| Pseudostrength..............1 | |
| the fear of a weak ego by overstressing pseudostrength. Both attitudes may result in similar problems of | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| Pseudo-strength.............3 | |
| hide it behind a mask of aloofness and pseudo-strength. Another will hide it behind a superimposed layer | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| self-assertion, when you submit in evident weakness. This pseudo-strength is, in reality and essence, just as weak | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| of true dignity and self-value. It is a pseudo-strength that comes from the weakness of insisting on | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Pseudo-wisdom...............1 | |
| them your puny ego logic, ego law, and pseudo-wisdom. For feelings are an expression of the creative | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| Pseudo-yes-current..........1 | |
| the difference between the tight, anxious, doubtful, greedy pseudo-yes-current and the relaxed, calm inner knowledge of all | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| Psyche......................310 | |
| has allowed humanity to make discoveries about the psyche, the unconscious. Though the knowledge is still scant | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| a foretaste of unity and teaches the fearful psyche the longing for it. The more strongly one | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| lead you to the very recognitions that the psyche wishes to avoid. When you have decided for | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| and concepts play a role in the human psyche. Therefore general attitudes need to be investigated. An | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| you speed up all succeeding lives because your psyche becomes impregnated with the process of self-search. It | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| dearly creates an important conflict in the human psyche. It is self-evident that the child feels ashamed | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| various ways, either by physical disease that the psyche produces, or by various mishaps, difficulties, failures, or | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| God is not what is experienced in the psyche. Then the person turns away from God altogether | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| area, the less will the environment influence the psyche. Other factors also play a role. For instance | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| entirely be eradicated, no matter how sick the psyche may be in other ways. Thus, these two | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| a change and a cure of his sick psyche. Homosexuality, by the way, is also one of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| Self-destructive and self-punishing forces, brought forth by the psyche the moment a wrong motive is registered, may | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| this: it creates a further conflict in the psyche. The stronger the mass image of self-importance and | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| freely expressed in infancy, remains hidden in the psyche of the adult and continues to produce similar | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in an extremely unhealthy and damaging way. The psyche argues: Since I cannot avoid unhappiness, I may | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| it has to come out of your own psyche, whether due to spirit instruction during sleep, or | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| always a symbol for the spirit and the psyche. Now, to come back to your question: The | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ashamed. QUESTION: Many times you stated that our psyche is in some way an electromagnetic field. Is | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you aware of what the inner person, your psyche, thinks, wants and feels. This is often contrary | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wish for sickness. In this part of your psyche you still hope that what you want can | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the particular wish. In short, the healthier your psyche, the better your inner will can function. The | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| better your inner will can function. The unhealthy psyche is always confused, not only about others and | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| life exist in the same measure as the psyche doubts himself or herself. If you find the | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| gnawing guilt persists. It is as if the psyche says: You have not come to the roots | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a real guilt. It is as though the psyche says: I produce this guilt so that I | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be unloving is a desirable state. The child's psyche says: If I am unloving, I will be | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| child's mind. No conflict that arises in the psyche is utterly meaningless, although the emotions can be | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| with this betrayal locked in your soul. Your psyche says: How can I trust myself knowing that | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not only apply to the fields of the psyche, it is just as important with any kind | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| the truthful concepts be gradually implanted in the psyche. Therefore our work until now dealt mainly with | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| than you realize. It also affects your own psyche by suppressing your personal unfoldment, creativity, and expression | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| life plan. In order to fulfill it, your psyche clamors demandingly that you proceed in a certain | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you now -- indicating a disturbance in your psyche -- discard them quietly, without getting impatient with | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| separate this approach from the conflicts of your psyche. They are intimately connected, which becomes apparent when | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| person who does not resist inwardly. When the psyche is only half willing to allow you to | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| The problems would have come up anyway. Your psyche, which is far more knowing and far-seeing than | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| bound to occur soon. The knowledge in your psyche led you to be on such a path | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| and in the measure of your wish. Your psyche knows very well how to distinguish between healthy | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the way your soul yearns for it. The psyche discounts the value of the latter, but does | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| the fore. Something is triggered off in the psyche, entirely unknown to the conscious mind of the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| hardship becomes so difficult to bear that the psyche puts up a sickness which disappears the moment | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| do anything to remove the core. Thus, the psyche reacts often to the best interest of the | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| I said, only a personal investigation into the psyche could furnish the answer. QUESTION: I would like | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| then that with this unconscious demand in your psyche you are afraid to love? Since your concept | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| do not know what. One part of your psyche sabotages the rightful demands of the other part | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you rely on your judgment and intuition? Your psyche knows perfectly well that the way you perceive | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| own subconscious, strengthening the healthy aspect of your psyche, and weakening the aspects that are unhealthy, childish | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| transition, so to speak. Imagine the entire personality, psyche or mind, both conscious and unconscious, as a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| go deep enough, will always get to the psyche and reveal the essential spiritual truths, as proclaimed | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| it, the more potent it is within your psyche. Unconsciously, you feel that getting your will is | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| sure that this trend must exist within your psyche. In other cases, such a fear may be | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| For the divine laws work eternally within the psyche and this will be more and more discovered | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| lower self, higher self, inner self, mask self, psyche and all. Could you straighten me out? ANSWER | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of the present in your individual work. The psyche indicates your inner world of feeling and reacting | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| yourself. But do not forget that the human psyche is habit-bound; it is geared to function in | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| asking questions. It is as though the resisting psyche is so afraid to reveal the sore point | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| today uses shock treatment. Could that damage the psyche and the subtle bodies? ANSWER: Yes, it does | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| and often do, damage parts of the human psyche and subtle bodies. QUESTION: I saw in the | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| exclusive ways presents a particular hardship for the psyche. Needless to say, the conscious awareness of this | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| in detail about how they work in the psyche, how they form a supposed solution, and how | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will find aspects of this submissiveness in their psyche. The extent to which this pseudo-solution is predominant | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| so strong that many repercussions occur within the psyche. I don't want you to misunderstand me as | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| supreme may seem to be expedient because the psyche may feel endangered if it were to give | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| error is all the more tragic because the psyche falsely believes that being self-centered will preserve its | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| all its demands, aggressiveness, and power drive. The psyche thinks: If I assert myself and my power | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| danger comes not in the sense that the psyche believes, but in a very different sense: from | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| between such mutually exclusive aims and solutions, the psyche seeks compromise solutions. Such compromise may assume various | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| part of the inner organism. This damages the psyche and the whole structure of the individual. A | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| from the predominant aims and needs of the psyche. Since most adults live in daydreams in one | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| to make you restless and disharmonious. Now the psyche feels, I have received what I thought I | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one's will would be very humiliating. Therefore the psyche pretends to accept these rules for the sake | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a form of temper tantrum in which the psyche says, You see, you have forced me to | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| this destructive defense until such time as the psyche is ready to do without it. This is | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| choice. A festering, twisted condition prevails in the psyche leading to a host of further conflicts which | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| it comes to the subtleties of the human psyche, misunderstandings and misinterpretations are even more apt to | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of primary and secondary reactions. The healthier a psyche is, the more free it is of the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| recognize what causes this complete twist in your psyche and how it manifests in many areas, and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Observation of this process, understanding of why the psyche retains it, will produce results. Battling it forcefully | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| you the very protection you seek causes the psyche to resist. Yet such states of struggle are | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| would be compulsive and indicate, somewhere in the psyche, a wrong approach to God, to universal law | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| separated from this current by obstructions in the psyche, such as selfishness, egocentricity, fearfulness and cowardice. Every | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| as long as it still seems necessary. Your psyche will give it up to the degree that | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| break out of the destructive pattern. Since your psyche refuses to be cheated of real living, the | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| experience in fantasy. It is as though your psyche said, As long as I do not face | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| living may indicate that a part of the psyche is not reconciled to living. Too little daydreaming | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| this is enjoyed on some level of the psyche, then we are dealing with masochism, no matter | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| to cope with the afflicted area of your psyche. First, let us briefly recapitulate. To begin with | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| When a certain dissolution has taken place, the psyche is ready to cross the threshold. But the | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| your soul have to be experienced until your psyche is truly equipped to make the best of | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| and frustration have afflicted the resiliency of your psyche and made you incapable of properly dealing with | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| ability to give could never grow within your psyche. However, during all the work you have done | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| danger are used in other situations, the human psyche is distorted and put out of balance. Looking | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| are among the difficult intricacies of the human psyche. The more you understand the limitless possibilities and | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| self-concern. Yet there is another part of the psyche that realizes that only in happiness can one | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| outside of yourself, but embedded in your own psyche. There is a vast difference between the perfectionistic | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| as any commandments, represent universal tendencies. The human psyche is not separated into clearly defined compartments, one | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| the unclarity produces a thick haze in your psyche, an unhealthy climate that hinders your self-expression. If | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| sadism. No. But since everything in the human psyche is interconnected, in some instances one may find | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| to do this, forever deeper levels of his psyche become liberated. In this liberation, genuine God-experience is | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| problem in your work. Every affliction of the psyche hinders living. It does so because it prevents | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| Therefore nothing is really resolved yet. The immature psyche always fluctuates between underestimation and overestimation. Neither is | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| that smolder closer to the surface of the psyche. These little and unjustified guilts substitute for the | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| such defenses exist? They exist because the troubled psyche seeks a solution, but the message is misunderstood | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| message is misunderstood by the conscious mind. The psyche says, Give up your defenses against loving. Do | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| material is particularly directed to areas of the psyche that are accessible only after certain obstructions have | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| indicate. Self-exploration and facing lesser evils make the psyche strong enough to face very unflattering truths. Such | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| wish affects the person and works in the psyche. Extending such wishes, as much as one can | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| as well as the illusory crutches that the psyche has built up as a substitute for true | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| is one of the destructive aims of the psyche to deliberately dull itself not only to one's | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| warding-off process in such a suffering reaction. The psyche says, I cannot take it. I may be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| extreme distress and sorrow, while in reality the psyche did commit sin. This discrepancy has to be | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| being on the lookout for signs that your psyche resists such change; the recognition of your fright | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| growth and functioning of other aspects of the psyche. To deal with an experience that would normally | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the effect is bound to be detrimental, the psyche seeks a remedy. Such unconsciously sought remedies are | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| on earth with material means. The spirit, the psyche, is, of course, capable of experiencing this. In | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| an invalid. Both depend on others. The resisting psyche is therefore not only the child that has | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| When fear of true deep feelings vanishes, the psyche no longer needs to produce falsely positive feelings | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| proves that you are still convinced that your psyche, your entire personality in fact, is divided into | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| thoughts may not be conscious, but affect the psyche when sufficient insight has been reached. Some of | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and of the battles going on in the psyche. We have discussed this all-important topic before, but | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of your being. In some areas of your psyche you are quite free and function without clinging | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| may have to be repeated because usually the psyche is not ready to face all its pretenses | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| create as many problematic conditions in the child's psyche as hurts and frustrations do. If parents are | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| derive from overindulgence, or from a clear, unconfused psyche. The effect on the child depends on whether | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| will have no adverse effect on the child's psyche if no corresponding problems exist. Now let us | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| in a permissive, pampering, indulgent environment, are. The psyche gets accustomed to it, and when life later | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| conditions, motivations and the underlying unification of the psyche make all the difference. In one instance it | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| conflict -- split concepts -- which divides the psyche. Split and conflict is the consequence of illusion | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| aspects of reality. Unresolved confusions remain in the psyche and are bound to recur in each lifetime | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| earth sphere. To the degree that the child's psyche is free and healthy, the relationship with a | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| to them, personify the unmended split within your psyche. Hence, your parents are not responsible for your | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| perceive how you represent your parents within your psyche, when you sense the subtle interaction between identification | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| illusion and misconceptions. At the same time, its psyche is very impressionable. Everything it experiences has a | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| assimilated. The freshness and impressionability of the child's psyche causes early experience to have a more extensive | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |