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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

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