| Pretenses...................50 | |
| discover what is hidden, to let go of pretenses, and to change your inner reality. I want | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| you begin to pull off masks and stop pretenses. You can find out where your actions go | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| you when you receive these hidden excuses and pretenses. If you expect this struggle beforehand, you will | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| yourself, without any destructive guilt, for maintaining the pretenses that are always linked to pseudo-solutions. And this | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| The pseudo-solutions and the idealized self- image are pretenses. The real self is intrinsically genuine. Most of | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| by stepping into the apparent nothingness without these pretenses, only by giving up their false security, do | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| find your own. You will dispense with subtle pretenses and superimpositions and with the hidden but nevertheless | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| face yourself without any reservation; to remove all pretenses between your conscious mind and that which is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| psyche is not ready to face all its pretenses at once. To the degree you stop pretending | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| on your willingness to dispense with the subtle pretenses that cover up your unnecessary limitations. Then, when | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| not yet quite succeeded in seeing that these pretenses are pretenses, because you fear that underneath the | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| quite succeeded in seeing that these pretenses are pretenses, because you fear that underneath the pretense there | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| being what you really are, without masks and pretenses, without separating mechanisms which you still think you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| all your deceits, your character defects, your illusions, pretenses and destructiveness. Then I discussed a third component | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| own inner life can begin, after which all pretenses fall by the wayside. This applies to the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| wayside. This applies to the obvious and crude pretenses that can usually be seen by all but | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| but oneself, as well as to the subtle pretenses I just described. These stand between the ego | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| the sense that they are truly you, not pretenses or faculties whose manifestations depend on others or | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| thereby commit the gravest of all violations. Your pretenses are so much worse than the primary violations | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the world and himself, which increases repression and pretenses. And on and on it goes. False Guilt | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| guilt. The false guilt produces emotions, defenses, and pretenses that lead to justified guilt because they violate | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| years we have discussed and worked on the pretenses, the defenses, the games and ploys, the idealized | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| recreate. When you see the falsity of your pretenses, you can then remind yourself to want to | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| roles you play. Each objective acknowledgment of your pretenses -- the pretense of your role and the | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| to abandon negative pleasure, the pseudo-satisfactions of your pretenses, your role-playing, your defenses? How can you begin | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| your subterfuges, negativities, with your games, roles, and pretenses, with your projections and your escapes. Truly look | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| to pleasure, and give up the roles and pretenses that stand in the way. The wanting must | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| be none of the petty defenses, pseudoprotections, and pretenses that one who distrusts life inevitably adopts. When | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in that the ego abhors giving up its pretenses and games. It likes to play to an | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| You will do away with the roles and pretenses. You will allow yourself to fully feel and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| shames, prides, vanities that make me hide behind pretenses, and the subtle inner dishonesty in which I | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| hurts, to honest, deep interaction, to giving up pretenses and defenses and any kind of destructiveness. You | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| and behavior patterns that arise from them; the pretenses and the defenses. But none of these would | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| hide from them. You did away with your pretenses and masks. You did not defend yourself against | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| easy to do at first. Cherished self-images and pretenses prevent almost everyone from doing this with ease | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| want to confront myself and dispense with the pretenses, which are after all nothing but lies. I | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| an entirely imaginary gain. All masks and defenses, pretenses and false shame of exposure, embarrassment about real | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this, you must eliminate your self- deceptions and pretenses. They always block the way to God in | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| of what exists now, elimination of masks and pretenses, and the experience of one's naked vulnerability. It | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| your games, and your more or less subtle pretenses, then it might be better for you not | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| be real, to function without your masks and pretenses. Consequently you begin to feel comfortable in closer | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| a hard, honest look at your illusions, your pretenses, and your dishonesties. As you know, thoughts and | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| with yourself. Shame applies to your image, your pretenses toward the world outside. True remorse has nothing | 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD |
| in hiding and separation and keep up your pretenses. Many of you have laboriously stripped off this | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| have laboriously stripped off this separation and these pretenses to quite an extent, and to that extent | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| premature, because you misuse it and perpetuate the pretenses of the mask self. So you had to | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| the real guilt of your hiding and your pretenses, of disguising your hidden agenda and the negativity | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| not yet know how to function without the pretenses of your mask and your defensive games. Again | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| fear and anxiety, without shame and hiding, without pretenses and facades. The relief of this kind of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| You need to learn to give up your pretenses, and therefore your defenses, in your relationship with | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Pretext.....................4 | |
| But do not give up entirely, under some pretext, surrendering to God. Being honest in this way | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| physically or otherwise. This always serves as a pretext. They claim that if they did not have | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to skip a full life-experience under the well-sounding pretext that your aim is communion with God. If | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| truth, staying in your negativities under another acceptable pretext -- that the timing has to be watched | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |
| Pretexts....................8 | |
| unconscious, which are so readily covered up by pretexts, and about which it is so easy to | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| in pulling off your masks, you believe the pretexts and self-illusions, the voice of your lower self | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| real and innermost motives will be bare, no pretexts and false justifications will exist. He will be | 18 FREE WILL |
| right decisions, delivering all sorts of excuses and pretexts, while you remain unaware of why you have | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| way of working persists, no matter what the pretexts and excuses are, the sluggishness and the immaturity | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| examine their resistances. They use all kinds of pretexts, which they rationalize, when in reality they simply | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| had all sorts of doubts, misgivings, excuses, and pretexts about entering this path, you now work and | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| may even glorify it under various labels and pretexts -- just as the over-disciplined person glorifies his | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| Prevailed...................8 | |
| partly because the wrong kind of authority has prevailed too long, and has driven the law-breaker deeper | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| different environment, if different influences around you had prevailed, or if your life circumstances were different? This | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| another person as long as these twisted conditions prevailed in you. By giving freedom, you give basic | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the intensity and becoming light where heaviness once prevailed. You do not have to take life and | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| over more and more where the latter had prevailed. Before such an extensive path is undertaken, and | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| the knowledge that this inner condition has always prevailed. Nor do you see that you are about | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| divine truth and divine guidance. Since the leaders prevailed on the majority, only a few courageous ones | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| real sinfulness of the attitude toward marriage that prevailed until recently resulted from secondary guilt. Instead of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Prevalent...................25 | |
| this flowing state, the divine female aspect is prevalent. It is the state of being and the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| be retracted so that His male aspect becomes prevalent again. The same holds true for all created | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| state of development. If their female aspect is prevalent, they merge with God in a state of | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| a state of being. With their male aspect prevalent, they help in the Creation according to the | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| of the same current which is much more prevalent than the crass form. A person may be | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| typically male or typically female. There is a prevalent notion that the male is more intellectual, the | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| error, deviations from truth, and illusions that are prevalent in the manifest world. In short, the inner | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| this in part is the reason for the prevalent loneliness of so many people, for their difficulty | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| a part of a full life. The most prevalent denial due to false guilt is in the | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| change, adjustment, and relinquishing on your part? This prevalent attitude may be extremely subtle and require all | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| vague, childish fears that cause the resistance. Another prevalent attitude expresses, I am afraid of being rejected | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| also useful, my friends, to distinguish between two prevalent reactions to this conflict. Both of them are | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| your dualistic approach to the problem and your prevalent ignorance that there is another approach. The resulting | 143 UNITY AND DUALITY |
| cannot manifest, numb themselves. They become dead. The prevalent manifestation in this world, today no more than | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| a way of punishing them. This is a prevalent pattern that, to some degree, exists in everyone | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| it does not count. This is a very prevalent attitude toward one's undesirable tendencies. One glosses over | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| time in a different context. This is more prevalent than you realize -- even among you, my | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| existence is all there is to life. People's prevalent tendency to live for the sake of appearances | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Thus the past century, whose spirit is still prevalent now, negated the concept of self-responsibility. In broader | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| block of not recognizing this fact is very prevalent. Although I have spoken about it many times | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| greater plan brings suffering and pain is still prevalent. If this were not so, the surrender of | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| coincidence that a mixture of religious backgrounds is prevalent among you. In your political committees you learn | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| rather than condoning it. The human race's most prevalent attitude today, at least on the surface, is | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the other of these principles will be most prevalent. That does not mean that the other two | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| with any one of the three principles most prevalent in an individual or in a collective manifestation | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |