| Meditational................9 | |
| is stagnant in you. Even if the first meditational approach is used properly and you are capable | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| first helps and guides the latter. Through this meditational approach, energy is released that can be directed | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| been put into practice. The fourth key is meditational. Listen into yourself, become calm and receptive, quiet | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| for it makes the personality plunge into hell. Meditational exercises are another way in which human beings | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| fasting, concentration exercises, chanting and self-hypnotic reiteration of meditational phrases can indeed produce results. There can be | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| crassly destructive escape routes we mentioned before. If meditational exercises are mechanical, the way is an illusory | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| you will come through. You need also the meditational practice to make full commitment to the courage | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| be found there. This is also why all meditational practices and exercises focus on inner space. A | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| space. A long time ago I suggested a meditational exercise in which you do not think, in | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Meditations.................25 | |
| for other people, but also for themselves. Your meditations and prayers must vary; you need to sense | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| from such work. You will then, in your meditations, build good, healthy spiritual forms -- for instance | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| individuals may need different approaches, different types of meditations. But this will come later. First, the clinical | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| of your self- purification. One of the best meditations is to ponder: What are my faults? And | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| thought also lends itself very well to deep meditations. By grasping some of this truth, you may | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| Very quietly say to yourself and, in your meditations, to God: This is the way I am | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| approaching it with the illusion that a few meditations and some miracle-formula will make all your earthly | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| but in their inner attitude. Try in your meditations to choose a person whom you do not | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| all this. Try to apply it in your meditations and your self-search and find where and how | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| proper meditation. These lectures can be regarded as meditations. People sometimes believe themselves to be in a | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| why you do so. Ask yourself in your meditations, Why do I want to doubt? What is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| fear, you can directly treat it in your meditations. This will make a great deal of difference | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| cannot be emphasized often enough, even in your meditations. Trying to understand this truth, not only with | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| work on this path you learn through your meditations, for instance, to use all the faculties of | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| If you recall this simple fact in your meditations, in your approach to yourself, your meditations will | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your meditations, in your approach to yourself, your meditations will become more fruitful as you go on | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| and allow the live center's unfoldment. Through appropriate meditations, integration between the live center and the ego | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| have all experienced to some degree through certain meditations that the universe contains unlimited good, available to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| to that extent one has practiced truthfulness. Such meditations have a most powerful and immediate effect. This | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all my being to face and change. Such meditations set up a powerful force. As you put | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| life. Begin right now to emphasize in your meditations, I would like to know, experience, and feel | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| focusing and conscious direction you give to your meditations evokes an inner guidance in the right and | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| though you may gain spiritual knowledge, achieve beautiful meditations and even gain genuine spiritual experiences of cosmic | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| Impregnate yourself with this truth in your daily meditations. When you are unhappy, fearful, discouraged, in darkness | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| those of impressing and expressing. Many of your meditations have dealt with impressing, and should continue to | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Meditative..................6 | |
| Set out and find this voice. Use the meditative dialogue here again, to explore and let the | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| obstruction must first be dealt with. Therefore your meditative aim may have to be altered along the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| and thought and feeling will be a creative meditative act when the real you is free. There | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| way that powerful creative seeds are released. But meditative and other creating techniques must be a secondary | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| be perfectly aware of the principle of such meditative practice, nevertheless you desist from employing it. What | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| be able to focus into it in a meditative attuning, and let yourself fully experience that point | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| Medium......................103 | |
| In these cases too, just as with a medium, God's world is directly active. The particular person | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| repeat it: Every human being, not only a medium, can and should have personal contact with God's | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| When God's spirits speak to you through a medium, they never want to turn you into some | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| mediumship. Not everybody has to become a trance medium like this medium through whom I speak. Yet | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| has to become a trance medium like this medium through whom I speak. Yet everybody can make | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| work and manifest, the more unhappy will the medium be. The more stubbornly such a person insists | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| the spirit world is a danger for the medium as well as for the people who surround | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will not describe now, that come when a medium believes she can help others without entering this | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| help will come. And only then can the medium help others and can others be helped by | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| their part. God's spirit world must test a medium again and again, to see whether he or | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| he or she is worthy and capable. The medium must not only be morally unobjectionable, but his | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| recognize and therefore fail to conquer. For a medium the great temptation after having reached a certain | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| Consider how difficult it must be for a medium not to identify with the manifesting spirit and | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that they are forbidden from manifesting because the medium has not deserved it. It is that they | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| not referring to the basic requirement that a medium must commit his or her talent only to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| forms, walls built of granite. When, however, a medium fulfills most of the requirements, when he or | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| level, small obstacles will not stop either the medium or the audience from reaching the truth, in | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| spite of the still existing imperfections in the medium. To help reach personal perfection through overcoming the | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| in this respect I cannot manifest through the medium. This is an example of the limitations of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| is quite dependent on the state of the medium? ANSWER: No. When people have reached the stage | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| attitude also includes not being dependent on the medium and never on the spirits. When this is | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| case you cannot be damaged, even when a medium is still in a state of training and | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| has to be earned by everyone. When the medium and the participants successfully pass the tests -- | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| world -- be it personal or through a medium. I want to make it quite clear to | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that this message is coming through. Obviously, the medium is sufficiently open and free of vanity. When | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that very rarely does one come across a medium who is free to such a degree. Precisely | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| questions. QUESTION: Is it all right for a medium to make a living through her task? There | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| about this. Although it is clear that a medium has to earn a living just as any | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is what I have to say: If every medium who is still in training knew that he | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| personal gain. But I will add this: A medium should have given his or her service for | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| earlier stage, when the guidance suggested that the medium can now channel also for other people to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to live. In principle, to claim that a medium should not be rewarded by earning a living | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| would be to imply that simply because a medium accepts money the contact would not be with | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| -- you would find something else if the medium did not accept any money. After all, even | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| After all, even when not being paid, a medium can have contact with spirits who are in | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| protection, regardless of external circumstances. Of course, a medium should not refuse help to someone who is | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| much less important things -- to expect the medium to give her time and service for free | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| her time and service for free, unless the medium is still in training. If, all through this | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| in training. If, all through this time, a medium is working on the path of self-development, then | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the outside, unless he or she knows the medium very well, but the medium herself, and God | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| she knows the medium very well, but the medium herself, and God, will know the truth. And | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the truth. And that is what counts. A medium who pursues this kind of training goes through | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| though he earns money with it. If a medium is really capable of giving help, it would | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| job just to earn his bread. Any prospective medium should, therefore, be prepared to work for quite | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| will help again by slowly withdrawing from the medium the occupation that was necessary until then. And | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| a matter of course, wish to enable the medium to earn her living -- everyone according to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| own thinking if you raise doubts about the medium just because of this, and then you should | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| on the intensity and diligence with which the medium pursues his or her spiritual development. When the | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| through my hands, through the hands of the medium. This energy wants to penetrate into you to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| seem to have difficulties to manifest through the medium. Why is this so? ANSWER: The difficulties do | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| it is not so easy to penetrate the medium. All this is strange to her, causing, of | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| or suffering souls find their way to a medium, the aim should be to teach them rather | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| to speak; for instance, you speaking through this medium, or the master who speaks to me? How | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| can. For instance, in the case of a medium, the higher self cannot manifest itself to such | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| and answer questions. If this were possible, this medium would have reached such heights in development that | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| not speak the way I speak through this medium. Or it does not speak in a way | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| geniuses of history -- never manifest through a medium? Do they manifest in direct contact with those | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| kind of contact because it tempts the respective medium or people belonging to a particular group to | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| if, for example, a Goethe speaks through a medium than any other spirit of the divine order | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| Goethe should speak here it might give the medium the opportunity to say, Goethe speaks through me | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| again. You would say to yourselves: Perhaps the medium knew about it, or All this was coincidence | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| can they use languages not known to the medium? ANSWER: I will answer both questions. The spirits | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| to guide a human being who is no medium at all, it still has to know the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| -- whether a spirit can speak through a medium in a language the medium does not know | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| speak through a medium in a language the medium does not know -- the answer is yes | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| -- that a language is spoken through a medium that he or she does not know. But | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| types of mediumship, a special training of the medium, as well as for the spirits in connection | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| as for the spirits in connection with the medium, is necessary. It is a different form of | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| human being can fulfill a task as a medium, it will first be determined for what type | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| are set in motion to train this particular medium for his or her task. Once this task | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| this path, furnishes many stones; not only the medium, but all of you do this who walk | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your word initiation could be applied. QUESTION: The medium wanted to ask a question: Apart from biological | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| spirit. QUESTION: Because of the density of the medium? ANSWER: The spiritual attitude is the distance. QUESTION | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| a trick, a delusion, the subconscious of the medium, or something of the sort? Is that reasonable | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| beyond, that a spirit can manifest through a medium. There are many spiritual laws governing mastery over | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| the attitude, goal, and general development of the medium as well as of the people using the | 21 THE FALL |
| to the light and partly, let us say, medium spheres, but not dark spheres anymore. At that | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have -- again I use this word -- medium spheres. Of course, all this is so relative | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| difference among them, belong into a world of medium gray. Roughly speaking, this is the difference between | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| thoughts. ANSWER: Not while I am in the medium. For, while I manifest through a human being | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| knowledge I can put through simply by the medium going into a trance. If a human being's | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| through mediumship, which is only direct for the medium, but through spiritual development and the refinement of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the World of God who talk through a medium can only show you the way how to | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| answers. You do not have to be a medium for that. Every human being on the right | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| of divine harmony is to find the happy medium in everything and to resist extremes which are | 36 PRAYER |
| no matter in what stage of development the medium is. Learning about the facts of Creation, about | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| every human language and express yourself through a medium in any language. ANSWER: As far as the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it in the respective human tongue through the medium utilizing her sense organs as well as her | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| any language, regardless of whether or not the medium knows the language, depends on the type of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| aural transfiguration -- speaking in a language the medium ignores - - and a few other such | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| infinitely greater strength on the part of the medium, as well as on the part of the | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is, do you, when you talk through the medium, translate from your picture language or do you | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| think at this moment of the language the medium is speaking? ANSWER: It is a combination of | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not a person can be saved through the medium of a Savior or through a person's own | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| experiment and apply scientific methods in understanding the medium so that he can relate the relative truths | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it false? Is it the subconscious of the medium? Is it a spirit? Is it a divine | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to receive them while I manifest through the medium, because matter then stands in the way. Other | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| lead others to think that you, being a medium, use what you have heard. So, for the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| witnessed a demonstration of clairvoyance in which the medium was not in a trance, but could see | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in question was actually there so that the medium could see it? ANSWER: All these alternatives are | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| see, I'm becoming a pest already with the medium in my personal work sessions, talking about the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| dream interpretation. I have done this with my medium in a constant training process over the years | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| reluctant to face, perhaps one session with the medium may open the way. You can then go | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |