| Height......................8 | |
| even for those who have reached a certain height on this upward path. You cannot overcome what | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the battle of the heavens, parallel to the height of power of Hitler before the Russian debacle | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| work differently in each sphere, according to the height of their development. Let us begin with the | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| of self-purification. Once you have attained a certain height, your own happiness will no longer be the | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| knows only extremes. It is either the great height, the final goal, or it is nothing. The | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as the ultimate end. When you reach the height of your potential, you no longer experience life | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your productive activities will also reach a new height, being executed in peace and harmony. Tension, frustration | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fear of feeling, or fear of experiencing the height of universal love which is, strange as this | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Heighten....................6 | |
| what is, rather than what you want, will heighten your intuition, your discrimination, your awareness, and therefore | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| any negative finding within yourself. It will also heighten your creative abilities. Humanity's fundamental longing is to | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| to how these facets seem to lessen or heighten your own personality. In other words, somebody who | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| focusing your faculties on the danger point, to heighten the speed of the appropriate reaction, and to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| always capable of using whatever you experience to heighten your blissful life. Dark spots become opportunities for | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| relationship, and in accepting it you can only heighten your selfhood and your true dignity. By following | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Heightened..................6 | |
| soul, which truly and eternally exists in a heightened form. Both are true. The reason that the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| the degree is comparatively small, it may be heightened by guilt and suppression. But by facing it | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical level. Such inclusion comes | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| are in actual danger. In actual danger, your heightened perception makes you decide whether to launch a | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| of the cosmic force and, hence, the more heightened the pleasure. Intensity is an ego-attitude and prohibits | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| this statement when you ponder a minute the heightened moments in your life. Whatever was truly pleasurable | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Heightens...................3 | |
| engages you in a battle with yourself which heightens the fear of giving up a precious defense | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| a woman. The surrender of the loving woman heightens the mastery of self-activation in her mate. She | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| the attempt to impose a false order, which heightens the discomfort and the disorderliness. It is as | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Heights.....................17 | |
| were possible, this medium would have reached such heights in development that future incarnations would be unnecessary | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| The spheres which no longer belong to these heights contain also wondrous beauty. And there, too, the | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| those of the similar spheres among the highest heights. Everything depends on the entities' developmental stage. Receptivity | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| with at least one other being. In the heights of the spirit world, union exists among all | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| the spiritual forces. Therefore she can attain greater heights, but just because of that she also reaches | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| harmonize and elevate the manifest talent to new heights. In fact, it is often the case that | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| encouragement or compliment makes your spirit surge to heights of unreasonable joy or gratification, beyond all proportion | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| launch you on the ladder upward to the heights that can one day be yours, but not | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| growth of an entity to go through many heights and depths than to falsely construct a serenity | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| war with yourself, you nevertheless wish to attain heights of perfection and superiority quite incongruous with your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| out of pride. They wanted to reach the heights by the wrong method and out of the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of having passed through life without experiencing its heights and depths, without developing yourself to the most | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| will crystallize pleasure supreme, the capacity to experience heights of joy that you never dreamed possible. If | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| are the people who want to reach spiritual heights but who harbor the unexpressed illusion that to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| Utter darkness, loss, pain, and confusion alternate with heights of golden light, carrying justified hope for an | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| being can experience. You will progress to new heights and depths of experience, where you explore the | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| creative act, bringing forth new spiritual forms, new heights of development in the two selves that can | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Held........................68 | |
| not only in words and as a generally held belief, but through your entire inner attitude and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| Lucifer would not give up the dominion he held over his followers. If, for instance, a human | 22 SALVATION |
| judged accordingly. Then this will certainly not be held against him, the same as killing in a | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| a war by a soldier will not be held against him, if his heart is pure and | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| in judgment and this in itself is not held against you as long as you are sincere | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| life. For a long time, this mass image held that humans reach an average of, let us | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| reaction to a contrary, mass image that humanity held some time ago. Then, guardian angels and everything | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| begun to loosen a heavy chain that has held you prisoner of the world of illusion. Then | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| there were no conviction, you would not have held on to it for so long. You know | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you will be free. False concepts are always held on to in the mistaken assumption that they | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| on earth. The other theory, which is still held by orthodox religious people, is that God created | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and even more than before, when they simply held on because they were uncertain. The joy of | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the cosmos, and teaching others, they are withdrawn, held back, and made inactive. Your innermost nature rebels | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| taught and -- due to inner fears -- held on to these teachings ferociously. True as a | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to some extent at least, be squelched and held in abeyance. The whole personality is geared toward | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| all spirits know everything, especially if those entities held very strong convictions during their lifetime. Such strong | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| make decisions for me. I will not be held responsible and I will be rewarded with happiness | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| themselves as long as the negative emotions were held in check. You will also learn to discriminate | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the course of years. So many people are held back from living by a feeling of tiredness | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to the limits of a human being still held down by the physical body. I have hardly | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| of the basic, naked needs that you have held in check. When you experience the pain, before | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| personal happiness -- a misconception that is often held even by the irreligious person. The splits and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| human being has to offer to life is held in check, denied, and hidden. Hence a vast | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| opposed to one's idealized self. If the child held this special position because it was a good | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| Even if such conflicting views are not consciously held by you, they nevertheless blur your vision and | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| willingly offer their best to life and deliberately held this as their goal, they could not be | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| original level of perfect functioning. If the usually held concept that perfect functioning goes away were correct | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| be maintained only when the ego is tightly held together. What does life mean in this connection | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| hopes to the dualistic plane, with its tightly held opinions, false ideas, vanity, pride, selfwill, and fear | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| discarding a less truthful general concept you have held until now. You can begin only by destroying | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| not coincide with ideas and ideals you have held on the dualistic plane, but the way you | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| question themselves deeply and sincerely: Where have I held back? Where did I not want to go | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| means that you are either passive, paralyzed and held back, or you are ruthless, with the inevitable | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the evolutionary plan as much as this misconception, held by well-meaning and otherwise quite enlightened individuals. These | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| discrepancy presents a major block, for the unconsciously held material covers and barricades the cosmic force. The | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| this indentation, which is connected with too tightly held convictions, too intense and exaggerated emotions, overreaction, as | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| mental realm is too intense in its tightly held views, the fresh flow of the life force | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| the flowing movements are made taut through intensely held opinions, emotions, and physical muscles, both outer and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| In fact, you become a shallow, lifeless shell, held together by rigid guards you dare not ever | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| is why it is so feared. It is held in check only by the power to reason | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and joyful living and well-being, is contained and held back by condensed emotions -- by powerful feelings | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| inner organism is feared, denied expression, and tightly held together. Thus living becomes a poor imitation of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| you because they have been artificially denied and held back for too long, then you cannot control | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| assuming. He now finds that he has unconsciously held the common misconception that sex is dirty. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| dispose of the waste energy that is now held within your system. There can be no more | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| lean against the backrest of the chair but held up by its own balance. Close your eyes | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| motives that must be unearthed, explored, challenged, and held up against reality -- the reality you have | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| without tranquilizers. He has finished college and has held a job for over a year. His capacity | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| destructiveness still exists in you and is tenaciously held onto -- so much so that you do | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and self-respect you lacked as long as you held others responsible for what you had to suffer | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| I called years ago the images that are held within the psyche. I helped you find these | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| are failing human beings -- they cannot be held responsible for your suffering now. Even less can | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| you wish to feel the pain that is held in you, as it was given and as | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| I, too, can admit these feelings without being held solely responsible. What a difference this would be | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| diminished, for this is impossible. It is only held in abeyance and momentarily prevented from manifesting, but | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| merely an outward projection of what emotions are held back with a misdirected emphasis. How does this | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| laws as well. All the planetary systems are held together by these meaningful laws. If they were | 228 BALANCE |
| of the human body. The human body is held together by a supreme law of balance of | 228 BALANCE |
| mind, you experience the incredible beauty of being held together and carried by a balancing system of | 228 BALANCE |
| Creation cannot exist without a word spoken, known, held, believed in and committed to, in each area | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| to happen. You will have released the inwardly held movement. At first this movement may create a | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| deep, most realistic, experiential knowledge that you are held by God, that you live in a Creation | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the Jews. The more firmly this belief was held, the more hatred and discrimination, separation and enmity | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| are safe and must therefore be worshipped and held on to. It is through these attitudes that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| represented and personified these two principles. Each one held its own kingdom and ruled its own world | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| situation you start out with a very firmly held conviction. Everything you can observe bears out this | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| friends, you are all so blessed, so richly held in God's hands. Know the strength of your | 254 SURRENDER |
| about His reality will vanish. Once you are held in His arms, consoled and encouraged by His | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |