| Either/ors..................2 | |
| person. The splits and divisions, the contradictions and either/ors are a product of separation, error and confusion | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| drive you crazy with confusion, dualistic splits, false either/ors, half-truths, and subtle distortions that you cannot sort | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Either/or's.................1 | |
| for themselves or for you. There are no either/or's: it is all one. Therefore, when you end | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| Elaboration.................3 | |
| the benefit of sharing, and yourself a further elaboration on a point that might prove very helpful | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| This is so self-evident, it hardly needs further elaboration. Since you blame others, they must respond in | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| is so obvious that it hardly needs further elaboration. But let us look at the phenomenon of | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Elastic.....................3 | |
| with the physical body by a cord, or elastic spiral-like band, also of subtle matter. This cord | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| versus rigidity. Flexibility is the quality of resilient, elastic, healthy soul-substance. When it comes to rigidity, however | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| rounded, very smooth, and even. The substance is elastic -- a mixture of resilient and healthily resistant | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Elation.....................12 | |
| every upward curve feels better. You felt an elation and a liberation that you do not feel | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| upward curve you were on. You felt an elation and a liberation that you do not feel | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| elaborate on the distinction between pseudo-euphoric states of elation and genuine elation? The question has been answered | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distinction between pseudo-euphoric states of elation and genuine elation? The question has been answered by many authorities | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the motive for wanting such a state of elation. Of course, the first answer will always be | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no particular desire for such euphoric states of elation. Your desire will rather be to procure all | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| want to avoid it. True spiritual states of elation come undesired and unexpected. They follow suit after | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| accomplish it by forcing themselves into states of elation that cannot be genuine. The person who walks | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such inner peace and inner happiness, a borderline elation. ANSWER: Peace, calm, and happiness could not possibly | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not possibly be called a euphoric state of elation. Again, as in the question regarding the two | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| who admits the worst in themselves inevitably feels elation, liberation, energy, hope, and light as the immediate | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| it in this lecture. These short periods of elation, vibrant peace and security, excitement, fascination, profound joyousness | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Elders......................3 | |
| when it reaches a certain degree of consciousness. Elders, parents or parent-substitutes, and later on teachers represent | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| Children's self-destructive acts must be discouraged by their elders. This is hardly possible or desirable for adults | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| had to meet as prospective marriage partners. Their elders would arrange it. This kind of union gave | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Electric....................8 | |
| like electricity. Certain conditions are necessary to produce electric current. It is exactly the same thing. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| current. It is exactly the same thing. The electric current is a result of the conditions that | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| this life force as you think of an electric current, endowed with supreme intelligence. This electric current | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| an electric current, endowed with supreme intelligence. This electric current is there, in you, around you, outside | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| it to kill. That does not make the electric current good or bad. You make it good | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| according to their environmental conditions. For example, an electric current will manifest differently in a wet environment | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| may fulfill the same balancing function that an electric storm or earthquake fulfills in nature. Whether or | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| feeling is shocking. It is as if an electric shock went through you. Therefore, the ego must | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Electrical..................3 | |
| and found the laws governing these manifestations. Your electrical and technical equipment that is now so familiar | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| degree. Whether this power be physical, such as electrical or atomic power, or mental power makes no | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| well as degrees. There is no physical, biological, electrical or atomic energy that could be anywhere near | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Electricity.................5 | |
| by the current. Imagine it as something like electricity. Certain conditions are necessary to produce electric current | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you how you use it. You can use electricity for constructive purposes, even for healing; or you | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| or bad, right or wrong, than to say electricity is good or bad, right or wrong. It | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| power. And yet, the inanimate power of, say, electricity, and even more of atomic energy, is so | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| everything that distinguishes consciousness. Think, for example, of electricity and atomic energy. Even the energy of mind | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Electromagnetic.............5 | |
| that our psyche is in some way an electromagnetic field. Is it, from your point of view | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of view, in any way similar to the electromagnetic fields of modern physics? Or are they different | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| full of energy -- has or is an electromagnetic energy field. The nature of these fields varies | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a tremendous power that this fusion creates an electromagnetic energy field. This force field contains every conceivable | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| to understand more profoundly how you are an electromagnetic field that always attracts what is commensurate with | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Elevate.....................4 | |
| with the manifesting spirit and thus not to elevate her- or himself above others. Relatively many are | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| has manifested already, or it may harmonize and elevate the manifest talent to new heights. In fact | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no other aim than using the other to elevate yourself, to pull yourself out of the inferiority | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| order to bring order and truth. If you elevate yourself above your own actual self, above where | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| Elevated....................8 | |
| examine it in the light of truth. The elevated ego makes you lonely, it puts you indeed | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| desire to put your own person on an elevated level above your fellow- creatures, in an emotional | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| learn to cultivate unselfish thoughts. Your thoughts are elevated in prayer, thus clearing the way for a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| that part in you that demands to be elevated to first place, that desires to be special | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| up with the answer that you desire an elevated position in the eyes of the world in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| obedience from the surrounding world, for a special, elevated position above all other beings -- since others | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| my friends, when you experience a beautiful, highly elevated, joyous state, you must know that your energy | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| idealized self-images were nourished; pride and vanity were elevated into false moral values. If you consider the | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Elevates....................4 | |
| ego, putting itself in its own separate place, elevates itself above the other by wanting something better | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| between entities. It separates itself from others and elevates itself -- and thus resists the truth and | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| made it into a punitive, authoritarian judgment that elevates those who judge and puts down those who | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| said before, it is a noble struggle that elevates you in the best sense of the word | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Elevating...................3 | |
| who lust for freedom out of pure egoism, elevating themselves above God and claiming freedom from the | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| becomes predicated on human perception with is errors, elevating it above all else. By embracing this error | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| of any particular situation. This is a profoundly elevating, peaceful and joyful experience, but it requires the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| Elicit......................16 | |
| a distortion in the soul which then can elicit the feeling of world weariness, since the person | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| out toward anybody in their environment who can elicit positive feelings. Then they would reach out with | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| others to give you security by trying to elicit feelings you think they ought to have for | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| But once you pay attention to it and elicit the powers available in you, again and again | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| again, the mind must formulate such intents and elicit the help from the supreme intelligence, deep within | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make yourself hang on to others which must elicit hate in you. Finding the treasure of your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| that will ever make you passive. It will elicit the same source within you that is the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| do to you, what unpleasurable feelings it will elicit in you. By going into the undesirable feeling | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| lingering negative intentionality, make the corresponding positive commitment. Elicit in this way a new spiritual energy that | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the more of a spiritual force you lawfully elicit and make your own. Every step of truth | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| even wanting to see it. Seeing truthfully may elicit anger, but never blame -- and that is | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| world. It is therefore necessary, in order to elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| or the concept behind the word, fails to elicit as strong a reaction from you as the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| deeds and genuine love and giving seem to elicit undeserved negative effects, or at least fail to | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| the Lord, Jesus Christ. His name would never elicit so much ambivalence and negativity if divine truth | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| preserve by hiding. If your self-revealing seems to elicit more criticism and censure than love and understanding | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |