| person drawn into an environment where the mass image exists that it is better, and even quite | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| how to begin searching for it in the image work? ANSWER: There is not only one explanation | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| bring the problem to me or to your image sessions. The emphasis will then have to be | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| in peace, be in God! 57. THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE Greetings, my friends. God bless all | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| I would like to discuss a particular mass image about the self. This mass image exists at | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| particular mass image about the self. This mass image exists at all times, regardless of civilization, geography | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| desire to reach perfection. Such a universal mass image is the following: If I receive attention or | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| this emotion within yourself. Since this is an image, it is illusory. The purpose of this work | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| problems for you. The particular illusion of this image has many repercussions and creates a chain reaction | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| Let us go back to this particular mass image. We, in our world, can hear your souls | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| harmonious sound. The outer manifestation of this mass image varies according to temperament and individual characteristics; according | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| pride? Because of the wrong conclusion of the image I have just explained. It leads you to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| answer will you be aware of the mass image of self-importance in your own soul. In this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| self-importance in your own soul. In this mass image there is you on one side, and the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| understanding and connections. You will see how this image brings you many conflicts and problems. As long | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| were free of this particular misconception. This mass image takes on many forms in your unconscious. Therefore | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| approval, too. Other sick currents also affect the image and twist it into a particular direction. The | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and twist it into a particular direction. The image says that without the approval of the world | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| many other conflicts arise out of the mass image of self-importance. You can easily see that this | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| part in you which is bound by the image. You will find at least some areas in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| at least some areas in you where the image exists -- no matter how subtly, how much | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| am showing you: you will recognize the mass image with which you, too, are inflicted. In that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| you are not the only one with this image -- you share it with all other human | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| is that you experience the existence of this image within you. When you experience it, then the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| assure you, my friends, you can find this image behind every conflict, outer or inner. Sometimes the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| images are always connected with the universal mass image of self-importance. I would now like to mention | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| and the existence and influence of the mass image is rarely connected with it. And yet it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| show you, my friends, how the particular mass image of self-importance, strengthened by various personal images, may | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| not see how you attracted it. This mass image makes you strive and fight to be in | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| order to counterbalance the influence of the mass image of self-importance, you overcompensate by scrupulously proving the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| When you experience the existence of this mass image in you -- not just intellectually but also | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| search in this direction. Bring out the mass image of self-importance. You can only do so by | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| few people think in terms of this mass image intellectually, my dear. It is rarely on the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| person goes to meet the demands of the image is usually completely unconscious until a serious self-search | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| wrong. QUESTION: May I ask how this mass image affects the individual's God-image? ANSWER: God-images have many | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| they may be, the connection between the mass image of self-importance and the God-image is this: it | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| conflict in the psyche. The stronger the mass image of self-importance and the stronger the God-image, the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| In cases that are less crass, where one image is much stronger than the other, the conflict | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| concept. But when the God-image and the mass image of self- importance work against one another, the | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| pull, which draws you away from the mass image of self-importance comes from two sides: the side | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| being, where you are caught in the mass image, will change your life. Receive our love and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| or inner process just described is not an image; it is neither a personal, nor a mass-image | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| people have lived so long with this mass image that only one side was developed and encouraged | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| takes simply a little training. In the so-called image sessions it could be easily done. As many | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| womanhood so that the upholders of the mass image seem to be correct. But they only appear | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| be correct because an extreme, like the mass image, is never the solution. The opposite extreme, being | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in many an individual personality. Take the mass image that love is weakening and dangerous. Such an | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| in the near future. It touches a mass image which says, Selfishness is pleasant. One must not | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one happy. This is a very common mass image, and to some degree it is part of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it may be. The existence of this mass image is bound to cause compulsions, rebellion, and guilt | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| godly means to be unhappy and severe. This image is engraved in humankind. This is supposed to | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| here, this is a good indication of an image and the chances are that they themselves have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| be a strong indication that there is an image in the soul which magnetically attracts prejudice. Therefore | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Yes, thank you very much. QUESTION: The word image brings to mind an essay I just read | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| an essay I just read, Imago Dei, the Image of God. I wondered often why you chose | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I wondered often why you chose the word image to suggest a negative attribute within us, when | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| we read that we were created in the image of God. Is it meant that humans are | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that humans are not supposed to create an image of God since human-made images are only projections | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| projections, but that only God can create the image of himself in man? ANSWER: I chose the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| himself in man? ANSWER: I chose the word image because, as again the symbol will clarify, an | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| because, as again the symbol will clarify, an image is something like a picture. I could have | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. So the way we use the word image | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| image. So the way we use the word image corresponds to the meaning of the Bible: something | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that people are not capable of creating an image of God, because it would be a distortion | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be a distortion. ANSWER: They cannot create an image of God. It is an absolute impossibility. It | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spite of this commandment, people have made an image of God and it turned out to be | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| reward. That is the result of making an image of God. I have given you food for | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feel that I have dissolved a very important image. Is this true, and can you give me | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to be on guard. To really shed an image is not a sudden thing. It is not | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| past. The mask self and the idealized self- image are really one and the same. The idealized | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| to do will enable you to dissolve this image of all images. Needless to say, you also | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| these trends become incorporated into the idealized self- image. Thus people succeed in believing that all these | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| help acknowledged as important. The pride in this image is very obvious, but the dishonesty will be | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| an excuse for not liking anyone. The idealized image in this case dictates that one must not | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| insecure -- the dictates of the idealized self- image of these two types are very different. While | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| the superstructure of your tyrant, your idealized self- image with all the unnecessary harm it does you | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| of the inordinate pride of the idealized self- image that cannot allow for any semblance of defeat | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| enlighten us on the relationships among the main image, the idealized self-image and the God-image, particularly in | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| God, common to all human beings. The God- image may be life, the rules of life, or | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| main problem in life, resulting in the main image, is always the feeling of helplessness in the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of pleasure. Alternatively, if this is your main image, you may believe that you can find the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to rebel and to hate whatever contradicts the image of obedience and goodness. It also creates the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you. Be in God! Lecture 52, The God Image Lecture 81, Conflicts in the World of Duality | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| such emotions which are probably incompatible with the image you have of yourself. If you learn to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| losing control, I advise to think of the image you have of yourself, of what you think | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| discovering that you are not your idealized self- image, you also know how to approach this. You | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instinctual needs, and those of the idealized self- image. Instinctual needs derive from the two basic instincts | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in God! 93. THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES Greetings, my dearest friends | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| As you know, there is always one main image which causes the most important unfulfillment in your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| wrong conclusions and pseudo-solutions which constitute the main image. The second concern of our work is to | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| three aspects, as well as the idealized self image, form a part of your defense. But your | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| disappear. Let us review in brief how an image comes into existence. The childhood hurts and frustrations | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| fluid and dynamic throughout. This, then, is the image, which will later act as a preconceived idea | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| later act as a preconceived idea. But the image also always contains the supposed remedy for the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the supposed remedy for the hurt. Since the image is unreal, so must be the remedy, which | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| original hurt that caused you to form an image. You not only repress the hurt, so that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the experience leading to the formation of the image was so painful and so humiliating that you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| why. The repeated pattern not only proves the image right, but it also proves that your defenses | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| original hurt of the experience which brought the image into existence. This is all the more confusing | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the more confusing, because a part of the image works. The best way to explain this is | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| therefore frustrated. In a situation like this, the image will form that women are ungiving, rejecting, and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| out, he will seek a remedy against the image. As I said before, due to the unreal | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| be successful. This situation will add to the image the following conclusion: Although women do not give | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| loved was already repressed by the time the image came into existence. The main image, in a | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| time the image came into existence. The main image, in a case like this, would be: I | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| understanding, what this means. Due to such an image -- if there is no strong second image | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| image -- if there is no strong second image counteracting the main image -- such a person | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is no strong second image counteracting the main image -- such a person will actually be very | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| attitude toward both. So this is where the image does not work. Therefore the constantly frustrated needs | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| in the unexpressed claim contained in the main image. Here you can clearly see one link between | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| can clearly see one link between the main image and the repressed needs. The repressed need for | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| what originally caused you to produce your main image, you now reject because of the wrong conclusion | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| for the traits that are embedded in the image and that bring him success. She will love | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| the traits that are meant to make the image work. Now let us go on to the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| elements by reconsidering, once again, what your main image is. Some of you have not even found | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| you have done. Once you see the main image, determine the part that worked out because of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| work. Look at the needs involved with this image. Once you recognize the image with both the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| involved with this image. Once you recognize the image with both the fulfilled and unfulfilled claims, you | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| unfulfillment