure brings forth contempt, dislike, rejection, and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| issue of what is right or true. Your defense may often be a basic way of life | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| called upon will you choose a more direct defense. Then you either try to run away, or | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a great difference between doing this as a defense of one's own undesirable traits, or doing it | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| life and from other people. But whether the defense is outer aggressiveness or withdrawal and flight, both | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| annoyance is the proof of your defensiveness. Without defense, you would not be annoyed. How could you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| you if you look at it calmly. Your defense against it does the harm. The lie itself | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| rumor. This falls under the category of realistic defense, which can be adequately handled only to the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the less equipped he is to employ constructive defense or attack, and the more he will tend | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| able to cope with a danger through healthy defense. Often when the two defenses intermingle, the unhealthy | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| experiencing others and reaching out to them. The defense makes you withdraw from others and no longer | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| most of my friends, after perhaps overcoming a defense here and a resistance there, will penetrate deeper | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| not fear involvement. They have freed themselves from defense. Such people, in spite of occasional disappointments or | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| have discussed before that people often build a defense against being hurt. But now we go a | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| observe that hurt as such can be a defense. You artificially overproduce sensitivity in order to evade | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| that is no such thing, and an inner defense against it will be triggered off, or you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| not give in, that you set up a defense against them. Yet an inner alarm seems to | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| self-preservation. Putting it differently, the resistance is a defense against exposure, hurt, and vulnerability. It is of | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| say that the barricade serves as a supposed defense against the hurts of life. This is too | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| both of your parents, you elaborately build a defense against this hurt, trying later to correct it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| need not burden you for life, but your defense against it, which you continue to use, destroys | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your main problems and conflicts, the images, the defense mechanisms, pseudosolutions and wrong conclusions you have found | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| this path, your pseudo-solutions, your idealized self-image, your defense mechanisms have given you some measure of fulfillment | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| extent the pseudo- solutions, the idealized self-image, the defense mechanisms, but the original problem may not yet | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| does this instinct function in choosing the right defense at the right time. This again is not | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the real self. If necessary, such counterattack and defense will also be physical. QUESTION: Regarding expression of | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| is evil numbness? When you think of the defense mechanisms operating in the human psyche, the connection | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| you jealously defend this secret, and in this defense you alienate yourself more from the vital live | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| themselves against its soft openness. By these various defense mechanisms, the live center becomes more and more | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| -- out of fear, alienation, deliberate and false defense mechanisms -- then, as always, an overemotionalism occurs | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| force against which one needs to defend. This defense must exclude all attitudes of openness, inclusion, movement | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| aspect one fears and tries to avoid. The defense against a dreaded misconception must be as erroneous | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| others and dissolving the wall of separateness and defense. You will then find that not only do | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| being in a tense state of war and defense. This new attitude seems to require a great | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| how they function in your life. All the defense mechanisms you have discovered and perhaps even begun | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| you to put up all your most destructive defense mechanisms, which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness and | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| results in other sets of contradictory reactions, counter-reactions, defense measures, further false beliefs and their inevitable consequences | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| a host of untenable, painful, destructive beliefs and defense measures, each in itself causing complicated webs of | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| as a suffering one. Your negativity is a defense, my friends. It arises out of the tragic | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| indirect processes are at work. Some fear, some defense, some inner shrinking has taken place unconsciously. Your | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| on the other, into a rejection of and defense against life. In turn, you fight against the | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| emotional climate with an intense shrinking and numbing defense. This is a shock reaction. You will see | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| you are in a state of tight, anxious defense. You are in an insurmountable struggle. This is | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| this conflict within your self, without using the defense of annihilating guilt and self-blame, which of course | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| cling to it because you consider it a defense you have no intention of giving up. This | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| others which always involves the use of a defense that is more destructive than whatever they defend | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| beings are still in the state of fearful defense against living, even when there is no cause | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| than self-destructively and unrealistically. The realistic and adequate defense against the evil of others is the daily | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and feelings. In other words, evil is a defense against suffering. All defenses create more suffering as | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| choked off, or the sudden crashing through the defense causes injury to the psyche which can, and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| phenomenon. Thus, knowing can be as much a defense against feeling as not knowing and denying the | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| is simultaneously an effect as well as a defense. Movement stirs up what lies stagnant. By fully | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you; when the hardened armor plate of your defense against unpleasant feelings is loosened up and you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| therefore in a state of tight denial and defense. Let us now take the feeling of fear | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the mask self. The mask self is a defense against exposing who you really are now. Of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| that their skepticism is in itself an adopted defense. At this point the validity of this pathwork | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| present pain. A negative attitude functions as a defense against real feelings. Holding on to negative will | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| purification has been accomplished. Negative intentionality is a defense against experiencing pain. Misconceptions are a result of | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Evil produces pain, and the fear of and defense against pain produces more and worse pain, as | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| evil. You can experience the illusion of the defense the moment you fully open yourself to experience | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is a pain that is in itself a defense, as you all know -- an unbearable, twisted | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| is incompatible with the slow-moving energy of evil, defense, unexperienced pain. This is why now, in these | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| by judging and doubting. This is your greatest defense against who you really are and what you | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| accessible, it is necessary to deal with the defense in a most thorough way. The defense is | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| the defense in a most thorough way. The defense is always a negative intentionality in one form | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| positive intentionality. You will have removed an unnecessary defense or brittle wall, which keeps you from experiencing | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| discover particular images, to experience fully and without defense all the feelings involved in them, to take | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| may be perfectly aware of having a strong defense against feeling a specific pain; you know by | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| is inwardly struggling with giving up a similar defense. Their resistance says: You must not give it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| justifies the conviction that negativity is a necessary defense. Viewed from this narrow vantage point, the position | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| to come out of his or her negative defense system, and of the conviction that this defense | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| defense system, and of the conviction that this defense is necessary, unless one of those people with | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| and disentangle the knots. Negative intentionality is a defense. It stems from the innate belief that the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| tendency to use certain limited emotions as a defense against other emotions should deliberately abstain for a | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| practice with. Say, someone uses fear as a defense against spite, violence, malice, hate. All those feelings | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| are isolated in the self-created prison of your defense against pain and unpleasantness. You become numb and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| experience is a specific result of commensurate desires, defense mechanisms, destructive actions, negative behavior patterns, and so | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| you need to face squarely and honestly. The defense against your shortcomings is always correlated with a | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| sense, the flexing is associated with tightening and defense. In the pure state the tightening is a | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| in the sense of being without fear and defense. They express a state of deep knowing that | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| thought. Don't confuse them. Cut-off thought is a defense against feelings and undesirable aspects of the self | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a partial mask, each breaking through of a defense, each step of courage and honesty where you | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| there is nothing bad in itself except what defense and error create temporarily. QUESTION: What is the | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| the innermost soul. QUESTION: What is behind the defense and compulsion of telling jokes? ANSWER: Life in | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| than love, where you separate yourself in your defense rather than openly trust, where you look away | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| by contracting your energy into hard knots of defense. You had killed your aliveness with this artificial | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| in you. You often still stumble over the defense against recognizing the self-hate and feeling its pain | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| confusion, fear and vulnerability would create a new defense. The spiritual principles of the interaction of the | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| truth. Is this assertion of my value a defense or a real expression? Underneath my superiority and | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| something. It may be an attitude, or a defense, or a familiar behavior pattern, a way of | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| growth, of self-liberation, of purification, of self-esteem. The defense against admitting a possible wrong perpetuates the wrong | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| person only if you let truth stand above defense, when truth is more important than justifying yourself | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| painful to bear. To let go of the defense would entail giving up the victim and blame | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| feelings, and events. Untruth is always painful. The defense against wrong conclusions creates a negative action and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the original misconception, which seems to necessitate the defense, which creates negative reactions in others. And so | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| these are sinful. Therefore rebelling Christians create a defense that shuts out Christ in order to affirm | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| individual Jews, thereby creating a mass image. The defense against this mass image, the fear of its | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| persecution of Jews. So the misconception created a defense which, in turn, could not help but bear | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| its supposed unforgivability, the stronger must be the defense against the truth of the issue. Then the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| You then need help to change your inner defense mechanisms so that you will no longer need | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| uses a coldness or rejecting attitude as a defense? Knowing this removes your fear, your false pride | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| in turn, will dissolve his or her negative defense that alienates you. So you see how communication | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |