| Awe.........................13 | |
| of His creation. We can only stand in awe and rejoice and praise Him! As I said | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| such unlimited greatness, all beings must be in awe -- but never in fear! In coming across | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| across such wonder, one cannot help being in awe. It surpasses all understanding. That idea is conveyed | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| may particularly desire, takes on an aura of awe for you that is out of proportion to | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| and damaging. The original meaning is respect or awe before the greatness of the Creator. God's infinite | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| Creation and of the Creator. That is the awe or respect that comes out of wisdom. The | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| it, the feelings I spoke about before, the awe of God, and the realization of one's own | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| discovery. The parent one feels uncertain of, in awe or fear of, usually stands for the superimposed | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| not give you a sense of wonder and awe, nor does it fill you with peace and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| feeling knowledge that indeed brings peace and joy, awe and excitement. A revelation fills you that removes | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| make you jealous but that fills you with awe, wonder, and gratitude. You begin to perceive connections | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| more and more, you can only stand in awe. The expansion and transformation that you witness is | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| possibilities, and you should approach them with patience, awe and humility. You should understand that these experiences | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Babel.......................9 | |
| It is the one about the Tower of Babel, especially now when we are living in an | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and therefore you will not clear up this Babel until you explore the meaning of your previously | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your previously unconscious emotions. Since this Tower of Babel exists within your own soul, it must also | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| world of humanity. This is the Tower of Babel. If you cannot understand yourself, how can you | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| understand you. This, too, is the Tower of Babel. It symbolizes your inner world and the result | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your own inner barriers, your own Tower of Babel; the dismantling of your own defense mechanisms, which | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| constructing the idealized self-image or the Tower of Babel. It is your idealized self-image, your Tower of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| It is your idealized self-image, your Tower of Babel, that divides you within and estranges you from | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbolized in the story of the Tower of Babel. Here you have just a few symbols of | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| Baby........................29 | |
| on, even in the case of a newborn baby that dies after two days. Why all this | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to go through a karma and this little baby will be given to another mother. Immediately? Certainly | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| But it is even more likely that this baby happens to be very psychic, clairvoyant, or clairaudient | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the manner described enter the body of the baby. Then the incarnation has been effected. Are there | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| have to pass. But the spirit of the baby will not have gone through this procedure for | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| spirit world, and the parents with whom the baby would finally settle down have already been chosen | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| the first birth occurred. The spirit of the baby will thus have fulfilled an additional little task | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| something better may follow. As far as the baby is concerned, after its physical death there will | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| wish, you kick and scream inside, like the baby you still are in that part of your | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| over in a very short time. So the baby is in absolute despair, which you can observe | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| a crying child. The issue over which the baby cries seems in no way related to its | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| remind the person by association of, objects the baby wanted to play with or to hold but | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| chords. It is not pleasant to hear a baby screaming, but this period of transition leads to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| healthy organs in this particular respect. For the baby, not going through this unpleasant time by suppressing | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| child. Your fear is part of the helpless baby that you feel you have to remain in | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| safe. To give up being a helpless, fearful baby means to you that people will no longer | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| to only a very limited degree, as the baby in the mother's womb can grow to only | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| point. In order to effect further growth, the baby has to evolve; the umbilical cord has to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| homosexuality and incest play a role. But the baby knows no such boundaries. Its sexual instincts thrive | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| attitude toward the pleasure principle. Hence, when the baby is caressed, fed, loved, it experiences acute physical | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| no self-consciousness, no sense of self. All a baby experiences are sense impressions -- pleasure and pain | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that birth is a traumatic shock for the baby. When the infant is weaned from the mother's | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| system also undergoes crisis in growth. A teething baby experiences pain. Puberty is psychologically a painful process | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| takes place. Does the soul exist before the baby is born? How does that work? ANSWER: Perhaps | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| realize this potentiality in nature -- a newborn baby, a plant, a cell. When this natural flow | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| against my sexuality and my denial of the baby in me are slowly breaking apart on a | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| and to weaken the old. I want that baby to grow up into a beautiful woman who | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| the life cycles of a human entity. The baby is, of course, capable of very little movement | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| a human being is not born complete. The baby leaves the womb of the mother and first | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Background..................57 | |
| the main reason for the indefinable longing. Its background is more complex, and this is what I | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| love, and happiness, and push them into the background, so that they could affect humans less and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| dissolve; it can only be pushed into the background so that it cannot affect the material world | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| difficult to be modest, to remain in the background; for another, to give something, whether materially or | 21 THE FALL |
| they are there, even if only in the background, watching that nothing befalls their protege that is | 22 SALVATION |
| higher self, which is much further in the background and much more difficult to reach through all | 22 SALVATION |
| that your fault has a positive side or background, so to say. Build on that, so as | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| the human soul. In addition to its pure background, any quality may be motivated by negative tendencies | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| each error in the various religions has some background that makes the error understandable. Through spirit communication | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| and pushing the wall a little into the background, but there it will remain in full force | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| resistance and pushed the wall considerably into the background, allowing certain information to filter through. At this | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| it. We wish that this truth about the background of insanity would be more fully recognized in | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| the negative the objects are black and the background is white, while on the print it is | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| times, when the negative aspects fade into the background, you are much less aware of emotions indicating | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| speaking, we can distinguish between foreground thoughts and background thoughts. Both have many subdivisions and many layers | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| more ways than one. Foreground thought is voluntary, background thought is involuntary. What I now tell you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the foreground and does not slide unnoticed into background thought. If you want to think something -- | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will soon begin to notice the importance of background thoughts. Background thought comes unbidden; it is disorganized | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| begin to notice the importance of background thoughts. Background thought comes unbidden; it is disorganized and mainly | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| and mainly unconstructive. You will also notice that background thought material consists mainly of the following: (1 | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| In order to do that, the vague, unvolitional background thoughts have to be made into foreground thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| As long as these thoughts remain in the background and you harbor them without full awareness, you | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| words, you must make foreground thoughts out of background thoughts. The stereotyped repetitious thoughts that go on | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in the main, the material of the unbidden background thoughts. Coming and going, they are not consecutive | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| forbidding yourself to think, do the opposite: transfer background thought material into conscious foreground thought. First learn | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| learn to evaluate the content of the vague background thoughts, and if you find that they are | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| in you which was formerly used up by background thoughts. You have no idea how much mental | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| process by learning to make foreground thoughts from background thoughts and to ascertain their importance, you will | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with your concentrated attention on your task. Unvolitional background thoughts make you the governed instead of the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| life, but you are prey to your unvolitional background thoughts. There is, of course, a connection between | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the two, which we shall examine later. Unvolitional background thoughts constantly disturb and interrupt you. Even if | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you are not deeply interested in an activity. Background thoughts are weak, insofar as you are unaware | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| process, you will discover how often these weaker background thoughts take hold of you on the sly | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| of a sudden you find yourself involved in background thought material that you can only now begin | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| statement and the effect such wanderings have. The background thoughts are what makes concentration so hard and | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| is given a chance to be quite calm. Background thought material makes this impossible. It disperses the | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| your mind soon to be disturbed by unvolitional background thoughts. Expect them, observe them quietly. If they | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| eyes, all the time aware of what the background thoughts really are when they do come. It | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| You will also get accustomed to watching your background thoughts during the day, during certain activities which | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| succeed, when you find yourself involved in unbidden background thoughts. Rather, use the experience as a means | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the power to discriminate between your foreground and background thoughts, you will derive further benefits, such as | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| process and attain calmness of mind as the background thoughts decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the background thoughts decrease. Awareness and control of background thoughts, the understanding of the whole thinking procedure | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| apparent when both approaches are followed through properly. Background thought material appears to us in the spirit | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| the needle sway back and forth. The more background thoughts come, dispersing your attention in all directions | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| thoughts float away in a haze of vague background thoughts or escape, but rather by being right | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| is one of the best means of preventing background thoughts, which take you away from the here | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| moment, and therefore you are in unreality. The background thoughts you float away with are always away | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| for the moment blurred, they are in the background, yet they are yours as well. They may | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of behavior. One must always be in the background, never assert oneself, always give in, never find | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| always be general. They vary according to personality, background, early teachings, circumstances, and temperament. What one person | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| problem of unfulfillment in itself recedes into the background in comparison with the strength you gain by | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| unproductive. QUESTION: You wanted to talk about the background of the seven deadly sins. ANSWER: I would | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the calm to observe it, thereby understanding its background and its reason for existence. In this process | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| wasted energy has that effect. This is the background of all physical illness. Which organs are affected | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| how many insights you have gained into the background, history and dynamics of a condition that gives | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| your insecurity about your spirituality and your religious background. Some of you have already done this and | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |