| Misuse......................22 | |
| this, there would be even more nonsense and misuse of this gift than there already is. The | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| on whatever plane it may be. Another misunderstanding, misuse, or abuse that often arises out of the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| danger that he may lose his way or misuse the powers he has learned to use. He | 18 FREE WILL |
| and when any of the created beings should misuse their power and freedom given to them by | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| that occupation with the self is harmful. They misuse this truth to rationalize their wrong attitude. An | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| truth. In its crass and superficial version this misuse of truth is easy to recognize. You recognize | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| truth directly because your subconscious would misunderstand and misuse it. But the more problems you resolve, the | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| mental and voluntary activity that has caused the misuse of these faculties. One cannot say that mind | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| inwardly not yet ready for, you would not misuse the tools of intellect and will, creating more | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| they are used. The disharmony caused by the misuse of these forces creates unrest and inner worry | 122 SELF-FULFILLMENT THROUGH SELF-REALIZATION AS MAN OR WOMAN |
| to only a minor degree and which you misuse in directing your attention and hopes to the | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| because the little ego no longer wants to misuse them in order to find life, as it | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| the opposite of what it really is. The misuse of this powerful force by no means proves | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| innate powers. You leave them unused, or even misuse them in your blind state. You can finally | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| into yourself to see how you use or misuse a given approach. There still exist many defenses | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| also beware of the possibility that you may misuse this truth, staying in your negativities under another | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| to a greater cause is premature, because you misuse it and perpetuate the pretenses of the mask | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| it deserves what it wants and will not misuse it. The outer mind must make constant changes | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| need to be aware of your wish to misuse the group in order to avoid meeting yourself | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| easier way. By the same token, people could misuse the words I am saying in order to | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| perfection could not yet exist. This abuse and misuse, this dangerous escape from the necessary developmental steps | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| is very dangerous. The danger lies in the misuse of the power of the word, the power | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Misused.....................16 | |
| accept the medium's messages unquestioningly can be easily misused by those who don't want to look at | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| This is so even though it is often misused and enjoyed for its own sake, while it | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a sign that the life force has been misused in the organism of the soul. Tiredness results | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| often a dangerous process because it is misunderstood, misused, and leads to and often actually means repression | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| the moment one aspect of the trend is misused by the afflicted part of your soul. The | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| own capacity, then the word will not be misused. Or rather, regardless of what word you use | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| that cannot be regenerated, for if energy is misused it does not renew itself. Thus the energy | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| separated itself, even if they are distorted and misused. The basic energy and consciousness of the ego | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| stuck -- you know that anything can be misused and put into the service of the life-negating | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| and experiences. However, if such a reality is misused in a separative, loveless, judgmental spirit, the truth | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| a word merely bandied about. Worse, it is misused and one speaks about love when many other | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| has known this for many centuries, but has misused this knowledge and made it into a punitive | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| dealing with evil, for they have often been misused, creating further distortions. They were used to dominate | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| goal. This truth was then misunderstood, misrepresented and misused by the prideful, domineering, fearful ego, so that | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| already functions, its messages might be mistranslated and misused in order to perpetuate the resistance. Such distortions | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| organized religion, words that have indeed often been misused and abused. But these words have nevertheless a | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Misuses.....................3 | |
| such words as there is no death and misuses them. The result is superimposed faith that is | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fear displaces the instinct of self-preservation. The ego misuses this instinct to preserve its present awareness. Fear | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| All demonic manifestations can only be distortions and misuses of divine creation. They can never be self-creative | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Misusing....................3 | |
| behind your wall, and what truth you are misusing. Only by examining your feelings, by listening into | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| ensue. You may then overcompensate by blindly, rebelliously, misusing your life force. This leads to pleasureless experiences | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| toward themselves as well as others, misunderstanding and misusing the active principle. Whenever one principle is given | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| Mix.........................4 | |
| willing from your soul. The two trends often mix; the clean trend is diluted and spoiled by | 18 FREE WILL |
| exact opposite of dignity. Spiritually unawakened people easily mix up the two. Be careful, my friends, with | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| no matter how subtly or unobtrusively it may mix with true aims. When your false aims and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be, or letting neurotic layers of your personality mix in with superimposed perfectionistic standards. Neither one of | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Mobility....................14 | |
| word. Be in peace, be in God! 135. MOBILITY IN RELAXATION - SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF THE | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| permeating everything that is, is a mixture of mobility and relaxation. The key of mobility, combined with | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| mixture of mobility and relaxation. The key of mobility, combined with relaxation, opens the world. It is | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| duality or distortion of the unifying principle of mobility in relaxation results in the following misconception: on | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| viewed as non-movement or stagnation, on the other, mobility is viewed as tense effort. This is particularly | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you should easily see that the distortion of mobility and relaxation is the primary duality, underlying all | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| begins to harmonize with the great cosmic flow. Mobility in relaxation comes more and more into being | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| principle of life itself is the harmony between mobility and relaxation, the phenomenon of dying must be | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| cultivating and learning from without the art of mobility in relaxation. By working at it from inside | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| will run in different channels. As this happens, mobility will exist without tension and anxiety, and relaxation | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| nevertheless distinct distortion of the unitive principle of mobility and relaxation. Where do you have mobility and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| of mobility and relaxation. Where do you have mobility and tension? Where do you have relaxation and | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| You can see the evolutionary process. QUESTION: Do mobility and tension, and relaxation and stagnation lessen as | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| create a confusion of motions: either the strained mobility of striving away from what is now -- | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| Mobilize....................6 | |
| The divine forces are in you if you mobilize them, rather than wait for them to come | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| and strivings, and not as something that you mobilize, first of all, in yourself. With this, my | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| feel less helpless as you become able to mobilize your inherent strength and other faculties that lead | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| part of them. May you be able to mobilize more of them than usually, in this hour | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| are inner powers and energies I wish to mobilize. The same me that is now locked into | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| on the innermost, by the divine power you mobilize when you meditate for this specific help. In | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Modalities..................7 | |
| and so on, in many different forms. The modalities in which the contact with God's spirit world | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| mind as it is now, to choose other modalities? Say, It is likely and predictable that I | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| prayer and meditation, are to reach into new modalities with your mind. If you now hate, say | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| difficulties in the process of adjusting to new modalities, but they also know that this means welcome | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| psychic space -- new states of consciousness, new modalities to react to, new approaches to life and | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| It is a sociology, for you learn new modalities to function in your social environment. It is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| the best intentions at first. New laws and modalities are created, new collective measures and forms of | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Modality....................9 | |
| spiritual laws, which pertain to every possibility or modality of outer or inner reaction, also create such | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| His laws and fulfill them. Because for every modality of life there exists a spiritual law. When | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| truth occasionally. Time is a very limiting existential modality. It is a fragment, cut from a wider | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| words be the beginning of a new inner modality to meet life, to finally decide, I want | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| be. I do not feel such a new modality. But perhaps there is another way. Perhaps I | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| will come when you will discover the new modality in which you can function in an entirely | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| first step is to make room for a modality other than the negative one you have discovered | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| and a new mode of being. The new modality does not shed the old, but transforms what | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the life and death of Jesus a new modality was created within the human mind. This new | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |