| Semblance...................7 | |
| is capable of love, or sex and a semblance of love. Only in the ideal case do | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| second possibility is that the temptation of a semblance of peace is stronger. Then the partners may | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| adult existed who was able to give a semblance of divine love, the conflict we are discussing | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a spring beneath the earth's crust, without any semblance of strength it lies buried deep under many | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| effect a real cure, but only a temporary semblance of a cure. QUESTION: What does it do | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| idealized self- image that cannot allow for any semblance of defeat. As your idealized self-image weakens, you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| sought as a cheap way of attaining a semblance of universal bliss, which the heart knows exists | 215 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS CONTINUED -- PROCESS IN THE NOW |
| Semi-conscious..............6 | |
| and understand all levels: the outer conscious, the semi-conscious and the unconscious. The moment you have penetrated | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| or eros and sex. In these cases, a semi-conscious resistance to giving up this fantasy life exists | 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS |
| said, the sum total of all your conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious, explicit and implicit thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, intentions | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| activities and directions you subtly focus on secret, semi-conscious expectations and concerns about what will I be | 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION |
| an unconscious level and later perhaps on a semi-conscious level -- you will see that your fear | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| and life patterns on top of unconscious or semi-conscious negative beliefs, you build on deficit. When you | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| Sends.......................20 | |
| intent on giving you the best. What God sends your way is, of course, often somewhat unpleasant | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| should it not be equally possible that God sends you His emissaries of truth for your benefit | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| feel that something thinks within you, directs you, sends you messages, gives you deep and unquestionable knowledge | 21 THE FALL |
| self that works in the subconscious mind and sends only subterfuges to the surface. For even those | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| the symptoms which this unconscious current quite clearly sends forth all the time. Then you will see | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| The human who talks to the departed just sends thoughts that may be constructive and helpful in | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dreams. But the lower self always interferes. It sends in disturbances. Radio messages can be interfered with | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| in the proper direction, then the resisting part sends out danger signals and sets up its guards | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the real person, are emotions. The real self sends forth feelings. Hence, a feeling is something much | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| reincarnated into the same sphere because any deity sends or commands you to do so; this is | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| the distortion the real continues to exist, it sends forth its effects, regardless of the overlays of | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| responsible for the unhappy state. The real self sends the message into the consciousness, You are wrong | 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS |
| to the absence of the venomous forcing-current that sends a message of vengeance into the world. The | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| have your being in it. Everything that consciousness sends forth into this substance must take form. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| The ultimate in you, the All in you, sends you forth, sends an aspect of itself forth | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| you, the All in you, sends you forth, sends an aspect of itself forth, which then manifests | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and open up to whatever the inner voice sends forth. It requires, for example, awareness of your | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| consciousness. One cannot exist without the other. Consciousness sends forth energy through its thought processes, through its | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| level of the source. Life radiates outwardly. It sends out its irradiations, its streamings, its energy currents | 226 APPROACH TO SELF -- SELF-FORGIVENESS WITHOUT CONDONING THE LOWER SELF |
| of your inner God, of the higher self, sends its inspirations through your mind, not necessarily immediately | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Sensation...................10 | |
| misconceptions that will first give you an unpleasant sensation. To encounter them with a feeling of guilt | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| force in me during meditation, I have the sensation as though my genitals were lifted off me | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| is a feeling when you merely register a sensation or a reaction to your surroundings. Something that | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| float on other forces. The floating movement, the sensation of being carried by life, is a byproduct | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| different. The scope of an opinion, conviction, or sensation widens and deepens. Everything becomes fuller. The self | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| infant. When an infant experiences a painful physical sensation, it is incapable of bringing together cause and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| the fire is a cause and the burning sensation an effect. It learns a lesson of life | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| it wishes not to experience the painful burning sensation, it must avoid touching fires. Here, cause and | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| more than reason, will, and emotion. It is sensation on every level of your being. This is | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the thinking is the feeling, is the bodily sensation, is the prayer. This wholeness represents the utmost | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Sensations..................8 | |
| it is sensitive to pain or other physical sensations. Under anesthesia, the etheric double goes out: therefore | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| -- meaning the body and the pleasures and sensations of the body. I would like to ask | 82 THE CONQUEST OF DUALITY SYMBOLIZED IN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS |
| sought. This is why people yearn for the sensations drugs give, why a person suffering from insomnia | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the degree that you experience your actual sensations and feelings without either denying or exaggerating them | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| the outer and inner being -- with all sensations and faculties alive, awake, and feeling. This blissful | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| layers of disunity and disorientation. Focus on your sensations, trust in the fact that something more tangible | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| the infant body finds itself awake to physical sensations and functioning, and certain limited perception and awareness | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| or not. There are many other experiences, perceptions, sensations, some of which you do not even know | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| Senseless...................50 | |
| uncomfortable, preferring to convince yourself that everything is senseless anyhow, so why do anything at all? You | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| reproduced by artificial means. That would be completely senseless, illogical, and against any law in the universe | 18 FREE WILL |
| friends, cannot be so. It would be utterly senseless. After the explanation of the real story of | 22 SALVATION |
| give up, and you consider self-acceptance to be senseless, then you have the destructive and weakening kind | 31 SHAME |
| At the beginning this seems to you like senseless repetition, lacking in progress. It is not! Without | 36 PRAYER |
| not. Sometimes the outer morals are rigid and senseless. By adhering to them, you may inflict more | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| to be feared all the more. It seems senseless to you to be denied what you wish | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| wallowing in a feeling that the suffering is senseless, not realizing what can be learned from it | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| in question, results in a constant compulsive and senseless action of acquiring objects. This action is almost | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| ANSWER: Speak out your most irrational and seemingly senseless feelings. Pronounce what you feel, why you feel | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| pseudo- protective armor of this fault, is useless, senseless. It does not work. When you clearly see | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| us consider what causes this inner tragedy, this senseless struggle. One main factor is responsible, which varies | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| creates fear and insecurity and is futile and senseless. The new state is one of continuous joy | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| a state of isolating darkness. It is a senseless struggle from which you reap unhappiness, and this | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| your fear is unnecessary, futile, illusory, and completely senseless. In that realization you will again, not abruptly | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| soul makes you feel that your life is senseless, regardless of the worthiness of your activities. Only | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| them without any purpose or reason would be senseless. As to your second question: The original symbolic | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| have opposite aims, it is as unrealistic and senseless as opposite aims within one individual's unconscious. It | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| misunderstanding about life causes untold pain. Without this senseless falsity so much suffering would be avoided. Men | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| exhaustion of this futile struggle, with all its senseless outer pressure, also induces the personality to give | 137 BALANCE OF INNER AND OUTER CONTROL |
| that makes life appear difficult, ugly, removed and senseless. The activation of your real self, or the | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| undertake here have a meaning. They are not senseless, they are not useless, my dearest ones. May | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| this and no longer adhere to this irrational, senseless pattern, something stops me. I am afraid of | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| the outer, superimposed values become. They are often senseless, especially from the point of view of life's | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| world's opinion. This is the tragedy of this senseless struggle. You cannot extricate yourself from its meshes | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| quite profoundly that this condition is useless and senseless, that destructiveness does not serve one good purpose | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| the view that the world is chaotic and senseless. This is as much wishful thinking as the | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| will no longer feel obliged to submit to senseless rules of restriction. The moment you let be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| admit the utterly childish side, with all its senseless ideas and beliefs. The moment this childish side | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| You will then see that such hate is senseless. You can hate the evil of error and | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| about? Why do human beings harbor these utterly senseless desires? Why does the mind want to take | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| are hardly ever actually articulated, for they are senseless, many individuals unwittingly build their lives on these | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| you. In spite of knowing how destructive and senseless it is, you still find yourself unable, or | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| not wanting to see the existence of such senseless destruction and negation within you. But when you | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| everybody's work that in spite of knowing how senseless and destructive one's negative intentionality is, more than | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| self-discovery that one can admit to a downright senseless, wasteful attitude that does nothing but bring undesirable | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| insist on maintaining it. Why does this apparently senseless refusal exist, even though you know it only | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and better way. But when you reaffirm the senseless refusal to give up negative will, it is | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| you often make yourself believe in a terrible, senseless universe. Or, if this is not the case | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| and contorting and hurtful for your soul is senseless, because one day you must become your whole | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| as the end, starting with death may seem senseless from this disconnected view. But you will see | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| the more difficult and painful, because it seems senseless and arbitrary. The outer consciousness will then struggle | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| or for it to scold itself -- is senseless. Only when that state is fully accepted and | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| perception must change drastically. What you experienced as senseless -- and therefore frightening and ugly -- suddenly | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| distorted version does it become a blindly driven, senseless destructiveness. QUESTION: What is the positive origin in | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| out that in these lower-self aspects resides a senseless stubbornness that still controls you to a degree | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| You see, but fail to understand, this truly senseless behavior of a part of yourself, and you | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| that perhaps the world is an arbitrary, chaotic, senseless place without rhyme or reason; that there is | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| no connections exist, that all is arbitrary and senseless. Resistance to making connections between cause and effect | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| bitterness against a creation that seems so utterly senseless and arbitrary that no recourse exists. Atheism is | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |