| Impressionability...........3 | |
| may be quite far removed from truth. The impressionability of a child is infinitely greater than that | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of any input from outside depends on the impressionability of the soul. As to whether fairy tales | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| impressions and experiences are assimilated. The freshness and impressionability of the child's psyche causes early experience to | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Impressionable..............8 | |
| as poignant as a child's. But when your impressionable mind has made an image out of an | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the soul is, by its very nature, very impressionable. Therefore, when the child collects impressions during its | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| of this lecture. When your soul-substance is too impressionable, when you unduly retain impressions -- in this | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| At the same time, its psyche is very impressionable. Everything it experiences has a much fresher and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the same power. This power is a very impressionable mass, a substance that can be governed and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| itself consists of a highly potent, creative, and impressionable substance that is exactly as malleable and moldable | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| living in an infinitely malleable substance of creative, impressionable mass or substance, your belief molds and creates | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the conscious mind must become receptive, listening, pliable, impressionable. It must tune into and understand the spiritual | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| Impressions.................65 | |
| still blind spirits, which might produce strong momentary impressions but whose power quickly dissipates. People generally believe | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| fears. If you begin to check your various impressions of the day and your reactions, you can | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| earliest childhood or infancy, every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences or to sudden, unexpected | 38 IMAGES |
| environmental influences or to sudden, unexpected experiences. These impressions or attitudes usually take the form of conclusions | 38 IMAGES |
| lecture, I discussed the inner images, the wrong impressions and conclusions that a human being forms over | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| high, instead of being governed by your false impressions and shame. It takes only a moment of | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world of manifestation. You can no | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| form an image. The image consists of certain impressions from which general conclusions have been drawn. These | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| person who does not have them. Such inner impressions are formed in young years, and from those | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| are formed in young years, and from those impressions wrong conclusions were drawn. These very images are | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| case not from a shock but from repeated impressions, and drew a conclusion. Or, to use a | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| remains. In this body are all your emotions, impressions, attitudes and trends, in other words, your true | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in your own wrong conclusions and your irrational impressions that you are bound to have an inner | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| healthy and will help you avoid further wrong impressions about God, fate, and life. You will give | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| emotional reactions. Yet these words may leave valuable impressions in others too, and may come to fruition | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| child feels is what counts as the inner impressions accumulate to form the images -- the petrified | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| much stronger, infinitely more powerful, than all subsequent impressions and experiences. Hence, you make a compromise by | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| world you have created out of the false impressions of your childhood. You have no idea what | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| foreground thoughts. (2) You reexperience events, conversations, or impressions in snatches and fragments. If these do not | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| completely without significance. Your mind has registered certain impressions and it repeats them automatically like the rolling | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| them and what is utter waste. Repetition of impressions may not only be important because it is | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| person, to your inner self. Only when these impressions and thoughts are consciously observed can you derive | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| Such wishful thinking, as well as fragments of impressions and automatic repetitions make up, in the main | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| off. You are surrounded again by the strong impressions of the world of manifestation. You cannot penetrate | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of daily analysis of one's negative reactions, emotions, impressions and moods. There is no other way. Instead | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that the wrong reactions are due to wrong impressions, can you gradually change this state. Keep in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is the level on which you harbor wrong impressions and conclusions formed into rigid generalizations about different | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| their being, is much more acute than the impressions, reactions, and experiences of the adult. This is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure and pain. Contrary to just registering such impressions mentally, emotional experience really touches you. Since your | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| be spontaneous. You dare not consult your intuitive impressions which are so valuable. You are trapped, dependent | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Be in peace, be in God! 99. FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE Greetings, my | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| way. We all know that the child's first impressions come from its first environment, in which the | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| their personality is not even noticed. These limited impressions falsify the picture. The image you carry of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| seem much easier to cling to your fixed impressions, where each person fits into a niche. Each | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| estimate now. When you begin to revise your impressions of people in your early environment because you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you revise your image and correct your falsified impressions? If you truly wish to do so, you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| love and respect. When you squash the early impressions of the parents and superimpose artificial, compulsive love | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| Only after courageously becoming aware of all these impressions and reactions, will you gradually see a way | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| it comes to this work, to voicing one's impressions and feelings about others, the truth of the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| in the past. Thus you color your real impressions and experiences, and you are no longer in | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| and the paralysis of their faculties, by false impressions and concepts, and even by the opposite of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| nature, very impressionable. Therefore, when the child collects impressions during its early years, their impact will be | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| soul is potentially healthy and strong, even negative impressions will not make a deep dent. The experience | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| stuff is so lacking in resiliency that the impressions form deep dents and remain imbedded in the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| When the soul is constantly exposed to deep impressions that cannot be assimilated and therefore form dents | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| impression than it needs to and even favorable impressions cause exhaustion. You may all have experienced that | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| devoid of healthy resistance, cannot let go of impressions received. You mull them over and over and | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| so that you are always ready for new impressions and new experiences. In the unhealthy soul the | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| soul-substance is too impressionable, when you unduly retain impressions -- in this case, the currents of others' | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| play a significant role in forming the original impressions in the child's malleable soul substance. But these | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| has a much fresher and more intense impact. Impressions go deeper and remain more firmly rooted -- | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| health, or lack of it, which determines how impressions and experiences are assimilated. The freshness and impressionability | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| of self. All a baby experiences are sense impressions -- pleasure and pain. Its reactions to both | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is, try to take these vague, hazy emotional impressions and question them in the daylight of consciousness | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| life is meaningful, fulfilling and happy. When the impressions are based on wrong conclusions, the molds in | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| the already existing yes-current, to correct all faulty impressions, to give you all the insight you need | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| or her life, together with the thoughts, feelings, impressions, concepts, and the actions, reactions and interactions which | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| discussed the effects of mass images and mass impressions. Most of you think of the crass issues | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the true drama of your beliefs and opinions, impressions and reactions, concepts and ideas, hopes and fears | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| are content to call a host of feelings, impressions and beliefs by any one of these names | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your secret beliefs in the haze of vague impressions and feelings rather than acknowledging them precisely is | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| such nonsense there are also false beliefs and impressions you even consciously assume to be true -- | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| life's limitations. If you can bring these fleeting impressions into more concise awareness, you can ask yourself | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| this will come from free self-expression of their impressions and a mutual exchange. I would like to | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| by simply conveying your feelings and needs, your impressions and assumptions in a questioning and open spirit | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |