| Psychometric................1 | |
| Is this in any way similar to certain psychometric readings by people who believe that they can | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| Psychosis...................4 | |
| takes you by mechanical means out of a psychosis and brings you back to reality. But then | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| in order to avoid a recurrence of the psychosis. But is it purely mechanical? ANSWER: You said | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| escapes, such as drug addiction, or alcoholism, or psychosis, or other measures. Addictions are often also motivated | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| sin or evil. Psychology calls it neurosis or psychosis, among other things. Whatever name you give it | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| Psychosomatic...............1 | |
| useful to everyone. Whenever there is a so-called psychosomatic illness, the cause or the root of it | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Psychotherapists............1 | |
| will no longer appear as it had previously. Psychotherapists and psychiatrists have understood this phenomenon in their | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| Psychotherapy...............9 | |
| between your method and our way of doing psychotherapy? ANSWER: Of course there can! Any person who | 18 FREE WILL |
| in psychoanalysis or in any other form of psychotherapy, if truly successful, discover the old, old truths | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| expansion. I might say here that in mundane psychotherapy, the highest obtainable goal is usually the level | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| feelings -- this would be the ultimate that psychotherapy can expect under the very best of circumstances | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| what it is not. This pathwork is not psychotherapy, although aspects of it must necessarily deal with | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| aspects of it must necessarily deal with areas psychotherapy also deals with. In the framework of the | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| negative emotions, and paralyzed feelings, all of which psychotherapy also attempts to do and even posits as | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| clear in what way this path differs from psychotherapy, although some of the emphases and, at times | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| have said so far. This path is neither psychotherapy, nor a spiritual path in the usual sense | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Psychotic...................3 | |
| the word schizophrenia applied to people who are psychotic. According to your talk, tonight and previously, we | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| of the personality it includes. For the clinical psychotic, the areas where the self is not accepted | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| One of our group members was a borderline psychotic, slipping in and out of reality. When he | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| Public......................36 | |
| have as their task anything that would create public attention. But quietly, for their own sake, everybody | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| fearing disapproval and wanting approval, as against fearing public opinion? ANSWER: There isn't necessarily any difference here | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a person is so very much concerned with public opinion, it is certainly because he wants the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is certainly because he wants the approval of public opinion. Then he feels safe, because he is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of the majority, be it right or wrong. Public opinion may be right in many instances, but | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| her conduct. He or she may adhere to public opinion in some instances, yet this adherence is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| bondage. In other instances the person will forsake public opinion because he would not be true to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| approved by others will manifest in dependence on public opinion. With other types, approval is sought by | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| behavior. Such a person may always act against public opinion from the same motive as the one | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| pattern. In one instance he will go with public opinion, in another instance against it. But the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| opinion. Because your desire does not conform to public opinion, you are convinced of its wickedness. Added | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| all other human beings. Find your bondage to public opinion, no matter how subtle. Then find, further | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| aspects is often quite strong. Your dependency on public opinion and approval applies, therefore, not only to | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| you agree with them, that you conform with public opinion or the opinion of certain people, or | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| dependency on rules and regulations, and thus on public approval. It takes courage to make a mistake | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| your own making and not necessarily conform to public opinion. Both alternatives leave you utterly dissatisfied. You | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| the superimposed layers of your personality; relying on public opinion rather than on your own convictions, on | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| the rules and regulations of Church, society, and public opinion, and be faultless in conduct, but whatever | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| more friction, in personal as well as in public life, than defensiveness. QUESTION: You say that the | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| comply with standards superimposed by your society, by public opinion -- or what you think they are | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| separate your true wish from your dependency on public opinion. Then, in order to resolve the problem | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| two aspects. Become aware of your dependency on public opinion. Find out why you want to resolve | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the problem cannot come before your dependency on public opinion is out of the way. So much | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| because of a weak ego is conformity to public opinion, parroting the views of others. This condition | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| obey because they might demand that you oppose public opinion. But the strictness may lie in a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| and integrity in this particular issue, regardless of public opinion. Do you let go the fear, the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| reconfirmation by an outside authority -- a parent-substitute, public opinion, or certain groups of people who represent | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| your own truth, rather than paying allegiance to public opinion, to an authority, to society at large | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| yourself and transcend the rules, the adherence to public opinion, give up the facade and the self- | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| life that can, in some cases, extend into public outer life, if it is so ordained. This | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| your political life, if you look at the public expression. Both expressions, of both categories, contain more | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| exists, both in your personal life and in public life. When you consistently yield to the temptation | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| very personal violations of truth, no matter how public the issue may be. Then one format will | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| inner realities has become accessible to the general public. This is unprecedented in your history. It has | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| This has also become very obvious in your public life. In very recent times, a great deal | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| destructiveness has been exposed and communicated to the public. Again, this has never been the case before | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Publicly....................4 | |
| the politicians or those few who visibly and publicly shape world history are to be made responsible | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| of my friends, and I repeat it here publicly: You have heard many aspects of what constitutes | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| many corners of the earth, which are not publicly known -- are ways to channel the life | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| to admit this. However, accusations that are made publicly do not necessarily indicate openness, the opposite of | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| Pull........................80 | |
| to perceive the connections and to dissolve, or pull out, the flawed roots. If you wish to | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| automatically not only all false guilt complexes which pull them down, but feel instantly relieved and at | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| another part in the opposite direction. These desires pull alternately. By keeping the conflict in the subconscious | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| mind that it is your own faults that pull the particular specialists close to you in the | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| your lower self that is powerful enough to pull you into the opposite direction? As long as | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| does not appear easy. It seems difficult to pull yourself down from the high place you consciously | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| do not have to go to strangers and pull yourself down. This might even embarrass others. Just | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| true reactions to certain events; you begin to pull off masks and stop pretenses. You can find | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| conflicts, yet lack real happiness, people who never pull themselves up to search for more and deeper | 18 FREE WILL |
| Then wholeness split even further the more this pull of temptation proceeded. Thus evil came into existence | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| selves, to their unrecognized desires, which push and pull them backward and forward, left and right. QUESTION | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| strings of your inner knot one by one, pull them apart, and then trace their directions. Each | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| the side opposed to the law, but to pull the person out of his or her brand | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the voice of the God-image. Thus the contrary pull, which draws you away from the mass image | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| away from something frightening, you tense up and pull away. This very pull in tension pushes you | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you tense up and pull away. This very pull in tension pushes you into it. Courage, an | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| you beget, and therefore the stronger is the pull into the opposite direction of arrogant aggressiveness and | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| than using the other to elevate yourself, to pull yourself out of the inferiority which engulfs you | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| to the voices of this little self that pull you in the opposite direction from the true | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| then have the effect that the person will pull himself together and do that which is necessary | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| final analysis, it is you who have to pull yourself out of the darkness. Be blessed, be | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| the now. They push into the future. They pull back into the past. Often these two contradictory | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| reality, but only in fantasy. Likewise, if you pull backward, into the past, even if you try | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| the wishes and attitudes in such fleeting reactions. Pull them out into the open and calmly look | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| impossible if a continuously watchful eye tries to pull out what is supposed to be wrong. It | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| this sphere. Their subtler emanations and subtler matter pull them into a corresponding environment. This is not | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| and frantic the yes-current becomes. The two currents pull the personality in two opposite directions, creating stronger | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| First you will feel a strong negative pull against it, but, expecting it, you are prepared | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| afraid of this expansion. They fear it will pull them apart. In truth the expansion does not | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| them apart. In truth the expansion does not pull you apart, it unifies you. The great spiritual | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| beginning you may feel that way. You may pull yourself together and follow this advice and, indeed | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| that comes quite effortlessly. But first you must pull your thoughts together. You must want to entrust | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| succeeding, the fear of closeness induces them to pull back again and push away the other. And | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| problematic, painful, and fraught with conflict because you pull and push in opposite directions. The moment you | 138 THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT OF DESIRE FOR, AND FEAR OF, CLOSENESS |
| disturbing force pulls in an opposite direction, the pull of the two directions creates the pain. You | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| just as physical pain ceases when the opposite pull is abandoned. All this is verifiable and has | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| and suffering are always the result of the pull on the personality by two tendencies which are | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| the same time, there must always be the pull toward the light, toward wholeness, toward loving, inclusion | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| therefore, the larger the percentage, the stronger the pull in the opposite direction from health and union | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| own inner being. Be in God! 149. COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION Greetings, my dearest friends | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| path toward finding yourself. There is a great pull in the manifest universe in which you live | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the manifest universe in which you live. This pull is part of the creative principle. Since every | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| made of the same substance in fact, this pull must exist in every individual. It is directed | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the personality for true inner union. Therefore this pull toward unity manifests as a tremendous force, moving | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| life force therefore consists not only of the pull toward others, but also of pleasure supreme. Life | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| are the goal of the cosmic plan. The pull toward unity aims to bring you out of | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| toward contact and melding. To follow the cosmic pull is therefore blissful; it is exhilarating and, at | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| I am discussing. The conflict exists because the pull cannot be eliminated. It is the evolutionary force | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| arises from fear of and opposition to this pull; the personality bucks the natural flow. To the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| own innermost nature, you must first trust the pull toward unity. Therefore when you separate nature from | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| said, can be experienced only when the deep pull of nature, of evolution, of the creative principle | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| destiny. Even though you block and oppose the pull, you nevertheless cannot avoid it. It always leads | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| principle. Even when the opposition is great, the pull toward contact and melding with another must remain | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| To the degree that opposition to the cosmic pull creates blocks and throws the cosmic stream off | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and is driven into painful contact. Thus the pull toward contact, and the fear of it, which | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the fear of it, which manifests as a pull away from it, are both present. The latter | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| more painfully the pleasure principle of the cosmic pull manifests, the greater the fear, the guilt, the | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| has a deep meaning and connection with the pull toward union, which I will point out later | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| I don't quite understand. What is this inner pull you are talking about? ANSWER: It is a | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| you are talking about? ANSWER: It is a pull toward another individual, toward an expression of your | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and of others. QUESTION: You discussed the cosmic pull that becomes negative in the individual at a | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| this further? ANSWER: When people oppose their cosmic pull and struggle against it, conflict arises. The cosmic | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| and struggle against it, conflict arises. The cosmic pull always remains stronger than the counter-pull, since it | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| ensues. The actual contact taking place expresses the pull toward others; the pain arising from it expresses | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| counter-pull. To the degree you fear the cosmic pull and its destiny, love -- which can grow | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| close attention to your own unconscious and thus pull back from it or pay only superficial attention | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| In a state of constant inner tension, you pull simultaneously in opposite directions -- on the one | 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE |
| motivated by this inner urge, which is a pull of the life force. The life force contains | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| and unconscious, obstructed by blind opposing forces that pull toward a state of stagnation. First let us | 178 THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH DYNAMICS |
| living on earth in a human body, this pull manifests in different moods, perceptions and experiences. How | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| levels. It may cause a breakdown if the pull into expansion on the one hand and obstruction | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| one's potential -- is easy and relaxing. To pull yourself up by your bootstraps and move beyond | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| away from what your innermost self seeks. The pull may be subtle or strongly noticeable. It has | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| but when they approach those dark spots they pull back in self-revulsion and turn all their destructive | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| that motivates individuals to strive toward unification. The pull of this force is irresistible: it exists in | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| very gradually. The energy recedes, the life forces pull inward into the real, eternal, infinite world, into | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| I now give you a key. Those conflicts pull out your life force and strangle it. That | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| of change and need help and guidance to pull them over into the new. Even those who | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| my creativity and ability to work and to pull things together economically in my personal life. I | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| as long as you fight it, you only pull your chains tighter. Only when you relax your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |