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| relapses and occasional failures, it will then give increased spiritual protection. This, too, is spiritual law. Whoever | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| before passing through this particular gate. When an increased spiritual protection is given, the person will be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| into the state of longing and the longing increased, the time was ripe for the material world | 21 THE FALL |
| of yourself and of spiritual truth as such. Increased awareness will bring out all the knowledge that | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even harm you. By a systematic method of increased self-awareness, a condition in which you are open | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| new insight. There are many ways in which increased self-awareness can come. The concept of approaching contact | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as well as those who have. Due to increased strength, they can come back after a shorter | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| even quite suddenly, a new talent or an increased creativity in a known talent, has unfolded. The | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| liberation. Among many other assets, it also brings increased creativity. It means the maximum unfoldment a person | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| if it is used with the aim of increased self- knowledge, then it can be constructive. All | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| benefits, such as a general power of discrimination; increased inner and outer vitality; better memory; clearer and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| stronger thoughts; and, last but not least, the increased ability to make your inner will function. Your | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| or of fear that these good things bring increased unhappiness. The symbolism of Jesus' blood is pain | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Then your entire personality will be revived by increased self-awareness. A particular confusion confronts a growth-pursuing spirit | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| When the rules prove ineffective, your insecurity is increased for two reasons: 1) you do not receive | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| ultimate goal. It may lead you further into increased self-deception, the very same self-deception you want to | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| gradually learn this by decreasing your resistance through increased understanding, you will truly unfold layer after layer | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| it be a time of preparation and of increased training in awareness of what your emotional reactions | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| face oneself with all one's limitations will have increased if only a particle of such an experience | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| whether you realize it now or not. Only increased self-understanding will make this clear to you. You | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| creates a split that could be mended by increased awareness. The harm of daydreams, then, is in | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| as you do, little by little, through your increased self-awareness, your sensitivity to the other person's needs | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| single act, but in a constant process of increased awareness, the result must be a growing selfhood | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the other's hurt, bewilderment, unfulfillment, belittling. And this increased awareness comes as a result of the fuller | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| your inner renewal and change, your understanding and increased scope of awareness will make you realize, without | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a lasting mark other than the benefit of increased understanding. However, where the underlying potential consists largely | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the inner mechanisms already familiar to you. Such increased insight can often be very helpful in giving | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| may never know it consciously. It needs the increased awareness that is cultivated on a path such | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| development, and therefore outer peace and justice in increased measure. If history is observed from this point | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| perceived only much later, in a state of increased consciousness. If growing stops on any level of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| level of consciousness in the fastest possible way. Increased awareness of self must, perforce, increase awareness of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the relief and release, the renewed energy, the increased understanding and health, and also the knowledge and | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| confused and blur your vision. This strength is increased only through repeated victories over the temptation to | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| separation from it will be. When, due to increased self-awareness, parts of the wall begin to crumble | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| you, hence your integrity will be preserved and increased in exact proportion to your active desire to | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| integral part of yourself. Moreover, you develop an increased ability to experience pleasure, as you are meant | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| has become concentrated and your awareness has sufficiently increased do you realize that you are really most | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| misconceptions and negativity -- and that will have increased with the new self-acceptance -- must now be | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| extended field of operation. Its realm has been increased; it now possesses a piece of the world | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| it has not possessed before. Growth brings expansion, increased capabilities, more power and unity where there was | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| energy awakened by your good will, by your increased understanding that leads you to a decision about | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| more difficult to find the original feeling. The increased negative momentum finally leads to a breakdown of | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| to accept, bear, and sustain pleasure can be increased in human beings only gradually and is one | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Self-blame and self- accusation may seem to have increased, however, for what you heretofore projected onto others | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| a beginning. The same must happen individually with increased frequency in order to transcend the cycle of | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| struggle is no longer as severe or painful. Increased awareness of higher states of consciousness facilitates the | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| alternative to greedily insisting on receiving. All these increased abilities will fill the emptiness created by the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| therefore imperative that the degree of consciousness be increased on all levels. You should connect, for example | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| up, you can meditate first for your own increased capacity to love. Thus the obstruction to fulfillment | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| state must find its way back to an increased frequency of its energy movement by purifying its | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| an unhampered giving of love be reinstituted and increased? It is possible that you are free from | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the self that is now in a much increased state of awareness, that now knows what it | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| cause. You may not have specifically connected your increased peace, joy, liberation, creativeness, with the fact that | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you desire. Once you do know, you have increased your power to change what is destructive and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| later. The state of awareness after birth is increased, but is still very limited. Becoming aware and | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| and joy among all of you; in the increased removing of blocks and obstructions, resolving of problems | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| enriching a group consciousness. Later, as the population increased, humanity developed the ability to cope with the | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to promote the evolution of consciousness. As population increased and civilization advanced, this movement had to reach | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and others that reveal a much greater maturity, increased well-being and bliss, increased vision of new alternatives | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| a much greater maturity, increased well-being and bliss, increased vision of new alternatives for self-expression, manifest when | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| new state of greatly reduced anxiety and greatly increased security. For your anxiety is fostered by your | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
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| that this is not possible, their inner rebellion increases and with it their conflicts. For rebellion against | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| according to their development; their area of activity increases and expands continuously, and they can, to a | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| way. I might say that the technical difficulty increases, for you have to work your way back | 18 FREE WILL |
| your truth for an imagined personal advantage, which increases your self-contempt, though this is usually quite unconscious | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| through learning to control your thought-world. Thought control increases awareness and raises consciousness. Instead of forbidding yourself | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| to love. Your capacity to love, in turn, increases steadily as your willingness to love increases. The | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| turn, increases steadily as your willingness to love increases. The willingness to love will increase proportionately as | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| positive part of the other's personality. This work increases awareness, and awareness is the only real weapon | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| elements. As development proceeds further and the community increases in size, people have to organize communication with | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| by the establishment of the idealized self, steadily increases. It snowballs, and becomes worse and worse. The | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| you struggle against your lower self, the duality increases. QUESTION: Could you tell us what Goethe meant | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| problems tearing the person apart -- that self-estrangement increases steadily, and therefore reality becomes not only more | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| areas and understand their full significance, your insecurity increases. You tend to strengthen the rigid rules and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| Satisfaction becomes even less possible as the distortion increases. The two primary pseudo-solutions, present to some extent | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| the constructive search derived from it. Therefore unfulfillment increases, regenerates itself, and becomes more stringent. Let us | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| this lessens your dependency on others and consequently increases your self-confidence. You will find trust in your | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| your defenses against it do not work. This increases the original hurt of the experience which brought | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| from childhood experienced all over again, but it increases his inner insecurity and inferiority. He originally deduced | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| Therefore the unconscious belief in one's own unworthiness increases, which is even more difficult to face. If | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| The distortion, in combination with the general misconceptions, increases the confusion. The split also makes communication difficult | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| sense of inadequacy, and continuing to run away increases that sense of inadequacy. Only as you change | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| running away from the original pain of unfulfillment increases the unfulfillment, and therefore the pain, operates here | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| love. This not only confuses you, but also increases your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt, injustice and | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| in him and in all of you. It increases fear and guilt all around. However, if you | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of the universe is misunderstood. As the consciousness increases and rises and widens and deepens, even though | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| limitations instantly lessen. Your range widens, your freedom increases, your vision extends, your security grows -- and | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| the real situation makes you grow; it inevitably increases your self-respect, self-liking, and gives you a sense | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| this is no way to victory, the negativity increases and one begins to doubt one's self, one's | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| lack of acceptance breeds disharmony, anxiety, and tension, increases the difficulties, and destroys peace of mind. The | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| one grabs at is a pseudo-control that merely increases tension and anxiety. It prohibits peace and confidence | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| danger, pain, and hardship. This is why fear increases, and so does tense reluctance and stubbornness. You | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| timid and so reticent. Being overcautious about loving increases one's withdrawal and isolation. Many an individual is | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| the interests of others. It comes from and increases duality; it always opposes the good to the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| numbed. They can only be hidden. This, then, increases guilt. If you were to translate into concise | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and sustaining a pathwork such as this, which increases the ability to understand and cultivate the will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and effort. Anyone meditating in such a way increases the power, the life, the peace, and the | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| on but through a harmonious, effortless movement which increases awareness of the power each individual possesses, without | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| other is wrong. The rift widens, your anxiety increases, and the more weapons you use to win | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the anxiety, and the tension. Opposition grows, conflict increases, and the vicious circle continues. The evolutionary problem | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| new understanding that includes others. The new way increases steadily, provided you do not stop the flow | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| and intelligently deal with the hitherto unacceptable, proportionately increases his or her self- respect and sense of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| person one deeply resents and wishes to punish increases the guilt, for the ever-wakeful presence of your | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| I just mentioned. As awareness of these fears increases, one gradually and automatically also becomes aware of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| deeply meaningful stepping stone toward further expansion. It increases the experience of life and the realization of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| The pain of not understanding what goes on increases the inner tension. The more hopeless it all | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| of your concepts, of your mental grasp. This increases your creative power to alter the seemingly static | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| and selfhood decreases the capacity to love and increases underlying separateness and selfishness in the destructive sense | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| wish to know it. In such confusion, helplessness increases, the thus mounting inner tension seeks an outlet | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| no movement there is no life. When conflict increases, eventually movement first diminishes and then stops. The | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| your own limitations and the limitations of others increases your power to direct your life meaningfully. The | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| and integrity -- on the contrary, this sense increases. The latter type burdens the insight with guilt | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of inferiority from the world and himself, which increases repression and pretenses. And on and on it | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| of being victimized. Choosing to feel victimized only increases blindness and makes us retain the destructive attitude | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| self calm and receptive. The feeling for this increases as you experience the reality of the universal | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| far as you are concerned. This deepening conviction increases negative feelings, tightens your defenses, closes the centers | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the least selfish or self-centered. In fact, it increases your perception and understanding of others and gives | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| are energy currents. Energy is a force that increases with its own momentum, always based on the | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| not do any good; on the contrary, it increases the critical tension. The momentary relief is illusion | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| because the evil you hoped to eliminate only increases when it is repressed and acted out indirectly | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of yourself and your guilt; therefore, it only increases the chasm within your soul. The energies of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| denial of the self; it decreases rather than increases awareness. A false picture of reality is created | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| split in one's will offers great relief and increases psychic energy in the whole system, everybody fights | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| The negative attitudes create self-hate, the self- hate increases hate for and distrust of others. And on | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| dissolving and transforming it. This incapacity in turn increases the guilt. The more you hide from yourself | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| full outer experience without the inner experience even increases despair, because one does not understand the causes | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| to live fruitfully and productively, and it certainly increases the capacity for experiencing pleasure and deep feelings | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| and psychic potential and power, bliss grows. Fearlessness increases. Solutions to all problems become increasingly more accessible | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| than hanging on to another. This, in turn, increases the ability to have a strong flow of | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| This, of course, fortifies the guilt. The guilt increases the fear of meeting yourself in honesty, so | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| one lifetime to the next. Only as awareness increases on such a path does the spiritually mature | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| Therefore all comparing and competing to best others increases the separation and sharpens the illusion that this | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| diminishes in the ratio in which your self-responsibility increases and becomes so pleasurable that you would no | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| way. The number of friends reaching these stages increases steadily and they help transmute the energies of | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| will say more about this later. The momentum increases in a spiral movement that goes faster and | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| so clearly observe on your path, this power increases in exact proportion to your ability to be | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| riddle of living with others -- and that increases your security because you see and know the | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| your life a much more specific focus and increases your awareness of your incarnatory task. The abundance | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the movement is blindly halted, feared, denied, population increases; greater communities develop a mass consciousness instead of | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| result without paying the price. This, in turn, increases guilt and a sense of worthlessness that is | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| and reality within you. But as your consciousness increases, you become aware of this double, and apparently | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| you live in a poor, empty universe. It increases the belief that your inner universe is equally | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| As inner truth reigns, perception of outer truth increases. As understanding of self grows, so does understanding | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |