| Mechanisms..................43 | |
| react in this way, and all the complicated mechanisms of the workings of the soul. He or | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| friends, and look at your own conclusions, defense mechanisms, and images from this angle: What did I | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| recognize the hidden significance of your erroneous defense mechanisms, no matter how much you may have consciously | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| seemingly mysterious, but actually very real laws and mechanisms of the psychic forces. This knowledge will give | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| predominant pseudo-solution. You will also find other defense mechanisms. You will find the main components of your | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of Babel; the dismantling of your own defense mechanisms, which are so damaging to yourself and others | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them; how you have done so; what defense mechanisms caused such sabotaging. Eventually you will find one | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| burdened with unworkable wrong conclusions and destructive defense mechanisms. Without the pseudo-solutions and defenses, a part of | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| us now see how these three major inner mechanisms connect; how they are linked up with one | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| results in further negative chain reactions. The defense mechanisms become stronger and stronger in every possible respect | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| of image-formation, the needs, false claims, destructive defense mechanisms, together with all the traits of the idealized | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| are superimposed by your pseudo- solutions and defense mechanisms. If you dare not experience these painful emotions | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| is then that the destructive images and defense mechanisms begin to form. In the past we have | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the past we have examined the various defense mechanisms rather extensively. The images that you create are | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| extensively. The images that you create are defense mechanisms. Through their wrong conclusions you seek a way | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| this is never accomplished with your destructive defense mechanisms and various images. Let me repeat here what | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| Due to this unawareness and to your defense mechanisms of various sorts, your ability to give could | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| is bound to strengthen their own destructive defense mechanisms, just as their destructive defenses fortify your own | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are your efforts. We have discussed your defense mechanisms repeatedly. We have worked on this subject considerably | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the imaginary danger, you use all your defense mechanisms to preserve your status as a lovable human | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| when you become sufficiently attuned to your inner mechanisms. To briefly summarize the difference between the two | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| shown you a new angle on the inner mechanisms already familiar to you. Such increased insight can | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| are as yet incapable of feeling, your inner mechanisms are still geared to faulty, or insufficiently assimilated | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| main problems and conflicts, the images, the defense mechanisms, pseudosolutions and wrong conclusions you have found so | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| path, your pseudo-solutions, your idealized self-image, your defense mechanisms have given you some measure of fulfillment in | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| the pseudo- solutions, the idealized self-image, the defense mechanisms, but the original problem may not yet be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| life. The limits, however, are not set by mechanisms of fear and distrust, but are simply one's | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| and successfully projected onto others. Discovering all these mechanisms is learning the language of the unconscious. This | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| evil numbness? When you think of the defense mechanisms operating in the human psyche, the connection between | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| really are, without masks and pretenses, without separating mechanisms which you still think you have to use | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| against its soft openness. By these various defense mechanisms, the live center becomes more and more overlaid | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| out of fear, alienation, deliberate and false defense mechanisms -- then, as always, an overemotionalism occurs in | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| You must come face to face with the mechanisms which deny natural life, so that you find | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| consciously or unconsciously, deeply sense the hidden little mechanisms by which you avoid being straightforward with life | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| too metaphysical. Those who explore and discover the mechanisms and reality of their unconscious, and can therefore | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| old, childish, fearful self, geared to the old mechanisms of false self-protection. When these mechanisms are given | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the old mechanisms of false self-protection. When these mechanisms are given up -- in this case, the | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| they function in your life. All the defense mechanisms you have discovered and perhaps even begun to | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| to put up all your most destructive defense mechanisms, which increase the unconscious denial, destructiveness and conscious | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| and attitudes. You are able to see the mechanisms of your defenses to some extent. But even | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| and pay attention to very finely calibrated listening mechanisms in order to discern your hidden motivations for | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| is a specific result of commensurate desires, defense mechanisms, destructive actions, negative behavior patterns, and so on | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| then need help to change your inner defense mechanisms so that you will no longer need to | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Medical.....................3 | |
| faith? Should he fight the illness without using medical help? ANSWER: No. Doctors are also God's instruments | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| like to make an observation about this condition. Medical literature cites cases of persons who left their | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Do not take the word split in the medical sense, please. No unpurified person is one, for | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Medicine....................53 | |
| precisely because of that, it contains the only medicine there is. Through this you can fathom the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| there at first, but they are the necessary medicine. You will increasingly gain mastery over yourself and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| be as if an excellently trained physician pursued medicine only as a sideline, not being supposed to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| had once possessed. Only after tasting the self-chosen medicine for a considerable time, that is, experiencing a | 21 THE FALL |
| my friends, that I have given you strong medicine. No one likes to hear these things. It | 21 THE FALL |
| is comfortable or not. Yet, bitter as the medicine may be, I think that if you open | 21 THE FALL |
| part of you desires it, is the best medicine. If you can recognize that again and again | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and defenses possible, you imbibe a very healthy medicine for yourself. At the same time you offer | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| your human science show you how many ways medicine has found to eliminate disease. Many diseases that | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| earth, no matter what wonderful progress science and medicine make. As long as the disease is not | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| This will be a wonderful exercise, exactly the medicine you need, my friends. The human soul is | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you learn to humble yourself; it is another medicine for your soul, another cleansing. Prayer helps thin | 36 PRAYER |
| you learn to embrace unhappiness as a necessary medicine, without thinking that you will always remain sick | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| at all times be in need of this medicine. This is acceptance of life. Your unwillingness to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| hardships, and you are unwilling to take the medicine. Try to translate your feelings and learn what | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| has decided that you are ready for stronger medicine. So I shall take this work a step | 38 IMAGES |
| your time, there is a further means, the medicine of the soul that you call depth analysis | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| soul that resists the experience, this is good medicine regardless of the fact that sorrow and loss | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| eros and thus withholding from the soul a medicine, valuable if used properly. Most people in this | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| age. Of course, you can say that improved medicine and living conditions are responsible for the longer | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| They cannot prevent mishaps, which may be good medicine, and thus they stand by and observe. It | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| sown the seeds for it is the very medicine for becoming free of it. That does not | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| upheavals of your own making that are the medicine of nature. For a long time you may | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| to take any unpleasant result as a healthy medicine. However, it does not mean being pessimistic or | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fact that deviation from it is the very medicine to cure the pain caused by the deviation | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| hardships you temporarily endure. Let them be a medicine for you, and grow strong and happy with | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| the sense that your errors can be your medicine if you have the proper attitude toward life | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| take on new meaning. It will become retroactive medicine, and in this way, a test. But it | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| way, a test. But it will not be medicine until you reach the point of complete understanding | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| as a consequence a very constructive and productive medicine for yourself. This will serve to liberate you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| a tremendous one. The experience will be the medicine, as I have stated so often. It will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| see that the negative result is the only medicine, the only remedy you need to change the | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-created, and thus it is your lesson and medicine. It is the only way in which you | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| need be -- even with a momentarily bitter medicine if that is for the good of the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| itself, unpleasant as it may feel, is the medicine. I have said this often, but it is | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| an illness is, at the same time, a medicine. In that lies one of the benign qualities | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| the sores of self-doubt and self-dislike. But this medicine treats only the symptom, never the root of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| of being approved of by others. The so-called medicine and the poison are frequently the same. When | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| principle in which the negative result becomes the medicine. However unjust an evil manifestation may now appear | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| cruel or unjust they may seem, are self-created medicine for the purpose of ultimate purification and ultimate | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| blindness of the undeveloped state becomes its own medicine and lesson. I have often mentioned this divine | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| moving and changing can also become its own medicine. It then works for you in a self-healing | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| these dreams a diminished ego seeks a false medicine against its own underdevelopment. For example, rather than | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| is the key to all. Love is the medicine that heals all illness and all sorrow. We | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| create certain effects. The effects can be the medicine needed to overcome distorted perceptions which create the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you before about cause and effect and the medicine. In the highest state of consciousness only the | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| is never given the chance to become the medicine that would, in time, cure the disease of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| evil and its manifestation must itself become the medicine to overcome evil -- at least in the | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the devils near you are cause, effect, and medicine. Their proximity and their effect on you is | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| them can be used by you as a medicine, if you so choose. You can use it | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| and fail to decide to make them a medicine. It is often not understood that Satan does | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| the inevitable consequences become the measure and the medicine to grow into wholeness, that is, holiness. You | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| extend it, until the pain can become the medicine it is meant to be. Then you can | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |