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 Seer........................3
It is not impossible, because any great seer -- and they are never entirely right, you 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
our end. Now it sometimes happens that a seer sees just one such plan. If, later, the 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
up to the fulfillment of this plan, the seer was right. Otherwise, this may account for his 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 
 Seers.......................5
But there are also a great number of seers who have brought this knowledge and put it 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
other possibilities according to free will. QUESTION: So seers, such as Nostradamus, have insight into these records 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
out of free will. That is why such seers are sometimes right and sometimes wrong. And do 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
my having mentioned these various plans. Different clairvoyants, seers, or otherwise psychically gifted people have seen one 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION
among spiritual aspirants. If, as spiritual teachers and seers claim, God's will is your happiness, your human 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
 
 Seership....................1
as a byproduct of a certain talent of seership where particular wavelengths meet and thus a tuning-in 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 
 See-saw.....................10
to become very much aware of this internal see-saw. Realize the extremes of the heavily guarded, overcontrolled 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
Yes, it is automatic. It is like a see-saw, or a scale. I discussed this see-saw process 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
a see-saw, or a scale. I discussed this see-saw process several times. Many of my friends on 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
more specifically with this same basic principle. The See-Saw Law or Law of Compensation Wherever a misconception 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
you conscious of only one side of the see-saw, it is impossible to resolve the problem, no 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
ease will come once he sees the whole see-saw -- in this case that there is an 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
The balance will be effortlessly achieved when the see-saw law is deeply experienced. Too much ego on 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Lever Law This law is related to the See-Saw Law. The difference is that the latter deals 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
nevertheless not the major recognition needed. Yet the See-Saw Law may not apply, for the willingness to 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
original pain, you will be caught in the see-saw of submission and rebellion, which is another vicious 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
 
 Seething....................6
may be artificial, if actually, unconsciously, you are seething with strong repressed emotions. These have to reach 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION
if good behavior is not superimposed over a seething pool of anger, fear, anxiety and all sorts 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
your weakness is love, when inwardly you are seething with resentment and vindictiveness? You claim that your 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
of feelings is, at this point, predominantly a seething mass of denied pain and, therefore, of violence 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL
be clearly aware of them or of her seething resentment when they are not fulfilled. Healthy, openly 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
directed against the self only. But the underlying seething hatred prevents positive deeds of loving and giving 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
 
 Segment.....................10
veil that covers it and see a small segment of the huge wheel. One person, at one 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
This is the first step on this particular segment of the path: the pure power of thought 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER
of the whole picture. It is only a segment, and the segment cannot convey the whole. Let 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
picture. It is only a segment, and the segment cannot convey the whole. Let us say, you 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
judgment upon the whole picture with only a segment available. You need to extend your view, so 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS
found a part of the whole, a small segment of it. Each true insight will produce relief 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
a fact and truth. A fact is a segment of truth. You may be in possession of 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
overnight. Once you get started on this particular segment of your path, you will often find that 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS
that moment of your recollection is a new segment of time. You react in fantasy, live in 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF
the year, indicating a new phase, a new segment of time, this lecture will offer you a 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
 
 Segments....................3
in their relationship with their patients. But only segments of this human predicament are comprehended within the 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE
being the whole, although you only see small segments. This partial vision alters the nature of the 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES
all of these approaches and realities are merely segments. For it is hardly possible to experience a 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
 
 Seldom......................31
a similar talent. The reason that they very seldom, if ever, manifest through mediums, is a very 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD
disappear suddenly, but will recur more and more seldom with less and less strength, until they disappear 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND
all the other symptoms of this deficiency are seldom consciously connected with the cause of it all 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
it is mostly unconscious. It is very, very seldom that this is done consciously, at least as 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER
prayers using beautiful and poetic words, but they seldom think of asking for help with their immediate 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW
is at stake in an issue, you will seldom find an answer by asking whether the action 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL
healthy images engraved on their soul. That is seldom true because in the absence of a wrong 38 IMAGES
have often failed to realize is that images seldom form in this life, no matter how early 38 IMAGES
at any given stage of your development. People seldom realize that they must pray to get ahead 38 IMAGES
to follow deductions made with the reasoning process, seldom paying attention to the emotions or intuitions, which 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
personality has many, many facets and, therefore, one seldom understands what is really meant by knowing oneself 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
two kinds -- even though you may have seldom, or never, encountered the true one -- your 47 THE WALL WITHIN
this thoroughly, we find that the hurt is seldom so deep that the wish to die is 53 SELF-LOVE
your subconscious, you will find that your feelings seldom agree with your intellectual knowledge on this subject 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
of it in your conscious mind. All this seldom happens in a very obvious way, although sometimes 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS
expression of your spiritual nature, organized religion is seldom the answer, especially not in your time. But 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES
genuine mature love is rare. Since children so seldom receive sufficient mature love and warmth, they continue 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS
you are in disharmony, unhappy, and hopeless. You seldom, if ever, realize for a moment that all 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION
the moralizing I'm talking about. Moreover, such moralizing seldom applies to crass issues, but rather to the 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS
you comply with, often to the letter but seldom in the spirit. These lead often so unnecessarily 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
friends: An action, a thought, an attitude is seldom good or bad, right or wrong in itself 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS
insight comes -- even if it happens only seldom to begin with -- it is a decisive 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS
begun to experience -- be it ever so seldom in the early stages of this work -- 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE
wait until the resistance vanished by itself. It seldom occurs to you to add, Here is my 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
a so-called neurotic need, but the deviation is seldom a total illusion. Such need always harbors the 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
harboring a negative concept of life. This conflict seldom applies to all areas of life expression, but 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
avoided, is unnecessary. Doubt of this kind is seldom doubted. It is always justified with this happens 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION
true, in reverse, for the expanding principle: you seldom recognize in a negative aggression the negative manifestation 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION
that the Christ could manifest in a totality seldom, if ever, experienced to that degree on the 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975
delved into your hidden thought processes which are seldom completely unconscious will dissolve the pain. It will 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
divine grace. This obstacle is very important, yet seldom recognized for what it is. It exists on 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
 
 Select......................4
are developed. Development means independence, the ability to select truth from untruth. Therefore the spirits in the 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR
if you deliberate and weigh it, discriminate, and select. During this process, a new opinion may evolve 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
is equipped to remember, to sort out, to select, to make up the mind, to move in 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
individual path. The ego must, again and again, select, decide, intend, in order to follow this development 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
 
 Selecting...................3
the equally important reasoning functions of thinking, discriminating, selecting, and weighing. They must learn to use the 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
manifestation. This type must cultivate the faculty of selecting, deliberately thinking and planning. This selecting process is 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
faculty of selecting, deliberately thinking and planning. This selecting process is the beginning of wisdom. The emotion-type 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION
 
 Self........................2898
up a resistance, because confusion feeds the lower self that prefers the road of least resistance and 1 THE SEA OF LIFE
that you have attained mastery over your lower self, over your weaknesses that needed exactly this kind 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
allow it. The moment you fight your lower self, you protect yourself completely. This is what you 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS
one takes the trouble to search within the self -- not only outside and in general terms 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
this is how a person creates within the self such a powerful energy that all the subsequent 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
a little closer to God, to your real self, to your happiness and to your inner harmony 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE
fear of what could happen to your own self so seriously, you can give your love freely 4 WORLD WEARINESS
in harmony with God and your own higher self, at least in this respect. Do not misunderstand 4 WORLD WEARINESS
genuine feelings are channeled through the sick lower self into a false direction. It is not even 4 WORLD WEARINESS
that they cannot be true to their own self, and thus they will indeed humiliate themselves and 4 WORLD WEARINESS
instead of weak and always true to your self, exactly because through giving up the little ego 4 WORLD WEARINESS
contrary to spiritual law and so their higher self makes itself known by causing them to feel 4 WORLD WEARINESS
Such an emotional current comes from the higher self that knows where true fulfillment, happiness, harmony, and 4 WORLD WEARINESS
to really uncover what is hidden within your self, alone if possible and if not, with help 4 WORLD WEARINESS
of your personality, which I call the lower self, pulls your emotions into quite a different direction 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
right; one part of the unconscious, the higher self, also strives upward. But in every human being 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
because they run contrary to what the higher self desires. The opposing tendencies clash and exhaust the 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE
everything is felt and experienced equally in the self and in the other -- exactly because the 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
The ego is a part of the lower self and the individual personality is the sum total 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
of development, including the lower and the higher self. What passes is only the lower self, which 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
higher self. What passes is only the lower self, which makes you heavy and earthbound with its 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES

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