you wanted to avoid through the erroneous image conclusion. Even if you know your main image | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| image conclusion. Even if you know your main image, you will not really benefit from this awareness | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| on denying it himself by way of the image, with all its byproducts. The awareness of the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| is love. The pseudo-solutions and the idealized self- image are pretenses. The real self is intrinsically genuine | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| appease others and come from your idealized self- image. The result will be anxiety and new destructive | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| About self-alienation: Say a young girl has an image of how she would like to be as | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| musts, you can now see that where this image ruled you is exactly where you have not | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| noticed. These limited impressions falsify the picture. The image you carry of them, often unconsciously, may be | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| displaced way -- even now. Maintaining your glorified image of a parent can also be a sign | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to your unconscious mind giving up the glorified image of the parent is tantamount to losing all | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you possess. No wonder you resist revising your image of your parents. By the same token, you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| equal interest in holding on to a hated image. Why would you want to do that? It | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| a niche. Each impression becomes then a static image, which gives you a certain unreal sense of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| about parents or parent figures to revise your image. They may be dead, and even if they | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| with them. So how can you revise your image and correct your falsified impressions? If you truly | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| new understanding you destroy the limited, rigid, robot-like image in which you emotionally experience them. Then they | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| for pseudo-protection originates in the creation of an image. Can this need still persist after the image | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| image. Can this need still persist after the image has been dissolved, and thereby contribute to the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| thereby contribute to the creation of a new image? ANSWER: Of course this can happen; this is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| remains embedded, may create another destructive pattern or image. So it is always a question of the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| same word over and over -- be it image, real self, or whatever else -- the meaning | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| confusion and suffering. When you consider what an image is, you will see that you have used | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| But when your impressionable mind has made an image out of an experience, has petrified this onetime | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| you did not mold it according to your image. Perhaps you will now understand better what we | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| creation. 2) a reaction to the superstitious God- Image and self-projection of man, denying self-responsibility. This latter | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| so that this experience turned into a rigid image? Isn't it habit that causes you to stick | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| beyond its reality-value. As you remember, when an image forms in the soul the one-time occurrence is | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| become frightened, suspicious, guilty, and resentful; because some image or pseudo-solution is at work. You have, again | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| Here I do not refer to a particular image you may have, or even to your most | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to face because they contradict one's idealized self- image and bring disapproval and rejection. But they are | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| one sees the destructive nature of a false image and evaluates its effects on self and others | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Such No's are directly connected with the original image, the false concept which molded the image into | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| original image, the false concept which molded the image into the soul substance. It is this basic | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| subtly acting in such a way that the image inevitably appears to be confirmed. For example, if | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| deep shame exists. Whatever the misconception, the original image with its false premises and negative emotions causes | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| to character formation, the type of the individual's image, and various other factors, one will either impulsively | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| by an automatism despite your having discovered the image that causes it? For it is indeed possible | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| For it is indeed possible to discover the image, yet go on reacting blindly, without knowing it | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| it. The fleeting insight of the moment the image was found has faded and lingers only as | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| this understanding. You may have discovered many an image, have understood a number of inner problems and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to it, was -- perhaps because a mass image prohibited it -- without any justification, logic, or | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| the one of dying. Yet a peculiar mass image exists about dying, which is deeply impressed on | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| event of shedding the material body, this mass image produces such fear that the person is too | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| blotted out by the strength of the mass image that again overwhelms the individual. It happens frequently | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| what it is? How wonderful! Yet the mass image cannot be blotted out unless the truth can | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| real problem, but an imaginary one -- an image! Out of this imaginary problem arise a number | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| negative forces, you will clearly see the exact image of your unfulfillment. You will see why you | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| studying the negative aspects, centered on the father image. I have asked myself lately if by doing | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| I concentrate on this mixture of a father image and a concept of maleness. I think I | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| man. You even go overboard and exaggerate this image of masculinity. This overcompensation would not exist if | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| of you to fill in this conscious male image. You believe that this is what you should | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| command that is fulfilled through sacrifice. Then the image forms that to love means to impoverish oneself | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| these cruel impulses are so contradictory to the image people have of themselves and of how they | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| specific importance that you disillusion yourself concerning the image you project into the world and of whose | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| creative energy is totally involved in this presented image. I suggest that you take some time now | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| catastrophe will include you because this is the image you have set up. When you are in | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| constantly counteracted by the unconscious knowledge that this image is untrue, with the result that secretly the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| mind -- not necessarily conscious -- produces the image, I will perish if I have to be | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| in agreeing with you or keeping an idealized image of you. But if this is not the | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| in giving up the whole nucleus of the image, or force field. Although you know the ideas | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| react. You seem caught or trapped in this image, although you know that it is unfair, unreasonable | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| their lives and are therefore blocked, the existing image can be deduced infallibly by looking at the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a positive one. To put it differently, the image has to be dissolved and the creative energy | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| creative energy that was locked up in this image is to be utilized from now on in | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a positive one? How do you dissolve an image? How do you recreate realistic concepts and imprint | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| is distorted and leads to a rigid, unrealistic image. The more you are capable of experiencing any | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| to the actual person, but rather to an image fabricated in your mind of what the other | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| you have no stake in maintaining an illusory image of who the other person ought to be | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| world is but a reflection like a mirror image. Everything you ever need to know about yourself | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Conscious and/or unconscious identification which forms an inner image always creates a limited vision that precludes seeing | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| unrealistic. Positive identification can never lead to an image. Instead it leads to visualization, which is a | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| true. If you have inwardly accumulated a negative image of your life in which you can only | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| suffer, then you must examine and oust this image so as to inactivate its energetic power. This | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| reactions in the other only strengthen your negative image of life. And so it goes on and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| a game with yourself. Shame applies to your image, your pretenses toward the world outside. True remorse | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| know as real is a reflection, a mirror image, an outer projection into which your real self | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| joy, and self-expression. It is not an illusory image of wishful thinking; it is stark reality. You | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| says that change is to be feared. This image creates a condition in the human psyche, similar | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| its natural expansion. The space provided by the image is so narrow that the natural expansive movement | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| substitute. QUESTION: During this lecture I had this image of another being, like me, existing beyond me | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| adventurous. Instead humans attach to it a mass image of boredom. Parents should start to respect children | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| if at all possible. Adults who harbor an image that learning is a hardship, a boring and | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| in the deeper mind. As long as this image prevails in you, you need to question your | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| values, energies and expressions. This is the mass image of Christianity. Like all mass images, this too | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| early environment fostered the formation of a specific image. The images may have begun in this life | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| or in previous lives. The less a specific image has been dissolved, the more it creates conditions | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in the next incarnation that help recreate the image. It is then up to the individual to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| individual to use these conditions to dissolve the image. We shall examine the mass image in detail | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| dissolve the image. We shall examine the mass image in detail, from the point of view of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| inability to differentiate truth from falsehood because the image conclusion is always based on total right versus | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is very much the same as with all image formation -- and the image dissolution. You can | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| as with all image formation -- and the image dissolution. You can also see clearly here that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| can also see clearly here that the personal image is multiplied many times, for many similar cases | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| similar cases and conditions exist. Thereby a mass image is created. The mass image of the Christian | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Thereby a mass image is created. The mass image of the Christian rebel harbors underneath it the | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| that if they recognize, challenge and dissolve their image, they will have to become Christian submitters. And | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| equally afraid to let go of their own image, for that would seem to mean they must | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| deal much more often with the rebelling Christian image. The submitter exists only as an underlying threat | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| shall also show the process of dissolving the image. Before that, however, I would like to discuss | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| I would like to discuss the Jewish mass image. A mass image must always start with a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| to discuss the Jewish mass image. A mass image must always start with a personal image that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| mass image must always start with a personal image that is multiplied often enough to create a | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is multiplied often enough to create a collective image. So we shall start with the feeling of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of life. So, on one level, this mass image is a personal/psychological issue which parallels that of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a challenge and thus help dissolve the mass image. Or they can choose to further perpetuate it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| A brief recapitulation here is in order. An image is a false idea, a wrong conclusion formed | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| endlessly. The soul is not free when any image exists. The image of the rebelling Christian is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| is not free when any image exists. The image of the rebelling Christian is: If I embrace | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| bear out the original misconception. The Jewish mass image is: If my parents and forebears were wrong | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| truth, must be denied. Now how does this image work? The Jewish misconception is that Jesus was | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| of many individual Jews, thereby creating a mass image. The defense against this mass image, the fear | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a mass image. The defense against this mass image, the fear of its coming true inevitably created | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| soul substance. You have dealt with many an image in your personal psyche. You have come to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| a good dowry and who raised men's social image. In other words, greed and pride were glamorized | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| real universe, while outer space is a mirror image, a reflection of it. This is why outer | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| a sight, it is again only the mirror image of the inner event. In the same way | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |