| basically is always the refusal to face the lower self, and its consequence: carrying the burden of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| comes to dealing with the creations of your lower self-trends. Thus you load a double guilt upon | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| guilt and certain hitherto hidden aspects of your lower self, what then? It is not sufficient merely | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| inflicted, you do not want to face your lower self in its entirety. When the issues are | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of real guilt and unrecognized aspects of the lower self. The first is finding and facing these | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| as you are not fully aware of your lower self, a real closeness to God is unthinkable | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| from deep suffering about the discovery of one's lower self as it may appear. This may, at | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| for I explained it in connection with the lower degrees of love. If you ponder this question | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER -- STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE LOWER SELF AND THE SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE Greetings, my dearest | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| that you have overcome all your problems and lower instincts, but a deep understanding and complete awareness | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the fight between what we have called the lower self and the superimposed conscience. So often an | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| briefly determine again what I mean by the lower self. The lower self is not only that | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| what I mean by the lower self. The lower self is not only that part of human | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| wishes and aims you do react from this lower self. The problem is much less the existence | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| problem is much less the existence of the lower self than the nature of your attitude toward | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| people, really should have already completely overcome the lower self and no such childish, preposterous selfishness and | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are reconciled to the existence of their own lower self. They may do so in theory, but | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Due to your shame and guilt about your lower self and the consequent hiding of it, you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this process quite clear. The repression of the lower self falls in three categories: (1) repression of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not as to the actual nature of your lower self, or what you consider as such. Rather | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Begin to observe the subtle manifestations of the lower self in certain of your reactions and impulses | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this inner struggle the superimposed conscience hides the lower self, instead of bringing it out into the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| open. Thereby it eliminates the possibility of the lower self's growing out of the infantile state. But | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and misconceptions, your false images and distortions, your lower self, but also the superimposed conscience. It is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| your superimposed conscience and your actual and/or imagined lower self take on a new meaning for you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to your personal problems. The fight between your lower self and your superimposed conscience may be completely | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| or mineral kingdoms, which are still in a lower state and find themselves in a more than | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| yourself in an essentially different, either higher or lower way, than others, singling yourself out with unrealistic | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| the universal life in every human core; the lower self, made up of all your deceits, your | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| your present abilities will help you attain the lower stages perhaps a bit faster and more painlessly | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| calmly but distinctly through your abdomen. Feel your lower stomach rhythmically lift up and down, in as | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| acting. There are other parts, still in a lower state of development, which also govern and influence | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) Greetings, all my friends here | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and change. Through your willingness to accept your lower self, the higher self will become more of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| self-idealization when you are constantly dealing with your lower self. Such an attitude leads to balanced development | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| giving lectures, I used the terms higher self, lower self, and mask self. These are very abbreviated | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| of appearance, for the sake of denying the lower aspects, because the conscious, determining, choosing self does | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| destructive aspects are obviously an expression of the lower self. But the giant guilt that threatens to | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| overcome them more and more. You can systematically lower the threshold of defending against your deep accumulated | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| higher self which is the God consciousness; the lower self which is the demonic self; and the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| the mask self which hides the demonic or lower self. Needless to say, there are many degrees | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| is also split off from awareness of the lower self as well as the mask. This fragmentation | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| levels of consciousness so that the mask and lower selves dissolve and only the true higher self | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| self manifests and expresses itself. Only when the lower and mask selves are entirely conscious and their | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| reversed when awareness of the mask self, the lower self, and finally the higher self can be | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| becoming aware of your mask self and your lower self and dealing with them will greatly speed | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| further guidance; when to pay attention to the lower self with its hidden evil, its dishonesty, cheating | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| defenses it uses in order to keep the lower self hidden. One also has to know when | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| accepted, a unification process can begin. When the lower self is understood, accepted and dissolved, when the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you manage to stave off awareness of your lower self and your mask self, you will not | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| feel it unless you make yourself feel your lower self and the mask that hides it. If | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| it. Just as both the higher and the lower self can be fully conscious or unconscious, or | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| now. Of course you are not exclusively the lower self which the mask is designed to hide | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| person with the as yet separated part, the lower self. Much of it will sound, perforce, repetitious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| instance, to uncovering unconscious negativities, aspects of the lower self, or distorted concepts. When you have removed | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| in hand with a similar attitude toward the lower self. To the degree you hide from the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| self. To the degree you hide from the lower self and are unwilling to face it, you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| when I remove the defenses and face my lower self, when I am willing to change, then | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| ego-mind, but address it this time to the lower, destructive part of the self, asking it to | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and listen with your conscious mind, so the lower self can truly be heard. This does not | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| be instructed by the spiritual self, so the lower self can be instructed by both the conscious | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| have listened to the destructive nonsense of the lower self, without impinging on its free expression, you | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the divine self to issue instructions to the lower self. Let the divine self talk to your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| talk to your conscious mind and your undeveloped lower self. Listen to it; let it teach and | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| The divine self can instruct the usually unconscious lower self in various ways. You may actually hear | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| may come from your wish to purify the lower self. After you have fully recognized how the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| accepted the theory that you, too, have a lower self, that you have faults and character defects | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| could it be desirable to identify with the lower self? I say it can be either. If | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| your spirit, without truly being aware of your lower self, mask self, your defenses, your dishonest devices | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| attention. By the same token, identification with your lower self can be desirable or undesirable. Perhaps we | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| It is one thing to identify with your lower self or your mask self, but to observe | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is another. When you are identified with the lower self, you believe that this is all there | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| being identified with it. When the mask and lower self, or the negative intentionality and dishonest games | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| can then identify with the spiritual self. The lower self should be identified; the spiritual self identified | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| already experience yourself as something more than the lower self whose energies should be dissolved in their | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| either a person is entirely identified with the lower self or no longer at all. You are | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| at the same time, the as yet unidentified lower self aspects and unfelt feelings partially create a | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| partially create a climate of submersion into the lower self and the self fears this to be | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| When a secret, albeit partial, identification with the lower self exists, giving it up appears as self-annihilation | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| used to cover up the reality of the lower self. Giving up hate, spite, and negative intention | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| to extricate myself from my identification with my lower self? When you experience yourself as real exclusively | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you experience yourself as real exclusively in the lower self, to whatever degree this may hold true | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| may hold true, you cannot give up the lower self. The refusal to do so is the | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| that would follow if you gave up the lower self grows stronger and the negativity becomes self-perpetuating | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| new way, beyond the limited scope of the lower self which you used to protect so jealously | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| this, you are no longer identified with the lower self which knows nothing beyond these confined walls | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| strict authority from the outside to keep their lower natures in check. Only when the human personality | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your being. Then indeed the sojourn in the lower worlds of those aspects seems final for as | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| individuals interact from their higher selves? Will their lower selves affect one another? How much should each | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| human mind, but does not exist in the lower states of consciousness. As in many areas of | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or whether the process occurs still on a lower scale. So, at first, the knowledge that is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| this attitude becomes consistent, as confrontation between the lower self and the conscious, reasonable, positive ego-self takes | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| voice by skipping over the confrontation with the lower self that also always speaks to you. Your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| to distinguish between them. The voice of the lower self says, I want it for me. I | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| distinctly hearing both voices. What is the negative, lower self? It may manifest under a clever disguise | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| is excessive control and contempt. Going from that lower voice, which has been such a large element | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| blessed, all of you. 222. TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF Blessings, greetings, love and help are pouring | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| recognized and dealt with deeper levels of your lower self, you would be able to establish more | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| your defenses to really see and accept your lower self in a realistic and constructive spirit. Years | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| the depths and have bared aspects of your lower self, have brought your negative intentionality out in | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| total self. You can identify aspects of the lower self without totally identifying with them. On the | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| always applies to a specific area where the lower self does not wish to budge. It is | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| stubbornness prevails, you are still controlled by your lower self. But at least you know it now | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| given in and become victimized by your own lower self. But this need not be so. When | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| to surrender to God and give up my lower self for what I know to be happiness | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| present state of development, the higher and the lower states of consciousness and energy are equally imperceptible | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| is. There is hardly any human being whose lower self could approach the intensity of the evil | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| intensity of the evil that exists in the lower spheres. And the now-manifest higher self could not | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| can choose to allow the will of the lower self to control your whole person. Or you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| of awareness the will and voice of the lower self. You also need to think about what | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| about what it means when you follow the lower self without questioning it, when you are still | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| will. Now, in none of you does the lower self approach anywhere near the intensely destructive levels | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| intensely destructive levels I discussed earlier. But the lower self is always destructive; otherwise, it would not | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| always destructive; otherwise, it would not be a lower self. It may be destructive in wanting to | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| attached to you, but they live on. Your lower self can be transformed and you have seen | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |