| Deluded.....................9 | |
| Is it not imagination? Am I not being deluded about all this? I should like to talk | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| I will tell you why you are thus deluded. According to the distorted God-image, people feel that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they are reasonable, rational and realistic, yet are deluded even about that. The material I have given | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| may have totally ignored until now. They have deluded themselves that they have love, or they may | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| and has often made people more hypocritical. They deluded themselves that they were loving while underneath they | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to even greater self-deception if the consciousness is deluded by the actually existing partial integration with divine | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| of the manifest attitude, but may still be deluded in thinking that the opposite does not exist | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| that the pagans and Christians are lying, are deluded, are inferior and at the same time they | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| suffers is so great that the perpetrator is deluded into being unaffected by the further effects of | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Delusion....................20 | |
| penetrate all the layers of appearance and of delusion will reach the real guilt. They will find | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| it must be, if not a trick, a delusion, the subconscious of the medium, or something of | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| know this. You are still living under the delusion that this is a world of coincidence and | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| sink into a state of restfulness, cherishing the delusion of already knowing each other fully. This is | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a long time humanity has lived under the delusion that to love oneself in any way is | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| new security will not be accompanied by the delusion that no more suffering will come to you | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| even on the intellectual level, in illusion or delusion. The latter may suffer more acutely until they | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| the dualistic split, which is nothing but a delusion of perception. This delusion has many facets, one | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| is nothing but a delusion of perception. This delusion has many facets, one facet being a split | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| elude you and remain unattainable. Thence comes the delusion that none of these possibilities exist because they | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| But this must not be done in self- delusion and by superimposing positive intent over unconscious irrational | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| must unearth and specifically deal with. In the delusion of the ego, you perceive life as your | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| you, while you are its victim. In that delusion you cannot create. So you will see, my | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| aspects of consciousness fabricate in the way of delusion and folly. This is indeed a great and | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| To concentrate on that would be pursuing a delusion. Knowing yourself is a slow, step-by-step process. It | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and rejected. In other words, you foster the delusion that in order to be accepted one needs | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| all three principles I shall discuss here. The delusion of evil in the case of this first | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| opposites, of duality, appears the crassest form of delusion. And it is true indeed that on the | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| easily be glossed over. The manifestation of this delusion can be rationalized -- hence denied. Whenever you | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a sign that you still suffer from this delusion and thus deliberately avoid growing into full selfhood | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Delusions...................4 | |
| of this important question, clearly questioning themselves without delusions, will respond to life with their total being | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| at themselves in truth, to abandon self-illusions and delusions, cannot come to such a transition. You cannot | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| thoughts. They must either be disappointed or experience delusions. No exercises, efforts, or hope for grace intervening | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| however, it is explained away and illusions and delusions accepted as if they were valid reasons for | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Delve.......................22 | |
| ago, humankind did not have the means to delve deeply enough into the human soul to find | 18 FREE WILL |
| extremely useful for each one of you to delve into your soul and clearly come to feel | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| from. Use them as a starting point to delve deeper into your soul. Try to see clearly | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| that which is already conscious. But before you delve into the subconscious, you have to meet the | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| in the papers about the Pope objecting to delve into the subconscious, that it can be harmful | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| right kind, all you have to do is delve into your emotions and, as I so often | 31 SHAME |
| self- recognition, for as long as you cannot delve into what your unconscious hides, you do not | 31 SHAME |
| the temporary blindness by training your thoughts to delve into the unconscious, the part of your soul | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| If you do not have the courage to delve into your unconscious, face your image, dissolve it | 38 IMAGES |
| reach the goal. In this way, when you delve into the deeper realms of your being, you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| when the downward curve comes again, you must delve into the darkness of your confusion and error | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the freedom that you strive for is to delve into yourself. In that way you will go | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| unhealthy because they are destructive. Instead, we will delve into the deeper regions of the mind and | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| when the downward curve comes again, you must delve into the darkness of your own confusion and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you borrow because you are too insecure to delve into your own soul. But since you don't | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| At one time, humanity was not ready to delve deeply enough to see the causes. The best | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| fear and reconcile the great duality is to delve into the first unknown you fear so much | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| your investment is fair. You must learn to delve into yourself to summon the necessary resources and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| -- the approach you are learning as you delve into the depths of your inner being on | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| And as you, my friends on this path, delve deeper into the intricate levels of your inner | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| them. It would be much too complicated to delve into this now. All I can say at | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| You need time alone in which you can delve into your depths and find new levels of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Demagnetize.................3 | |
| action ensue? In other words, how do you demagnetize a negative force field? Different approaches are necessary | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| more to your liking, the only way to demagnetize a negative force field is to establish contact | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and create a new force field because you demagnetize the old one. This is the way now | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Demand......................89 | |
| is visible to you. Then consider how you demand that God should prove to you His greatest | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| time you are also anxious that God might demand something unpleasant from you. This is going only | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| to satisfy its own vanity. It will not demand admiration for itself. It will be a humble | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and its consequences will appear to you to demand a sacrifice -- and this, too, is what | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| more and more unreasonable and unjust, for you demand and expect respect and love from others although | 31 SHAME |
| you do that, the more you need to demand love and respect from others to make up | 31 SHAME |
| my friends: Do you silently, or even thoughtlessly, demand too much perfection from someone dear to you | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| have your image, you do not adjust. You demand, and you throw a temper-tantrum inside when your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| also get what is part of your unconscious demand. Being unconscious, you did not know of it | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| spiritual sense. If they do not meet this demand, they forfeit the goal for which their soul | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| yourself the proper respect, you will cease to demand an extra position as, emotionally, you do at | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the need of self- importance exists. If the demand for approval is obvious to other human beings | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| than this. Included in this statement is the demand for absolute approval, admiration, and love by everybody | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| loved unconditionally. This aspect reveals again that you demand an unconditional surrender from the people around you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| concept, love in its right concept does not demand a subject who blindly gratifies one's will, but | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a high degree, while another may express the demand for rulership more openly. Many variations exist, governed | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| world, and what the world often seems to demand is that we be selfish and self-seeking. When | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the day, during certain activities which do not demand your entire attention. More and more self-awareness will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| reactions. When you become aware of this unfair demand you extend to God, and change it, you | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| in the way the child in you would demand. When some people do not love you, or | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it any wonder then that with this unconscious demand in your psyche you are afraid to love | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| genuinely, you will learn to give up your demand without feeling hostile; you will reach a point | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| In fact, if it were given, the unrealistic demand for exclusive love would be diminished considerably. However | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| mutuality; there is in you a one-sided childish demand as though your very life were at stake | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to withdraw from the exaggerated motion of your demand. If the person has inner unresolved conflicts and | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to understand also the origin of the excessive demand. The need comes from a vague memory imbedded | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| the dictates of a person's idealized self-image simultaneously demand one to love and be loved by everyone | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| often ruthless. An idealized self-image may therefore simultaneously demand of a person on the one hand to | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| not God, not life, not other people, who demand all that. You will also begin to see | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| it, that when others do not obey this demand, the person is outraged. The fury and self-contempt | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the world you live in, yourself included. You demand of yourself a perfection you cannot yet have | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| cannot yet have. And what you think you demand of the other, is, as I pointed out | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| not know that further emotions are buried and demand to come out in spite of resistance. Your | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then project on the world. You resent this demand and struggle against it. You defy the world | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| but you are still unaware of your inner demand for perfection. I have discussed this subject in | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| glorification, not only because the world seems to demand it of you, but also because you may | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| receiving. If you do not receive enough, your demand grows out of proportion, especially when you are | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| her needs, vulnerabilities, problems, and insecurity. In your demand to possess a strong and ever loving protector | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| human feelings of sympathy and understanding, with no demand. But the type of love -- whether in | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| may be frightened if you encounter a strong demand. Yet, when this demand is absent, you extend | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| you encounter a strong demand. Yet, when this demand is absent, you extend your own without actually | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| indeed, to love without having to fulfill every demand, without having to give in. Is it not | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| hurting way. Your refusal to comply with a demand cannot really hurt another, provided you love. Therefore | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| established that here or there you feel a demand that is being made on you, and you | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| impact. Either you will interpret something as a demand that is no such thing, and an inner | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| seems to ring whenever an actual or imaginary demand is being made on you. Your guilt and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| engage are unjustified. Such reaction indicates an excessive demand on your part: wanting the advantages of close | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| you would like to admit. Admitting them would demand certain obligations and the assumption of self-responsibility, but | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| another. They do not disapprove or criticize. They demand a minimum of personal sacrifice or consideration. Objects | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| often more difficult to obey because they might demand that you oppose public opinion. But the strictness | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| want, or what you fear that they would demand or want from you. If you look at | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| of being in the life force. You greedily demand happiness in order to have your way and | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| better, because there will be no unfair exchange, demand, or pretense on my part. Hence I will | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| a reward for the self-sacrifice and goodness. This demand cannot be fulfilled. This win or lose concept | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| isolated life of egocentricity and of greed. You demand the most from others and simultaneously fear that | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| with your demands, but also that they will demand from you what you believe is dangerous to | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| result. To expect instant results is a childish demand from life, an angry refusal to cooperate with | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| a completely meaningless command, that becomes an impossible demand. The trustworthiness of life and therefore of God | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| others, the less they will comply with your demand to affirm your self and the more you | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| about. Life issues a call; it makes a demand on every living individual. Most people do not | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| strong and reliable. You will then heed the demand of your personal life stream. You will have | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| and they struggle against any frustration. The adamant demand for instant gratification says, I want to be | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| circle the love forces are feared because they demand giving up the watchful, stilted, premeditated attitudes that | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and that the payment is not an unfair demand on the part of life. Such an attitude | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| is as though they expressed into life, I demand perfection around me, so that I can remain | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| and is intermingled with negative goals like the demand, deliver me from my unhappy state, you will | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| that equates catastrophe with the unfulfillment of your demand to be loved and approved of by everybody | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| -- whoever you may be -- but I demand that you give me everything. If you do | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| can see the preposterous unfairness of what you demand compared to what you give, how differently you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| want to give you love. I want to demand from you and then blame you, accuse you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| truly makes you unhappy, rather it is your demand that life should be perfect and be handed | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| as simple as that, my friends. If you demand of your life, and therefore of any path | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| who is supposed to give you what you demand. If you then failed to comply, you would | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| desire is no longer a desire, but a demand, a threat, a forcing-current that says: I must | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| I must not have -- pain. Any such demand is a creative block. It hinders the very | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| here is entirely different from making a blaming demand, which truly puts the responsibility on the other | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| feel good now, it should be final. The demand of and belief in the finality of the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| feel it is impossible to give up this demand because you cannot stand not being loved. Aren't | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| necessary fulfillment? How can you give up the demand and content yourself with the bleak emptiness that | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| emptiness that you fear when you renounce this demand for love? Yet, it is clear that the | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| you directly or indirectly rule, coerce, pressure, command, demand, and manipulate -- and cheat! The open energy | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and coerced, it will automatically be withheld. Your demand for love will be resented even by those | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| and imply an insult to the universe. The demand says, I do not believe I can have | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| is taking responsibility. You can give rather than demand, and that is taking responsibility. And then there | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| a question of do or die. Such a demand creates an unbearable tension that is often a | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| giving. The laws of life and creation always demand, if you will, that they be obeyed because | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| effect, If I show you my secrets, I demand that you approve of them and of me | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| life appears too difficult and unfair. Then you demand a perfect authority to put things right. The | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| think. They are either too proud or they demand to be understood by others without having to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |