| Morally.....................10 | |
| and capable. The medium must not only be morally unobjectionable, but his or her attitude must be | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| are hidden, and since they crassly contradict the morally high standards of the particular idealized self, they | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| wish itself, whether or not the wish is morally acceptable or not. It is the broken awareness | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| but it does not. Both directions may be morally adequate, but the fact that you are not | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| simply judging them as healthy or neurotic, or morally right or wrong. There is also a defiant | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| assumption, woman was supposed to be intellectually and morally the weaker. But you all know about this | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| someone who is as creative, as adequate, as morally strong, as intelligent as himself. He will not | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| was the absolute conviction that these motives were morally right and virtuous. Men married women who brought | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Since woman was not considered a full-fledged equal, morally she was barely responsible. In those centuries emotional | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| displacement was looked upon as if it were morally desirable. Whenever one soul current is put secretly | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Morals......................6 | |
| but who have high standards of ethics and morals, do know what is right and what is | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| philosophical truth; it may be pure ethics and morals, without any religious implications; it may be psychology | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| never be at variance with divine ethics and morals. So if you have the courage and independence | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| and independence to think through what the outer morals are, you will find that in many cases | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in some they may not. Sometimes the outer morals are rigid and senseless. By adhering to them | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| against laws and all standards of ethics and morals, he or she does so because of the | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Morbid......................7 | |
| experience oneself as mortal is not negative or morbid, as is commonly believed. A realistic sense of | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| negative emotions, I do not mean masochistic, self-denying, morbid attitudes toward negative experience. You are not required | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| itself. This attitude has nothing to do with morbid wallowing. When you come to the traumatic experience | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| dead is far from healthy. It stems from morbid fears and from the desire to escape. Thus | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| the narrow confines of neurotic self-beating, hopelessness, and morbid capitulation, which always cover unexpressed hatred. The conscious | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| you. The act is by no means a morbid or self-negating process, however. Some of you may | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| makes you constantly fluctuate between self-righteous accusations and morbid self-recrimination and guilt. The accusations never deeply convince | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Mores.......................9 | |
| allegiance to handed-down values, superimposed standards or cultural mores. Such a liberated state of mind differs drastically | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| laws. The differences between natural laws and the mores of civilization are frequently quite pronounced. Sometimes the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| laws of life. All the world pronounces the mores of society good and righteous, while the natural | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| creates its own world with its own laws, mores, philosophy, and the consequent reality. Each world or | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| as a result of your education and the mores of your society. That circuit contains what you | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| desire of the lower self. The laws and mores of civilization in the age just past hinged | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| will always be guilt-producing, no matter what the mores of your outer society may be. The guilt | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| matter of different approaches and values, of the mores of a particular culture. Sometimes what is considered | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| shames are not merely a result of social mores and bigoted influences, but are actually products of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Morrow......................5 | |
| hoard the strength you may need for the morrow, or the knowledge that you may need for | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the knowledge that you may need for the morrow. This cannot be done. The text you quoted | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It does not feel the reality of the morrow, therefore it thinks that what is not accomplished | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| will turn into tomorrow's reality. Of course, the morrow never comes. The reality never conforms to the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| away, waiting to be lived, fulfilled in the morrow. It is easy to see that if you | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| Mortal......................7 | |
| being who had become man sufficient for a mortal to share, through mysterious rites, in His divine | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not only defend against hurt as a supposed mortal danger, but also against frustration of your will | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| something true, half-true, or untrue, you feel in mortal danger. If you translate your emotional reactions to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| own way, as imperfect as you. The supposed mortal danger you are compelled to ward off is | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| death is a reality. To experience oneself as mortal is not negative or morbid, as is commonly | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you are indeed not perfect, you are indeed mortal, you are indeed far from being omnipotent. But | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| you, that you are indeed only your outer, mortal self. This is why the mind makes itself | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Mortality...................7 | |
| commonly believed. A realistic sense of one's own mortality is never a burden. It is never depressing | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| Those who never experience the reality of their mortality are morbidly afraid of death. For if you | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| death. For if you do not feel your mortality as real, you cannot possibly feel your aliveness | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| not work. You must abandon immortality and accept mortality until you can truly become immortal. And now | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| theory of immortality and accepting your fear of mortality, you can go through a black wall and | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to accept his or her limitation, imperfection and mortality. Eventually, however, this very important psychological movement also | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| false becomes true again. The triad of perfection, mortality, omnipotence truly exist, so a total denial of | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| Mother......................54 | |
| also from experience that your love for your mother is different from your love for your mate | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| Oh, the work is not for nothing. The mother has to go through a karma and this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this little baby will be given to another mother. Immediately? Certainly. It will not go back to | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world, it will be brought immediately to the mother who was chosen for it in the first | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirit world it is known that the first mother has to go through this karma. This unhappiness | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| birth. And this infant is carried to the mother it was destined for in the first place | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is caused by the bloodstream of the mother in order that the limbs will not atrophy | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| born is growing in the body of the mother in such a way that its physical karmic | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not. In one instance the genes of the mother have a greater influence, in another those of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the time of pregnancy, the attitude of the mother, as well as that of the father, may | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| So, last-minute changes can be made if the mother, or the father, or both, change their attitude | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| pregnant woman. Therefore, it is advisable for the mother in particular to become quiet within, to turn | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| through this procedure for nothing. That the first mother would lose her child was known in the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Through spirit communication humanity was told that Jesus' mother was a pure spirit -- which could not | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| that purity means sexual purity and that the mother of Jesus gave birth as a virgin in | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| such is impure. This is not so. The mother of Jesus was and is a pure spirit | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| that everything sexual is impure, say that the mother of Jesus Christ had to be a virgin | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| the purity of the spirit of Jesus Christ's mother but also that Christ was the inborn Son | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| In other words, if a boy loves his mother very much, and despises and fears his father | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| because he wants to emulate and imitate his mother. He wants to identify with her. While in | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| it is a fear and hatred of the mother, or female mother-substitutes, rather than love for her | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| to provoking unhappiness and collecting miseries is the mother of all guilt and shame and is at | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| confusion is that the rejecter seems unloving. The mother or father is desirable also because that which | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the obvious sense, in the sense that a mother will care for her children or a father | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| event is especially obvious and decisive for the mother, as well as for the infant. The event | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suppose a male child has had a cruel mother, or maybe not even really cruel, but it | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| premise that all women are the way the mother was, the remedy must also be false and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| ineffective. Let us further assume that this same mother was quite demanding as far as work in | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| that if he had been more lovable, his mother would have given him more of what he | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| a child, he could not evaluate that his mother might have been incapable of feeling or demonstrating | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| because I didn't have real pity for my mother. I had compassion for her and because of | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| a healthy approach to yourself, or toward your mother. It is an indirect outcome of other aspects | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| that I was hiding my guilt about my mother behind something else. Then I found out that | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| relationship from the child to both father and mother is another symbol of the splits that mark | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| you discover how you relive your father and mother within yourself and continue to respond to them | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| You react forever to your father and your mother in the way of life that you had | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| it is not only a crisis for the mother, but even more so for the little entity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| any person possibly representing my father or my mother. I have been quite aware of this. But | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| case of children who feel rejected by their mother, does this marriage mean that the person cannot | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| -- some kind of sadistic wish toward the mother? This happens perhaps only in fantasy, never in | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| is usually unaware that the partner represents the mother? ANSWER: Yes, it might be exactly that. Or | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| to me that it is directed against my mother. I sabotage the positive aspects of life because | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| to have frustrated you -- primarily the woman. Mother is represented, of course, in all women. On | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you felt you were not accepted by your mother, but mainly because of your reaction to that | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| back at the entire female sex, all of mother in the whole world, for not loving you | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| possess them and is thus possessed, as in Mother, you must do what I want, otherwise I | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| was not allowed to make love to his mother. In the blind, semi-aware state of this resentment | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| no woman is trustworthy because you felt your mother rejected you. You now know that this equation | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| all women as if they were your unloving mother. You do not want to give up your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| organism, thus illustrating the universal feminine principle. The mother in this case is the giver, and in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| be likened to the infant who needs the mother. You often find individuals who are ready to | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| still want to have a father and a mother figure. This is true in a purely psychological | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| complete. The baby leaves the womb of the mother and first becomes merely a physically separate entity | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| complete right away. It takes a while until mother and child are truly separate entities. And I | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |