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 Evolvement..................3
upheavals is always toward the one end: spiritual evolvement, union, freedom from one's own inner chains. If 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
a major role. After a certain degree of evolvement, consciousness can determine the strength, vigor, and length 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
apart from the tremendous value for your personal evolvement and your overall task in the great plan 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE
 
 Evolves.....................8
claims are distorted and unrealistic. Thus a battle evolves that overshadows the potential for a real relationship 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
the tortured level a new way of being evolves. You will simultaneously experience both. I venture to 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
forms and the ways must change as humanity evolves, but the fundamental path remains the same. Before 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
desire is too strong, too tight, if it evolves out of a misconception that implies any kind 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the denial of going with the process that evolves out of your innermost being as the wisest 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
making connections. When connections are made, the process evolves in its full glory. When connections are not 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
of morality and conscience. The Christ consciousness that evolves within brings humanity into a state in which 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE
Godman or Godwoman -- the New Person -- evolves out of this work that includes the totality 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
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has a thought, an idea, or a wish evolving from the spiritual field will be completely filled 18 FREE WILL
spirit was created separately. But incarnated humans are evolving in a slow re-climbing from the Fall? ANSWER 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
want means terror, darkness, and unhappiness. Simultaneously, the evolving conscious part has realized that you cannot always 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
innermost self. You prevent your innermost self from evolving. You prevent your feelings from maturing, from manifesting 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
out and you will be in control of evolving negative emotions without repressing them, but expressing them 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
on than the cause. Now that humanity is evolving, more attention must be given to the inner 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS
may come up -- and recognizing that the evolving material fits into this or that lecture or 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION
and ignore the full significance of the thus evolving struggle. The struggle varies from individual to individual 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
of self-realization who have taken some steps toward evolving out of your errors have found these truths 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
a greater extent than you know, you are evolving into a new reality, but you still block 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING
follow through, you will experience shortly something new evolving out of you whose existence you never expected 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
They must be dissolved in the process of evolving spiritually. You may note that for the longest 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
with a new consciousness, with a new being evolving within you. Although you yearn for this, you 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS
One cannot discuss this topic without noting the evolving relationship between the sexes. As the planet is 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
physical manifestation is weak and contracted. The inner evolving life is stronger than ever. Because this lecture 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
would like to speak about a state of evolving love in you that, as a result of 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM
and expands it, filtering it through the newly evolving and expanding consciousness. The new-age person is so 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
that would previously have remained secret. Through the evolving group consciousness a great interplay and interaction takes 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE
 
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inner morality. However, the real self has extremely exacting standards of real morality, of a far deeper 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
kind of self-rejection is based on a very exacting mechanism in you that, regardless of your conscious 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
over and taken for granted without particular and exacting insight, the task is only half done. Meditation 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
the involuntary expression of a lawful process, so exacting, intricate, and meaningful that to convey it to 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
These circumstances are figured out in a most exacting way that you cannot even imagine. Every detail 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
even imagine. Every detail is part of an exacting and intricate equation in which every possibility is 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
other variables, that you cannot possibly envisage requires exacting research. You must also imagine that all other 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK
ensure this ultimate overcoming of evil that very exacting laws and rules exist, preventing Satan from acting 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
 
 Exactitude..................3
interfere. The divine laws must be observed in exactitude, the activities of the powers of darkness are 22 SALVATION
there is unfulfillment, which works out with the exactitude of a mathematical equation. Of course, people are 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
principle of order; this universal order has an exactitude and mathematical precision that escapes human vision. Only 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
 
 Exaggerate..................17
this. Try it! You do not have to exaggerate; you do not have to go to strangers 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
you, everything gets out of proportion. You may exaggerate one thing and underestimate another. But a person 31 SHAME
of destructive wrong guilt feelings that make you exaggerate your own badness and lead you to feel 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME?
this to be true. While sometimes you may exaggerate a hurt, at other times you do not 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
your real feelings. You do so when you exaggerate and dramatize a positive feeling about a person 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
and in life. You will not need to exaggerate. You will not believe that you must have 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT
lock and key. Thus you superimpose and artificially exaggerate other hurts. As your work progresses, you sometimes 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
rather strengthen you. You will not need to exaggerate the badness of the trait in question, nor 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE
your intellectual understanding, still feel that way. You exaggerate the importance of your current situation. You are 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you believe are the injustices, which you unconsciously exaggerate in order to hold on to yourself, so 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN
a strong man. You even go overboard and exaggerate this image of masculinity. This overcompensation would not 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN
destructive emotion, you will not masochistically aggrandize and exaggerate it. Nor will you deny it -- either 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
You will become aware of your attempt to exaggerate and drag out old injuries, to quite deliberately 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
as to deny your own. You distort and exaggerate to falsify. You deal with half-truths -- for 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
you have received. In both instances you can exaggerate it and make yourself incapacitated for life, or 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
your inner self; it devastates you and you exaggerate it, playing a game with yourself. Shame applies 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
you will easily see that I do not exaggerate. This is a quite accurate description of your 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION
 
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you will realize that the terrible upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and shortcomings, are nothing 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS
own guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified. The inner 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
it to all of a sudden lose its exaggerated proportions, and some of its fearful aspects. Being 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS
positive aspects to cleanse this current of its exaggerated, distorted, and negative aspects which are: a certain 32 DECISION-MAKING
is perhaps a strong trend of nationalism and exaggerated patriotism. They remain in this country, and it 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
because of your forcing current, because of your exaggerated need to have everyone approve of you. That 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES
or overanxious, if your desire for communication is exaggerated into a craving, the soul forces will automatically 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
be quite unaware of your hidden craving and exaggerated need; you may have covered it with a 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
is what matters. And when you discover your exaggerated craving, you will understand that this hitherto unconscious 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
cause the other person to withdraw from the exaggerated motion of your demand. If the person has 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
involved on either end. On some occasions the exaggerated need surged out of you and was repulsed 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
worth nothing. You will understand that your childish, exaggerated craving has nothing to do with healthy love 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
between the extremes of over-eagerness coming from an exaggerated need, and withdrawal. Strange as this may sound 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
perseverance to learn gradually how to communicate without exaggerated need. As you know from my previous talks 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
subsequently become able to let go of the exaggerated need, you will find that need to be 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
you are genuinely and healthily detached, but your exaggerated need merely festers underground, covered by layers of 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
never be fulfilled, because it has been wildly exaggerated, and therefore you put it out of sight 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
subject? QUESTION: Did I understand correctly that the exaggerated need is a neurotic streak? ANSWER: Of course 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
this, because if you free yourself of the exaggerated need, your innermost self -- your real self 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
your unfulfillment as a child, now manifesting as exaggerated craving. You learn to distinguish between the healthy 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY
your wish would create unbearable frustration of your exaggerated belief that the nonfulfillment of your wish is 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
even though your reason knows that they are exaggerated, irrational, and often entirely untrue. Yet, you cannot 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
your shame out in the open will its exaggerated character vanish. And with that you will gain 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT
your guilt feelings. It would also strengthen the exaggerated demands and standards of your idealized self-image. It 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and when explained in crude language they appear exaggerated. You have to uncover, feel, and experience the 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
to express my inner conflicts. The words seem exaggerated. How can I keep my words level with 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE
the error of picturing yourself as all bad. Exaggerated self-condemnation is connected with the second condition we 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
as a result of your work that such exaggerated emotional reactions exist. You have begun to sense 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
truth that all these painful emotions -- whether exaggerated or repressed -- are illusions, and that you 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
will tell you. You see, the failures are exaggerated because you tend very much toward building up 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
he or she still becomes inhuman from your exaggerated overglorification. Your fixed and static view, due to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
from facing this hate can mean maintaining the exaggerated glorification, not only because the world seems to 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
the lack of courage to be yourself; the exaggerated need to please; or any number of other 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES
true or not, or true in part but exaggerated in importance. Still another is the overconscience, an 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
surface, it will be apparent that under this exaggerated vulnerability still lies a certain hypocrisy, as well 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
the weakness and shame its concomitant -- an exaggerated strength. He confuses flexibility, adjustability, the ability to 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
need into another channel. Wherever there is an exaggerated involvement, an involvement which disrupts inner and/or outer 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
may, in other personalities, create an overemphasis, an exaggerated need for purely sexual expression. A compulsion for 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
for ego-gratification is acknowledged, but it is not exaggerated at the expense of other functions and expressions 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
To make the denial successful, you produce its exaggerated opposite. You not only try to convince yourself 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
be overcompensated by false sentimentality, dramatization, and insincere exaggerated sympathy. But these are only substitutes for the 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
self is also unrealistic because it is as exaggerated and distorted as the goal you feel you 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF
I also sense that my reactions may be exaggerated. What should I do about this now that 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY
destructive? ANSWER: Of course, everything that is over, exaggerated, implies an imbalance, a disturbance. QUESTION: How can 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION
fears, while the fear of death has been exaggerated and made into a big and seemingly rational 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO
unnoticed, you cease to live. This may sound exaggerated, but it is not. It explains why your 143 UNITY AND DUALITY
to blockage. Hence, the feeling is manipulated, artificially exaggerated or dramatized. Again, this may apply to positive 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE
come to terms with, create false guilts and exaggerated standards of perfection. It is therefore always a 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS
with too tightly held convictions, too intense and exaggerated emotions, overreaction, as well as muscular tightness. All 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION
control? Unless you trust the involuntary processes, the exaggerated ego control cannot be relinquished and you can 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
true when one says the ego's predominance, its exaggerated strength, is the greatest hindrance to productive living 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
at least retains a modicum of sanity. The exaggerated self-governing of an aggrandized ego condition is preferable 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
The interpretation you give to those incidents is exaggerated and distorted a hundredfold. You need to look 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
build on top of this structure a false, exaggerated hurt -- the game of, See what you 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
you to act differently. This kind of artificially exaggerated hurt results from all the false layers that 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
these threatening feelings become more and more aggrandized, exaggerated and misunderstood. Then it seems indeed as though 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING
does not. Conversely, the man who expresses an exaggerated form of the masculine principle must harbor areas 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
One end of the active-passive spectrum will be exaggerated which inevitably will affect the other end. Introspection 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
he also sees that his blame is totally exaggerated. He is now at the point of renouncing 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
to me. I will overcome all self-pity and exaggerated fear because I know that they are only 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE
danger, it is something you can overcome. Even exaggerated fear of an outer occurrence would not be 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
creates fear, and often, as the assumption becomes exaggerated, fear turns into terror. The terror of sadness 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
accusation. One can always find actual, imagined, or exaggerated and distorted reasons for focusing the weight of 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
hiding and camouflaging or whitewashing must have stopped; exaggerated self-blame must be relinquished. What is necessary is 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
to go through some stages that may seem exaggerated, or may even be exaggerated, before further sexual 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE
that may seem exaggerated, or may even be exaggerated, before further sexual liberation -- the unification of 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE

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