| Tensions....................21 | |
| fitful and disturbed sleep, when, because of your tensions, your feeling-body cannot leave completely. QUESTIONER: Thank you | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| or erroneous tendency. But sometimes the deviations and tensions are so deep-rooted that they cannot be lifted | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| inner world of illusion. They create fears and tensions. This is bound to weaken you first in | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| when you not only will free yourself of tensions and fears, of many unnecessary burdens, but you | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| that exists in him due to unresolved negative tensions. He cannot simply dispense with it at will | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| spiritual teachers point out. Then inevitably conflicts and tensions arise. All truthful spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical concepts | 112 HUMANITYS RELATIONSHIP TO TIME |
| predicament derive all other problems, difficulties, fears, and tensions you have to contend with. Whether this manifests | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| soul substance, you will become aware of emotional tensions that prohibit the free-flowing feeling of the life | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| yourself from then untruths. Therefore various negative emotions, tensions and distortions of concepts come into existence. The | 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT |
| For instance, sleep merely affords rest from ego tensions and ego chores. The type of strength flowing | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| to the topic of duality. I repeat: your tensions and confusions, as well as your suffering and | 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS |
| in similar problems of the body and mind. Tensions in the back distort and congest the smooth | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| outer body feels well, coordinated, without pains or tensions, there are inner lumps. They are not painful | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you could at first feel the cramps and tensions. This very distinct focusing on yourself is not | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you. It is this fear that creates the tensions. It is this fear that, based on utterly | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| imbalances of the will, and stagnant, denied feelings. Tensions and energy stagnation caused by distortions on any | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| your suffering. You may try to ascribe your tensions, anxieties, discomforts, pressures, bad conscience, nagging discontent, to | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to harmony, truth, health, and wholeness. Disorder creates tensions and preoccupations; it consumes valuable creative energy that | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| to learn how many of your anxieties and tensions you had ascribed to insolubly deep conflicts will | 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE |
| constructive for them. Otherwise they will create unbearable tensions that will culminate in crisis. The planet Earth | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| no longer be maintained. It cannot bear the tensions and restrictions of the old limited consciousness. A | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| Tentative...................15 | |
| the Book of Life is available there. So tentative arrangements may be made already during the time | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| that you have given up nothing. The first tentative steps in the transition from one state or | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| way. You sabotage communication either by frightening the tentative feelers of the other soul back into withdrawal | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| force yourself to feel. As the first few tentative steps are taken in the direction of becoming | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| discovered the way home. You have made some tentative steps toward it -- and therefore occasionally reaped | 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF |
| those of you who have made your first tentative steps over the threshold -- there may be | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| much time it takes to reach the first tentative beginnings of this new strength and later to | 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS |
| humanity will change the educational system, although some tentative beginnings have already been made. Perhaps first only | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| intellectualizing. All that you know. You have made tentative beginnings in this respect, in some instances very | 105 HUMANITY'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT |
| or she had begun to take the first tentative steps. When the temporary improvement is not followed | 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP |
| exists in them, the positive position is only tentative, so uncertain, so fearful, so divided, so defensive | 140 CONFLICT OF POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE ORIENTED PLEASURE AS THE ORIGIN OF PAIN |
| again, by deliberately instructing your still unwilling and tentative unconscious: I let go, I let myself be | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| impossible. However, quite apart from such ignorance, this tentative bargaining and petty, distrustful withholding of all the | 166 PERCEIVING, REACTING, EXPRESSING |
| of the difficulties encountered during the times of tentative relationships, the same holds true. Alternating periods of | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| used to protect so jealously. Reach out with tentative questions, questions asked with good will and in | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| Tentatively.................5 | |
| manifold possibilities. This act is first feared, later tentatively tried, and then experienced as the key to | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| seclusion, separateness, hate and fear. Open yourself up, tentatively at least; give yourself the chance to experience | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| you will make contact possible, even if only tentatively to begin with, so your real self will | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| that both become one. In this pathwork you tentatively grope in both directions. In the very center | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| already a small leap, because, no matter how tentatively, you have then left the pseudo-firm ground of | 221 FAITH AND DOUBT IN TRUTH OR DISTORTION |
| Tenuous.....................4 | |
| new landscape, a new vista. The experience, though tenuous at first, will feel more real than anything | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| of your unity. The bond is as yet tenuous, the strings that hold you together with love | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| the path itself. Lack of full commitment yields tenuous, spurious, limited results, and doubt will close the | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| and outer experience on the other is as tenuous as it is now in most human beings | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| Term........................52 | |
| full significance, and that is what I might term the mask self. The mask self is created | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| only do faults and weaknesses manifest which I term the lower self. One also encounters the higher | 18 FREE WILL |
| sufficient to be merely a decent person. This term varies greatly according to a person's overall spiritual | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| started to discuss the images, I mentioned the term emotional maturity. Now you will understand better how | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| although I do not always use that particular term. That is what spiritual law, as a whole | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| one finds one's unconscious deviations and comes to term with them. Let me return to the example | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| You will now understand the meaning of that term. Learn to analyze your idealized self, what your | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| personality is an affectation, or what you may term phony. No, it is again much more subtle | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| received, is a world of unreality. You may term it a temporary reality. The things you experience | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| wants to be hypnotized and cannot? ANSWER: The term bad subject applies to people who cannot, even | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| not only as the end of the past term, but also as a preface to the work | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| will perhaps understand and somewhat experience what the term reality actually means. It means freedom from fears | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| not discover where you are in unreality, this term will mean nothing to you. Only by seeing | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| part, about the concentration exercises, you repeat the term instructing the subconscious. I was wondering if this | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| smaller area. Spiritual philosophies and teachings use the term raising consciousness. It means exactly that. If you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| higher self, lower self and mask self. The term inner self will now make you more aware | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| This may be helped along by a new term or word. It helps you to avoid stagnation | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the idealized self-image. I have occasionally used the term mask self in the past. The mask self | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| necessary. Time, if I may use this wrong term, for lack of a better one, is unlimited | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| come across a subjective truth, but actually this term is a contradiction. Truth is objective. Artistic truth | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| also seems to be that what you now term moralizing has a different flavor from what you | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| explained to you why we avoided the crass term of sin. Your self-destructive guilt feelings on the | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| in the English language you actually have another term to designate the negative aspect of compassion, and | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| for many other trends or qualities only one term exists, so that you are more apt to | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| complexity of the human personality? Think about the term human being and what it really means. Does | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| was used. Along with it comes the opposite term of sadism. Modern schools of psychology rather use | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| natural anger? ANSWER: Before we deal with the term of what is natural and unnatural, I would | 101 THE DEFENSE |
| When you experience the living spirit of a term, it is your real self that does so | 104 INTELLECT AND WILL AS TOOLS OR HINDRANCES OF SELF-REALIZATION |
| for a considerable time in what we might term the second major phase on our path together | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| rather of the essence and meaning of the term. Think of wishing in its constructive manifestations, then | 109 SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH THROUGH RESTITUTION FOR REAL GUILT |
| superimposed conscience. So often an expression or a term used without truly understanding its deepest meaning finally | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| thinking. Therefore occasionally we need to redefine a term, to bring freshness to it, not only to | 116 REACHING THE SPIRITUAL CENTER-STRUGGLE BETWEEN LOWER SELF AND SUPERIMPOSED CONSCIENCE |
| way of life, for lack of a better term, may describe as accurately as possible within the | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| deeper than what is currently understood by this term. What you call transference happens constantly in a | 118 DUALITY THROUGH ILLUSION -- TRANSFERENCE |
| fear of, or to use a more psychological term, resistance to, your innermost self, you can be | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| the same as knowing. I advisedly use the term knowing, rather than knowledge. For knowledge is something | 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING |
| -- and I deliberately use such a strong term. You will recognize that every one of your | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| mere hostility. Hostility has become too vague a term, almost meaningless in its repeated use. Let us | 139 DEADENING OF THE LIVE CENTER THROUGH MISINTERPRETATION OF REALITY |
| individual. It is directed toward union, as the term is usually used, but the term loses its | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| as the term is usually used, but the term loses its meaning after a while. What does | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| obstruction is false goodness, which we might also term sentimentality. Easily overlooked, sentimentality is due to a | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| creative process are inner movements, which I also term soul movements. They have their messages and signs | 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF |
| realm of the ego. I will use the term sexuality to represent the total creative force and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| or oneness is the purpose of Creation. Whatever term you use, the final aim of all split-off | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| to the creation of images. We use the term images in the pathwork to define misconceptions and | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| nook and cranny of space. I use this term for lack of a better word. The human | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| time will come -- to use this limited term -- when there will be only light and | 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF |
| Then the active movement becomes what I sometimes term effortless effort. It is not a strained effort | 228 BALANCE |
| off conditioned reflex reactions as soon as this term is mentioned or when human conditions reflect adherence | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| inner space that is the real world. The term inner space is used quite frequently in your | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| some significant aspects of the New Age. This term has been used a lot recently by certain | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |
| trap should not give up altogether using a term that conveys a true concept. I have often | 257 ASPECTS OF THE NEW DIVINE INFLUX: COMMUNICATION, GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPOSURE |