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| recognize that these feelings do not always run parallel with what they have accepted as right in | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| right? ANSWER: Quite right. Again, there is a parallel to what we talked about before. Even in | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| can perceive whenever your emotions are not always parallel to your thoughts or to the way you | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| point also in the battle of the heavens, parallel to the height of power of Hitler before | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| am teaching that there must always be a parallel. In other words, when you deviate in one | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| of the reasons you gave just now somewhat parallel to the reason why Jesus spoke in parables | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| have reached. One might say there are two parallel spiral movements: one pursues the disturbance, the other | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| from yourselves. This is why I draw this parallel, which is not symbolic or arbitrary. It is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of your personal problems and how they run parallel to world history, to the development of humanity | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| spontaneously after these lectures. A question or a parallel out of your own pathwork may occur to | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| It is also necessary to outline again the parallel between the negative and positive inner processes. The | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| proceed to create false feelings. These false feelings parallel other illusions -- about your spiritual development, your | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| key to their resolution. When you find the parallel between the outer problem and the pleasure current | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| Again, I would like to point out how parallel these laws run on the spiritual and physical | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all essentially identical life stuff. There is a parallel between the discovery of the self, consisting of | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| for everything and everyone. Totally self-realized entities are parallel to, exposed by, and in orbit with this | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the two one. The personality center is first parallel, covered, charged, enlivened by the spiritual one, until | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| attitude. However, these attitudes are not always exactly parallel. What I am primarily concerned with is the | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| human beings in relationship and show how these parallel the individual process. Before doing so I should | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| although it is actually very old. This is parallel to purifying the feeling into the pure love | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| in this direction. The outer law is often parallel to the inner law. Many outer laws are | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| be no question that the outer law is parallel to the inner law. But then we also | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| one another, while they are, at times, also parallel. This perfect balance cannot occur through an intellectual | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| trustworthy universe has much greater value. This is parallel to experiencing at certain stages on your path | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| consciousness, and exposure. We also discussed the inevitable parallel between all these aspects manifesting on the individual | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Parallels...................9 | |
| recognized, and in addition think about the many parallels that point to this truth, you will come | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| and also elsewhere -- there are hints and parallels which can be connected to the prevailing philosophies | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| own inner concept of what love is, which parallels the general concepts of love, at least in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| by deeply examining one's feelings and ascertaining the parallels, the similarities of reactions. But a relationship need | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| to your dualistic consciousness. The law of gravity parallels, or expresses on the physical level, the emotional | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| in order to subsequently relax it voluntarily. This parallels mental and emotional functioning: There, too, it is | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| this mass image is a personal/psychological issue which parallels that of the submitting Christian. The part of | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| trust, closeness? Again and again I show you parallels between the development of the individual and of | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| your attention to a specific observation: watch the parallels between the outer and inner growth and the | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Paralysis...................26 | |
| the lack of love can lead to a paralysis of the soul's creative forces. In order to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| that they will grow up with less rigidity, paralysis, images, and problems. Perhaps some of you in | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| being so afraid of discovery, may produce a paralysis to prevent asking questions. It is as though | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| threaten to break down fences. This produces a paralysis in the manner you describe. As long as | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| way you wish to formulate it, helplessness, powerlessness, paralysis of your faculties are the results of self-alienation | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| still hindered by self-condemnation, by weaknesses and the paralysis of their faculties, by false impressions and concepts | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| cannot yet experience the strong connection of this paralysis with unrecognized facets of the lower self, about | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| phenomenon of false guilt accompanied by weakness and paralysis and the subsequent impairment of inherent productive faculties | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| through all the false guilts going through the paralysis and the weakness as well as searching in | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| ability to relate hampered by it, but a paralysis of the general life- force with all its | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and free-flowing movement unhampered by fears, inhibitions, and paralysis. In short, the experience of bliss results from | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| them nevertheless. They manifest indirectly through a general paralysis of creative functions, of the ability to have | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| about not being liked. Instead of causing a paralysis of your best faculties, you will discover and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| for the condensation of energy and for the paralysis of the life stream. It can only be | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| cause, as a final effect, an outer immobility, paralysis, excessive passivity. These extremes are always the result | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| The indentation of soul substance through intensity causes paralysis on all levels. Resiliency must exist on all | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| whether it manifests in jerky movements or in paralysis -- prohibits the inner powers of the life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| said, the dynamics of fear is tension, cramp, paralysis. Such a cramp prohibits the creative flow. If | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| resentments, and helplessness and thus increase our weakness, paralysis, dependence, and destructiveness. Or we can decide to | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| on all levels. Relaxation does not mean inactivity, paralysis, being slumped in unmoving unaliveness. Quite the contrary | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is needed, but relaxation is not passive apathy, paralysis or inertia. True relaxation is a constant, harmonious | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| painful state of inner split, partial self-denial, and paralysis of vital forces within you. I say what | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Laziness is a manifestation of apathy, stagnation and paralysis, a result of stagnant energy in the soul | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| So-called laziness may be one manifestation of this paralysis. A lack of creativity or a feeling of | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| inner knowledge, and your current action patterns. The paralysis that is often deemed laziness, and about which | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| of both the frenzy of overactivity and the paralysis. In other words, you must come to feel | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| Paralyze....................6 | |
| understand, but it is strong enough not to paralyze your capacity to help, if need be -- | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your pseudosolutions, unrealistic fears and erroneous images, which paralyze your constructive energy and resourcefulness, then an imaginary | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| daring to leave one's isolation and separateness, may paralyze the life force so much that the person | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| to see other opportunities. The disappointment will not paralyze your faculties and freeze your feelings into fear | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| compulsive need with which you enslave, weaken, and paralyze yourself. When you let go, you will experience | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| lack of awareness cause you to deny and paralyze the creative process itself. Every once in a | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Paralyzed...................48 | |
| perceptions -- including mediumship -- will not become paralyzed but will develop together with the intellect. This | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| pray that your thinking capacity should not be paralyzed. That is what usually happens to a person | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you otherwise know perfectly well. You become so paralyzed by the forces of evil you have drawn | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| in itself. Your fear often makes you so paralyzed that your faculties cannot function properly. As a | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| kept hidden in the subconscious and are thus paralyzed in your soul. Since the immature and primitive | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your capacity to love is constantly diminished and paralyzed. The capacity to have an objective and detached | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| free and spontaneous expression of love may be paralyzed and inhibited. Yet because this partner has a | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| prohibit, even if the outer will is still paralyzed, the Higher Self speaking and working and showing | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the more will its inherent creative abilities be paralyzed. The fact that some people are very creative | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| healthy way, some of these capacities will be paralyzed or incorrectly chaneled. Since humans tend to be | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| a minimum of inner problems. They are not paralyzed by inner mismanagement. The richness of your spirit | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| You are confused and anxious. Your faculties are paralyzed. This is not because you really are that | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| real attack and threat. He or she is paralyzed, helpless, and actually becomes a prey, behaving like | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| behind and get entangled in confusion and become paralyzed; so that your pathwork remains dynamic and alive | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| easy and simple. You still are torn and paralyzed by the fight between the primitive little child | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| is lack of experience. When your feeling-body is paralyzed, your ability to experience must suffer. When your | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| substitute for you, then all your faculties are paralyzed. It is the smaller mind with its immediate | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| Due to your self-inflicted, fearful blindness, you are paralyzed; you do not move where you should move | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| the positive ones. Your will is blocked and paralyzed. You may be perfectly able to communicate with | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| their own impairments. They are perplexed, hopeless and paralyzed because it simply does not occur to them | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| in the well-known trap, in which you are paralyzed, numb and lifeless. So, first, all your aims | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| similar conditions and new situations, the blocked and paralyzed energy must be made fluid again. And this | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| numbed. This means that you are either passive, paralyzed and held back, or you are ruthless, with | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you will no longer find yourself blocked and paralyzed. Are there any questions? QUESTION: What makes the | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| you have released life power that was hitherto paralyzed. This induces the hope, where before you felt | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| often human beings believe themselves to be bound, paralyzed, helpless and unable to move in spirit, in | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own powers. The result is that you become paralyzed and inactive in body, soul, and mind. This | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| So many of you are still locked and paralyzed. Expressing fear and anger is the last thing | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| This explains why so many people find themselves paralyzed in inactivity and stagnation. Temporarily, people will hold | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| threat. Her receptivity should not be confused with paralyzed passivity which is but a distortion of healthy | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| constant movement, even if this movement is temporarily paralyzed: matter is paralyzed life-stuff. The frozen blocks of | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| if this movement is temporarily paralyzed: matter is paralyzed life-stuff. The frozen blocks of energy in your | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| undesirable part causes it to remain stagnant and paralyzed so that it cannot change. The price of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| or she consciously desires, and yet feels strangely paralyzed, is eligible to benefit from this healing force | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| must become stagnant. People will find themselves inexplicably paralyzed. Their actions will become ineffectual; life will seem | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| the will should be active, it is often paralyzed and stagnant. Where it should be receptive and | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| painful. The energy of the feeling body is paralyzed and blocked. Therefore an important aspect of any | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| you will. Open the blocks and free the paralyzed feelings -- whatever they may be. Feelings must | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| in you. All your best functioning will be paralyzed unless you go through and fully feel whatever | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| cases; on the other hand, you will be paralyzed by fear and weakness and unable to assert | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| And where your feelings should unfold, you are paralyzed and unable to let them flow. The task | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| a very limited amount. They are numb and paralyzed on that level, while the people who are | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| misunderstandings, destructive attitudes, alienating defenses, negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy also attempts to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| anxiety, but they feel dead, numb, listless, and paralyzed. This may be a sign that the anxiety | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| a revivifying experience. It releases contracted energy and paralyzed creativity. It enables people to feel pleasure to | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| mechanical and, in more severe instances, even totally paralyzed. If this denial is removed, the sexual inclination | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| creation. Yet you will find your mind strangely paralyzed when it comes to truly letting go of | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| become less powerful, because your creative forces are paralyzed. There is, on the other hand, a part | 254 SURRENDER |