| Defenseless.................6 | |
| falling into an abyss. You will feel yourself defenseless, while before your stronghold, your safe point, was | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and destructiveness must weaken you and make you defenseless. When it is as yet impossible to issue | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| to being fallible, human, vulnerable, irrational, wrong, needy, defenseless, weak and unhappy must by necessity increase your | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| from the outside when you are helpless and defenseless, it cannot become a detriment in your life | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| love. Therefore defenses will be unnecessary. In this defenseless state the soul substance becomes loose, resilient, and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| existence. This world can exist only in a defenseless person who is free from armoring, who does | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Defense-mechanism...........6 | |
| manifest conflicts should be resolved while the basic defense-mechanism is left untouched. If destructive emotions govern you | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| except as he makes himself so by his defense-mechanism. This realization is one of the most important | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the other person who reacts badly to my defense-mechanism. ANSWER: In the first place, outwardly you may | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| have neglected, and you will see how your defense-mechanism prohibits the attainment of your deepest goals and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| circle between yourself and others, which triggers your defense-mechanism and causes both parties to mutually reject each | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as well. I realize that this is a defense-mechanism that has to do with my wrong conclusions | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Defense-mechanisms..........3 | |
| on your own convictions, on pseudo- solutions and defense-mechanisms that you have laboriously built up over the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| self-concern as unhealthy. Sloth is one of the defense-mechanisms I have discussed. In your fear of being | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| well as the resultant images, behavior patterns, and defense-mechanisms you developed. Only by seeing the whole picture | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Defenses....................158 | |
| one person, with the minimum of masks and defenses possible, you imbibe a very healthy medicine for | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| created separateness for yourself with all your inappropriate defenses. But if you realize that this feeling of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of self-will and pride -- the personality builds defenses. People think that by adopting a certain attitude | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| in failing to realize that by building these defenses you not only do not avoid the suffering | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| have had if you had not built the defenses of this image. It is very important, my | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| hurts than would befall you without your imagined defenses. My friends, hurt has to be accepted not | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| and, because it feels guilty, will also build defenses against what it considers a threat. Whether it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| to give up the self with all its defenses. A bad subject at all times holds on | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| child finds impossible to cope with unless special defenses are established. The God-image plays a major role | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God-image plays a major role in building these defenses, whether as a vague authority or an imaginary | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| answer; that is, an answer compatible with their defenses. They do not want an answer that they | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| which you constantly have to guard yourself. Such defenses are destructive in themselves, as you well know | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| in themselves, as you well know. Without these defenses, your soul will be open and relaxed, always | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES Greetings, my dearest friends. God bless you. God | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part of you believes itself lost and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| or humiliated again. Since this cannot happen, your defenses become stronger and fulfillment becomes even less likely | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| image right, but it also proves that your defenses against it do not work. This increases the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| encased in the hardened, brittle structure of your defenses. Another difficulty in your struggle to come through | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| on to the false needs and the destructive defenses. But the change can never happen by an | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| aware of your emotions, your needs, and your defenses -- how they make you behave inwardly, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| badness, but by ignorance, distorted concepts, and shortsighted defenses -- once you truly see that -- even | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| against letting go of all the old, obsolete defenses. QUESTION: You see, I'm becoming a pest already | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| can open. There is no more need for defenses; the individual is open to life, to living | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| an unalterable fact, conditions you to develop destructive defenses. The original pain and frustration the child could | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| others and have seen how unsatisfactory these pseudo- defenses and protections are. All of you may not | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| emotionally willing to let go of all the defenses. Constantly observing your unrealistic and immature emotions and | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| by them. You will not fortify your destructive defenses. This, in turn, will equip you with the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| through your own destructive and unrealistic evasions and defenses. You will now realize, with a new sense | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| own destructive defense mechanisms, just as their destructive defenses fortify your own. This persists unless you are | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| you to help others to weaken their own defenses and destructive patterns, even if they are not | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| which robs you of your integrity. All these defenses stem from your fright of being exposed to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| real danger and does not call for elaborate defenses, infinitely more damaging than the original hurt could | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| not have to learn how to use your defenses. They are automatic processes in every human being | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| condition can never be remedied by bolstering the defenses for real danger. That will not work. However | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| real danger. That will not work. However, your defenses will be automatically reactivated if and when you | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| their own ways than in some people whose defenses are more obvious. For them the fear of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| danger through healthy defense. Often when the two defenses intermingle, the unhealthy weakens and undermines the healthy | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| all become more and more aware of your defenses. May you understand what they do to your | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| anger poisons your system. It calls forth your defenses and is at the same time a product | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| and escaping from them, not by pseudo-solutions and defenses, but by squarely facing all that is in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| individual's participation and willingness to penetrate the surface defenses; on his willingness to let go of resistance | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| liberation. As you become aware of your own defenses, you will learn not to strive away from | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| fears, shame, and urgent wishes, and by your defenses, all of them are based on error, confusion | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and bypass the inner noise of fears, shames, defenses, and urgent needs and come directly to the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| We have often talked about the harm of defenses; the harm of a self-righteous or moralizing attitude | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| that is joy-negating. Why do you believe such defenses exist? They exist because the troubled psyche seeks | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| conscious mind. The psyche says, Give up your defenses against loving. Do not hold yourself apart! Do | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the unresolved problems, the pseudo-solutions, or the false defenses. They are not part of the soul itself | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| bracing yourself against the wave of fear. Your defenses against recognizing that you are in fear still | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| is, images -- you will have less destructive defenses. Therefore you can be more loving. This, in | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| yourself in complete candor, through dispensing with all defenses and resistances, you reach a point of love-capacity | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| find it harder to assert yourself because the defenses no longer work, while you have not yet | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| It happens because you have instituted very destructive defenses against the original pain and frustration. One of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you consciously, or unconsciously, consider. When you build defenses against a nonexistent problem, no matter how you | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| In other words, you hope to make your defenses more adequate so as to be better equipped | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| further from the truth. But you build elaborate defenses and flee. You not only flee from involvement | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| You allow yourself to be ruled by unreasonable defenses against the truth in you. Watch your evasions | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| belief erects an impenetrable wall of errors and defenses. The stronger the control, the greater the wall | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| which seem to call for the hurt and defenses -- and as long as you do not | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| be absent from the contact. The fear produces defenses, hurts, anger -- all these enter the contact | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| fear to let go of all tight ego defenses. By the same token, those who begin to | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| will. Open yourself completely, let go of the defenses that make you so tight and rejecting of | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| by your terror of letting go of your defenses and allowing the expression of your natural feelings | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| integrity, all untruthfulness and role playing, all cowardly defenses, all self-centeredness that makes me treat others differently | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| or downgrading yourself. You will find genuine, good defenses against abuse and you will feel good about | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| of a doubt that they are superfluous as defenses, nor do they serve any other purpose. As | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| find it comparatively easy to overcome the remaining defenses and fears that shut off their further expansion | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| themselves for the cause of their suffering. Their defenses and their fear of expanding into a different | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| create more expansion but, rather, more tightly shut defenses. Bliss is a necessity, for bliss is expansion | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| produces false guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and pretenses that lead to justified guilt because | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| This deepening conviction increases negative feelings, tightens your defenses, closes the centers. As long as you feel | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| out of it, so that your fears and defenses can begin to relax deep within you. The | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| personality. Your wrong ideas, false fears, and unnecessary defenses create the tension and the error in the | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| softness that does not need hostility or other defenses. Then you will know how much there is | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| have discussed and worked on the pretenses, the defenses, the games and ploys, the idealized self-images, the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to fear it and set up your negative defenses. You can depend on yourself much more adequately | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the pseudo-satisfactions of your pretenses, your role-playing, your defenses? How can you begin to wholly and consciously | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| give up all the subtle falsities and destructive defenses, the less you can accept pleasure; therefore you | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| new approaches. This calls for self-testing, for removing defenses and vanity, for courage and truthfulness with the | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| rejection, and frustration. He or she then builds defenses against these negative experiences. You all know how | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| negative experiences. You all know how damaging the defenses are, how they indeed destroy the good of | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| become. There will be none of the petty defenses, pseudoprotections, and pretenses that one who distrusts life | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| inevitably adopts. When you look closer at those defenses, you will see that underneath them lies doubt | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| sacrifice its selfwill, pride, and fear -- its defenses -- for the sake of what is most | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| wishful thinking. The longer you dwell in the defenses of accusing and self-victimizing, the more real the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| others. I am willing to shed my ego defenses and all negativity, to give and receive the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| honest, deep interaction, to giving up pretenses and defenses and any kind of destructiveness. You will see | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| not freed your innermost psyche of fear, negativity, defenses, hopelessness, unrecognized and mischannelled anger, a mass catastrophe | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| that arise from them; the pretenses and the defenses. But none of these would present too much | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| such should not exist in me. All the defenses you have so painstakingly erected serve to protect | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you. You will not need to build false defenses which repel everything so that nothing comes through | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| through to you. After all, one reason these defenses are built is to ward off the pain | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| begin to explore and find out that these defenses ward off everything and anything that life has | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| life has to give so abundantly. Thus, the defenses are to your detriment. They prohibit the good | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| your own good feelings. When you abandon your defenses, you can melt with life, melt with the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| separate you and create a great loneliness. These defenses create a very dependent, limited, and suffering existence | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| hand to you, you absolutely need your destructive defenses that shut you out of life. It is | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and therefore no longer in need of destructive defenses that separate you and shift responsibility for your | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| conscientiously to shed the mask, to give up defenses, and to overcome the resistance to exposing apparently | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| are able to see the mechanisms of your defenses to some extent. But even this partial awareness | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| You no longer require yourself to defend your defenses or to pretend to be so perfect that | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| whatever degree you have accomplished this shedding of defenses and have thus become that much more real | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| words, evil is a defense against suffering. All defenses create more suffering as well as confusion, since | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| awareness of the truth of your childhood the defenses cannot be sufficiently weakened for safe reexperiencing on | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| safe reexperiencing on the emotional level. When the defenses are still strong they block the path to | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| misuse a given approach. There still exist many defenses against the full experience of accumulated feelings in | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to focus your attention and awareness upon these defenses to overcome them more and more. You can | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| was not lived through before because of your defenses. You cannot come out of these repetitive cycles | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| life in its fullest, you must eliminate your defenses against feelings. You must go through your fear | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| temporarily avoid the feared experience because your inner defenses shut off life so successfully that nothing touches | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| deeply, so that you become conscious of your defenses. Only then can you explore the next question | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Out of that fear, you build your destructive defenses. That is the only reason why any destructiveness | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| differently to pain than by building its numbing defenses. This is true only when in previous lives | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and observe how it masks itself and what defenses it uses in order to keep the lower | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| the cosmic laws of truth and love. Therefore defenses will be unnecessary. In this defenseless state the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| causes guilt and fear, which in turn require defenses. The defenses make the surface of soul substance | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and fear, which in turn require defenses. The defenses make the surface of soul substance hard and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| a unified consciousness, impressing will be strong. No defenses and hiding are needed, so your soul substance | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| falls into the soil to germinate. With no defenses, you will let the germination process take its | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be. This is why the people with strong defenses cannot meditate, no matter how well-intentioned they may | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be impressed because they have not removed the defenses that still hide what they do not wish | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of honesty and openness, when I remove the defenses and face my lower self, when I am | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| progress you still have to deal with your defenses and undissolved negativities, your resistances, distortions, and darkness | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| aware of your lower self, mask self, your defenses, your dishonest devices, and your negative intentionality, then | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| behind negation and doubt, which are the strongest defenses against coming out of your hold, the golden | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| only way evil will cease to exist. All defenses harbor evil. It is obvious in any type | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| will do so increasingly, until you shed all defenses and are thus free to adopt positive intent | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| bliss. To the degree evil exists -- misconceptions, defenses, negative intentionality, refusal to experience one's self-produced pain | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| truly alive. As you let go of the defenses, you will make the transition from the false | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the others are sufficiently free of their own defenses, they will experience the hurt because they are | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| have to battle within their own masks and defenses, with their own negative intentionalities, experience a bitter | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| achieve an entirely imaginary gain. All masks and defenses, pretenses and false shame of exposure, embarrassment about | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| arising from unfulfilled expectations; fear and the consequent defenses that cut you off further from the source | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| will become anxious, afraid, threatened with having your defenses penetrated -- so you cannot afford to be | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| already much more liberated from the constriction and defenses because the residual feelings have been dealt with | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| with confusions, inner misconceptions, misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of which | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| and you defend with rage, complaints, and other defenses against cleanly experiencing this pain, you are not | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| it. The misconceptions, false images, negativities, illusions, pretensions, defenses, unexperienced and therefore unassimilated feelings and confused thoughts | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| only to the degree that negativities and egotistical defenses are being abandoned, and the involuntary movement is | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| and defend against others with your destructive ego defenses. Outer manifestations must follow suit. Your health will | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| self- facing, to self-purification, to giving up all defenses and all subterfuges in order to face what | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| of your misconceptions, of your puny fears and defenses, of false safety, of illusions, of the laziness | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| was grueling hard work to get through your defenses to really see and accept your lower self | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| is surrounded by the mask self and the defenses. Individually you have dealt with this configuration again | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| trust it. You trust your old, destructive habitual defenses more. Then of course there are always those | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| equality, where no fear exists and therefore neither defenses nor blame. Contrary to the fairy tale that | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| reinforce your belief in your unacceptability, because all defenses are negative, destructive, and create guilt. So even | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| am in this ingathering contraction of rest. My defenses against my sexuality and my denial of the | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| importance of opening up, of giving up your defenses, your brittle hardness with which you think to | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| the outside, and that as long as your defenses are intact, you also prevent yourself from taking | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| and think of opening up, of dropping your defenses, conceive of this act not only as directed | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| inner fear and thereby to dissolve the inner defenses that can be so intricate and so subtle | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| the more you recognize and loosen up your defenses so that a state of open flow is | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| ignorance, fear, and lack of faith, creates destructive defenses and negative intentionality, and the voices of satanic | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| protect yourself against this alleged hostility with destructive defenses -- that you may or may not be | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Although the victims are always equipped with specific defenses so that the individual animal can have what | 254 SURRENDER |
| to give up your pretenses, and therefore your defenses, in your relationship with them. You need to | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| of your self-hate that festers underneath all your defenses, if it were not for the experience of | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |