| Blocking....................12 | |
| of genuine love, having a contrary direction. The blocking goes against divine law and therefore the soul | 4 WORLD WEARINESS |
| cannot reach your unconscious and stubbornly hidden shames blocking the way. But if you wait for the | 31 SHAME |
| are capable of observing how you are deliberately blocking, even quite consciously. This is exactly where you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| force are needed. There is no clogging, no blocking, since there is no fear. And fear cannot | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| the tumultuous static of the busy mind keeps blocking this possibility. Your mind requires training to become | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you think you can go on avoiding without blocking your very life. Thus laziness is simultaneously an | 190 IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING ALL FEELINGS, INCLUDING FEAR - DYNAMIC STATE OF LAZINESS |
| you fear, the more energy you invest into blocking off the feared feeling, the more potent the | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| otherwise remain dormant and inaccessible to consciousness, thereby blocking total purification. Of course, it is possible to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| is an immediate sign that you are unconsciously blocking yourself, using a countertruth and therefore maintaining a | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| difficulties, crisis, and suffering. You are in fact blocking the immensely powerful energy stream of your spiritual | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| -- all of humanity -- are extremely busy blocking out the words you speak. You produce noise | 233 THE POWER OF THE WORD |
| make the fulfillment of this longing impossible by blocking your soul's natural inclination toward surrender. All truly | 254 SURRENDER |
| Blocks......................132 | |
| knowledge thus acquired as material, as the building blocks, with which you build your life in your | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| is possible for us spirits to bypass the blocks that are in the way. Therefore everybody can | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| will enter occasionally because of the still existing blocks. But this is not important, my dear friends | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| that not forgiving burdens you, makes you unhappy, blocks the light and freedom that you desire. Not | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| is. Above everything else, where are the inner blocks, faults, and weaknesses? The chief life-conflicts always originate | 10 MALE AND FEMALE INCARNATIONS: THEIR RHYTHMS AND CAUSES |
| they have the ability to work through your blocks where your own higher self cannot yet do | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| of God's world is to manifest itself. Enough blocks have to be cleared away for this one | 11 SELF-KNOWLEDGE -- THE GREAT PLAN -- THE SPIRIT WORLD |
| the outer, by finding and conquering your inner blocks and hurdles, in short, everything that stands in | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| we will begin. As long as the psychological blocks are not dissolved, the spiritual development cannot go | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| lack of grace -- and if there are blocks you cannot seem to penetrate, ask yourself, How | 31 SHAME |
| yourself on this road. Two types of stumbling blocks may confront you when you come across new | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| summon his or her strength to overcome inner blocks and resistances. You who have the noble courage | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| the true answer is by penetrating your own blocks, by overcoming your resistance, by knowing yourself in | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| be, you postpone the wish-fulfillment by setting up blocks. Find these inner, hidden reasonings, investigate them closer | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| you from finding the truth about yourself. It blocks you. First, do not think about that at | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| because of my words, while unconscious fears and blocks are still unrecognized and unsolved. Forcing will not | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| Love can only be gained by removing all blocks and errors in the human soul. Ego-importance and | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| their personal inner misconceptions or images. Inner resistance blocks the way to truth. Also, one may have | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| may even resist an untruth out of inner blocks and subjectivity rather than out of freedom and | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it, why you lack it, what in you blocks the way. Then the divine in you will | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| instrument -- not necessarily or solely because of blocks in the subconscious, but also because the words | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| self-concern and subjectivity is one of the greatest blocks to giving and receiving love, especially so because | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| this path of finding that within you which blocks your happiness and joy. Keep up the work | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| confused with striving and ambition. That is what blocks success, not the physical impediment. QUESTION: Is it | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| spirits may be highly evolved, yet they have blocks in certain areas. In this subject, as well | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is, in fact, one of the greatest stumbling blocks in finding your real self. The real self | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| pray than using your current resistances and stumbling blocks in a most specific way. Psychological work is | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| communication with others, based on understanding your own blocks to the well of truth, does not take | 107 THREE ASPECTS THAT PREVENT LOVING |
| and have the material to overcome certain stumbling blocks. Now, let us begin with your questions. QUESTION | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| symptoms of resistance. There are a few major blocks against recognizing resistance. One is dullness of mind | 110 HOPE AND FAITH AND OTHER KEY CONCEPTS DISCUSSED IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS |
| a holding on to the experience, and that blocks the soul's movement. Needless to say, this may | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| touch. In short, you will see all the blocks in you that prohibit feelings and intuition. A | 111 SOUL-SUBSTANCE -- COPING WITH DEMANDS |
| the surface. When you begin to remove your blocks you will start to experience negative emotions unlike | 114 STRUGGLE: HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY |
| walls of fear. It is this fear that blocks full self-recognition. The triad of pride, self-will, and | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| is not so different from the fear that blocks the blissful experience of self-forgetfulness in union with | 123 LIBERATION AND PEACE BY OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN |
| bearing on your problems, your current attitudes or blocks? The most immediate freedom you are to discover | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| becomes free- flowing. When this is happening, all blocks, all problems, all fences, can be removed with | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| She was frantic in trying. And whether that blocks the outcome or not, I don't know. She | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| resisting, least fearful. One of her great stumbling blocks is a tremendously strong either/or. It is unusually | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| truthful concept about her frantic fear. Then the blocks will disappear, the way will be open. If | 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES |
| to the gardener pulling up weeds. Removing your blocks is like removing rocks in the soil that | 129 WINNER VERSUS LOSER: INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SELF AND CREATIVE FORCES |
| ago we discussed that the three major stumbling blocks in the human soul are pride, selfwill, and | 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR |
| is legitimate and realistic, yet remains unfulfilled, what blocks it is the struggle against the nonexistent problem | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| battle against. Then, and then only will your blocks dissolve. Now I come to the second approach | 131 INTERACTION BETWEEN EXPRESSION AND IMPRESSION |
| in your consciousness, you will immediately understand what blocks you. Then the next step we are coming | 141 RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL LEVEL OF PERFECTION |
| other way. QUESTION: Lately, I have had mental blocks. Whenever I concentrate and work and use the | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| is, the way will open again and the blocks will yield. If you cannot see the common | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| your question. You fear that your still existing blocks will impede the relationship and might even jeopardize | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| Every single incarnated soul has unresolved problems and blocks. The healthy approach I recommend would be this | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| you see. You cannot expect to have your blocks disappear in one fell swoop. And yet you | 142 THE LONGING FOR AND THE FEAR OF HAPPINESS -- THE FEAR OF RELEASING THE LITTLE EGO |
| state affecting all people, but how the ego blocks the real self is a personal question; what | 145 RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF LIFE |
| by illness, due to corresponding mental and emotional blocks, distortions and misconceptions. When you are sick in | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| degree that opposition to the cosmic pull creates blocks and throws the cosmic stream off course, negative | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| develop the courage and honesty to transcend the blocks that deform creative energy and divine substance and | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| go. Little by little, you will remove the blocks that constrict you. The topic of frustration is | 149 COSMIC PULL TOWARD UNION -- FRUSTRATION |
| the intensity I discussed is a cramping-up that blocks off the universal power. The cramping is then | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| know that tension and intensity are the immediate blocks to self-realization. Your reluctance is directly connected with | 151 INTENSITY: AN OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION |
| They form a thin but firm screen that blocks out the life-giving force. They are responsible for | 152 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EGO AND THE UNIVERSAL POWER |
| a new approach to your path, to your blocks that prevent and separate you from life. Dip | 154 PULSATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| -- is one of the most severe stumbling blocks holding up progress. If you can overcome this | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| is the greatest stumbling block, the fear that blocks you, for, quite naturally, you do not want | 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| good work as such, but you have overcome blocks and difficulties within yourself. Only a short time | 159 LIFE MANIFESTATION REFLECTS DUALISTIC ILLUSION |
| why I do not want the good. What blocks me from wanting it? In whatever area it | 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES |
| processes caused by the false idea that inner blocks can be removed by the direct application of | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| can influence and gradually eliminate the unconscious stumbling blocks. By the same token, a relationship between the | 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY |
| the inner energy center that enlivens you. Fear blocks the opening through which self-renewing life flows into | 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER |
| is reached when people connect with their unconscious blocks and comprehend the obstructions and the unhappiness in | 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS |
| As long as you are unaware of the blocks that close you off from what you consciously | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| do with it, since it specifically deals with blocks in the body. As long as there are | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| in the body. As long as there are blocks in either the body or the feelings or | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| certain basic resistances, fears, mental, emotional, and physical blocks have been eliminated. Only then will this new | 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS |
| considerable degree and have therefore overcome some fundamental blocks and illusions about yourself, you will find out | 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS |
| and you therefore gain awareness of inner body blocks, you will know how it would be if | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| will know how it would be if these blocks were dissolved. You cannot directly will them to | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is the same way with the inner body blocks. Perhaps the best way to express how you | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| express how you first experience the inner body blocks is to say that it feels as if | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| is always of the greatest importance. Once the blocks give way, you will feel a pleasurable energy | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| can perceive in your growing self-awareness, your inner blocks of tension and cramp only cover another state | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| -- the observation of outer and inner body blocks. Sit down in the same way. In this | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| you. You will probably first notice the outer blocks only. But the more you progress, the greater | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| channels happen to be unobstructed, but where the blocks, the blindness, the imagined helplessness persist, you cannot | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| A liberated human being with little or no blocks and inhibitions, without distortions and negativity, is capable | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| necessary prerequisites. Or to put it differently, whoever blocks pleasure must, perforce, also block the deep connection | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| the inner flow to remove all obstructions and blocks so that you experience a high degree of | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| subtle bodies and can manifest because the body blocks are removed. When bodily existence is transcended, the | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| You will be convinced that nothing in you blocks positive experiences -- hence factors outside yourself must | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| total love and pleasure supreme, without negativities or blocks. I want to give myself completely in love | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| a major step toward the removal of these blocks. As you continue -- and this is the | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| temporarily paralyzed: matter is paralyzed life-stuff. The frozen blocks of energy in your body are momentarily hardened | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| and that I will and can overcome the blocks in me that make me want to remain | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| react entirely differently in areas where they have blocks. They fearfully cling to unchanging conditions inside and | 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS |
| unfulfillment. Physically this creates, of course, all the blocks in the body which you already know so | 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW |
| of clear awareness of your saying No also blocks you from meditation in such areas. This obstruction | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| material life again and again, until all the blocks against experiencing life are eliminated and he or | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| part. Your fear of feelings therefore not only blocks bliss and the expression of creative life through | 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE |
| you. When the real need to remove the blocks to awareness, self-fulfillment, to intimacy and closeness with | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| the feeling body, if you will. Open the blocks and free the paralyzed feelings -- whatever they | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| an expression of the other. By its muscular blocks the physical body expresses conceptual errors, imbalances of | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| way from the others. The elimination of the blocks must also be helped from the outer level | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| not always capable of meditating, for the very blocks of the mind, of the will, of the | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| to experience more feelings. You have to release blocks in order to meditate, and you must meditate | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| and you must meditate in order to release blocks. At times, a person starts the pathwork without | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| escapist spirituality, and confusing the two. As the blocks to spiritual influx are increasingly eliminated, the whole | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| conceive yourself free from a certain attitude that blocks your way, you must first consider intellectually that | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| if conscious resistance and unconscious negation, fears and blocks bar the way, then a very harmful process | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| the inner expansion pushes forward and the outer blocks stifle it. This leads to crisis. It may | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| into meditation. As you meditate to remove your blocks, you will increasingly be lived through, lived by | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| momentary state for the ultimate reality, your mind blocks off the experience. This is the plan of | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| and emotional levels to remove all your muscular blocks. This does not mean that now you can | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your body. Were you to do so, new blocks would soon form all over again. For your | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| the personality and on the predisposition, prejudices, and blocks of the individual entering this path. The sooner | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| gradually have to dissolve and assimilate the accumulated blocks. When you have learned the right approach to | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| of understanding is impossible. As you all know, blocks to true fulfillment exist because the infant within | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| of light in you! The only thing that blocks you off from it is your thinking, your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| into full expression. I mentioned before that the blocks and fogs created by illusion and distortion make | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| sequences and alternations according to spiritual law. Where blocks exist, and exemplary figures are therefore absent or | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| the pathwork, after much overcoming of resistances and blocks in yourselves, actually begin to occasionally experience that | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| accumulate the force and energy which manifest as blocks of pain and suffering. At each beginning and | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| you may have faced the negative aspects, removed blocks, and be ready for transformation work, while in | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of your innermost self? When you encounter inner blocks in momentary crises, how fully do you travel | 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS |
| of your innermost attitudes, when you dissolve your blocks and resistances against taking stock of yourself truthfully | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| all of you; in the increased removing of blocks and obstructions, resolving of problems and conflicts, so | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| know. Even if only a part of you blocks the great creative beneficial forces that could make | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| an individual is ready to reach adulthood but blocks it, the adult energies released into the psychic | 227 CHANGE FROM OUTER TO INNER LAWS IN THE NEW AGE |
| by it, you fully actualize yourself and dissolve blocks of untruth. Thus you realize your highest potentials | 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE |
| the radiant matter of divine influx thickens, hardens, blocks, and deadens. On the level of consciousness, inertia | 244 BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE WORLD -- THE EVIL OF INERTIA |
| an entirely new way, learning to release your blocks. Why, then, would you have a different approach | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| The more human beings can remove their own blocks and cleanse their own souls and psychic substance | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| your distorted interpretations, your faulty outlook, your personal blocks. These seem like walls of iron, which enclose | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| thus begin to dissolve your personality defects and blocks. As always, this process begins with small everyday | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| make a lot of difference. Know that your blocks, your faulty vision, have separated you from the | 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT |
| to see it. At other times your defensive blocks blot out your own view, but they are | 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION |