| Narrower....................8 | |
| finally vanish. This is the spiral that becomes narrower and narrower, until it finally ends at one | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| This is the spiral that becomes narrower and narrower, until it finally ends at one point. Ignorance | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| not endless. The spiral movement becomes smaller and narrower, as I just said. But finally there comes | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| was the ninth time around. The circles get narrower and narrower, until they meet at one basic | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| ninth time around. The circles get narrower and narrower, until they meet at one basic point of | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you can proceed from it into the next, narrower one. But whenever the transition to the next | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to the territory of others, it is still narrower as compared to one's potential -- is easy | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| margin of the swing of the pendulum becomes narrower and the point of fusion is approached. Democratic | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Nation......................8 | |
| spirit can be born into a race or nation because spiritually, emotionally, characterwise and psychologically it belongs | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| war, it is a question of defending a nation and humanity. For humanity, war is often the | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| And even the people living in the aggressor nation are often convinced that they are only doing | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| next time caused perhaps by another group, another nation. You can be quite sure that in the | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| world. Let us say, for instance, that a nation is dominated by the forces of darkness because | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on power. But to make this possible, each nation, each government, each group, will have to probe | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| the consciousness of this earth sphere, of every nation, of every city, of every group. Just as | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| an ordinary citizen than the leader of a nation. The follower can afford to be lazy, even | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| National....................4 | |
| and individual images but mass images, race images, national images, historical images exist in each time and | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| influenced. As I pointed out before, even in national or mass disasters, some people are badly affected | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not only occurs among individuals, but also among national, religious, and political groups. In this psychological distortion | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| have some knowledge of the way governments -- national and international -- are run, it will be | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Nationality.................6 | |
| a cure, too. Through differences of race, religion, nationality, or various other categories, humanity can become stronger | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| takes considerable time. The proper choice of parents, nationality, religion into which to be born, life circumstances | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| anything about the subject. The same applies to nationality. There are some people born into a country | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Personal identity will no longer be attached to nationality, or religious affiliation. Thus a defiant rigidity will | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| freely. The new-age person is not bound to nationality, political party, race or creed. He or she | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| never be associated with any group consciousness, religion, nationality, political party. True individuality blossoms only when God's | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Nations.....................19 | |
| with this anymore and could never induce whole nations to kill each other for their selfish interests | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| effect of this development will be very noticeable; nations, religions, and races will have few of their | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| very high spirits also work and inspire groups, nations, and individuals who are not bound to any | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the world, whose task it is to lead nations. The greatest evil of earth life is always | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| are similar to the actions and reactions of nations. By such discoveries, you will contribute more to | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| similarly play a role in the conflicts of nations. As in the individual conflicts, so in world | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| of your inner problems exist in different groups, nations, religions, languages. All of them are symbolic of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| matter is always the effect. Whether you examine nations, languages and religions, or atmospheric conditions, it makes | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul life than world conditions and relations among nations. This is not hard to figure out. The | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unfairness due to blind, isolating tendencies. If two nations have opposite aims, it is as unrealistic and | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to both individual and collective entities such as nations, groups and common endeavors. The same psychic laws | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| is the final result of two entities -- nations or individuals -- not using the key. The | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| own clans. Eventually, larger groups, and, much later, nations came into existence, but only after further alternations | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- although this, too, always existed within tribes, nations, and families -- but mainly by opposing other | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| this, if followed, would be the transformation of nations into one human government; religious differences would disappear | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| also on the outer levels, so that eventually nations, religions, and all such differences will disappear. This | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| in symbolic reflections, how the lower self of nations becomes exposed, so it happens with each individual | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| fully give to their tasks as leaders of nations and of governments, discharge themselves of their responsibility | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Openness must then be painstakingly learned by the nations just as by individuals. You are pioneers, bringing | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Natural.....................349 | |
| future incarnation. All this represents not only the natural outcome of the person's individual attitude and outlook | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| way. As I said, real love creates a natural dignity very different from false dignity, which is | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| avoid some greater danger. These events are a natural consequence of the situation and God allows them | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| you buy a shack. You accept that as natural; it cannot be otherwise. But it is not | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| least want to hear. If you overcome the natural resistance to hearing an unflattering or uncomfortable truth | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| dreamed possible. They will come simply as a natural byproduct of your inner victory in walking the | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| wants to be happy. This is a most natural wish, which comes from the higher self as | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| granted seem to happen in a way so natural that at the moment you may be uncertain | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| cannot come by forcing oneself; it is the natural result of spiritual growth; you can attain this | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| would fulfill it, even though he was the natural and logical choice. Someone had to come to | 19 JESUS CHRIST |
| development as the Fall with its degeneration is natural enough. You will readily understand now that this | 21 THE FALL |
| it easier and finally it will be your natural reaction. In the course of this path, you | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a person may never know this is quite natural. Often God gives back what one has first | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| means a new upward curve. It is quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| does not enhance spiritual development. Of course, a natural intelligence is necessary for this path but that | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| feel insecure and you will therefore develop a natural tolerance. But most of you are still so | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| quite right. The connection is this: isn't it natural that when you are proud -- which is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| tendencies. The same applies to faults. But the natural and positive extension of will is courage. Both | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| increasingly -- that the sex instinct is as natural and God- given as any other universal force | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| one more word, my dear ones. It is natural when you work on this path that many | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| enjoy pleasure, in spite of this being a natural longing, you feel you do not deserve it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| speak. The proper kind of self-love is the natural attribute of the healthy soul. To the degree | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| decision a manifestation of free will or the natural result of the law of causality? ANSWER: Humans | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when their choice is too obviously against the natural law of cause and effect are they drawn | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remain a child in body, it cannot succeed. Natural growth takes place. It is similar in this | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| as well as any other laws, follow a natural procedure and do not happen arbitrarily or forcefully | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| remedy does not lie in tearing out a natural force that cannot be eliminated no matter how | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| with regard to breathing. Is the exhalation the natural restriction? ANSWER: Exhalation is expansion; inhalation is restriction | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| you how this comes about in a very natural way. You are not expected to decide what | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| will be fruitful only if it is a natural result of your inner growth. The first thing | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| anything, the right middle way will be as natural as breathing. Do you think of having to | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| You breathe automatically. It is a completely natural process. You have found the right middle way | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| be thought well of by others. That is natural. But the degree of dependency, its consequences, and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| The more you want to evade paying the natural and fair price -- in this case self- | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| then it seems like standing still. Is it natural to have to go through these phases? ANSWER | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| comes always as an effect. It is a natural growth that can never be forced directly. When | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| try to force yourself to love, while your natural desire coming from the higher self and truly | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| I cannot trust anyone else. That is the natural result, a further chain reaction. If you do | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| nature. One would have to analyze why these natural conditions bring him distress; what was once, perhaps | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| light. I might put it this way: the natural process of your work will bring to light | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| mismanagement of instinct in that regard. Instinct is natural to us in the normally functioning human being | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not interest you. This must be a natural process which develops organically. In doing the concentration | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| entire life, your real self with all its natural, beautiful, spontaneous right reactions was constantly hampered. Your | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| real self from within, so that fulfillment becomes natural and inevitable. In other words, when such a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| change one way or another, in the most natural way possible. No forceful measures will have to | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| forceful measures can never really work. An organic natural growth will bring an organic natural change. If | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| An organic natural growth will bring an organic natural change. If a person is so divided within | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will flow much freer. In such people, the natural attitude will be to grow from coping with | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| always remains. For in the state that is natural for all of God's creatures -- the state | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| superficial adoption of new opinions, but a very natural, gradual, organic, inner growth. The change comes slowly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| change is possible in a good, constructive, and natural way because the call of your life is | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| by trying to feel and perceive in a natural and relaxed way, without expecting immediate results, rather | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| means a new upward curve. It is quite natural that in such periods of temporary darkness you | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| due to its inner state of mind. During natural sleep, the etheric double remains in the physical | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| slightly drawn out too, but, if sleep is natural, the etheric double will remain. Therefore, it is | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| Instead you artificially cramp, prohibit, and squash your natural feelings. Maybe your real self would cause your | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| such it cannot or should not upset the natural balance. But this is not so. You will | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| events you blame for the situation are the natural result of your inner state which you have | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| understand that healthy mutuality is the essence and natural result that automatically comes when one frees the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| will begin to see the law taking its natural course, and find that you can lift yourself | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| will evolve through a process of inner and natural growth. Your individuality will then become stronger and | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| intuitive nature will manifest without inhibition, with a natural and reliable spontaneity. This is how you will | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| be simply cultivated and learned. It is a natural byproduct of growth and awareness. You become more | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| sublimation necessary. It will all be an organic, natural process. It is very easy to have the | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| is not genuine. It does not come from natural insight and inner growth but from fear: the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| and a healthy trust in yourself, in your natural, spontaneous reactions, will follow. You will become more | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| also find it possible to distinguish between the natural, healthy needs, and the artificially created needs of | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| learn to maturely go about fulfilling the healthy, natural needs, will you become capable of giving up | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| more repressed, and therefore the more urgent your natural needs are, the more blind you will be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is an artificial need and which is a natural need? ANSWER: Let us suppose you discover a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| growth occurs and the relinquishing happens in a natural way. QUESTION: Now, let us say, a person | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| not know it, because it is such a natural process. You cannot, as yet, distinguish between the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| process. You cannot, as yet, distinguish between the natural action and action coming from the superficial layers | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| creates tension, anxiety, hostility, and discontent is only natural. To a degree, you may occasionally succeed in | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| only breeds conflict. By finding where, through your natural development in this respect, your real self was | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| I might say. Change is the only organic, natural process of creation, and therefore it is also | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| stultifying their intensity. Both procedures tamper with the natural flow; the emotional life is not trusted to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| but when the feelings show themselves in their natural intensity, or their lack of intensity compared to | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| or yourself, responsible for your tampering with your natural genuine feelings? The truth about your feelings cannot | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| by themselves. This cessation has to be a natural, organic process. The second category of wishful daydreaming | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| accusation covers a betrayal and you have a natural anger about it, your anger may cover self-defense | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| may cover self-defense, but it is also a natural reaction against someone who has made promises to | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| come true. Is this not a cause for natural anger? ANSWER: Before we deal with the term | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| we deal with the term of what is natural and unnatural, I would like to say again | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| its positive effect. Now as to what is natural. It is certainly natural to have immature, unproductive | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| as to what is natural. It is certainly natural to have immature, unproductive reactions, because everyone else | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| As I have often said, sexuality is a natural, healthy instinct. If it matures properly, it combines | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| immensely wise and resourceful Creator of all the natural laws that he can see. Since he cannot | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| teachings, prescribed practices, or disciplines. It is the natural outcome of the courage and humility to face | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| are outgoing to others, it is not a natural, spontaneous process, but artificial and compulsive. But this | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| spontaneous process, but artificial and compulsive. But this natural concern and warmth for others will come if | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| childish demands of others is by curbing your natural feelings, thereby cutting off the love current from | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| that if you were to allow yourself these natural feelings, you would be forced to give in | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| up, in which you withdraw from your organic, natural feelings, stunting them deliberately, as it were. Once | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of either forcing love or withdrawing from your natural feelings are not the only ones will stop | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| suppressed. When you understand them sufficiently, the warm, natural feelings of affection are bound to come out | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| because you harbor the simple misunderstanding that your natural feelings should not be experienced. Since this misunderstanding | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| do not dare to let yourself feel your natural feelings, for fear of being despised by the | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| This fear is especially strong when you have natural, warm feelings for someone you are convinced you | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| self-alienation by the simple act of discouraging your natural, warm feelings and artificially producing toughness. Again, all | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| forces are disturbed or thrown out of their natural channels, love cannot prevail. All religions have always | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| these inner forces free to grow in their natural, organic way. For humanity as a whole the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| much more difficult to keep going than the natural reactions. When an insight comes -- even if | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| more easily, more reliably and safely does your natural being guide you through life! This is not | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| death causes a backward movement opposed to the natural movement of time which is a steady, harmonious | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| in. Once in this state, you follow the natural flow. The wave of time will bring you | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| your personality. With these reactions you restrain the natural movement and create tension, setting your soul forces | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| your fantasy. You are afraid to allow the natural flux of time to become part of your | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| that you are dealing with more than the natural need for human interdependence, which never causes anxiety | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| That such a state of affairs is not natural or necessary hardly needs to be emphasized, once | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| you to manipulate others, yourself, and your vital natural feelings. By this very process the self cannot | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| care of all this will come as a natural byproduct of ceasing the futile struggle to keep | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| not only the dam itself, but all the natural and healthy vegetation and structures alongside. Destroying the | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| whatever -- the principle is the same. The natural laws apply to all created forces, whether they | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| most vital aspects of this question. In thwarting natural instincts, man so often thwarts his manhood. He | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| unconscious ideas, he thwarts his masculinity in its natural and healthy form by trying to manipulate it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| QUESTION: You speak of the sex instinct as natural and right. But just how far do you | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the personality must keep on moving in a natural, organic way. Growing is moving. As I have | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| -- to the parents. This phenomenon is completely natural, and only traditional misconceptions stamp it as wrong | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| generation of inherited prejudice halts the growing individual's natural development. Fears of perversion, homosexuality and incest play | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| prejudice, fear, and misconception tend to prohibit the natural flow of an infant's participation in the life | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| separation of instinctual drives. Their existence prohibits the natural development. With growing maturity in this respect, perfect | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the primitive childhood state, and what was once natural and organic becomes destructive later in life. At | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| that you have not come to terms with natural phases of your past development. When erotic longing | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| need to fear this phase, because it is natural. It is not shameful. It is in the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| it is superimposed and not the result of natural growth -- brings disharmony, resentment, self-pity, and invites | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| with substitute needs. Feeling erroneously guilty about the natural need to receive, automatically impairs your capacity to | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| aspect of giving and receiving, or any other natural, legitimate need and self-expression, hidden one-sidedness often creates | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| predicament and conflict: he desists from expressing his natural need for masculine self-assertion in the confusion that | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| itself, makes the expression of self-assertion -- independence, natural healthy aggressiveness -- problematic because his own attitude | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| his resentments -- the result of suppressing his natural aggressiveness -- now mingle with the confusion. He | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |