| Neglecting..................6 | |
| follow the path I am showing you means neglecting your life in other ways. You see, my | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| individual's overemphasis on outer actions, while ignoring and neglecting the inner motivations and reactions, thereby being a | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| efficiency in these exercises by mere discipline, while neglecting to find your inner obstructions. Such proficiency certainly | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| spirituality, religion, and love are one -- by neglecting your emotional processes? Think about this, my friends | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| it. Come to terms with it, instead of neglecting to face the significance of your lack of | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| it may be overemphasized at the price of neglecting other areas. The experience of each individual is | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Neglects....................5 | |
| any given situation. The person of will also neglects the emotional side, fearing emotion as much as | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| may also originate from emotional disturbances. When one neglects to satisfy one's real needs, illusory or imaginary | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| take the example of a human being who neglects his or her personal growth. Inevitably, discontent must | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| works on that which is already free and neglects that which needs attention. In that state the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| see no further than the immediate point and neglects, or even refuses, to see beyond this point | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Neighbor....................8 | |
| it a personal spiritual experience, love for your neighbor or compassion, or whatever. Imagine, then, that you | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| no longer be so difficult to love your neighbor, and you will find it much easier to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to unite with the higher self of your neighbor. All this is contained in the first two | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| Heaven, seek God within the soul of your neighbor, even the one you reject. For only thus | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| of wanting more for oneself than for one's neighbor, in short, each thought that breaks God's laws | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| own free will. In other words: If my neighbor chooses with his free will to commit a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| in that house in order to impress your neighbor, or to make your neighbor like you. I | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| to impress your neighbor, or to make your neighbor like you. I think this is probably an | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Neighbors...................4 | |
| people learned to live in peace with their neighbors, they could exploit boundless resources that are now | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one is imperfect; neither can one if one's neighbors, life situation, and relationships are imperfect as well | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| certain things in the same way as their neighbors, but only because they freely choose to do | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| not starving, but they have less than their neighbors. If everyone else were to live like them | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Nervous.....................6 | |
| gathers strength for the next storm. Another gets nervous and loses inner control when a storm is | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| Stay on this earth plane. Perhaps by being nervous and unrestful you will find a different way | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a certain substance that shoots through your entire nervous system, speeding up your blood pressure and accelerating | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the poisonous substance will affect your bloodstream and nervous system, and physical damage will accrue in one | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| acknowledge this, calmly stating to yourself, I'm too nervous and restless to relax and do this part | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| anyone to want to regulate their blood stream, nervous system, heart beat, the functioning of their liver | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Nervousness.................3 | |
| ask yourself. If you still find unrest, haste, nervousness, and lack of peace of mind, then ask | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| restlessness, inner haste, impatience, and a kind of nervousness. QUESTION: I would like to ask two metaphysical | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| into an extended time dimension. Listlessness, depression, impatience, nervousness, anxiety, tension, frustration, boredom, apathy, and hostility -- | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| Ness........................3 | |
| open attitude, willing to listen to a conscious ness that is you and yet is greater than | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| But this requires much higher states of conscious ness, which must be earned. Humankind, as a whole | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| interwoven with the masking cloak, the false good ness. In your pathwork many of you have already | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Neuroses....................6 | |
| path, you inevitably find that all deviations, so-called neuroses and sicknesses are in one form or another | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| distortions, images, repressions, immaturities -- in short, your neuroses -- exist, there is also sin and evil | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| best and most favorable circumstances and develop so-called neuroses, while in other cases the conditions may be | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| opposition to growth is still found even after neuroses have been transcended and dissolved. It explains why | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| much deeper existential conflict, far beyond the individual neuroses and personal difficulties the child experiences that later | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| superficial level in terms of personal idiosyncrasies and neuroses, as spite against a specific person or people | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Neurosis....................34 | |
| your present-day human terminology, a neurotic situation. All neurosis is built around a nucleus of repressed needs | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| aggression you have, which is caused by the neurosis, you become ill before you are aware on | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in peace. Be in God! 94. SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT Greetings, my dearest | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| exist, there is also sin and evil, for neurosis always means a character defect. You have found | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| affect others who are near you. The so-called neurosis always contains selfishness, greed, pride, cowardice, egocentricity, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| ages speak of sin instead of sickness or neurosis? ANSWER: Well, my friends, because it does not | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| love and understanding cause what is called a neurosis. You accept this climate as a matter of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| therefore in sin. Sin, in psychological terms, is neurosis. The only difference between the spiritual and psychological | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the different currents and components leading to separateness, neurosis, or sin. The first cardinal sin is PRIDE | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| plan that a child develops a reaction, a neurosis against a parent or parents, regardless of how | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| may be extremely unfavorable and yet comparatively little neurosis exists -- we cannot say none since no | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| understood. Nor do psychologists sufficiently understand that the neurosis itself is, in a sense, the first step | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you. What traditional psychiatry or psychology today terms neurosis or a psychological problem is nothing more than | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that any need for it at all indicates neurosis, disturbance, immaturity. In the well- functioning personality, the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| up more fear, more guilt, more pretense, more neurosis, and therefore more loss of healthy control over | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| a deep resistance, beyond the psychological quirks of neurosis. This fundamental opposition to growth is still found | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| ego-identification, no matter what name you give it: neurosis, sickness, distortion, unhappiness. You are free merely to | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| or -- if one prefers the expression -- neurosis. People proceed from the premise -- often quite | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| your innermost core is completely content. Thus a neurosis, an unhappiness, is in a deeper sense a | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| demands. Usually people overlook, or even ignore, that neurosis is, in itself, a sign of a healthy | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| be confused about the subtleties of health or neurosis. Neurosis is simultaneously a sign of health and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| confused about the subtleties of health or neurosis. Neurosis is simultaneously a sign of health and of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| dualistic system it is either sickness or health. Neurosis is thus always seen exclusively as sickness. True | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| been faced. Childhood Trauma Not Directly Responsible for Neurosis A childhood trauma produces deprivation, unhappiness, destructive feelings | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| unhappiness, destructive feelings and behavior -- in short, neurosis -- only indirectly. It is not in itself | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| calls it sin or evil. Psychology calls it neurosis or psychosis, among other things. Whatever name you | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| stem from an erroneous attempt to find unity. Neurosis is in itself an erroneous attempt to find | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| is it so hard to give up one's neurosis? ANSWER: The creative soul substance, when it is | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| stagnant, entrapped energy/consciousness/substance, which is what is called neurosis. Since the deadened consciousness is dead -- which | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| experienced that defensive numbness occurs -- and hence neurosis, destructiveness, deadness. It is false to generalize that | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| Often you mistake the vague discontent for the neurosis itself, as if the absence of this experience | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| would mean emotional health. In reality, you produce neurosis as a result of failing to establish the | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| The mind has created theories about sickness, or neurosis which, though quite correct in themselves, disregard the | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| it is the negativity that creates illness and neurosis. Rejecting the punishing deity concept, humanity had to | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Neurotic....................54 | |
| if you are not what is called a neurotic, and there are only minor deviations from the | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| understand correctly that the exaggerated need is a neurotic streak? ANSWER: Of course. It is an illusion | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| is called, in your present-day human terminology, a neurotic situation. All neurosis is built around a nucleus | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| give up certain gratifications. This then causes the neurotic symptoms of helplessness, dependency, inability to make a | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is, the more free it is of the neurotic condition just discussed. Because, the less enslavement exists | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| are conflicted and immature, in modern psychological terms neurotic, is in essence what in religious or spiritual | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| down on others because they are troubled, sick, neurotic, spiritually less developed. So this is a matter | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| occurs when your defense mechanism functions in a neurotic, unreal situation. You choose either the pseudo-solution of | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| a positive level, and then one discovers a neurotic trend on a deep level, the real self | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| in the following life -- than the milder neurotic person who continues to evade. As long as | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| craving for affection, or to any other one-sided neurotic bondage. Before a healthy relationship can come into | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| degree is less, one calls these disturbed souls neurotic. The words do not matter, the terminologies change | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| you well know, utterly dependent. Concomitantly, the so-called neurotic, conflicted, immature person is emotionally dependent. You all | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of the human psyche, way beneath the ordinary neurotic misconceptions and fears human beings harbor in their | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| where your psyche is afflicted by images, by neurotic behavior patterns, and misconceptions so deeply engraved that | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| or anyone; my only way of loving is neurotic. Listening to your lecture, I am interested to | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| only realizable when the psyche is unintense. Every neurotic attitude is a result of -- and results | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| of such resolution is that first the individual neurotic conflicts must be found and understood. You need | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| what one fears. This fear goes beyond the neurotic fears that stem from misconceptions and personally experienced | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| as you think you should be, or letting neurotic layers of your personality mix in with superimposed | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| less crass cases it takes the form of neurotic manifestations, where the ego is unable to use | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| the universal forces, they would not be sick, neurotic, unhappy. But it is equally true that sickness | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| to rebel against it is immature, unrealistic and neurotic. Persons with immature, unrealistic tendencies also frequently strive | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| exist only on the superimposed levels of falseness, neurotic needs, and destructively selfish and exploitative demands that | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| self-responsibility. Similarly, you are not responsible for the neurotic patterns of your own child. Excessive guilt for | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| use them, then such responses are not only neurotic; they are also initiating negativity, quite regardless of | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| one of your problems, in one of those neurotic battles with yourself and life, you are, in | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of guilt unconscious, the counterreaction must also be neurotic and destructive. Only conscious perception can prohibit this | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| ego to stay within the narrow confines of neurotic self-beating, hopelessness, and morbid capitulation, which always cover | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| human need may be distorted by a so-called neurotic need, but the deviation is seldom a total | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and talents. You must recognize the distorted and neurotic reasons that may keep you hooked on this | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| give, which must never be confused with the neurotic need to be loved. But this confusion between | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| If, for example, you have a strong unconscious neurotic desire that conflicts with your conscious wish, your | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| of some faults and destructive attitudes, of some neurotic behavior and feelings, but I cannot sufficiently emphasize | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| much! You actually invest your best energies into neurotic solutions based on unrealizable hopes or on sheer | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| from the opposite extreme, makes all guilt appear neurotic. In fact, there is a difference between neurotic | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| neurotic. In fact, there is a difference between neurotic false guilt and real guilt and one can | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| even dislike outright. Your dislike may not be neurotic. You may be quite right to dislike these | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| longing per se stems from immature, greedy, or neurotic attitudes? No, my friends, it does not. There | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that is not to be confused with childish, neurotic demands. Not giving feelings makes mutual exchange impossible | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| way by simply judging them as healthy or neurotic, or morally right or wrong. There is also | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| inner guilt that psychologists all chalk up to neurotic guilt operates here. Such guilt is neurotic only | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| to neurotic guilt operates here. Such guilt is neurotic only when it expresses itself in distorted perfectionism | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| recognized for what it is behind every so-called neurotic and unjustified guilt. Only now, in the evolutionary | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| It is never a sentimental giving in to neurotic and unhealthy demands. It is true giving. And | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| by those who comply out of their own neurotic motives. You cannot receive the existing or growing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| the ego-consciousness become untrue, off center, distorted and neurotic. You must therefore first abandon the distortions, on | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| deny feeling your fear of death is a neurotic manifestation. The personality fears to go through the | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| states that are divine truth become lies and neurotic manifestations. Humanity's confusion of these states at this | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| manifestations as illusory pseudo-solutions and designated them as neurotic states that the maturing individual naturally abandoned, at | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| to do so to a degree. On a neurotic level, you will ask for this leadership in | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| yourself desirable, playing into other people's misconceptions and neurotic needs. Submission to substitute authority and power, as | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| This pain is ever so different from the neurotic pain, the pain by association, the pain of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| all interdependence with others will be free from neurotic dependency. It will be healthy interdependence that will | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |