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| many of these trends with them from an early age, due to some influence in their surroundings | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| of the people using the channel. During the early times, human beings who were fallen spirits could | 21 THE FALL |
| could not have proceeded at all in those early times if the pure spirits who were occasionally | 21 THE FALL |
| the influence of evil. However, especially during the early times, a great interchange existed between the material | 21 THE FALL |
| be many images that have formed during your early years and which affect your life now. Some | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| seldom form in this life, no matter how early they began. Most of the time an image | 38 IMAGES |
| people and situations other than those in the early surroundings. This, my friends, is the way images | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| this to childhood feelings and reactions to your early environment. Only then can you find the pattern-like | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you find the pattern-like later repetition of your early behavior and reactions, and only in that light | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| hatred causes guilt because the child is taught early that it is bad, wrong, and sinful to | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| experience their first conflict with authority at an early age. I have talked at length about this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| inner maturing and growth. The infant realizes very early that the kind of happiness it wants is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| course, for any human being to remember these early emotions, for you have no memory of your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the hurt, disappointment, and unfulfilled needs of your early years remain unconscious, you cannot come to terms | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| nature. Much ground has been covered since those early stages of finding your faults. You may remember | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| this self-search in good faith, yet at this early stage you can barely see how you are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| idealized self, depending on personality, life conditions and early influences, which are not and cannot be considered | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| can always be traced to parental influences and early experiences. It is also important to consider these | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| becomes the avoidance of unhappiness. This creates the early, mostly unconscious conclusion: If I do not feel | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be general. They vary according to personality, background, early teachings, circumstances, and temperament. What one person may | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| or both parents, or someone else in your early surroundings. A certain impression of another person or | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to revise your impressions of people in your early environment because you want to see them with | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| moment you experience the important people of your early environment in their human reality, you will no | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| such love and respect. When you squash the early impressions of the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Therefore, when the child collects impressions during its early years, their impact will be greater or smaller | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| full measure. The realization of your bondage to early reactions will free you of it -- nothing | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- be it ever so seldom in the early stages of this work -- that all of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| freshness and impressionability of the child's psyche causes early experience to have a more extensive effect than | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| are as yet hindered. Thus, in the child's early years, its pleasure is directed to its immediate | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to the world outside the family circle. The early adolescent is most preoccupied with companions of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| with the personal experiences and conditions in the early environment. It is often proclaimed that pleasure for | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| find the entanglements among your guilt, repression, fear, early childhood fixations of the pleasure principle, its failure | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| your hidden primitive feelings in connection with your early environment. This is not easy; it cannot be | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| so that it becomes possible to reexperience these early emotions. This can be done if you do | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| long as the personality is unconsciously fixated on early experience, the soul cannot truly grow and expand | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you come to terms with your inadequately assimilated early experience, and your psyche become ready to truly | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| relate to others without the influence of these early feelings. Then layers of destructive, artificial emotions cover | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| of the original need. Whatever the specific circumstances, early influences or personal images may be, you must | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| invaluable and needs to be learned in the early stages of this path. You are erroneously convinced | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| In order to accomplish this, even at the early stages when the inner vessel is filled with | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| feeling is fear of rejection. This started very early in your life. My friends may have noticed | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| depends on individual character traits, on circumstances and early influences. Whatever they are -- and there are | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| result of the distortions, images, misconceptions, misunderstandings of early painful experiences. They do not need, however, to | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| because you have built general concepts around these early experiences. The existence of these desires and emotions | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| merely come from personal influences in an individual's early surroundings. They existed, of course, but only because | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in this lifetime -- which always happens in early childhood -- it is often impossible to reconstruct | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| now, you will recognize them as repetitions of early experience, and, sooner or later on the path | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| for all that. The healthy soul also experiences early unhappiness but throws off the effects without deeply | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| you have adopted after some traumatic experiences in early life. You maintain negative responses which at one | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| I discussed this topic in a lecture quite early in our joint undertaking, years ago. Since then | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| hurts and sufferings you have endured in your early life and have defended against so far. You | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| many a time. When life circumstances in your early childhood again inflict pain and deprivation upon you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| its fullest, later life circumstances will replicate those early conditions until you open up to what you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| But this lifetime is all you need. Your early pains in this life are essentially those you | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| you first experienced in this life during your early childhood and which you had not had the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| spiritual meaning of sexuality. In one of the early lectures, I discussed three aspects of the one | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| were not all that wrong at that time. Early humanity's less developed state made people act out | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is explained away with people's backgrounds and with early influences. Nothing is as dangerous as using a | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| undertaken. Sometimes, if this step is undertaken too early, you miss out on the full awareness, the | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| understanding and expertise. I have said in an early lecture, that an entire sphere, or world, deals | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| learning. You have children on your path who early in life begin to acquire and comprehend inner | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| know that these aspects flare up, at an early stage of your development, by themselves, without provocation | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| great cosmic movement. Group consciousness at this very early stage meant learning to get along with others | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| oneness between the self and others. In the early development of consciousness this happened in a very | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| age just past, which we can call the early adolescent stage of planetary consciousness, humanity had to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and since physicality was the sole expression of early humans, man also assumed a general aura of | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| domination was very overtly acted out in these early periods of humanity. Since then the same traits | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the formation of masks and start self- purification early. Such is the groundwork for all new age | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| be part of the school curriculum, starting as early as kindergarten and continuing into college or university | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| have learned the lesson of real freedom very early in life. This is indeed possible. Guidance can | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| perceive. If this law of communication is taught early, children will understand them. What an enormous difference | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| your soul in this respect. In the very early stages of the development of a human consciousness | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| if you could help me? ANSWER: This first early stage on your path is the most difficult | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| reaction against Jesus Christ. They rebel against their early upbringing and the values their parents stood for | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| too stems from individuals whose circumstances in their early environment fostered the formation of a specific image | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| marriage. The new-age marriage will not be formed early in life. If the participants are young, they | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| spontaneously, as you remove inner obstacles. At the early stages, you experience just that: emptiness, nothingness. If | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a significant way. Similarly, a child in an early stage of development does not really know that | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |