| Interrelationships..........3 | |
| the spirit worlds and their different conditions and interrelationships. When human beings hear about the spheres of | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| lack of growth has on your life and interrelationships. You can find the entanglements only by looking | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in the self and in others, connections and interrelationships between people and things, between individual and cosmic | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| Interrupt...................5 | |
| ANSWER: It is not predetermination. I have to interrupt you here because the word predetermination puts an | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Coming and going, they are not consecutive. They interrupt your voluntary thoughts and are unconstructive as long | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| examine later. Unvolitional background thoughts constantly disturb and interrupt you. Even if they have significance, you derive | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| it would be good, at this time, to interrupt the sequence of lectures. You have received a | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| tell you that any means exist that can interrupt the laws of cause and effect, that God | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| Interrupted.................7 | |
| is spiritual. And the moment the cycle is interrupted, it is also dead. Let us suppose that | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| will continue the teachings that had to be interrupted for a time. It is possible to use | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| observation. Yet this understanding and observation are constantly interrupted by your ingrained habit of hiding, moralizing, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| life force in its vibrant flow is willfully interrupted and prohibited by an overly watchful, denying attitude | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| case the unity of these two functions is interrupted in the same way as when you feel | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| its manifestation. The process sometimes seems to be interrupted, because it often disappears at the initial stages | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| their evolution. They have halted their process and interrupted the line of their inner movement -- individually | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Interruption................9 | |
| a time. It is possible to use an interruption like this in a fruitful way, if you | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for a moment during the coming time of interruption that you are cut off from us. It | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possible realize. We believe that, after this short interruption of activities, the year to come will bring | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| experience the flow of time that knows no interruption, that brings you into extended dimensions, is to | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| The principle is perfect and needs no exemption, interruption, or alteration. I recapitulate: The more you can | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| -- which does not mean, of course, an interruption of our contact, now that your Center offers | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of the growth process, his life train, that interruption will prevent the reacquisition of knowledge he or | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| you can hear and receive my words. This interruption was necessary for many reasons. Some of you | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| later. In the meantime, the purpose of the interruption of my direct messages takes shape in your | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| Interruptions...............5 | |
| said, it is important not to let these interruptions bother you and not to get confused and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be undisturbed and do not have to fear interruptions. Sit down comfortably. Do not lie down. Become | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| gradually comes into existence, little by little, with interruptions. Then, in the state of being, prayer is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| you perceive it. Gradually at first, and with interruptions, you will see the vague outline of a | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| irrational feeling comes, first slowly and with many interruptions, a state in which you want life not | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Interval....................3 | |
| this without unnecessary delay, do not consider this interval of inactivity in the group and in private | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| process and thus proceed further to shorten the interval between the incident and the awareness of your | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| emotional attitudes is ignored because of the time interval between cause and effect. The childish mind sees | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Intervention................10 | |
| and grace, in happiness and fulfillment, in divine intervention and guidance, and act and feel accordingly, will | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| fulfillment. With a person of lesser development, this intervention of the conscience may be absent. In that | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| out of it, thus being dependent on outer intervention over which you have no control. Only after | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| to liberate. You reach so often for outside intervention instead of realizing that nothing can come to | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| such defects to be dissolved by a comfortable intervention of an outside God and spiritual grace. The | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| control working where there had been absolutely no intervention, connection, or control. And eventually remote control will | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| dialogue with the ignorant child, and on the intervention and guidance of the universal, spiritual self. Each | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| like to ask your guidance on our crisis intervention program. We have tried to follow your suggestions | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the simplest and most humble way for Christ's intervention to help you attain the state that religion | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| point. Only by praying for divine assistance and intervention, by turning to Jesus Christ and asking for | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| Interwoven..................6 | |
| are not two mutually exclusive factors, but are interwoven and connected. The events that fate brings to | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| said before, everybody has guilt. Every image is interwoven with guilt. It is important to understand that | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| All work hand in hand. One level is interwoven and connected with another. One should combat it | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| concepts, compulsions, and so on, which are all interwoven in our soul picture and in our total | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| these two aspects of human life are so interwoven, so interconnected! Only when you honestly face this | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| surge and message from the higher self is interwoven with the masking cloak, the false good ness | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Intimacy....................22 | |
| conducive to the great freedom and joy of intimacy. As you already know, human beings are terrified | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| change darkness and isolation into light, union, companionship, intimacy, and the knowledge that you are loved as | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| be unable to fully feel love, companionship, and intimacy. They are, at best, dulled -- and often | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| and inadequate as the incapacity for love and intimacy. Nothing is so disquieting and hopeless. If you | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| always be a threat when it comes to intimacy: that one or both will resort to using | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| life will acquire more meaning. Conversely, fear of intimacy implies rigidity and the denial of one's own | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| shallow, unsatisfactory relationships which lack depth, gratification and intimacy, where you reveal yourself only superficially -- perhaps | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| to remove the blocks to awareness, self-fulfillment, to intimacy and closeness with others, is expressed by the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| to others. Your stake in your innocence prevents intimacy. Again, you cannot feel right. Most human beings | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of every human being there must be exchange, intimacy, communication, sharing, mutual love, mutual pleasure, and the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| attitudes. So your ability to bear good feelings, intimacy, love, and pleasure is an exact indication of | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| in this honesty, in this truthfulness, in this intimacy of self-revealing as you really are, not as | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Consequently you begin to feel comfortable in closer intimacy. As you simultaneously cease to fear the pain/pleasure | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the self-sufficient person has valid needs for love, intimacy, closeness, and warmth to be happy. The greater | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| anxious. Living with one other person in real intimacy can also come under the heading of group | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and individuality totally intact, your group living and intimacy totally unhampered. In the course of your movement | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| by yourself. That kind of relating is true intimacy. This kind of relating must also exist for | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cut off from the heart, removed from real intimacy and sharing. Knowing the state into which you | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| attaining true expansion. It also makes closeness and intimacy impossible, and closeness is surely one of your | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| taking the opportunity to forge true contact and intimacy. Now what about secrecy? Secrecy is never positive | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| participate. Secrets are always antithetical to relationship, to intimacy, to real and fulfilling contact. Secretive people are | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| thirst for being open with others, for attaining intimacy? This longing can never be fulfilled, no matter | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Intimate....................27 | |
| will truly come alive and enjoy a deep, intimate contact with God's spirit world, will never be | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| whole. This may still relieve a person from intimate personal involvement -- the most taxing form of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| scale is the love for individuals in close, intimate relationship. I do not have to repeat why | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is, as such, of lesser value than the intimate relationship of human love that requires practical involvement | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| and loneliness and their simultaneous fear of close, intimate contact with another being. Often the desire and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| the real relating, the closeness which eliminates isolation. Intimate self-expression and relating flows with the life-stream and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| others, as well as of wanting and fearing intimate contact with one's innermost self, cannot be settled | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| of uniting, of meeting, of reaching, of having intimate contact, exists as long as the individual's psyche | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| mind, and spirit is at that point very intimate. Therefore, our approach at this stage must also | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| from this challenge and sacrificing the fulfillment of intimate contact, many inner problems are never called into | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| always alternate with contact -- and the more intimate such contact is, the more it expresses spiritual | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| isolation, at one end, and the deepest, most intimate relatedness at the other, such as capacity to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of fulfillment by the depth of relatedness and intimate contact, by the strength of the feelings one | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| and lived these new attitudes are, the more intimate, fulfilling, and beautiful human interaction will become. How | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the majority of human relationships -- especially the intimate one between two mates. Relationships are not recognized | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| discuss the problem of laziness. There is an intimate connection between the problem of laziness and feelings | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| in the honesty of feelings and the more intimate relating among yourselves. What is more, the spiritual | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| fulfillment, light, hope, and trusting closeness to your intimate friends are lacking, take it as a gauge | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| others? Do you feel comfortable about your most intimate self in the presence of others, or at | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| you wish to reveal yourself in a most intimate and real way, and with whom you wish | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| mind or in a playful way within an intimate and established relationship. Often the deviated sexual expression | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| can create relationships: the bliss of the most intimate relationship with one mate, and the satisfaction of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| ease and comfort with which you can be intimate and fused with another person, or in giving | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| wonderful protection. The closeness you have developed, the intimate knowledge of yourselves that you share with each | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| balance is reestablished. If you are frightened by intimate contact, you will seek seclusion, which will then | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| as a cover for their inability to be intimate, to be open and undefended, and who therefore | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| relationships in light of this topic. The most intimate of all relationships -- between two people who | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |