| Famous......................6 | |
| is a little one? Simply because you are famous and in the limelight does not necessarily mean | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| You are off on a tangent, using the famous I do not deserve it that comes up | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you are running around in one of those famous vicious circles: the wrong motive makes you feel | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| way, leaders of humankind. They are not necessarily famous. Whatever appears like a negative aspect, a disadvantage | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| by others. Here, again, is one of those famous vicious circles that result from every error instituted | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| for victimizing you. This is one of the famous and very frequent games of pretense that have | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Fanatic.....................4 | |
| past earthly bondages, whether this bondage concerns a fanatic patriotism, family pride, a profession, or whatever else | 18 FREE WILL |
| death. So when a person dies with a fanatic feeling of patriotism, he or she will not | 18 FREE WILL |
| easy to recognize. You recognize it in any fanatic, in anyone who adheres rigidly to dogma, in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| against death. One person will be a religious fanatic who has accepted a belief out of fear | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Fanaticism..................7 | |
| cloister. On the contrary, God does not like fanaticism. What is meant by complete surrender to God | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| destructive like vermin, for instance, would be extreme fanaticism, and an utter misunderstanding of truth. There is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| There is no easy answer here. But again, fanaticism and rigidity will not be the answer. The | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Probe yourself. Where do you tend toward rigid fanaticism? Where do you tend to be irresponsible? Every | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| without their distortions and exaggerations or without their fanaticism and misunderstandings. They sometimes miss the point of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| contrary. Each group uses the distortion, exaggeration, and fanaticism of the other as a proof that their | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| the swings are greater than necessary or desirable, fanaticism and blindness develop exactly as they did at | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Fantasies...................26 | |
| that is right. QUESTION: Speaking of daydreams and fantasies, I wrote a play about a former incarnation | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| even if you do not indulge in such fantasies anymore when you are slighted, don't you still | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| concocting fantasy situations. The more you fabricate these fantasies, the more you spin around this unending vicious | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| such a person -- and this happens through fantasies of glory about your own omnipotence. All this | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| false guilt of not living up to your fantasies of glory, of not being strong and powerful | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not to the ideal extent of your childish fantasies. However, the actual fulfillment will produce much greater | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of its lack of perfection, than the childish fantasies. Such realism is a consequence of the strength | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| does not, even consciously at times, indulge in fantasies. In them, you see yourself in situations in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| inadequacy and eliminating it. In living through such fantasies, you may experience momentary relief, but it is | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| inner changes. The different emotional quality of your fantasies and the kind of satisfaction you derive from | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| your real needs, your drives, your pseudo-fulfillment in fantasies and about their purpose. Now, are there any | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| action, can experience the pleasure principle only in fantasies of cruelty, you will understand that this is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| extent does this manifest -- perhaps in your fantasies -- and how does this hold you back | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| frequently. Sometimes the negative condition manifests only in fantasies. These fantasies are, when closely examined, in one | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| the negative condition manifests only in fantasies. These fantasies are, when closely examined, in one way or | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| relationship with another person, who live merely in fantasies that are utterly attached to negative experiences. At | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to those who are perfectly aware of their fantasies but are unable to experience the pleasure principle | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| often mentioned that in your most secret sexual fantasies lie the secrets of your conflicts, as well | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| all, they experience it so beautifully in their fantasies. That they still do not experience it in | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| proper partner with whom they could realize these fantasies. When a partner finally appears, the old fear | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| longing is then put into channels of unrealizable fantasies of magic. You believe fulfillment is supposed to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| defects deform one's sexual drive into cruel, destructive fantasies, to act them out is just as unnecessary | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| even if it first means living out the fantasies, either in your mind or in a playful | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| otherwise unable to discover. Your most secret sexual fantasies, if examined in the clear light of truth | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| geared to suit you. If you explore your fantasies in this respect you will see exactly where | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| entirely new, joyful, rich experience, beyond your wildest fantasies. Wherever this is the case, certain inner processes | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Fantasizing.................3 | |
| that whenever you find yourself engaged in such fantasizing, develop a new approach. Observe, evaluate, weigh and | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| not. It does not mean wishful thinking, daydreaming, fantasizing, illusory hope. All of these are attempts to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| important lessons. One is that they are not fantasizing but really perceiving something. The second is that | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| Fantastic...................4 | |
| importance as big international issues. This may sound fantastic to you. Nevertheless it is so, my friends | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| over you whenever you fall short of these fantastic demands and engulfs you in misery. This misery | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| do not as yet connect them with the fantastic demands of your idealized self. Only after fully | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| your idealized self. Only after fully seeing these fantastic expectations and their often contradictory imperatives will you | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| Fantasy.....................73 | |
| had, they would live in reality, not in fantasy. Daydreaming is very harmful because when you are | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| When the artist plays with these thoughts of fantasy for the purpose of creating, of fulfilling, of | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| does not mean it is a world of fantasy. It is real. For you, abstract ideas are | 18 FREE WILL |
| say that they are entirely untrue, a wild fantasy. It is also important to understand that the | 38 IMAGES |
| little reactions? Instead of indulging in the death fantasy, you can punish your fellow-creatures in many other | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Thus, you force the world around you in fantasy only. You build up an unreality. You may | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you escape into an illusory world by concocting fantasy situations. The more you fabricate these fantasies, the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| For how can reality ever fit into your fantasy? It cannot. So even under very favorable auspices | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| really means. For the majority, myth means invention, fantasy, imagination, fairy tale, or a lie. Of course | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| indication of the idealized self-image and its pseudo-solutions. Fantasy stems from the predominant aims and needs of | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| idealized self-image shows up in more than just fantasy. It must show in the rigid commands, the | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| daydream about the idealized self-image. A very active fantasy life in which desires are fulfilled is an | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| and inferiority. You correct your undesirable reality with fantasy. Obviously, there is harm in spending precious energy | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| away these inadequacies by experiencing their opposite in fantasy. It is true that the fantasy does bring | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| opposite in fantasy. It is true that the fantasy does bring relief to a drab life, but | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| not sought, the activity of correcting life in fantasy removes aggression, hostility and destructive impulses. Another benefit | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| and spiritual fulfillment is then possible only in fantasy. This is actually a relief and not merely | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| them. It is very likely that you produce fantasy fulfillments for both real and false needs. The | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| real and false needs. The more satisfying your fantasy fulfillment is, the less incentive you will have | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| so that your fulfillment can become real. In fantasy you live a life of your own behind | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| interference from others and without meeting obstructions. Thus fantasy seems more desirable than life. But the more | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| of circumstances, which they can have only in fantasy. This also works in reverse, so that when | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| make-believe world of future fulfillment, expecting that today's fantasy will turn into tomorrow's reality. Of course, the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| never comes. The reality never conforms to the fantasy that has been laboriously prepared in daydreaming; this | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| create substitute fulfillments, which you partially experience in fantasy. It is as though your psyche said, As | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| longer strives in any direction, not even in fantasy. But it is quite impossible to give a | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| escape from it and build your pleasure in fantasy. This, then, seems to confirm the contention that | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| experience the future in reality, but only in fantasy. Likewise, if you pull backward, into the past | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| a new segment of time. You react in fantasy, live in fantasy, and not in the reality | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| of time. You react in fantasy, live in fantasy, and not in the reality of the now | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| stunt growth -- in order to live your fantasy. You are afraid to allow the natural flux | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| often misled in this respect because in your fantasy life these fears do not exist. You may | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| fulfillment and can experience it without inhibition in fantasy. You then believe that outer reasons are responsible | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| responsible for your incapacity to actually realize this fantasy life and that these reasons have nothing to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| with you. But if you cannot realize this fantasy life, there must be an opposing current of | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| fulfillment whenever it approaches. When it is playful fantasy, all may be well. You may detect a | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| in the daylight of consciousness. Examine the faraway fantasy when, apparently, only the yes-current is at work | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| the yes-current is at work. But in this fantasy, do you wish for the impossible in that | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| closer examination, is rigid, one-sided, unreal? In this fantasy, do you expect being favored, at the expense | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| comes to reality, but not in your one-sided fantasy. In such one-sided fantasy, you may even be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| not in your one-sided fantasy. In such one-sided fantasy, you may even be willing to give of | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| give of yourself, but only because in the fantasy you direct the play and thus determine how | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| your immediate emotional reactions as well as your fantasy life. Comparison of both often demonstrates your discrepancies | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you often storm ahead in your flights of fantasy to a faraway goal of perfection, while underneath | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| and shame are so strong that the entire fantasy life is denied, but sometimes it is conscious | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| toward the mother? This happens perhaps only in fantasy, never in reality, and then the person is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| can be determined is by investigation of one's fantasy life. It is that way that the marriage | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| in the process of maturing, have brought together fantasy and reality in the most positive and favorable | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| positive and favorable sense. This bringing together of fantasy and reality does not mean repression of fantasy | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fantasy and reality does not mean repression of fantasy life, but true overcoming of it, because reality | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| strict denial so that no awareness, even in fantasy, exists. This comes from fear, guilt, and shame | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| cases, a semi-conscious resistance to giving up this fantasy life exists out of fear that the pleasure | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| such instances, is never as satisfying as the fantasy. Hence, one assumes that giving up the fantasy | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| fantasy. Hence, one assumes that giving up the fantasy means giving up the pleasure. So one does | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| is only a step to annihilation in your fantasy life. Hence, you feel that leaving your dualistic | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| life, but dared to do so only in fantasy. It lacks the courage to create it in | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| stimulating, less conducive to loving feelings than the fantasy. Recognize that you feel more reassured when you | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| on the other. Wistful, resigned daydreaming that grabs fantasy as a substitute for drab reality is not | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| experienced for people at this stage is in fantasy. This leads to a very common and frequent | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| still rampant. The soul movements contract and the fantasy cannot be realized. This is usually explained away | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| capable of sustaining actual mutuality -- not in fantasy, not in longing only, not in an as | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| level, longing and disappointment alternate with fulfillment in fantasy. This indicates some degree of opening and flow | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| state is that in which people live in fantasy. They may appear to live in reality. They | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| but their real pleasure in life lies in fantasy. I mentioned this last time in a different | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| of mind pictures. All this belongs to the fantasy state. All of it uses up valuable life | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| with apparent danger, so that taking refuge in fantasy life is the only avenue of fulfillment. Vicarious | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| plays. Escape into them is often due to fantasy living, rather than real living from the self | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| it, just as you needed to abandon the fantasy level. Such attitudes may still exist in you | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| then impel you to seek substitute fulfillment in fantasy -- or in obtaining approval and being envied | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| work that surpasses what might possibly be a fantasy. It seems too good to be true. It | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| There are innumerable possibilities and meanings. Each sexual fantasy must be reawakened and allowed to be, so | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| not see or experience; it seems like a fantasy when you hear it discussed. This limitation of | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| is acted out. If these expressions occur in fantasy or in situations of mutual consent where no | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |