| Psychically.................1 | |
| these various plans. Different clairvoyants, seers, or otherwise psychically gifted people have seen one plan, others have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Psychoanalysis..............7 | |
| why it frequently happens that a person undergoing psychoanalysis with a doctor who rigidly follows a school | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| self is not your ultimate being. However, in psychoanalysis the mistaken idea that they are really their | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| is a spiritual law which applies equally to psychoanalysis and confession. It is the law of brotherhood | 31 SHAME |
| any religious implications; it may be psychology, or psychoanalysis. Many theories, terms, and expressions that you use | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| exploring the realms of the subconscious, whether in psychoanalysis or in any other form of psychotherapy, if | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| do this work have experienced it, and traditional psychoanalysis in any form knows it too. The resistance | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| possible to grow spiritually to the fullest without psychoanalysis, or self- search by any other name. There | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| Psychoanalyst...............1 | |
| certainly understands you better than any human being, psychoanalyst, doctor, or scientist. You should know definitely and | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Psychoanalysts..............1 | |
| mask may appear to be. If your psychologists, psychoanalysts, and psychiatrists would begin to view their patients | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| Psychoanalyst's.............1 | |
| process in the religionist's as well as the psychoanalyst's concept. The religionist sublimates when he says, The | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| Psychoanalytic..............1 | |
| of it. Other theories, particularly those that characterize psychoanalytic thinking, say that the ego is important. The | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| Psychoanalytical............1 | |
| and which has added so much to the psychoanalytical approach -- I was just wondering? ANSWER: I | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| Psychological...............210 | |
| cancel each other out. Cross-currents create not only psychological and spiritual obstacles, but also physical manifestations in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of purification, or the path of perfection, or psychological therapy, whatever you want to call it. I | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| want to mention something that touches a more psychological aspect of the human being. Again, it would | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| subject, which will complement previous ones about the psychological makeup of the human soul. It would also | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| sense. Daydreams may also shed light on certain psychological factors present within the individual. This question gives | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| measurement we have is purely individual, spiritual, and psychological. Now, do not think that when I say | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Now, do not think that when I say psychological, this is merely an idea; it is a | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| May I have some help in finding the psychological problem underlying my physical condition? ANSWER: Yes, my | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| around you. I might say it is a psychological world, which does not mean it is a | 18 FREE WILL |
| Once I explained that the spiritual worlds, are psychological worlds, which does not mean that they are | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| experienced nothing but suffering -- both physical and psychological, as well as humiliation, the extent of which | 22 SALVATION |
| of which you cannot image. The humiliation and psychological suffering were a great deal worse than the | 22 SALVATION |
| there is such a thing -- is individual, psychological, and very different. But this does not matter | 22 SALVATION |
| of course only concerning your spiritual development or psychological difficulties -- this will help others much more | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and thus a tuning-in results. QUESTION: Can deep-seated psychological problems, pertaining to a previous life, be solved | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| case. There are many, many cases where the psychological problems can be solved without regression, without the | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| progress has been achieved by other approaches, in psychological problems that can be handled without such regression | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| soul. It will help you to solve your psychological problems as well as can be done without | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and do they represent in a symbolic form psychological aspects of human types? ANSWER: There are two | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| development to know this. As far as the psychological aspects are concerned, I would like to say | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in your present state of development -- the psychological level. For everything mentioned in the Holy Scriptures | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| them -- they, at the same time, represent psychological aspects. Because of the existence of these different | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| now touches merely a symptom of an entire psychological block and this cannot possibly be solved by | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| one and this helps. But it is something psychological that is in your way. I mean to | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| course we will begin. As long as the psychological blocks are not dissolved, the spiritual development cannot | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to realize that you cannot dissolve such a psychological block in any other way than the one | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you, spiritually speaking, but this is blocked by psychological subconscious trends which can be dissolved only in | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| quarrel with this truth, but on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels you wish for a palace | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| different reasons for different people. They are primarily psychological. When the soul is strongly influenced by outer | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| will help you to overcome some of your psychological problems. Whatever it is, it is important for | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| get to know Divine Law in all its psychological aspects as they pertain to you personally. You | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| more constructive force of truth into the person's psychological and emotional world. As for outer action, there | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| to talk a little about the spiritual and psychological conditions that govern karmic law, although some of | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| be better to concentrate on a heretofore unsolved psychological problem. For entities of higher development--all this is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| one way or another of your spiritual development, psychological trends, and so forth. But beware of rules | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| physical shell. Other specialists, equally trained, concentrate on psychological and spiritual factors. It occurs also that through | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| The same applies, of course, to talents, to psychological problems and other complexities. Some are prepared so | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| not overcome a certain weakness or solve a psychological problem. The time of death does not vary | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that may help, but by looking into your psychological reactions and evaluating them in the light of | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| sorrow and loss may follow due to other psychological factors. However, there are also those who are | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| change an opinion or attitude in which personal, psychological factors, and your emotions are involved! How habit-bound | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| cause and effect and embraces all universal and psychological processes. Take, for instance, the images. When an | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| own race or creed images because their personal psychological factors, that is, their personal image currents, work | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| social laws. Think about them also in the psychological sense, the sense in which I speak. The | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| One of the general qualifications is a certain psychological talent. That goes without saying. Who has this | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is the same both from a spiritual and psychological viewpoint; only the degree varies. The direction of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| unable to form an opinion. What are the psychological reasons behind your inability? It could be a | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| say, unwilling -- to form an opinion for psychological and emotional reasons that are still hidden. QUESTION | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| of images and the powerful strength of all psychological and unconscious currents, the better will you understand | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| who plunges headlong into every negative situation. Various psychological factors may be responsible for it -- self-punishment | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| possibilities are as varied and manifold as the psychological factors. The spiritual factors never contradict the psychological | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| psychological factors. The spiritual factors never contradict the psychological ones. They are only an extension. The difference | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| karmic origin, while you can always find the psychological roots and origins in this life. This, incidentally | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| as well. Such a misinterpretation is caused by psychological twists. In other words, if a man rejects | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| happens to be a homosexual, due to various psychological factors in his inner and outer life, and | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| previous incarnation. But this does not alter the psychological factors in the least. In fact, all incarnations | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| If an entity does not eliminate the wrong psychological factors, he or she may again go through | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| distortion. I will discuss these principles from the psychological point of view, so that in your work | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| war, on the material level, and on the psychological level as hostility, overactivity, quarreling, destructiveness, cruelty, impatience | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| other realms. QUESTION: Can you tell us the psychological reasons of kleptomania? ANSWER: Before I attempt to | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the outcome must be according to this universal psychological law and as such it must work properly | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| discovered in man. In order to find them, psychological progress has to keep in step with the | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| I often speak about the apparent contradictions in psychological currents and how they lead to extremes on | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| artists, especially painters, who have not overcome any psychological obstructions and yet they paint beautifully. ANSWER: Of | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| help possible -- and the mental, spiritual and psychological help as well. All work hand in hand | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| images. They always have their roots in personal psychological conflicts. The results of this fourfold conflict is | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| others lose their power over you. Once this psychological conflict is straightened out and you have gained | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| to mastery over your self, just as the psychological work does, from another side. If you are | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| they are on any kind of path, spiritual, psychological, or otherwise. As I said before, the only | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| proclaim that a little effort of spiritual and psychological work will either exempt you from life's downs | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| every symptom of a sickness, is based on psychological reasons. How is it possible that a person | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a much stronger indication that the origin is psychological. Such a case may have various reasons. For | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| various reasons. For instance, in one country certain psychological conditions may prevail for the person which do | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of a cosmic, as well as a personal, psychological principle. The significance of the figure seven is | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| no separating line between the spiritual and the psychological nature of the human being. They are separated | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| on the other hand, teaches the opposite. When psychological understanding is properly applied and assimilated, you will | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be destroyed. This is decidedly different from the psychological, unhealthy, destructive fears we generally discuss in our | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| forcefully concentrate during all your waking hours. Many psychological factors play a role and bring about this | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| exercise will be of help. One of the psychological factors responsible for the tendency to let the | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| short at resolving childhood conflicts and straightening out psychological deviations, you are bound to fail in fulfilling | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| instructions other than to proceed with the general psychological work, to study and think about it. It | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| enters. This is very closely connected with the psychological causes I just discussed and with tonight's subject | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| even enrich life, provided the right spiritual and psychological attitude is assumed. In other words, as explained | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| but there is a difference between the so-called psychological dream and the spiritual dream. The dream that | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| justice of cosmic law, or of your inner psychological law. The more you work on the path | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| symbol after that. QUESTION: You mentioned an inner psychological law. Would you explain that, please? ANSWER: Whether | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| explain that, please? ANSWER: Whether you call it psychological or cosmic law makes no difference. It is | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| that is way outside yourself. When I say psychological law, you automatically associate it with yourself, as | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| involve the entire body -- or person. In psychological terms, applied to your life, the movement of | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| QUESTION: I didn't mean my question in such psychological terms, but in simple terms, like some sayings | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such. Take the current example of the universal psychological process we so often discuss. When you feel | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when she does. This is certainly due to psychological reasons, but could there also be physical causes | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| for that matter. The core lies in the psychological problems, in the false safeguards people have built | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| that opposed the pleasure principle, to speak in psychological terms; in spiritual terms, that reality on earth | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| fail, just as your unconscious attempts to solve psychological problems by shortcuts and evasions are doomed to | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| that this happened contains a deep philosophical and psychological meaning, which is generally ignored. The meaning is | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| will it be beneficial. QUESTION: What is the psychological explanation for a person becoming a dope addict | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| a very important role. But where there are psychological disturbances and immaturities, where there is distortion and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| with the instinct of procreation. In distortion, when psychological difficulties are not consciously dealt with and pseudo- | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| themselves. It might be something either physical or psychological. We give ourselves the excuse, If I do | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| nature, while lately the emphasis has been more psychological. Although you all realize by now that true | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the approach that explores the unconscious is a psychological one. The time will come, however, when the | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| move away from spirituality by our emphasis on psychological work. The one must include the other, and | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotions. The distinction between the spiritual and the psychological is arbitrary and, in reality, nonexistent. But since | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| to humanity. There are different layers. In a psychological sense, these layers are examined in the work | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you are now doing on the path. These psychological layers exist as various substances of radiant matter | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| subtle mixtures and combinations -- represent, of course, psychological deviations that can always be traced to parental | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| have often emphasized for quite some time the psychological rather than the spiritual point of view. For | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| a more spiritual approach to see where the psychological deviations -- the images, the distortions, the wrong | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| hostility, resentment, aggressiveness, and envy, but also certain psychological conditions. It is important to recognize their existence | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Battling it forcefully will not. QUESTION: Besides the psychological approach, is it not true that prayer and | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| is of great assistance to us? ANSWER: The psychological approach is actually prayer in action. If you | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| discussed in a few recent lectures, the so-called psychological approach is not in contradiction to the spiritual | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| the so-called spiritual, and more on the so-called psychological. For us, it is all one and the | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| of these lectures has become more and more psychological, rather than spiritual. In addition to answers given | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| which you are conflicted and immature, in modern psychological terms neurotic, is in essence what in religious | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| There is no separation between spiritual living and psychological processes, if you consider it from the point | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| something other than spiritual development; you call it psychological search. Again and again, you make the error | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| error of believing that the spiritual and the psychological are two different approaches. Forgetting these terms for | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| you will understand that without resolving so- called psychological problems, you cannot become fully capable of loving | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| and stumbling blocks in a most specific way. Psychological work is simply finding out the truth about | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| QUESTION: Would you care to elaborate on the psychological aspect of the fourth commandment? ANSWER: Yes. As | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| is what often happens in faulty or insufficient psychological treatment. Certain levels are reached, certain patterns dissolved | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| motivations, your soul and spirit. It means the psychological, emotional, and spiritual levels of your being -- | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| run. When you are on the defensive in psychological conflicts, for irrational, unrealistic reasons, your glandular system | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| if you are constantly, or often, in a psychological state of warding off danger and attack at | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| the truth institutes a process of self-alienation, of psychological self-estrangement. You can all begin to see how | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| hour. I have promised to give you a psychological explanation of the meaning of the seven cardinal | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| outer manifestation, either in deed or thought, of psychological deviation and immaturity. In other words, the result | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| love and is therefore in sin. Sin, in psychological terms, is neurosis. The only difference between the | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| neurosis. The only difference between the spiritual and psychological approach is that the spiritual approach puts emphasis | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| approach puts emphasis on the result, while the psychological approach shows the underlying causes and the different | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| bad. This creates for the following life the psychological conditions that make it harder to live in | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| can only be tackled by a process of psychological understanding, and by dissolving the underlying cause. If | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| So many theories -- spiritual, religious, philosophical or psychological -- exist about the use of will. There | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| hindrance. It is one resistance. We talked about psychological resistance, but that is only one aspect, one | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| sidedness, pride, fears, all on a deeply hidden psychological level, these same attitudes are bound to continue | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| imposes upon you. Your fight for physical and psychological survival necessitates alertness, power to make decisions, willingness | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| psychiatry or psychology today terms neurosis or a psychological problem is nothing more than the evasion of | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| will gain a more profound understanding of the psychological aspects of your real and false guilt. Self-respect | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| that they may be able to penetrate walls, psychological walls. Such a penetration may then have the | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| it and one without it -- than are psychological obstructions. Once you have thoroughly understood your guilts | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| ideas, or postulates have their practical application to psychological attitudes. This is how you can realize and | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| distinct inner double motion, you will find a psychological value in understanding the nature of the emotions | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| terms as what I explained in philosophical and psychological terms. My dearest friends, be blessed again, every | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| among national, religious, and political groups. In this psychological distortion, even minority groups, rebelling against the majority | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| others for your right to exist. All the psychological aspects of appeasing, betraying, and self-alienation simply indicate | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| with using an issue to cover up hidden psychological deviations. In healthy struggle you never fight against | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| phase. QUESTION: And if it is not a psychological fear, but a physical one? ANSWER: Your attitude | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| attitude toward a physical predicament does not preclude psychological deviations. A realistic fear will be coped with | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| of life can be met only if the psychological deviations are recognized. If a real outer fear | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| just as much a personal experience as any psychological discovery. The illusory way of life, for lack | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| my friends. This lecture may be interpreted as psychological material. But nothing could be further from the | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| great insights in this area from a purely psychological point of view, which is concerned with personal | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| to another, but a change in spiritual and psychological outlook, a different state of being. As the | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a fear of, or to use a more psychological term, resistance to, your innermost self, you can | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| from it. ANSWER: Quite apart from the many psychological factors we find again and again in this | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| spite of the discovery of many spiritual and psychological truths. This is one of the great, important | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| distorted. Not only have you all heard from psychological teachings about the childish striving for perfection, but | 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF |
| outer, physical levels follow suit automatically as the psychological imbalance is straightened out. This does not mean | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| rationalize and explain them away. Even currently fashionable psychological truths serve to camouflage this simple process, my | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| arise from such a situation, with all their psychological consequences of misunderstanding, misjudgment, and hurt, which, in | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| growth. It is a deep resistance, beyond the psychological quirks of neurosis. This fundamental opposition to growth | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| deep conflict that runs even deeper than the psychological reasons you uncover in the course of self-exploration | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the human personality that seems relatively insignificant, merely psychological, yet it has a deep meaning and connection | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| lecture aims to help you understand that your psychological makeup has a much deeper origin than usually | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| experienced it is much easier to eliminate the psychological distortions that appear to have originated in this | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the misconception within yourself -- not as a psychological theory, but as a personal conviction -- will | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| when you let go of the fear. All psychological problems come, in the final analysis, from this | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| when something threatens you. I am talking about psychological reactions to outer experiences that cause negative, destructive | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| giving what you have. The overemphasis of one psychological aspect has created a generation of self-pitying people | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| all along. This applies as much to repressed psychological material from this life as to great metaphysical | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| in exploring the importance of pleasure. On the psychological level, the importance of pleasure is at least | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| is the only way to master new faculties. Psychological conflicts follow the same pattern. Before a particular | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| if spontaneous unification is to occur. Where emotional, psychological and spiritual growth is concerned, the investment of | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| on the inner level, spontaneous unification of emotional, psychological, and therefore spiritual rifts, hold the inner balance | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| people who are otherwise familiar with spiritual and psychological truth. Every day and every hour one's inner | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| vulnerability on the psychic level corresponds to a psychological refutation of self-responsibility and to the insistence on | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| poisoned your whole system -- your spiritual, your psychological, and often also your physical system. This poison | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| word resistance is used again and again in psychological terminology. Usually people even forget the real meaning | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| fully and thus free yourself. However, your entire psychological movement has turned away from the other aspect | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| waiting for the next occasion. In other words, psychological deviations are associated with a fixed, inflexible mind | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| with. In the framework of the pathwork, the psychological approach is only a side issue, a way | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| context I do not merely refer to a psychological or emotional state. The inner reality is the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| in this lecture to bridge the gap between psychological and spiritual reality, it will now become possible | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| guideline. You all know that as a rule psychological reality stops short at the self-creating aspect of | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| on earth does not provide you with the psychological means to make practical use of the truth | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| creation. Spiritual activity then becomes an escape from psychological factors. But it is equally true that the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| on this path. They are even known by psychological schools which attempt to find the inner self | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| knowledge. This can take place first on a psychological level. I include psychological knowledge when I speak | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| place first on a psychological level. I include psychological knowledge when I speak of spiritual knowledge, for | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| mother figure. This is true in a purely psychological sense, in terms of this life, but putting | 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS |
| to a small degree. As you follow a psychological inner path in your emotional life, no rules | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| imperfection and mortality. Eventually, however, this very important psychological movement also began to deteriorate as a result | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| feeling of insecurity may all be rooted in psychological problems on levels you need indeed to explore | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| explore and resolve. But in addition to these psychological origins and explanations there is the repressed great | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| the mask and the lower self, beyond the psychological and emotional problems, beyond the images and mental | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| direct result of this. No matter how many psychological explanations you may find -- and they may | 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Stagnation was the fate of many spiritual, religious, psychological truths that have been filtering through into your | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| a psychology, for you obviously work on your psychological attitudes, your feelings, your unconscious processes. It is | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| emotional processes, there were always those who resisted psychological therapy. When spiritual truths were discussed, there were | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| possibly create the controversy that the appearance of psychological realities created on your earth sphere for a | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| spiritual leaders, ministers and priests who are against psychological depth work. By the same token Jesus Christ | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| exists on all levels: on the inner, emotional, psychological, spiritual and personal levels, as well as on | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| replicate the pathwork you do on the inner, psychological and spiritual levels. My beloved friends, it is | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| deepen your inner work on the spiritual and psychological levels and purify what runs on deficit. At | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| suspicion, the inner and/or outer acts of factual, psychological, emotional, and spiritual cheating, impose unfair disadvantages on | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| this state of health and autonomy by merely psychological means. Your psychologists have the right idea and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| There is no such thing as a merely psychological aspect. Every attitude, every way of thinking, feeling | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| has also greatly improved over the last decades. Psychological approaches have created a greater awareness of self | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |