| Ramifications...............31 | |
| easy to recognize spiritual justice with all its ramifications if the connection between crime and punishment were | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| you fear giving up Utopia in all its ramifications, you will have taken a tremendous step towards | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| inner causes, misconceptions and deviations with all their ramifications and chain reactions, will real faith, real love | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| wrong conclusion with all its chain reactions and ramifications. There is, on the one hand, the guilt | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not become aware of and face all the ramifications and aspects of your betrayal of the one | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| disappointment is equally unrealistic. The many repercussions and ramifications of this state are too numerous to discuss | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the pretense with self-alienation and with all its ramifications. Find the subtle pretense, for that is the | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| is fully out of hiding, with all its ramifications. If you stop struggling against the fear, if | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| of this primitive state, the flavor, emphasis, and ramifications of the search change. One parent may have | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| not yet seen in all their connections and ramifications. If the fear were fully understood, it would | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| this? ANSWER: Yes, but there are also other ramifications. As I have explained in this lecture, when | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| and pleasure. Because they are unaware of the ramifications and total significance of their predicament, such people | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| impossible to fully grasp unless one contemplates its ramifications very carefully. Sacrificing pleasure includes everything. Since life | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| out of it before exploring its origin and ramifications. Could you comment on this? ANSWER: Yes. Such | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| This extremely important topic has a great many ramifications in each human existence, in each human psyche | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| you are and do, and not understanding the ramifications of your attitudes, because you lack the awareness | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in detail that he does so, what the ramifications are, where the tendency comes from, what other | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to painstakingly work through the exact consequences and ramifications of your negative production, without glossing over any | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| acknowledge it and understand its significance and its ramifications. You will see that your doubts about the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| itself should be explored for origins, results, further ramifications. What underlying misconceptions are responsible for the overt | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| this forcing create self-perpetuating patterns, with many negative ramifications. On the other hand, there are also philosophies | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| this lecture I shall point out further the ramifications and the significance of inner emotional experience, and | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| is absolutely necessary for you to know the ramifications and the significance of your faulty attitudes; for | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| fully faced, felt, and understood in all its ramifications and chain reactions. Otherwise you can never be | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| does it imply? And, also, what are its ramifications? I want to say here that the decision | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| and not obstructed, when its meaning with its ramifications is clear -- which includes an assessment of | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| I will now attempt to show you the ramifications of these two value systems. Most human beings | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| battling with it, learning about it and its ramifications, discovering it on ever deeper levels, including the | 237 LEADERSHIP -- THE ART OF TRANSCENDING FRUSTRATION |
| unto themselves. This had its positive and negative ramifications. The positive manifestation brought people back to taking | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| effect. We see that it leads to certain ramifications that create a very specific kind of pain | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| will direction, every action -- with all its ramifications -- is imprinted into this substance and thereby | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| Rampant.....................7 | |
| many areas, and then this area becomes very rampant, you become ill and you fight to survive | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| that deep destructive forces and attitudes are still rampant in you. Somewhere within you exists a will | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| the how and why, duality and error are rampant. Therefore conflict between self-interest and the interest of | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| tragic misunderstanding of duality, the dichotomy that is rampant on this earth sphere, where it is so | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| partner finally appears, the old fear is still rampant. The soul movements contract and the fantasy cannot | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| Distrust of anything other than the self was rampant. People distrusted nature, animals, the weather, the gods | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the true meaning of events. Confusion will be rampant so that truth will be used for lying | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Random......................9 | |
| such a community are not guided here at random either. They may have certain merits from previous | 20 GOD: THE CREATION |
| image and a happening that appeared to be random or coincidental. The moment you understand how you | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| purification. Love does not come and go at random; eros does. Eros hits with sudden force, often | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| a chaotic one; that is, it occurred at random, according to the attitude and emotions governing the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| an unconscious nature. You may ask anyone, at random, whether he believes in his intellect that his | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| the other person. I will give you some random examples that I am sure many of you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| distortions disappear. What was once a mysterious and random fate to which one was helplessly exposed, over | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| of it all. Happiness that appears to be random contains no security. In that state, you always | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| will be given to you. Just ascertaining these random fleeting thoughts and making them concise will allow | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |
| Rarest......................4 | |
| be much more harmful. Only in the very rarest cases does the sex force really become sublimated | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| comes out of hiding. But in the very rarest of instances -- only in an entity very | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| unknown facts. This is true only in the rarest instances. It is not necessary to go through | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| truth on an inner level. Only in the rarest of instances is such a vision attained without | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Rational....................25 | |
| dissatisfied with your life whether for actual and rational reasons or not, it is always because your | 31 SHAME |
| no longer conscious, or perhaps may find more rational explanations. But the uncleanliness will create new conflicts | 38 IMAGES |
| hide this whole procedure for its lack of rational logic, and also because you were ashamed that | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| life necessarily carries uncertainty and risk, whereas the rational type tries to keep everything well ordered, knowing | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| only a pressing need. You may find abundant rational and valid explanations as to why the desire | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| display becomes modified or even completely covered by rational and reasonable behavior. But this in no way | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| similar trend may also exist, but a more rational personality converts it into a less irrational, although | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| me to believe that there must be a rational and a founded fear. We are taught here | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| questions. The answer to the first, about the rational versus the irrational fear is this: If you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you find an unrealistic current hiding behind a rational excuse. You must look under it just as | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of the tremendous drive for success, surpassing his rational explanation for it. He will slowly realize that | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |
| pursued lustfully. No matter how legitimate, constructive, or rational it may be in itself, such a pursuit | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| with its underlying cause, in spite of the rational sadness. Let us first define the difference. In | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| attitudes exist. They are not addressed to your rational thinking. And now, my friends, let us turn | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| it with your reasoning faculties, you blindly reject rational inquiry. The rejection is not so much a | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| self and trying to get through the outer, rational shell in a spirit of penetrating inner search | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| misinterpretation of reality is relatively small. They are rational and see reality in many areas. Their misinterpretation | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| are those who believe that they are reasonable, rational and realistic, yet are deluded even about that | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| exaggerated and made into a big and seemingly rational fear. The fear of letting go of the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| The fear must be countered by the conscious, rational thinking self, once it has been ascertained that | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| a particular kind. It is not translatable into rational language because there is nothing you can possibly | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| with the help of reason, through realistic and rational evaluation of the circumstances. I have given you | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| traits you do not like -- in a rational and unexaggerated way, really meet it face to | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| being as perfect, as evolved, as good, as rational, as ideal, as one wants to be and | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| crisis disproportionately painful. Sometimes one tries to find rational explanations for such a peculiar emotional intensity -- | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| Rationalization.............20 | |
| very image and can be used as a rationalization for the pseudo-solution of withdrawal from life because | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| asset. It may serve as a subterfuge and rationalization, even as an escape. QUESTION: Also, erudition does | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| one extreme or another, it is always a rationalization and subterfuge to which the individual soul constantly | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| it is that really disturbs you, behind the rationalization. My dearest friends, may my words give you | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| first and most handy layer is that of rationalization, that of proving that others, or situations are | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| reaction and subjectivity. That is what is called rationalization. Thus an intellectually mature person will find reasons | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| instinct of self-preservation. This is really nothing but rationalization. QUESTION: I would like to hear about the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has a difficult life lends itself less to rationalization. You see, your subconscious struggle against this path | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| why you have them, what defense mechanism and rationalization has made you adopt them. What does the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| and self-respect. All this is covered with the rationalization of unselfishness, sacrifice, and your ability to love | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| detect, because such a type hides under the rationalization of how hypocritical the goody-goody type is. Since | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| rationalizations. As to the value of this particular rationalization -- fear of not remaining oneself -- I | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| of wanting to be left alone with the rationalization that this will bring serenity. In actuality, you | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| feel the child's emotions at all, with the rationalization that such exercise and eating, in itself, might | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| when, in spite of all your resistance and rationalization, you finally allow repressed emotions to reach your | 96 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; COMMENTS ON LAZINESS AS SYMPTOM OF SELF-ALIENATION |
| and using justification, self-pity, hopelessness, or a superficial rationalization, blaming outer circumstances? Test yourself very carefully and | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| kept in the dark of vagueness and easy rationalization. This is why your pathwork is of such | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| need to be willing to dispense with your rationalization that appears to make your case seem justified | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| incisive, sharp self-honesty for what they are. Denial, rationalization, and projection must be given up. The searchlight | 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| may use past circumstances. But whatever means of rationalization you use, it is a tremendous battle for | 209 THE ROSCOE LECTURE: INSPIRATION FOR THE PATHWORK CENTER |