| Slavery.....................4 | |
| a god of freedom, but a god of slavery, even if His creatures could be happy in | 18 FREE WILL |
| curtail your own freedom. You put yourself in slavery. It is as simple as that. You will | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| that this effort does not lead to hardship, slavery and suffering, but to happy experience, freedom and | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| and results in the conflict of submission and slavery, loss of dignity for the sake of giving | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| Slaves......................4 | |
| Almost all of you human beings are still slaves to your faults and negative feelings. Only by | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| and who become thereby hardly better than submissive slaves. There are also times and aspects of yourself | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| you may experience others as potential enemies or slaves -- as you yourself are alternately one or | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| over those who were physically weaker. He needed slaves in order to convince himself of his own | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| Slaying.....................6 | |
| that is necessary to grow out of it. Slaying suggests compulsion, haste, moralizing -- so that cannot | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| become calm and peaceful, but certainly not by slaying it, which is just another word for whisking | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| the only way, my friends. Cutting out or slaying would be a shortcut, and there is no | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| has perceived and experienced the truth can advocate slaying. Those who do have adopted someone else's experience | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| world what one person experienced. Such concepts as slaying lead further away from the real state of | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| your real self. Cutting out, forcing, disciplinary action, slaying, are all forms of resisting. When you judge | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| Sleep.......................58 | |
| though I prayed for them before going to sleep. Does this have to do with lack of | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| relationship between dreams that you have when you sleep and daydreams? ANSWER: There might be in a | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| the death of the body and also during sleep when the body rested. From the spirit world | 21 THE FALL |
| creature. QUESTION: If our soul is taught during sleep, why do we not remember in an awakened | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| for you to know certain things. During your sleep, when your spirit is in the spirit world | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| to a certain extent, during the hours of sleep he or she may fulfill tasks with other | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| the entity leaves the body--in other words, during sleep. Also, consciousness will gradually and slowly awaken in | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| body in different states of unconsciousness. Usually in sleep the feeling-body is removed from the physical body | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| in a dream. If the feeling-body remained during sleep in the physical body, sleep would not be | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| feeling-body remained during sleep in the physical body, sleep would not be profound; it would be disturbed | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| would not be profound; it would be disturbed sleep. But during deep sleep your feeling-body or soul | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| it would be disturbed sleep. But during deep sleep your feeling-body or soul is out of the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| sound asleep for relaxation or does a light sleep suffice? ANSWER: The sounder the sleep, the more | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a light sleep suffice? ANSWER: The sounder the sleep, the more relaxation. You know that when you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you wake up. When you had a sound sleep, you will feel much more refreshed than when | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| more refreshed than when you had a light sleep. The sounder the sleep, the more removed is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you had a light sleep. The sounder the sleep, the more removed is the feeling-body from your | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| minutes and be thoroughly refreshed. ANSWER: If the sleep is profound enough, a ten-minute sleep will give | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| If the sleep is profound enough, a ten-minute sleep will give you more rest than a whole | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| than a whole night of fitful and disturbed sleep, when, because of your tensions, your feeling-body cannot | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| disapproved of. It may even rob you of sleep at times, or of your peace of mind | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| includes knowledge that is given to you during sleep. Only by understanding yourself can given knowledge be | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| created naturally. Instruction from the Spirit World during sleep is one form -- there are others. You | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| own psyche, whether due to spirit instruction during sleep, or because now your higher self can penetrate | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your power to recollect your spiritual experiences during sleep, although you will rarely remember them as incidents | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirit leaves the body. This happens regularly during sleep. But if the spirit has to half wander | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| souls go into the Spirit World while we sleep, what is the reason for old people's insomnia | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a question of emotional constitution. And those who sleep very well may have other symptoms. Older people | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that older people do not require as much sleep, but that is not insomnia. QUESTION: Why did | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| You know that often you experience events in sleep. You are taught or advised about something and | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| is not. QUESTION: What is the difference between sleep and being under a general anesthesia? And how | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| that particular area of the physical body? ANSWER: Sleep, as well as anesthesia, or any other form | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| to its inner state of mind. During natural sleep, the etheric double remains in the physical body | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| physical body, while the astral body leaves. If sleep is very deep, other layers or subtle bodies | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| may be slightly drawn out too, but, if sleep is natural, the etheric double will remain. Therefore | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| has an unresolved problem and one goes to sleep relaxed, intending to have the problem resolved, one | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| awareness. That you can resolve certain problems during sleep by instructing your unconscious mind happens because you | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| will to find a solution before going to sleep, the unconscious knowledge can reach surface awareness. Your | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| inner will. Therefore, when a person goes to sleep facing a confusion or a problem and wholeheartedly | 98 WISHFUL DAYDREAMS |
| QUESTION: Will you kindly explain the phenomenon of sleep? ANSWER: Your subtle bodies need to shed the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| strength. This is essentially the main reason for sleep. To free oneself of gross matter and to | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| through the psychic bloodstream, which is regenerated during sleep. The psychic, or subtle bodies are always the | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| as relaxed as you are about going to sleep at night, or about starting a new and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| to nurture and cultivate healthful habits regarding food, sleep, exercise, in order to maintain the involuntary, self-regulating | 153 THE SELF-REGULATING NATURE OF INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to my job. It has prevented me from sleep and forced me to resort again to taking | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| most automatic, generally accessible of these states is sleep. Human beings who are deeply troubled are so | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| different channels to the universal self. For instance, sleep merely affords rest from ego tensions and ego | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| of being. When a person's ego is overactive, sleep cannot come. Even this most primitive and universal | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| be real, the entire issue is put to sleep. You then lead a life of as if | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| self. Or the process can happen during your sleep without your conscious mind being directly involved. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| knowing, enlightened aspects of yourself are asleep, that sleep is necessary to allow the blurred areas to | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| More and more you will awaken from your sleep, so that you will never have to fall | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| point of view balance is lacking when you sleep eight hours and are active sixteen hours. Yet | 228 BALANCE |
| as it were, on another level, just as sleep involves a break in consciousness on one level | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| there any physical signs? Does it occur in sleep or in a waking state? ANSWER: The change | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| by the soul in the spirit world during sleep when discussions with spiritual advisers always take place | 230 THE UNIVERSALITY OF CHANGE -- REINCARNATIVE PROCESS IN THE SAME LIFE SPAN |
| in the form of putting your self-doubts to sleep through a one-sided positive approach. If this crucial | 240 ASPECTS OF THE ANATOMY OF LOVE: SELF-LOVE, STRUCTURE, FREEDOM |
| the mind that may lead to mindless emptiness. Sleep, or other states of unconsciousness are the final | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Sleeping....................6 | |
| know that while your bodies are resting, or sleeping as you say, your spirits are often guided | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| or with other human beings who are also sleeping. This helps others and therefore the entire Plan | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| you very much. QUESTION: When a person is sleeping, does the soul stay with the body or | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a person suffering from insomnia will resort to sleeping pills rather than remove the block of the | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| birth process, the entity is already in a sleeping state, anesthetized and unaware. At birth, there is | 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA |
| lot of simple parts of my life -- sleeping, eating, loving, all kinds of things. I'd like | 228 BALANCE |