| Earth's.....................7 | |
| font of life. Like a spring beneath the earth's crust, without any semblance of strength it lies | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and sand. Layer upon layer accumulated during the earth's span of life just as we have accumulated | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also possesses a lower self. Like the individual's, Earth's lower self is not only negative, selfish, greedy | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| about through a transformation of consciousness in the earth's inhabitants. Transformation of consciousness comes about as a | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| already among a relatively small section of the earth's inhabitants. As time goes on, the number of | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| is the same with the planetary entity. The earth's higher self is conducting all the exposures that | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| process of development, you greatly contribute to the earth's evolution. Although it may not be possible for | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Earth-sphere................4 | |
| even in the spaces in-between. Even within your earth-sphere you have all kinds of spiritual spheres, from | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| expression, mineral, plant and animal life. Before the earth-sphere existed, these expressions existed in other worlds or | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| consequence of a general, overall readiness of this earth-sphere to grasp higher truth. If, in spite of | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| the pain you simply see existing in this earth-sphere. So, my beloved friends, when the walls of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Earth-world.................1 | |
| call them miracles. An individual steeped in this earth-world, blind to the power of the spirit and | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| Ease........................35 | |
| the whole universe. QUESTION: You can travel with ease, in other words, into any space in the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of course, they never really feel comfortable, at ease, and loved for their own sake and for | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| if so, at what age, to lighten, to ease the formation of images in a child? ANSWER | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| without compulsions, without fears, without uncertainties, feeling at ease with life and people. QUESTION: If the hypnotist | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| that they may experience certain times of outer ease. One aspect of immaturity and separateness is that | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the horizon, you may inwardly feel ill at ease, guilty, tense, full of anxiety or impatience. In | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| larger part of your personality you feel at ease with the world. That again may be difficult | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| of yourself, you will feel much more at ease. You will become capable of experiencing negative emotions | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| make you tense and guilty and ill at ease. Nor will it compel you to justify yourself | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| at home with yourself and feel more at ease with life in this fragment of time, so | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| freer the determination, the greater the scope and ease with which decisions can be made, the greater | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| overcome, a significant amount of inner freedom and ease has been reached. Such a struggle rarely culminates | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| too shameful to admit, you will feel emotional ease and comfort. Those who have reached the point | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| your shame with your helper? The degree of ease and emotional comfort with which you can do | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| my friends would not have experienced liberation and ease following a breakthrough, following the overcoming of resistance | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| one day you discover to your astonishment the ease of reality: its generosity, its abundance, its stimulating | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| fences, can be removed with the greatest of ease. To want, and to express to want to | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to give up omnipotence, pleasure supreme, and the ease the spirit longs for, a state where hardship | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| security, an understanding of self and others, an ease in letting your soul- movements flow forward in | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| flatly bad alternative. The self cannot feel at ease in either alternative. Both are a strain and | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| your life. You feel anxious, persecuted, ill at ease. Negation of life, negation of feelings, and negation | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| have to ascertain that you feel more at ease when the reality is less stimulating, less conducive | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| it may at first even go unnoticed. This ease will come once he sees the whole see-saw | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| all that this implies, something in you will ease up and feel less and less threatened. Instead | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| into familiar ground on which you feel at ease with yourself and life. You gain a new | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| experience a vague feeling of being ill at ease with life. You wish to correct these undesirable | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| pretenses prevent almost everyone from doing this with ease. The destructive, demanding, punishing, and spiteful child usually | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| make you capable of fulfilling your life with ease and peace. Thus do you misinterpret self-discipline for | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| relaxed and easy and the orderliness creates more ease than strain in a person's life, then it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| have you created an order that affords you ease and relaxation? In what way do you resist | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in the sharing, the respect, the warmth, the ease and comfort with which you can be intimate | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| that you cannot maintain with a feeling of ease. It must eventually split off from your undeveloped | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| an individual's potential. At the same time, the ease of the task is relative; the task is | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| staying behind and resisting the movement, while effortlessness, ease and inner relaxation lie in the harmony that | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| structure of the highest creation in poise, in ease, and with tenderness. They embrace the structure and | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| East........................8 | |
| especially to the differences in the teachings between East and West. ANSWER: Desirelessness is also often misunderstood | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| the most part, the souls incarnated in the East do not feel as strong an urge to | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| more in the West and that is why East and West ought to get together? ANSWER: Certainly | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| ANSWER: Certainly. It also explains that in the East spiritual development is much farther advanced, and it | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| language... 2: And...as they journeyed from the East...they found a plain...and they dwelt there | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in the outer world: difficulty of communication. The East, whence you came, symbolizes one point of eternity | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| paradoxical way. The West is the goal. The East was the perfection you once had. The West | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for your actions and choices. If you go east and wish to come out west, you will | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| Eastern.....................14 | |
| merging. QUESTION: I heard that according to some Eastern teachings a person can incarnate again into a | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| a good one. The first reason is that Eastern philosophy rightly puts spiritual progress above all. Everything | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| will be easy for you to recognize that Eastern teachers and philosophers have experienced God in the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| female side of God and enlightenment in the Eastern sense. The third reason refers to the fall | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| major part in the fall of the angels. Eastern religion, having received a number of emissaries of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| QUESTION: Does that mean in general that the Eastern teachings have lived through a different phase of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| religious teachings are concerned, the Western and the Eastern side should unite, because both sides will furnish | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| of ignorance of these cosmic principles is that Eastern teachings are often misunderstood in the following way | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of actions? How is it comparable to the Eastern concept, the one that follows the Buddha? ANSWER | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This is in no way contradictory to the Eastern teachings. It is just a different approach, which | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| misunderstanding often occurs about spiritual philosophies, particularly the eastern ones. It is untrue that in the state | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| that having desires is a hindrance to spirituality. Eastern philosophy expounds on desirelessness as a necessary state | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| from pleasure or pain is strongly fostered by Eastern religions, as well as by the Western mystics | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| undertaking. There are several ways of doing it. Eastern religions usually approach it by long practice and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Eat.........................12 | |
| price; it wants to have its cake and eat it too. If you have difficulties in your | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| to earn your bread, buy it, prepare it, eat it. This is true just as much of | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| may call it an ecstatic experience when you eat a good meal, for that matter, or when | 18 FREE WILL |
| accept that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Unconsciously, most people constantly want to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| did Jesus mean when He said, Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| want to have things instead. The compulsion to eat may have similar roots. It may be a | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| is true of the urge at times to eat perhaps more than necessary. All this is part | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| come when humankind will no longer need to eat meat. However, until such time, many other things | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| commanded that of their flesh shall we not eat. Christianity has no ban against pork. In the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| more you want to have your cake and eat it too, the less you are able to | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| values hold sway underneath the surface, you constantly eat away at your self-esteem. Deep inside, you know | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| detect and then eliminate the places where you eat away at your true being and true expression | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |