| Shedding....................27 | |
| than a chain that binds you. By the shedding of each imperfection you break a chain and | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| has been restored to its original state by shedding the surrounding layers constituting the lower self, it | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| imperfect and therefore cannot reach higher spheres after shedding their bodies. When they enter the spirit world | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| even if you are as yet incapable of shedding the impure ones, purification is already taking place | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| is for your inner readiness and for the shedding of your inhibitions. This will be of substantial | 77 SELF-CONFIDENCE: ITS TRUE ORIGIN AND WHAT PROHIBITS IT |
| trusted, and therefore weakens you. The freedom of shedding this burden cannot be described in words. But | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| will gain an indescribable sense of liberation, of shedding a burden so heavy that you have never | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| person assume a habit and then have difficulty shedding it because it has become a habit, even | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| feel anxiety or unwillingness at the thought of shedding the habit, in spite of also desiring to | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| and over again, yet forever discovering new connections, shedding new light on the same disturbances, deliberating on | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| habits in thinking and feeling prevent you from shedding these shackles. You may even feel somewhat guilty | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| you no longer struggle against the self, thus shedding your pride and pretense, and become willing to | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| and pretense, and become willing to change, thus shedding your selfwill, together with all fears of self | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| Liberation as a result of this path, the shedding of shackles which keep you enchained -- what | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| whether or not you will succeed in growing, shedding an unwelcome trait, acting constructively -- as though | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to accept suffering, and you may succeed in shedding the fear. Or you may arrive at the | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| an individual goes through the liberating event of shedding the material body, this mass image produces such | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| other way than through self- realization. Self-realization means shedding the layers of error so that the real | 144 THE PROCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF GROWING |
| it. It will feel as though you are shedding a tightly constricting straightjacket in which you once | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| you are unwilling, and therefore apparently incapable of, shedding your idealized self-image, if you insist on living | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| can be acquired by facing the truth and shedding illusions about the self and life. The second | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| a lecture which is an outline or blueprint shedding new light on the path as an overall | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| truth. To whatever degree you have accomplished this shedding of defenses and have thus become that much | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| to human spirituality must be adopted. It means shedding the light of conscious awareness and experience upon | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| Each recognition, each insight, each honest admission, each shedding of a partial mask, each breaking through of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| hiding anything from anyone. Imagine the liberation of shedding a heavy armor. Imagine the joy and the | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| you sufficient strength to risk letting go and shedding your ego-self. You will create a harmonious automatic | 254 SURRENDER |
| Sheds.......................4 | |
| which we shall discuss. Some of the foregoing sheds a little more light on the process of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| afraid and, above all, deprived. The more one sheds misconceptions and wakes up to life, the thinner | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| manifestation so much easier to deal with. It sheds a new light on everything you experience. A | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| very probing questions from all possible angles. This sheds a new light on the picture. It opens | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Shell.......................28 | |
| is over and it has discarded the material shell that it has not fulfilled everything it had | 3 CHOOSING YOUR DESTINY -- THE WILL TO CHANGE |
| exist only temporarily because the body or external shell will decay, or perhaps because the species is | 6 THE HUMAN ROLE IN THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES |
| as their only defense, put an even tighter shell around themselves. This separates them even more from | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| altogether different merely because you have left your shell behind. Your whole personality, your thinking, your feeling | 18 FREE WILL |
| spirits had no evil in them, the material shell of a body took so much energy away | 21 THE FALL |
| made to correspond to and affect the physical shell. In the meantime, the entity to be born | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| worked on in such a way that the shell is prepared properly. Some genes will therefore have | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| every detail there is a reason. The physical shell grows in the mother's body, although there is | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| Certain highly trained specialists concentrate on the physical shell. Other specialists, equally trained, concentrate on psychological and | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| takes approximately nine months, the time the human shell needs to grow. Sometimes the processing is completed | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| in that particular sphere; it creates the outer shell or vehicle of the entity destined to live | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| and misconception. Yet, you also withdraw behind your shell, or your wall. A part of what you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| the opposite extreme, or you withdraw into a shell in which you find yourself lonely and unfulfilled | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| very often the trouble. Whoever withdraws into a shell of isolation, or who aggressively antagonizes people, shows | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| daring to risk, without coming out of its shell, without taking the necessary steps. When these goals | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| will come to the point when this hard shell breaks down and you are no longer dead | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| are too frightened to come out of your shell, so you may be insensitive to the need | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| other to come out of his or her shell when he or she does not meet a | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| and trying to get through the outer, rational shell in a spirit of penetrating inner search. Stirred-up | 124 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS |
| you will finally step out of your protective shell and become more real. You will be the | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| be. In fact, you become a shallow, lifeless shell, held together by rigid guards you dare not | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| actually happens is that it withdraws from its shell into another time/space/movement continuum, which is the inner | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| peaceful and happy life. Being in the human shell of blindness, you have to battle against the | 218 THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS |
| am nothing inside, that I am only a shell that needs sustenance from without. This self-deception is | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| the pulse of your spirit that enlivens the shell of matter. Too often, when the thrust of | 238 THE PULSE OF LIFE ON ALL LEVELS OF MANIFESTATION |
| spirit that is alive has withdrawn from the shell. An inanimate object is motionless. Since there is | 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE |
| degree. As long as you live in the shell of matter, encased in time, there are many | 249 THE PAIN OF INJUSTICE -- COSMIC RECORDS OF ALL EVENTS, DEEDS, EXPRESSIONS |
| this point of evolution, takes possession of this shell. Each further incarnation represents a further thrust into | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Shelter.....................6 | |
| not responsible for obtaining its own food and shelter. A wild animal is free, or freer, but | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| humanity could not survive without them. Food, drink, shelter -- all that you need for your physical | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| dependent for nourishment, for protection against danger, for shelter. But the subtle bodies have their own life | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| is, to some extent, away from the complete shelter and protection of the parents. Again it is | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| its parents for all the basics of life: shelter, food, affection, protection, and, last but not least | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| through your own efforts and resources your own shelter, food, affection, and safety, so you are also | 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY |
| Shelved.....................3 | |
| theories on an intellectual level. Keep the problem shelved, my friends, keep yourselves open, but find yourselves | 126 CONTACT WITH THE LIFE FORCE |
| a finding is made and it is then shelved, as though this would suffice. It is not | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| which. It is therefore necessary to keep evaluation shelved until the personality is aware of itself and | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Shied.......................6 | |
| this, I have found that I have always shied away from sex. And I have further discovered | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| often through several lifetimes in which you have shied away from facing the same problems, and facing | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| the next phase, in which we quite deliberately shied away from even using such a word as | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| of reactions. But a relationship need not be shied away from because it may also contain elements | 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION |
| noticed that for the longest time I have shied away from saying anything that might appear as | 133 LOVE: NOT A COMMANDMENT, BUT SPONTANEOUS SOUL MOVEMENT OF THE INNER SELF |
| hearing this expression. This is why I have shied away from using this word and have mentioned | 197 ENERGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN DISTORTION: EVIL |
| Shield......................5 | |
| thing, only you use another truth as a shield. This may be a religious, spiritual, metaphysical truth | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| unconsciously use an absurd, unjustified guilt as a shield and hide the true guilt behind it. Why | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| superimposed conscience and the ready-made rules as a shield against complete commitment. May these summer months prove | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| Although this numbness during childhood was a protective shield against cruelty from the outside, it does not | 134 THE CONCEPT OF EVIL |
| guilt for this hidden motivation will be a shield standing between you and the truth and between | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |