| Prideful....................9 | |
| are the spirits of evil, hate, murder, envy, prideful arrogance and other vices. They are embodiments of | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| feelings of injustice. You must dispense with the prideful desire to prove yourself better than others and | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| vulnerable -- which might be rationalized by a prideful claim of being sensitive. But this sensitivity is | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| for something you want to gain in a prideful way, you doubt yourself on a very deep | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| of the real state of perfection. Such a prideful, fearful, untruthful attitude indicates lack of faith in | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| was then misunderstood, misrepresented and misused by the prideful, domineering, fearful ego, so that perfection was forced | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| when truly analyzed, turn out to be a prideful stubbornness, a false sense of individuality. Genuine individuality | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| guilt. The mask self claimed greed, calculating self-interest, prideful appearance values, and the mutual using of each | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| the greater must be your stake in some prideful, egotistical, self-elevating and self-righteous position that, at the | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |
| Priests.....................3 | |
| I do. QUESTION: In organized churches there are priests -- and I have childhood memories in mind | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the answer very well yourself. Do you think priests like that are inspired? ANSWER: Yes, of course | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| So you still find spiritual leaders, ministers and priests who are against psychological depth work. By the | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Primitive...................101 | |
| one day. You can observe that in so-called primitive people the gift of instinctual awareness is much | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| person will say, Oh, this is childish and primitive. But the primitive ideas some people have may | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| Oh, this is childish and primitive. But the primitive ideas some people have may be wrong too | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| which is too human or too unreal. The primitive person who tends toward superstition is not right | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| seek God. It is infinitely better than the primitive reaction of blaming God for one's disappointments and | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| disappointments and the failures of others; the most primitive reaction is to doubt or deny the existence | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to such means. When humanity was at a primitive stage of development the outright lie was sufficient | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| protect you. Let me give you a very primitive example: A child has taken a bath; the | 38 IMAGES |
| image is found. Now, this is a very primitive example. Most of the time the emotional reactions | 38 IMAGES |
| a very young child knows only the most primitive emotions. It knows what feels good or bad | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| at least for a while, to recognize the primitive way in which your inner emotional reasoning functions | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| factors. It contains desires and conclusions that more primitive people act out in consciousness. QUESTION: What happens | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| this level, the entity has outgrown the most primitive stage, but has not yet reached the stage | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| you realize that the first category, the most primitive form of hypocrisy, is distasteful, therefore you suppress | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| fear, and a few other obstructive forces. More primitive persons manifest these traits outwardly and direct them | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in contrast to the surface manifestations of more primitive persons. When errors of selfishness and egotism exist | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| where you are still undeveloped, where you are primitive in your selfish reactions. Your selfishness may come | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| a better logic. Everything in the unconscious is primitive, ignorant, and very often illogical, although it does | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| not mean the kind of behavior that self-willed, primitive, undeveloped or antisocial people display. It does not | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| things I really do not like. On a primitive level, this happens when a child has to | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| paralyzed in your soul. Since the immature and primitive personality experiences the sex impulse in an entirely | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it through logically, you will find that the primitive and distorted concept of happiness actually amounts to | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| memory of your first few years. That these primitive reactions continue to exist without exception in all | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| vary. They take a different form in a primitive society where people organize their own communication with | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| to live according to the most unchaneled and primitive instincts if I wanted to realize my pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| priori. So the situation is hopeless. These unchaneled, primitive instincts are not more conducive to the pleasure | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pleasure in a much higher form than the primitive, unchaneled instincts. This heightened pleasure includes the physical | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| water. Can you tie this together? ANSWER: Yes. Primitive humanity always took everything literally, and still does | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| of spiritual development in this connection. The most primitive stage of development is a state of being | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| a state of being without awareness, without self-consciousness. Primitive man was only little removed from this state | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| or the intellect, develop. From mineral life to primitive man, a slow ascendancy in awareness, intellect, and | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| comparison, and therefore is not genuine. Take a primitive example: Let us suppose some people are poor | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| as the first stage in the great cycle. Primitive man, during his first few incarnations, is still | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| necessary to prevent a person from acting out primitive destructive instincts. For those whose inner conscience is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Between its demands and the demands of the primitive, self-centered child you still harbor within, you are | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| The fight between the superimposed conscience and the primitive, self-centered, destructive child is a tragic one -- | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and push out of sight. Accept fully the primitive, selfish, destructive child in order to make it | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| torn and paralyzed by the fight between the primitive little child in you and the superimposed conscience | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are reached, it becomes apparent that the raw, primitive instincts are concerned only with the experience of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| entire process, layer by layer, until this most primitive area is reached. Then, and then only, can | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| manifest in the living out of raw, undeveloped, primitive instincts in a spirit of defiance; or, you | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| preventing organic growth. Your instincts remain in the primitive childhood state, and what was once natural and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| everyone on the path investigate his or her primitive, heretofore untouched feelings in this regard. They must | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| entanglements only by looking deeply into your hidden primitive feelings in connection with your early environment. This | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| that which stands in the way. This simple, primitive struggle still exists within each individual. In itself | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| wrong. As the psyche grows out of this primitive state, the flavor, emphasis, and ramifications of the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| distinct way. You erroneously fear that your undeveloped, primitive instincts will lead you astray; in reality, becoming | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and come to terms with these heretofore hidden primitive feelings, when you overcome your unreasonable fear and | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| into acceptable and unacceptable categories, and see its primitive manifestation as unchangeable rather than a temporary stage | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| the identical process with humanity as a whole. Primitive humanity can be likened to the infant. I | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that has been said about the infant to primitive humanity. History will bear me out. Primitive people | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| to primitive humanity. History will bear me out. Primitive people lived in a much more secluded manner | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| necessity, for otherwise they could not survive. Thus, primitive people were forced to develop some mental processes | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| some mental processes which immediately reduced their selfish primitive drives and made them more responsible for others | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and civilization derive from these first attempts of primitive man to find a mode of survival by | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| find a mode of survival by taming the primitive and self-centered instincts. If the child were self-sufficient | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| existed in former times, as it does today. Primitive humanity was also much more helpless and dependent | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| of controlling the elements and forces of nature. Primitive people had fewer means at their disposal to | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| than emotionalism. When the overall development is more primitive, such self-deception is less necessary. Blind automatism is | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| grow not only because you lose the sadistic, primitive impulses, but primarily because of the courage and | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is overactive, sleep cannot come. Even this most primitive and universal form of replenishment ceases to function | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| animals, they freely acted out these destructive feelings. Primitive humans knew no inhibition and no conscience. They | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| using self-discipline to keep from giving in to primitive impulses. You will appreciate the importance of this | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| of feelings because it is still, in part, primitive. You are still imbued with the self-command you | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and experiences, to channel and control the destructive, primitive self that can go berserk and wreak so | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| feels threatened by any display of the unchanneled primitive self. This seems a great predicament: How can | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| and important to comprehend. When you observe a primitive person or an animal, you see that their | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| have been developed is it safe to allow primitive, destructive feelings to the surface without being compelled | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| kernel must now establish a new balance-structure. The primitive human is lopsided in being completely controlled by | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| not as far removed -- as for the primitive human. For the divine kernel is a living | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| where is the inner, universal consciousness? The more primitive a person is, the more alienated he or | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| he or she feels from it. Thus, in primitive religion, humans believe the universal consciousness resides outside | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| in their overall evolution. When they are more primitive, they must deal with the outer levels. Later | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| by the individual whose spiritual development is more primitive. He or she will render others responsible for | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| effect can do so. Hence the spiritually more primitive person always depends on the spiritually more evolved | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| of one's feelings. You are still at that primitive juncture where you shift guilt on others. Fear | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| this haphazard fate is ascribed, on the most primitive level, to the equally haphazard will of a | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| inner world, with all its destructive attitudes, its primitive reasoning, its self-defeating will directions, must become as | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a certain amount of insight into the irrational, primitive self within you. When you reach the point | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| it. The conflict is the following: On the primitive, irrational level you hate and want to destroy | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| need to realize that your guilt for your primitive destructive self is more destructive than the evil | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| you: face your evil -- your irrationality and primitive, destructive aspects -- without losing sight of the | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| to life is the honest acknowledgment of your primitive, destructive part. This key will make you capable | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| granted by this separated other entity. Even these primitive petitionary prayers may often be heard because the | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| thought to be effective, in spite of the primitive belief. The next stage is already much more | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| this group. This may seem incomprehensible or a primitive belief for some of you, yet it is | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| fear of life and God, to make a primitive charade out of the wonders and miracles of | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| human sphere quite often as having innocuous, ineffectual, primitive minds, with the herd mentality that does not | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| development of consciousness this happened in a very primitive and superficial way. Nevertheless this stage, too, had | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| distrusting change and growth. This illusion is so primitive that it is virtually superstitious, but on those | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| rigid law that had to exist for the primitive consciousness of the past had to decree dos | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| of the rule system -- rules which the primitive consciousness required in order to avoid destroying another | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| dawn of history, humanity was in a very primitive state of development. Distrust of anything other than | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| kind of superstitiousness is on a much more primitive level and most of you do not adhere | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| be quite easy for you to understand that primitive consciousness sees the world as a series of | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all. It is God. Conversely, in the most primitive state of consciousness even the most obvious and | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| or consequences, without either cause or effect. The primitive person who commits murder may truly believe that | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| all their parents stood for. On a very primitive, childish level the threat the rebelling Christian experiences | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| hesitated to let yourself be called childish and primitive by people who believe themselves to be wiser | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| to accept, or why should it appear so primitive and unintelligent to believe that along the scale | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| was a greater leveling. Less-highly-developed souls made the primitive incarnations less noticeable. Now the differences are striking | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |