| Self-contemptuous...........1 | |
| This will make him or her just as self-contemptuous, guilty, and frustrated as are the other two | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| Self-contradiction..........1 | |
| The only way to come out of this self-contradiction that holds you immobilized with magnetic force, in | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| Self-control................5 | |
| time, you answered the question about willpower and self-control. I think it is important to see oneself | 21 THE FALL |
| enough. As you rightly say, before willpower and self-control can be strengthened, you have to have a | 21 THE FALL |
| goal, and in what direction should willpower and self-control be utilized. In order to have willpower, the | 21 THE FALL |
| fear that they can lead you into losing self-control. Let me put it this way: the strong | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| when the human personality became capable of using self-control could the next evolutionary step be taken. The | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Self-created................27 | |
| equation must always come out right: hardship is self-created, yet precisely because of that, it contains the | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| in which a person retires into a lonely, self-created world. Again, they do this out of fear | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| of a crass ego-centeredness. Such withdrawal into a self-created world may yield them certain momentary advantages in | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| the meaning of it all. Only when the self-created obstacles are overcome can you reap, already here | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| to have. For only the victory over the self-created difficulties, even if you don't yet understand their | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| Or it can be the effect of a self-created cause through a particular way of life. QUESTION | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| those who wish to get out of the self-created miserable circumstances. Since life in spirit is in | 21 THE FALL |
| could not become aware of and eliminate the self-created obstacle. We have friends here to whom such | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| them. You must not turn away from your self-created precipices, which need not exist in the first | 36 PRAYER |
| give up your forcing current and thus your self-created illusions, thereby becoming free to receive real value | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| functions in reality. It cannot manifest in a self-created world of illusion, in a world based on | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| are bound to see that all evil is self-created, and thus it is your lesson and medicine | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| suffering. Many self-aware people understand that suffering is self-created. Your realization of this, whether vaguely or fully | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| often fare better. They may not discover their self-created underlying causes -- and this is a pity | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| others, you will have to deal with these self-created, limited conditions and handle each separately, with intelligence | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| to the Guide's teachings, our entire fate is self-created, whether we live in happiness or unhappiness, fulfillment | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| to other matters. The fact remains that your self-created disorder is responsible for so much of it | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| you toward others. You are isolated in the self-created prison of your defense against pain and unpleasantness | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| higher self remain separated fragments in their own self-created worlds. You must occasionally reside in these separate | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| move, to accept the temporary hardships which are self-created, and to walk through them as through tunnels | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| growing, of changing, of self-purification, of traversing all self-created pain and evil. Now let us briefly consider | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| false reality. You begin to live in a self-created world that has no bearing on what reality | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| The human state of self-awareness lives within its self-created dimension of time. Thus the sense of past | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| how cruel or unjust they may seem, are self-created medicine for the purpose of ultimate purification and | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| particular airpocket of your condensed reality. However, that self-created wall can crumble only when you accept its | 234 PERFECTION, IMMORTALITY, OMNIPOTENCE |
| the universal laws better. By thus embracing your self-created boundaries you transcend them most meaningfully. Soon your | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| efforts to hide the assumed -- and hence self-created -- poverty by pretending a false wealth, built | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Self-creating...............7 | |
| of the highest consciousness and wisdom, self-perpetuating and self-creating. There is no word to describe its intense | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| room for it in your consciousness and your self-creating. Many are the people who want to reach | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| you believe in your innermost potential to be self-creating, to be in bliss, to live the infinite | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| the human personality, and its importance in the self-creating process. Self-awareness, whether it concerns awareness of inner | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| Positive, real desire is a prerequisite to the self-creating process. For example, if you do not want | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| a rule psychological reality stops short at the self-creating aspect of your inner being and ignores your | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| does not wish to be a fully grown, self-creating entity. It wishes to be given to and | 254 SURRENDER |
| Self-creation...............12 | |
| each of you in searching out your negative self-creation. There are still many areas of your lives | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| They occur by immutable law: the law of self-creation. You have experienced in the further course of | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| truth they have discovered -- the truth of self-creation. And they can create and recreate wherever the | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| from obstruction. But where the psyche is stuck, self-creation is blocked. Stagnant energy becomes even more potent | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| Be blessed, be God. 211. OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES My dearest friends, I greet | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| of life and its relation to your inner self-creation. The perception of the human mind is specifically | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the point where you can become aware of self-creation that the results of your creation not only | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| real. The more you lose the connection with self-creation, the more bitter and hopeless the suffering becomes | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| self- awareness have nevertheless in-built patterns of creation, self-creation, which that particular organism follows through in a | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| a total disconnectedness from the inner process of self-creation. The feeling of helplessness is overwhelming at this | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| not. Grace is as much a reality as self-creation and self-responsibility -- and they are by no | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| standing firm. As you grow in autonomy and self-creation, you will sense very clearly that there is | 254 SURRENDER |
| Self-creative...............1 | |
| misuses of divine creation. They can never be self-creative. Your present ability to witness and thus to | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Self-criticism..............2 | |
| them. To achieve this mastery, self-observation, objectivity, and self-criticism are essential. If what I advised tonight in | 21 THE FALL |
| you occupy yourself with self-probing and testing, severe self-criticism and analysis of your deeds, thoughts, and emotions | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Self-debasement.............2 | |
| out of strength. Actually some people believe that self-debasement is the sign of real, great love; however | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| two extremes. A number of people indulge in self-debasement, pulling themselves down in the eyes of others | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| Self-deceit.................2 | |
| yourself, that is, by thorough self- examination, without self-deceit. Find the extent of your ego, your oversensitivity | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| order to overcome the hurdles, the temptations to self-deceit, which block the way to the abstract knowledge | 217 THE PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| Self-deception..............89 | |
| to look at what is really there. Such self-deception must inevitably bring you into conflict with yourself | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| the road of least resistance and vanity, practices self-deception and thrives on discord. But, in the long | 1 THE SEA OF LIFE |
| attracts negative forces, it is also based on self-deception. Such people believe themselves to be very humble | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| motives, either by not wanting to or through self-deception, build on untruth. When you accept calmly who | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| greatness when coming from a full heart, without self-deception, rooted in sincere willpower. This is the first | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| personal fault is always responsible, however great the self-deception. Faults need to be overcome, especially those that | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| this very clearly, and, indeed, this kind of self-deception is very common among human beings. The forms | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| not accomplished, there should at least be no self-deception. One should have at least a clear and | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| the basic good trends from all masks of self-deception and from influences caused by character weaknesses. The | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| way, in a way that suits your own self-deception, then the path is used as an escape | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| to advance and to sacrifice the comfort of self-deception. But there is also another part of you | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| meet your resistances without any wishful thinking and self-deception; second, for making sure that you do leave | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| will surely do more for you than any self-deception. Feelings change indirectly and not by force, nor | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| with the positive thoughts, then there is a self-deception that may bring greater repercussions than if you | 36 PRAYER |
| attain spiritual growth is utterly unrealistic. It is self-deception and wishful thinking. You cannot avoid it. QUESTION | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| the good act contains a bad motive, without self-deception. The mere fact that the bad motive is | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| Yet people have largely ignored the danger of self-deception, they have ignored their habit of using the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| force. Suppression is always self- deception; therefore, when self-deception or suppression exists, the life force cannot regenerate | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| opposing forces bottle it up. Without suppression and self-deception, spring would revive you. Fatigue is a symptom | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| much? ANSWER: For lack of self-recognition and for self-deception out of pride and fear. There was in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| sense, acceptance fosters masochistic tendencies, hopelessness, and the self-deception of indulging in resignation that is not only | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| interim stage, after you cease to act in self-deception and compulsion and before you are capable of | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| in you. By doing the right act without self-deception, in the hope that one day you will | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| short. It will be a farce and a self-deception. It is often the case that people feel | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| inner yearning. Their lack of awareness is a self-deception and therefore illusion. When you consider all this | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| deviating emotions, and thereby avoid the pitfalls of self-deception and suggestion. Prayer, if rightly understood and used | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| Your happiness may have been valid and without self-deception at all. For it is possible to be | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| an overall view, without any further subterfuge and self-deception, such knowledge will no longer disquiet you. It | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the same. Asceticism is so often a great self-deception and a complete denial of the life force | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| has to be very careful, since evasion and self-deception are always so close at hand. The temptation | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| and think this way leads only to a self-deception that delays your coming out of your darkness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| pain. Jesus met it squarely, without pretense, without self-deception, without deceiving those who had faith in him | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| having met my ordeal fully, without pretense and self-deception, having gone through it to the ultimate end | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| see that it is nothing more than dishonesty, self-deception, an ostrich attitude, and a lack of self-awareness | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| possible. There is in this course a dangerous self-deception; the lack of awareness of what you really | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| and lead to a forced, insincere reaction and self-deception. Allow yourself to have all emotions come out | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| goal. It may lead you further into increased self-deception, the very same self-deception you want to uncover | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you further into increased self-deception, the very same self-deception you want to uncover instead of avoiding. This | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| This may occur through the subtle coloring of self-deception, or it may be crass enough to make | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| emotional immaturity, as well as of the existing self-deception. The fact that you put raw, destructive, immature | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| actually are, is not only dishonesty, hypocrisy and self-deception, but it also leads you more deeply into | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| in truth and reality, not in falsehood and self-deception. When this happens, a new security and respect | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| a false self-image. It leads not only to self-deception, but to alienation from your real self by | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to experience real feelings, and necessitates repression and self-deception. QUESTION: In a previous lecture you mentioned secondary | 97 PERFECTIONISM OBSTRUCTS HAPPINESS -- MANIPULATION OF EMOTIONS |
| pride are connected. The lie is one of self-deception and therefore of self-alienation. It is displacement. Thus | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| unawareness, that once was deliberate, really amounts to self-deception. You want something, yet you feel that what | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| what you want inwardly. And it is this self-deception that causes the destructive result, not the quality | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| will to observe yourself in candor and without self-deception, and from this observation your capacity for loving | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| again we have discussed this entire condition: repression, self-deception, non- acceptance of who you really are, as | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| getting rid of anything. Forcing leads only to self-deception and illusion. By letting an undesirable aspect be | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the outer actions may so easily lead to self-deception. Evasion can take many forms. I repeat, wherever | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| can look at their inner life squarely, without self-deception, or they may have a severe breakdown which | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| this unhealthy desire concisely, and acknowledge it without self-deception, can you begin to find out why this | 108 FUNDAMENTAL GUILT FOR NOT LOVING -- OBLIGATIONS |
| self, the idealized self, and the tendency to self-deception all have to be eliminated before one can | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| thought, or feeling, and the second by the self-deception and hypocrisy of pretending the opposite, and not | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| but it is nevertheless what happens in a self-deception. You can have true faith in God only | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| consume your energies in the denial. You perpetuate self-deception, and you do not achieve the result you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| opposite, because it is proud, arrogant, and breeds self-deception and untruthfulness. I also want to remind you | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| you. Thus you start an elaborate system of self-deception and pretense which brings you into vicious circles | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of it. What is more, due to the self-deception, more confusion sets in. Since all this is | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| conscience is very discerning about any kind of self-deception. It is adamant against cheating when one tries | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| this phase is reached, a certain amount of self-deception has been eliminated. Whatever your personal particular shame | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| can exactly pinpoint their shame, their pretense, their self-deception. They have indeed reached a major step in | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| truthful self- examination respond according to law, while self-deception and lack of awareness cannot bring you into | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| honest self-observation, acknowledging the fact of it without self-deception, and requesting the help of your higher self | 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT |
| When the overall development is more primitive, such self-deception is less necessary. Blind automatism is always the | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| over as yet unrecognized, untruthful ideas is merely self-deception, superimposition. It cannot create a genuine constructive attitude | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| to force or deny any emotion leads to self-deception which then may take the form of pretending | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| so, but will withhold it knowingly and without self-deception. Such meditation will strengthen the knowledge and finally | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| react. This self-determination is not a superimposition or self-deception when you fully meet your self. Since you | 136 THE ILLUSORY FEAR OF THE SELF |
| artificial manipulative act that can lead only to self-deception. It is attempted not in the unitive knowledge | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| false guilts. This inner mechanism is exact. No self-deception or conscious denial can eliminate the effects of | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| state of truth about yourself, no longer in self-deception and no longer unaware. You are nearer the | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| in any language guarantee avoidance of subterfuge and self-deception. Only the profound sincerity of the inner will | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| one resists looking at that offer opportunities for self-deception. It is essential to say to oneself again | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| understand, my friends. Integrity, honesty, and lack of self-deception in the way you give of your total | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| are still distrusted and their self-regulating reality ignored, self-deception must still exist. A will to be destructive | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| myself. I will stop living a life of self-deception -- which everyone does to the extent he | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| appearance of love. Such cover-up is often mere self-deception, since most of the time others are not | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| such areas. Wherever people hold on in blind self-deception to such attitudes, they do not want to | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| emotions and attitudes. To name only a few: self-deception about what being good is; dependency, which is | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| the universal self may lead to even greater self-deception if the consciousness is deluded by the actually | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| truth, then becomes the tool of error and self-deception. Thus what you may now believe to be | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you avoid one of the most insidious obstructions: self-deception. We search for and bring out that negative | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| reality must be taken into consideration, and then self-deception will no longer present a danger. It is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| gauge, it shows whether you are living in self-deception or truly following your path according to your | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| longer projecting it outward. You are losing your self-deception. Yet you find yourself strangely unable, as it | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| a shell that needs sustenance from without. This self-deception is obviously futile. It is of utmost importance | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| power of your self-indoctrination. When you encounter this self-deception in you, my dearest friends, halt and question | 236 THE SUPERSTITION OF PESSIMISM |