| Snow........................4 | |
| strongly that all your doubts will dissolve like snow in the sun. It is the way of | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| and your brothers and sisters will disappear like snow in the sun. You will be able to | 43 THREE BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES: REASON, WILL, EMOTION |
| life exists like a winter stream under the snow. It is constant; feelings branch out of it | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| on your earth. Their influence will dissolve like snow in the sun. This is not so now | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Social......................29 | |
| and this has nothing to do with their social life, which might be very active. The separation | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| attitudes, spanning the whole scale, up to overt social rebellion, through affiliation with minority parties, anarchist groups | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| the crude and outer sense, referring to your social laws. Think about them also in the psychological | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| conduct relating to crime and the upholding of social laws for the good of the community, one's | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| sort -- let us say a success in social life -- will generate this reaction in your | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| right or wrong. Because you disapprove of the social or immoral instincts you still harbor, you deny | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| make us blind to the wrongs in the social organism of which we are all members? What | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| all members? What should be our attitude towards social problems? ANSWER: If you consider your question, you | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| to continue in the world, regardless of what social reforms are instituted. Social reforms are the product | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| world, regardless of what social reforms are instituted. Social reforms are the product of man, they are | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| more aware of himself, more mature. But wherever social reforms were way ahead of man's inner growth | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| from committing destructive acts, the mere existence of social laws would serve as well, or better, than | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| to win his or her affection. Not only social rules are incorporated in one's superimposed conscience, but | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| of the type you have asked, or political, social, religious, or relating to any other human activity | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| dictated by the conditions of a specific society. Social, economic, political factors play a role, as does | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| beyond the pleasure/pain principle. This results in a social sense, responsibility, concern for, understanding of, and feeling | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| a totally unsentimental way. It disregards personal attachments, social considerations, and any other peripheral values, including personal | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| matter how much people rebel against conformity and social laws, they still find themselves confined within the | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| of being. Fear of not conforming to the social environment is another aspect of the fear of | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| felt would eventually produce more pain. Thus a social conscience developed from the instinct of self- preservation | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| kind of distinction between good and evil, between social and antisocial behavior, between constructive and destructive acts | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| life takes form. It exists on the largest social scale and on the smallest, most temporary scale | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| you learn new modalities to function in your social environment. It is a new political system, for | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Marriage was supposed to be a financial and social contract to satisfy other personality functions and lower | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| other personality functions and lower motives. Financial and social advantages were of primary importance. Even more significant | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| brought a good dowry and who raised men's social image. In other words, greed and pride were | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| false shames are not merely a result of social mores and bigoted influences, but are actually products | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| energy. Material greed was fostered; money, power, and social advantage became motives for choosing mates. Mass images | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| selfhood and real independence. True selfhood creates a social being who is not at odds with his | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| Socialism...................5 | |
| of the scheme of things. Let us take socialism and communism as one category. What is the | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| its purity, of the outer political expression of socialism or communism. Now let us look at a | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| form of government can combine monarchy and feudalism, socialism and communism and democratic capitalism. Yet it is | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| where you combine monarchy and feudalism, communism and socialism, and capitalistic democracy. You combine them all. When | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| lecture about new-age politics, in which democracy, communism, socialism, monarchy and capitalism are all combined in their | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| Socially....................4 | |
| happiness of every kind, not just to some socially approved forms. A superficial desire for fulfillment is | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| responsibility of adulthood and envies the woman her socially sanctioned position. He compensates for this by overemphasizing | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| had to be totally repressed. It was as socially unacceptable as the man's hidden wishes. Only recently | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| within the framework of respectable marriage and is socially fully accepted. For the woman, the denial of | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| Societies...................3 | |
| very much neglected by all religious denominations and societies. They still deal with the mere thinking process | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| was always the same. These few formed secret societies which were unknown and not in the least | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| not exist without a group spirit. But most societies have not yet put sufficient weight on spiritual | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| Society.....................64 | |
| when people are free of false reactions concerning society in general, but react in their private lives | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| act in accordance with the standards of your society, as opposed to believing that the mask self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| violate the recognized standards of ethics in your society. And yet, what you want may be wrong | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| have to abide by the laws of their society. Otherwise they might cause more hardship, not only | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| parents and teachers, authority is now represented by society, government, law-enforcing institutions, an employer, or other powerful | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| spiritually inclined. This has been built up by society. But both elements exist in both sexes. When | 59 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| guilt and inadequacy is added to it. In society, technical advancement and overemphasis on science and intellect | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Whenever the individual bends to the rules of society at the cost of suppressing his or her | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| cycle of spiritual development for the individual in society; for science and philosophy could find unity in | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| They take a different form in a primitive society where people organize their own communication with nature | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| had to be stressed in order to protect society. Superficially this may seem right; in reality it | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| their development, human law will suffice to protect society from their untamed and destructive impulses. The truly | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| to all the rules and regulations of Church, society, and public opinion, and be faultless in conduct | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| sometimes at the expense of outer approval from society, you are being true to yourself, then you | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| in ever so small a way, to human society and its development. All human beings, no matter | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| what extent do mature people conform with the society in which they live? ANSWER: If we use | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| need and insecurity in themselves, rather than against society. Such rebellion is not free. It often makes | 102 THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS |
| wish to comply with standards superimposed by your society, by public opinion -- or what you think | 103 HARM OF TOO MUCH LOVE GIVING -- CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE WILL FORCES |
| of an innate knowledge, but mainly because your society and environment condemns; so you do too. Now | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| mere wish will not cause self-condemnation. If, however, society proclaimed that everyone who does not write commits | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| This would be isolation, and even irresponsible toward society. But there is a great difference, my friends | 113 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SELF |
| to escape from yourself by doing good for society; by performing valuable scientific, artistic, or ethical work | 115 PERCEPTION, DETERMINATION, LOVE AS ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| human being a better creature, the forces of society coerce the individual to follow and obey moral | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| the unreasonable standards which may be exerted by society. Your blind, excessive standards make it impossible to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| single act, with all the sanctions of human society, if this act does not stem from a | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| are dictated by the conditions of a specific society. Social, economic, political factors play a role, as | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| the type of spirit predominantly incarnated in the society. For example, values differ drastically in a patriarchy | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| contribute to determine the value system of a society. Due to people's inclination to laziness, they blindly | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| children has undergone a drastic change in your society in recent times. Until a relatively short time | 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES |
| less self-centered. Humanity thus began to form a society for the sake of which it functioned, often | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| others is lacking. But on the whole, present society and civilization derive from these first attempts of | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| is in you a spitefulness toward life, toward society, with which you say no. There is an | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| or may not coincide with the dictates of society. In neither case will the person using inner | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| you have learned that this is expected by society, but also to comply with the requirements of | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| life. All the world pronounces the mores of society good and righteous, while the natural laws inherent | 150 SELF-LIKING: THE CONDITION FOR UNIVERSAL STATE OF BLISS |
| the self may differ from the values of society. Only those who do not fear their inner | 155 FEAR OF SELF -- GIVING AND RECEIVING |
| allegiance to public opinion, to an authority, to society at large. Such submission only happens out of | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| if it had never existed and as if society had no predigested answers ready. If you give | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| your frustrations, your unfulfillment, or your pains to society you are completely wrong. This does not mean | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| not mean that the ills you see in society do not really exist. They do. But they | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| way. You are never an innocent victim, and society itself is but the sum total or product | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| all in reality. He or she lives outside society and is perhaps in jail or mentally ill | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| in a new terminology, fitting to the present society. There is a new consciousness coming into this | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| of your education and the mores of your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| between being a productive, creative, contributing member of society, and being a loving mate. In fact, real | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| her unique contributions to make to the existing society. These potentialities need to be tapped, a channel | 231 NEW AGE EDUCATION |
| no matter what the mores of your outer society may be. The guilt is then an inner | 239 CHRISTMAS LECTURE 1975 |
| the privileged position of leading a country, a society, a civilization, a group of individuals, a business | 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS |
| Sometimes what is considered bad by a certain society may be of the highest value on deeper | 243 THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL FEAR AND LONGING |
| in the noble process of creating a new society. You may have to deal actively with apparently | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| deeply embedded in the personality. All aspects of society are influenced by each individual's attitude to tradition | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| within the human soul. Such orthodoxy imposes on society a heaviness and a resistance to change. It | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| are now increasingly concerned with creating a new society. This includes dissolving whatever mass images stand in | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| unfoldment of the self- realized person. The new society, of which you are pioneers, cannot afford to | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| necessary to consider the subject anew. The new-age society knows no Judaism, nor Christianity as they are | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| begin to visualize the new-age person, the new society in a way you have never done before | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| in a joyous, extremely free way. See a society in which dissension and separation no longer have | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| the surface to deeper levels. See this new society you are in the process of building that | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| karmic conditions, and also created the standards of society. In very recent times, consciousness made a great | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| humanity as a whole encounters in establishing a society. You clearly see that those who keep themselves | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| elect few who could join a secret esoteric society, or what might be called a mystery school | 255 THE BIRTHING PROCESS -- COSMIC PULSE |
| Age everything tends in that direction. Your whole society can be transformed to the degree that more | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| emotional, mental and spiritual maturity. When all of society, at least as an overall attitude, represents values | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| whole is a group on a larger scale. Society could not exist unless group consciousness were cultivated | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |