| Enslavement.................15 | |
| the neurotic condition just discussed. Because, the less enslavement exists, the more one will be capable of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| time, the absence of primary reactions strengthens your enslavement. You become more and more dependent on others | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| so as to free yourself from your own enslavement, to make yourself whole instead of divided. Go | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| want to grow out of your blindness and enslavement. Of course, in some aspects of life you | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| means freedom, peace, life. Lack of love means enslavement, conflict, death. It creates restlessness, anxiety, and unhappiness | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| a false feeling creates a lack of freedom, enslavement to the false processes set in motion. One | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| being, your state of consciousness, your freedom or enslavement to your images and misconceptions. They determine the | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by buying them with my false unselfishness, through enslavement, through making myself feel so unselfish because I | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be her authority. She must fear her self-determined enslavement. Thus the feminine principle or femininity is often | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| constantly changing world. Freedom and change are inseparable. Enslavement and rigidity are equally inseparable. If you want | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| and emotional position of dependency, thus actively choosing enslavement, no matter how much she tried to put | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| within herself the part that has invited her enslavement. I would venture to say that the stronger | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| line of least resistance. That is the strongest enslavement imaginable. Nothing could be less free. In that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| order to fulfill your real needs without the enslavement of your soul. This might mean a new | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you distort the limitations as if boundaries implied enslavement. I ask all of you to explore this | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Ensnared....................3 | |
| other person. Therefore the soul gets more deeply ensnared in confusion and unrest, anxiety and guilt. Its | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| said about the ego. The ego is constantly ensnared in apparently insoluble situations, problems, and conflicts. The | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| you can acknowledge your lower self without becoming ensnared in self-hate. You will then see clearly that | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Ensnarled...................7 | |
| yet found and dissolved your images you are ensnarled by them. You are constantly reenacting the drama | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| you would be so much in darkness, so ensnarled in your own difficulties, that you could never | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| but against your own submissiveness. You find yourself ensnarled in this conflict. You cannot give up the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| becomes tighter and tighter; the individual is completely ensnarled in this trap of misconceptions, distortions, and illusions | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| hate, but you can never hate the person ensnarled in the error of not knowing what he | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| while their immediate mind and thought power is ensnarled in the same negative attitudes, feelings, and thoughts | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| more deflected they will be. You become more ensnarled in the dualistic state with all its painful | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Ensue.......................9 | |
| lives avoiding decisions, reactions and chain reactions will ensue. A spiritual form is created which will make | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| greater than any suffering or pain that can ensue when one is aware of having wanted it | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| on the dualistic plane, a tremendous conflict must ensue because they are absolutely impossible to accomplish on | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| this movement is lacking, stagnation, stasis and nonlife ensue -- that is, death. Error equates with nonlove | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| Deprivation, emptiness, meaninglessness, and a sense of waste ensue. You may then overcompensate by blindly, rebelliously, misusing | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| off course, negative and painful contact has to ensue. The pleasure principle will be attached to a | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| self-liking, new energy and deeper love and pleasure ensue. But pride, selfwill, and fear make this healing | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| soul system that positive will, feeling, and action ensue? In other words, how do you demagnetize a | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| now is already preparing chain reactions that will ensue in the next minute, the next half hour | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| Ensues......................9 | |
| have consequences, so that a long chain reaction ensues. You may control some of the outermost manifestations | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| attention. Or you might enjoy the self-pity that ensues. Let us suppose that you are to meet | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| becomes so much easier than the struggle that ensues on the either/or plane of the dualistic life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| is rather a variation on the struggle that ensues when one opposes life with one's own nature | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the same attitude continues, and an apparent contradiction ensues: the less one can endure frustration, the less | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| combines with the original force, and negative contact ensues. The actual contact taking place expresses the pull | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| pleasure from doing this, although the pain that ensues and the insoluble conflicts that follow are infinitely | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| against the inner being's decision, a tremendous struggle ensues. That struggle may continue even into old age | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| or to the degree they succeed, world crisis ensues. Every one of you has been prepared through | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Entail......................9 | |
| of salvation does so because it does not entail personal effort. Wouldn't that be easy! But no | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| seeking the other self. This always seems to entail a risk: the risk of living and loving | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is meant by union? Just what does it entail? ANSWER: The concept of union can be discussed | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| on certain responsibilities, even though doing so would entail joy, fulfillment, and development. The fear of love | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| what you see, then make inner choices, which entail the flexibility of change. In accepting imperfection, you | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| to overcome more obstacles within yourself and may entail greater effort and patience. But in the very | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| bear. To let go of the defense would entail giving up the victim and blame game. It | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| up the victim and blame game. It would entail accepting part of the responsibility for much of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| for much of the past suffering. It would entail experiencing the pain of guilt for having inflicted | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Entangled...................18 | |
| and texture -- which are spun, knotted, and entangled, until there is such a tight ball of | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| soul, the more the unhealthy currents will get entangled in the unconscious, and the more difficult it | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| spiritual law. Such fear can be a large, entangled skein, which actually exists as a spiritual form | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| just did not quite make it. And once entangled only a little with the dark powers, he | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of conflicting or unwanted desires that everything is entangled, and it will take a bit of doing | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| partly so. Where it is not, you get entangled and all the more blocked and blinded, just | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that you do not fall behind and get entangled in confusion and become paralyzed; so that your | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| persons are negatively involved, they will all become entangled in their first powerful experiences in this life | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| predicament, you may be sure that you are entangled in a wrong concept. Whenever you are in | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| you so choose, the less you will become entangled in detours and evasions. Directly reaching the core | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| such people go around in circles. The more entangled a man becomes in this apparently insoluble conflict | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| will still feel hopeless, depressed, fearful or anxious, entangled in apparently insoluble conflicts with yourself and others | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| person in question. If the personality is too entangled because it has been resisting for too long | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| of those people with whom the person is entangled lets them off the hook by admitting his | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| As I said, when the human mind becomes entangled in the partial reality of three-dimensional consciousness, it | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| free to love you. You may indeed be entangled in a relationship where love does not come | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| I might suggest is that when you get entangled in these contradictory currents, you immediately let go | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the duality in which the human mind is entangled. The mass mind then builds an environment and | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Entanglement................6 | |
| be disentangled, knot by knot, until the whole entanglement is sorted out and you can live without | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Yes. First you must clear up your emotional entanglement in the relationship, and then you will deal | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as the source of life. The net of entanglement becomes tighter and tighter; the individual is completely | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| it is to shed them. Each web of entanglement sets up a particular resistance against clarifying the | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| already the ground work for further and deeper entanglement and error. At times this tension leads to | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| of the boil, which consists of a painful entanglement of ever-increasing negative energy whose momentum makes it | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |