| Precedes....................3 | |
| the seat of all your feelings, which usually precedes contact with the divine, at least to a | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to emphasize, above all else, purification. When purification precedes the development of spiritual and psychic potential and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| other words, what others will think of you precedes consideration of truth and love. You do not | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Precepts....................7 | |
| soul; where you borrow, as it were, religious precepts behind which you hide and excuse your childish | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| vicious circle, in that the dualistic rules and precepts, which condition you to this way of life | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| being, you will be able to question your precepts that lay the foundation for this. And this | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| You blindly accept as inevitable many laws and precepts that are by no means natural. Examine yourself | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| universal consciousness has nothing to do with religious precepts of a removed deity, or a life beyond | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| specific respect. As you work along with the precepts of this path and establish the connections between | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| manifestations of this turn of mind. Since the precepts behind these attitudes are based on illusion, they | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Precious....................13 | |
| come easily, as nothing can that is truly precious and will bestow happiness on you. And the | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to establish because, obviously, it is the most precious gift that a human being can ever obtain | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| you all seek. I cannot promise you the precious gifts of heaven on earth and in the | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| for instance, mediumship: it can be the most precious jewel, and it can be very harmful. It | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| you hope to gain the greatest and most precious treasure of all without being willing to face | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| come by -- because it is the most precious! Whatever your image is in this respect, this | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| attaining the new you have to leave something precious behind. Try to find that unreasonable, irrational fear | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| no sense of loss, of giving up something precious. Neither will you feel especially virtuous. You will | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| which heightens the fear of giving up a precious defense. The impatience is caused to a large | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| with fantasy. Obviously, there is harm in spending precious energy on such wishful daydreams -- energy that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| have these feelings is in itself the most precious treasure, the most wonderful experience, for it makes | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| appears as not wanting to give up something precious that is, in itself, legitimate and that you | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| least a slight awareness that you are personally precious and beloved to the personified God -- Jesus | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Precipice...................3 | |
| you jump you find that there was no precipice! The jungle I speak of is not merely | 36 PRAYER |
| and truly faced, it may appear like a precipice. The new way may appear to be risky | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| this step. But this brink feels like a precipice which brings hesitation and a prolonged pseudo-existence. When | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Precludes...................4 | |
| what you want. Since such false protection automatically precludes the fulfillment of your desire, you constantly vacillate | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and true mastery over one's fate, and therefore precludes the bliss of being in the life force | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| analyzed, one always finds that childish fear which precludes love, regardless of how much love may otherwise | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| inner image always creates a limited vision that precludes seeing available alternatives. This false vision excludes so | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| Preconceived................32 | |
| to change according to their own ideas, the preconceived ideas they have formed because of this wrong | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| beg you, my friends, divorce yourselves of the preconceived idea that a spirit cannot manifest through a | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| from them. These generalizations later establish themselves as preconceived ideas. The conclusions are not thought out; rather | 38 IMAGES |
| is capable of freeing oneself of prejudices and preconceived ideas and nothing will stand in the way | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| freedom, without urgency, and therefore without any unreal, preconceived ideas of how a relationship should be and | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| every favorable situation that could come your way. Preconceived, imagined situations, as fabricated in daydreams, are the | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| situation seems otherwise favorable and fits into your preconceived idea, you leave out all that jars you | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| of training. But I cannot give you any preconceived formulas. This would oversimplify matters. To really understand | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the emotions of prejudice, you will see that preconceived ideas have the same origin as avarice, stinginess | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| get. This need necessitates planning according to your preconceived rules. Since life does not work that way | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of perfection. Discover where and how you use preconceived and fixed rules to guide you, rather than | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| the image, which will later act as a preconceived idea. But the image also always contains the | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| prejudice, a closeness, a fear of relinquishing a preconceived idea. This, of course, is due to the | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| circumstances that do not entirely accord with their preconceived ideas, they will feel less capable of experiencing | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| they are conditioned by your patterns, images, and preconceived notions. The limited scope of experiences, as well | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| when you remove your errors, your confusions, your preconceived ideas, and your dependency on the opinions of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| is not living up to outside standards and preconceived ideas, there will be no need for self-justification | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| to understand while staying completely free of all preconceived ideas. Perhaps also the past experience of the | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| available -- because the openness to look without preconceived ideas is absent -- is never entirely a | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you should see red -- you have a preconceived idea of red. Or when you see a | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| your own true, free, and spontaneous reactions, but preconceived reflexes. They result not only from what you | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| and wide open. Do not close doors with preconceived notions, but let life present its own manifold | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| the way the help might manifest. The fewer preconceived notions one has, the faster help will come | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| to dissolve the soul substance still hardened by preconceived, unchallenged, and even unarticulated convictions, by insistence and | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| organic way, without hindering it with selfwill and preconceived ideas that stem from the limited outer mind | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| go, let go of the mind and its preconceived ideas and its ingrained negativity. Let go of | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| that you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas, impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| a positive expectancy that is yet free from preconceived notions of how and what should happen. Still | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| expresses itself, you judge yourself according to your preconceived idea that contraction is something undesirable and bad | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| recent answer I gave to a question. All preconceived notions need to be challenged and examined -- | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| to know, if you are open without any preconceived ideas one way or another, you will know | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| you need to empty your mind of all preconceived ideas your lower self has a stake in | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Preconceptions..............4 | |
| free you of the shackles of limitation, of preconceptions, of a narrow, rigid outlook, all of which | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| never experience things as they really are, without preconceptions or preconditioned sensory reflexes. Your preconceptions are illusions | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| are, without preconceptions or preconditioned sensory reflexes. Your preconceptions are illusions, and they can be penetrated only | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| with its selfwill, its narrow understanding and its preconceptions. It means letting go of fears, distrust, misconceptions | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| Precondition................4 | |
| wish it and want to establish the necessary precondition within yourself, the answer must come from your | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| Let us now look at fearlessness as a precondition to love. Any one of you on this | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| misconceptions. All life moves toward resolving it. The precondition of such resolution is that first the individual | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| yourself and others. All of this is a precondition for effecting a more profound loosening up and | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| Predetermination............4 | |
| brings up the question: If there is such predetermination... ANSWER: It is not predetermination. I have to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| there is such predetermination... ANSWER: It is not predetermination. I have to interrupt you here because the | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| have to interrupt you here because the word predetermination puts an entirely wrong slant on the issue | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is not a question of preordainment or predetermination in the sense these words are usually understood | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Predicament.................48 | |
| ever change because you stand still. In your predicament you remain under the wrong impression that no | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| for all of you, my friends, for this predicament is universal and all- encompassing. The time has | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| this, in turn, convinces you anew that your predicament is indeed hopeless. Since the cause of your | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| explanation will not suffice for anyone in this predicament. It would be necessary for you to find | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is sufficient that they exist inwardly. In this predicament, you have an unreal picture of other people | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| both the result and the origin of this predicament. Rigidity, fear, insecurity, intolerance -- all these exist | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| you have succeeded in making it conscious. This predicament results in further negative chain reactions. The defense | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| confusion, you find yourself in just such a predicament. Your confusion is greater when you are not | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| conflicts and distortions before you can recognize the predicament of feeling helplessly trapped between the only two | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| alternatives are dissatisfying, you are in such a predicament because your real self cannot manifest and guide | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| If you remain static, you are in a predicament. You are unhappy. You are not alive. To | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| physical one? ANSWER: Your attitude toward a physical predicament does not preclude psychological deviations. A realistic fear | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| their patients. But only segments of this human predicament are comprehended within the framework of the evolutionary | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| she cannot find the way out of this predicament. If such is the case, you may be | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| hostile aggressiveness. He finds himself in the following predicament and conflict: he desists from expressing his natural | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| duality between life and death. From this basic predicament derive all other problems, difficulties, fears, and tensions | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| problem, that you are helpless to change your predicament. But when you realize that the final decisive | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| so. Whenever you are caught in such a predicament, you may be sure that you are entangled | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| does not exist must create real problems. The predicament against which you battle is a nonsensical idea | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| because these misconceptions are the cause of humanity's predicament. All misconceptions, as you find them in the | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| you ignore your part in creating your present predicament and deny that you continue to activate it | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| in peace. Be in God! 138. THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS Greetings | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| this must sooner or later see their own predicament from this perspective. All their disturbances, disharmonies, and | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| its soft aliveness. You find yourself in the predicament of possessing an adult ego with all its | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| understand this particular struggle, and therefore the human predicament, a little better. You already have, in your | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| matter where you are, no matter what your predicament. When you find yourself in some unfortunate state | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| this power available, you find yourself in the predicament of not being able to know what you | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| into space. At the core of the human predicament there always lies the feeling, If I do | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| enraged. Most people find themselves in the preposterous predicament of holding themselves tight and restricted, guarded and | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| of the ramifications and total significance of their predicament, such people complain that the world leaves them | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| the unchanneled primitive self. This seems a great predicament: How can you attain self-realization unless you learn | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| with these feelings. The way out of this predicament seems to be to deny the existence of | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| their complaints against life. This is their main predicament. Finally, there are many whose desire for and | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| accept that your inner, invisible belief creates the predicament of having to balance your advantage with that | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| being. Is it not natural that such a predicament induces feelings of resentment, frustration, anger, self-hate, guilt | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| impulse. You are thus confronted with an insoluble predicament: either you give up all pleasure connected with | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| yearning for pleasure, expansion and new experience, this predicament will cease to exist. In other words, you | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| affirmation. In other words the average human being's predicament is that he or she consciously wants one | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| least then you are no longer in the predicament of putting useless pressure on yourself that short-circuits | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| of longing becomes more conscious. People in this predicament should deeply listen into themselves and ask: What | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| consciousness facilitates the synthesizing process immeasurably. The human predicament is the general lack of understanding of what | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| luck. We mentioned many times that the human predicament is the dualistic split, which is nothing but | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| or the other is. This creates a serious predicament, making it impossible to be in truth. If | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| then you also put yourself in a terrible predicament: you again feel there is something wrong; you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you to have my pleasure. In such a predicament, sexuality is either annulled, or it functions in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| through. Just imagine, my friends, the incredibly painful predicament you put yourself in when you hide that | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| from their energies. This is a very common predicament at a certain point in the individual's development | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| up again. When you are in such a predicament, you experience long, drawn-out states of disharmony, anxiety | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |