| Apprehensions...............4 | |
| By looking at your various moods, emotions, fears, apprehensions, and anxieties -- which all represent a form | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| look at your desires, fears, and needs, your apprehensions and reactions -- right or wrong -- at | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| your lack of knowing it, your fears and apprehensions -- your own permission, as it were, to | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| category of fear belong all worries, anxieties, and apprehensions. The ego's trick is to make change appear | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Apprehensive................6 | |
| experiences, you will find that what you were apprehensive about, and what seemed disproportionately horrible as you | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| uncertain, so fearful, so divided, so defensive and apprehensive that these negative emotions about the positive direction | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| you begin to sense and suspect, and be apprehensive about, the existence of these feelings. Some of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| find that, in the last analysis, you are apprehensive of your own evil, regardless of how threatening | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to their immense surprise the contrary of their apprehensive expectation: their self-respect and self- liking will increase | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| raw, edgy or pointed, you feel anxious, upset, apprehensive. Every soul movement is the result of specific | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Approached..................29 | |
| meditation and prayer in depth. If you have approached a problem already, how can you approach it | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| at the time that desirelessness has to be approached carefully, otherwise it will do more harm than | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| it is often hidden and can only be approached in an indirect way. I cannot show you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| have broken a law. It is to be approached in a completely different way. I would say | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inadvisable in all circumstances, especially if it is approached with the attitude of helping the spirits. The | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| find out why. As always, this should be approached as dispassionately and with as new an outlook | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| it is a great relief to actually be approached by a human being who has the strength | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of insight and progress. It certainly cannot be approached lightly and irresponsibly. Childish willfulness, always wanting to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| brought out. However, the work should never be approached in a spirit of God demands it of | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| been brought to consciousness, truth must also be approached from the other side. That other side is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| become such a stepping stone if it is approached with a constructive attitude. Now with all that | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| material world -- the same truth that I approached here from a different angle -- is a | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| for a deeper level of understanding. I have approached this topic from yet a different angle, according | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| is not easy, but not difficult either, if approached with the proper attitude. Once you are aware | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| If these areas are observed, you have truly approached the threshold to self-realization. Self- realization will become | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| lawful foundations of life. One who has not approached the threshold of self-realization cannot grasp the wonder | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| work with them. The résumé of past material, approached in this particular form, was necessary to lead | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| average human being experiences are always controlled and approached very cautiously -- being unaware of this fact | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the divergent parts of your self are not approached according to this truth, and your ambivalence is | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| be done individually and mutually. When relationship is approached in that way, it will be built on | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| exciting tasks, beautiful tasks. They should not be approached in a spirit of wanting to get it | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to say, the physical level, too, must be approached in a different way from the others. The | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to the greater universal consciousness must not be approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| entity want to incarnate and fulfill a task. Approached in this way the material makes learning an | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| becomes narrower and the point of fusion is approached. Democratic capitalism or capitalistic democracy is such an | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| similar process occurs, but it needs to be approached in a different way. In order to cleanse | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| lead to a similar state of duality, only approached from the other end? Whoever denies the undesirable | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| you have glimpsed this state. It must be approached from both ends. It would be virtually impossible | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| and denies. This involuntary part needs to be approached somewhat differently than the conscious part. The conscious | 254 SURRENDER |
| Approaches..................92 | |
| same things in different individuals may need different approaches, different types of meditations. But this will come | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| after much progress has been achieved by other approaches, in psychological problems that can be handled without | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| important element of prayer is that anyone who approaches God in prayer will automatically have a more | 36 PRAYER |
| of all this, even while on earth. Whoever approaches the stony and steep road of self-finding will | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| motivations, by misunderstood basic principles, and by unrealistic approaches to life. Thus it is lived out in | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this would be a dangerous expectation, since it approaches so very much the unhealthy attitude of looking | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| field of science. Though sometimes different, these new approaches will eventually be understood and accepted by science | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| will contribute more to peace than through other approaches. Find the similarity, then you will gain the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| season we will be concerned with three major approaches: (1) Continuation of finding and dissolving your images | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| learning to control the thought process. These three approaches will interact and overlap in many respects. To | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| are intimately connected, which becomes apparent when both approaches are followed through properly. Background thought material appears | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of the event. Thus, the maturing soul who approaches inner reality, ready to meet life, unafraid of | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| your capacities and creativity. This is why both approaches are favorable. Although the inner search and change | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| to succeed. Many people have to try various approaches until they find the one best suited for | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| direction I lead you now, by using both approaches, you will come to a point when you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| counteract the desire of the spirit. When life approaches its end, it is as though the spirit | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| some new ideas and change certain attitudes and approaches to life, this hidden part within yourself has | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| so that now, with some of the new approaches, a deeper understanding can be reached. As I | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the same: they are merely different facets, aspects, approaches and ways to the same end. Emphasis on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of your nature from various angles, through various approaches. I can help you, but you have to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| the spiritual and the psychological are two different approaches. Forgetting these terms for the moment, you will | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you for a number of years, from different approaches and points of view. They may have used | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| has been totally ignored. Only when your work approaches these areas, without your even realizing what they | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| to the quality invested. As long as humanity approaches any question, whether it is of the type | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| manner. In politics, economics, and even religion, humanity approaches life and its problems on the outer, superficial | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| at the thought of the fulfillment whenever it approaches. When it is playful fantasy, all may be | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| manifest by talking yourself into it. Systems and approaches are often misunderstood and abused; people are misled | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| seeing the absence of contradiction in these two approaches must lead to confusion in your mind, whether | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| aware of it. You have undoubtedly found both approaches in all great spiritual teachings, as well as | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| lectures. Now, my friends, why are these two approaches not mutually exclusive? Where is the common denominator | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| path -- with all its methods and various approaches -- is concerned with this primary goal. When | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| yourself. We have, in our pathwork, two fundamental approaches, both of which are necessary. One is finding | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to create favorable, or more variable, circumstances. These approaches are interdependent. In order to live meaningfully and | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| No matter how important each of these two approaches is by itself, using one instead of the | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| truthful ideas? The constant interaction between these two approaches is of great importance, my friends. It would | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| one more than the other of these two approaches to the self. The only way you can | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| those who cultivate only one of these two approaches. Some concentrate only on activating the hidden powers | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| destructiveness so as to eliminate the latter. Both approaches have their great value, but if one is | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| The most effective way is to apply both approaches. If both are cultivated, and if simultaneously you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| truth is sought deep inside the self, one approaches the unified state of consciousness. Our example is | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| or division or conflict in any of one's approaches to life. Quite the contrary. The intensity I | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| a life after death. All such views and approaches to life are nothing but a compromise between | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| and emotional processes. In time, using various new approaches on this path, some of you will begin | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This step is not easily taken. Everyone who approaches this path resists finding the causes within. If | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| have to look for new avenues and new approaches within yourselves to find it possible to let | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of your illusion from different angles. These various approaches have a certain sequential order. Generally, you find | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| simple act of meditation must combine these two approaches. On the one hand, you actively formulate your | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| aware of such feelings. Some of the new approaches have begun to have their very beneficial results | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of Creation is that the more rapidly destruction approaches, the nearer salvation must be. Hence, reaching the | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| destructive attitudes, in many ways and from many approaches. At this time, I would like to simplify | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| are using now, be concerned with some new approaches, for example, a combination of breathing, together with | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| contact, at least occasionally. You have learned certain approaches in meditation that facilitate this contact. The difficulty | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| always be related to error. In all your approaches and practices, whatever they are, observe this erroneous | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| be fully given up, ever, no matter what approaches of therapy are used and no matter how | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| You must persist, groping and searching for new approaches. This calls for self-testing, for removing defenses and | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| mentioned that there are many aspects of and approaches to meditation. Now the time is ripe to | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| Let us try to reconcile these two general approaches to evil. You have all experienced how threatened | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| These apparently opposite schools of thought -- or approaches to life exist in everyone and breed much | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| self can be attained through various processes and approaches of the pathwork. It cannot be denied that | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to give specific guidance. There are two basic approaches to human spirituality. One is to emphasize and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| reality. Now let us see what the different approaches to the four different personality levels are. (1 | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| mind and searching in the unconscious: these two approaches vary for each of the four aspects of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Evoking feelings is done by a variety of approaches which we hardly need to enumerate here. It | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| on all these levels and with all these approaches. As I said, there is no outer rule | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| within as a living, organismic reality. The various approaches offered on this path fulfill important functions so | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Our path uses the harder of the two approaches to meditation. It is obvious that our approach | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| at various stages in your development, use different approaches to meditation. Each approach can vary according to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| which I guide you helps, by its various approaches, to eliminate the obstacles to finding out who | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Connecting with your divine nucleus. The other three approaches are surely prerequisites to this. The fourth approach | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| a result of your attitudes, ideas, concepts, and approaches to life, attract or repulse events, people, happenings | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| do you demagnetize a negative force field? Different approaches are necessary for voluntary and involuntary intentionality. Of | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the positive. You will learn more techniques and approaches as you become ready for them in your | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| reached. Some of you may have tried other approaches, hoping to bypass this highly unpleasant task, but | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| to give in, not to look for new approaches to the self and life. The self-perpetuating principle | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| is ready for an alternation, when its development approaches the switching point, there are always strong new | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| wealth of the earth. New laws and new approaches would be instituted that would yield undreamed-of results | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Changes, unfoldments of new potentials, renewed creativity, new approaches to the self and others that reveal a | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of truth, but it is, like all dualistic approaches, a half-truth. The truth is that woman indeed | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| with a new curriculum. Just knowing of these approaches and making room in your consciousness for them | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| of being only. Much more intricate and subtle approaches are necessary for an individual, or a group | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| of what in you seems less palatable. Such approaches cannot be whole or complete. For if you | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| of consciousness, new modalities to react to, new approaches to life and self -- can you realize | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| of goodness often being a matter of different approaches and values, of the mores of a particular | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Yes, it is necessary to go through these approaches and experiences many, many times, again and again | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| have special advice. I suggest you take two approaches, both of which are necessary. The first is | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| this growth to take place, a variety of approaches are necessary. The mind needs to be totally | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| perceive here about any and all of these approaches and realities are merely segments. For it is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and power-oriented, just as new and honest political approaches are resisted now. Those in power would be | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| and to deliberately-imposed suffering. Yet, valuable as these approaches may be up to a degree, does not | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| into a passive standstill. Then you have spiritual approaches that advocate the struggle and the work. They | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| now to open to you more and more approaches to comprehend and overcome duality so you can | 254 SURRENDER |
| also greatly improved over the last decades. Psychological approaches have created a greater awareness of self and | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |